I quit smoking for a whole three months, about 5 years back. I remember the first few days being VERY, VERY EASY and then it got hard at some point. And then I started smoking at yet another later point in time. I wasn’t ready for it to be hard right off the bat. I [...]
Tomorrow is my “quit date.” Tonight at midnight, I’m going to gleefully (or woefully) crush whatever smokes remain in my pack. So long, P-funk and friends.
(Wish me luck.)
I decided to keep running Vista (rather than “upgrading” back to XP). Mostly it’s because I keep reading “get over it, it’ll get better” and “no more updates for XP” and I remember hating XP when it was first released, yet it’s become my favorite version of Windows.
But Firefox and Vista aren’t getting along. Vista [...]
She just got a new place in Wallingford. 1st floor, great view of the city. But she did move, in a Uhaul, on Solstice weekend in Seattle (oh, happy belated Solstice, folks!). And they couldn’t get her couch through the apartment door. Luckily, there’s a big sliding glass number off of her living room. [...]
I’m laying down because, even though I want to write a post(s?) about a dude named Philly, how Duff (yes, McKagan) helped my friend move her couch, frogs on toes, hustling pastries and a couple other things, I just can’t right now. Hurtin’ a lil’ too much.
Our friends kept threatening to make us play Puerto Rico (wiki), but until last weekend it never happened. And now? Now it’s my new favorite board game. And I only kinda get it. I was told we haven’t even seen the whole thing, really. There are apparently other permutations. Lemme tell you, this one was [...]
How Rich Are You? I found it humbling, but maybe not the way you’d think…
(thanks for the link, Dad!)
I know some people, all in their mid/late-20s, who are obsessed with the idea of ‘growing up’ and ‘being an adult’ — like it’s this milestone, age, or other specific point in time that you hit and then all of a sudden You Are An Adult. They don’t mean ‘maturity’ — it’s something more evasive [...]
