Last week I heard that Terry Fator, the 2007 winner of "America's Got Talent" was coming up to the TurningStone Casino, only abotut a half hour from me. If you haven't heard of Terry Fator, look him up on Youtube. He's amazing. He's a ventriloquist, who uses his puppets to do impressions...song impressions. I saw him do Etta James, Dean Martin, ( Read more... )

Award trip to NY ended up being fun, even with it's shaky start. I left here around 2:00, and found that the head of global corporate trust was on the same flight. There are only two people above him in the whole international bank, and he was the one I (and 7 of my fellow award winners) were supposed to have dinner with that night. He asked me why ( Read more... )

Trip to NYC is actually happening. Got the OK from my doctor, and so plans progress. Of course, my manager is so afraid to do without me that instead of getting the day off like everyone else who won this award and traveling to NYC this morning, I'm here at work. For three hours (almost up in the next 30 minutes), then I fly off to NYC to have ( Read more... )

I was feeling a bit off this morning, just a bit of grumbly guts, but decided to go into work. I had won an "Above and Beyond Award" (one of my co-workers nominated me for going out of my way on a project). Part of the prize is a trip to NYC for a dinner with the head of global operations and an award luncheon the next day. It's this Monday and ( Read more... )

So that cold that was fine with a packet of tissues and a cough drop? Not so fine. On the Sunday after I arrived Shelly, and three friends from the embassy (Dan, Mike, and a guy whom I've forgotten) went to see the churches devoted to the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe. We decided to metro, safe because it was day, Sunday (less crowded) and we were ( Read more... )

Well, I donated over 9000 grains of rice (before a power outage lost my count! Thank you Hyminia), went through the archives of I can has cheeseburger and Cute Overload (thank you Ginny_t). I also wrote to the head of the AA at Anime Boston, and got the worst of the posts removed.

I paid off the last of my car loan on Friday, and to celebrate my ( Read more... )

My eight-year-old nephew sent me a thank you note for his Christmas and Birthday gifts (he's born dec 23rd). In an effort to preserve this so that I can torment him with it when he's 18, and to share the humor, I'm posting it up here. (I'm typing it exaclty as written ( Read more... )

My mother got in a car accident tonight. (She's okay, no injuries.) Her car is pretty bad off even though it was an extremely slow speed collision. The scariest thing is why she got in accident. My mother is a diabetic, and she was having a low. She ran into some guy who was parked in front of a store (he said she was going like 10 miles an hour at ( Read more... )

I got back Sunday night, and I had a good time all weekend. I'll post more about it later, but I have to share a dream I had early Sunday morning.

I regularly have very vivid and strange dreams, but this was something else. In my dream Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) was the Messiah, like as in the second coming Messiah. But she didn't want to be, it was ( Read more... )

Did I mention that I was going on a trip at any point? I don't think I did. Hmn. Anyways, I am in DC visiting my Best Friend Shelly (we both have the habit of mentioning the title "Best Friend" any time we talk about each other. Hence to be shortened to BF Shelly.) Supposedly this trip is to go to AnimeUSA. I'm going as an actual con-goer! No AA ( Read more... )