So I walked out of my apartment this morning and what do I see up ahead? Billowing clouds of smoke. Fire trucks. Holy shit, there's a fire!

I walk up to the building, and I can see actual flames coming out of the top of it. I need to take a picture, because this is awesome and how often do you get to see something like this, right? But I don't ( Read more... )

So my niece, light_frost was born around the time this picture was taken. She graduated from high school this year. This was me in my graduation dress:


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I keep emailing people from Craigslist who are looking for roommates and not getting responses back. This is beginning to weird me out ( Read more... )

A couple of times I've seen a monogamous couple having problems, and then they decide to go poly, and then they're broken up ( Read more... )

This article on Cracked is a mostly really good summary of why life gets better after 30. I do have one question though about this quote:

Think about everyone with whom you used to spend so much time. Members of the gang who attended all the same parties, but whose company you never enjoyed. Ever. Guess what? By the time you hit 30, they're no ( Read more... )

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is that even after all these years, I still desperately want to be cool.

heh.

I didn't get anything finished though. It's been long enough that I think I'm a bit out of practice, though hopefully not so much that I've lost all the skills that I've built up lately. I got to the point of a pencil sketch, but I don't feel ready to ink yet. I think I should let it sit for a night and have another look at it again tomorrow. ( Read more... )

I wanted to order new contact lenses online so that I could use them for going to the water park with my family so I wouldn't have to walk around with blurry vision all the time (glasses not being such good things to wear on water slides). Keep in mind that if my vision weren't correctable it would probably be bad enough to get me legally blind ( Read more... )

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Eddie Izzard trying to buy a brown cow from a Frisian farmer using only Old English. What's really interesting is that I could only pick out a few of the words that I could understand. Old English was really different from Modern or even Middle English.