Enter the News, followed by the Internet and Ms. Sioux

The move is accomplished! We met with the off-site apartment manager last night and did our walk-through, signed away our lease, and whatnot.

News-in-brief:

• A super colossal Thank-you-very-much-I-love-you-more-than-gin-or-Guinness-or-Whiskey-and-Soda to Theresa, Chris, and Jess for their much needed (and greatly appreciated) help with the move. As promised, let's go have a Mouthgasm at Via Tribunali.
• The intarweb is currently inoperative at Chez Nous. I'm suffering from the DTs because I can't come home and play on the web. Since the company who provides the intarweb to us doesn't have Customer Disservice on the week-ends, we had to wait until Monday after Peter got off work to call them. In theory, I should have the intarweb this evening when I get home.
• My telephone numbers (both home and mobile) have remained the same.

The ever lovely Patrick, knowing my passion for the Great Goddess Herself - Siouxsie Sioux - has sent me the following video with the emphatic instructions to hang onto my wig and keys. I thus present unto you, my loyal readers (all two of you), Siouxsie's new release - Into A Swan, I suggest you hold onto your wigs and keys.

Siouxsie -Into A Swan

More and various animal cries

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

*stops for breath*

I hate packing. It is one of the most odious, tiresome, irksome, aggravating, and generally wearisome projects in the world.

I hate disassembling my house. I've lived here for two years and I've inordinate amounts of tchotzkes, oojahs, doo-dads, old clothes I'll never fit my fat ass into again, CDs I'd sooner sharpen and cut my wrists with before listening to ever again, and I'm feeling overwhelmed with this packing of stuff. And I need to meet the landlady person this afternoon, meet the cable install tech person, and finish tearing up the roots I put down during the last years.

Thankfully, my friend Theresa is coming round shortly to help and to keep me company so I don't go completely mad.

[sigh]

AIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! [gives vent to more animal cries and goes back to work]

Updated links

This is to announce the arrival of the link to my dear friend Miche's blog, Little Ray of Sunshine.

Miche and I have been friends since the Distant Days of alt.callahans. She's an absolute gem and a complete scream. Besides, she has a thing for food.

Mr. Trevethan Discovers A Dinosaur, with Illustrations

It isn't terribly often that I get to write about something this remarkably interesting.

My very dear friend Ian, whom I haven't seen in an age nor do we get to talk as frequently as I'd like owing to a myriad of factors, discovered a dinosaur while on a dig in Montana.

Let me back up a smidge, Ian's currently studying the delightful science of paleontology at the Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. I've been over to Bozeman several times in the Distant Past to visit friends of the family who live out there (one of whom was the head of the Art Department at MSU as I recall).

Anyway, I was tottering about the house this morning when I noticed that Ian had called (I was fiddling in the kitchen with a spot of breakfast or something and missed his call). I returned his call and we were soon chatting about this and that when he said something in the vein of, "I just returned from a dig in northern Montana where I found what I believe to be a semi-articulated hadrosaur." Now, how often do you get to have a phone conversation where someone tells you in a delighted manner that they'd found what most of us call the duck-billed dinosaur?

Just another reason why I love my friends.

Ian surmises that the fossilized skeleton was that of an Edmontosaurus. Click here for more information regarding the Edmontosaurus.