Is it sad that I didn't know what Kanye West or Serena Williams did this weekend until I got tired of hearing how they were apologizing, broke down and looked it up on Wikipedia?

Yeah. I thought so too.

Farrah Fawcett died, which I learned while checking on CNN when I heard Michael Jackson died.

That second one is not confirmed by CNN yet, for the record.

(Edit) Confirmed now, Michael Jackson died...

Ugh, I hope my laptop's not dying. I'm using one of the old Eos laptops at the moment, because my normal one's being a jerk. It has frozen up completely (something it never used to do) three times today. I mean, it's always had issues shutting down or going into hibernation mode (i.e., it just reboots instead), but this is a new issue ( Read more... )

So, today was the day I finally had to go to the dentist again. As you may recall, I had my wisdom teeth out in March so that he could drill a cavity in my tooth that the wisdom tooth was digging into. Then I had to wait for full healing because they don't want to get cavity bacteria into an open wound ( Read more... )

You know that plane that went down near Brazil the other day?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/world/europe/06plane.html

They apparently found... the wrong wreckage.

Ugh. I got an email from the cable company this morning telling me they couldn't process my payment. Now, I set up online billing and automatic payments just last month, and in an effort to keep them from jacking up the price without me noticing, I put a limit on how much they could take. Meanwhile, I made a manual payment for the currently due ( Read more... )

FEAR NOT. Trek is, and it is good.

I just bought tickets online to see Star Trek tonight. Not the 12:01 showing... the 7:00 showing ( Read more... )

Well, when it goes from occasionally hitting 60 to being 85 or so - in April - what else can you call it but a heat wave? I'm loving the warmth and I had a great time taking out the scooter this weekend, but it's too fast. It is not condusive to sleep, in particular ( Read more... )

They're pushing a "do one thing that's green" campaign the last few days. Reasonable. So I went to check it out ( Read more... )