Sometimes when I’m looking at people’s bloggy things and skipping merrily, tra-la, to others linked therein, I get completely overwhelmed by the quantity and variety of experience. Of course, on the flip side, it’s easy to get depressed about the glut of really bad weblogs maintained by teenagers, or folks writing at a teenaged level. […]

. . . or very nearly. The past few work weeks were a mere warm-up for last weekend, which blew pretty consistently throughout. My colleagues had told me I’d be “on call” all weekend if any problems arose during the site launch. I ended up working from home Saturday and Sunday and having to go […]

Second entry in one day . . . how very very.
D.’s anniversary present arrived today, and I’m not sure if I can wait till Friday to give it to him. (Get your mind out of the gutter.) It’s really cool that our anniversary of meeting is the day before Schmalenschmine’s Day, because we can go […]

I woke up this morning (the second time I woke up, the first being around 5:30 when I had to pee like nobody’s business) feeling vaguely oogy, but as I got ready for work it started to feel like some very not-nice person was kicking me in the lower gut. Kind of like how I […]

I’m not too crazy about the song, but this video, by Michel Gondry, who also did videos for Bjork and Cibo Matto, knocked my pantaloons off.

Today’s Forgotten English� word of the day:cumslooshA humbug, a flatterer. To get a cumsloosh, to become a bit poor, or relatively so. �– Michael Traynor’s The English Dialect of Donegal, […]