Choose your own adventure, old school style, with Goofus and Galant.

I think I just acquired my first cavity at age 38.

I’m being depressed again, and this post is mostly for my own “benefit”. If you’re bothered by self-pity, just move along.

just backdated

B.A.P.S

DOG ONE IS DOWN, REPEAT DOG ONE IS DOWN

<stimps> forum post: DO: EAT THE SHRIMP AND LOBSTER FROM RED LOBSTER DON’T: EAT THE SUSHI FROM THE TARGET DELI
<stimps> sushi… at… target
<fimmtiu> …
<mendel>
<stimps> buying sushi from a place that does oil changes/sells darth maul cups should be avoided, imo

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=23316309, sector=5398944
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07 (hda), sector 5398944

This, followed by a hard crash, happens on my linux laptop now every time I try to build Xchat. Oh but it gets better. It happens during the ./Configure script because the config strip is trying to verify my version of the GNU FORTRAN compiler.

Because, you know, you need Fortran to irc.

Hendrick’s Gin is very good.

* I drive by a line of eucalyptus trees and smile because I know that there was an orange grove there once, and that was the windbrake.

* When I arrive at a party, the first 15 minutes of conversation are about how we all got there, and how the traffic was

* I wear Vans shoes frequently even though I never was a very good skateboarder

* I’m used to smelling jasmine flowers at night.

* I can always find my way around if I can see the mountains and I know where the sea is.

* If the temperature is not 70 degrees F I feel a need to complain

* I know about snow, sure! There is snow at the mountains. In the winter you can “go to see the snow”!

* I expect people who look Asian to speak perfect english and say “dude” a lot, and I’m surprised when they turn out to be from actual East Asian countries.

* Although I don’t care about money at all I can have a 30 minute conversation about real estate prices

* I do not own a suit