You can't just go to the gym on days like this. You can, however, bike approximately 40 miles (can only manipulate Google Maps so much) through neighborhoods, bike paths, along the banks of the mighty Columbia and eventually to a state park ( Read more... )

The venue at which we played last Saturday got a little spotlight feature in the WW - huzzah ( Read more... )

Online Axis & Allies is addicting. I'm playing like 3 games now and I feel like a Chessmaster who plays 100 people at a time and whups them all ( Read more... )

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Yay - I found the cell phone I lost a month or two ago! It was behind some bedroom furniture. This means I'm not as absent-minded as I originally thought and didn't simply leave the phone the locker room one night ( Read more... )

OK, so I've been using Netflix to get all these horrible blockbuster action movies. MOvies I wouldn't see in the theater, movies I wouldn't want to see in the pub theater, like The Transporter and Minority Report. Thing is, I"m discovering that some of them aren't so bad. Others... well, let's just say that even though the plot is bad, the ( Read more... )

Early morning -

Person: My bonus is wrong.
Me: No, it's not.
Person: My boss said it'd be bigger.
Me: Your boss was wrong.
Person: She says she's right.
Me: Your boss is wrong.
Person: My bonus is wrong.
Me: No, it's not.

After like 2 months of collection, calculation and downright frustration, we packaged up ~1,000 bonus checks today for next week's mailing.

Translation: big work project = done, without having to work tomorrow!

As in, every day straight from... like February 16 through at least tomorrow. Included in this number: hours during the day that I was in San Diego (I learned Monday that all the stuff I did on Friday - while I was inside during a fucking goregous day - and Saturday was basically worthless ; morons gave me the wrong data to use and didn't think ( Read more... )

Ugh, stared at the ceiling from 10:30pm to 2:30am last night. NOT FUN.