Archive for March, 2006

Weekend critter blogging

Monday, March 27th, 2006

It’s been a lazy few weeks, at least on the homefront. This is due in large part to the fluffy invader from the north, TiVo. No, not the delightful DVR technology. TiVo is also the name of K’s dad R’s calico kitten, about 7 months old (and counting). We have been cat-sitting, and it has […]

Gigantic family day on TLC.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

In the ever-continuing quest to find the very worst television available to watch and mock, I happened upon the TLC double-header 14 Children and Pregnant Again! and 16 Children and Moving In. I’d read about them on the internets. I was home, and working, and I let both one-hour specials play through in the background. […]

Visited states, etcetera.

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Robust serves up the visited states map meme, and, lo, lemming-like, I proceed:

Also, the list:

California

San Francisco a pair of times–sublime and marvelous. Best 2 memories: Mission after dark, a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place, then a bar at which you could still smoke with a thick wood bar top grooved by elbows. Served cold Jager on tap […]

This post is special.

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

And why is it so special, you ask?
Because I’m making it from my back porch.
Stopped by Best Buy to pick up a wireless mouse for fat-bob, and saw the add-on wireless access point for under $80. With a wired network in place, I didn’t want to re-buy everything, but had more than a couple places […]

Waiting for kittens

Monday, March 6th, 2006

I’m lucky enough to have a large group of friends who are very much family. Every weekend we tend to collect at each others’ houses. We play Dungeons and Dragons (or some other RPG), we bake bread or make dinner or order pizza. We go to the movies or roller skating. We chat about […]

What to do with truffle cheese

Monday, March 6th, 2006

This is mostly for M and R, with whom we left the other piece of the cheese that some crazy person from California sent us that was so deliciously powerful we couldn’t possibly eat it all before it went bad, though we REALLY wanted to. Not being able to bear the thought of letting it […]

A million little lies

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

I’m often a slave to pop culture, and in no arena is that more true than literature–books and magazines. I love People and Us, even stooping so far as to read Star or In Touch for a fix of unadulterated gossip-rag content.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy “real” books, ’cause I do–by the dozens. […]