Most fortune cookies contain fortunes that are either impossibly vague, or just boring. There's a faux-Japanese restaurant in my area (run by Chinese people... naturally!) that has a giant bin of free fortune cookies. The fortunes contained within these cookies are... a little different from what you get at most places. Here's a sample of real ( Read more... )

I just realized that I haven't had a free weekend in about a month until now. I've been very busy with trips and family events lately. Summary below:

Las Vegas (a weekend back in June)
One weekend in June I went to Vegas. It was my second time there. Last time I lost $35 on slots. This time I tried my hand at the table games (with some advice from ( Read more... )

And so it continues to spread across livejournals everywhere ( Read more... )

Having procrastinated for several months on taking my first Microsoft certification exam, I scheduled one for today, and decided to walk in and take it no matter how well prepared I was (or not ( Read more... )

I'm having some persistent health issues for some reason. A sinus infection I ( Read more... )

Here's some photos I took of the after-effects of the ice storm.

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2007 so far:

kiara2425 was visiting me the first week of January. A couple of days after she left I came down with a cold. Normally not a big deal but this cold was a little more severe - I missed several days of work during which I mostly spent alternately sleeping, taking over the counter drugs and vegging in front of the TV (I saw a lot of Law & Order ( Read more... )

For starters, life is pretty good lately. Other than having an entirely-too-stingy landlord who won't be very flexible on leases or let people out of leases very easily. Other than having spent a couple of hours wandering around in the woods yesterday looking for Dad's remote-control plane that went down in the forest. (and we didn't find it ( Read more... )

what can i say... caught a cold this week. I hate being sick for the psychological aspects as much as the physical ones. other than that it's been a crappy week across the board. but the weather is nice! October is my favorite month of the year.

So... belatedly, VERY belatedly posted - I went to Seattle
early in August.

( A couple of pictures. )