I
discovered two new journals over the weekend: Naked
Eye and Book
of the Amber Dragon. Both have inspired me to start my site redesign
- if you want to get a sneak peek and give me feedback, e-mail
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That picture was from my webcam Sunday night - I was singing along to my headphones. I am such a big dork. I'm going to try to put a picture of myself in here each day, because I dig it when other journalers do that!
Props to Jim for taking out ALL the garbage this week. Usually he takes out the main trash can (in the kitchen) and cleans out the litter box. But this week he went hog wild and emptied every trash can in the house AND took out a bunch of boxes and stuff that have been sitting on the porch. So, way to go, Jim! I know I've told you I appreciate it, but I wanted to give you some public recognition.
This weekend, I didn't do much but work on my internship some more. The end draws near! I'm almost done with the actual coding, and then it will just be a little testing (we've been testing as it goes, so I don't expect any huge changes) and documentation so they know how to update and maintain the site when I am no longer around!
Jim and Justin hung out here a lot this weekend and played Playstation games. They were playing one in particular on Saturday night - I think it's called Monster Rancher. Anyway, I was overhearing bits and snippets of their conversation while playing and it just cracked me up, so I wrote some of the lines down. They were:
JIM: I don't know when I became gentle.
JUSTIN: Give him taffy!
JIM: I could give him taffy.
JUSTIN: Don't let him hit you with the God anger.
JIM: Lana's that really tough worm.
I'm still not entirely sure what that game is about, but the conversation was totally cracking me up, particularly hearing the sentences out of context.
Also, this weekend, I did Tae Bo for the first time in a really long time. At first I was all, "Hey, this isn't so bad! I remember this. Jab, jab, jab." About 10 minutes later, I was gasping for breath and cursing Billy Blanks' mother. But I did the whole thing and survived, although I am pretty sore today. I hope I will continue to work out a few times a week, but I'm not making any promises.
In
other news, Jim bought some Saranac Ale and some Hooch for us to drink
Saturday night. That orange Hooch is good stuff. I'm not a big drinker,
and I don't like beer much. I'll drink the occassional hard cider. I've
tried the Lemon Hooch too, but I didn't like it as much. But for you candy-ass
drinkers like me, give it a whirl. I should note that I say I don't like
beer, but I do drink it (or at least I did in college). I just can't get
into the whole dark beer thing.
I also made my world famous Heart Attack Hash Browns on Sunday night ( click here for the recipe!). Woo doggie, are they good! Unfortunately, each bite is like a little fat bomb and you can feel your arteries clogging while you chew (thus the name). I think the actual name of the dish is Hash Brown Casserole or some such. We rechristened them.
My
sleep schedule is totally screwed up and it's bugging me. I've been going
to be at about 5 or 6am and getting up at 1pm every day. And every night
I say I'm going to go to bed at a normal time but I'm not tired. So I
bought some valerian. I hear it's good sleepytime medicine without the
next day medicine head feel. I would only take it a few times to get my
schedule back on whack before school starts in a few weeks. If anyone
out there has tried it, let me know what you think!
This is the mighty Grendel Monster. Fear her!
Warning: clicking on these links will launch a new browser window.
When I try to go to Diarist.net, I get Dreamhost. What's up with that?
Speaking of meta stuff, the new Metajournals is supposed to launch this Friday.
Justin painted his Palm Pilot. I would never think to do something like that, but it looks pretty cool (and thanks to Brig for the link).
There is a really great, revealing interview with Kevin Smith on Borders Online. And I've been meaning to point this out for a while, but Borders has really put together some excellent features, particularly the Viewpoint pieces. So go check them out. I actually know Jessica, who does the Grrltalk column. I cannot figure out for the life of me why they bury these features - just try finding them off the front page.
In the Just Give Me My Damn Money dept: Smart ATMs
The administration at Columbine doesn't want the media there. The media argues. Now there is media coverage of the media coverage. Is this really newsworthy? Do I really NEED to see these poor kids facing down their demons and entering the building from 20 different angles on 10 different channels?
I used to watch Letterman. I haven't in a long time. Why is that?
A kid got kicked out of college for having a squirt gun. Jim used to carry those little disk shooters around at college. Would he get kicked out these days?
Funny recommendations from Amazon.
Insider dirt from the world of the waitress, but it looks like some of them got pulled already. Hurry and get over there before they get sued and have to take the site down or something!