So my trip to DC was cancelled. I was supposed to go and be all researchery for work, but the planes wouldn't cooperate. We shall see what the people I work with will say when I show up unexpected to work tommorrow! Incidently, the fact that a convention being held on/just before Valentine's Day is called "From Passion to Power" makes me roll my ( Read more... )

The paper did a bunch of 100th birthday stuff today. I have to admit I really like this picture of the tornado for some reason: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/Doc_Vader/tornado.jpgRead more... )

Ok, not everyone may get this but for those that do... I haven't had a hamburger in months but I have one at lunch today since my other lunch plans got postponed. And then when I get home I use a little random silliness generator on the game I'm on and get a Morrissey quote. Maybe it's just coincidence... but I think he knows what I'm doing. * ( Read more... )

It's rained all night and day pretty much. Really nice after the whole drought of the century or whatever they call it. I forgot how much I missed driving in the rain (I'm not kidding). I mean I never have envyed California weather as much as when I saw it pouring down rain at the Rose Bowl parade. And I've been cursing the people who park ( Read more... )

I had no idea that buying people porn or giving blood to a wonderful horror story would earn nice points with Santa. Makes you wonder about Santa, doesn't it? ( Read more... )

Random things I learned from my work trip in Chapel Hill, North Carolina last week ( Read more... )

My good friend and co-worker left yesterday to go to do mission work in Senegal (far west Africa). She's been planning this for years - she loved it when she spent a year there after college and her husband is West African. I have no doubt that she'll be happy, but I'll still really miss her. Luckily she'll be in a big enough village to have ( Read more... )

I went to see Serenity today. I had high expectations and it went WAY above them all. I was clutching my seat through part of it, laughing, crying, and everything through the rest. You absolutely don't need to have watched the tv show it was based on to enjoy this. Really, if you like scifi/adventure with good characters and lots of interesting ( Read more... )

So Friday morning I call my dad to celebrate his being alive one year after his heart attack. Friday afternoon he calls to tell me my dog has in the course of pretty much several hours gone from seeming completely healthy to having a bloated belly and problems breathing. They took her for tests Saturday, Monday, and today. I was really hoping ( Read more... )

This made me laugh as much as the all your base and engrish stuff a few years ago. It's a badly translated DVD. The beauty of using a computer to translate from English to Chinese and back again is that you discover that Revenge of the Sith means the Backstroke of the West, the Jedi Council is actually the Presbyterian Church, and "love has ( Read more... )