TK, this is for you

I think that the TV is really the piece de resistance.

Boots!

I bought a new instance of my old boots today. Asolo 95 GTX, men’s 10 1/2. I highly recommend them. They are the best boots in the entire universe.

The particular boots I’m replacing have been with me for about six years. I bought them in Minneapolis. The first trip I remember taking in . . . → Read More: Boots!

Return of the birds

Suddenly, without warning, and all at once: The birds are back.

Finches, Cardinals, and Juncos … all massing around my feeders.

Also, there is a dandelion blooming in my front yard.

This seems odd for the “bleak midwinter”.

Eragon

Just finished Eragon, and it’s good escapist dragon magic teenager-comes-of-age and discovers-that-he-is-the-chosen-one fiction. It’s got all the right themes, plus the font is big and the margins are wide.

I think I’ll go stare at a pebble for a while, trying to make it float into the air using my latent, magical abilities. Then . . . → Read More: Eragon

Naaaaaa-pooooo-liiiii-oooooooon

As long as I’m the ‘old YouTube late at night, why not:

Oh what the hell:

Dreams

The dreams have been vivid this week:

Last night I was wandering through my high school relationships, trying to make amends for all the ways that I was immature, more than a decade ago.

The night before that, I was to be hung. I knew that it was on the schedule, but I kept procrastinating . . . → Read More: Dreams

Kitchen counters

We’re thinking that a fun and not terribly expensive way to vastly improve our kitchen would be to replace the ~1972 bright yellow laminate countertops with something a little more classy. capital_l says that this is dead easy, and I believe her. To that end, I continued my neverending quest to find a decent 2D . . . → Read More: Kitchen counters

War

From the New York Times yesterday:

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Movie

Truly wretched movies are, as the saying goes, like pornography: Hard to describe in very specific language, but you know them when you see them. I would be hard put to actually *rank* the worst movies I’ve seen in any rigorous manner … since there are so many variables involved.

Some things are constant . . . → Read More: Movie

Life

Haven’t babbled about myself very much lately. This is because I’m getting a mite stressed about a paper which is supposed to be done on Friday, and my data sucks. Still not sure what a ninja would do in this situation, but my reaction has been procrastination, mostly.

On Monday, I hurtled down two . . . → Read More: Life