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Got some good play time in on LotR: The Third Age yesterday afternoon. Having just finished the Helm’s Deep chapter, I am apparently (according to the game), 56% complete. It’s not a tremendously wonderful game, but as RPG’s go, one could do worse. Running around various Middle Earth locales, mindlessly whomping on […]

Favorite cat toy: $1.
Rx Cat Food: $20.
Blood tests and X-rays: $150.
Emergency blood transfusion, more X-rays, a battery of tests, and a bone-marrow sample: $1350.
Hearing Daddy’s little girl purring happily: priceless.

Mood:happy

I must have been stressing a lot lately, because the last couple of weeks seem awfully irresponsible of me, from a converting-the-equity-of-my-labor-into-useless-economy-fueling-crap sort of perspective. I think I’ve also been in withdrawal ever since my favorite record store here closed… I need my fix, man!
Looking back over the past couple of weeks, the […]

So My Generation (my favorite local music store) is officially dead, and it turns out that now I need them more than ever. Why?
Well…

…there’s a new Cure album (with many different international versions)

…there’s the new Cure single</a>

…there’s a new Cranes album in about a week

…there’s a new Skinny Puppy album

…there’s a new Ministry album […]

Somewhere, someone has flipped the switch, and Cleveland has suddenly lurched out of its long, dreary season into one of sunshine, flowers, and warming temperatures. Of course, there’s always a day or two of delay before the climate control in the office adjusts to the change, so it’s currently just shy of fifty million […]

Bad: Being partly responsible for a disaster in our production server farm on Monday. (Remember, kids, if the other guy writes something with a horrible memory leak, don’t call it every time a page gets loaded!)
Good: Coming home after my utterly horrid Monday, lightsabering the shit out of some bad guys, and […]

Egads, but it’s been far too long since I’ve posted anything here. I guess I’d better write about this weekend while it’s still fresh.
Sometime last fall, I bouncily reported to my wife that the Columbus Orchestra would be performing Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus in March, […]

I forgot a key element in my last post about how things are overall in the decent-to-fab zone–retail therapy!
It had been a while since I’d been to the record store, so after my incredibly positive day at work on Friday, I decided it was time for a treat (or two or three…).
Lisa Gerrard & Patrick […]

So, I’ve been meaning to catch up on things since last week, and just too busy and burned out to get around to it. I figure it’s about time, so here’s a little bit about our Turkey Day weekend.ThursdayWe slept late. It felt incredibly good. I spent much of the day in […]

For the record, lazy weekends pretty much rule.
Friday night we watched Bowling for Columbine, which simply has to be seen to be believed. It’s scathingly funny and incredibly depressing at the same time. Brilliant.
Saturday we slept super-late, which felt great. We went out for lunch, which turned out to be a disappointment, […]