So, I realized today that I have not indeed become a completely soulless zombified shell of my former self. There is at least one thing that makes me happy left in this world, and I picked up some of it today ( Read more... )

I am already tired of Christmas. The previous month of being smacked over the head with it, the black Friday nonsense, the mythical "Cyber Monday" that has stretched into "Cyber Week" (still equally mythical) - I'm done ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah, I know it comes up this time every year. Another list of the things we're thankful for, more posts extolling the things in our lives that make us the awesome people we are. Yada, yada ( Read more... )

Okay, I've posted about this in the old Twitter thing, but it needs a bit more explanation than 140 characters can do for it, so here it is ( Read more... )

'Nother productive weekend. What am I thinking?

Changed the exhaust on the venerable pickup truck. Apparently 10 years is pretty much the lifespan of a Flowmaster muffler.

Well, there's you're problem.Sadly, I really love the sound of a Flowmaster. Quite racy and rumbly without being (overly) obnoxious. Sounds better on a V8, but I currently am ( Read more... )

Good Lord, been one of those weeks. Every. Single. Thing. I have tried to do has met up with the most ridiculous friction, resistance and all out random acts of Murphy's law I have ever seen. And believe me, Murphy and I are pretty much joined at the hip. Web sites flaking out for no reason, transactions failing for no reason, internet going ( Read more... )

Wait, what? What was I thinking ( Read more... )

I'm done. Seriously. Every single face to face interaction for the last while has been pretty much somebody asking my opinion/thoughts or how something works, then telling me how wrong I am and completely disregarding whatever I say and doing whatever they wanted to do anyway. I'm done bothering to try anymore. As apparently I am wrong 24/7/365 ( Read more... )

Weird Al rocks face meltingly hard. At this moment I would be wiping away one solitary tear rolling slowly down my cheek in sheer awestruck majesty at the concert performance I just witnessed, but ( Read more... )

Standing around with the family the other night and Blair grabbed the handle of one of those small, push-around lawn seeders (the kind that spray seeds as you walk around the yard) and started running around with it. As she took off running, she quite clearly and loudly stated "Say hello to my little friend ( Read more... )