I know, I know, it's been a while since I've been seen here.   Between married life, college courses, and a crazy thesis project, I've been up to my ears in work and didn't quite have the energy to maintain the blog ( Read more... )

My next door neighbor has a large inflatable pool (at least 4ft deep) in his backyard.  He has somehow attached a sprinker to a hose and hung it over a branch and left it running into the already full pool.  Why has he done this? Some options ( Read more... )

Today has been a day and half of stuff. Got up early and made breakfast and lunch for both of us.  Made the bed, got ready for work.  Got to work and had 2 classes scheduled (plus two that showed up unscheduled) had time on the desk that was filled with computer problems. Had lunch, had a program to observe, had the desk again and then had to get ( Read more... )

Got my copy Sat. night, got three hours reading in before eyes blurred and I collapsed.  Didn't get to really read again until tonight at 6:20 when I got on a train to head home.  Several hours of travel later, and an extra few minutes at home and I'm done ( Read more... )

In class and falling asleep.  Desperately trying to stay awake . . .  this is what I get for staying up to write last night.  While I'm grateful to be out of  the Web Design class that was over my head  this class probably could be condensed into one session and I'd get all the info.  Normally, that's fine.  But today I can barely stay awake and it ( Read more... )

Haven't been around in a while. Got a bit moody and depressed and kinda wandered offline for a while. So hello to folks out there and sorry I haven't been around much.

Anyway, a meme from another board I frequent:

The rules are:
Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next 4 sentences.
Don’t ( Read more... )

Got this meme from xenogenesis. I'm not tagging folks but here are my answers ( Read more... )

I have taken to announcing at odd intervals around the library "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" usually to friends and patrons who already know how weird I can be. I'm in silly mode today to combat the off kilter sleep-cycle I've been on lately ( Read more... )

According to the eighty or so kids on my library floor today I am able to ( Read more... )

Just need to post this somewhere and get the shakes out of my system. Was coming home round 9pm tonight, got off the subway was on the street where I live when this guy grabs my pocket book strap (which is across me) he ripped my pocket book right off me, sending me crashing to the ground. (the chili bowls I'd brought from my old house broke after ( Read more... )