[Fourth in an occasional series] My entrance to Interstate 80 is usually Elkhorn Blvd. (For those of you who don’t live in the Sacramento area, this tidbit isn’t going to mean much, but it is what it is.) I have three options — Elkhorn, Madison, and Watt — but of the three, Elkhorn is the […]
Third in an occasional series I call “Tales from the Commute”: So yeah, even a Monday morning commute is always made happier by having one of these always in sight pretty much your whole way across Interstate 80. There was a couple moments when I could bring myself to believe that the pot of gold […]
it’s a bit of a complicated story about why I’m going to Ukiah, but nonetheless, it’s where I’m going. Anyway, I should be back this evening and maybe then I’ll do the dump of what’s in my head. There’s a lot up there and I should probably write it down.
yeah. I’ve been a Bear fan for a long time, but this is ugly. 39-3 Oregon, and still a quarter to play.
Yonder about three months ago, I got business cards from work. They gave my title as ‘Business Analyst’. Today, we got an org chart. On this one I’m listed as a ‘Software Engineer.’ Yeah, I’m not even sure my company knows what I do. So I have decided that today, I am a ‘Business Software […]
[Second in an occassional series that I’ve dubbed “Tales of the Commute”.] So the car ahead of me in the onramp today was a Lada. Now, first of all, that’s not exactly a common brand here in the United States. I’m a bit of a Russophile, so I recognized the Russian car company, but I’m […]
One of the amazing things about fandom is the respective fan funds. There’s a triangle of them connecting the three largest concentrates of fandom in the world. (There’s also several minor ones, my favorite of which is CUFF, which sends fans back and forth within Canada.) The first one, connecting Europe with Australia, is GUFF, […]
First of all, I’m on swine flu watch, as one of my groupmates was pretty seriously ill yesterday, and my teacher forced her to stay in class until the midway point while he lectured (when he had first told us we had a quiz and the presentations and then she could go) and then we […]
You know that dream about how you walk into class and everybody’s in there taking a test you didn’t know about? Yeah, it’s like that. At least I’m not naked. More later, perhaps. [Edit: So the quiz got cancelled. However, our presentation didn’t go overly well today. The Star1/Star2 problem we were having I pointed […]
The tale of the tape, so to speak, is in my livejournal. Here are my entries for 9/11/01. (And the next few days are filled with more reactions.) The thing I find most interesting, looking back on this eight years later, is the sudden and abrupt change from what passes from normality (from the entry […]
Don’t mind me, I’m in spitting nails mode today over several dozen things all colliding at once. Some of it is financial troubles, which I don’t feel like getting into right now. But here’s the exchange on Twitter that has pushed me over the edge. (Sorry, , you’re not the reason I’m spitting nails, but […]
So I have fortune set to run when I log into my shell account. Here’s the one that came up as I was logging in today: Your fortune for the day: Stay away from hurricanes for a while. Already learned my lesson on that one, guv. (Hint: Do not wish for the hurricane that shares […]
In no particular order: My souvenir book and program guide for the worldcon just concluded in Montreal came today. My cat is thankful to the committee for providing her with cat toys. Cat toys? I hear you ask. Well, you see, in order to keep the souvenir book flat, somebody attached package straps, and my […]
And I celebrate by posting my absolute favorite Cal Sports commercial: It never gets old. Anyway, things look good for my Bears. We’ll see what happens, but we’ve got as good a chance as any of winning the Pac-10 and going to the promised land. And now that I’ve said it, I’ve jinxed it, but […]
[Alright, this is a bit long, but do me the favor of reading it through, okay?] There’s a bottle of pills sitting on my bookcase. Every night, I swallow one. I asked once at the pharmacy how much it would cost me to fill the script. Their response was eighty dollars for a month’s supply. […]