Happy birthday to mankoeponymous! A neat-o guy and a good friend. Please go read his Letter to a Kitten which is so wonderfully written and so very typical of the way his amazing mind works.

Enjoy the day!

Go listen to this wonderful sound creation by postal workers in Ghana. It is so darn cheerful; why can't my work environment be like this?

(Hi, I'm still here. Life is fairly stable, I'm in good health; nothing much to report, really.)

Just wanted to copy something from Kristin Hersh's blog, which really got me thinking.
22 November 2005 ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago, the very nifty Knightchik offered to make me a sock monkey. I politely (or so I hoped) declined, because sock monkeys always kinda creeped me out. Who knows why; they just do. And, as mentioned in my last post, I'm a bit too long in the tooth for stuffed animals. (Notice how I strongly reiterate this position; surely it ( Read more... )

I'm really well past the age of wanting stuffed animals, but these are just so charmingly weird.

Want
the
Aqua
Tiger,
yes.

I had to think long and hard for some answers for this meme; this is surely a sign that I need to engage in pleasurable things on a more regular basis.

Four Jobs I've Had In My Life:
bakery shop flunky
mailman (No, really! That's what I called myself! It was back before all that politically-correctness happened.)
office flunky
laptop nanny

Four ( Read more... )

Well, hello there! Bet you thought I'd wandered off the edge of the 'net, or something. I suppose I did; lots to tell but most of it's bad news, ah foo. And who wants to hear bad news? Not me; not now, anyway. The basic facts of today are that I am in good health and relatively good spirits, so quit yer worryin' (if you was worryin', that is ( Read more... )

I will not mope and sulk.
I will not mope and sulk.
I will not mope and sulk.
I will not mope and sulk.
I will not fucking mope and I will not fucking sulk.

I will not.

Yes! I passed the written exam! Woo hoo, I'm pleased about that ( Read more... )

In the past few weeks, I have needed to find my birth certificate and my Social Security card. A few preliminary searches through the miasma of my one-room home yielded nothing (why can't Google come up with a search function for my apartment??); so I decided it would be smarter/quicker to apply for new copies of both. Got the birth certificate ( Read more... )