-A cranky potential landlord who issues insane demands with no notice

-Something like five pounds worth of gifts for friends, instructors, bosses and rockstars

-Official Joe Yabuki sweatpants from "Tomorrow's Joe", for wearing when absolutely no one can see you

Insane shipping rates and dubious storage space in my future lodgings have forced me to get picky with my belongings. I'm limiting myself to one week's worth of dress shirts, one week's worth of non-work clothes, and as little of everything else as I can stand to carry. The rest will be carted off to Goodwill or Half-Price Books, or sealed into ( Read more... )

I haven't gotten anywhere close to doing all the crap I was supposed to do this week but I have managed to randomly interesting stuff ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what I was planning to write about my road trip this time, but here is the long version.

( the super long version, really )

This Motel 6 has no alarm clocks but a wake-up call in Tom Bodett's voice is available upon request. I hung up before he could tell me about the humble spirit of small America. In other news, it turns out Keith David did the voice for the Silver Surfer in that Fantastic Four movie from a while back. Can we get his voice on the phone instead? ( Read more... )

So tomorrow, several days later than I thought it would be, and several hundred dollars poorer than I thought I would be, I'm finally going to leave Philadelphia. Highlights of the past few days: delivering chocolate to random people and feeling pretty stupid, holing up the living room looking for urgent projects I can do to help shoulder the ( Read more... )

Just had both sides of the family over for two separate graduation ceremonies, in some kind of cosmic symmetry crossover event. (sadly, the graduation program did not feature a limited-edition foil hologram cover) Everyone was very patient with all the delays and the endless sitting in horrific weather, but it was a lot of running around, not ( Read more... )

My house has a dude kitchen. People who have lived in houses with multiple male residents and a shared cooking area should know what I mean, even if I made that up just right now. Dude kitchen is a place very much like the Earth we know, and yet subtly, sinisterly different. It is a place where strange coincidences are commonplace, where logic ( Read more... )

For the second time this week the bathroom on this floor has somehow locked itself shut with nobody in it, and for the second time I have had to MacGuyver it open. I don't know what causes it to stop working, but we do have a French guy living in the room down the hall now, which means the easiest explanations are ( Read more... )

I had a birthday last Thursday and told myself I would do something fun this weekend, since I was in the middle of doing a lot of crap on the actual day of. The fun stuff this weekend turned out mostly to be wandering around Philly during the day, but maybe by next weekend I'll have thought of something appropriately celebratory and can use my ( Read more... )