Archive for August, 2009

And They Knit?

Tonight, I went to my first Austin knitting group. I’d been meaning to go to this one for a while. It meets at The Dig Pub, an archeology-themed bar with great food, and doesn’t conflict with the many other events that are all held on Thursdays. Finally, tonight, I could get there. Before I left [...]


“Go ‘Canes!!!” say the Aggies

Texas Aggies Will Yell for Miami Hurricanes to Win Got this in email today (from Rivals.com). You Aggie readers should want Miami to beat FSU next Monday. History that Correlates Since 1997, there has been a direct correlation between the winner of the Miami/FSU game and the Texas/OU game. 1997 FSU 47 – Miami 0 [...]


He said what?

In hopes of getting rid of a bunch of stuff, we held a moving sale in mid-August. We wanted to sell some furniture and, in the proess of packing, had found more “junque” (that’s a fancy word for junk) we didn’t want. Since the For Sale sign was still in the yard, we got a [...]


Tech Support Cheat Sheet

The funny guys at xkcd bring us this Tech Support Cheat Sheet.


Protected: Results, I Hope

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Protected: Not Ready To Back Down

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University of Miami in the Top Tier

At the Summer Sendoff for Austin area students who will be attending the University of Miami this fall, they gave the current enrollment numbers: applications received, students accepted, students in attendance, average GPA/SAT/ACT scores. I just laughed and said, “none of us could get in, now, huh?” While some of the numbers of today are [...]


Protected: What It Is

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Clown Couture

OMG, I totally saw this woman at the library, today. She had pasty-white foundation with not-for-her vibrant red lips. It was terrible. see more Lolcats and funny pictures


Moving Weekend #2

Back in May, we moved the stuff we needed to live in a 2-2 apartment. Coming from a 3-2.5-2 house, this left a lot behind. A couple of weekends ago, we had a big moving sale to get rid of furniture we couldn’t use and some of the stuff we didn’t need. However, since we [...]