WHERE'S THE LIBRARY???

Your home is a Gamer's Mansion
Your kitchen is stocked with chips, dips, and assorted caffeinated beverages. There's a pantry with emergency backup caffeinated beverages. You also have some breakfast cereals in there, but you haven't had breakfast since last Spring. Your master bedroom has blankets printed with images ( Read more... )

Okay, no time (six minutes before the car leaves for work) but I am throwing out a warm-body check because I have been incommunicado for so long. Personal life went crazy (but not haywire, if you know the difference ( Read more... )

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( Potter Finale Spoiler Cut - Can You Dig It? )

re: Martha Stewart. We've all known for some time that the woman is mental, but it's hard to get everyone to chip in for an intervention when the patient is richer than Croesus. Is the answer a telethon? She needs help ( Read more... )

Sick. As. A. Dog. -- I don't know what this is, but I hate it. Yesterday I returned to work after two days' absence and left after a couple of hours to go to the Urgent Care (which is, somewhat paradoxically, beyond the outskirts of town and in an empty field. I know the Burque will grow up around it, but for now, their motto is "Hope It's Not ( Read more... )

Despite getting off early on Friday, we didn't get out for a long time, and almost didn't go to Lonely Mountain at all -- Honey got some good news, and it was hard to leave! But the LIW tip waits for no man, and we drove north in good time. Everyone says Lonely Mountain Defender is the best event of the year -- the gorgeous scenery (like a more- ( Read more... )

Remember the party song, "Pass the Courvoisier"? My brain keeps coming up with lyrics to "Antoine Lavoisier." If there are no French scholars out there, well, we're all better off without.

Another brief summary before judgement is rendered by sleep ( Read more... )

It's kind of like going on a vacation - you plan everything out but one day you make a wrong turn or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can never find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening. But, later, you realize it was the best part of the whole trip ( Read more... )