* holiday malaise.  Over Thanksgiving, oy.

* I now know what's wrong with my laptop - the LCD in the monitor has gone out.  Well, is on the way to going out. It still works *very* intermittently, but on Monday (after the OMG insanity of this weekend) I'll have to drop it off to be sent to Texas for repairs. I have no fucking clue where I'm getting ( Read more... )

So, my parents bought me an iPad.  YAY!  iPad ( Read more... )

Okay, trufax... I have never smoked anything in my life. I've never even smoked a salmon or some cheese or whatever! I have never, ever, even once, put something in my mouth and sucked on it for the express purpose of putting the smoke in my lungs.

But I'm now at about 3.5 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours. 2 hours last night and an hour and a ( Read more... )

• My Irish-Catholic Great Aunt apparently belonged to a Vietnamese church.  Only not really, because the priest kept reminding us that he didn't know her but he recognized her name from the checks she sent each month.  IDEK.  Apparently it had something to do with her *attending* a different church when the neighborhood started to change ( Read more... )

So, you know, it being Cinco de Mayo and all, I decided to make guacamole. I have done this before... sort of. There were things I decided I needed to do to improve the next batch.

One was "add garlic." You guys, a head of garlic confounds me on a level that is completely unacceptable for someone over the age of nine. It just is ( Read more... )

So today's "What does this button do?" lesson on my photography blog was about ISO - or basically, how sensitive do you want your sensor to be, because there are upsides and downsides to high and low ISOs ( Read more... )

And in other (not snow related) news...

Item the first: 30 years ago today "Planet Earth" was released.  Most of you are going, "What's a 'Planet Earth', other than this big rock we're all living on?" right?

Planet Earth was the first single put out by Duran Duran.  30 Years Ago ( Read more... )

Okay, mom has this psychic near who her who mom just loves. It started with my mom walking in there about this time last year and the woman just blurting out, "Oh my god! You have a new grandson!" This was about a month after the NIP was born, so... mom was sold ( Read more... )

• Fed a baby American cheese and toast for breakfast. Seriously So. Much. Fun! There's nothing cuter than a *just* shy of one-year-old feeding himself cheese and toast and drinking from a sippy cup.

• Burrito place at the airport that doesn't actually have tacos on their menu made me tacos anyway.

• Made *3* Etsy sales today! Thank you so much ( Read more... )