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Quite often, I will listen to the same song on repeat for several hours. Is this strange? Mrs. Elbeno thinks I'm certifiable. Maybe I am, but I don't think for my musical habits. In case you are wondering, songs which I have employed thusly include: Toxic – Britney Spears Lonely Rolling Star – from the… Continue reading Ask the LJ readership…

Mrs. Elbeno and I took a trip up to Universal City today. Had a free lunch (company summer picnic), and since we had been before it was nice to just wander about and take a look around the City Walk rather than try to see everything in the park. Since it was so hot we… Continue reading Universal Studios

Beginnings by Elbeno 1A. Short dance mix anticipated (2,3,5) 6A. Point: many a sailor breaks a strike (4) 9A. Girl cooling the French fiasco (7) 10A. This French herb has a tail (7) 12A. Chief follows a parasite found at a dinner party (8,5) 14A. Precisely implement: takes time (4,2) 15A. He's livid – play's… Continue reading My first crossword

Mrs. Elbeno and I took the car down to the local place for a minor service yesterday. We spent a pleasant Saturday morning wandering around the cafes and shops downtown. It was too early to see a movie, so we stopped in at a coffee shop and had a cup of cocoa and an almond… Continue reading Untitled

The most obscurely English page on the entire Internet. Molesworth meets Mornington Crescent. Coo ur gosh.

Couple of mornings ago, I was woken up at around 5.10am by two loud bangs that shook the house. “What was that?” I think… I figure it was a brief earthquake jolt of the kind that are common here, and went back to sleep. Today I realised what it really was… the Space Shuttle entering… Continue reading Sonic BOOM!

Just come back from Comic-Con in San Diego. Saturday we spent most of our time wandering the convention hall and looking at various booths. Mrs. Elbeno picked up volume 1 of Amazing Agent Luna (signed by the artist), and we both got J-List t-shirts. She got a blue Totoro shirt and I got a Domo-kun… Continue reading Comic-Con

Back from Montreal. It was hot! Over 30C (that's 90F) and humid with it. But we spent most of the time indoors in the air conditioning, or out and about at night when it was a little cooler. It was a productive trip, and I got a spare half hour to shop so I picked… Continue reading what I've been doing this week

This one for all of my 3 readers. 1. Put your playlist on shuffle. 2. Post the first lines to the first 10 songs to come up (along with these instructions). 3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post. Skip over Instrumental/Non-English/Extremely obscure/etc. Also, songs with the title in the… Continue reading Meme me a meme

I will be heading to Montreal next week. Flying out Tuesday morning and back Thursday evening. This morning I had the interesting experience of trying to navigate the corporate intranet and figure out how to book my flight and hotel using my brand new Travel & Expenses (T&E) credit card. I reckon we have one… Continue reading Montreal