we have to get a new air conditioner. we bought a new outside unit last year, but apparently the inside bits are now shot. we could get a used car for the same price. it’s times like this when i…

August 6 is the day for the surgery… I am not looking forward to it. Of course, who DOES look forward to surgery? Some days I’m a little freaked out about it; other days I’m not. I’m sure it will…

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: I recorded it. I watched it later. Aaaaaand… I couldn’t sit through a full episode. I got bored, I guess. Here are some of my thoughts about it: The queer guys are mean, rude,…

I got the results of my tests today, and the news is not as good as I was hoping. I have what they call “moderate dysplasia,” which essentially means pre-cancerous cells. Initially they had thought that it was mild, but…

In regards to yesterday’s entry, I got e-mail from a friend who said she now feels ashamed to admit that she ate dinner at Burger King yesterday evening. (And was convinced to do so by radio marketing). In light of…

I railed a while back about the lawsuits brought against McDonalds by several obese people, who claimed that it was McDonalds’ fault that they were fat. I was (and still am) of the opinion that YOU are ultimately responsible for…

Darn it, I keep forgetting to bring photos home from work. Hillsman came to our signing at Barnes and Noble on June 14th, and took about 75 digital photographs. I have not even looked through them thoroughly yet. And then…

When I was a freshman at Austin College, my roommate Kathryn was dating Scott Conner’s roommate Dan, so the four of us would hang out together a lot. Scott had a really weird sense of humor, which was part of…

We did the demo at Gilda’s Club last night. I’m too tired to write about it right now, but it went really well. We had 17 people show up, they were all very nice and seemed to enjoy the presentation,…