( Wherein I rant about getting screwed by the bank )

Just went to my first Polish class. The professor seems entertaining... very hyperactive. The class will probably teach me something if we stick with it. We're just sitting in right now and have been given the ultimatum to come or not come but to pick one instead of dropping in on random classes.

Back from the honeymoon... back to the grind.

Honeymoon trip planned! Although Kar wasn't paying thinking when she put in my name when buying the plane tickets, so the name on the tickets says Dan while my driver's license/passport say Daniel. Guess we'll have to call up the airline and fix that.

Now to decide what kind of camera gear I need to buy before going 8-)

Got a spot today on Day In Rock's Singled Out:

Singled Out: Synaptic Disturbance's Gallows

Should've asked somebody to come over and water our plants while we were in LA. Either it didn't rain as much as we were expecting, or it was just hot enough to dry it up. Our hanging tomato looked miserable, completely shriveled when we got home, but it seems to have mostly recovered after we dumped water on it. Some of our berries, which are ( Read more... )

All of our plants are starting to get yellow leaves near the bottom. Root rot, lack of nutrients, something else? Certainly not due to underwatering them...

Since I've got it out for review and just got a physical copy in the mail today, I guess it's time to start announcing it other places than just Twitter. I "officially" released my new CD this week:

Synaptic Disturbance - They Are Killers @ Bandcamp

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Explain to me why we have to sign copyright over to IEEE (or ACM, as appropriate) when publishing a paper?

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I've never seen so many people opposed to the idea of killing a groundhog.