I am retiring after a pretty great day. After brunch and painting, the kids and I grocery shopped (rare I can get both of them to go with me and get stuff that THEY like in addition to what I like), K-Bug made dinner, and then another friend came over for cake and Cards against Humanity.

Actual birthday will be a bit boring in comparison. Ah, well.

Not sure if I mentioned it, but CJ got me the basic Kindle, so I'm going to try to get back to being a more active reader. I need suggestions!!!

-t, I think we should totally dress up to the nines for our Napa excursion.

Ooh, I change my vote to urban art.

I know I have a third one to round it out. I just have to find it.

Hey, omnis, good to see you.

Generally speaking I disapprove of verbing nouns or any other non-verb part of speech. However, I must admit that I rather like the newly verbed verb "to nope". It is both soothing to the ear and vividly efficient in conveying in one syllable the idea of backing away from some undesirable thing saying "Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope."

I have a different reaction of Internet/fannish verbing nouns and nouning verbs than I do to corporate/organizational instances, and am much more likely to support the first.

Also, I can see the nope-topus in my head right now.

Argh -- I am SO ANGRY to be going to work right now. I'm definitely going to leave early, assuming I even make it in. This is ridiculous.

Stay safe, Jesse.

Sorry, Jesse.

Now that you mention it, Lee, yeah, we should!

Do not want to be awake. Oh well.

After two days of above-freezing weather, it's now below freezing, which means there's ice everywhere. So the walk to the train was a bit stressful. I am gonna transfer to a CTA train in Evanston on my way home, which will drastically reduce the amount of walking I have to do.

So of course I had no problems commuting! Mostly thanks to the fact that no one else was out, I'm sure.