Somehow I manage to completely miss the fact that this coming weekend is Memorial Day weekend. I mean, I realized that WisCon continued through to Monday, but I never manged to connect it to the fact that Monday is going to be a holiday. Yikes.

I blame it on being unemployed...after all, what's a 3-day weekend when you've already got a 7-day

Today I was walking down busy local street and I saw all sorts of adjective plural noun! Well, this shouldn't have surprised me given that it is season. Still, they were adverb verbing quite frequently. [Yes, I know that "verbing" is a gerund. Did you ever see "gerund" in a Madlibs book? I think not, so shut up.]

The weather was quite adjective ( Read more... )

I am easily distracted by shinies. As much I as love to be doing, I have always been the type to get sucked into a book for hours and hours, letting the rest of the world pass me by until it was done. The advent of the internet has simply expanded the amount of readable material I have access to at any given time ( Read more... )

It really was. Just wanted to make a note of it.

I wasn't originally planning on getting up early enough to go to the farmers market tomorrow, but I have this sudden longing for some Stella's Hot and Spicy Cheese Bread. Oh yeah. It will be mine.

Update (5/17/08 8:37 PM): No. Not so much with the waking up early after all.

I've decided that I am going to work on liking more things. After all, the more things you like, the better your chances for enjoying the circumstances. In particular, there are some things that are acquired tastes that I never set out to acquire. Many of these are even things I like the idea of, though not the actual thing itself. Like coffee or ( Read more... )

Time to stock up on charcoal.

The house phone just rang, and given that anyone worth talking to calls my cellphone, I let the answering machine get it ( Read more... )

I has a bukkit. Mah bukkit has ice cream. It has a flavor.

So, kids, what is your favorite flavor of ice cream? (Or frozen yogurt, sherbet, gelato, or ever frozen yogurt, god help you.) Chocolate? Vanilla? Neopolitan? Bubblegum? The mysterious Blue Moon?

Bus rider followed home, robbed The Capital Times - 5/14/2008 12:02 pm ( Read more... )