Alas, I forgot to bring my camera yet again ( Read more... )

Woe. I have made the belated realization that I should probably start reading non-LJ blogs, given that I have an RSS reader in Firefox. As a result, I have been madly adding assorted knitting blogs, which has, of course, spurred my desire to knit humongous lace shawls of doom and buy extremely thin cobweb weight yarn so that I can torture my ( Read more... )

Lalalalala I got Salty Dog II and Backgammon and Reload 6 and Nana 13-15 and OMG am so broke but lalalala pretty pictures squee yay!!!!

I got to go to an industry conference in the city for work, so it felt a lot like getting Friday off. I mean, it could have been tedious, but the conference was incredibly fun and reminded me of why I love my job in the first place and want to keep doing what I'm doing. Sadly, that feeling has been lacking a little in the past couple of weeks, so ( Read more... )

1. I forgot to bring my camera. Of course, I realized this while I was at the San Francisco airport, because I saw some vending machines that sold iPods and Gameboys and audiobooks (!!) and wanted to take a picture. That may qualify as the niftiest vending machine that I've seen in the US! I miss the totally random Japanese vending machines, but ( Read more... )

My dad is here! Alas, the first half of today was spent doing real estate stuff (argh argh argh), which is not at all fun, especially if you are looking at something for your mom and really have absolutely no idea what she wants but everyone keeps askingyou anyway ( Read more... )

Oh dear. I went down to the used bookstore to sell some of my books and ended up finding vols. 3-4 of Alice 19th in Japanese. I willfully resisted, but once I have trade credit, I fear I will relapse. I need to stop buying books in non-English because I will never read them! And yet... three dollars each ( Read more... )

Picked up an extra copy of Emma Bull's Finder at the library sale, anyone want it? (aka, free book!)

I also picked up a random magazine -- The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator, June 15, 1931, and was going to see if anyone on LJ wanted it. Then I found it out was selling on Abebooks for $20. Sooo... maybe not. Must investigate selling options. ( Read more... )

Argh, have just found out that LJ is still not emailing me all my comments! Grrrr.

But... Yay! I have made my very first gingerbread house ever, with much help from cychi, who I made do the icing. It is ugly and lopsided and completely, disgustingly packed with candy, but now I feel all holiday traditional! Well, as much as you can get with a ( Read more... )

I ate so much! We had hamburgers from the Creamery the first night, and I swear, they have the best hamburgers in the world. Ok, maybe not all the world, but it's close. Also, the mint oreo shake was not bad ;). Pizza the next day (thin crust... I am not a deep dish fan). Dim sum the day after, in which I ordered way too much. Heh. But! Fresh ( Read more... )