Lords and Ladies of the SCA kindly please attend.

This year at the Daffodil tournament my roommate HLekatarina decided that she would have a small merchant's table to sell some of her unneeded goods. As is typical with her, things got a little bit bigger than previously supposed ( Read more... )

So in a fit of stupidity today I tried to pick up a burner on the stove to clean under it, failing to realise that it was on. Fortunately, it was only on medium and I only used the tip of one finger. Unfortunately, I have a severe second degree burn on the pointer finger of my right finger. It has blistered up beautifully and I am informed by my ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who wishes that everything in the world came with a command-F function? (That's cntrl-F for you PCers out there.)

Just think: can't find your wallet? Two simple keystrokes and it lights up for you.

Wouldn't that make life so much nicer?

Hell, I'd settle for a "locate" button like I've got on my portable phones.

For those who were amused by my previous post and its tale of bathroom derring-do, I thought that I would share with you a further tidbit ( Read more... )

I was reading rm's as always interesting and informative blog today and one of the links that she had up was to this article. It's about a D.A. in the States abusing his position in order to try and "re-educate" young women ( Read more... )

Waking up with a headache.

Getting one during the day is not exactly party-time, but it's doable. Waking up with one, especially when your alarm clock is your cat demanding breakfast, is just icky.

Just sayin'.

Women's response to the insanely, jaw-droppingly, insulting-to-both-men-and-women, Dodge commercial from the Superbowl.

Original drivel to be found here.for those of us who ignored the combination of violence and committee meetings that make up football.

SecretAdmirerAnonymeme

The idea of this thing is, apparently, to say nice things about me that you might not feel comfortable saying if I knew who you were. So feel free, they would make me happy. Just click on the shiny, pretty logo and you're on your way.

As a note, you need to not be logged into your account for them to be anonymous.

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And any other proud Canucks out there.

Here's some *actual* footage of the Bluenose's race with the "Gloucester boys" ship.

Music by: well, who else?