The move is complete. Mostly. Well, it's at the point where we're not going to do any more moving, at least.

Great things about the week of February 27th, 2006:

• Laurel & A.M. have great new digs in an older neighborhood that is mostly quiet, with lots of room to spread out and be comfy.
  
• A.M. has found a new truck and has been approved for a 5.8 ( Read more... )

The house isn't done, but it's close enough to being done that I can be happy enough with it. The house isn't completely packed.. I have to shut down the computers tonight and get mine together, as well as throw some stuff in our closet into some bags or boxes, as well as pack away the breakables from the kitchen ( Read more... )

I'm waitin
by the phone
every minute of the
golly gosh darn day

augh!

The idea of Earth as a giant computer is just fascinating, isn't it ( Read more... )

I get the feeling that my life is "giving birth" in a way.

Lots of stress, lots of confusion, some pain, and it keeps building.
I'm waiting for the *POP* Ahhhhhh... portion of the process.

( So I don't have to deal with this kind of crap anymore: )

My mother is doing her damnedest to keep me from seriously considering the opportunity I'm interviewing for tomorrow. She can't even remember the name of the goddamned company, but she's positive it's a bad idea ( Read more... )

Phone interview went swimmingly this afternoon ( Read more... )

.. well, we probably have mice, but I've now seen one teensy little gray mouse, and it's the most adorable thing I've seen in a while. I absolutely love rodents, and have been suspecting for quite some time now that we have some in the house, because the cats have a habit of parking themselves in front of the water heater and staring at it for ( Read more... )

Last night, I entered Milwaukee Best Light's World Series of Poker competition. The gig is this: You sign up, play poker, and the highest scorers get a chance to play a qualifier at the end of each week of game play. The 500 highest scorers from those qualifiers go into a finalist tournament. The top 100 scorers from that tournament get a nice ( Read more... )