They both eat braaaaains ( Read more... )

My brother and I drove up to Minnesota on Monday to visit with our family over Christmas. The original plan was for Tuesday, but the weather reports said bad stuff was going to happen on Tuesday and since 'going to work' was no longer a concern, we decided at the last minute to leave a day early ( Read more... )

What I do for a living is seasonal in nature. In the wintertime, things get slow naturally. This year, due to the lovely building and development market, it was about as slow in the summer as it was last winter. That is bad. When winter came, slow came to stop ( Read more... )

I swear, if I had to hear ONE more political ad, or get ONE more political mailer, or get awakened ONE more weekend morning by a pollworker... I'd go crazy ( Read more... )

That's at least one way to describe the big fat 'bailout' bill passed by congress last week. One Georgia congressman, before it was initially defeated in the House, called it a 'giant cowpatty with a marshmallow on top, and I ain't eating that cowpatty'. Personally, I like that explanation much better.

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I have a coworker who has made a habit of distributing political materials for one particular candidate over emails. Most of the people in the office are of the opposite political persuasion. When they try to talk to him about it, he puts himself in this bubble and refuses to hear the other side. He now says that he 'doesn't want any political ( Read more... )

Now that the drama seems to have died down (at least for now), and I had a great weekend with my parents in town, I have been able to take some time to refocus ( Read more... )

I have not told this to anyone, but in relation to the recent drama over a 'former' friend, I recieved a voice mail from him on Tuesday night. It said (paraphrasing from my voice mail):

"Hey. Sorry for being such an ass. Things are a little complicated. I was trying to avoid hurting anyone, though of course everyone got hurt anyway. So I'm ( Read more... )

So last week, my raid was discussing just how cool it would be to have murloc ringtones for cellphones. I brought it up with a friend who works for Blizzard, who liked it and... Voila!

Announced today: Blizzard Ringtones and wallpaper complete with murloc ringtone!

The downside? It was announced for Blizzard EU. Not for the US. DOH! *sob*