Hi LJ! I'm still alive. I know I don't post like I'm alive, but it's true anyway ( Read more... )

eternal_fish and I have a registry for the wedding. Two, actually, but the relevant one for this rant is at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. We have (creepy!) begun to receive wedding presents slightly in advance of mailing invitations ( Read more... )

I just got a call from my doctor's office. The only reason I know that it was from my doctor's office is the caller ID. The "conversation", such as it was, went like this ( Read more... )

Seven (or however many) years of LJ haven't taught me much, but they did eventually teach me one thing: no matter how much I plan to, I will never write the huge catch-up entry I'm always meaning to write. So, um, hi everybody. Fancy running into you here.

eternal_fish and I have started planning food a week at a time. We both have high-stress ( Read more... )

I wanted to take a walk today. I'm not too fond of walking aimlessly; I don't need an important destination, but I do need a destination. So I decided I'd try the Dairy Queen that opened up down the street. Get an ice cream cone, wander around eating it, come home ( Read more... )

This rant of Dom's about time for gaming struck a chord. I like to play each game in a single ongoing session instead of mixed in with a bunch of others. And the games I like are really long... Combine that with being an avid reader and full-time employed and I'm down to five or so a year now. Probably still falling ( Read more... )

eternal_fish and I returned from Orlando today. It's oh so good to be home. My employer (CodeSourcery) has an annual meeting usually in a place worth taking a vacation in, and this year she was able to come down for the tail end of it.

Highlights:

• Disneyworld was fun. I could talk for ages about how thoroughly marketed it is, but in such a way that I ( Read more... )

I now have a facebook account. For the sole purpose of playing... scrabble.

LJ Mobile keeps eating my posts so they keep getting shorter. Hope everyone is having great holidays.

Ever since we moved, we've been getting calls from "MARK DOC", from phone number 1-412-487-0996. It's an autodialer. It goes something like this, from memory ( Read more... )