Been a crap year between the job and the divorce, and lost heart to do more writing ( Read more... )

Just got back from seeing it at an IMAX. All the IMAX showings of Watchmen in my area were sold out this weekend, so I made sure to get there a half hour early to get a good seat. The theater was already half-full of other people with the exact same idea, but I got an excellent seat.

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There's a journal I follow because the person writes things I like to read. Well, today she posted that she is defriending people who have failed to post an adequate number of comments in her journal. And then! She posted statistics! Comment statistics demonstrating how often or how rarely we miscreants post in her journal! Comment statistics! ( Read more... )

So I'm talking with my boss's new henchman, or should I say henchwoman. Apropos of nothing, the henchwoman suddenly leaps up, goes to her computer, enters my real name into Google, and dramatically spins the monitor around and shows me the result ( Read more... )

... at my job ( Read more... )

A normal workplace would have a Christmas lunch or dinner for the employees. A couple of hours out of our lives, over and done with. Not us. No, the boss decreed that we had to put on 12 days of entertainment from Dec. 4th to 19th. A lot of people at my job are unbelievably stressed out from being forced to put on a multi-day, multiple-event " ( Read more... )

I just got out of the AC/DC concert in Chicago at Allstate Arena. It was amazing! A completely sold-out show, about 19,000 fans there. I got a great seat through the fan club, on the floor, 21 rows back from the stage, next to the catwalk. Angus came down the catwalk! I could have touched him! Except for the 300 pound security guard who threw ( Read more... )

For years I've been straightening my naturally curly hair for work and pinning it tightly to my head. For the past two days, I said screw it and wore my hair au naturel ( Read more... )

My computer spent most of August in the shop. I suspect it was actually worked on for only 2 days. Has anyone else noticed that no matter what's wrong with your computer, the solution is always to wipe it and re-install the operating system? I had my files backed up on an external drive, but oh, the loss of pirated software ( Read more... )

On the 4th of July I got in the car and drove several hundred miles to Mansfield, Missouri, to see the house where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived out the rest of her life from 1894 to 1957. Then I drove a couple more hundred miles west to Independence, Kansas to see the place where Laura and her birth family lived in "the little house on the prairie" ( Read more... )