I'm at level 6 now! :) I uploaded 2 more pictures to my WoW Flickr set.

The good and somewhat surprising thing? I wasn't dizzy last night from playing! That's a huge win, and one I wasn't sure would happen.

Anyway, that's good news for thems that want me to play regularly. ;)

Busy!

Oh, how I wish that LJ's inbox respected cut tags. I mostly read LJ via inbox during the work day and really, I don't need to see your full post unless I wanna see it. Things that I could normally skim over, I can't. Well, I can, but only after I've scrolled past the entire post.

LJ, please fix that! It's on your request list soemwhere.

Read further here.

ETA (info from my dad):

Google's Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company tries to reuse these licenses as much as possible, "in order to keep things simple for our users." Ward admits that sometimes "this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don't apply well to the use of that product" and says that Google is "working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome."

My contact lens Rx is -11.75 diopters. Last year, I'd gotten -11.5 diopter contacts. This year, I went with -12 because I thought that would be better for driving. Except that I don't spend most of my day driving. :p I spend it focusing on a monitor or a book.

Today, I ordered a box of -11.5 diopter contacts and I can't wait for them to come in. I'd had one leftover from the last batch, so I wore it for 2 weeks and had much less tired eyes.

I'm looking forward to the new box arriving. See? I can figure stuff out. Eventually.

Jenn and I went to Build-a-Bear today. I'd wanted to go for a while, and since it was my birthday recently, it seemed like a good time. (Jenn made one too, but she'll have to tell you about it.)



I also got her a Tinkerbell outfit.



She's named after a doll I had as a child. I had one of the Sasha dolls. I don't know if mine was named Sasha or not, but that's what I always called her.

Click through to read what he wrote. You can enbiggen it to read it yourself, or just read what I typed up. :D

1: number of kitties who slept very close to my pillow last night
2: times I bumped into him in my sleep
2700: entries in my blog (plus this one)
nearly 3: years I've lived in MA
33732: miles my car has gone since I moved here
millions: kisses waiting for me tonight
2: weddings (of my own) I've planned
1: times I've gotten married
65: sneezes I've had this morning (ok, not really that many)
5: the hour that I'll be leaving work today
not-5: the hour that I've been leaving work over the course of the last 2+ weeks
12: miles I commute from my home to work
55: minutes the commute takes (part car, part T)
0: cups of coffee I've already had today
2: hours more sleep I would have enjoyed today
16071: days I've been alive (more than you probably expected)
11ish: jobs I've had as an adult (a few were part-time consulting gigs)
1: roommate out of town for the holiday weekend
1: kitty will have to sleep alone tonight because I won't be at home
34,156: times I will probably wish that it was 5pm today


many: other things that I thought of when I was driving to Alewife today but can't remember now!

My shiny new car stereo! For the curious. :)

Ok, so it's not quite my birthday yet, but we had a party. :) Jenn's birthday is one day before mine, so we combined forces and had a small birthday party. We had dinner at Yoki and then headed back to Malden to play board games. I played a Ticket to Ride variant and it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of socializing since it was a small group, and that was perfect for me.

AND! I got a wonderful present. I got a new Alpine car stereo - it plays my iPod, radio, CD player and has a USB input. I still need to figure out how to set the time on it, but it plays my music beautifully!

It was a good weekend and I'm feeling quite lucky!

So I've got RedHat's Fedora Core 9 on my desktop at work. It's been ages since I had a Linux box on my desk and I've forgotten all kinds of things and not having much luck with Google.

Things I wanna do:
- Use all 5 buttons of my mouse
- Use the highest resolution available (1920xsomething on my Dell 2408WFP monitor (that's listed in the monitor choices, but it's only going to 1280xsomething resolution) - video card is ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 (on the motherboard)

I'm sure there's more, but that's on my short list. If anyone can offer suggestions or links, I'd be happy to read up on these things. =^.^=

I should really get better about sunscreen (3 photos uploaded - no flash because that bleached everything out). :p I just forget that it needs to be reapplied.



Canobie Lake was a lot of fun and I definitely want to go there again. When there are fewer groups of camp kids wandering about though.



Aloe is my friend. Now to try to sleep so I don't scratch it because it's really itchy!

Suzanne, Jennifer and I are going to Canobie Lake Park today. It's my first time, but I think both of them have been before.

Have a good day!

The middle of August started a very busy bunch of weeks in my life.

This past weekend, Dad and Cathy were in town. It was great to see them again. I'm looking forward to my trip to NJ to visit with them in September.

This coming weekend, Jenn and I are having a small dinner gathering to celebrate our birthdays (one day apart).

The weekend after that is Labor Day weekend, which is near my SIL's birthday. She's asked if I want to do a joint birthday thing over the weekend, so I have to figure out the logistics of that still. James has to work on Saturday and Monday, so he may get a Get Out of Family Stuff Free card. ;)

The weekend after that, we're all going camping! I haven't been camping in forever, but looking over the place, I think it'll be a lot of fun.

Then it's my weekend in NJ. James and I are heading down on Thursday. We hope to have dinner with Bill and Drew while we're there.

And then! It's opening weekend for CTRF!

Thankfully, October is looking rather open on the weekends (so far). :D

On the way to Alewife this morning, I saw a bumper sticker for Lahey Clinic:

"Giving is contagious, Pass it on!"

With it being Lahey, my brain just says WRONG MESSAGE. Like it should say "Giving is contagious, get tested often!" or something more appropriate.

What do you think?

Triangle-y goodness from wispfox's mom. It's an AVI so you need to have an appropriate player.

Link source (Autism's Social Struggles Due To Disrupted Communication Networks In Brain).

There's a second picture that shows the braid better.


Vera cut 2" off of my hair (at my request). I didn't realize how much bouncier my hair would get - 2" doesn't seem like much. But a bunch of people have noticed that I've gotten my hair cut, so there ya go.

Ahh, Dr Horrible, you have active fans.

The lady E is getting rid of stuff from her house. I'm not sure if it's free to a good home or not, but take a look.