Okay, so I knew IN THEORY that the oil companies are cleaning up at the general population's expense. Some days gas is $2.93, some days it's $2.99, but do the minor fluctuations really matter any more? According to our July expenditures, they do not. I just finished entering data for our July expenses into Quicken, a handy-dandy money management ( Read more... )

We've all read them: the alumni newsletter updates from people whom you vaguely remember, but who seem to be leading interesting, useful, socially-conscious lives doing casually dangerous or selfless things. It makes you feel like a boring slacker, and like you ought to be doing something better with your time. Like playing on the Internet ( Read more... )

In the past, I've come up as an INFJ -- maybe this means I'm a little less judgmental than I used to be?


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I was reading the Daedalus book catalog this evening, and came across a blurb describing a mystery, The Body in the Snowdrift ( Read more... )

Incidentally (extremely incidentally), while I was in the phone book looking up the Nabisco address kindly furnished by robotapocalypse, I noticed that Marion is home to the National Association of Rocketry, located at "2275 Geode". Naturally, I wandered to the website, and found it asking the question, "How many ways can you have FUN with rockets ( Read more... )

So, anyone who knows me knows that I'm a foodie. I love to eat, and if I ever had to go on a real diet, I think I would self-combust. That said, there is a style of eating (or maybe a way of eating) that I find intriguing, which is eating only food which comes from your own community in some way (community being defined as a geographic location). ( Read more... )

Few things make me as happy as finding out that a favorite forgotten author has written more than I knew about, and now there are three or four delicious novels out there for me to find and consume.

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2007_05_011056.php

Yum!

I have two hands to type today, so I'm celebrating with a post/half-assed book review. In an effort to balance the constant cuteness that goes on at our house these days, I have taken to reading only mystery novels, preferably with lots of gore or at least more than one dead body. Carl Hiaasen's SKIN TIGHT delivers on both counts, augmented with ( Read more... )

Not to jump on the band wagon, but.... well.... *hop*.

Congratulations to the happy couple! We had a good time, and our tired baby slept the whole way home (yay!).

And now we have an entire Sunday ahead -- sunny skies, warm weather, no commitments. Life is good. :)

I finally figured out the word that people were saying as I pushed Eva out. I thought they were saying that she had a "nuncle" or "nuncel" hand, but it turns out that they were saying "nuchal." Nuchal is an adjective which describes something's locaction as being near the nape or neck. Essentially, she came out with her hand up along her neck and ( Read more... )