Assuming I live as long as my mother, now is the perfect time for a mid-life crises.

Happy New Year!

So I'm off to Europe!  I'm meeting Avi in Prague, and we are gonna have madcap adventures, the likes of which have never been seen before.  Also we'll go to museums.

It's pretty pathetic of me not to have posted lately I think.  It got to the point where I would go, "Man I should write something...except it's been so long I'm ashamed to show my ( Read more... )

The font problem came back today. I saw the fonts go from Times to some kind of Arial Black RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES. Worse, what I did that "fixed" it yesterday didn't work today ( Read more... )

Got to work,  Tried to install the NEW OUT OF THE BOX printer but it was broken.  At first I thought I was doing something wrong setting it up, but when I called customer service he said "Yeah it's not supposed to do that."  My computer had restarted over the weekend and everything was in italics. After I fixed the italics problem everything was in ( Read more... )

 Well well well, what HAVE I been up to ( Read more... )

 Question one: Do you ride the exit lane until the last minute when you don't actually have to exit, and just want to cut in front of everyone who's been sitting in the proper lane for way too long and just wants to get home but your cutting is just holding up things for everyone, especially when you get pissy about people not letting you merge ( ( Read more... )

So I was trying to avoid a traffic jam today and my GPS sent me on some crazy trek through the Orinda hills.  It was worth it, though, when I discovered the absolute best view of the entire Bay.


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So the other week I sent a message to my local CW station.  I don't remember what I said specifically, but it was something like this:

Hello,

There are 21 seasons of The Simpsons, please rerunning seasons 19 and 20. It's really annoying.

-Elizabeth

In fact, those are probably close enough to my exact words.  So today they emailed back, and this is ( Read more... )

 One of the nice things about working in a publishing house is that there happen to be a lot of books around.  Go fig.  So I had this book on my desk, Stable Strategies and Others  by Eileen Gunn.  I was using it to guage how much finger-room I needed to make galley margins and such and such things, it had been on my desk for a while.  A few days ( Read more... )

so it started with this post on failblog and degenerated from there:

Jadesfire chan (7:22:27 PM): does that say "ball stretcher"?
Viraus (7:23:47 PM): fuuuuuuck
Viraus (7:23:56 PM): I'm jealous of these people
Jadesfire chan (7:24:04 PM): the people with the ball stretcher?
Jadesfire chan (7:24:10 PM): did you want your own ball stretcher?
Viraus (7:24: ( Read more... )