After this quarter's finals next week, I've got a break of two weeks. My dad has been in pretty bad shape the last year or so and bookwurm and I had been going back and forth on driving down to NC to visit him, my mother, and my grandmother for a few days. After a lot of consideration I'd finally come to the conclusion that this was a trip we probably ( Read more... )

I've had a Steam account for some time now. I'm sure you can guess my user name. (Or you could just click the link, I suppose.) I first signed up last year to take advantage of the free Portal offer, now long defunct, of course. For several months, I downloaded the occasional free game or demo, so I was unable to add friends directly and didn't ( Read more... )

rmjwell alerted us to an upcoming Milwaukee area burlesque show on the 21st of May. It's at the Stonefly Brewing Company and the admission is only $10. It does start at 9 PM, so I quite understand that'll keep some people away, but currently bookwurm, tarrestrial, and I are planning to go and it would be great to get something of a group together ( Read more... )

bookwurm says I shouldn't use the term "cubical monkeys" in my PowerPoint presentation for my "Business Concepts for Application Developers" class. She suggested the alternate term "office workers." Can I compromise and say "Office drones?" I know the instructor is a fan of "The Office." (OK, so I'm going to use 'office workers ( Read more... )

It followed me home. We're still determining if we can keep it or not.

( Open the garage bay door, Fred )

This morning my old Saturn was pronounced officially dead. Oh, it starts and I can probably drive it to the junkyard, but it's no longer fit for even short-range transportation. In the past few months I've been getting small warnings that it wasn't going to last much longer-the periodic OBDII warning light, issues with shifting, losing oil and ( Read more... )

I've been learning a bit of JavaScript and playing around with CSS. (No, the class on JavaScript hasn't actually started yet, but reading the textbook it looks like I'm already past what we'll learn. Oh well.) At least part of it was the fact that I had an unused Tripod account sitting out there. Now I know Tripod is barely a step up from ( Read more... )

Bratwurst and bacon and thickly cut gammon,
Salami and roast beef and sometimes a salmon,
Fine cut bologna curled up into rings,
These are a few of my favorite things!

I generally don't pay much attention to commercials, but sometimes one catches my eye. This may be because it's particularly good, or because it's particularly stupid. Guess which one this is about ( Read more... )

Is anyone familiar with CREDO mobile (formerly 'Working Assets' wireless?) I received an advertisement from them this week. Normally I would have just tossed it with the junk mail, but I was curious and read the information. They claim to be a "progressive" phone company and make donations to causes that I do happen to support. The fact that I'd ( Read more... )