Writer's Block ( Read more... )

Some years ago, a friend of mine serving in the military sent me a copy of Skippy's List  - aka "The 213 things that Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army". The list is hysterical, and I've long treasured #87  - "If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it." ( Read more... )

Well, we got a Yule Tree this year. Our senior cats have seen this phenomenon before, but Neil was pretty young - and the three new kitties have never had a water bowl with such an over-the-top garnish before. Last year, between socializing the kittens and having the garage be a complete disaster, we never got around to digging out the Yule ( Read more... )

I've seen the news item floating around, and I've seen in mentioned in a couple of LJs, but here's a link to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Civics Quiz.

This is the one that the original 2500 randomly selected respondents scored an average of 49% on, and elected officials scored 44% on.

For the record, I scored 93% without ever having taken ( Read more... )

... I've just been terribly distracted lately.  A broken metatarsal bone will do that, as will ruminating about the political fallout from the latest election, dealing with my own incipient flakiness, dealing with the flakiness of others, playing an online MMO, and dealing with some internal conflict and general ennui and lassitude.

The odd part is ( Read more... )

McCain's delivering his concession speech as I type. And I'm breathing a sigh of relief. As an independent voter, I've been on the receiving end of a remarkable amount of propaganda on both sides of national, state, and local races - and now, it's finally over. The Republican campaign materials that i got were remarkable for the amount of FUD used ( Read more... )

So today didn't start out all that well...

On our way to breakfast, we got rear-ended just before we turned into the restaurant's parking lot, and instead of sitting down to a nice early breakfast before heading back over to BlizzCon, we wound up exchanging insurance information with a woman in town from Iowa. Turns out she'd dropped off other ( Read more... )

So - this morning, we got up and thought maybe we'd see if the Starbucks in the hotel lobby had anything edible for breakfast...

No such luck. 300 other Geeks had already had the same idea, and the line was halfway across the lobby. We turned around, hopped in the rental car (a ginormous Buick Lacrosse) and grabbed a quick bite at Jack In the Box. ( Read more... )

So we made it safely to Anaheim...

( BlizzCon update )

So it looks like we'll be heading up to Estes Park this Saturday for the Longs Peak Scottish/Irish festival. My usual MO is to head for the Clan Tent to check in with the Buchanans, then check the schedule to figure out what looks interesting next...

I usually suggest to the local Heathens that anyone else who is going look around the baseball ( Read more... )