Apologies in advance to anyone and everyone reading this whose life is negatively impacted by it. Up until now I've been saying that it was going to be difficult for me to make it to Otakon this year, but I was hopeful and planned on giving it my best shot. As of today, those chances have been dealt a serious blow by ordinary foolishness ( Read more... )

Short version: looks like it's not happening this weekend. Lots of people were interested but too far or too financially strapped, and lots more never got back to me. I haven't decided whether to blitz the phone one last time or just let things stand as they are, but for now it looks like I'll be waiting until later for this particular trip ( Read more... )

Cedar Point theme park opens this weekend. I'm working this weekend, but I'm off next weekend. I want to go to Cedar Point. Who wants to go with me a week from tomorrow?

So I have the day off today. I spent last night marathoning Trinity Blood. Good, entertaining show, but with a strange sort-of non-ending; really felt like they tried to cram way too much into the last episode or two. Even so, I enjoyed it; I also maintain my initial assessment, which is that Abel Nightroad = Vash the Stampede + Alucard only ( Read more... )

So, the last girl I ever had a crush on and the last girl I ever dated are both engaged. It's been a long time, so I'm not really surprised; if anything I'm shocked it took this long. It's exciting, and I'm honestly thrilled for both of them, but I've gotta say that it does drive home that whole "I'm old and alone" feeling. Still, I'm only 30, I ( Read more... )

I am now officially a librarian. Well, except for that whole pesky "getting hired" thing. I'll be working on that for the next several weeks/until it is no longer an issue.

Ten years. Who knew? Dang I feel old.

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Hey all. I've been meaning to post this for a bit but kept forgetting. You should all go over to http://www.angeloinc.com/index.html and read the comic there. It's written by my best friend from high school and features a number of characters based very loosely upon people whom I know. Adrian is a great guy and a good friend, as well as being quite ( Read more... )

So here it is, April 6th, and it's SNOWING out. Pretty hard, too, considering. We're supposed to get something like 2" tonight and another 1" tomorrow ( Read more... )

Just finished La Chevalie d'Eon. Not bad; I rather liked it. It gave an interesting take on European history, plus had some fair swashbuckling and a couple of characters who may be viable for Larp someday, albiet with some effort and creativity. (Mainly useful as a political character. Also useful as an excuse to spout scripture and use it to kill ( Read more... )