Thanks, Burrell.

ita, hope the interview is going (went?) well! Will look for updates on the test.

Circle swim is the devil.

I concur.

Most people don't do flip turns. Even those swimming masters don't. I only do them for the first handful of laps then I go back to just turning at the wall.

I'm trying to make my small patch of land bird- and bee- and small-animal-friendly.

Yay! Me too. Unfortunately some of the things that make for good habitat (like leaving dead trees in place) are against neighborhood standards.

Also, yay taunty quail!

I'd love to plant something other than grass in my yard, but since my property connects to my neighbor's (as does my house) anything I plant in my yard will eventually be in their yard, and they may not care for that. The yard is not flat, either, which makes design-for-use difficult, at least for me.

I wish I could have bought an older ranch style house with a few acres around it, like what I had before in Nashville, but I couldn't afford that here.

I kind of want to arrange for landscapers for my tiny front yard, because my mother claims she's going to deal with it, but hasn't yet! Oy.

I'm so looking forward to moving someplace where I never have to think about a yard again.

I feel like I could maintain a low-maintenance plan that someone else set up, but I guess we'll see....

I'd love to develop a wildlife-friendly yard. Getting property would probably be key.

Motley Crue put on a good show, and had LOTS OF FIRE EFFECTS. Nikki Sixx had a bass that was also a flamethrower. I WANT ONE.

I think I stand for the rest of humanity, Jilli, when I say that you with a guitar flamethrower is a bad idea.

Motley Crue put on a good show, and had LOTS OF FIRE EFFECTS. Nikki Sixx had a bass that was also a flamethrower. I WANT ONE.

Saturday, come on faster.

Well karate sucked today. I haven't been to group class in a while for a multitude of reasons, but got there today. We were going through our defensive techniques and I kept getting dizzy. I'd take a moment, get the room to stop spinning and then jump back in, only to repeat the process. When we moved on to working with eachother, she pulled me aside to work with one of the other sensei's so I could go slower, but I fell apart and ended up with a full on crying meltdown in the back of the dojo. Embarassing as hell. I did jump back in eventually, going very slow and analyzing stuff, so I still learned things - but didn't get much cardio in.

If this is a side effect of moving to the gabapentin, I'm going to be pissed.