I just realized almost everything I've posted for a while has been locked to some degree, so I figured I'd throw up a quick update ( Read more... )

I know I haven't posted in a while, and I'll post an actual update eventually, but life has kind of beaten me up, so there's a lot going on right now. But this was too good not to share ( Read more... )

Just an update ( Read more... )

My grandfather (mom's father) just passed away this morning. This is the first death in my family I've ever had to deal with. I'm still not sure I comprehend that I can't go back and spend another weekend listening to stories of his time in the Navy ( Read more... )

I've been on LJ a lot more lately, having realized that there is quite an awesome community of writers on here (I started off following msagara and markdf, and now I'm following seanan_mcguire and karenmiller as well). Even though I'm not doing much writing right now, seeing the author's perspective is absolutely fascinating. And the non-writing stuff is also fascinating which makes ( Read more... )

My mom's moving to Richmond, VA sometime this month. No clue how we're going to get everything moved out of the house...

Not quite sure how I feel about it, actually.

The computer is dying. It bluescreens about 10 times before I can get it to actually boot. :( It's still in warranty until March, so I've got a tech support request in to Dell. Hopefully they'll replace the thing. Because in addition to whatever memory problems are causing the blue screens (I've had other errors about memory that weren't blue ( Read more... )

I think I've tried to do this before, but I'm going to try to keep it up more this year. So, books I've read so far this year:

1. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein ( Read more... )

And I don't have a whole lot to say, now. Life is much less dramatic now that I'm responsible and have a 9-to-5 (well, 7:20-to-3:50) job and a boyfriend and 1.5 cats (you pick which one is .5 :P ( Read more... )

Had a good Thanksgiving. I had to work Wednesday and Friday, but it wasn't too bad. Sarah came down from Maryland for the holiday Wednesday night and stayed 'till this morning (she has some huge project she's working on). It was good to see her, and it was short enough that we didn't start to fall into the sister squabbling. :P We had Thanksgiving ( Read more... )