No Paragon last night. Sad face. More importantly, though, well wishes to Leslie's mom. Hopefully the hospital will get it right this time.
Spent over six straight hours cleaning the old place today, whilst certain other residents decided it would be more prudent to go concert and bar hopping. Thank goodness BREEN offered to help out the entire time. So my clothes wouldn't get nastied, I was wearing a green hooded raincoat, with purple gloves and a scrubbing wand. I was the PHANTOM OF CLEANING! I frightened the filth away, into the drain, or paper followed by garbage.
Potentially Unnecessary Products:
Instant refried beans. As seen in the bulk foods section of WinCo. Yeah...no.
Some kind of...clamshell device designed specifically to hold a bagel while you bisect it. For maximum safety. Maximum taste. As you can see, it fancies itself a bagel slicer, but I'm not sure you can call a product something when it performs only an arbitrary and tangential function to an activity that is actually being accomplished by something you already had (i.e.; a knife).
I got Coraline on Tuesday, because everyone seems to have liked it quite a bit. Maybe I will eventually get a chance to watch it. I was excited, because it was actually in 3D! on the DVD itself. I was expecting the fancy circular polarization 3D in which it was released in the theater, though, but it seems they resorted to anaglyphing for the home release, as evidenced by the red/blue glasses that were inside the DVD case. Disappointing... I wonder if there's a technical limitation for polarization filtering needing two simultaneous overlaying projectors to produce the effect...still, I figure there'd be some way to duplicate the effect with alternation on a single display. And I even have a few pairs of the nice glasses... Oh, well; maybe anaglyping is better than it used to be...I'll have to see how it turns out.
At work, we often use short-form text communication to relay requests and status updates for different parts of the network when not on a computer in the applicable domain. For instance, I was on a Navy computer today needing to process changes on the Marine Corps side.
When in an open communication channel as such, we preface messages with the initials of the individual toward which the message is directed. One of my colleagues, Brian Kotmel (who shall remain nameless), was thus being queried as BK. Seeing this, I couldn't help but think of Burger King, and I thought, ha-ha, you remind people of fast food, and I wondered what it would be like to have your initials invoke the image of junk food.
Then I remembered that mine are A&W.
I've randomly decided to start Vox-ing again. Two years is too long a hiatus from the craziness of web-logging. Mostly random thoughts, unless I think of something thoughtful to write. I challenge everyone to do the same. Everyone.
I'm still not entirely better from whatever it was I had last week. I thought I was about fine this morning, but then started getting irritatingly dizzy,again. Maybe it's the guaifenisen I just took again for the cough-up-ing. Anti.
Fourthies tonight in an hour or so. Playing Concordance. Maybe certain things will be revealed. We'll see. 'tis also Dylan's birthday. Happy birthday, again. I feel like I am missing out on gaming...haven't had enough of it, lately. I need to get creamy plot-y deep into things, again. Have talks about character development, story directions, philosophy and psychology of our games...all that good stuff. That's what I need. Need to feel the momentum.
My mother is coming into town this weekend, I think. I just got here a diamond necklace for a belated Mother's Day / birthday gift. Hopefully she will approve. It will be good to see her.
The new house seems to be working out pretty well, aside from the poor insulation of the second floor making for sweltery times. I finally have a bedroom with a ceiling fan, though. Nice. And...a balcony. Hmm.
I should probably call Leslie and see if there is need for cake or ice cream, tonight.
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Seems that the Erinz is bringing something.
Well, then...off I go...!
I saw Captain Kirk riding a motorcycle on my way to work, yesterday. He followed me for a while, but turned away down Irving.
I guess we all have a starship to get to.
