Made ~20 glass beads this weekend!!!!  Learning how to make glass beads was FANTASTIC.  My currently level of work is "does not suck", and I bet I could get better with more practice ( Read more... )

The Best E3 Ever already happened two years ago, but SWEET POOP what a good year this was.  I'm not even talking about the massive shade Sony (rightfully?) threw at Microsoft ( Read more... )

Yesterday I rode my bike to and from the city library, and then to Great Harvest to grab a sandwich and scone.  Only 15 miles round trip, but it was about 90 degrees F outside so it felt like more ( Read more... )

My development territory isn't the biggest out of the 50-something of us, but it is VARIED.  Up north it's cold and wet, and then there's the Palouse.  Columbia county alone has an enormous gradient of rainfall ( Read more... )

I'm typing this from my sleep doctor's sleep center, at 10pm.  Tonight is my LONG time coming sleep study!  I hope we figure out why I've been such a bad sleeper since middle school.
I'm just glad my work schedule wrapped up around 7pm today so I didn't have to cancel my appointment.

Science is good, yay (or boo) bugs, field season insanity.
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Samoa Air to charge ticket prices as pay by weight

Huh.  Interesting.
Wonder how that would go over if, say, United did the same.
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(Been a loooooooooong week of 18 hour days (and one 21hr day), and there will be at least 1 long week to follow.  THIS. IS. THE. FIELD. SEASOOOOON.)

Point of fact: spiders scare the everliving daylights out of me ( Read more... )

My renewed passport came in the mail today!  Woot.  Good to travel for the next 10 years... or just this summer.
LMAO, I just found out that we can get a special driver's license with a microchip here that's good for getting to/from Canada.
Oh well, gotta passport.
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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, set to release October 29th.Plus: Out for PS3, pirates are cool ( Read more... )

(Tangentially, I read an article this morning about the rise of repeating letters when typing words.)

WALTZ GETS HIS OSCAR!  Best supporting actor, Django Unchained.

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I think that Waltz and Tarantino need to stick together.  They're raking in the Oscars ( Read more... )