It’s almost amazing how one thing can change a situation from horrible to pleasant.
I had to get downtown to pick up our car (the battery kept dying because the trunk light wouldn’t go out) and on the way to the PRT, ran into a friend I hadn’t talked to in a couple of years. She [...]
So, after two invitations in less than a month, and (I must admit) against my better judgment, I finally joined Facebook.
It is nice that I can keep in contact with people after they’re gone, such as graduated students who I’ve worked with. It’s also interesting that I found several family members, including two of my [...]
I knew there was a reason I never go to Think Geek.
That would be because I never knew until now that I NEEDED a Working Wooden Trebuchet. But I do.
However I’m going to sit on my hands.
Because I saw a bunch of other stuff I needed more.
That place is possible more dangerous than Despair.com.
Ack! Now [...]
I feel all embarrassed, reading the comments in response to my last depression post. I really wasn’t expecting any comments, I just wanted to get stuff out of my head. But thank you for the comments, I do appreciate them.
Which brings me to something else I’ve been thinking about recently–the difference between how one perceives [...]
For the incredibly cute archives, we have baby hedgehogs who have adopted a brush as their mother. And of course there are lots of adorable pictures of the baby hedgehogs and their “mother.”
For those who read fantasy, Bookslut looks at fantasy book covers with wizards. Snark included.
For something even more strange, foam attacks an Australian [...]
You know, that phrase never made any sense to me. As a pejorative, it works only under the assumption that “mental” is a negative. Which it isn’t. It’s positive or negative or neutral, depending upon the context, as in “mental agility” “mental illness” and “mental state”. So why would you make a word having to [...]
I have $150 worth of books on pre-order from Amazon, from September 1st to the end of next March.
And they’re all paperback.
It’s a sickness I say, but one from which I don’t want to get better.
I am NOT death, in case that is what you were expecting.
(more…)
There has been an increasing amount of news about Sunnyside recently, although everyone knows the problem has been an area for years–decades even. (For those not familiar with Morgantown, Sunnyside is a student district where old houses have been divided and subdivided into ramshackle apartments that are rarely kept up or maintained. It’s full of [...]
Michael:(lifting something heavy) Ook!
Me: You’re not a librarian!
It’s amazing how one jerk can ruin your entire afternoon.
Despite being busy, most everyone has been polite and patient, and it’s been a pleasant experience.
However.
One phone call from the Rudest Woman in Morgantown was enough to make me rant for thirty minutes. I simply don’t understand how one human being can be so horrific. Was [...]
Nope. Not for another week or two.
I could not believe how busy things were today. In six months it seems like we’ve already outgrown our new facility. But maybe things will be better towards the end of the week.
For the rest of the night, I’m going to collapse and do as little as possible.
Michael: (meekly) Can you do something for me?
Me: What?
Michael: Pull up the poison ivy along the driveway?
Since I have never gotten poison ivy–even when everyone else I was with became covered in it, I’m pretty sure I’m not sensitive to it. So I get the job of removing it when Michael finds it.
Mind you, I’m [...]
phishing \FISH-ing\ noun
: a scam by which an e-mail user is duped into revealing personal or confidential information which the scammer can use illicitly
“Phishing” is one of the many new computer-related terms that have found their way into the general lexicon over the past decade or so. Its “ph” spelling is [...]
This is me, not looking at my retirement fund for awhile.
La la la la la la!
There’s nothing I can add to this headline:
Man Wraps Head in Duct Tape and Attempts to Rob Liquor Store
Okay, I lied:
Store manager Bill Steele had some duct tape of his own, but his was wrapped around a wooden club that sent the robber fleeing
(via Hillbilly Sophisticate)
Note: My Grandmother had ten siblings, eight of who lived to adulthood (and many of whom lived to 90 years old). Her older sister was Sophie.
Grandmom: …because you could barely see it at the end of her life, I almost forgot about the big burn on Sophie’s leg. She never let it bother her and [...]
My entire house smells of chocolate.
I’m visiting family tomorrow, so this evening I made homemade oreos (every time I’ve made these someone has requested the recipe) and chocolate chocolate chip cookies, from the The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie Book.
I used four different kids of chocolate between the two recipes; cocoa, dutch process cocoa, semi-sweet chocolate [...]
Saw it yesterday!
It was great!
But…
Curse my propensity for motion sickness!
We normally go see movies several weeks after they’ve come out, so this was my first time seeing a movie on one of the larger screens at our new theaters, and I unthinkingly sat in the same place we always do–about halfway back, perhaps a bit [...]
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