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[Apr. 24th, 2008|02:53 pm] |
Weak Minds Strong Backs.
Showing their usual sense of timing and consideration, the landlords showed up yesterday to inform all the tenants that anything other than cars that was still in the garage after 4/30/08 would be thrown out, preparatory to rebuilding and assigning the alleged storage units that have been completely useless in the five years we've lived here. (They also gave us a separate letter, saying that we still weren't up to cleanliness standards - though how they would know that when they didn't show up three months ago when they said they would, and never attempted to reschedule, is beyond me, but I digress.)
All of my crap for going to Burning Man is in the garage, along with an extra futon frame that needs to be set up in my room (and a couple of other things that we'll actually be getting rid of). And while my wrist has dramatically improved in the last six weeks, I simply do NOT have the strength to haul this crap upstairs, nor do I have any desire to foist all the work off on ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gridlore.
I know a sizable percentage of the locals on my f'list are going to CostumeCon this weekend - hell, I'm going myself on Saturday. But if any of y'all are available to come down to Offhand Manor on Sunday around noon or so, to help us tote barges and lift bales, I would be ENORMOUSLY grateful. I'll even feed y'all.
Email Doug or me and we'll get you the address if you don't already have it. |
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| *explodes* |
[Apr. 23rd, 2008|12:48 pm] |
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I swear to god, if I see one more post - pro OR con - about the Open Source Boob Project, I'm scheduling myself for a double mastectomy.
No, I'm not going to tell you what side of the argument I'm on, because quite frankly, I don't know. And the more I see people hurling invective, the less interested I find myself in thinking about it.
YOU'RE* NOT GOING TO AGREE WITH EACH OTHER. EVER. AND THE MORE YOU ARGUE ABOUT IT, THE WORSE BOTH SIDES LOOK. SHUT UP ALREADY.
* generic you |
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| Oh...right. |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|08:38 am] |
I've got this line in my userinfo:
I used to announce these purges in my journal, but it was pointed out to me that making such announcements was likely causing the drama I was attempting to avoid.
Clearly, I forgot about that again.
So I've done what I'm going to do about realigning my f'list, made the other entries private, and I'm moving the hell along. |
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| A last bit of (marshmallow) fluff before I go... |
[Mar. 23rd, 2008|07:24 pm] |
...because this came up at lunch with kor27 today:
Peeps Show II - the second annual Sunday Source Peeps Diorama Contest. (You've got to blow through an ad first or pull a login from BugMeNot.) Be sure to check out the photos from last year's contest while you're there.... |
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| Locking the doors |
[Mar. 23rd, 2008|07:00 pm] |
Taking the journal friends-only for a while; I've been locking anything of any great import for a while now, anyway, so it isn't as though you're actually missing anything.
Thank you, drive through. |
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[Mar. 21st, 2008|04:25 pm] |
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License plate on the car ahead of me: WWFSMDO. With His Noodly Appendage gracing the trunk. I love this town. |
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[Mar. 19th, 2008|11:18 am] |
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At the dentist with Doug. Keep your fingers crossed that we manage to do what we came for this time. |
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| Wow. |
[Mar. 18th, 2008|10:40 am] |
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Remember that question in certain versions of the Purity Test about "does your cursing have some style to it"?
THIS is style.
(Safe for work, but you'll find yourself wanting desperately to apologize to the OP, for all that you may never have met zir.) |
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| Testing, testing.... |
[Mar. 17th, 2008|07:36 pm] |
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| Match It For Pratchett |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|07:29 pm] |
The more fannish among my readers will remember the announcement last December that Terry Pratchett had been diagnosted with early-onset Alzheimer's. He followed that earlier this week with a $1M donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust in the UK. It didn't take too long for the idea of matching the donation to hit the blogosphere.
The announcement that Pterry had made his contribution hit my f'list on the first anniversary of Aunt Mary's passing. As those of you who were reading me then may recall, she was three weeks shy of her 99th birthday, and was blessed with a fully-functional body and brain until the very end. Her sister, my great-grandmother, was not so lucky...she spent her last five years on this earth descending into senile dementia, trapped inside her own mind for those final 18 months.
After Nana's passing, her daughter (my Grammy) stated on more than one occasion that she didn't want to "end up like her;" sadly, this became a self-fulfilling prophecy, and she has been in a residential facility specializing in Alzheimer's and dementia care for several years now. So it's no real surprise that I read the announcement, heard about the challenge, and found that my wallet felt a little heavy....
The drive to match Pterry's contribution now has its own home online - http://www.matchitforpratchett.org/ - and an RSS feed, available here as ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) pratchettmatch. The site links to a shop where you can buy shirts with the logo featured in my icon, with all proceeds going to the Alzheimer's Research Trust; the site maintainer is collecting links for Alzheimer's charities around the world, if you want your money to stay closer to home. I made my own contribution to the Alzheimer's Association here in the US; if you plan on doing the same, I humbly suggest you use the Tribute link, and note that your contribution is in honor of Match It For Pratchett. It's not perfect (there's only room to note one honor/memorial, so you can't mention that AND a family member or friend), but it would be nice to see how many contributions the other organizations outside the UK receive. |
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[Mar. 10th, 2008|10:58 pm] |
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| o/` "Welcome to the real world," she said to me condescendingly.... o/` |
[Mar. 10th, 2008|07:10 pm] |
( The High School Meme ) |
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[Feb. 29th, 2008|02:03 pm] |
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They called the CEO, and we've officially been cut loose. Yay! |
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[Feb. 29th, 2008|01:03 pm] |
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Just back from lunch; it's the most productive thing I've done all day. IT says it may be 2-3 HOURS yet. And, of course, the CEO isn't here to let us go home. |
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[Feb. 29th, 2008|10:16 am] |
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We've been dumped out of the virtual network @ the office twice in the last 20 minutes. How long before they declare a snow day and send us all home? |
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embarrassed