The Cheesecake is Rich

At least a dozen times today I have wanted to call my mother and ask if she’s ready to visit us tomorrow. Sometimes it takes at least 5 minutes before I realize that today is Wednesday and she’s not arriving until Friday. In other news, I processed a bunch of I-9 forms (to make sure [...]

So. I was very good and did not spend ANY money on Black Friday (it helps that I was working from 9-5, so I didn’t even think of trying midnight shopping again). (Not that I would have, actually, as Gene made it clear that he did midnight shopping once and would never do it again). [...]

I just had to hunt through 4 different “Favorites” menus in Safari (my web browser of choice) before I could find my link to post in my own blog. In better news, the Great Black and Brown Hunter (a/k/a Betty) killed a rabbit today. And left it behind my chair. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Fortunately, Gene handled disposal. [...]

10 years ago today? Graduated from Ball State University. Ten years ago today marked the satisfying finale to my educational career. Hooray! It is the proudest day of my life, still. I’m not using my degree, not even a little bit. I feel a little bad about it.

I almost wore a night shirt out of the house today. Oh well, I can wear it on the patio. (Seriously, I love Old Navy. I walked in there yesterday and walked out with 7 t-shirts and 1 I thought dress and they are nice and long and cover my ass and don’t make my arms [...]

So, back in the day I had a Speak and Spell and a Speak and Math (or whatever the math version of the Speak and Spell was called*). I credit the Speak and Math with my ability to do simple math in my head. (I also credit my mother’s handy memory tricks such as “Refrigerator [...]

So I’m checking out my bracket (Louisville: Welcome to the Dead to Me list) and I notice that the main page of the Yahoo bracket thingy says that my bracket is in the 98th percentile for brackets. I’m alllll excited until I realize that this does not mean that my bracket is better than 98% [...]

Here are two facts I learned today while waiting at Max & Erma’s for dinner: 1) The NYSE stock symbol for Harley Davidson is HOG 2) Well, crap. I thought I had another funny one. The NYSE symbol for Starwood Hotels – which I thought owned the Hilton hotel chain – is HOT. I thought [...]

Woohoo!!! Scorched earth* theory works again! (that is, renaming my old database laineyd3 and then recreating it all again). Looks like the only thing to get lost was that stupid design that I hated anyway. Maybe I’ll stay plain a little while. Hooray!

A few hours ago, I went down to read next to the pool and have lunch. At that time, Obama was in the lead with around 190 electoral votes. The BBC was very careful to not call any races too early so their totals were usually different from CNN.com’s totals (really, CNN? Calling Kentucky with [...]