This is journal entry # 6,040! Wowzers. Admittedly, it has taken 10 years and 2 months to write that much stuff, but it's still pretty impressive because it averages out to like 1.5 posts a day or thereabouts.

Anyway, when I got home from work yesterday I found an awesome gift box waiting for me from Australia, courtesy of the wonderful maelstrom!

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I almost forgot to update about this past Tuesday's bowling. Nothing major went on; we only took one point out of four. On the plus side, my average went up from a 113 to a 114, but it may go back down next week, heh.

And now, without further ado...

The ScoresWeek 21: 103, 116, 99. (318 series. Avg: 106 ( Read more... )

Firstly, welcome new Flisters applespicy, belgatherial, and kdb22, via therealljidol!

Speaking of LJ Idol, the Season 7 winner was recently announced - congrats to amenquohi!

There was also another announcement to take into consideration. Back in December 2009, an anthology of Idol entries (as well as original, never published work) was put forth by Fey Publishing under the title Idol ( Read more... )

We had a good time down in Chattanooga this past weekend. We tried to have a late lunch at the restaurant called Soup's On, but apparently they were closed for the weekend to do some upgrades or somesuch, so we headed over to Aretha Frankenstein's (http://www.arethas.com) for lunch instead. ( Read more... )

Baseball isn’t something that I know much about - sure, I've been to a few professional games in my time, as well as one or two semi-pro games. I even played a season of little league when I was twelve or thirteen - each team was required to have at least one female player, and I was the sacrificial lamb ( Read more... )

Thing the First: Over HERE is the Week 7 poll for therealljidol. This week's topic was "Brouhaha." I'm still down in Tribe 6. I don't want to make a big deal of it, but should you feel like casting a vote for myself or any of the other remarkable writers that are still in this competition, you have until 9:00 PM EST on Tuesday (technically, today) to go do ( Read more... )

I should note that this is my trip odometer, and it is 6666.6 miles. The main odometer is only around 51,000 miles. :)


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Just a few of the dragons - some handmade (not by me) and some bought, that are hiding on the shelf that is part of the headboard.


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The green dragon is by M. Pena, as is the black winged cat in the background. The orange-red dragon perched on top of the scrabble tile rack was handmade by Laura Reynolds.


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Two photos of my cat, Tucker, wearing a goldfish costume made by Starmaiden. Happy Halloween!


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