The past three and a half weeks or so have been pretty hectic. My sleep schedule's been goofy ( Read more... )

It's been a nice long weekend of playing poker and, well, walking all over the place ( Read more... )

As you can probably guess by the icon (and the fact that I'm me), I have indeed seen Star Trek. I very much enjoyed it, and expect to like it just as much the second time around-- Amy's out of town 'til tomorrow, hiking in Shenandoah. I've actually decided to make something of an experiment out of it ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks, I've been topping off the coolant in the Miata, but the coolant leak's been too small for me to locate. No big deal, a coolant leak that small also lets me drive 50 miles to the office and back, so no real problem. I'll wait for it to get worse so I can actually find the durn thing and fix it ( Read more... )

The last batch of treats I picked up for Princess Wigglebutt included some canine-version sandwich cookies-- I was amused when I saw them, because I usually refer to any baked treat she gets as a cookie, and the phrase "good girl! Let's go get you a cookie!" carries almost as much weight as actually giving her one ( Read more... )

...and with it, so did my attempt to see how I could do if I just focused on the truck series ( Read more... )

I've been working on turning a stack of HD-DVDs that I got for cheap into 720p h.264 files that the AppleTV can play. I knew it was a lot of data, but yowza! I get the first one to crunching the data and it took 9.5 hours to finish ( Read more... )

It informs me of just how many places I have not been, as evidenced by the great swaths of pinless land:


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...I'm finally back home ( Read more... )

I'm only 35. I'm not really old enough to be entirely sure of what the old-school barber shop actually is, but I know that I miss it ( Read more... )