The beard is gone (but, alas, not the acne it was hiding - so it very well may be back soon).

Told you jes.

I took a trip last week. Most of you already know this. Drove across the country with a friend. It was nice, good fun. We did a lot of continuous driving, pushing striahgt through. Instead of sticking to a routine of sleep drive, putter, sleep, we went erratically. Sometimes fanatically so. I liked that. It sort of eradicated most of the sense of ( Read more... )

I got the job. Nothing else really.

From various lists, on June 2:

-The infamous Marquis de Sade was born on this day in 1740.
-On this day in 1774, the Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was enacted.
-On this day in 1793, Jean-Paul Marat recites names of 29 people to the French Assembly, virtually all of whom will be ( Read more... )

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1. Take five books off your bookshelf ( Read more... )

( only if you have a fast connection and nothing better to do for the next 30 seconds or so )

"Olive Osmond is survived by her husband, nine children, 55 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. "

It was the math that killed her. Wow.

Outside, right now, there's a fantastic wind. It's been gusting stronger than I've ever noticed before, here at least. And it makes me more than a little sad that save for a narrow creeper up the side of the next building over, swaying with the only little variations its constrictions will allow, I don't think I would have even noticed it. It doesn ( Read more... )