I finally broke out the camera to take pics of my knitting. Enjoy!
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serenity stranded
The husband is turning 30 next month, which means he gets to have the best. party. ever. And I’m in charge! <gulp>
He has requested a firefly-themed murder mystery, and so that means I have my work cut out for me. <double gulp>
In preparation for the event, I knitted a couple of Jayne hats. One for the birthday boy, and one for a party prize. They really are quite cunning, someone is going to leave the party in style!
So now that THAT’S out of the way, time to get down to the story-writing. And character assignment. And invitations. And menu-planning. (Moldy-protein-chocolate-cake, anyone?)
I have decided on the title of this year’s story, and that’s ‘Serenity Stranded.’ As can be guessed from the title, Serenity is stuck … somewhere (still working on that part) … and it is up to the party-goers to figure out who’s the culprit! I just couldn’t bear offing someone in the firefly ‘verse, (even though Joss doesn’t mind it) so this year’s murder mystery will be short on murder. But hopefully not mystery!
Now to get busy writing …
I just knitted a SKULL and CROSSBONES.
‘nuf said.
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a new winner!
It is official: the number-one keyword search that brought people to my site over the last 30 days was ‘cowgirl pants.’ With 3 hits, it has overcome the previous champion, ‘akaemi.’ Which, um, if you can spell akaemi right to google it, how hard is it to just put akaemi.com in the url bar?
Just sayin’.
I answer complex coding problems in my sleep!
For the last few weeks, I’ve noticed a trend:
Tuesday through Saturday, around 5 am, I am struck with a thought. And not just any thought – the answer to a problem that I walked away from at work the afternoon before.
This morning, it was the realization that my java object contained a java.sql.Date, NOT a java.util.Date, and so of course my JSON serialization would be off.
I’m hoping for the magic solution to dealing with circular references in my hibernate objects tomorrow morning.
I love my unconscious mind … now if only I were that smart ALL the time. THEN I might be able to get some work done.
Woohoo! Time for vacation #3 of the year. 🙂
This trip takes us to the left coast and blizzcon. I know, I know, we went to blizzcon last year, but the husband really wanted to see the diablo III unveiling. And well, I’m not exactly complaining. 🙂
Yikes, I just consulted weather.com, and anaheim is 93 degrees right now. The weekend forecast calls for 50 to 80 degree weather – let’s hope that holds true.
Vacations one and two of the year didn’t involve planes, so this’ll be our first flight with checked bag fees. For the first bag! Seriously unfair. Needless to say, I’ve been consulting the tsa rules, and I think we’re now compliant with the 3-1-1. So we – and every other person on the plane – can take our bags carry-on and fight over the limited overhead space. I’m not much of a fighter, but the husband can be imposing when he wants to be, so I think we’ll be ok.
I’ll get pics up of this year’s convention, and the husband will likely blog about all the game-ey stuff. Me, I’m looking forward to my polar bear mount (my Venym is currently riding a chicken – a CHICKEN!!! They put FIRE PONIES in the game, and then they force some characters to ride chickens). Ooh, and the candy booth, if it’s back. I sure could use a pound of fudge …
In anticipation of my bathroom being finished, I looked online for the perfect floor mirror, and found it at shop.com for a reasonable price. After some negotiation with the husband (‘well, the OTHER one I like is $700 …’), I purchased it and then went about my other internet business.
Imagine my surprise when I logged into facebook to update my status to something else obnoxious about why my bathroom isn’t done, and found that my recent purchase was RIGHT THERE. In facebook. On the page where it tells you about all the things your friends are up to. And it wanted to know if I wanted to inform all my friends about my purchase. Oh, and did I want to automatically tell them all about all my shop.com purchases?
Um, no thanks.
Besides the fact that my facebook ‘friends’ don’t really care what I buy, it’s really kind of obnoxious. Plus, I don’t want them all to know what terrible taste I have. Or how cheap I am. I reserve that honor for my real friends; that’s right, for the 6 people who read my blog.
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workin’ from home
Is really kind of awesome! At my new job, we get to work from home as long as we don’t abuse the privilege (i.e., when you have to sit at home during a 6-hour window for a 3-minute service call).
I had to wait for the not-blind blind man to come measure the basement sliding glass door so we can get new vertical blinds put up – which took him all of 37 seconds. So I left work early this afternoon – which meant I was 2 hours behind on my workday.
But, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I was able to vpn into my work network and remote desktop to my machine. And work for two hours!
My tiny little laptop screen isn’t the best thing for juggling a java ide, two web browsers (gotta make my web app work in IE and FF …), an oracle ide, notepad++, and my services manager, but it works well enough. Especially since now I’ll be able to have a regular-ol’ 8-hour friday tomorrow.
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don’t even try to out-nerd me …
I spent 5 times as much money on computers & electronics last year than I did on personal care.
The husband and I had our quarterly* money conference last week, so I printed out our spending habits, using Quicken’s handy report-maker.
To be fair, the husband and I COMBINED spent 5 times as much money on computers & electronics than on personal care. If you pull us apart, though, I think I still come in 4 to 1.
So the laptop, camera, tv, software and various computer bits heavily outweigh my visits to the salon, shampoo purchases (I recently upgraded from Suave to that Australian stuff!), and make-up purchases (in the last 12 months: 1 bottle of generic-red nail polish).
I think you know what that means: time for me to pick up the pace on my lady spending!
*Our goal is ‘quarterly.’ We’ve been married 4 years …. and have had 2 or 3 ….
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don’t even try to out-nerd me …
On our way out of town this weekend, the husband and I ran into horrendous traffic. Like we were on 95 for an hour and had only traveled 7 miles.
So what to do? The husband whipped out his handy-dandy palm treo and google mapped us up some new directions. We hopped off the misery of 95, and headed down 17. And then route 1. And finally route 208. It may not have ended up much faster, but it was certainly more pleasant to be in MOVING traffic than sitting amongst all the people headed to the beach.