So, uh, Hi!

It's been a long time since I posted here (two years and eight months, yeesh). Cuboz nudged me and who am I to say no to a redheaded Kiwi.  And it's my birthday so I get to plagiarize a Tim McGraw song.  It all wraps up into a nice little package ( Read more... )

This is a good thing!  Good thing!

I'm not leaving LiveJournal (anymore than I already have, which is sort of "completely", but I may make some time to keep up soon, for reasons that should become obvious.)

You see, there's this...thing...that's happened.  I just got a job offer.

Here's the really cool part: I'm going to be a Freight Conductor for ( Read more... )

FLASH!

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Quick, guess what my favorite form of lava is!

( Go on. Guess! )

Yeah, it's been a while.  I've been sooper sooper busy.  Substantive post to follow.

But I wanted to share this.  Yesterday, I received a political mailing from my Alderman, Joe Moore, who is up for reelection.  On one side is a photo of the owner of a local restaurant and some "Joe Moore is a man of the people who wants to support the small ( Read more... )

You have the only social/political/economic worldview that possesses any nuance.  Everyone else's philosophies, particularly those with whom you disagree, can be easily summed up in one disparaging sentence.  And they can all be proven to be either blinkered, facile sheep or evil, rapacious villains with the use of a short, smug, dismissive ( Read more... )

So, I've volunteered to bring wine to my family's Thanksgiving celebration (a bottle of red, a bottle of white, perhaps a bottle of Advil tonight ( Read more... )

Ringo: Chill out now, honey bunny!

Jules: All right, now tell her it's gonna be all right.

Ringo: It's gonna be all right.

Jules: Promise her!

Ringo: I promise!

Jules: Tell her to chill!

Ringo: Just chill out, honey bunny!

Jules: All right, now tell me her name.

Ringo: Yolanda.

Jules: All right now, Yolanda!  We're not gonna do anything stupid, are we?

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A year and a half ago, I purchased an made-to-order item at an auction at a leather event.  I was measured and the item was to be in my hands within a month.  Then I totally forgot about it.  As, apparently, did the person who was to construct said item.

This evening, that person tracked me down on Fetlife and contacted me, apologized abjectly for ( Read more... )

In order to get my mind around certain social networking concepts, I have to line them up with some sort of allegory to the real world.  For example, LJ to me is largely the equivalent of standing around in a bar tooshing the tish (bonus points for successfully IDing the reference, and Google won't help you) with various people of varying degrees ( Read more... )