It was my Birthday this week (Thursday the 16th).  It was fairly uneventful, partially because few people noticed, and partially because any celebrations were done on other days because I had to go into work that night (We did dinner the night before, and I had a "party" in the loosest sense of the terms on Saturday ( Read more... )

Last weekend's Rock Band party was a lot of fun, and one of the more successful ones I've had in a while.  Among other things, 26376  and jennilee_rose showed up with points for songs (stuff they wanted me to have so they could play it here or sometime online with me mostly).  An assortment of punk and alt-rock was loaded, and later on in the weekend, I did my usual ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday 26376 !

Hope it's a fun one.

Just got a haircut.  Man does it feel good.   More hair on the floor than was left on my head.

Sadly, it highlights my receding hairline.  At this rate, I won't have any hair on my back in a few years. ;)

I got a surprise laptop this week.  It's pretty cool ( Read more... )

Monday:  I wake up mid-day two a wound up little one who's broken out of her room.  Unable to get back to sleep, I do some homework, and I call my academic counselor, to see about the status of my major change.  No answer, and still no call back.  I get 2 packets via Fed Ex.  1 says that my mortgage adjustment needs more paperwork, the other says ( Read more... )

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26376 and I have a NCAA2009 dynasty we play online together, me as Duke, and him as Vanderbilt.  Games can be assigned a greatness score if they're epic enough.  He already had a pretty epic one with a score of over 2500 (highest I've seen prior to that is 1800).  I had a 1248 (or there abouts) earlier this season as well in a 3OT game vs Miami.

So, ( Read more... )

( Verne died Tuesday morning )

Things are getting back to normal after last month ( Read more... )