The incomparable lazyjane over at The Friday Fluff at Kate Harding's Shapley Prose has just found a way to make a zillion-degrees-below-zero-temperatures somewhat bearable:

Another cold coping strategy I use is “playing Lord of the Rings.” Instead of walking to the bus stop, pretend you are scaling the peak of Caradhras on an epic quest. Needless ( Read more... )

Today, I wound up reading Dear Abby. Lots of it. What? All you've gotta do is boot it on over to the nice website the syndicate has up and then you can peruse all you want! It's like eating peanuts. One little crunchy, slightly voyeuristic handful of interpersonal woe, right after the other! Om nom nom ( Read more... )

• Just how much am I going to regret eating that chili that I made? Is something that can probably cause genuine damage to my digestive system really something I should be eating at work?
• I wonder if anyone in my row has antacids in their desk?
• Has anyone ever considered making a heated keyboard? I know that in my wanderings 'cross the Internet I saw ( Read more... )

My knee hurts. It really does. It's all stiff and unco-operative. :( I need to try and get it into much more walkable shape before karate tomorrow...

Ah well, off to the mall. Time to spend the Christmas money from my dad! :3

Due to browsing restrictions at work, I surf CNN on my downtime from e-mails. This story about a terrible crash on the LA Metrolink made it to the top of the news list and... brrr. My God. It's far away, sure. It's a distant tragic thing, and I never let those get to me, sure, but... well, I've actually taken one of those trains, to get back and ( Read more... )

I don't pay enough attention to... um... everything. My surfing habits are pretty fickle, for someone that spends so much time on the Internet. It's like my brain can only hold so many regularly-visited website and blogs at once. I find a new thing, and something old gets culled from the list. Webcomics drift from my attention, I forget about ( Read more... )

So I did some cooking tonight.


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Am I the only person on LJ who isn't flipping their spleen over this sudden "no more basic accounts, now it's advertisements for all" business? Is it really such an enormous imposition, to have some ads here and there? Have I just gotten too used to all the other sites on the Internet having commercial claptrap scattered about that I can just ( Read more... )

It's been busy here at work, yessir. The new classes of agents just keep pouring in... and for once, they're actually for our campaign! Help is in sight and relief is at hand and blah blah blah why should we care, exactly? Because one of the recent classes has, I swear, Orlando Bloom's long lost twin. (crevette, you may want to sit up and pay attention, ( Read more... )

So the weather's kind of sucking, right now.And apparently, according to Greg? This is not the sort of thing that would actually stop Richard from running a D&D game. ...Y-yay? I think? We're gonna try to make it uptown before the busses stop ( Read more... )