So, one of those little known facts about me is that I hold one of those amateur radio license thingies. I rarely use the things, but occasionally, it comes in handy. You see, I’m sitting at home not just to clean my room, but to also be the emergency contact between my sister’s Brownie troop […]
So my folks and my sister and my sister’s Brownie troop have headed up the hill to go camping at Little Grass Valley for the weekend. This leaves me here to dig out the room. referred to this process as “The Cleanapolypse”, and I like that so much that I’m stealing it. If you don’t […]
In no particular order: I’ve been looking forward to this weekend for a while. You see, while my parents and sister go out of town on a camping trip, I’m staying behind. This means that I can dig out my room which, although not quite matching the destruction wrought by my namesake hurricane, explains why […]
I’m sitting here making sure the checks I wrote to various people during Baycon have cleared my bank account (answer: yes), and in looking at that, I found a new puzzlement: trying to figure out just why I have a charge of $16.39 from Baycon itself. I’m sure there’s some absolutely sane reason it’s there; […]
The state of the katster is a rapidly falling apart California. Oh, wait, I screwed that up again, didn’t I? Well, here it is. I’m…I guess the best word for what I am is okay. It’s not awesome, but it’s not depressingly miserable either. I attribute the fact that it’s not the latter to the […]
Yesterday, on my walk between the parking garage and work, I found the following juxtaposition of signage: The chalked message up close, so you can read it: Photo by retstak It was one of those moments where I just had to pause for a moment and laugh (and of course, take a picture). Somebody has […]
It was very strange this morning after I dropped my mom off at her work in Rancho Cordova. Instead of doubling back to Folsom Blvd and following it all the way back down to the office at the corner of Watt and Folsom, I instead got on Highway 50 and headed for downtown. Yeah, the […]
I’m still at work and thus unable to do massive content posts. So here, have a kitty picture: (found with this story: Shelter Sounds “Cat Crisis”.)
I aren’t dead. Seriously, Baycon got extraordinarily busy from Saturday afternoon on, and then I had to make a sudden and sharp return to reality from the alternate dimension I had been inhabiting all weekend. Then work has been extraordinarily busy as well this week, and what time I haven’t been at work, I’ve been […]
I’m typing the following on my BlackBerry in the hotel lobby. I’m not entirely awake yet, but I’m not exactly happy to discover that my gopher shift is not nine to noon, but ten to one. The more astute of you will notice that this cuts into broadcasting hours at Baycon. So to make up […]
Current ribbon count: 31, plus gopher ribbon, plus three I haven’t attached to the badge yet, for a total of 35. Current fun being had: Loads. Permission for live broadcasting from the Fanzine Lounge: Authorized. Picture taken of me: Possibly for the newsletter, need to get somebody to snap me with my own camera, probably […]
Made the hotel last night, got a decent amount of sleep — although stupid me forgot to close the windowshades, which made my roommate get less sleep than anticipated. I’m about to go downstairs and wander through convention space, although the convention hasn’t technically started yet. My plans for the day involve going to find […]
It’s Friday, which means it’s time for cat blogging! So here, have a shiny photo of Ebony-kitty outside on a beautiful spring day this week.
Welcome to social deviance! The place where you end up when you realize that you don’t quite fit in. Social deviants serve several important functions, but mostly we serve as a horrible warning, “See what happens if you aren’t a good girl lil susie? You end up like that woman down the street who paints […]