Friday morning I woke up to my dad calling me. Grampy Tony had passed away a few hours ago. It wasn't a great surprise or anything; he had been losing his mental function from as long ago as Aunt Trish's wedding (three years ago) and hadn't remembered Dad the last time he went to visit him. When Dad had told me a week ago that Grampy Tony had ( Read more... )

At this point we were approaching the confluence of the two great rivers of Mississippi and Ohio. It was really interesting because the Mississippi was noticeably brown while the Ohio was blue. Here's a satellite photo of the area. If you zoom out one tick, you can see Cairo IL, which is a really poor town despite all the river traffic. On the ( Read more... )

What part of MAMMAL do these people not understand?

1) Tell you why I friended you ( Read more... )

I just sold my soul, and pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Death of a Million Trees on Amazon. And yes, I intend on dropping off the face of the Earth until I'm finished with it.

At least it's guaranteed to arrive July 21st or it's free.

Too bad it's a Saturday and I'll have to hang around work until it gets there. Without internet.

The next morning we woke up and got to have a complimentary breakfast at the attached Perkins. The service was very slow though, and I ended up having to take some of it with me on the bus. I was kind of ticked off, as I had to wait 40 minutes for food and then ended up not being able to enjoy it as much. We all piled on the bus and took off for ( Read more... )

US university students will not be able to work late at the campus, travel abroad, show interest in their colleagues' work, have friends outside the United States, engage in independent research, or make extra money without the prior consent of the authorities, according to a set of guidelines given to administrators by the FBI.Seriously, what the ( Read more... )

FINALLY. Though it does kind of put a damper on my plans to walk to the Rite-Aid a mile away.

"I don't date people of other races though, but it's for a completely different reason than most people. I want my kids to look like me. I want them to hopefully have my blue eyes. If I was with someone of a different race, then my kids would look like them.... and people who didn't know me would wonder if they were adopted or something ( Read more... )

So I was sitting there at work, reading through the background materials on May 31, when one of the workers there came up and said "want to go on a field trip?" Hells yeah! He told me that the huge group of people who were over in the other half of the building having a catered lunch and using the lecture room were going on the 2007 Earthquake ( Read more... )