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LJ Spring Potluck! [May. 24th, 2012|11:22 am]
Welcome to my new friends whom I've added through [info]magsmom wildly successful friending frenzy!

Here's a poll I put up once in a while. We're having a potluck! The weather's nice, (Here it is,) so I'm having a big food and drink frenzy at my palatial estate. You're all invited! You just have to bring lotsa food and drink.

Poll #1842456 Spring potluck!
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

Start us off! What kind of appetizer did you bring?

Now for the main course! What kind of entree' did you bring?

We need something to wash down all this food! What did you bring to drink?

We don't save room for dessrt, we make room for dessert! What kind of dessert did you bring?

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Baltimore Part II [May. 15th, 2012|03:45 am]
My Baltimore adventure continued with visits to many thrift and antique shops, unique eateries, and also parusals of public art.

There are plenty of thrift and antique stores in Baltimore. Most of them are well stocked with all kinds of paraphenalia. Lots of sports memorabilia, books, old clothes, and every kind of knick-knack you can think of. One place had a player piano which would belt out a tune for a quarter. Another unique antique store featured, among other things, a two-headed giant!

Baltimore also has a nice range of eateries. On our first night there we had the mac n' cheese at Brewer's Art, and we also stopped by for pie at Cafe' Hon, the place with a giant pink flamingo! Then there was Paper Moon, which emphasizes the artistic side of Baltimore as no other local eatery does. Then there's Red Emma's, which is really a cafe' and bookstore, but it's also a place I could easily wile away many hours in. (I will go there to write my next novel!)

I also got the chance to see an Orioles game at Camden Yards, a very nice baseball stadium. I think I like it even better than the Giants Pac Bell Park. It would've been nice if the O's had won though. (Clobbered mercileslly by the Rangers, 14 to 3!)

( Read on! Best part under LJ cut! )
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New York City?!? [May. 13th, 2012|08:40 am]
New York City???

That's right! I spent a day in New York City.

Taking a day off from my Baltimore trip last week, I took a two hour train ride to downtown Manhattan.

The train ride took a little more than two hours. When I got off at Penn Station I went to the snack counter to buy a bottle of water. The customer in front of me handed the cashier a bottle of Vitamin Water and snapped "C'mon lady, hurry it up, willya'?" I thought to myself, "Thanks for reaffirming my expectation of stereotypical New Yorker behavior!"

Actually most of the people I met in New York City were quite friendly and polite. The only thing about New York is that it's choked with people. People people people. About 5 billion people! I wasn't too far from the Empire State Building when I first emerged from the train station, and there were just tons of people going in every direction. There seemed to be more cars than people as well. And New York jawywalkers are off the hook! Yeah, we jaywalk in the San Francisco Bay Area, but not usually right in front of moving vehicles! Shortly after I got out of the station, a man forced a cab to hit the brakes as he jaywalked against the light, and the man leaned over and put his hand down on the cab's hood. He was trying to push a cab around!

( More text, and TONS o' pics! )
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Baltimore! That's right, you heard me, Baltimore! [May. 11th, 2012|09:12 am]
Last week: Baltimore.

That's right, I went to the East Coast last week and visited Baltimore! The home of hons, John Waters and sets for The Wire!

My first impressions of Baltimore came with the light rail ride from the airport. We booked a hotel in the Mount vernon neighborhood, and during the ride through downtown baltimore we passed by closed up buildings, some of them dilapidated, and some of them still in pretty good shape. One of them was a large and fancy-looking department store. Yep, an entire department store all boarded up and empty!

Our hotel was quite quaint. It was populated with old furniture, most of which looked like thrift shop and granny antique shop scores. Our toom had an old chair with a footrest, two beds with zebra stripped covers, and a table with ceramic plates and cups.

( Read on. More ramblings and pictures under the cut! )
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New York City?!?! [May. 4th, 2012|05:51 am]
Yesterday I visited new york City for the first time ever.

My first impressions: All of the buildings are at least fifty stories tall and there are five billion people there.

Somehow, there are more cars than people.

Longer report later. w00t!
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What th' heck's going on today? Well lemme' tellya! [Apr. 29th, 2012|05:31 pm]


Happy Birthday...



[info]technophobe1975

!!!




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Race report: TL;DR Part Five - So Cal Ragnar 2012! [Apr. 24th, 2012|05:08 pm]
Last weekend I was one of twelve runners on a team for the So Cal Ragnar Relay. w00t!

Jumping on at the Last Minute

I've never done this before, but I got into this race at the very last minute, just a day before. I had not planned on doing the 2012 so Cal Ragnar because of scheduling conflicts, but those got cleared up, and I thought, "There must be a team who needs a runner at the last minute." Sure enough, someone posted a plea for a last minute runner on the So Cal 2012 Ragnar Relay Facebook page, so I responded.

I became runner #8 on the team 24 Feet Above Sea Level, a group of Southern Californians, some of them veteran Ragnarians, and some who had never done a Ragnar before.

The Ragnar Relay is 200-mile (give r' take) relay race with twelve runners per team. Each runner runs 3 legs, and the race generally takes anywhere from 24 to 36 hours to complete, depending on your runners. If you want to know more about what a Ragnar Relay is, check this out:

http://www.ragnarrelay.com/about

( Loooong race report. If you're not willing to read it all, you can at least look at the pictures! )
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Race Report: 2012 Oakland Marathon [Mar. 27th, 2012|12:15 pm]
Last Sunday I ran the Oakland Marathon. I've done all three Oakland Marathons since they started having a marathon again three years ago! (Let's see how long I can keep this up!)

I had three goals in mind for this marathon.

First: Run it in under 5 hours. (Would be only my second sub-five hour marathon out of eight marathons in the past three years.)

Second: Beat my PR of 4:45:13

Third: Try to run it in 4:30.

I had two worries about this marathon, both of which I could do nothing about. First was the Oakland hills. This marathon has killer hills from miles 6 through 11. The other was the weather report, which told us we were going to be rained on. Maybe it would be a light rain, but the SF Bay area had gone through some fairly heavy rain not too long ago, so I had visions of having to swim this marathon as some of my friends had to do in the 2011 LA Marathon. (Eep!)

I also had a slightly sore right heel, but I wasn't too worried about it. It had been behaving fairly well in my last few long runs.

( And we're off! )
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Set Phaser on Fun! [Mar. 20th, 2012|08:27 am]

Happy Birthday...



[info]trekqueen!!!






May your special day
be free of temporal
and spatial anomalies!

:D
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LJ Meme is Back [Mar. 19th, 2012|10:55 am]
So I wrote this LJ app about 5 billion years ago. It's an LJ meme that takes usernames and puts them into clever sentences. You can write one of your own too, if you wish.

It was disabled for a while when LJ was making changes because of all the DDoS attacks. I wasn't able to access usernames from the username list, rednering it useless. Now it's back. Even though LJ is, in the opinon of people like [info]radiumhead, on a respirator, I thought I'd drag it back out. Maybe I'll gussy it up and even try to make a Facebook version, just fer kicks!

Check it out. I could always use more hits! :D

Here is, by far, the most popular one I ever wrote. It's gotten way more hits than any other meme:

Your LJ friends hiding places!

industrata1 is hiding in the bushes outside!

aparigraha is under your bed!

manifestress is in the back of the bedroom closet.

desertrose68 is that big lump of laundry by your bed.

magenta_dawned is standing in the corner, very still, wearing a lampshade.

bkmichele is in the backseat of the car, and crimson_agony is hiding in the trunk!

extra300 is behind the curtains!

arthenadent is the one on the corner a block away, wearing a gorilla suit and carrying a bunch of balloons.

greyweirdo is spying on you from across the street with a telephoto camera!

stlbluebyrd and jenne1989 are in the van down the street, and are responsible for those clicking noises on your phone.

sabotabby is masqerading as an assisstant at your dentist's office!

violachic was that delivery person with the long white beard and stringy white hair. (It was a disguise!!!)



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( A couple more! )
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