So, it's been deemed Clean Up My Brains week here on the USS Degenerate Bastard, and in a tiny storage closet on the deck marked "communications" (sub: email etc.) has been found a little piece of stupid that I can't seem to shake off. In 1999 I made myself a batch of email addresses, used them, loved them, and wound up using my tertiary address ( Read more... )

Ok, so maybe it's not all as bad as I thought it was originally. And forgive the weird dirt, this was taken before peroxide. Ewwwwww, finger!

Man, that's going to take a while to grow back. In the meantime, yay spongy bandage tape.

Way to go, Captain Squiddy, way to slice off your finger there ( Read more... )

...or rather there's a missed opportunity for them in not publishing for an English-speaking audience an idiomatic guide to all the words in German that describe more elaborately detailed ideas. (Perhaps such a lexicon exists in which case I must now set out to find it - I have a list of ideas that I need to learn the appropriately long names for ( Read more... )

Some days are better than others. Today two of my foster dogs got adopted together (the slobbery ones, yay!), I figured out where the stereo wiring and heating systems from the new part of the house can connect to the retrofit of my rooms in the old bit (and how to do it cheaper!), my box of silk/wool tweed arrived (more prussian blues!), I made ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what's going on inside the parts of my head where I can't clearly see ( Read more... )

I went outside for SIX MINUTES today. SIX MINUTES, to pull in the dry laundry that I had put out in the morning. I know it was six minutes because I remember glancing up from pnl spreadsheets to the cable box, thinking "ooh, commercial, it's 12:37, I bet I can get the laundry before 12:40". When I came back in, it was 12:43, I went "eh, six ( Read more... )

Ok, so, apparently I thrive on pointless challenges (and spite, and boots) so I have come to the conclusion that I am not challenged enough at the moment. I also have two unfulfilled needs ( Read more... )

This afternoon I pulled a zucchini out of the garden that was 21" long and about 13" around ( Read more... )

Most days I hate most people. Most days I would not think twice about stepping over people drowning in puddles. But today especially I hate (almost) everyone. I'll except my friends and the nice old dude who let me merge in front of him into the one open bridge lane. Everyone else, though, die horribly. Goddamn.