Right, so it's not like I really use LJ much anymore, but here's an update anyway:

My sister and I are participating in an adventure race on March 8th. My sister is a personal trainer and wanted something to train for herself. We're competing as a co-ed team ( Read more... )

Mr. and Mrs. Twarek (Drew and Aimee, recently hitched) and I will be carpooling down for Homecoming.

I'm looking forward to it.

Anyone else (from Rose, on LJ) happen to be going?

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Dear Blizzard,

In your infinite wisdom I'm sure you're doing the right thing. As much as I day-dreamed about something groundbreaking, like picking up where Ghost died and giving us a dark sci-fi FPS/RPG the likes of which unseen since System Shock 2 or maybe taking the Natural-Selection-like RTS/FPS hybrid genre and "Blizzardifying" it in the SC ( Read more... )

I've started running regularly again for fun, exercise, and to enjoy the nice spring weather. As soon as I heard about it, I decided I am now training for thisA "road" race, through the woods, at night, with people jumping out to scare you. How insanely fun does that sound? Abbreviated "back story ( Read more... )

Something I remembered the other day (or rather, remember being told about): when I was a toddler I didn't like meat (and had some kind of reaction to cow's milk), so to make sure I got enough protein my dad invented "meat cookies". They're exactly that, cookies with meat in them. Anyway, 20 years later and I'm vegetarian and almost never have milk ( Read more... )

To the surprise of many, I have recently begun to consume alcoholic beverages. I've never felt drinking was wrong, I just never wanted to be stupid about it. And recently I began to feel ... mature enough(?) that I could enjoy the experience with very little temptation to ... be immature about it(?). For personal values of im/maturity, that would ( Read more... )

"Half-assed programming was a time-filler that, like knitting, must date to the beginning of the human experience."
~A Fire Upon the Deep, by Vernor Vinge

If you were fighting zombies, would "Hold your men, ground!" be a valid rallying cry?

Netflix.My_Queue += US_National_Film_Registry;

Sci-fi and horror is surprisingly well represented. There's a lot of "I saw that and it deserves to be on this list, but I wouldn't have expected it to be" movies.