"It's a gift.  Never lend a book."  Wise words.

I recently bought two books for the second time because I missed them after lending them to friends.  One is "Animals in Translation", which is a book about animals written by an autistic woman with lots of experience with animals and some interesting insights.
http://www.grandin.com/inc/animals.in. ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween!  Any good costumes out there?

Last Friday I went with Adam and Katie to Burlington to pick up a nice new suit they have given me for a birthday/pre-housesitting-thanks gift (which is very nice of them!).  I was happy to find that there wasn't any need to have a store person get to close to my person like when I was being measured for it, due to funk a nice hot day following an ( Read more... )

What a fine time so far this weekend. Yesterday I worked, but got out fairly early. After that I bought some gameboy games. Tetris worlds for gba and Super Princess Peach for DS. Peach is good. She can get a lot of different powerups (i just got a megabuster type thing) and the use of the touchscreen is nice. Sometimes it can just be an ( Read more... )

Yesterday my boss made some marinara sauce from scratch. He was pretty proud of himself, too, so it must have been good. Anyway, later in the day as I enter the dishwashing room I seem him coming out with a large stirring spoon covered in his in creation. "Hitting the sauce pretty hard, huh?" I said while passing by ( Read more... )

A friend of mine just stopped by to show off a great piece of artwork she made. I've been thinking for a while that I would like to be able to do something that requires talent like that but I don't really have what it takes to learn (time, hardcore dedication). Oh well. At least I know how to prepare food, which came in handy this weekend. ( Read more... )

My weekend went well this week. Friday I went out shopping after work and picked a nice cowboy hat (more like Indiana Jones, really) and boots for my costume. I was trying for 'The Man with no Name' but my attempt at a poncho failed as did my speaker system that was to play the Good/bad/ugly theme music, so I was just a regular cowboy, I reckon ( Read more... )

So far today has been a nice day off. I've been cleaning and rearranging my room off and on all day. I just took a nice nap, with a dream filled with images of old Nintendo game catridges ( Read more... )

So this performer I saw about a month ago is playing again tonight. I've never been to the place she's playing (cambridge elks' lodge) and I'm not sure if I can trust the directions I have ( Read more... )

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