Hey there!

I’m still around, contrary to what this blog might lead you to believe. Sorry about the lack of posts but I seem to spend all my words on FriendFeed and twitter these days. I’ll try to do better but no promises. Before you continue, I request that you excuse the typos in this post. I’m working with new (cramped!) hardware that is affecting my typing but more on that later.

So!

What have I been up to of late? Let’s see, went down to Richmond, VA to visit with family and do some genealogy research. The visit was actually quite fruitful as there is stuff hidden in microfiche in the Library of Virginia that I would have never found elsewhere. <slight tangent>Why this data is locked away in microfiche format, I will never understand. Why hello 2009, you’re full of wonder and technology, surely this stuff should have been digitized by now. Alas no, and I’m fairly certain the Library of Virginia is not the only place that has treasure troves of information that can’t be found unless you visit.</slight tangent>

My trip led me to find out something I find quite important though. Up until then, I knew my grandmother died in her late 30’s but I had no idea my great grandmother also died very young. That knowledge freaked me out enough (I do have a fear of dying young you know) to finally bite the bullet and do the 23andme thing. I ordered the test last week, I should be getting the kit next week. I don’t know whether I’ll find out something reassuring or depressing but at least I’ll know. Perhaps I might hit the HIV resistant gene lottery too! Hey one can dream and if I do, I promise to share my DNA with my future kids.

Post Virginia trip, I drove up to Baltimore for the boyfriends birthday. I kind of arranged a nice get together/party thing for all his friends, with the help of his brothers and his best friends. He had a great time but people who get to bury their faces in cake-y cleavage usual have fun. I’d post the picture of him nose deep in cleavage cake but then you’d never hear from me again because I’d be dead. While I was in Baltimore, he got his condo on the market. The quicker it sells, the quicker he can move out here, finally. Then we can escape my current spider infested hellhole of an apartment and move in to someplace decent.

Post Baltimore, we flew back to the Bay area together and of course, we had the worst flight in the history of flying. I think the turbulence map that day showed nearly 60% of the contiguous 48 states covered with turbulence. I will be glad when I only have to fly once or twice a year. When we got back, his birthday present arrived; a Terps red Lenovo S10. It was so perfect and great that the next week, I blew my Amazon Associates money and got a pink one for myself. Look at the precious:

If you look closely at that picture, you’ll see my cute little S10 is running OS X. This is because I love OS X but the Macbook Air is far too expensive and doesn’t come in pink.

My eyelids force closing themselves tell me that I have stayed up later than they will allow. I’ll press post on this and come back with another post in 4-6 weeks when I have my 23andme results.