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Grillin’, Poker, and a Meme!

Oh dear, a meme. I’ll get that out of the way first, and I blame skorzy and atara for it:

Ask me to take a picture of any aspect of my life that you’re interested in/curious about – it can be anything from the house I live in to my favorite shoes. Leave your choice here as a comment, and I will reciprocate by taking the pictures and posting them as an LJ entry. That way you get to know a little bit about my life!

Please note that it may take a few days to get to all of the requests (if there are any), but I’ll do my darnedest to accommodate them all. Now, I reserves the right to interpret any and all requests however I like, though 😉

Now that that’s out of the way…Yesterday was rather busy. I slipped out from work a little early (considering I get into work each day 20-30 minutes early, this is no big deal) and ran up to Lovin’ Oven Cakery to pick up some tasty stuff for a certain panda’s birthday. On the way, I got a call the my new glasses were ready, so I stopped by the opticians in Grayslake (navigating through the weekly Farmer’s Market) to get them, then raced home and did some last-minute cleaning. Dan got home a little late (he’d had to drive in due to a little problem that Metra had), and were then joined by steviemaxwell, magicpaw, midwestcougar, nymphara and her new squeeze, Nick, and roho and genet. While the crowd played a couple of rounds of poker, I busied myself grilling up a multitude of brats and hot dogs and hamburgers. Everyone had a good bit of fun, and Dan had fun making appletinis. Genet and I elected to chat while everyone else played games, and that was fine – I wasn’t much in a poker mood. For dessert we had a couple of monstrous éclairs that we cut up for serving, as well a couple different kinds of strudel. Yummy! We didn’t get to bed until after 11 PM, though, and both Dan and I are dragging a bit today as a result.

Not much going on today, though I do have my annual checkup with my doctor right after work today. Tomorrow we’ll be heading up to Antioch to stock up on some important items for Anthrocon, and I may see about taking Dan’s car in for emissions testing as well.

A meme from me? Good heavens!

Enough people have done this for me, I suppose I should return the favor:
1. I’ll respond with something random about you.
2. I’ll challenge you to try something.
3. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you. (that’s a bit silly, but whatever)
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you.
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you.

Meme-age

(Coming to you live from Panera in Glen Ellyn, on a laptop with a slowly dying battery and no electrical sockets available)

All the other cools kids are doing it!

As much as I’d like to post the version of this meme that steviemaxwell proposed, I don’t have the battery power to type up all the requisite stuff. So let’s go with the original version:
Post a memory of me in the comments. It can be anything you want. Then, if you wish, post this to your journal and see what people remember of you.

Other short stuff (more info coming soon):
– Interview went well. Won’t know results until “sometime before the end of May”.
– Lots of driving. No problems. Yay.
– Thanks to mirkowuff for putting me up last night and for a lovely breakfast!
– Off to pick up takaza at O’Hare at 5 PM. (“Honey, you want me to pick you up at O’Hare at 5 PM on a Friday afternoon? If you hate me, why can’t you just beat me like normal people do…”)

Oops, battery dying, gotta go…

I hate memes

(Thanks Mirko for the friends-page-friendly formatting)
Bold the states you’ve visited.

1) Alabama, 2) Alaska, 3) Arizona, 4) Arkansas, 5) California, 6) Colorado, 7) Connecticut, 8) Delaware, 9) Florida, 10) Georgia, 11) Hawaii, 12) Idaho, 13) Illinois, 14) Indiana, 15) Iowa, 16) Kansas, 17) Kentucky, 18) Louisiana, 19) Maine, 20) Maryland, 21) Massachusetts, 22) Michigan, 23) Minnesota, 24) Mississippi, 25) Missouri, 26) Montana, 27) Nebraska, 28) Nevada, 29) New Hampshire, 30) New Jersey, 31) New Mexico, 32) New York, 33) North Carolina, 34) North Dakota, 35) Ohio, 36) Oklahoma, 37) Oregon, 38) Pennsylvania, 39) Rhode Island, 40) South Carolina, 41) South Dakota, 42) Tennessee, 43) Texas, 44) Utah, 45) Vermont, 46) Virginia, 47) Washington, 48) West Virginia, 49) Wisconsin, 50) Wyoming, 50.5) Washington DC.

International: Canada (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia), Mexico, Japan, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland

I’ve visited every state east of the Mississippi except Michigan. Strange, since it’s not too far away from Chicago, but I’ve just never had occasion to go there. Maybe we’ll swing through on the way home just to say I’ve been there.

Oh, what the hell

Moo. Moo, I say.

Number of people on my LJ friends list: 34 (plus 6 communities)
…whom I’ve met in person: 27
…whom I’ve met in person more than once: 24
…whose house I’ve been to: 8 (counting takaza 🙂
…who have been to my house: 12
…whose precise geographic location I know offhand: 26
…whose full names I know offhand: 21
…whom I’ve followed/been in touch with for more than 3 years: 11
…who live outside my country: 1 (hi swampy!)
…whose journal I consider myself “addicted” to: 5
…whom I’ve lived with: 1
…who’s an ex: 1
…who I’d do: 15 {looks innocent}
…who I’ve done: {mumble} No comment 🙂
…who I have a secret crush on: 0

Two Truths and a Lie

From an idea first mentioned on Harrumph:
1. I’ve played tennis with a winner of the U.S. Open.
2. I backed into Bob Denver‘s car once, scratching his fender.
3. I’ve danced a Highland reel with Fiona Ritchie.

Hey, that’s kind of fun. Let’s do one more set:
1. I’ve been hang gliding at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.
2. I’ve been skiing in the French Alps.
3. I’ve bungee-jumped from the New River Bridge.

So, which are true, and which are lies?

Fun with interest matching

(Thanks to genebreshears for the idea for this entry)

So, I don’t know if anyone has ever looked, but a while back (and occasionally again since then) I had fun dumping everything I could think of into my interest list. When they announced the cool Interest Matching service on paidmembers last week, I had a little fun and thought I’d see who came up on my list (note: I think this service is only for paid members right now). Interesting. I think that the “magic index” has less to do with how many similar interests you have with a person than the number of similar interests divided by the number of people who list those interests. Thus, if you like, for instance, “food” and 23,192 other people like “food”, this would give a low index number. However, if you like “chocolate-covered mothballs” and only three other people list that as an interest, the index would be much higher.

So, what did I get?
Click here to find out