Stargate is apparently my version of crack. Haven't watched it in like year and a half since I refuse to pay the absurd rate Comcast charges for cable. But, I was flipping through channels on Saturday, bored but not quite bored enough to actually leave my apartment and go do something, when I hear that oh so familiar theme song. Am thus enraptured ( Read more... )

I work in the industry, I've had classes on airline management...I still don't get how airlines decide pricing. I have to fly over to Spokane on Sunday to go to a funeral on Monday, so I'm checking out prices on Southwest and Alaska/Horizon. Southwest has several different pricing options, depending on when you're booking the tickets, but since it' ( Read more... )

I very rarely post anything even semi-political on here, but I'd just like to say how happy I am that I don't have to change phone companies. Qwest basically told the NSA to kiss off and that if they wanted phone records they could damn well get a warrant just like everyone else.

The original USAToday article is here. And an interesting article ( Read more... )

I Am A: Neutral Good Half-Elf Fighter

Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered 'normal'.

Half-Elves are a cross between a human and an elf. They are smaller, like ( Read more... )

I woke up cranky and tired this morning, bitched at my cat, swore at my alarm clock, and was generally in a foul mood from the moment I woke up. Then, I, in a fit of desperate optimism, checked to see if the new NWN mod I've been eagerly wating for had been uploaded. It was! Happiness, joy, wonder! Yay! So, now I want to go to work even less than I ( Read more... )

The more people I meet who work for Microsoft (and a surprising number of our clients work there), the more I really want to quit my job and go work there. These guys (and they're all programmers) are nice, polite, and dang it, and we speak compatible languages. We had someone new in today, registering for a class, and while I'm trying to help him ( Read more... )

Nothing like opening your mailbox and finding a letter from the IRS that's clearly not a refund check. Given that this is the first year I've done "real" taxes, as in not done the incredibly bonehead 1040EZ or the even more incredibly simple phone filing there was that niggling little voice in the back of my head that kept saying "Man, what if I ( Read more... )

I just got my e-mail notice for my electric bill and it says next to the amount due line: $0.00. My first response is (naturally) WTF? What'd they screw up? So I hop onto the website, check first to make sure the e-mail wasn't goofed, it wasn't. Then checked to see if I maybe overpaid last month (I remembered paying a couple bills late last month, ( Read more... )

I called in sick yesterday due to irritated stomach and sheer exhaustion, neither of which are due to any sort of bacteria or virus but pure stress. I'd felt like crud the day before but stuck it out because I had some stuff I really wanted to get done, but when my alarm went off yesterday and I felt promptly back asleep (I don't remember hitting ( Read more... )

One of these days something will go right at work and the world may just come to an end. Today it was a SNAFU that happened back in November causing headaches. We had someone come in and take a written test for the FAA and somehow neither one of us noticed that it was the wrong damn test. It was for gyroplane instead of helicopter, but since she ( Read more... )