last thursday, i purchased a used bicycle. it is a univega (apparently a precursor to the raleigh brand from the 80s), in the "activa country" style. essentially it's a hybrid - mountain bike handlebars with a slimmed down road bike frame, and tires somewhere in between the two styles. the frame is purple, and the lettering on it is *very* '80s ( Read more... )

because nothing can possibly be as shameful as hello kitty.

(nytimes.com, subscription required. i usually try to bypass the subscription requirement thing using bugmenot.com.)

on with the fun illnesses! ^_ ( Read more... )

i've taken the bus to work and back home now for three days. it's given me a chance to take up reading some of the books that lirillith gave me ages ago that i haven't read yet ( Read more... )

well, at least this time i don't have any kind of exotic disease, just good old-fashioned martian death flu. i've been subsisting on a wonderful diet of nyquil (well, target brand generic equivalent thereof), and robitussin. i hope to have this thing kicked out of my system by monday - the last thing i want to do is promptly use up all of my sick ( Read more... )

i now own a house, and owe several hundred thousand dollars to some random company in arizona.

at least, until they sell my loan to someone else.

...i need to learn how to change a pool filter.

the property hazard disclosure report for the house i'm buying is very informative! i've learned the following items, for example (this is copied verbatim from the report):

1) subject property is not located in an officially designated liquefication hazard zone
2) subject property is not located in an officially designated tsunami inundation area ( Read more... )

people smoking in bed...
people voting republican -
GIVE THEM A BOOT TO THE HEAD!!!

i mean, seriously... have republicans no shame?

edit - that's not all folks.

today is the second day of the counting of the escrow. (see f-locked post for day one ( Read more... )

on monday, i had lunch with family visiting from new york. at the time, nobody noticed anything odd about my forehead. that afternoon, i noticed a pimple-like blemish forming on my forehead - we all thought it was a zit or something ( Read more... )