It snowed a couple inches last night, and it was my turn to shovel the walk. It's also trash day, and I hadn't yet pulled the trash cans to the curb. So I got on my shovelling boots, and out I went ( Read more... )

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We're having an adventure with brakes. As in, my car doesn't have them. I discovered this last night driving home. I'm braking for a stoplight, and I realize the pedal is all the way to the floor, and the brakes are gripping but not very strongly, and while the car is in fact slowing to a stop it's taking a very long time to come to a complete stop ( Read more... )

There's a shiny bit of metal on my hand, ditto on the Husband. Family and good friends have witnessed vows and been fed. The deed is done -- we are married ( Read more... )

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Two more things ticked off on the pre-wedding checklist ( Read more... )

The consort and I have been cohabiting quite happily together for 14 years now, but we finally had enough accumulation of reasons to do so that we've decided to get married. We kicked the idea around for a while, but at this point we've told the state and told my family, so it's official. We're getting married on October 27 ( Read more... )

This past Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine was all about fashion, which I like to look at in an interspecies anthropology sort of way, since it seldom has anything to do with the human race that I live among, or with my own race, whatever that may be. Some of it's kinda pretty to look at, but I want to know who pays almost $3,000 for a shapeless ( Read more... )

Your Score: Marilyn Munster!

Our test has determined that you possess
40% Hellbentness, 34% Sanguinity, and 31% Creeps!
Well done!


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I regularly read the community customers_suck, and someone posted a Very Good Question there the other week. The question was, what do you tell customers when you work for a company that sucks. The specific example was a cable company, and I had a very strong reaction to it. I take a lot of flack from people who tell me my company sucks. I managed ( Read more... )