Canada has a marijuana board game. Now you too can experience the thrills and pitfalls of growing your very own pot!

I was going through my nightly rituals, and when I got to the part where I go potty I found that my period has started. I just took the last progesterone dose for the month this morning (they always stop on the 20th).

When I first started on these hormone treatments, in October, the period started on the 23rd. The second month, it started on the 21st. And now it’s starting before even a day has passed.

I wonder if this is a good thing, a bad thing, or if it means anything at all.

Lisa Marie Presley is keeping Graceland but selling the bulk of the Elvis estate, including rights to her father’s name and image, in a deal worth approximately $100 million.

Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. announced an agreement Thursday to sell 85 percent of its assets to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman, founder of music and sports promoter SFX Entertainment.

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Sillerman founded SFX Entertainment in 1977 and ran the company until it was bought by Clear Channel Communications in 2000.

Scary!

It looks to be a sweet deal for Lisa Marie, and hopefully Sillerman will have similar success. The question is what will happen when Sillerman moves on to another venture…

Imagine Clear Channel, even bigger than it already is.

The world is ending, isn’t it?

As promised, here’s the umeee pan.

Unfortunately, there isn’t a picture of a goat in this one. But rest assured, goat’s milk was used in the making of the bread! So it’s okay, see?

[Edit: I added an mp3! Umeee!! Here’s a link to the file, if you can’t see it under the picture above.]

Sometimes Tycho’s going for something when he writes, and I can kind of see where he’s going, but he doesn’t quite make it. Other times, he’s dead on. Today’s rantlet* on file sharing fits the latter category.

This sentence, and many others like it, brings joy to the depths of my language-loving soul.

This would have happened anyway of course, but just as the injudicious use of antibiotics creates devastating and unstoppable pathogens these applications will reach a true apex of distributed power, jamming a spigot into the very heart of pay media.

Check it out. First post, item II.

Oh wow, if I’d been drinking milk it would have spewed out my nose.

Last panel of today’s Questionable Content. O. M. G.

Today’s Ctrl-Alt-Del slays me.

Yes, I am still reading that.

Baughb is finally back on center stage. And he’s reminding me why I originally started reading. It’s because he’s kooky, a little deranged…and a lot smart.

I can’t wait to see what he does next.

Check these out, they’re good for a chuckle. (And written in what seems to be British slang, but all of my readers who aren’t David, don’t despair! You can guess the meaning by context.)

Japan’s dim crims go bananas in Year of the Monkey by Ryann Connell (How’s that for a headline?)

Skool’s out for Japan’s terrible teechas in 2004 also by Ryann Connell (Another winning title! The pattern seems to be “Goofy joke, followed by reference to the year”.)

Just in case you have several hundred bucks to spend on me for Christmas.

Valdesta Classico 750 Digital Piano New B Stock

(Thanks to AJ for finding something else I want that costs way too much money. ;>)

…at Sean’s work. I have no idea what it will be like or anything.

But because of it, I get to leave early today. I’ll be heading home as soon as Audrey gets in.

Fortunately, I’ve pretty much finished everything I can get done at the moment. The only problem is submitting the timesheets for the drivers, because I want to add a new one on, and that has to be done by the guys out in California, who may not even be open yet. The new guy may have to wait until the next pay period to get his check :(

I haven’t eaten anything yet…I figured it would be smart not to eat until the luncheon. I’m not sure why I thought that. I’m sitting here starving.

My weight keeps yo-yoing…silly holidays!

I just typed “chick” instead of “quick”. What does that mean, Dr. Freud?

I’ve been busy lately…spent the end of last week working hard on menu updates and corrections and formatting, because we’re about to publish the menu guide!!! :D Going to work on that this morning too.

We also had an office Christmas party on Friday :)

This weekend has been busy with Christmas stuff, too…I went to Wanda’s house on Saturday and helped her with her tree, and then she and I and her daughter Beth went shopping: Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and JC Penney. At Penney’s I met up with Cheryl and Reid, and we did our Christmas shopping for each other and Grandma Flo. Then they gave me a ride back to Wanda’s house so I could get my car. We were out until after midnight!

Then yesterday I cleaned up, wrapped presents, and started my marathon of cookie baking. The peanut butter flavored Black Eyed Susans are done, and the spritz Christmas trees are just waiting to be coated in white chocolate :) I have three other types of cookie in the fridge waiting to be finished and baked, as well as those three balls of gingerbread dough I haven’t used yet. I’m thinking I’ll just make them into little men.

I also worked on Christmas cards…late as usual, and I’m still not done. Out of country people, expect yours very late. Others, you may still get them on time…if there’s a Christmas miracle or something…

Well, I need to get to work on those menus! Happy Holidays, everyone!

I was trolling Hotjobs, as I’m prone to do, and I came across this entry:

Assistant Manager Vision Care Holdings, LLC Martinez, GA

You can’t imagine how fast I clicked. Here’s why, I think.

Assistant Manager: I would be in charge of stuff.

Martinez, GA: I live right near there! I can get there by walking ten feet that way!

Vision Care Holdings, LLC: This sounded unique. Like some great vision for the future. I wanted to know what kind of vision it was, and how this “Assistant Manager” would be a part of it.

Those of you with common sense will probably have guessed that it was not, in fact, an exciting, paradigm-shifting thought-position…that it was, obvious by the name, a retail prescription glasses store.

Eyeglass World, to be exact.

The sheer disappointment I felt–“Gah, retail“–really made me pause. What sort of job did I think it was going to be? Why did I assume it would be something other than hawking products? What do I want, what am I looking for, that makes me see groundbreaking, experimental management positions where none exist?

I want to be part of something–I want to be in charge of something–that is unique, exciting, dangerous, big, important, and highly rewarding. I want to be an idea person who actually gets things done. I want to be flexible, a troubleshooter, constantly growing and adapting. I want to face new challenges, to create challenges for myself that lead to the development of better things.

I was reading about Google’s new Suggest feature (in beta) at the Google blog the other day. It reminded me of how I felt when I first looked at Google’s employment page, and how I felt when I recently applied to a local company that seems more Silicon Valley than CSRA. Like I was on the verge of something cool, but I couldn’t quite get there.

I mean, listen to this:

The project stemmed from an idea I had a few months ago, and since then I’ve been working on it in my 20% time, which is a program where Google allows their employees to devote 20% of their working hours to any project they choose. What’s really amazed me about this project is how in a matter of months, working on my own, I was able to go from a lunch table conversation to launching a new service. In my opinion, this is one of the things that really makes Google a great place; that the company’s systems, resources and, most important, people are all aligned to make it as easy as possible to take an idea and turn it into something cool.

That is the kind of thing I want to be doing–not necessarily as an employee, though that seems to be the only road for me right now, but just in general. I want to be doing cool things that change how other things work. I want to mess with stuff and make it better.

I’m not a programmer, though. I studied programming some in high school and college, but I’m not gifted at it, and I don’t even particularly like it. It’s a means to an end for me.

What I want is to be able to revolutionize within the fields I am interested in.

That, I think, is why I feel so lost when I try to figure out what I’m going to do for the rest of my life. I have no idea where to even begin.

According to About.com’s About Japanese Language, the Japanese would think the following of me if they knew I was born in the year of the Horse.

Horse (uma) — Born 1990, 1978, 1966, 1954, 1942, 1930, 1918, 1906

People born in the year of the Horse are skilful in paying compliments and talk too much. They are skilful with money and handle finances well. They are quick thinkers, wise and talented. Horse people anger easily and are very impatient.