Six people were hospitalized and one dude died at the race I ran last night. Maybe we'll reconsider the "twilight" and re-name it the "Mid-October Reasonably Temperatured Nobody Dies Runfest". Sheesh.

In "I feel old" news, while I was watching TV this afternoon, a commercial for Now 27 (!!!) came on. I received Now 5 as a gift in high school, and now we're on Now Fucking Twenty Seven? Holy S. I am so effing old.

Additionally, I'm done with winter. Spring please. kthxbye.

So today I had to move cubes at work from one end of the building to the other (part of a reorg), no big deal. So the computer people come, take my computer, the moving people come, take my boxes, whatever. 9:25 am I'm in my new cube, checking e-mails. 9:36 am I sneeze. A second later, an e-mail pops up from my new next door neighbor, "Bless ( Read more... )

Subtitle: Don't vote when the sidewalks are covered in ice. Participating in democracy is not worth eating it in the middle of an intersection in front of everyone in the town.

2nd subtitle: "Potomac Primaries" is the gayest name ever.

Bruce and I ran a 5K this morning. Time: 31:50...hopefully better next time!

Tonight: Mint Juleps for everyone!

Ok. So, everything is ok. Soymilk: good, Almond milk: fantastic, Mac and "Chreese": meh, Soy cheese: ew. no.

Weight loss to date: 6 lbs
Observations: feelin' fine, missing cheese

Fuck, what have I done? This was the worst idea EVER ( Read more... )

Please be reasonable about pricing your shit. Your ass-ugly, 20 year old black laquer with gold trim bedroom set is NOT worth $1000. Just because YOU paid $1000 does not mean anyone else ever will. Unless you have something genuinely valuable, virtually everything on Craigslist should be priced $50 or below. Asshats.

Last weekend, some friends came over and we made sushi (complete with Asian friend for authenticity) and today I made a cake:
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I did not realize how much bubblewrap prices vary from store to store.  I really think of bubblewrap as a perfectly competitive good--I mean, each square foot of 3/6" height bubblewrap is the same as the other, right?  Well, let me tell you--buy your bubble wrap at Target, which has the lowest per-square-foot price I've found so far at $0.1665/ft(2 ( Read more... )