In September.  I booked a flight, and I'm taking a week to go visit friends and family.  Yay!

I am on-edge today and I'm not sure why.

In a change from my hermetic weekend, I spend yesterday and today after work out in the sun, in the yard doing rough-and-tumble manly stuff.  My new "hobby" is the parasitic tree in the back yard.  I bought an axe, and let me tell you, chopping down bits of a tree that has taunted me for years feels really GOOD!  True my arms are scratched to hell ( Read more... )

I ate entirely unhealthy amounts of cake.

Fun though.

I swear to unholy Christ, iTunes is enough to make me want to return this iPod and never look at an Apple product again.  If the iPod showed up as a USB storage device, I would much, much MUCH rather just drag-and-drop that work though the hell that is iTunes.  I am going to search for utilities that let me do just that.

And Snow.

I am working from home today.  It's kinda cool, I've never been able to do that before.  It sure beats digging the car out of a foot of snow at Yawn o'clock in the morning.

When I was at the grocery store earlier today, the cashier commented that she hadn't seen me in the store for a while.  I explained that where I used to work, it was convenient to get off the highway but when they moved (in May last year) it was in the opposite direction, so I didn't just stop in for stuff on the way home any more.  She said she ( Read more... )

I bought pork chops.  Now I have to figure out what to do with them ( Read more... )

It happened again -- and this time the furnace will not relight.  58.8 degrees and dropping.  I placed a service call, and someone should be out before noon to take care of things.  Meanwhile, I'm thinking that fireplace looks like a pretty nice prospect ...

I woke up this morning to a cold room.  I discovered that the furnace had gone out overnight, and the house was a chilly 54 degrees.  Luckily, all I needed to do was press the reset button to get it going again, but it's been a cold morning.  It's almost up to 60 now!  I am not quite brave enough yet to face the shower - even assuming there's ( Read more... )