If we'd just gotten the hotel room in New Orleans after the wedding, my husband tells me, he'd have had some mechanical concerns -- the ones he didn't want to worry me with -- looked at in New Orleans before we spent two hours driving back on those minor mechanical concerns and blew out the engine ( Read more... )

I've been reading about Chiune Sugihara. He was pretty awesome. Saved somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 people in WWII.

Found out about him thanks to Kate Beaton's adorable historical comics. Yes, of course I read historical comics. It's me.

So Judge James Ware of California, on official record as a liar and, in his own way, identity thief but never removed from his lifetime appointment, thinks the best solution when a bank is stupid enough to send sensitive information to the wrong e-mail account -- why the hell wasn't sensitive information kept strictly in company e-mail accounts, ( Read more... )

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So Cody was going on about linear algebra today. He said fairly soon into it that his undergrad linear algebra teacher "didn't teach us crap about linear algebra ( Read more... )

Goal: Stop the birth control in February of 2010

Prerequisites:

1. The house in a position to be cleaned to meet my mother's standards with only moderate notice, and to have stayed so throughout the month of January. Babies need clean houses ( Read more... )

To hell with this.

Do you know what I want?

I want a baby.

I'm going to quit being messed up so I can get myself a baby.

All things considered, I will say this for 2008.

I am still luckier than most, and I have a great husband.

Had a real cheering up time this weekend. Great Cowboy Mouth concert. Improved sleep, etc. A prospective employer actually called me back Monday morning. Monday night, this started to take a downturn and today the whole cheered up thing went into full reverse. I've been feeling incredibly melancholic, and the things that normally cheer me up just ( Read more... )

About five years ago, a couple of people under the mistaken impression that they had a damn clue what was going on called me a racist and did so anonymously, so that I could never inform them of the facts of the situation.

This bothers the heck out of me to this day. For the record, it was a real life situation, not an internet situation. ( Read more... )