Welcome to Monday's...

Can I take your order?

No? Okay then, that's cool too.

I'm on the list to test for my Brown belt this month. I want to wait for Evan, but it'd be really cool to go ahead and move up to Brown. In the end, it won't have any effect on our testing for Black together to be one month off at this point. He's also got a very cavalier attitude about keeping up. He's just assuming I won't move ahead of him. Might be a small object lesson for him in there too.

I'm fairly confident that I can pass the test Outstanding without spending another month at Red, which is a very nice feeling. I'm getting more out of assisting with the kids classes than I expected. Bonus! If I were to spend another month at Red, I know I'd pull it for sure.

Had lunch yesterday with cerebrate, silmaril, and a couple other local DFs who aren't LJ enabled as of the moment. We ate at Jaleo in Bethesda,wandered over to the Hagen Daas across the street, and then hung out of the Barnes & Noble on the next corner down for a bit. Burned a gift card I'd recieved for Christmas and picked up Last Call by Tim Powers in the process. Hopefully I'll find it as enjoyable as all the other people I know who've read and suggested it in the past.

robeli updated me on our finances this morning and where we stand. We stand in a good place. My car has about 4900 miles before its next major service is required (120k is a big one, every 30k is), and the current tags and inspection both expire this April as well. I REALLY don't want to dump any money into it, but I don't want to replace it until we're debt free (excepting of course for the house, car(s), and monthly recurring), which should be May on our current schedule. You see the issue here, and how it ties in to my seemingly irrelevant opening. I REALLY don't want to dump ~$1000 into a car I'm planning on getting rid of a month later, but I refuse to ignore maintenance on a car as old as mine (I will have been driving it exactly 8 years on Tax Day 2005). Suckage, comma, major!

And hey, have a meme, courtesy of deza.

( Careful, or you might get hurt )

You sure you don't want a hot apple pie with that?

Welcome to Monday's...

Can I take your order?

No? Okay then, that's cool too.

I'm on the list to test for my Brown belt this month. I want to wait for Evan, but it'd be really cool to go ahead and move up to Brown. In the end, it won't have any effect on our testing for Black together to be one month off at this point. He's also got a very cavalier attitude about keeping up. He's just assuming I won't move ahead of him. Might be a small object lesson for him in there too.

I'm fairly confident that I can pass the test Outstanding without spending another month at Red, which is a very nice feeling. I'm getting more out of assisting with the kids classes than I expected. Bonus! If I were to spend another month at Red, I know I'd pull it for sure.

Had lunch yesterday with cerebrate, silmaril, and a couple other local DFs who aren't LJ enabled as of the moment. We ate at Jaleo in Bethesda,wandered over to the Hagen Daas across the street, and then hung out of the Barnes & Noble on the next corner down for a bit. Burned a gift card I'd recieved for Christmas and picked up Last Call by Tim Powers in the process. Hopefully I'll find it as enjoyable as all the other people I know who've read and suggested it in the past.

robeli updated me on our finances this morning and where we stand. We stand in a good place. My car has about 4900 miles before its next major service is required (120k is a big one, every 30k is), and the current tags and inspection both expire this April as well. I REALLY don't want to dump any money into it, but I don't want to replace it until we're debt free (excepting of course for the house, car(s), and monthly recurring), which should be May on our current schedule. You see the issue here, and how it ties in to my seemingly irrelevant opening. I REALLY don't want to dump ~$1000 into a car I'm planning on getting rid of a month later, but I refuse to ignore maintenance on a car as old as mine (I will have been driving it exactly 8 years on Tax Day 2005). Suckage, comma, major!

And hey, have a meme, courtesy of deza.

( Careful, or you might get hurt )

You sure you don't want a hot apple pie with that?

Welcome to Monday's...

Can I take your order?

No? Okay then, that's cool too.

I'm on the list to test for my Brown belt this month. I want to wait for Evan, but it'd be really cool to go ahead and move up to Brown. In the end, it won't have any effect on our testing for Black together to be one month off at this point. He's also got a very cavalier attitude about keeping up. He's just assuming I won't move ahead of him. Might be a small object lesson for him in there too.

I'm fairly confident that I can pass the test Outstanding without spending another month at Red, which is a very nice feeling. I'm getting more out of assisting with the kids classes than I expected. Bonus! If I were to spend another month at Red, I know I'd pull it for sure.

Had lunch yesterday with cerebrate, silmaril, and a couple other local DFs who aren't LJ enabled as of the moment. We ate at Jaleo in Bethesda,wandered over to the Hagen Daas across the street, and then hung out of the Barnes & Noble on the next corner down for a bit. Burned a gift card I'd recieved for Christmas and picked up Last Call by Tim Powers in the process. Hopefully I'll find it as enjoyable as all the other people I know who've read and suggested it in the past.

robeli updated me on our finances this morning and where we stand. We stand in a good place. My car has about 4900 miles before its next major service is required (120k is a big one, every 30k is), and the current tags and inspection both expire this April as well. I REALLY don't want to dump any money into it, but I don't want to replace it until we're debt free (excepting of course for the house, car(s), and monthly recurring), which should be May on our current schedule. You see the issue here, and how it ties in to my seemingly irrelevant opening. I REALLY don't want to dump ~$1000 into a car I'm planning on getting rid of a month later, but I refuse to ignore maintenance on a car as old as mine (I will have been driving it exactly 8 years on Tax Day 2005). Suckage, comma, major!

And hey, have a meme, courtesy of deza.

( Careful, or you might get hurt )

You sure you don't want a hot apple pie with that?