redheadedleague

Yeeeaaah, I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday...

But I was supposed to go hiking on Saturday.

Yeeeeah, that's not gonna happen. In fact, why don't you go ahead and come in on Sunday, too.

So much for my weekend.

In better news, the car looks great.

I've had no luck finding the som'bitch who banged into my car this past week, although the F150 that used to park next to me is nowhere to be seen. Suspicious, no? Not like I can prove anything anyway. On the plus side, the insurance company pays for my rental car - in his case, a Mercedes C300 Sport. That definitely softens the blow.

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My little sister is New Orleans bound, hoping to volunteer on the Gulf. Actually there are plenty of people who want to volunteer, it seems, but apparently it requires some training to work with the animals, luckily she has it. Go Katie!

In other news, there was another round of cuts - I'm sorry, restructuring - at my company. So much for my plans to...
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Fnord

And now, Bay to Breakers.

Well I'm glad I went the extra mile for Prom; when random passers by on the street stop to say "May the Force Be With You", I must be doin' it right.

It was good to see everyone. A special thanks to Subrosa, Necia, and Timmy, for their excellent choice on dinner.

There's an I Ching app for Android. In one sense I find this really amusing, but in a way it makes sense; as a form of divination, the preferred method for casting I Ching hexagrams has changed many times over the centuries.

The ravages of illness have not dulled my appreciation for Lost. They have, however, made me realize that life is too short to...
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If I weren't sick, there's no way I would sit through X-Men: The Last Stand again.

Getting really si - I mean, tired, of picking up every rhinovirus on Earth, every damn year.

So what goes on? Still looking for a house, still frustrated by the interminable bullshit of short sales and foreclosures (but, if you're looking in this end of the market, that's where the action is.) Lost on the last one, which was fairly frustrating, seeing as the seller didn't bother to tell us we lost until oh, twelve days later.

In geek matters, finally finished...
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These may be the most astounding natural photos I have ever seen.

One could be forgiven for thinking that Thor was fighting Surtr up there.

In other news, my Prom costume is complete. And yes, it is more geeky than you can possibly imagine.

My work computer was infected by the mack daddy motherfucker of all trojans today. No, I wasn't surfing the gutters of the internetz, this started with a javascript exploit that made its way into an ad on one of the news sites I frequent. To this you might say, well that's why I use NoScript. Yeah, I agree, and yet somehow, the existence of NoScript...
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If you don't want me to work on a Saturday, hire me some fucking staff.

In other news: the conventional wisdom is that Bond movies got silly when Roger Moore took over. To this I say: have you seen Diamonds Are Forever recently? It's ridiculous.

That is all.

Somehow, until tonight, I avoided the steaming pile of pretentious rubbish that is Guy Ritchie's film, Revolver. But sadly, I somehow also avoided the many, many reviews that would have warned me off.

I can count the movies I have walked out of/ shut off on one hand. I sat through The Brown Bunny, for fuck's sake. But I had to hit the Stop button...
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