It's July already, and my intent to update more regularly has failed to go anywhere again. This post will cover June 16-22, when I took a week to drive up and visit my parents up in DE. I also got to spend time with my grandma (no longer in the hospital, but still in therapy-oriented assisted living), and particularly my brother and nephew (four ( Read more... )

Take 2 on a somewhat haphazard update on what's going on in my life these days; I've not posted in too long again, and it's been even longer since I made a public post.
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Forewarning: the following is mostly me griping. It's Tcon week, deal or scroll on ( Read more... )

Thursday: Woke up in time for VTSFFC, and we did end up watching my Muppets DVD at Bogen's; pretty good crowd too. Afterward I dropped off some students on campus, as weather was pretty unpleasant, and headed on into work for the night. Left a bit later than intended, morning traffic already picking up. Not sleepy yet, and trying to rotate ( Read more... )

Decided that I needed to give myself some sort of break after the recent days and horribleness, and didn't set an alarm or force myself to get up the first time I woke up. While I don't *think* I was that much shorter on sleep than usual, apparantly my body thought otherwise; maybe I've been fighting something off illness-wise. Also noticed that ( Read more... )

Saturday: Couldn't get to sleep Friday, couldn't get up Saturday; one of those days. Fully intended to go into work but didn't; in fact accomplished remarkably little except make progress toward 100% in GTA:VC, if you can even count that as having accomplished anything ( Read more... )

Payday, so dealt with bills & some chores, then about 10 hours at work. Mostly dealing with server maintainence, and some machine building for new students. Took a "break" to help a friend whose machine had been hacked, and I'm keeping up with the wonderful Mars rover closeups of course.

Wednesday: OK, despite my last update post I ended up deciding the only way I was going to reset my sleep schedule was to stay up. Did some laundry, cleaned, read some playtest material, played some GTA:VC, just about everything except dust under the refrigerator Mid-morning, drove to Roanoke to pick up my new glasses and do some shopping. ( Read more... )

In the clearly *im*practical joke department...
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040107/southsound/8191.shtml

Saturday: Thought I set a generous alarm to allow some sleep catchup, but set for AM, not PM, so I *really* caught up on sleep with no alarm to interfere. Woke up early evening and was invited over to kittenchan & vond's place, along with yubbie, for a curry dinner that was not only excellent, but really hit the spot on a miserably cold day. We also heckled ( Read more... )