This weekend was a little more low key than I expected (read: I took showers but ended up in my jammies each time and never really achieved escape velocity.)
I had planned to go visit the great white at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but you see how that plan went up in smoke.
Frankly, I have still been dealing with spotty outbreaks of that contact dermatitis that I got in July. The doctor mentioned this would happen and I was supposed to have weaned myself off of the good drugs slowly, but there is a sweet spot of about 3 days before I start to itch again (yes, I have an appointment in the works, but frankly, my faith in western medicine is dodgy at best and I am resorting to keeping the areas clean and attempting not to scratch the skin off of myself.)
Which brings me to my next point of the fact that I scratch in my sleep. I can put bandages or socks on my hand (which just makes me too warm and itchy) and now part of my hand looks like yuck personified. I’m sure its a bit infected, but the infection is at least something I know how to deal with, so I suppose its an improvement in my totally fucked up world-view.
More news later, but no pictures, I promise.
So, thisweekend was icky and somewhat painful, but bearable, and then we get to this morning.
I got up, dealt carefully with the shower and icky poo hand then proceeded to knock on of my favorite mugs on the ground (Starbucks insulated with glow in the dark skeletons from halloween-sigh) and dealt with drivers that JUST DON’T CARE, then read through Eden’s post…
About a third of the way through, I thought to myself, “This had better not be a snuff entry.” Sure enough, Jake-dog died and now I have a meeting and my eyes are all red.
Great, they think I am weird enough anyway.
Speaking of pets, Bunny is fine, but insanely worried about me and my icky poo hand. Her meows are worried ones (yes, I can tell the difference and she’s part Siamese, so she has a big vocabulary including the cat equivalent of personalized ringtones.) Anyhoo, she kept waking me up to check to see I was still alive.
Yes, dear. I know how you feel… You might recall July.

Anyway. I’ll keep an eye on things and write up the aftermath of what I am sure will be a spectacular day. (Not.)

Shanghai Dynasty – a strategy mahjong tile puzzle game at Lil’ Games

I’ve forgotten how fun this game is… they have it for Nintendo DS, but its a japanese release and I can’t quite rationalize paying $50 for it…
ah well.
flash online for free is good.

je m’appelle fredlet: communication skills – zefrank
“Wednesday, November 17, 2004
communication skills – zefrank

I think I’m a little in love with ze frank.

posted by fredlet at 4:46 PM “

Updated love here.

http://astore.amazon.com/fredletreccommen

Oh yeah…
Originally uploaded by fredlet.

I forgot to mention, here’s how I travel without a laptop. =;)

I threw up.
Originally uploaded by fredlet.

(No, I didn’t throw up.)
Chicago pics up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredlet/tags/chicago/

Croc family
Originally uploaded by fredlet.

I think I need one more color… red maybe.

Tex wants pink.

And I’m sure y’all think I am sniffing the Gorilla Glue as well…

it wasn’t horribly broken, but the snap closure came off of the base with the flappy thing was there with both the male and female bits oof the snap on the end of it (hermaphroditic nano wallet?).
Anyhoo, somehow I managed to make it home with both parts of the snap and decided to try this glue I got for backpacking.
Its called Gorilla Glue and it KICKS ASS!
I gave up on super glue a long time ago since I tend to break weird shit like shoes and bags and computers. This stuff set between leather and metal snaps. So far so good.
Go get some now… :)

Hee hee
I saw a lady in the elevator wearing crocs with some of these after we had just had a conversation about them in the hotel room (and I saw TONS of people wearing crocs in Chicago.)
I want to get some letters to spell FRED.
=:)

—–Original Message—–
From: Jen Trance
Sent: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:

OK, even though I do not approve…. http://jibbitz.com/

Hey, I have a kick ass embroidery machine and I lack any sort of sewing skills that are more than a straight line.
Does anyone want to go into bizness with me to have me get the material, embroider it up all pretty and have you sew it into something?
We can (after costs) split the proceeds from EBay, our own online store (I have store software available on my hosting co.) or wherever…
Anyone? Anyone?

Fly.
Anywhere.
Jeebus people, really. What the hell is the matter with you? You all have the manners of a goat with mental problems.

So. Anyway.
Weekend was good.
Really good. I think that even if Jen, Kari, Mare and I just holed up in a nice hotel room and gabbed, had room service (and some male strippers for good measure) we would have a winner of a weekend.
We did a little shopping, a little drinking, a lot of in-depth discussion about topics that I won’t mention, I showed them how to do Jacob’s Ladder on a tied up shoelace and I drank an entire pot of coffee each morning.
I miss them dreadfully.
Also, I kinda dig Chicago.
I don’t love New York and most major cities leave me a little cold, but Chicago was more organic than I expected. It bears (hee) more research.
Plus I need to see the Aquarium.