New warning of ash-related flight disruption

I'm scheduled to fly out Monday morning.

new Swans album and tour

no Jarboe as yet though :(
It's probably against the law to use emoticons when discussing Swans.

The recycling gets picked up once every 2 weeks here. The night before the last pick-up day before Christmas, it snowed (or there was still snow and ice from 2 nights before). And the recycling did not get picked up ( Read more... )

A beard has the power to make you reconsider sending an ill-advised text-message.

I always forget about this part of flying. It's vaguely reassuring, like the calm captain's voice saying "uh" every 6 words.

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I am in North Carolina Georgia: ( Read more... )

No one reads LJ anymore, much less on the weekend. And I don't post much, due to RSI and playing Draw My Thing on OMGPOP having a life afk.

But if you missed it on FB, there is this

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Also, Inglourious Basterds: It's a rather enjoyable film. The problem is, based on some reviewers and the presence of Eli Roth you might expect a super-size ( Read more... )

I'm almost 50% done ripping the entire CD collection to a big external hard drive.

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I spent nearly 2 hours tonight negotiating the sale of a violin with someone on eBay, repeatedly taking photos, uploading/emailing, repeating the process because they were blurry, and then making arrangements for 2 violins to be picked up by courier. Only then, at the end, to be instructed to print 3 shipping labels and have them ready to be ( Read more... )

I have finally started ripping all CDs to an external harddrive so that they can be put away in the basement (where they can steadily depreciate in value, instead of flogging them on eBay like I ought to).

I read a halfway interesting article about Twitter earlier.

Poll TweetI failed to get my room 25% as tidy as I would have liked. I got #2's water dish ( Read more... )