As we do every January, my wife and I will cleanse out our systems by eating uncompromisingly healthfully 24x7 for two weeks, give-or-take.

Our diet pretty much becomes vegetables, tofu, fish and whole grains, with an absolute ban on refined sugars, alcohol, caffeine (except green tea), dairy products, wheat, mammals and birds.  She won't be ( Read more... )

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Everyone remember Kelo v. City of New London, the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case wherein a closely divided court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut could use eminent domain to take privately owned homes and give them to Pfizer to encourage economic development that would benefit the entire town?  Pfizer wanted the homes so it could expand ( Read more... )

Our check engine light has been glowing persistently for a couple of days, so this morning I hauled myself out to the car dealership at 6am instead of sleeping like a sane man.  (This is the car's check engine light I'm referring to.  Mind you, my own has been illuminated a lot this season, too.)

Because we're staying in Waltham during our home ( Read more... )

After an overfull week, I'm now home sick for the day, working on set lists for the few weddings I'm DJing in this next month.
 Last night, I dreamt that I was in a large group at some kind of nerd camp in the states, where challenging questions were being asked of each person. I was asked to "name three Canadian songs with awesome guitar solos." I ( Read more... )

Looking at sublets, I am now corresponding with someone from Craigslist who says she is unexpectedly out of the country with an "important job", but can rent me her (surprisingly cheap) apartment short-term with rent.com as a broker.  Her process is outlined below.  Does anyone see any way this *isn't* a scam?  There is additional weirdness not ( Read more... )

As we have so often done before, aerynne and I will cleanse out our systems by eating uncompromisingly healthfully 24x7 for two weeks, give-or-take.

Our diet pretty much becomes vegetables, tofu, fish and whole grains, with an absolute ban on dairy products, refined sugars, alcohol, caffeine (except green tea), wheat, mammals and birds. I'll also drink all ( Read more... )

Prescription goggles, baby!


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Someone in Dublin buying groceries with my credit card, the one that's in my pocket here stateside. Minutes later I'm on the phone, canceling my card.
 *#@$. I'll miss that card number. Had it all nice and memorized, and just finished updating my recurring payment people with a new expiry date, which I was also fond of. It's nice that they seem to ( Read more... )