Happy birthday, shrique!  And also whoever else I've missed in my distraction.  I have LJ set up to remind me of these things, and yet I still manage to miss them.

After many weeks of waiting for the roofer to catch up with all the work thrown his way after storms, and for the shingles to come back into stock, the roof replacement started yesterday.  The guys were at the house working from (probably) 8am until pretty much sundown (still pretty close to 9pm.)  They have got to still be totally swamped to be putting in 12-hour days.  They got all the shingles off the house and garage, repapered both, and got 90% of the new shingles up on the house yesterday, so I'm betting they will wrap up today in well under 12 hours.  Yay for no more chimney!  (Well, at least outside the roof.  We have to deal with the bit inside the house ourselves.)

We just watched The Man From Earth, and it was fascinating. Very much about making the audience think, catching them up in the story. It could easily be a play, and I think it would be really interesting to see how a large audience would react to it.

5 hours in the car
6 days
2 hotel rooms
0 panels
too many fine people to count
1 nasty troll
1 evil evil virus
1 trip to the ER (no, not for me)
5 more hours in the car

there's probably more, but not until an undetermined number of hours of sleep have passed.

there are *three* new flavors of Mountain Dew this summer. They are all blue/purple. This phenomenon may have passed over into the ridiculous.

Made it to Madison. That's a damn long drive. Of course, missed (as yet apparently nameless) baby girl shrique/tripstumblefoot by mere hours, but I'm betting she'll still be cute when I get back.

"A Rather Difficult Font Game:"  http://ajax.sayitaintslow.com/fontgame/

We're going to Denver tomorrow, so if I'm slightly out of touch for the next few days, that's why. 

Happy Birthday, genevra!

I was at the pet store yesterday. They had two chinchillas, but no microphones. Sad.


(this may only make sense if you're monstersocks)