it’s ok, i’m easily ignored.

Real quicklike. 1) How you know your brother’s online too damn much: me: lemme see your code and i’ll tell you.him: I need to AFK a min, I’ll brb. 2) Chico’s balance/rotation made a huge difference. I am so completely psyched about car class. 3) I made this thing as a reminder that people will go to extreme lengths to ...

a relationship moment in history

Ahoy. I have returned from San Francisco safe and very crabby with Northwest Airlines. I won’t say much about it here since I will be travel-journaling, but it was awesome to catch some of the things I missed last time around, and to hang with Señor Patrikios1. When I got home, my dad said that my uncle had a stroke ...

i need coveralls.

OH MAN. I am so so so very much in love with auto maintenance class, ‘for women’ or not. We are well on our way to being mechanics, and soon I will be earning $11 an hour in my fabulous new career at a rapid oil change shop!! OK, maybe I’ll stick with dev work. But still! The thing I ...

it’s forever.

So! Last night was auto maintenance class. Wow!! Within 5 minutes, I was in platonic-community-ed-teacher love with the instructor, a 64-year-old ex-diesel-mechanic named Bruce. Some of the girls in the class are a little annoying, especially the old woman who wants to tell us about how she used to be a bus driver. Not like you couldn’t tell that by ...