• Uncategorical Weirdness

    Mind The Gap: the first of many

    August 17, 2008 - By 

    We’ve made it to London, installed in a conveniently located but inconveniently designed hotel room. About to get out and get touristy after a slow morning. We lucked out and got upgraded to business class on the flight over, but had a rude awakening last night when we got to the hotel. Looks nice in the photos, but the room is half the size you’d expect. Internet service spotty, and there’s street noise. But oh well, we’re in London! Just got back from a nice service at St John’s Hyde Park – lovely people, lovely music, good mix of different…

  • The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    London Bound

    August 16, 2008 - By 

    We leave in 2 hours. Yeah, we like to hang around OHare and not run late. The TSA guy was way too cheerful; what’s in his coffee? We’re on standby for business class and it’s nice that AA’s gate monitor actually shows our request. I got a courtesy Space-A upgrade put in the record by the sales rep, and it looked good last time I checked. Nothing certain until our asses hit leather AND we’re in the air, but surely 11 years of booking biz class on AA for my corporate clients increases my juju. I’ve been fighting a cold…

  • Home Improvement

    Walgreens: Locking up the competition?

    August 11, 2008 - By 

    Here’s something odd. I went to Walgreens to pick up my favored brand of antacid/acid reducer. I found it in a locked cabinet, along with several other name brands each in their own locked cabinets. There was a notice saying the rather pricy name brands were secured for the protection of Walgreens’ customers. The “house brands” were all displayed nearby, unlocked. They were lower in price but the highest-quantity packages were in the same price ranges as the lower-quantity name brand products. Stymied, since my particular brand didn’t have a Wal-clone, I wandered off looking for someone to open the…

  • London - The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain - Traveling Along, We're Adventurers

    What A To-Do

    August 10, 2008 - By 

    Here are some of the things I’ve accomplished thus far or need to get done for our impending Big Trip to Great Britain: Air reservations American (fooey, coach. No agent deals available) Hotel reservations London Stow-on-the-Wold York Dublin Rail and transit Purchased Heathrow Express tickets online rather than burn a rail day Ordered Essential London Kit Britrail Flexi-pass Advised Stow hotel our arrival time Need advise London, York, Dublin friends of arrival times Need book York-Dublin in Britain L28 per person at station Home Front Book petsitter for Riley Stage packing items Need tidy Need make packing list Pack Gear…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Every one needs one

    August 9, 2008 - By 

    A giant decorative poseable spider from Costco. Plushy fur, not for outdoor display. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Every one needs one By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 9 Aug ’08, 12.51pm CDT PST A giant decorative poseable spider from Costco. Plushy fur, not for outdoor display. Ginny I can has iPhone?

  • Clan: McTiVo - SciFi/Fantasy

    Brilliant but Cancelled: Top Ten SF Series

    August 7, 2008 - By 

    Yeah, I had to see if Earth2 was on this list. Not. Darn thos Philistines at SciFi Wire. Wire’s Top 10 Brilliant But Canceled 1. Firefly, created by Joss Whedon. Fox. Original run: September 2002 to August 2003. Number of episodes produced: 14 A completely valid and worthy choice. I don’t own a Browncoat in real life, but I’d sure wear one in Second Life. And I’ve hung out at a Firefly-inspired bar inworld, too. 2. Wonderfalls, created by Bryan Fuller and Todd Holland. Fox. Original run: March 2004 to December 2004. Number of episodes produced: 14 Sorry, didn’t watch…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Stately Moans: Successful Event Planning (Except For Ducks)

    August 7, 2008 - By 

    Thank goodness Doris is back on the blogbeat, recounting the triumphs and challenges of stately manor management… and the possibility of committing nursery crimes, encountering ducks bent on debauchery, and the utter indispensability of a Lovely Warden. Stately Moans: Successful Event Planning, the Stately Moans Way I hastened to reassure bemused visitors and volunteers alike that we did not actually erect the marquee in the moat and that it must have blown in. After the tenth repetition I got bored with that and started telling people it was for a duck wedding instead. Well, it was a lovely party, except…