About a week and a half ago, life took a downturn again. It was brutally hot on Monday, about a week and a half ago, though nowhere near so hot today....but it got blistering in the factory. Heat index climbed to about 105F, and with all the heavy protective gear I had to wear, it cooked me badly ( Read more... )

Nope. I still don't use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or any other social network that's all the rage nowadays, so LJ it is ( Read more... )

Does anyone still use this Livejournal thingy? If not, I'm about to waste a bunch of electrons ( Read more... )

Hi all. To anyone expecting to see me at Boo at the Zoo today, sorry that I didn't attend ( Read more... )

Hi all. In a nutshell: It was a lot of fun. Very relaxing both physically and mentally. No problems to speak of on the trip down or back.

And I miss the hell out of everyone already.

Anyone near Kenosha, Wisconsin, want to hang out? I'm still off work till Sunday afternoon.

Finally, despite a last second scheduling screwup at work, I'm on vacation. VACATION!

Packing up today and tomorrow. Then MFM, here I come.

Just found out last night that one of my former roommates, Jason, passed away this weekend. He wasn't a fur, but was fur friendly, and attended Mephit Furmeet perhaps....was it 10 years ago? Somewhere in that neighborhood. Those with good memories might remember him by the alias 'Devilwing ( Read more... )

2.5 weeks to my vacation. Then MFM. God, I can't, wait, I need it in the worst way. So burned out.

It's no wonder I'm sore. I just woke up from a 5 hour nap, conked out solid from sheer fatigue, and that is following a busy, heavy 61 hour workweek ( Read more... )

Took my rifle out on the range today, after taking care of some other business. That shooting session didn't last long; it started to malfunction almost immediately. Wouldn't feed the rounds correctly and something in there was cutting large gouges in the soft lead of the bullets. After 3 jams in only 6 shots, I stopped shooting, afraid of ( Read more... )