Has it really been five years? Technically no, but four years and eleven months seems close enough to be getting on with. Just on the off chance that this LiveJournal is the only record of my existence that survives, let it be known that the last few years have been quite good! I'm now happily married and we're expecting our first child in ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I was heading out to run my monthly-or-so Dungeons and Dragons game when I stopped into a gas station to grab some beer for the event (hurray to be back in a state where this is possible!). I take it up to the counter, and since I know I sometimes still look all of 19, get my ID ready. I never could have imagined the ( Read more... )

I just saw the most unintentionally hilarious commercial! The camera pans through this house where a breeze is blowing stuff around as a narrator tells us that we can save energy by using things like overhead fans for cooling. As the camera moves outside through the open patio door, we see a helicopter stationed outside the house as the announcer ( Read more... )

I wonder if I should tell my neighbor that his girlfriend was almost certainly faking some of that last night? Nothing like being woken up at 3:45 AM and thinking someone started blaring a cheesy porn movie through your wall. The intermittently rhythmic pounding was also highly appreciated ~

The coolest event of the last couple of months for me, by the by, has been my purchase of a brand spankin' new titanium grey Mazda 3, dubbed Mazikeen. She is very much fun to drive around, and unlike Mr. Neon (who never did get a proper name and whose gender fluctuated wildly over the years) is totally dependable and quiet. Admittedly, towards ( Read more... )

Well, perhaps not that drastic, but it looks like my trip to Beaumont next month will be my last for a very long while. After talking for years about perhaps moving somewhere else, my parents were Rita-ed into getting serious about it, and listed the house for sale last week once all of the major repairs/renovations were finished. They've already ( Read more... )

OK, most everyone is familiar with the idea of the license plate frame. Whether pronouncing pride for a sports team, broadcasting some witty exprerssion, or advertising a car dealership, we see them every day. Yesterday marked a first for me, however. On my drive home, I was stopped behind a car whose plate frame proudly proclaimed the driver an ( Read more... )

I began hearing shortly after I moved here that Sacramento was more akin to the Midwest than to most of the rest of California. In case I had any lingering doubts about this, a radio spot I began hearing this week has cleared up the situation remarkably ( Read more... )

I swear, that just seems to be what's happening here, except that instead of a Soup Nazi, I have a surly FedEx driver. Tomorrow will bring Day 3 of our rather unexpected communication and I can't wait to see how it goes. To recap ( Read more... )

I know, I've been terrible at updating. I'm also doing that horrible thing where I waste what precious little updating space I do provide with prattle about how little I update :P I do have my reasons, however! I'm stingy. See, when I get Internet access at home, it will be cable service like I had in AZ. This means that I already have a modem ( Read more... )