Woo!

I've got a new nephew! This brings the grand total up to two.

Is it odd that I'm feeling a little competitive about this? Time to put on my game face, buckle down, and have some kids of my own.

F*ck!

I kept hearing about it on other blogs, that some people had bought google ads for Yes on Prop 8. Then I checked my site and damned if I didn't have one as well. I'm going to see if I can change anything on AdSense, but until then, here is this blog's official stand on this issue:

No on Prop. 8! Don't put discrimination into our constitution!

That is all.*

* Your own opinion, of course, may vary.

Three cheers for gaining an hour!

Having struggled all last week to get back to a sleeping schedule appropriate for my employed lifestyle, going off daylight savings time was just the thing I needed to get me to bed earlier. By 10 pm last night I was seriously starting to drag, but I managed to fight of sleep until 10:30, resulting in my getting nearly 8 hours of sleep last night. It was wonderful.

Hopefully, though, I won't be crashing at 10 pm tonight, as I will be attending the first of 6 AutoCAD classes and will be getting home around that time. The class is a follow-up to one I took a few years back which was really helpful and informative. If I'm going to be doing this for a living, I might as well be good at it.

I'm so not a morning person

I was woken up in the middle of the night by R getting out of bed. I looked over at the clock. 5:30. 45 more minutes, I thought. When R came back to bed, he mentioned that it was time to turn back the clock. I wasn't sure, so I decided to go out and check. I put on my robe, and fed the desperate cat.

Sometime during my walk to the kitchen, I realized it wasn't Monday.

The day after

Halloween is a great holiday. R and I get to get rid of a good portion of our junk candy in one fell swoop!

Now, I'm sure you're wondering what the hell I mean by that statement. "Are you giving out years-old Laffy Taffy?" No, though I doubt time would affect that particular confection. R and I just have this horrible habit of buying candy at Costco. We wind up eating a few pieces and satiating our desire, then are stuck with the rest of the package. Worse still are candy mixes with flavors we don't like. We bought a box of Tootsie Roll Pops and it had all sorts of nasty crap. So what did the kids who came to our house get? Watermelon, blue raspberry, and lemon-lime Tootsie Roll Pops. Oh, and mint patties. We've also got a jug of those.

Apparently Halloween is also my opportunity to be mildly snarky to pre-teens. Particularly the older ones, many of whom don't even bother with costumes. I felt fine giving candy to the teenager who was taking his two little brothers trick or treating, but the same did not apply to the bevy of teenage girls escorting one slightly younger boy. "What are you?" I asked.
"A Power Ranger."
"Ah. So you all must be... his harem?" They giggled awkwardly. I only gave them one piece of candy each, even though I was eager to get rid of the stuff.