...as if you cared.

But seriously though, leftyviolist is off to bed and I'm doing my level-best to be as quiet as a church mouse. I'm afraid that the best I'm managing is an agnostic mouse, unfortunately. I just finished the marvelous Dzur buy Steven Brust. Fine, fleet swashbuckling prose. That man can write. Currently, I'm reading Special Topics in ( Read more... )

Today was marvelous, it was the first day that my coworkers were complaining about the cold. This is the true herald of autumn. I love autumn. It is, to me, the best time of the year. There is a crispness in the air. A cool quality, something brisk and refreshing. Whereas the summer stifles, autumn invigorates. I eagerly await wrapping ( Read more... )

Well, seeing as how I've commited myself already in my subject line, I'm happy to cast aside grumpiness. The fact that at the moment that I write this the Steelers are losing definitely doesn't hurt. Right now, I'm reading a book which is stunning me, filling me, I am helpless before it. The last book I read was Stephen King's...opus, The Dark ( Read more... )

Well, I've learned my lesson. I've learned a thing or two. In my short dialog with an officer of our army, I now know the following to be true.

• I am a sheep, you are a sheep, all civilians are sheep.
• I need to be protected, because as a sheep, I am incapable of understanding how to protect myself or even that I need protection.
• As a liberal, I do ( Read more... )

I apologize. I cannot resist this:

LIMBAUGH: I love these kinds of stories, 'cause we're just getting them all over the place: Waistlines continue to grow in the United States. Another crisis story here, ladies and gentlemen, from our old buddies at the Associated Press. "The gravy train -- make that the sausage, biscuits, and gravy train ( Read more... )

A LJ friend of mine, who I shall not name, recently posted a quasi-reasonible tirade about the general badness of wooly-headed liberals. I tried dear reader, I genuinely did my best to avoid this, but now...now I shall victimize you with the most tedious and trite of all things. An internet rant. I would like to be kind. I'd like to be ( Read more... )

It's big. By god, is it ever big. 6.8 lbs worth of big. It's wireless. It's posting from a Panera right at this minute. It's 17 diagonal inches worth of big. And it's mine. All mine, do you hear?

Ha ha ha.

So, I've survived the great outdoors. In spite of my herculean efforts; I live, I prosper, I carry on. Kidding of course. I had a marvelous trip, the scenery was improbably spectacular and gorgeous. It was all-in-all, a much needed holiday. But I am equally happy to be back and writing about this that and the other.

Reading: Still reading the ( Read more... )

Well, well, well. Been a great and eventful week. Have regained my wife which has been the best and most rehumanizing of all. Now have the opportunity to blog and blab about what's been up. Would have written earlier, but too nervous that the writing would have been maudlin, pathetic rubbish. Now, it's just plain-old rubbish, which is okay by ( Read more... )

what just preceded was 90 minutes of sensational soccer...vive la France, Vive Thierry Henry, Vive Zinedine Zidane!!!!!!