The dentist's appointment being out of the way takes a decent chunk of stress off of my mind. Lupa was right- he's good. I was in and out in under twenty minutes. Despite not using anasthesia, the worst I felt was a few seconds of dull, vague ache.

Many of my friends refuse to believe that the stories from veteran tech support workers are true. That large a percentage of the American population couldn't be that stupid. One of my coworkers reminded me of a number of things that one in five Americans believe. For those of you who have ever doubted our tech support stories ( Read more... )

Veronica got up bright and early with me yesterday to go book buying. This time it wasn't for sale, it was for my personal collection. Literally the day it was announced that the tax cuts to the rich were going away, my rare book sales slowed to a trickle. As such, I really haven't been buying- it's something I'll do again when the economy is ( Read more... )

O mighty friendslist- are any of you looking for a roommate in the PDX area? I have a friend who needs to move back to town for school. He'll do the Craiglist thing, but would prefer friends of someone he knows.
He's one of those genuinely nice people, who is going to school to be a teacher because he wants to make the world a better place.

Plenty to report, but not enough energy to write it all.

I spent yesterday with Ambershadedlens and Marie, for baking and movie watching. We did rosewater cupcakes with grenadine frosting, and bitter chocolate cookies.

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ThinkGeek now has a "People For the Ethical Treatment of Zombies" tee shirt.
Given how many times my D&D character has had the "undead are people, too!" chat with the party, I may have to get this.

Friday night, Marie's place.
Lots of wine, coupled with some absolutely delicious math lectures which Marie found.
If you're the sort of person who enjoys working technical support, this constitutes a fun Friday night.

Skye showed this video to me, about nuclear testing done in the cold war. It's one of those things that I can't believe anyone tried, even just to see what would happen.

Someone of my acquaintance recently mentioned a friend of theirs who works as a phone psychic. It came up in an economics discussion tonight- which one of you was it who'd mentioned that?