happy (day after) labor day to my fellow americans! from those swell folks who brought you the weekend. :D i hope you had a nice long weekend in which you rested from your labors. i went to costco with my sister, by which i mean we went to the store but did not actually go in because it was CLOSED. wtf. on the one hand, retail is ( ( Read more... )

the longer i wait to post the harder it is to post, so, uh, hi. this is the non-family post. (my sister had a birthday party last weekend and two cousins plus mom came from out of town and it's been a very family-y week and a half.) happy solstice, a little late. from now on the days get shorter around here. :|

i saw across the spider-verse ( Read more... )

i feel like nothing has happened in the last week but i think that's just because it's quiet at work, and my sister and i went to new york on sunday for a couple days and had the pleasure of ignoring all the news. but things did happen! cheetolini was indicted on thirty-seven felony counts, in federal court, all related to the boxes of classified ( Read more... )

so my sister and i are not going to italy after all! our flight out was boston-amsterdam-florence (leaving boston saturday night and getting into amsterdam sunday morning), but we got an email and a text this morning that the amsterdam-florence leg was canceled ( Read more... )

so a month ago i ordered a thing for one of my pi's (it's called an owl and it's basically a camera for virtual meetings that gives everyone a 360º view of the room it's in) and it hasn't been delivered and hasn't been delivered and neither of us has gotten any confirmations or notifications or anything, and i've tried a couple times to get ahold ( Read more... )

today i worked from home and got NOTHING DONE. NOTHING, I SAY. well, i submitted some expenses, that was something. but mostly i was made of slack. and then i went for a walk - the upstairs neighbor was coming home as i was leaving so we both stopped for a chat and she told me she thinks her apartment is haunted - and got a bubble tea (taro ( Read more... )

since i worked from home today i could do laundry in the middle of the day, and when i went down to get the second load out of the washing machine and hang it up someone had already put my clothes in a hot dryer cycle. including my bras. you don't put bras in the dryer. (well, maybe some of you do. but i don't.) i get that whoever it was ( Read more... )

today was presidents' day and i celebrated having the day off by spending some quality time sitting in the diesel writing about space truckers at a space truckstop, and then seeing magic mike's last dance (cute, sexy, occasionally dumb, very charming) (channing tatum really is a most charming potato), and then driving across the river *gasp* to get ( Read more... )

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IT SNOWED TODAY. ALLOW ME TO REPEAT. WE HAVE SNOW. :DDDD ( Read more... )