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The boy just asked me if Wrath of Khan was about...Ghengis Khan.

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WHERE HAVE I GONE WRONG?

This right here? Utterly made my day.

I got food poisoning on Sunday, from a fresh new carton of Greek yogurt. I feel certain that was the culprit because I let Starbuck lick the dish after I was done, and she threw up too. I'm hoping to get back to work tomorrow, but man. Man.

( Another new year, then )

tl/dr: Resolutions blah blah, I made a thing!

"I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee."

My child has been eaten by Skyrim. If anyone finds him, please remind him that he goes back to school on Monday and probably ought to shower before then.

Happy New Year, everyone! <3

io9 has the pilot of Ron Moore's 17th Precinct, which was supposed to be on this year, but NBC pulled out on. Presumably to make room for the newest iteration of Fear Factor, or some such.

Too bad. Such potential. Fandom could have slashed the fuck out of this thing.

Say, have any of you guys used mint.com? If so, what do you think of it? Did it help you get your financial shit together?

In a not unrelated note, one of my New Year's resolutions is to get my financial shit together. One of these years, this resolution might actually take.

Not a lot of presents this year, but what we have is all wrapped up. The stockings are stuffed, the tree is decorated, the boy is spending tonight with his dad and stepmom and will be home tomorrow. The beau's playing X-Box and the dog's all curled up on the couch. It's been a long, strange year, but now that we're nearing the end of it, I think we're going to be okay. I have no data to back this up, but I think we're all going to be okay. Could be hope, could be instinct, could just be the thought that life is a pendulum, and once things have swung all the way to the end on one side, they have to come back the other way.

I think we're all going to be okay.

Happy holidays, everyone!
<3

Does anyone remember Beavis and Butthead?

After watching Rick Perry's flub at last night's debate, and his weird speechifying a week or so back, I am becoming increasingly convinced that he was once the inspiration for Beavis from Beavis and Butthead. The way he was squee-bouncing over a bottle of maple syrup? The way he had to be coached like the kid in your sophomore high school English class who sat in the back sniffing Sharpies? That guy's two swigs of Coke and a Snickers bar away from pulling his shirt over his head, jumping into the audience and demanding TP for his bunghole.

How in the actual hell is this guy being taken seriously?


/end politics talk
/end snark