I had a dream where I was trapped in the mother of all haunted houses. Just going into the place guaranteed your death in seven days, ala THE RING/RINGU and the creepy girl coming out of the TV. That makes for an interesting moment when you realize you've actually found a way OUT of the damn place, but that doesn't really matter, cause you've only ( Read more... )

This is an actual spam mail I received this morning...

Have they ever told you this, "Gush! Your penis is so small ( Read more... )

I just found out that a friend of mine from high school died in February. He was only 3 years older than me.

I have no idea how it happened.

His daughter posted this at the funeral home's guestbook:

its not been long since you left me but i miss you so much already. i'll never forget the chocolate pudding i put all over your face when you was ( Read more... )

Sorry about the lack of updates. The inability to post pics really spoiled blogging for me when I was overseas.

We're back home now, so I should be posting more trip details soonish.

break in journal until I figure out a way to get around my shortage of space on my server for images. I can post without images, but that requires me to go cut all the links out of the text I've saved and right now I don't have the time.

Anyway, I'm in Kyoto right now and will try updating with pics when we are in Hiroshima.

The most useful bit of advice I can give any new traveler to Japan (at this young time) is to learn the Kanji of the train station closest to your hotel. So long as you know it, you will know how much it costs to get from wherever you are back to your room, and stand an excellent chance of being able to make it back there. Many of the trains now ( Read more... )

(apologies for the lack of updates, our room doesn't have wireless access so I'm unable to send them at the day's end ( Read more... )

It's now about 7 am CST, and I've been up for 21 hours straight. Which means I'm getting a bit slappy as I write from the lappy that novacheckers purchased for our trip overseas. On our way to drop of my beloved Saturn with my parents, we stopped at a Quik Trip where I purchased the necessary uber-coffee and banana to sustain me long enough to get us here. ( Read more... )

I've held the same job now since Sept of 2000. I've worked at the same company since December of 1999. During this time, I've alternately hated and loved this job depending on the current attitudes of management ( Read more... )