Need to post a review of New Orleans, but first, just found out that one former co-worker died over the weekend and another current co-worker got fired last week for mail fraud. Fuck you, Monday! :(

Edited to add: Just found out another co-worker was fired for threatening someone. WTF?

I think I'm actually finished packing for Pennsic with 8 days to spare.

 

I guess that means it's time to start a new project! :-D

No, random stranger, I'm afraid I don't want to be Facebook friends with you just because we happen to be in the same Facebook group. Now go away and please stop pestering me about it. I'm sure your 794 other friends will more than compensate.

Pope Francis sort of kind of looks like/reminds me of my dad. WEIRD.

OK, so why, exactly, did you just do the thing that I said I was going to do and not tell me that you did it until I came down to do it only to find that it was already done?

OK, so urban_bohemian posted about the "America I AM" exhibit at the National Geographic Museum, and I realized I'd never been there, so I followed the link on their address page to get directions.

I swear on Quincy's life¹, this is exactly what Bing gave me for directions:

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I believe I may submit this to Failblog.



¹Well, you'd need to take that a little more seriously than you would normally, I suppose...

Is it weird that the thing I'm most excited about the trip next month is getting into my storage unit?

Not that this is news.

moonpuppy61 prompted me to examine some of my odd habits about not losing/wasting certain items; to wit:

• I rabidly keep pens until they actually run out of ink (this is a problem as I also like to collect pens); ditto Post-It pads, boxes of paper clips and staples,
  
• I drain the last quarter inch of shampoo into the next shampoo bottle so as not to waste it
  
• When the soap gets down to a sliver I weld it to the next bar
  
• I count pins in my sewing and never let any escape (this is in part because I don't wear shoes around the house)
  
• I've been saving fabric remnants for years in the hopes that one day I'll be able to make a patchwork tunic for Pennsic
  
• I like to have 2 of everything - one to use, and one to have on hand for when the one I'm using runs out; this goes for office supplies, most things in the pantry and fridge, etc.
  
• I have been known to melt the wax in a candle and either put in a new wick to use up all the remaining wax, or pour it into another candle to create some MUTANT FRANKENSTEIN CANDLE
  
• I keep cheap, crappy $5 sunglasses until they literally snap in half from wear and tear (this is one thing I wish I *could* lose, as I've been wanting to invest in a quality pair for a while now since I know I wouldn't lose them)
  
  These and many other quirks explain my packrattedness. Not unrelatedly, it also explains at least one reason why Q hates me so.

So I had one of those brief, 5-minutes-before-you-wake-up dreams this morning that was unusual, even for me...

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We don't do a manger scene ourselves, but my parents used to, and now I would like to know why we did not continue the tradition of the caganer. I, for one, am outraged.

As some of you may know, my mutant superhero power is to identify voice actors in cartoons. The bigger names are easy, but you'll hear me saying things like, "That's the guy who played the Klingon in that TNG episode and then played that Cardassian on DS9." People are foolish enough to doubt me, but I'm almost always right (male voices moreso than women, though - I suppose that's my kryptonite).

So I've been watching Chowder lately (which is cute and funny), and it's an amusing little cartoon. I immediately recognized the voice of the wife, Truffles, as the same woman who does Toot on Drawn Together, Tara Strong. Looking her up on IMDb, however, I'm surprised that she also does:

• Ben on Ben 10
  
• Terrence on Foster's
  
• Princess Clara on Drawn Together
  
• Timmy Turner on Fairly OddParents
  
• Raven on Teen Titans
  
• Bubbles on Powerpuff Girls

Plus a lot more. Quite a resume.

Easily picked out was Dana Snyder, who seems to use the same voice for every character he does (most notably Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force). I didn't catch right away that Dwight Schultz, aka Reg Barclay from TNG, is the voice of Mung Daal, the head chef. I also didn't realize that the guy who voices Schnitzel, John Di Maggio, is the same guy who voices Bender on Futurama, but since all he says is, "Radda radda," I don't feel so bad about that one. :)

So, yeah, flexing those mad mutant skillz. Werd.