I didn't post on Thursday, but Thanksgiving went pretty well. It was the first time we'd ever hosted (ed note: Nikki and I, but mostly her since she did 90% of the cooking) Thanksgiving. My brother and younger sister came over to help us put a dent in the veritable feast that was to be had at our apartment, but they unfortunately left before the ( Read more... )

"US Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned from the Bush cabinet, the White House has announced."  Is anyone else breaking out the champaign, or should I?

I was bored and attempted to peruse through my friends list but it was under siege by posts from damnportlanders, so I started playing around with my friends list and the 'filters' and 'groups' functions. Apparently if you add a new group called 'Default View', that will define what journals/communities show up in you default "/friends" page. Just thought I'd ( Read more... )

The votes are in, and the people have spoken, George W. Bush will have another four years in the Whitehouse. In 2000 Al Gore won the popular vote, so we could blame the electoral college for Bush's win. This year Bush won the popular vote (right now by about 3%), so this time theres no one to blame, not even Nader ( Read more... )

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haulcapnslappy goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as a llama.alfonzobean tricks you! You get a block of wood.darkspin gives you 8 purple watermelon-flavoured gummy fruits.demelzack gives you 7 dark green pineapple-flavoured gummy fruits.diamanta gives you 12 light yellow cola-flavoured gummy bears.dynee tricks you! You ( Read more... )

Hah! This quote (stolen from NY Times) sums up the election quite nicely.

"One is too polished; the other one, I think to be honest, I don't know how he ever got to be president."
- an undecided voter in western Michigan.

Nikki and I were wandering around downtown and dropped by a hotel/motel used furniture store that nosferatulouis told me about. It had a lot of interesting old furniture and appliances, even some strange looking stained mattresses, though I of course managed to find their odd assortment of used books in the corner. Nikki stumbled upon an awesome book for me ( Read more... )

It's only taken about 12 years, but I've finally managed to get my hands on this album. A long story short, my father recorded that album off the radio onto cassette back when I was 10 years old or so, and it was one of my favorite tapes to listen to until it died an agonizing death. It was originally recorded back in the seventies, and has ( Read more... )

So I think I managed to work two whole 8hr days this week, wheee! Unfortunately I ended up working more than 8 on every other day. 14hrs on Monday, 10hrs on Tuesday, and 10 hrs on Wednesday. My only hope for this weekend is that I wont have to go in on Sunday, we could have a freak earthquake/typhoon/whatever and if I didn't have to go to work I ( Read more... )

Work has been chaotic as hell lately, especially since we essentially took control of another division's product with little to no assistance from the former developers. They pretty much handed us the code and said "Have fun". then promptly disappeared to never respond to emails and voicemail again ( Read more... )