So I've survived the kids being on summer break, and now I can go back to being a teacher's aide, as opposed to the residential enforcer I've been for a while now ( Read more... )

Last Monday, I bought a table and five chairs from a co-worker who left for Ohio. Table was fine, the chairs needed work. This weekend I sanded down the chairs, repainted them, and re-upholstered the chair pads.

Looks just great. I shoulda taken a before picture.

So for a couple days I'm getting dropped left and right, my DSL just can't hang on. Pretty annoying. I got back online and decided to look up SBC's chat helper, and, well, see what got said ( Read more... )

After a few false starts and high-speed passes at females, I have been told by more than one source to stop looking so hard for that special girl ( Read more... )

So Janel's 'Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance' was last weekend and this weekend, her gal pal Sam and I went last night but had the brilliant idea of spending the day at Venice Beach beforehand, since the show was down there in Venice ( Read more... )

By nature, I'm a cynic. I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt, because I want to think well of humanity, even as I don't ( Read more... )

Here's what I did today, in order ( Read more... )

Let's see...helped Janel move today, she's got a nice little pad in Glendale now, she's terrible at packing for a move even if she told people she wanted to get it done all at once. Her books were boxed up, but none of her clothes or other daily stuff were ready to go ( Read more... )

At the used bookstore, I hear a girl snort when reading some cover, and without looking I ask "Is it that bad?" I then look over at this cute little Asian girl with freckles (just the cutest combination ever!) and we chitchat for a few minutes, she says she's just browsing while waiting for the Korean place next door to open ( Read more... )

So for the past two weeks I've been housesitting for my dad. My stepmom has a computer that dad bought her about five years ago, a celeron 666, but my little brother has gotten warez and ha><>< on it and winME has been reinstalled on it so often that it might as well have a hamster wheel in the minitower ( Read more... )