Merry Christmas, everyone.

I'd do that thing about why my livejournal is annoying, but it seems self-explanatory.

The door you couldn't open on JKR's site can now be opened. Behind it is a brick wall. After you get rid of the wall, (think Diagon Alley), and get rid of some papers, up comes a screen on which the words Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are typed. So is that the title for book 6 or yet another hoax? (See Harry Potter and the Pillar of Storge ( Read more... )

Platy said she'd give up on HP under a certain condition, so it's curiosity time ( Read more... )

So this afternoon I was heading back home after a trip to Home Depot, where we manly men stock up on "tools" and "hardware" and "lumber" for our manly-men "projects", when suddenly all the warning lights on my dash lit. When they went back out, the tach, speedometer, and fuel gage all read zero. Astounding as I had just filled the tank up and was ( Read more... )

I had to do this for a silly thing we do at our weekly staff meetings. The idea is to share knowledge we've picked up over time with our co-workers. Me, I think if you're bagging something you know others might find useful just so you have something to say at the meeting, you're not helping anyone. As such, my "knowledge sharing" is never work ( Read more... )

Valuable life lesson: When the 30 year-old stepladder you're standing on decides to prove why you shouldn't be standing on a 30 year-old stepladder, grab the beam the garage door opener is hanging on, not the garage door opener itself.

Which, I guess, is two valuable life lessons if you count "Don't use a 30 year-old stepladder."

Eh, so I was wrong.

Your LJ is boring! There's nothing there! You need to post something!

Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag. And do I get the benefits of being married? No, I still have to file as Single and take the tax hit.

So I may very well be the last person on the planet to figure this out, but I'm sure the finale of Friends will have Ross quitting his job to go to ( Read more... )