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Now that I'm old and crotchety, I am really impatient with books and music, in that I don't feel like throwing away a bunch of time on a band that might suck. If a novel isn't working for me, I'll usually read it backwards to avoid being pissed off by the ending (Iain Banks, I'm looking in your direction). Anyway, music is much harder than novels, ( Read more... )

Hey, is anybody I know going to see SJ Tucker in Pasadena on the 25th?

Looking at buying a place in San Elijo Hills. A variety of places, really, but a lot of them have fallen through. My criteria seem to be that it has to be some place where I can be really clumsy without dying. No low railings overlooking living rooms, no high ceilings where I can fall off ladders while trying to dust (is that even something I would ( Read more... )

So apparently most American-sold front loading washers have a gasket that serves as a goop trap, more or less. It collects gunk, which then molds, which then serves as starter mold (like a pinch of old dough for bread) for any subsequent loads thrown into the washer. Nice work.

Hopefully it'll fix some of the gaps in the current format.

Also, I got my L1 at Grand Prix LA. Exciting!

So Waikiki was not what I was expecting after driving through the area - it's basically a bunch of ridiculously high-end and/or over-priced shops. At the same time, it's strangely sleazy. Case in point - two incidents where Belle and I each misheard someone making us an ... unusual offer as we were walking down the main drag ( Read more... )

Not the official ones, these are just some pictures from around the venue, and ones taken at the rehearsal event and ceremony by people in my family on my handy Discount Walmart Camera of Goodness.


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So, I'm married now.

I post this because I seem to forget when I've told people this story or not, but basically, a friend of mine tried to fix me up with this girl he knew in Medina. I was really nervous about it, but I eventually called, and got her dad. He was really angry, which was confusing to me at first, except then I found out that she had died in a car ( Read more... )