I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm a
Tree Hugging Money Managing Believer

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Bolded are all the ones I've eaten ...

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile (I have had alligator, so, taxonomical differences notwithstanding, I am counting it ...)
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from ( Read more... )

It's interesting to see these things laid out graphically. Many thanks to this site for pulling it together. (And I found the link on
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Is there anyone familiar enough with LiveJournal and RSS to be able to tell me how to start piping in my Rage Diaries entries over LJ too? I've seen other people manage this feed thingy. I haven't figured it out for myself.

http://schmeiser.typepad.com/

I've moved most of the Rage Diary stuff from here. I still have to do some Network Solutions stuff so I can get custom DNS all set up so schmeiser.com works as a URL for the Rage Diaries, but I'm almost there.

Just wanted to let y'all know I haven't forgotten the Rage Diaries.

104 Things to Do in 2004

I got this from gregmce who got it from Kelly Sue DeConnick, who got it from the original Disgruntled Housewife, Nikol Lohr. And I once used Nikol's site in a book I was writing, so this just goes to show that no matter how random the means of finding someone's site (I was doing a search on the U.S. Marine Corps Marathon and ( Read more... )

Odd-numbered years are rough for me and mine: romances explode, people die, money dries up, luck dissolves. This year was no different, which is why I am going all-out to push 2003 out the door and bring in 2004 with maximum pomp. I'm cleaning the house and putting pennies on the windowsills today: my mother did this, and her mother, and her mother ( Read more... )

Now that my mother has gone, the record-setting rainstorms and intermittent smog have dispersed, leaving us with views of the snow-covered mountains and cloudy skies: winter in L.A. Even the local beautiful people have dressed for winter, adding knee-length scarves and Ugg boots to the tank-top-and-miniskirt ensemble. (L.A. is not a city that ( Read more... )

Today in the car, I had a revelation: I will never get it together enough to rewrite the Rage Diary e-mails as entries, so I might as well write the entries in e-mail. Yes! A scant three to four weeks after I began the practice of writing these e-mails to myself. I am the slowest of learners sometimes.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah ... I owe you people the Relocatiad, parts II-IV, plus the Rage Diaries takes on Wal-Mart, spendaholics gone mad, the Yellowstone Snowmobile Ban, how the Dean campaign needs to hire some grownups and give their little followers a Media 101 course (hint: do not say, in a story on how your movement is making a DNC outsider a ( Read more... )