Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions for my birthday gift, and special thanks to baranduin and alchemilla_. I'll be busy reading about writing for a while - and then I'll run out of excuses not to actually write something ( Read more... )

For such a linear person, I sure have trouble sticking to a gardening plan. Probably because every time I turn around, I see something else that needs trimming or pulling or cleaning up. The vegetable garden didn't get weeded, but I managed to fill up the bin with other stuff. I've worked up a good appetite for dinner tonight courtesy of baranduin. Mmm ( Read more... )

One of my sisters and her husband are going to watch Fellowship of the Ring tonight - for the first time. o.0 They managed to rent the extended edition, which ought to be best for D. since he never read the books. My poor sister is nearly blind and can't watch such a long movie in one sitting, so D. called me to ask where they should stop ( Read more... )

My PC is freaking me out. Word crashed while trying to open Visio - which is a Microsoft app, for cryin' out loud - and the hard drive spun up and has been whirring away very noticeably even though I'm not doing anything. This is my work PC - if I've introduced a virus or spyware to the network, I'm in big trouble. Or is Word just trashing the ( Read more... )

I did a bit of spring cleaning this past weekend. Unfortunately, it was an internal cleaning courtesy of a nasty stomach virus. I got so sick on Friday night that I ended up in the emergency room, where they pumped two liters of fluids back into me. I don't think I've ever had an IV before - the cold fluid combined with an already low body ( Read more... )

When I used to give performance reviews, there were people who never felt they were doing a good job even though they were among the best performers in the group. It made me want to give them a good shake and tell them to stop being so down on themselves. Well, I should tell it to the idiot in the mirror. I went into my first performance review ( Read more... )

When I turned on my computer last night, it declared that the previous shutdown was improper - which I don't think it was - and proceeded to scan the hard drive. I decided to let it run since it claims to fix any problems it finds. When I left this morning for work, it was still scanning. Methinks that might be a bad sign ( Read more... )

Guess I missed a bit of excitement last night by just 15 minutes. One side of our one-story building at work is made up of floor-to-ceiling plate glass windows. They look out over the parking lot, which someone decided to use for a driving lesson after most people had gone home. Somehow the student driver mistook the gas for the brake and ( Read more... )

I'm always behind on Lost. Nearly caught up for a bit thanks to reruns and downloaded eps that I found through olivia_ramirez. Now I'm going through the eps that I taped. All of them are missing the last minute, argh, but I can go to the Ex Isle board and search the archives for the review threads to find out what happened. That's where I found this link: ( Read more... )

a bacon-cheeseburger served on a Krispy Kreme doughnut bun

*gags*

How does anyone in the South manage to live past 50?