When historians look back on the fall of our republic, this'll be the day they point to as the beginning of the end.

Current Mood: depressed
Current Music: Funeral Dirge

As most of you already know, tomorrow - September 19th - is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Clearly, one should do a bit of advance preparatory work. galileopan was kind enough to send along a pointer to a fine instructional video, at this site.

Arrrg! Tiver me Shimbers!

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: The Spanish Armada - Rita Connoly - Granuaile

So, thanks to various people, I went ahead and found
( The Leading Man Meme )

I suppose William Powell was pretty inevitable.

Thankks for the head full of self-replicating ideas, snowwy!

( The Chess Meme )</lj-cut)

Current Location: 2 moves from Mate
Current Mood: Brutal, apparently
Current Music: Mars, God of War - The Planets - Gustav Holst

For those of you who enjoy making fun of "idiot plots", I must highly recommend the following site:

How It Should Have Ended. Oh my, these are funny people!

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The Theme from Superman: The Movie

It was a nice weekend, especially since my Labor Day BBQ went so well. Had lovely folks over, and spent much of the afternon engrossed in the Bollywood answer to E.T., thoughtfully brought along by rowanf for our viewing pleasure. That was just awesome!

Now, properly marinated in the hot tub after the day's travails, I turn to LJ. So, of course, I had to take the Nerd, Geek, or Dork test, just to see. The Divine Ms. eeyore_grrl was the vector for this meme. As one might expect, the purity of my nerditude shone forth.

( The sordid details )

*sigh* I note, at least, that dorkiness was remarkably low for me, although much higher that most people my age apparently. (I _think_ this is a small sample, showing its ugly head. I _hope_ so.)

Current Location: At home
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: The sounds of Arthur splashing in the pool

To rowanf, on getting her 500th (!!) geocache today! Go you!

Tags: geocache
Current Location: Home
Current Mood: Envious, and very pleased!
Current Music: The clicking of keys!

There's nothing like being laid up with migraine to make any personal feelings of worthlessness come right to the top.

In some ways, I know I am being stupid. I have a great job, a wonderful family, an amazing family of the heart chosen to go with them, a fine place to live. But then I think that I am just lucky, and the luck will run out. I _am_ lucky, after all. A dark notion, but one that has stuck in my head well after the migraine was over.

Current Mood: morose
Current Music: Nemesis (12 inch) - Shriekback

The amazing, dear, beloved rutemple is celebrating her milestone today! Congratulations, my darling!

Current Mood: bouncy

From rowanf I found this temptation to pursue. Celebrity lookalikes!

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: The sounds of a copier running