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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 4:33 pm |
They're doing it again...
 Note the party affiliation attributed to him. Now (unless you're already familiar with the story), employ Google to find out his real affiliation -- or just guess. Just to refresh our memories, this is by no means the first time that Faux News has pulled this BS... by "accident," of course: http://mediamatters.org/research/200610130010 Current Mood:  enraged | | Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | | 4:50 pm |
SO MANY STRAWBERRIES
Yesterday, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) angelus7988 and I went strawberry-picking at Lyman Orchards. We ran into a bit of a snag when, after parking at the store-part of the place and getting a bit lost (we'd never been there before), the staff member we asked for directions told us that the strawberry patches were only a quarter of a mile away. This led to a surprise!hike. However, we arrived at the strawberry picking area mostly intact, and in the space of about an hour, picked eleven and a half pounds of strawberries. ($1.75 a pound is pretty good for fresh-picked strawberries, I think.) Then we were able to ask some folks who were headed back in the same direction as we were if they could give us a ride back to our car, and they very generously did so. Then we came home, picked up cygna_hime, played some video games, and attempted making ice cream from scratch. The chocolate came out fairly well, I think, and I need to finish making the strawberry. (We have SO MANY strawberries it's awesome!) So yeah, yesterday was fun. Current Mood:  pleased | | Friday, June 19th, 2009 | | 4:37 pm |
Happy birthday, hca! I hope today was and continues to be stress-free and fun-filled. | | Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | | 2:05 am |
The relationship seems to be doing fairly well again. *knocks on wood* The car, however, is still iffy. Current Mood:  tired | | Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 | | 1:36 am |
Modification:
As it turns out, the situation might not be as doom-ful as I was initially given to believe. Nothing is certain as it currently stands, but I feel I have reason to be optimistic. Updates will follow as matters progress. Thank you all for your concern and well-wishes. *hugs* Current Mood: hopeful | | Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | | 1:52 am |
...And it all comes crashing down. Current Mood:  crushed | | Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | | 12:50 am |
FYI
Neil Gaiman was on The Colbert Report tonight. I imagine that there are a number of people on my flist who would be interested in this fact. | | Monday, March 9th, 2009 | | 11:56 am |
This past weekend
Last week we got a foot of snow. Yesterday it was in the 60s. Now it's cold and rainy. The Quest game this weekend was pretty fun. I was tired and a bit grumpy at the outset, but things did get amusing as the day went on. And it had been far too long since we'd had a post-game Athenian outing. Good times. The Kahla-Ranite party lives again! Mwahahahahaha... Current Mood: tired | | Friday, February 27th, 2009 | | 12:42 am |
| | Monday, February 16th, 2009 | | 7:17 am |
| | Saturday, February 7th, 2009 | | 10:39 pm |
I now know what the next novel I write is going to be; I may even do NaNo this year in order to make it happen. I'm doing a version of Clytemnestra's story. Because OMFG, I want to strangle both Electra and Orestes and shake them by the throats until their heads flop off. This may well be the book I'm supposed to write. Current Mood: irate | | Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | | 11:37 pm |
Happy birthday, zfarcher! I hope it was good; you should have good birthdays. *hugs* | | Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | | 3:56 am |
| | Saturday, November 15th, 2008 | | 11:46 am |
CG106 Update
As of last night, the NPC packet is finished and mailed out. There will be a couple of updates and addenda over the coming week, but the bulk of it is complete. Whee, warm and fuzzy sense of accomplishment! ...Now to make props... tomorrow. Today is anniversary; minimal work gets done today. Current Mood:  accomplished | | Monday, November 10th, 2008 | | 7:10 pm |
Happy birthday, jenaflynn! Best wishes, and have an awesome day evening. :) | | Saturday, November 8th, 2008 | | 8:54 am |
I've been bad about birthday posts lately. I shall attempt to rectify this. In that vein: Happy birthday, kenjari! I hope today involves lots of good things for you. :) Current Mood:  sleepy | | Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 | | 1:55 pm |
I voted yesterday, and then came home and made an Election Pie. Fortunately, it turned out to be a celebratory pie, rather than a mourning pie. Although Prop 8 passed in California (DISAPPROVE), and a couple of other states passed some truly hideous ballot measures, at least I can take a small degree of comfort in the fact that Connecticut didn't fuck up; Question 1 got shot down, as it well deserved. I actually had a rather amusing time yesterday, after I voted, trying (politely) to explain to a Question 1 supporter standing outside my polling place just what it means that we live in a constitutional republic, rather than a direct democracy, and why judicial review is an important check on legislative power. I don't think I convinced her, but at least I was entertained, and maybe I gave her something to think about. Also, YAY WE WON!!! (Insert Kermit-the-Frog arm flailing) Election Pie: Step 1: spread tube of cookie dough into pie plate and bake. Step 2: make chocolate mousse/chocolate whipped cream. Step 3: spread mousse into cookie crust and chill. It's a touch ridiculously rich, but very tasty, and was quite well-received. Current Mood: satisfied | | Saturday, November 1st, 2008 | | 1:55 am |
There is no fucking justice in the world.
I just wanted that to be perfectly clear. A little bit of exposition: I got a parking ticket yesterday. I was asked to bring the stock weapons to fighter practice yesterday, so I parked on the street on Lawn (as one does). This is legal (or was, at the hour I parked there). Apparently there's a "No overnight parking" sign there, banning parking from 11pm to 7am. Usually fighter practice is long over by that point, so I didn't even realize that such a rule was in place. On this occasion, we got out a little later than usual (a bit before midnight), and -- lo and behold -- there's a parking ticket waiting for me on my windshield. What time did the cop issue the ticket? 11:10pm. Yeah. Somebody was looking to make his monthly quota. Now that you're up to speed, let me tell you about tonight. I'm visiting Nick, and so I parked on High Street in front of Alpha Delt. I've parked legally, and not only that, I've parked at the edge of the legal-parking zone, just before the yellow curb begins, so that no one can park in front of me and box me in (because parallel parking for the lose). About half an hour ago, Nick and I decided we were hungry and wanted to go to the Athenian. So we go out to my car. Which is boxed in on one side by the falafel cart and on the other side -- the illegally-parked side -- by a van. A vehicle removal van, no less. We think, wouldn't it be nice if there were a cop around? That's the kicker: there is. Eclectic is having a party across the street, and they have a cop standing right there on the porch, right in front of the illegally-parked van that's boxing me in. Does the van get a ticket? No. Of course not. It's actually being a nuisance to somebody; why would the police penalize that, when there are innocent people who left their car ten minutes past the allotted time? Because clearly, the point of parking tickets is not to punish actually problematic behavior, but merely to generate revenue for the town. My desire for dramatically-appropriate revenge is thwarted. This is unsatisfactory. Grargh. Current Mood: pissed off | | Friday, October 10th, 2008 | | 1:07 pm |
| | Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | | 5:53 pm |
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