Hec, do you have a book titled 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, volume 1? Do you know about it? I just saw it and thought of you.

Congrats megan! I've tended to move on the cheap, and I've actually had the best luck with the USPS (I can pack a box to 79.5 lbs, just squeaking under the 80 lb limit). When I used actual movers, they were for crap and broke a bunch of my stuff. Do you have restrictions on how you can spend your moving allowance? When I moved back to Alaska, I had to submit bids, and my work paid for the low bid, which may be why my mover moving experience was so awful.

Panic and drunkeness are a really sad combination.

I have a friend whose teenage son went out drinking in the wilderness with some friends to celebrate high school graduation. In his drunken state, he thought it would be a good idea to rumble around in the bushes at night, making his friends think he was a bear. In their drunken state, they thought that it would be a good idea, after yelling that they were going to shoot (and getting no response), to shoot blindly into moving bushes, rather than staying inside the cabin. They ended up shooting him in the leg. All could have been saved, but in their drunken state they thought it was a good idea to pack all six of them into a subcompact car and drive the hour and a half to the nearest hospital, rather than stopping at the well-marked emergency phone to call for help. He bled to death on the way. Even if some of them had stayed behind so that he could lie down in the car with a tourniquet, my understanding is that he likely would have made it. They just did every single thing wrong.

Hec, do you have a book titled 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, volume 1? Do you know about it? I just saw it and thought of you.

::Lets Hec answer, but bounces up and down in her chair::

::joins in the bouncing::

Have I mentioned yet today that I am bursting with pride and love for Hec and swooning lately over his spicy brains? Because I am.

Eek! Is that Hec's book? I knew the topic was right, and saw the editor was a David, but it was a different last name.

I just got called into the Big Boss' office. It sort of terrifies me every time, but he's always so supportive and helpful when I say, "I've never done that before." He's like Bizzaro Boss.

He is. The students actually liked him, but nothing beat 25 years of baseball paraphernalia. I love that library (even more now).

sarameg, I need some of those sporks. I am ready to hurt an entire department. The last 3 hours have been spent dealing with this crap, and it made me miss the rest of the hockey conversation.

Question for the hivemind: I need a filing cabinet that doesn't look like a filing cabinet to sit in the open next to a small writing desk. What stores do I need to be lookin at?

yeah...wrod. But of course, ours has a different vibe.(I say ours because my mother still mentions how awesome the soul mix is every time we play it. "Gee, this must have taken him *hours*!" and how all the tracks are so perfect.

libkitty, it's not his book, but it is the series he's writing for right now. Corwood is contributing a volume, too, and there may be another Buffista or two whose name(s) I'm blanking on, for which I totally apologize.

I knew the series was chugging along reasonably well, but I had no idea things were good enough to issue a Greatest Hits. That news is made of awesome!

Seriously chugging along: [link]

Hee. I was debating whether or not to post, so I'm glad you did.

One of the more fun lectures I've ever had. Of course, when I got home and was trying to impress Mr. Jane, I forgot some of it.

Also made of awesome is this video: [link]

(Warning: do not watch if you do not like toddlers swearing and/or lugging around a beer bottle.)