The Philosopher's Stone

Medical Marijuana Requests Climb

Dispensers say that more people are requesting medical marijuana. I can't help but wonder if doctors are accepting "depression due to unemployment" as a medical conditioning warranting its prescription now. Maybe Greenspan could track this statistic instead of the men's underwear index.

It's Snowing in Georgia in April.

Right outside my house. Nothing heavy, at least yet. And I don't think the ground is cold enough for any to accumulate. But still.

Update: Weather.com shows it as 41 degrees here right now, so it's almost certainly not going to accumulate, and also unlikely to last long.

Update 2: The snow has stopped with no accumulation, as expected. Now it's bright and sunny out.

No Place Like Home

Just a short update today, and more to come later in the week. We're back home safe and sound (actually we got in late Sunday night), and though I had a lot of fun, I'm very glad to be back.

Mawwiage...

...is what bwings us togevvew today.

Thus wrote my brother (and best man) on the inside of the card he gave me for my wedding yesterday.

I expected the big event to be a bit of a chore. I'm not a big fan of dressing up all fancy, nor of being the center of attention, nor of overdone ceremonies. However, as it turns out I had an absolute blast. It was honestly one of the most fun days of my life. As my oldest friend (and groomsman) Dan Baker said to me, "You should do this every year." If it weren't for all the work that went in to setting it up and, most importantly, the fact that I don't want to marry anybody else, I'd be tempted to agree.

I'd like to leave a public an sincere thanks to all of my friends and family who helped out to make everything come together. I can't imagine it having gone any smoother than it did.

Tonight we're in Disney World enjoying our honeymoon - so don't expect to hear much from me this week. But we have a brand new digital camera, so I'll probably post some spiffy pictures sometime next week to make up for it.  :)

My Dad Has A Cuckoo Clock

For some reason, every time I hear it cuckoo off the hour, it just cracks me up to know that my dad has one.

300 + 300 + Hot Fuzz = Birthday Goodness

Yeah, so Morgon bought me 300 (both the graphic novel and the new movie) for my birthday, and her mom got me Hot Fuzz.

:D

'Nuff said.

US Death Toll In Iraq at 8 Month Low

Whether it's a sign that "the surge" is working or just a statistical outlier, it's good news and I'm glad for it. May all our soldiers come home safely to their families and friends.

Woot! Cookie Cake!

So I lucked out a little bit. Now that I'm telecommuting, I'm typically out of the office. Our new HR people have started doing a cookie cake once a month for all the birthdays of that month. I'm going to be gone most of August. However, they procrastinated very badly for July, and so the cookie came today - which just so happens to be the day before my birthday. I'm quite happy to count that as a birthday cookie cake (or at least use that as an excuse to get two pieces :D ), so it's all good.

The Little Things

Every now and then something causes me to stop and wonder at how much nicer life is than it used to be. No, I don't mean all the standard examples of things like medical technology (which is leaps and bounds better than it was even ten years ago), better computer technology (do I even need to say anything?) and so forth. I'm talking about the little things in life.

Take, for instance, t-shirt tags. Yes, t-shirt tags. I was noticing this as I put my t-shirt on this morning after my shower. Instead of adding a hideously uncomfortable tag, modern t-shirts have the tag information stamped right on the inside. No more tag sticking up, no more itchy tag on your neck. Yet all the information is still there. Everybody wins.

Tagless t-shirts: just one more miracle of modern technology.

Stayin' Alive

I'm not dead yet!

Apologies to all for the lack of updates recently. We just closed on the new house on Thursday last week (closing got moved back from Tuesday), rented a U-Haul, moved everything out of storage and piled it into a big honkin' mess in the new house, then hopped in a car Friday morning to go to my cousin Becky's wedding in Williamsburg, VA. Then we drove back on Sunday, and I didn't even have internet here until yesterday.

Bleh. I'm so tired and ready for this summer to be over. In two weeks time I'll be relaxing at Disney World on my honeymoon and so much happier for it! Then, I get to come home and actually relax for a while.