We have to buy window units for the new apartment..anyone have favorite brands or models? I'm looking at consumer reports already. Which is actually funny, since the customer reviews on some of their "best buys" are actually really bad.

Vote for my dad (david fahl) for best folk artist-you can leave the other stuff blank or vote at random http://tinyurl.com/hpress

Right now, I really don't want to go on the shore trip. There are way too many people coming, and everyone who's ever been down assumes that they're invited to every single trip, so there's never any way to get new people down without it being super crowded. It's way more people than I enjoy being around. That's ignoring the fact that 90% of the ( Read more... )

I'm making strawberry cupcakes tonight, and the recipe calls for a strawberry balsamic sauce that may be one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to use the bike we salvaged for cliff to teach myself about bike repair. The crankset is in decent repair, and is sugino, so I should only have to clean that up. Brakes, cables, derailleur are probably all going to need replacement. Wheels are good, tires are original (this is an 80's schwinn world sport, so that's not so good ( Read more... )

Yesterday outside the subway station, I saw a homeless man in a Halliburton sweatshirt.

Darnit, I'm ready to start gardening! We're putting in a big raised bed at work, which will be awesome, but I'm not sure when we're starting. Maybe I'll plant lettuce seeds this weekend. Green beans too, if I find some that can handle a container life.

I just ran for 20 minutes straight. I know it's not really that long, but it's longer than I've run before...I used to stick to intervals.

I'm really tired of being sick. This particular round of the plague has one coworker diagnosed with pneumonia and one with mono, and a coworker's boyfriend with bronchitis. Whee! Today is my second day off in a row, trying to sleep my way through this. Yesterday I woke up to call in, then slept till 4 in the afternoon, woke up to drink some water ( Read more... )