Professor McClure, the G&S-singing, Kokopelli-jewelry-wearing Medieval Scots specialist, just wrote me to offer congratulations on my going back to school in the fall. I love Professor McClure.

So, Lisa, when I said I din't make any friends in Scotland, I was clearly wrong.

Just sent in an enquiry about booking a sail cruise in the Whitsundays. It's on a catamaran, so I almost hoping I don't get it and will then be able to justify booking the slightly more expensive schooner. Silly catamarans don't heel properly. Which will be good for Lisa's sea sickness, actually. And there's a free dive. So really this will be ( Read more... )

Trip planning with Lisa last night went like this ( Read more... )

Jujitsu was pretty brilliant. The school seems a good one -- I like the space and the instructors, and they have classes at uber-many different times. Jess utterly thrashed me over and over again -- she nicely said that it's only because she outweighs me, but I suspect it is also because she's a fitness trainer and weightlifter and has experience ( Read more... )

Today I heard "double entendre" used when the speaker meant "redundant." It amuses me that the items being described were our office's two copy machines. Not only because imagining anything entendre-ish at all about office equipment rather mystifies me, but because the multiplicity of terms for describing multiple machines used for multiplying ( Read more... )

Last night I dined "Where Chili Pepper Lights Meet Christmas Tree Lights." Truly, that was the restaurant's slogan. There were so many lights dangling so thickly and low that when I stood up, they bopped me in the face. Carter and Alex actually disappeared into them ( Read more... )

( Just to mention what's been going on -- )

Am attending the fetish club tonight as the companion of an English gentleman/Brazilian jujitsu master. Purely because he needs a faux date to get in for the reduced couples' cover, but still. I am amused. And I am promised a jujitsu lesson in exchange for perpetrating this ruse.

Only two days' worth of recap this time rather than a week's --

( Combat )

In fact, the only things cooler than warranties are shadily helpful Apple Store employees who proclaim, "I did not just hear you admit that you dropped the iPod (and never do that again by the way), and also this warranty is only a little bit expired, so I'm going to pretend that it's fine. And on those notes, here, just have a new iPod. No, I ( Read more... )