Wake up at 5am, out the door by 5:30, get to experiment I sprayed last week by 7, evaluate, in Idaho by 9:30, long day in cold and rainy Idaho evaluating an experiment from two weeks ago, visiting retailers, and measuring out plots for next week's experiment (one of my sales guys helps me, bless him), leave Idaho at 6pm, back home at 10pm ( Read more... )

Lots of various fandom-y things to report on today, as I do my lazy Saturday pop culture catch up with a few favorite blogs.

1) NEXT Assassin's Creed will be "Unity", and takes place in Paris during the French Revolution!  YES!  SO MANY BUILDINGS TO CLIMB!!!!  And I already know a few neighborhoods in Paris fairly well, so it will be fun to "go" ( Read more... )

Welp, I've been doing emails and paperwork and teleconferences and more emails and protocols and all manner of everything for the past 9ish hours.  Took a break for lunch and to run over to my chem storage place ( Read more... )

I am so jealous of this amazing science sandwich President Obama is in.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/bill-barack-neil-now-thats-super-science-selfie-n41706

SO. JEALOUS.
... with some jealously for Kal Penn, too, although I missed him after he left House.
- A

In the most general terms, Washington is divided into The Part With the Rain (Seattle, the West Side), The Part with Snow and Stuff (Cascades, Wenatchee Valley), and The Sunny Part without Rain (East Side, where I live... East side exception being the Palouse and toward Idaho ( Read more... )

Since I now go to LARP once a year, for Tremere Grand Tribunal the greatest thing ever, and I moved to a new place last year, the amount of gaming I do is fairly limited.  I've been very lucky that the D&D crew back east make use of Skype and MapTool for our sessions, so I've always had a D&D outlet at all ( Read more... )

So I always have one junky tv show that I love haters to the left.  For a long time, until the bitter end, that was Gossip Girl.  And when that ended, I picked up The Carrie Diaries... except that show is genuinely sweet and very nice.  Not junky at all, actually ( Read more... )

So far, thanks to glorious Netflix, I've watched Arrested Development season 4, caught up on American Horror Story seasons 1 (WOW) and 2 (meh), and all of the Portlandia (not all sketches are on YouTube ( Read more... )

At some point this holiday, I decided that when someone interrupted me, I would stop talking and exit the conversation.  Asking me a question, then interrupting me 3 words into my response to say something, doesn't actually allow me to finish thoughts.  There is no point for me to answer if my meaning will be lost because I can't finish answering ( Read more... )

Sleepy Hollow, why are you so perfect and good?  I've pretty much abandoned Shield, but watching SH remains an A+ decision.  So much to enjoy ( Read more... )