because it has been a while since i have updated you, my friends, on my life & times, (& trials & travails), & because the light of my life has simply stopped listening to me whenever i get up on what she calls "your fucking soapbox again, seriously, why don't you just shut up & tell the internet so i don't have to listen to you", it is time for ( Read more... )

thanks, all, for the birthday wishes & the like. it served nicely to remind me that it was, in fact, the anniversary of my entrance into this world (like so many others, screaming, naked, & bloody), which yes, i would've otherwise forgotten, and thus i managed to con mitchell into promising that there will be birthday cake ( Read more... )

so as you may have noticed, mitchell and i have been rather quiet on this corner of the internets lately. no, we haven't been kidnapped by aliens. far from it. we have, in fact, been busy in industry & labor, the commission of which pays our bills & keeps me in the fine form to which i have become accustomed over my varied & sundry years ( Read more... )

for reasons that do not need explaining at this juncture in time, i remain fucking amused by norad tracking santa clausat mitchell's family homestead for the duration. (expect userpic to be accurate today, right down to the time.) am being pressed into service as unpaid labor. (mitchell has had me finishing her knitting. don't listen to her; she is ( Read more... )

when mitchell and i first pledged together our lives, our fortunes, & our sacred honor, lo these many years ago, the first rule (out of many) that she laid down upon the ground (i did mention the many, yes?) was simple: no fast food, & we would only eat at a restaurant if a). we were in another state from her kitchen, b). she was out of both energy ( Read more... )

...if this is what it means to have a family.

i jest, i jest. mitchell's family are a bunch of very lovely people & spending time with them is always a delight. i just wish that spending time with them were a little quieter.

( we begin our tale a week ago... )

still stuck at mitchell's family's house for thanksgiving. total head count this year: sixty-one with gusts of over seventy. our flight back isn't until monday evening. send help.

return with me to the thrilling days of yesteryear when men were men, women were women, computers ran a proper command line interface, & the united fucking states fucking postal service didn't sell teddy bears. (not that i would for worlds malign teddy bears, or any of the other host of invisible friends mitchell might choose to marshal in order ( Read more... )

having done some heavy sociolinguistic work over the past several years to catalog & highlight this material, it strikes me as a wise moment to share. i am a kind, generous & giving man; i do not wish for you to have to do the work to figure these references out yourself.

i wish to state, for reference, that i suffered to obtain these data. i have ( Read more... )

note to self:

while white space may be semantically neutral in c++, it serves several other useful functions. such as making it easier to spot that you missed the one goddamn ending } all the way back there that you've been trying to chase down for the past day and a half ( Read more... )