It's Christmas card sending out time (slightly delayed, but things should still arrive on time). I have a number of addresses for people, but if you think you might not be on my list and you'd like a card, please drop me a line with your addy (the only way I figured this out was to set it up to screen anonymous comments. Post anonymously and ( Read more... )

FanExpo (www.fanexpocanada.com) this weekend. Loads of good guests this year. Of course, they're all scheduled opposite each other, but Tangeriner and I will coordinate somehow. She has plans to buy something cool, I'm hoping for Avengers swag. If only some enterprizing person would start an independent company selling the comicbook shoes that ( Read more... )

My life has been swallowed up by the impending external audit in June - so many documents, so many disorganized supervisors to wrangle. Two of the senior chemists volunteered to be CC'd on all my related emails and grabbed the junior ones 1 day after my doing so and read them the riot act about prioritizing (yay for old skool chemists who think ( Read more... )

Things I've done since last update ( Read more... )

It was our work Christmas party today. As usual, nothing happened the way I thought it might - I didn't talk to the semi-friendly new geek more than once (how am I supposed to get a gaming group going this way?), I sat with a bunch of people I didn't know, ended up having a long and interesting discussion with someone who was reasonably jealous of ( Read more... )

Well 1, probably 2, of the usual suspects are free next weekend, so I'm going to invite people over. Based on past gatherings, we will have chocolate, candy, movies, rock band, and possibly conversations that make no sense. The bathtub tap has begun to drip again for the third time, and I haven't managed to contact the plumber, but it's not loud ( Read more... )

I drove to Ottawa and back! All by myself! And I managed to drive on a 4 lane highway without going into shock until I was waiting for Tangeriner in her parking lot ( Read more... )

Ooh, haven't posted in ages ( Read more... )

Off on my trip to San Diego Comic Con with Tangeriner in under an hour. Why is San Diego so far away?! Why is my nice top and white socks still in the drawer at home? How am I going to survive being surrounded by 125000 like-minded lunatics? How long will it take to bankrupt myself in the dealer's room? I'll know the answer to some of these ( Read more... )

I meant, at one point, to go into work to use my email to send off a report for 5 minutes today. Instead, I was there for 3 hours, got nothing work-related accomplished, and left the place in such a mess that two complete work areas are unusable until maintenance comes in ( Read more... )