I love Tom Waits. I like Leonard Cohen. Would it not stand to reason that I would then like Elvis Costello? I love his real name, I don't like his music.

Last night was a ton of fun. There's is a tech guy in town from one of our other offices. Next week is his last week and he came to do a brain dump to our technical support folk. The original plan was 1 drink, 5-5:30 just to be polite. It ended up with 4 of us out until just past midnight, many drinks, and I now can say three things in Hindi, ( Read more... )

I got a postcard from Zanzibar yesterday (because that's where umopapisdn is). It's got ocean and a chair and is beautiful and makes me want to go sailing. Maybe it's not too late to go. I would feel bad not giving 3 months notice though ( Read more... )

My poor rotund kitty can't reach her backside. She had to have a squeezing yesterday at the vet. Now we get to enjoy antibacterial baths every other day. So as long as she's already miserable, she's getting her teeth cleaned on Thursday. And she now has prescription diet food. So that's about... $300 in cat maintenance this week.

I just spent the last hour and a half working on my taxes. I do believe I'm getting $1400. That would make one credit card almost half paid off!

Or I could spend $160 of that on the red & burgundy Fluevog Angel Gibsons...

I have 5 hours of overtime for this pay period and there's still 5 full days to work. And it's the busiest week of the quarter. I'm so tired. My apartment is so dirty. I had to mine the pile of clothes that are for Goodwill to be able to have something clean for work. Drowning @ sea DOES sound better than this.

Excerpt from a Gary email ( Read more... )

I got a package from umopapisdn today! Kindereggs galore! Thanks babe. :D

Work has decided that non-work internet stuff is taking up too much of the pipe so they've taken away gmail (oh well) and launch (nooooooooo!) so I'm getting quite a fill of news.

God only knows what my hair will look like when I take these braids out. I've got broken hairs all over the place.

Today... I feel like being in Kingston in June 1998. I do not feel like being at my office.