I just had this incredible feeling of relief at being finished come over me for no reason. Sure, it's nearly the end of the work day and I'm probably not going to go into OT tonight, but, why did I really have a firm, deepseated feeling that I was finished and everything was right with the world ( Read more... )

Around 3:15 today, our power went out. By 4:30pm, power still wasn't back on and it was starting to get dark, so I distributed little blinky LEDs everywhere in the house, made sure the camping lanterns were in the middle of the family room, and headed out to get an early dinner ( Read more... )

No matter how many times I hear it, "Rimming Sugar" still cracks me up.

Oh my god. Someone took the classic HK40K image and ... totally went one better.

As part of his ongoing efforts to clean up and consolidate the Huge Game Collection, Erich pulled one of our three copies of Deities and Demigods out of the garage today. "I'm going to display it in a place of honor," he says, "along with these Runequest rules, the first thing I ever bought from the internet ( Read more... )

I spoke about the sleeping pills with my doctor a couple months before Burning Man, and she wants me to go off the pills and do a sleep study. This is reasonable, I've been on the pills now for ten years, and although they're a godsend, it's entirely possible that my internal chemistry has changed. People's sleep needs and habits definitely alter ( Read more... )

I know, it's been nearly a month since I posted ( Read more... )

Signal boost to my usual source of all things Dr. Who, remmer:

Crazy Obsessive Pensioner builds super cool life-sized Dalek out of matchsticks
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We're headed to San Diego tomorrow morning for my Grandfather's memorial service. Later, we'll be heading to dinner and to do some heavy drinking with friends. I was thinking it might be fun to go dancing or something after that, but I have no idea what's available in the San Diego area and I always seem to end up in meat markets there, which is ( Read more... )

I am really, incredibly lucky.

While I was off in the desert, a number of people gave me a fabulous number of ephemeral but heartfelt gifts. I also received quite a few actual physical gifts. This is the thank-you post!

* el3mo: for letting me borrow a box to live in and shade to be under for three weeks ( Read more... )