Yes, we are now the proud owners of a hamster; my sister bought it for efbq for her birthday. Gosh, thanks, sis. Current names considered are the Huckahamster (working name for the critter given by Kid-1 and Sister, thanks to watching too much of the election on MSNBC), Dustbunny, and (Emergency Food Supply) Menchi. The cat knows something is up ( Read more... )

You get a Buick - specifically, a 2004 Buick Century - and you are perfectly happy with it. (Kid-1's comment: "Ew!" But she softened to it when shown the stereo.)

More on the other adventures of late, including our (wasted) trip to Salisbury, more coughing fits, Torchwood and the Doctor, dartboards in the living room, and other random nonsense, ( Read more... )

I suppose it's time - or maybe past time - to discuss what I've been doing of late, and why I haven't really been posting here. This is kind of complicated, so get some coffee or something first...and apologies for no LJ-cut, because I want this to be read ( Read more... )

First off, my new podcast is up - has been for a day or two, actually. I am now, for some unknown reason, ranked #5 in the subcategory of "Podcasts - Politics & Soliloquy - Liberalism" on Podcast Pickle. And I mean that sincerely - it's very nice, but I haven't a single clue what the criteria is. Ah, well...anyway, go have a listen and feel free ( Read more... )

I just saw Armageddon on TV. That movie was bad. I mean bad bad, terribly bad, mind-numbingly, jaw-droppingly bad. It was so bad, it was bad. I don't like Bruce Willis in anything, but this was all the reasons why wrapped up in a single performance. The director deserves to be harmed in some fashion, and the script writers should be shot, and ( Read more... )

Well, we came in fourth. Worst showing yet this season. (Rick announced at the beginning that we've won six of the ten (now eleven) games so far this season.) And yeah, most of the questions were pure sports, and they kicked my ass due to narrowing the answers down to two and consistently choosing the wrong one.And in other news, the new podcast ( Read more... )

Hate it when that happens. And it's such a pain to clean up after.

Tonight will be the all-sports trivia night at the pub, which has made half my team slap me on the back and say, "Well, hey, good luck with this one, scooterbird," and then dash off for the hills, probably, knowing my luck, to a party with naked table dancing. My team's fulla geeks (duh), ( Read more... )

I'd mentioned that Kid-2 made the Honor Roll this quarter, with a 3.71 GPA (EDIT: 3.86; she pulled out the A in math), and her play, The Ash Girl, is going into tech week, so look for her on stage soon*. Not to be outdone, Kid-1 walked away from the soccer team's award banquet last night with Defensive Player of the Year honors, and, her coach ( Read more... )

I am much vexed. It looks like in order to get this new podcast of mine properly fed so that people can subscribe to it, we're gonna have to move it to libsyn or some for-pay service. The geniuses at blog.com have a helpful little craplet that goes back and "corrects" your HTML such that you can't manually put in the code that makes it do the ( Read more... )

zOMFG.

Yes, I still sound like an idiot, and there's no way yet of getting Skype to do the Right Thing, but it's done. Standard disclaimers for political content apply.

Comments there, here, where-ehvah.

Right now, I'm orf to the Claim Democracy conference in DC. Might get some interviews there for the next one. Huzzah.