In which I’m here, bitches! At GBM! And it’s so totally wonderful omgwtfbbq!!!1! It took three planes and ONE MILLION HOURS, but I finally made it to Baltimore. Vuboq and Clio Bluestocking picked me up from the airport, and then we came to Vuboq’s for pizza and wine. Yum! Pizza! And wine! I think we […]
In which I’m ramping up for GBM. As you know, I’m flying to DC over the weekend of St Pat’s for GBM. I’ve been trying to decide what to wear, which is problematic because all of my clothes are old and worn out and crappy, or they’re hand-me-downs that don’t really fit, or I’m just […]
In which time is not on my side. When I first decided to go to GBM, I checked kayak.com for flight prices. It was $408 round-trip, including taxes. I didn’t buy because first I had to submit my time off request at work. At the 6-week pre-travel mark the price for the very same flights […]
In which I respond here because I’m no longer in college. I’m reading one of the late Philip K. Dick‘s final three works: a wild tour of drugs, insanity, and longing called VALIS. While the characters – so far at least – are so engaging that it’s worth reading, there’s a great deal of vocabulary. […]
In which I use my powers for evil good. You know I’m a whore for the hard sci-fi, right? Totally devour the stuff. By the metric ton. It’s a big part of my free time, the sci-fi is, so I’m gonna talk about it. If you don’t read sci-fi, you can safely skip this whole […]
In which I’m still boring and you shouldn’t even be reading this. My new 120Gb hard drive arrived yesterday. I got it so cheap I can hardly stand myself! It came in an envelope instead of a box… I’d forgotten how tiny laptop drives are. It’s still sitting in its anti-static container, waiting to be […]
In which there’s music. Here’s the second rough of one of my new band’s demo tunes: [display_podcast] (And yes, Naomi, I had RB fix the ‘chew’ sound you didn’t like. I live to serve!) One of these days, we’ll get organized and record a third tune… and then learn enough material to actually do a […]
In which I had no idea what time it was. Yesterday I got my new gadget, my eBookwise ebook reader. It’s so cute! And so far I’m giving it a total thumbs up (although I already have a list of things I want in the next OS update, like: font face changeability, categories, and an […]
In which I complete an unpremeditated transaction. I woke up this morning to the sound of my cell phone trilling. I had a text message. The message informed me that my paycheck had been direct-deposited into my account. Money! Yay! During my lunch break this afternoon, I dutifully went to the post office and bought […]
In which Xmas day was super plus fun! Christmas Day totally rocked. It’s been years since I’ve celebrated this holiday with my blood family, and it was really great to be at Gramma’s house with a whole passel of aunts and uncles and cousins and their spouses and parents. We ate dinner mid-afternoon, then Dave […]
