Stuck at work trying to finish a project, or at least get it to a state where I can finish it early enough tomorrow morning that we can do testing. Brain turning to mush. Had to pause to stave off a potential flamewar in blog comments. Almost sprayed tea all over keyboard during “The Song That Goes Like This” (Spamalot).
Month: June 2008
Sign of the Apocalypse
I just received my weekly newsletter from Ticketmaster. The featured event? New Kids On the Block. I’m not kidding.
What’s the buzz?
It turns out our bee problem a few weeks ago could have been a lot worse… like this couple that had 60,000 bees and a 2-foot-by-6-foot honeycomb in their wall!
Running Around
Sunday was mostly errands — replacing the lost rice cooker (In the rush to clear things out of the old apartment, I walked into the kitchen 3 or 4 times to grab or check things, saw a box sitting in an open cabinet, thought “I need to grab that on the next trip,” and promptly forgot about it each time), getting stakes to train the morning glories in the backyard to curl around something other than the patio furniture, getting a new welcome mat (which of course was missing a label, the last one on the shelf, and wasn’t actually on the shelf, so we had to guess which empty bin it was and convince the clerk that it was the correct one), etc. Groceries.
I also launched a new comics-focused blog to go with my Flash website. I’d started posting news on the front page, and wanted to simplify management, and realized I was basically building a mini-blog already. And then there was that domain name I picked up last year and couldn’t figure out what to do with. I had some other stuff I wanted to finish first, but I kept running into news items I wanted to post, and figured it would be better to have them on an actual blog. So I set up a new copy of WordPress, pointed SpeedForce.org to it, picked a suitable theme and and put together a few posts to get things started.
Fracky Friday
Poll: Favorite made-up swear word
What’s your favorite censor-friendly expletive?
- Frack – 4
- Frag
- Frell – 3
- Grife
- Gorram
- Mrifk
- Slag
- Smeg
- Tanj
- Belgium
Weekend: Concert & Home
alenxa and I went to see Aimee Mann at the House of Blues on Friday. Rather than trying to eat somewhere in Downtown Disney, where no one takes reservations and everything is crowded on a Friday night, we just ate at Taco Rosa and drove up after dinner. It worked out pretty well — we ended up there after the doors had opened (so we didn’t have to stand in line), but early enough to secure a spot on the main floor, putting us closer to the stage than we’ve ever been before. The concert was good, but a bit strange in that her new album had only been out for 4 days, so most people didn’t know the songs. Older songs got cheers as soon as people recognized the intro, but the old songs were met with silence until she finished and the audience applauded.
And she told a funny story about how one of the songs started out as a sort-of commission for Shrek III. Unfortunately they wanted a happy, encouraging, “Come on, you can do it!” song, and she said she’s not very good at that kind of message.
House-hunting on Saturday turned up a few prospects. Meanwhile, did some cleanup at the apartment. Finally arranged the front of the living room so that the display case doesn’t block access to the window.
As for the goals I set for myself:
- Sort through old magazines. – Done. Tossed 2 bags of magazines & one bag of old papers (seriously, brochures for wedding services for a company we didn’t use?) into the recycling.
- Find desk lamp. – Tried, no luck.
- Put some actual content on Facebook profile. – A little, but not much.
- Finish website update on the Silver-Age Flash. – Wrote a lot, but didn’t finish.
The Accidental Beekeeper
A follow-up on the bees we found in the kitchen last Monday. Management brought in exterminators on Tuesday, and aside from a half-dozen dead bees on the floor, they were all gone by Wednesday morning. Well, except for the ones alenxa found when she opened up the cabinet above the stove today:
Great, so there were several dozen bees in the cabinet by Tuesday. It’s a good thing we didn’t open it.