So, Sunday was very frustrating for me. It started with church which is usually a pretty decent experience for me, but managed to piss me off repeatedly this week. Then Mom insisted on watching the Miss USA pageant, which I usually find rather bland, but not terribly offensive, but made me seriously want to strangle people this year. I was going to ( Read more... )

I should start by saying that I haven't actually seen First Class yet. I intend to, probably next week on one of my Dad's days off work. A fun summer movie is my traditional Father's Day present to him, and this summer that means superhero movie. My only interest in Thor is to see the movie background which will, as I understand it, carry over to ( Read more... )

It was fun ( Read more... )

Okay, so I mentioned to a friend on or about Easter, that I was going to do a post on one of the things that has long-sense been a fundamental issue that I have with the organized Christian church, and how it all basically boils down to, I don't get Easter. I meant to do that at some earlier point in time, but just haven't gotten around to it. ( ( Read more... )

I'm at work with relatively little to do, but I don't have the focus to actually write or do something else productive. I think my brain is still trying to recover from tax season ( Read more... )

Yay! I've still got a job at the service for another couple of weeks, wrapping things up, doing some amendments and prior year returns, and dealing with the late rejects, but generally speaking I'm through with taxes until it's time to start teaching again in October ( Read more... )

Helping Hands Humane Society is my local shelter. They are working very hard to convert to a no-kill, and have already moved to a system where there isn't a ticking clock on animals. They're also working on renovating a brand new to them facility (the building was donated by Kroger when they closed one of their Dillon's stores in town, but as you ( Read more... )

It's tax season, and the increasing lack of comment in this journal should signal. I'll probably be back to more regular posting mid-march when things slow down and then gone again the last week of March through April 18 (this year's filing deadline because the 15th is some obscure bank holiday for D.C ( Read more... )

Okay, so I still haven't got that first Yuletide recs post ready. I'll get to it, really I will. Things have been very busy. I spent last week teaching tax classes. A morning class 9am-1pm, and a night class 6pm-10pm. When you consider that I had to be there about 1/2 an hour early to get set up and rarely managed to get out of either class fewer ( Read more... )

I've got a Yuletide recs post ready to go, but I think that at this point I will wait until after the reveal to post about them ( Read more... )