Okay, so AsoBrain recently added Brainiac which is their implementation of Ingenious and I sat up in bed until two bloody A.M. last night playing it. I was only messing around playing with the 'bots but it took me *mumble* games before I finally won one! I can now personally attest that the 'bot "Ross" is just as evil playing Brainiac as "he" is ( Read more... )

Wow... just... wow. Historic pact signed in Northern IrelandAccording to the article the leaders of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein actually sat face-to-face and agreed... to talk. It certainly does not sound like it was a pleasant meeting, but at least it sounds like there is progress. Not that there weren't a few jabs tossed over ( Read more... )

As it was visitation weekend, the wee beastie figured prominently in our plans ( Read more... )

I had not looked at any of my genealogy stuff in quite some time, but on a lark I was looking online at the current versions of my software and did a family name query out of curiosity. Something in the results captured my attention and so I delved a bit further into the Social Security Death Index database... Apparently my father died just over ( Read more... )

On the positive side... it was a gorgeous Saturday.

For some reason this morning I had my wires crossed. I woke up completely disoriented around 4am, thinking I needed to get up for work. I managed to get back to sleep for a while longer getting up around 9am.

After driving devilcupid1979 to work I had to run a number of errands and got to enjoy some of the ( Read more... )

Thank you everyone for the kind birthday wishes :-)

And much thanks to the anonymous virtual gifter for the pint, would enjoy lifting one about now. (Though I suspect I know who you are!)

My consulting company brought in a cake this morning for me from Pastries of Denmark. One of the decadent chocolate monstrosities that I refer to ( Read more... )

Ah well, I had a feeling it would eventually happen ( Read more... )

Those that are familiar with my eating habits know that I tend to shy away from broth based soups... I'm not really sure why, but normally I would much prefer a heartier soup like a cream based, ham & bean or slit pea. That is except for now ( Read more... )

Just a quick reminder that there are Girl Scout Cookies for sale for my daughter's Brownie troop buried in the posts from the early weekend since ethics demanded that I wait until they officially went on sale to post the order poll. I know there are cookie addicts out there...

-- your friendly neighborhood cookie pusher

Yes, it is that time of year again! The wee beastie is selling Girl Scout cookies and wants everyone to help her reach her sales goals and ruin their New Year's resolutions about losing weight! Although she claims that isn't an issue now that Girl Scout cookies contain no Trans Fat, so it's all good ( Read more... )