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Mar 01
Quotable: Scene 24
“…and the music that we play are the oldies of today and we think those kids are strange….”
Feb 24
Dish soap
We have four bottles of dish soap. I’m not hoarding, I wasn’t stocking up for the snonami, and we don’t have individual dish soap preferences. It simply comes down to this: doing the dishes is our daughters’ job. They don’t like to do dishes. Heck, I don’t like to do dishes, either–that’s why I had …
Feb 17
Addiction
There is a vendor truck in Kansas City called Gyro Express. They don’t make my most favorite gyros, but they are amazing. However, they come with this incredible chili sauce. It tastes so good, but every time I eat it I get super sick. “You ever have an addiction that you know is bad for …
Feb 14
Victory
A couple of months ago at work one of the secretaries brought a Chinese user down for some assistance with her laptop on the wifi network. The laptop had an English keyboard, but the OS was entirely Chinese. “Ni hao,” I said, almost entirely exhausting the Chinese I learned at my old job. “Oh, you …
Feb 04
Review: A Death in the Venetian Quarter
Alan Gordon’s is one of a series of mysteries set around 1200 AD and based on characters from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The main characters are jesters who belong to the Fool’s Guild, who in this particular novel attempt to solve a murder and prevent the fall of Constantinople. Judging the book by its cover like …
Jan 31
Bamf! My first plushie
I made my first plushie last week, Nightcrawler from the X-Men. I say ‘first,’ because I plan to make some more. It was quite a challenge, as I didn’t know how to sew (except for leather or book pages) or how to use a sewing machine, so I had to get quite a bit of help …
