The LJ Gom Jabbar

Apparently I posted several comments on LJ anonymously without realizing it and then got this thing saying “Please prove you are human.”
I didn't figure it out until LJ was already convinced I was a spambot.
This was particularly funny because K and I had just listened to the first chapter of Dune on tape.

Car a go-go. vroom vroom.

For the first time in about eight years, my car inspection cost me the car inspection fee and NOTHING MORE.

Wheeeeeels

Ilse the VW is having her inspection done today, and of course everyone who's inspection expires today is having theirs done today too, so here it is 3 p.m. and I still haven't heard from them. I have to pick up K in an hour, and he's only a mile away, but it's going to [...]

They are going fast…

1 acre lots on a working organic farm.
http://www.broomgrass.com
All I need is $2,000 and a co-signer. I will deal with the homebuilding part later.
Yeah yeah, three days ago I was all about moving to the beach, but…

Note to everyone.

I don't mind if you share your opinions, but please don't state it like it should be mine, or I'll start telling all of you why you should accept Jesus Christ as your savior.

New, occasional usericon

DFH made this for me months ago, but I'm just getting around to putting it up. It's because sometimes we'd run across a thing that would make DFH go hmmmm, and he sounds like a muppet when he does that particular kind of hmmm, and since it usually goes with things that make us go [...]

More on Friday's homicide

The Washington Post actually gives some useful information. According to this, they have identified the alleged shooter and are trying to find out whether he acted in self defense. It apparently is not clear whether they knew each other, which is kinda distressing.
The police puts out reports once a week, so I'll be sure to [...]

Swimming

1. I saved my kid from getting hauled into the Atlantic today, and in spite of the fact that he was never really in danger, I'm now a hero in his eyes. This is the third hit in a row of “I am a good swimmer despite years of neglecting that skill.”
2. I have discovered [...]

Back…

The only thing I've found on the shooting so far is This.
Anyhow, we're back and hungry, and so off to find food.

Other updates….

Lots of excitement around here this morning, and in the hubbub I forgot to thank WashingtonFeline for a lovely evening last night and Amaranthe for the boots, which arrived safely and fit great (good lord I'm tall in them).

Yes, we're ok…

But I feel sick to my stomach–not in an ew, gross way but in a ohmygod my son is coming here to stay for ten weeks TOMORROW.
Met some of our neighbors, in the sense of what I call funeral community. When someone dies, it brings people together.
We are at right angles to the building to [...]

Oh my god.

Someone got shot and killed RIGHT OUTSIDE MY BUILDING in the wee hours of this morning.

On random

today i did some random stuff and i found this, which amused me to no end.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sashkina/444254.html

I think Cody needs a haircut.

My 16 yo self, part deux

On third thought, definitely don't want to talk to her.
Sept 10, 1987
Steven threw a wad of paper at me today. It's depressing to think he should want my attention [1]. As it was, I was typing [2] and the small peice [3] of paper landed in front of me. Having noticed that the paper came [...]

You know…(Note to 16-yr-old self, part one)

I started to do the five things to tell your 16yo self meme. But then I realized two things:
I would not be who I am today if I followed my own instructions, and I would be lacking the most significant person in my life, and probably the second and fourth most significant people, as well.
But [...]