It's been two years, but I'm still alive! Anyone still out there? Anyone?

You know, if I could get over my urge to punch people in the face every time I listened to the lead singer of The Decemberists sing in his not-quite-on-key nasal voice, I think I could really like them.

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Okay, slight change of winter vacation plans. I'm going to be staying in California with Ada for Christmas and New Year's. I'll still be going to Hong Kong, albeit a month later than originally planned - late-January now.

Sucks that I'm going to miss all the Christmas goings-on in HK :(

I'm going to be in Hong Kong for Christmas and New Year's! America Hong Kong, fuck yeah.

And my flight is going to be awesome, too, because Cathay Pacific planes have power jacks in every one of their seats, meaning I'll be able to gadget-whore with the best of 'em using one of these babies. I'm going to set my display brightness to holy shit is ( Read more... )

A day in the life of Horace:

9:00 AMWoken up by kitty attempting to clean me. Mutter a few choice words under my breath, plop kitty outside the room, close the door, and snooze.
9:30 AMWoken up by the leafblowers positioned right outside my window. Give up trying to get back to sleep, and go through my morning ritual.
10:00 AMLeave for work. Give ( Read more... )

I went whitewater rafting with my co-workers and his friends this weekend and sunburned the shit out of my knee. The rest of my body was okay though; I guess I managed not to miss those spots when slathering myself in sunblock ( Read more... )

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A few recent things:

Mogwai concert -- the opening band was freaking horrible, set list could've been a lot better (they didn't play any of the good songs off their older albums), and the ending was a little pretentious (ten minutes of straight-up noise), but on the songs that they rocked out on, they seriously rocked the fuck out. They sound ( Read more... )