I was sick from December 24th until January 1st. In particular, I had the flu complicated by fast onset pneumonia. My holiday season got wrecked, as I missed all the normal fun things in a haze of fever and shakes. The discouragement is palpable, since I have to wait another year for a fresh bite at this apple. It's not as crushing as if it had ( Read more... )

As a shout out I forgot below, thanks to Eb for doing a lot of the Google gruntwork for these sources.

I -loathe- playing back and forth message tag. There's nothing quite as sublimely frustrating as trying to get in touch with someone and not succeeding. Rat and I have been doing that over the past half week now; Rat poked me twice and I poked him twice in return, but no dice ( Read more... )

There are a lot of criticisms one can level about Christmas in modern times; it's overly commercial, it's over hyped as a result of the commercialism, it's often denuded of all religious meaning by both the former and the ever present specter of political correctness. In particular, my workplace is a good example of this. The new head honcho has ( Read more... )

Sean Taylor died. I just wanted to finish off the below, even if it's a week or two later. Dammit all ( Read more... )

Redskins safety Sean Taylor shot in a home invasion, in critical condition. Fuck this season and get better soon, Sean. That's horrible.

It wouldn't be December without the Redskins fucking over their playoff chances!

FUCK.

Update on the below ( Read more... )

I wasn't expecting to wake up Saturday morning and seeing S/S's ending notice. Well shit on a shingle, S/S is over now. It happened because Rat couldn't make the times; I take Rat's scheduling issues on face value since he's already bending his Sunday nights into insanity to game. I say that since I had some vague but really nasty gutshot towards ( Read more... )

So Clannad started yesterday. As a successor to Kanon given to the lavish attentions of Kyo-Ani, it has a pedigree of pure class. So grabbing the first episode's a no brainer and I watch it ASAP. This should be good, right? Right ( Read more... )