I've made it to California! After 4 measured days on the road I got here a bit earlier than planned. Then somehow managed to get a decent rental condo right in the complex I was initially looking at on the very first day I started hunting around. I'm still a bit shocked at how quickly it all happened, and it will probably still be another week ( Read more... )

Been ages since I last posted here, again. But I figured I might as well put a note here about it ( Read more... )

Jacel is a very silly thing.

Very silly, but also very lovely.

The sun was still up when I left work yesterday. What is this madness!? Not even gone a full month and everything here at home goes crazy ( Read more... )

Fish and chips take-away and a big can of Guinness, £5. Yay.

I think the hotel staff gave me funny looks when I brought it back in through the lobby. >_>

I never seem to get around to posting things here, anymore. Nothing about my birthday, or the thanksgiving vacation to Atlanta with family and then Jacel & Galis, or christmas, or the guild new year's party, or the screwy events of jury duty last week ( Read more... )

Apocrypha pointed me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNS_Velos#Hellenic_Navy this morning, which was a cute little read ( Read more... )

Ever since my UK trip, gaming on my computer has been a frustrating crash-fest, as the system likes to blow up whenever things get busy. Error codes when only the game crashes, and tests with MemTest86+ point towards a failing memory chip. Almost two years ago, I bought these when building this computer for $125. Supposedly they have a lifetime ( Read more... )

So here I am in Fort Myers beach down in Florida, on a more or less forced week-long family vacation. They have a rental home here for the week, which is fairly nice I have to admit, with a pool and nice kitchen and a tiny walk to the beach. Although as the bachelor of the group I have to sleep out on the loft, which is sure to be noisy and ( Read more... )

So, even though I'd like to do things such as sleep so I can get dim sum with Reveille and others tomorrow morning, my other roommates have like ten other people in this room and just outside the door. Needless to say I am not pleased ( Read more... )