A miracle!
It's now a week after Rainfurrest, and I haven't caught con crud. I seem to have missed it entirely!Hooray!
View ArticleAck!! Dammit!
No, I didn't speak too soon on the con crud. I'm still crudless. But another problem's cropped up. It seems I may need a new computer. Actually, strike the "may" from that sentence.What makes this...
View ArticleThank yous
Been a goodly while since I made a post, here. As usual, that's because there's been nothing much going on that I feel anyone would be interested in. Heck, when I post something I *do* think people...
View ArticleWell, it's been more than a week
...since 26 people were shot by Adam "Fuckface" Lanza. This is the worst mass shooting in American history since the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007 (perpetrated by Seung-Hui "Also-a-Fuckface" Cho)...
View ArticleBleah
God, I hate being sick. Especially when it's not quite sick enough to justify staying home from work, but sick enough that I really, really want to.
View ArticleOmens, signs, portents, and delays
I've been feeling a little creative recently. Maybe my long drought is ending, but I've been getting the urge to write, especially. More, when I replied to an email with a reasonable argument about the...
View ArticleFun, easy, and totally legal (if a liiiittle bit dangerous) way to make lots...
1. Go to grocery store.2. Buy large bag of powdered sugar and some baggies.3. Stuff baggies with powdered sugar.4. Go to bad part of town.5. Start asking people in sly, secretive tones, "Wanna buy some...
View ArticleA very enjoyable day
Went to see Cirque du Soleil today, to watch their performance of Amaluna. Excellent, excellent show. One of their best, in my opinion. Most of the time when I see the Cirque, there's one or two acts...
View ArticleWell, another NorWesCon come and gone...
Not too bad. Nothing too special, either, though. I stayed home, like last year, while Fox stayed at the hotel. It saved me some money and I was able to take care of the cats, at the expense of not...
View ArticleMore car trouble
While doing some errands yesterday, found my car wouldn't start. It was, unfortunately, too late in the day to look into auto shops or tows, which meant I had to take care of all that this morning....
View ArticleThe secret's out: I'm getting old
Not that it was ever very secret. Back at the beginning of the year, my work switched health care providers. Group Health was fine, as far as I could tell, but they switched to Cigna. One of my friends...
View ArticleBowling
Went bowling again for the first time in 3 or 4 years. First game went great, but my play went steadily downhill as my arm and wrist got tired. 4 games 481 total — a 120 average. But my last two games...
View ArticleOpen Valve
Well, Tuesday I did something a little different before work. I took a tour of Valve Studios, the makers of such games as Portal and Half Life and Team Fortress 2. This was arranged by the NW Science...
View ArticleOne of those truly excellent weekends
Friday I went to gaming at Mark and Lauren's. (I host gaming every Sunday, but I go to their place for more once or twice each month.) We discovered that Descent is horribly weighted against the...
View ArticleDevil's Advocate #1: Infinite worlds? (Part 1) Wellll...
When most people these days think of multiple universes, they think of the "Many-Worlds Theory." It basically says that every time an event could go in more than one way, it actually goes both ways,...
View ArticleRainfurrest 2013
Well, RF is on this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing the con from a new perspective: that of the average attendee. :)
View ArticleRainfurrest 2013, Days 0 and 1
Day 0 (Wednesday)Did my normal day type stuff. Went shopping. Met Phil Geusz at about 8 PM for dinner. Since he hadn't eaten all day, due to that whole "plane" thing, we went where we knew there were...
View Articlenot happy
Just after Rainfurrest, Fox came down with something. It knocked him out of work for a week. The next weekend, I got it. it didn't hit me as hard... but it still caused me to miss work. Tuesday,...
View ArticleWhooda Thunkit?
I'd kind of given up on ever getting married or having kids. The girlfriends I've had in the past have all proved a poor match in one way or another, and I'm not big on the social scene so I wasn't...
View ArticleConcerts and shows! Yes, plural. Of each.
Earlier this week, Heather asked if I was interested in going to a concert held by Switchfoot. Her friend had won some free tickets in a radio giveaway, but couldn't go due to being in Hawaii being the...
View ArticleDevil's Advocate #2: Infinite worlds? (Part 2) I Don't Think So!
In a previous post, I pointed out that the "infinite worlds" of Many-Worlds Theory is not, in truth, infinite. Staggeringly huge, yes, but not infinite.But I don't think the Many-Worlds theory is...
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Early XMas
Well, Christmas is this Wednesday, and I usually work Wednesdays. This one will be no exception, so that means I do the whole gifts and gatherings and food thing either early or late. In most cases, I...
View ArticleWell, It HAS been a while, hasn't it?
My last entry was December 23, 2013. That's... let's see... one, two... over 20 months ago. Why so long?Well, the simple answer is that I saw my journal as something of a chronicle of my life. If I...
View ArticleLife update
And now, after making that last post — in which I declare that I won't be posting much about how my life is going — I'm now going to do exactly that. After all, I only said I'd not be bothering with...
View ArticleWhat's so bad about being a fair-weather fan?
Well, my local NFL team, the Seahawks, lost another game yesterday. That puts them at 2-4, which means they can probably lose, at most, one more game this season if they want to reach the playoffs....
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