US Airways flight 1829. We were about to take off, and the woman directly behind me starts saying, increasingly loudly, that she's feeling really sick and she's probably going to hurl ( Read more... )

This morning, I'm riding my bike to work, like I do. Along the Stevens Creek Trail, headed north.

And there's a guy going down the trail with sort of a weird running motion. And then I realize he's really tall. Like really tall.

My brain tries to work out the situation: Wait, no, he's bouncing more than he ought to! He's on springy stilt-things! ( Read more... )

Really important discovery today at work.

During the time it takes the coffee machine to brew a cup of coffee, I can go up to the next floor and slide down the slide, which deposits me right back at the coffee machine.

Life is rough. (also the slide is really twisty, and dark inside.)

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In my office, because I'm a kind of messy, there is a black t-shirt crumpled up on top of my desktop machine.

Every time I come into the room, I see it out of the corner of my eye, and I think "oh! Andre1 is on top of my computer..."

... my friends, some of them, can look a lot like crumpled-up shirts.

1 Andre is a little2 black cat.
2 He's ( Read more... )

There's a lemon tree in our back yard!

I am currently drinking lemonade made from a lemon I juiced.

Life is rough.

My sister Natalie just had her baby! <3 <3 <3

(her husband Bryan holding his tiny tiny new daughter; he's really big in general, but looks especially large holding a babeh)

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Living in Sunnyvale now, our routines are jumbled up a bit. We're finding new places to eat, new places to run and cycle, new places to hang out... and new places to get groceries ( Read more... )

That seems kind of sudden -- we moved ( Read more... )

Hwæt, here's the thing. Lindsey and I are going to move to Sunnyvale pretty soon! Like in two weeks ( Read more... )