I found a card for the greatest cupcake place in the world: Fuss Cupcakes. (http://www.fusscupcakes.com/)

Unfortunately, they are in Edmonton. But hey, I get another sabbatical in 2013.

I have about 100 tokens from an arcade that closed. Is there anything useful I can do with them? Does anyone want random useless tokens?

I don't actually think knowing is half the battle, at least for the context of, "Hey, this thing that I'm doing is irrational and I should stop!" It's a necessary condition, certainly, in that if I think I'm doing something rational I have no incentive to stop it, but it feels more like 15% of the battle for me.

The only Christmas shopping I *didn't* do via Amazon was some impulse-buy chocolate in Walgreens, and the cross-stitching supplies since it's easier (and actually a little cheaper) to look at the stuff directly in Joann's.

Hey, livejournal. My parents want to go somewhere in New England for a weekend in October to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary ( Read more... )

* I read _The Last Colony_ a while ago. There's a character named General Gau in it. I spent the entire book with this running through the back of my mind ( Read more... )

Periodically I think, "Hey, I should say how I'm doing so that people who I don't see frequently know I'm still alive ( Read more... )

Let me know if you want any of these, before I take them off to Goodwill.

Also, if you *lent* me any of these, please tell me before I give them away!

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I saw _Heathers_ tonight, finally. I'm not sure there's anything else useful to say on the topic.

I tried to go to two panels. The first panel we showed up half an hour early and just barely did not get in. The second panel, we showed up an hour early, waited for half an hour, realized we were in the wrong place, and just barely got in. I hear they're holding the con someplace bigger next year, which would help ( Read more... )