So I go, I re-discover the journal, and then Kristan takes over my computer for a week or so because her homework takes priority over my web-surfing. And then I got my first serious malady in something like 6 years; I believe it's called a "cold". Well, it sucked. I can't and won't complain, but it was utterly frustrating to have just a little ( Read more... )

Right,
As is should be obvious, I exist again on the LiveJournal plane of existence.

So, I know some of you do this thing, or perhaps you once did this thing, known as "Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates". Well, now I do, or at least, now I do the 10-day free trial. Kristan too, although she would do it more if she could get a frame rate of greater than 0.3 frames/second ( Read more... )

So, let's list the givens ( Read more... )

Boss: I don't want to deal with these people and their survey. Talk to them.
Me: Uh, hi. What can I do for you?
Vendor (phone): Please answer our survey questions.
Me: Vendor: Thanks, here's your $25 amazon gift card ( Read more... )

( Sacrilicious )

( Friggin Memes finally got me... )

I should point out first that this meme seems to be even more broken than most of them. Aside from the grammar error making one of the questions near indecipherable, many of the questions were NOT suitable for a binary answer selection. On a few I felt that the correct answer was both, as they weren't mutually exclusive, and on more than a few, I ( Read more... )

- People that have boring, dull, or overly-secure childhoods are likely ill-prepared to deal with the role of parenting. Specifically, they are more likely to be as such than someone who had a dangerous childhood presenting more or greater risks. People who did not have risky behavior available to them, through isolation or overly protective ( Read more... )

So, if you have ever been on the internet, you've probably seen those cookie powered adds for "True", the dating service. This is the one that made headlines a while back by A) Screening out any married people or felons, and B) lobbying to make it a crime to be a dating service that didn't have a big warning label that said that you didn't screen ( Read more... )