I've not been to a real concert since 1993. I've gone to two Cirque events over the last decade, but those are in a big tent with more open seating ( Read more... )

It's been about two years since the last time I re-upped my electric vehicle. This means it's time for Yet More Musings on EV Cars! My apologies if you're tired of it, but for me it's a constant bit of research I rather enjoy ( Read more... )

As those of you who follow my twitter will know I was involved in a minor fender bender while going to the post office after work yesterday. Here's the short rundown on what happened ( Read more... )

(mostly copied from my twitter and expanded, thank you for being here, Livejournal ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in an earlier entry, the Northwards trek to the Seattle/Kitsap area isn't happening until late this year at the earliest, if at all, leaving me both time-wise and fiscally free to seek a real vacation. The goal was to watch the airfare blogs until I could score something crazy cheap just to give it a try ( Read more... )

I'm on my way to Seattle to help a friend pick up a used motorcycle he just bought there and haul it back to Sacramento. It's mostly an excuse to take a break from work and get some road time that I sorely need, and hopefully see a few random friends while up there. We're going to take the scenic route and go up via the Oregon coast and around ( Read more... )

Over the last 20 years I've hosted a _lot_ of domains for people. Most of them I paid for out of pocket, as they were for friends and artists and fandom people who both didn't know the technical end and couldn't afford the fees. Every one of them has been with Network Solutions as a registrar. They cost a little more, but they were the first ( Read more... )

When I was a runty little monoceros, around age 8-10 or so, I was the Monster Under the Stairs.  We lived in a partially-finished farmhouse in the middle of Missouri.  My father and uncle were in the middle of expanding it into a "kid's bedroom two story", turning the attic into undersized rooms so my sisters and I could stop multi-bunking it in ( Read more... )

My main coping mechanism for extreme amounts of stress is to derail myself from whatever is causing the stress by jumping into a new project.  This satisfies a number of brain-happy-making impulses: creating new infrastructure, learning new skills, getting to do research with purpose and even retail therapy.  There are only two major downsides: the ( Read more... )

Another day, another cycle around the sun. Only this time, with chickens. Yay birthdays!