not pinkeye!
But a sinus infection, and an ear infection and maybe another perforated eardrum, and he's been coughing so hard it's breaking blood vessels in his eyes :(So he has what I have, only worse. We had a...
View ArticleWake me up at 6 am & I remember my dreams
This morning, just before my alarm went off, I was dreaming thatMe & Katie had gone to New York to go to a party that Jay Smooth [who, btw, I do not know and have never met] was going to be at....
View Articleall I want is
One. Fucking. Day. when everyone who is supposed to be here fucking COMES TO WORK.Or, barring that, a little help from level 2 tech support. One of me, 5 of them, and nobody jumps in to help me.
View ArticleCompetence Project Badge 2
I successfully darned a sock!I stayed up late Wednesday darning it because I really wanted to wear my red kneesocks on Thursday and one had a four-toe-sized hole in it.There are a whole pile of holey...
View ArticleThe City of Invention
Yonmei's really fucking awsome post over at the Feminist Sci Fi Blog only got 7 comments. Maybe people are talking about it somewhere else I don't read?but if you are a reader or a writer and you think...
View Articleperfectionist fears & hopes
"Perfectionism wastes time -- it smells like procrastination, but it isreally paralysis from the disease of too many choices. We aren't putting things off, we are just overwhelmed with all the...
View Articlevampire double feature
At the Riverview this weekend.TWILIGHT PG13 Daily at 9:25pmLET THE RIGHT ONE IN R Fri-Sat at 11:30pm Just in case you like them sparkly as well as arty and Swedish.
View ArticleStop the Reroute showing tomorrow
I missed it at the Riverview last year, but it's at the Walker tomorrow, 2 pm - and at Roosevelt h.s. next Saturday, 7 pm.Listening to the coverage on KFAI is making me really sad, and thinking a lot...
View ArticleI stayed up a little late
...to finish this thing I was working on, but I was done with that by 10:30In a fit of self-defeating staying-up=late-for-no-reason (completely unlike "staying up late to finish reading Iodine" or...
View Articlehttp://psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com/2009/05/customer-disservice.html#...
Anon 1:21 sounds like a bible verse."And Anon said, Fair maid, will thoust allow me to come unto you?And the woman replied: No, motherfucker, I'm not interested because you're a douchetastic...
View Articledoes your stuff own you?
Flylady sends this out once or twice a year. It always makes me think, and let go of another layer of stuff."Dear Friends,Clutter has been our security blanket for a very long time. Itprotected us from...
View Articleon the positive side
Here are the list of positive reasons to keep an item, compared to the list of bad reasons I posted before. * if you love it* if it makes you happy* if you use it* if it is functionalThis is from...
View ArticleTiny cucumbers!
And tiny tomatillos, and one golfball-sized tomato!On the negative, since yesterday something grabbed up my one surviving corn plant and ate the juicy bottom part of it. I think i need to put in a...
View Articleoverscheduled
Every season, I think "soon this will be over and we will have more free time!"this weekend: campingnext weekend: workingAugust 1 weekend: workingAugust 8: friend weddingAugust 15: Iowa visitAugust 22...
View Articlewho is that dude?
the voiceover for the current round of OMG CANADIAN STYLE MEDICINE ads sounds suspiciously like the voice of the OMG MEDICARE DRUG COVERAGE ads of a few years ago.
View ArticleCircus Juventas
I can't even really describe all of the acts: there were people in the air on rings, on trapezes, on a three-person trapeze, hanging by their necks and hanging by their feet and swinging up until they...
View ArticleRoundups - political blogs & sites
Mostly because I'm organizing & purging my bookmarks, this is the first of a series. These are "the personal is the political" things, not politics-as-sport.News"paper"s:minnpost.comless political,...
View ArticlePotatos
So the potatos in the tires did not make tons of potatos. We now have 2-3x as many potatos as we started out with, I think. Maybe slightly more.What they DID do is, the leaf mulch I put in turned into...
View Articlei should take a picture...
Tomatos & Tomatillos that I put in the reading porch just before OMG First Snow, are getting ripe. YAY!
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