Listening to:October Road by JTReading:still SpeakerWeather:37, overcast I packed up Nougat in a cat carrier yesterday and sent to live at Larry's amongst the many kitties and other critters. She and Kit Kat never got along, and Kit Kat is my main feline. Nougat is destined to remain an outdoor kitty, and feeding her outside attracts too many other creatures on my porch here. She'll have a

Listening to:Long Train Running from Best of Doobies Vol IReading:still Speaker for the DeadWeather:24, partly cloudy I heard a rumor that Martha Stewart might be heading for a little correctional stint at Alderson prison here in WV. I'm feeling special. Maybe she can help Squeaky, heaven knows that girl needs a makeover. Full body cavity search, it's a good thing? Seriously, sucks to be

Listening to:internet radio Reading:Speaker for the Dead by OS CardWeather:52, partly sunny Happy Birthday to me! Even Yahoo wished me a happy one. It was kinda interesting, in addition to the usual card from mom, calls from a few friends, and whatnot, I got emails from several people on the FruheadDotCom website. It's a fan site for Moxy Fruvous. When you register (which I did about 5 years

Listening to:NPR Weekend EditionReading:Rules for Radicals by Saul AlinskyWeather:Overcast, 55 Yesterday was a rather remarkable Friday. It was damn near 80 degrees, if not actually 80, and still only the first week of March. It was too nice not to be outside, and too hot to stay in the office, so I took a 3 hour lunch with Daria at the Blue Moose. We both had the veggie gyros and salad, quite

How about a leap day story? One of the guys I dated back when I was a teenager was born on leap day. He was 4 years old when we dated, I guess I was quite the cradle robber. He actually celebrated his birthday in September or something crazy like that. I can't remember his name, but he was really cute, long black hair, goatee, always in very worn Levi's. He had to go to juvey or reform school

Listening to:Shawn Colvin, A Few Small RepairsReading:Design for NondesignersWeather:58, partly cloudy, breezy Liv and her pal Ava and I built a fire last night and made s'mores. Today we are chilling. It's good to be cat. I downloaded a 30 day version of OrangeCD Catalog to catalog my cd collection. It costs less than $40, I think, and I might buy it. It's pretty cool. It connects to a music

Listening to:NPR Weekend EditionReading:Neuromancer by William GibsonWeather:sunny, 26 I told ya the groundhog was wrong! I saw my first robin of this spring in my yard 5 minutes ago, just outside the window above my kitchen sink. It's my reward for washing dishes. Actually, I saw a pair of eastern bluebirds out that window on Tuesday, another harbinger of spring. Now I'm not saying no more

Listening to:NPR Weekend EditionReading:still EragonWeather:it's freakin snowing! A'ight, yesterday is was in the 60's, sunny, generally luscious, and we were all looking for excuses to go outside. This morning, it's bloody snowing and 35. Your god is cruel and wicked, bitches. I had the absolutely lovely experience last night of hanging with friends at the Blue Moose, listening to the ripping

Listening to:my LOUD power supply fanReading:still Eragon, did I tell you I finished Ender's Game?Weather:22, cloudy America has gone Atkins crazy. Even Kevin Smith (Silent Bob) is doing it. I think it's another dairy/beef industry conspiracy, like the one where they convinced all school systems (and most parents) that little children can't survive without consuming vast quantities of cow's milk

Listening to:NPRReading:still EragonWeather:23, partly sunny My 20th highschool reunion has prompted me and some of my classmates to try to reconnect. It's very cool! I got an email today from a long lost classmate, and I'm looking forward to hearing all about how he's turned out. There's just something cool about the passage of time, it's that silver and gold thing. TGIF, I say! Beer

Listening to:Michael McDonald MotownReading:Eragon by Christopher PaoliniWeather:sunny, 24Tomorrow is liv's 13th birthday! She's an amazing person, I hope we can stand each other for the next few years. It's a teen thing. I need a fairy godmother, or she does, or both. I'm ready for some longer daylight, I'm a crispy fried fritter these days at work. I guess that happens after 7 years. I

Welcome February, it was 12 below zero on my porch at 3:30 this morning. It's a very bright sunny 14 above right now. I'm hoping for 25. I'm going to a baby shower at 2:00 and I'm hoping to move a little more snow before then. I have about 50 law students to interview over the next 2 days for a summer job at my office. Each student gets 15 minutes to wow me, and I'm always extremely

And it's snowing lightly. This has been the winter for snowing while the sun is shining. The yard is starting to look like last winter, too, where there was basically 1 to 3 feet of snow in the yard for about 3 months. My wonderful neighbor came out with the loader last night and cleared my driveway, so I should be able to get out of here today. I got out on Thursday after another neighbor

Overheard on /.: Why take up all that space keeping your backups around? Just zip it all, put it in your Shared folder for Kazaa, and name it "olsentwinsnaked.jpg" or "parishilton_does_horse.mpg." Then delete.

The coder guy (David Bradley) who invented the Ctrl-Alt-Del softboot sequence is retiring after 28 longass years with IBM. There is a hilarious bit of video shows Emperor Bill's unamused face as David explains, and I loosely quote, "I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous." Ain't that the truth.