I just got back from a nice dinner out with Pam to celebrate our wedding anniversay, which is tomorrow.

Our THIRTIETH wedding anniversary.

Ye God!

... that there's a chat thing on Facebook. So that's what that noise was!

So tomorrow evening I've arranged to get some actors together to read my new play. This is not a public reading, just a chance for me to hear the entire play read aloud for the first time and get some feedback. I arranged for a space and for five actors. One of them was especially crucial because the character is a 14 year-old boy, and I managed to ( Read more... )

Why are people always so surprised when they run across a 'scrabble' word in real life? (For example, somebody recently posted on CGP that he was surprised to run across 'navvies.')

I mean, come on! They're WORDS! Somebody uses them!

Okay, rant over. You may resume your normal lives.

Playing eurobikermcdog on ISC just now, I got away with BLITH(ERE)RS* at B2 for 98.

But it wasn't enough to win the game, since I was way down at that point. Which kind of ruins the story.

Okay, what does it mean when i get something that says one of my friends "knows a secret about me" (which I doubt), and then when I click on the thingie, it tells me it's going to give my information to somebody else? What kind of scam is this?

... and one of the few intelligible things Henry James ever said.

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

Feeling like crap sucks.

I was already developing a cold yesterday, and inhaling the smoke from the smoldering carpet in my bedroom didn't help. Nor did how cold the bedroom was because I had to leave all the windows open with a fan on.

I'm coughing, short of breath, my head aches, my joints ache, and I'm tired as hell.

Tomorrow will be better.

So I'm idly looking through people's photos on Facebook and I'm surprised to discover how many of them are pictures that I took myself! Then I realized that ididjonassalk had posted the copies of all the photos I sent him from various tournaments. I guess that means you can just take photos from one person and put them on your own?

So, dugy1001 , the picture of you with ( Read more... )

Well, that was exciting. Joining Facebook and almost burning down my house on the same day.