In Washington state, you have to give notice of your intention to move out of a place 20 days before your lease is up. A woman from my apartment complex called me at work 19 days before my lease ended ( Read more... )

I'm back online. Some of you may not have known that I was ever offline, and I apologize for that. Apparently I didn't tell enough people that I was moving, but to be honest, it came as kind of a surprise even to me. It was all kind of sudden.

I might have a more interesting story about it later. But don't get your hopes up, I probably don't.

Went to look at a new apartment complex today. If I decide to take an apartment at this place it looks like I'd get to choose between a monthly savings of twenty percent, or an extra 400 square feet in the form of the addition of an extra bedroom and bathroom (for the same price I'm paying now). Is there anything about this housing crisis that isn' ( Read more... )

My laptop is reaching the end of its lifespan. The hard drive and DVD drive both appear to be suffering intermittent issues, and despite its long years of steadfast service it's starting to show its age. Visions of new laptops have begun to dance in my head ( Read more... )

Jenn emailed me on Friday last week. "Hey, if that wasn't just a fun story on your blog and you actually couldn't get your hands on wings, I can pick some up at the market when I go this afternoon and bring them with me ( Read more... )

I'm doing Wings Night II tomorrow with a potentially improved cooking technique brought to you by Alton Brown. I went out tonight to buy the wings and hit a problem ( Read more... )

You win.

Warning: If you are expecting rapid progress (say, on the order of an entire project in two weeks) you are going to be disappointed, and yes, I'm talking to you, Sam. I have to figure out how to write (or port) a LUA/XML parser, a quadratic solver, and a matrix math library before I can even start remembering how much I forgot about how ( Read more... )

I am inexplicably pissed off ( Read more... )

I know you're all burning to know how my cupcake dilemma turned out.

( Yeah, or not )

Last week was the Game. I'm not at liberty to say much about it except that it was really good. I was on team "We'll do it live!" and let me tell you, did we ever do it live. Fuck it! Fucking thing sucks!

Most importantly, I forgot to bring a hat, and nobody brought sunscreen. And then I hung around outside all day, in the sunniest day Seattle has ( Read more... )