The problem with not posting these updates every day or every other day is that while each post catches me up two weeks, the amount of stuff that I haven't covered yet increases by a week at the other end. Oops ( Read more... )

Things I forgot to mention last time: On Wed Feb 24, the second AMC was as obnoxious as the first, and official HMIT results are posted online, with us in third place. Reports are that the scoring program used by HMIT is so complicated they screwed it up, and possibly had for the past several years as well. Also, before going to TR for Valentine's ( Read more... )

We will return to "Catching Up" shortly. However, I went to a Rhett Miller concert on Thursday, and had to share his amusing monologue from throughout the song "Question" (which is about a guy proposing to his girlfriend). Note: Just before the previous song, he asked if there were any kids in the audience; there were, so he didn't tell a dirty ( Read more... )

So if you watch a lot of network TV as I used to (at this point, almost all the TV I watch is sports), you may be familiar with "sweeps" periods. Specifically, in November, February, and May, extra attention is paid to ratings, so TV series have especially interesting episodes during those months. Well, one could say my February was kinda like that ( Read more... )

When we left off, it was January 29.
Friday 1/29: Jen drove up in advance of our weekend together. I got a pizza from the local place, but by the end didn't feel so good. It was unclear whether it was from the pizza or just getting sick...
Saturday 1/30: After getting breakfast and checking the train schedule, I concluded that if we left at 1:20, ( Read more... )

No excuses, I'm just gonna catch you up in a bunch of small posts over the next week. The last legitimate update was... DECEMBER?! Are you fucking kidding me ( Read more... )

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If you, like me, are a mediocre poker player who blogs (or journals or whatever), and you might like a chance at free money:


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[Way back in 2003, over the last two weeks of the year, I wrote several one-paragraph essays on LJ with each paragraph corresponding to a month of the preceding year. In 2004, I started to do the same, but stopped halfway through because I didn't have internet access. I didn't even bother the following year, because not enough interesting stuff had ( Read more... )

Really? It's been two months? Wow am I lame. On the one hand I still have enough free time I could be posting every week or more. On the other hand, though, it's because not too much has changed ( Read more... )