i love this game. in college, freshman year in the dorms, i played dozens of hours of minesweeper. literally dozens. and i got to the point where i could reason out two or three or four squares quickly, basically in real time, and be able to just cruise over the board, marking bombs and clearing other tiles steadily. but the really fun ones are ( Read more... )

for the sake of my friends, few though they may be, whose walls will necessarily be overcrowded by the following if i do not do as follows, i am doing something i never wanted to do before, for odd and complicated reasons that at first blush don't bode well for deeper inspection, at least with respect to my motivations therein: i am hiding the ( Read more... )

i don't know if anyone i know or am friends with still checks this site, but eight years ago this would have been the first place i'd go with this news, and i'm just nostalgic enough to be incapable of now doing so. i put up a novel i've been working on revising for the past many months on amazon's kindle page. it has been self-published. i am ( Read more... )

i re-read the stand again recently, for the first time since i was a teenager, and had a radically different experience of the book than i had the first two (or possibly three) times i read it, all in early to mid-adolescence. i've been meaning to write a livejournal post about it ever since, and am finally just now getting down to it. but ( Read more... )

i don't have time to do a big, true post, but maybe i'll surprise myself. (ed. note: he surprised himself) it's the greenwood car show today in my neighborhood, so it's crazypants outside. we're heading out to maple valley to see kelly's mom today, somewhat later than now. kelly's in the kitchen embarking on a baking project, so i can't ( Read more... )

i just finished reading cormac mccarthy's border trilogy recently, which i both enjoyed and had deep and intractable issues with. he seemed to delight in having numerous, repeated, egregiously frequent dialogues in spanish, a language i do not, unfortunately, speak. it was the first time i've come across a piece of fiction that either a) assumed ( Read more... )

i'm currently sitting on a bench in the nordstrom's in pacific place while kelly shops, so please forgive any typos or lapses in hipster formatting. my phone has a tendency to capitalize at will and the mobile web portal for livejournal is lame. I should probably look again for an app someday, I find it crazy no one has created one yet. maybe they ( Read more... )

it's 9:48 in the am, and kris still hasn't gotten up to open his stocking. psssh, kids today. that's okay though, i've got christmas music playing on the big speakers and i'm cruising around the internets. thought i'd put up a quick lj post. we had a holiday party the other night, had way too much fun. troy and lindsey and sylwia were all in ( Read more... )

fer reals? i don't believe it. i just commented on someone's livejournal post and it got me all nostalgic for the good old days. i think somebody said one time that nostalgia is an unattractive sentiment. my dad just wrote me that he finished my fourth book. liked it. he only started it a week ago or so, so he whipped through it pretty quick ( Read more... )

this place. well, work is crazy insane right now. as in like lots to do and stuff. meh. we've got an intern right now that will (hopefully) be taking this one big huge thing off my plate that was added to my plate a few months ago and has since metastasized, and indeed just recently exploded in my, and by extension the company's, face because ( Read more... )