fivebyevif

We’ve been a bit crunchy the last few weeks. It ends Sunday, and in the meantime I’m going to a birthday party for a one-year-old. I really wanted to make soba noodles for lunch today, but I’d forgotten about the aforementioned birthday party until twenty minutes ago.
So Ambercat has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, [...]

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SimuCon this weekend. I tried to keep up with the jokers and the drinkers last night, but by 2:30 I was drooping and had to have Mike haul me home.
It’s been a long week, turning into a long month. I’ve had to be a leader. It’s tiring.
We’ve been eating out [...]

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Despite a nay-saying weather report, we’re going floating AND camping tomorrow. Naturally, I’m excited.
Our next self-imposed milestone here at work ends on August 5th. There is a crapload of other stuff going on I can’t talk about, and I have finally found a Civ game I can play and not lose within five [...]

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Three ticks grounded one UA flight.
Three? Really? On Friday when we went hiking, I stopped counting the number of ticks clinging to my socks after twenty.
Ha ha. Three ticks. Snort. Snicker.
Also: John Scalzi has a recipe for schadenfreude pie.

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“I don’t see any turkeys.”
“No, honey,” I said, gazing down the ridge into the gully. Everything was green. Missouri is such a…green state. Growing up in what was more or less terraformed high desert, I’m always amazed at the greenness.
“But the trail is named ‘Turkey Hollow’.”
“We saw turkeys at St. Joe’s.”
“But only [...]

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I’ve updated Wordpress, and added gravatars. That only took two hours.

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I’m contemplating buying a straightening iron for my hair. They seem to come in two prices: too cheap to be any good, and too expensive to justify the expense when I still need to get my bathroom renovated.
Any suggestions? The couple of times I’ve gotten it styled at a salon, I loved my hair [...]

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I’m turning into a tea-hoarder again, so in an effort to stop doing that I am enjoying tea in the morning.
Lavender Lounge Tea in San Clemente is still in business, and has expanded to a Dana Point location, to which I say “woot woot”. The fact that they’re still in business is kind of [...]

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So I go to my doctor, and I says, “Doctah, doctah! Every time I get down to 150 pounds, I stop losing weight!” And he says: “Let’s run more tests!”
You were expecting a punchline, perhaps?
Well, there isn’t one…yet. There might be in ten days when either a) everything comes back fine and [...]

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We had a bit of a fright with the A/C not working over the weekend, but the problem has been identified and sweet, sweet freon-charged air is once again flowing through the veins of Bobbhouse. I’m sure the night I spent barely sleeping convinced the universe that I really didn’t want or need another [...]

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