Domestic Geek

Man, we had some wicked weather here last night! Right about the time last night, the wind whipped up and rain came down so hard it stripped leaves off of trees and I couldn't see my neighbor's trailer. It knocked our satellite reception out for about a half hour. Made me miss the end of "How I Met Your Mother." Grrrrr. Oh, well. There was significant street flooding around town and several tornado warnings. It let up after about an hour, but rained steadily for most of the evening. It was so freaking humid today because of it. Ugh. At least tonight was calm and let me watch the Gilmore Girls series finale. I'm really pissed that Rory turned down Logan's marriage proposal last week. I'm sure that is just some of my own issues from college rearing its ugly head, but it was still lame.

Ten Songs That Make Me Sad

1. Alone - Heart
2. November Rain - Guns 'N' Roses
3. Christmas Shoes - Newsong
4. Space Oddity - David Bowie
5. Telephone Line - ELO
6. The Show Must Go On - Leo Sayer
7. I Try - Macy Gray
8. Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
9. Don't Walk Away - ELO (Xanadu Soundtrack)
10. Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Last week I finally got enough courage up to talk to my supervisor about getting trained to become a Prepress Operator (I'm a Preflight Technician now). Basically, they get to do the cool stuff — fixing the files, setting them up in the imposition software, etc. I had already taken the online class that taught the basics of using the imposition software and I did quite well. Well, he agreed that it was time that I start learning and he knows that I'm a fast learner. Things kept coming up last week that kept me from being able to start training, but today I finally got to sit down with an operator and start going over the basics. Yay! The guys I work with on first shift are extremely helpful and really nice, so I know I'll get the hang of it all really soon.

Poor Harry Potter didn't adjust well to life after Hogwarts (according to the comedy troop The Monkey Box. WARNING: The following video has adult themes.

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A few years ago, I really started to become a Mary Engelbreit fan. She does such wonderful, colorful illustrations. I found out that she had a retail store and vowed that one day I would visit it. Well, for some reason, I had it in my head that it was was up North somewhere. Well, I was looking at her site yesterday trying to get inspiration for a project I'm working on and I found out her store is in the Galleria Mall in St. Louis, MO. The very same mall Marcus and I went to the Apple Store in when we spent a few days in St. Louis three years ago. D'oh! We even strolled around the mall for a bit, but didn't make it to the section that had the ME store. Argh! So close. Marcus promised that on the next trip to Tennessee to visit his folks, we can stay in St. Louis again so that I can go to that store.