I've been tagged by fully half the people I know on Facebook and several people on LiveJournal, so I guess I might as well suck it up and follow the crowd. Here's 25 random things about me, which you may or may not have already known.

( Here's those 25 Things )

• I did not realize today was Friday until I was eating dinner.
  
• I ate said dinner with my parents at K&W. I was the only person over 8 and under 40 in the entire restaurant.
  
• I have had a terrible headache almost all day.
  
• "Battery" by Metallica is a murderous song in Rock Band 2. And I'm playing bass.
  
• AT&T is sending me a new combo modem-and-router ( Read more... )

And so passes 2008, both long and short at the same time.
Maybe tomorrow will begin a year without migraine.

I haven't felt well the past few days at all, despite the fact that I've been taking ginger supplements and have started drinking tea sweetened with ginger and honey. Apparently, it's a well-known home remedy for migraines, so I'm giving it a shot ( Read more... )

I'm almost done with my Halloween costume. And when I say "I," I mean "my mom and dad have done most of the work for me because I can't think clearly most of the time." I was sitting downstairs, just staring at some of the pieces I was going to make my brass goggles out of for at least five minutes. I didn't do anything because I was ( Read more... )

Because it's all about the trip to Asheville I took to see Squirrel Nut Zippers live at The Orange Peel. She couldn't go, and I don't really feel like rubbing it in much more than I already have ( Read more... )

I have not felt well for the past...two weeks? Yeah, probably about two weeks ( Read more... )

I was on my way back from getting some lunch just a bit ago when I, apropos of nothing, started thinking about how I'm gaining on 30 much faster than I'd like to and that the youth I was supposed to have wasted on having fun got wasted instead on being ill. That got me into a funk that lasted all of about fifteen seconds because America's "Lonely ( Read more... )

I'm in a bit of a funk today. Said funk could have one of many causes:

• The DSL continues to not work reliably, despite numerous calls to AT&T. If I felt better, we'd have switched to Time Warner for cable Internet long ago.
  
• The DSL guy was out here yesterday and this morning, the phones did not ring. We could make and receive calls fine, but ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I got a letter from the Social Security Disability people. Strike two ( Read more... )