Well, there was sun out there. I saw some. I even saw some of that slanting, mellow, golden light that's so lovely and thought, "This would've been a good morning to head to that wind farm in Wyoming County." Though I'll probably never see another day to replicate the one I didn't stop for last fall. But since it's a drive of about an hour, when I'm seeing the aforementioned light is not the time to pack up and go. Dawn is the time to pack up and go. Perhaps I'll go that way and catch I-90 at Pembroke when I go to Sterling later this summer. Though that seems kind of silly; 390 at Dansville is much shorter, I think. I'll have to consult some maps.
However. It is suddenly rather grey out there, and I guess we're going to get the rain we're forecast for. Drat. Ah, well. I shouldn't be out cemetery tromping anyway (not that I was really planning it. I was really planning to be lazy today), not until I've finished editing all the pictures I took last summer.
I've already accomplished an accomplishment this morning: I hauled nine weeks' worth of trash out to the dumpster (you can tell by the number of bags of kitty litter), as well as some of the stuff I described yesterday. Fortunately, the dumpster was emptied on schedule, so there was nothing in it but a pizza box and one bag from someone else. I think I used up about a quarter of it.
*sigh* The puppy next door is barking for my dogs to come out and play with him -- which has really got to annoy all the other neighbors. K says that when he wants to play, he stands where he's got a good view of my dining room window and barks at it, either until his friends magically appear or until K calls him in. Unfortunately for him, his friends are not going to magically appear this time, 'cause I'm about to go take a shower.
If I didn't have to go out later to unlock the youth center, I might just put my jammies back on and crawl back into bed for a nap (and then have a jammie day). Sheila woke me up with whimpering at 4:00, and I was already having crappy dreams about HTWIWM, and thinking it must be Monday (because I'd planned to get up early so I could get the trash taken care of and get back), and then trying to figure out the logistics of not feeding Deuce while still feeding all the other animals on Wednesday (!) morning when she goes to the vet to have her teeth cleaned, so I'm a little tired.
Bleah. Bleah, I say.
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Who is your favorite fictional engineer?
Scotty is, naturally awesome. He can take over command in a pinch, he knows his booze and anyone who slags the ship gets a punch in the face.
Geordi LaForge? Well, he's okay, but he's no fun. He's like any other Starfleet officer. The job will be accomplished and sometimes in an awesome way, but there's not much there to work with.
Torres? Should have let Carey stay on. Have Torres be a 'Jack of all Trades' on the ship. It certainly needed it.
O'Brien was awesome. Even his clones kicked ass.
But Kaylee from Serenity. She has 'it'. No, not being hot (but she is).
Hard to define but I'd pick her to run my engines any day. She loves her job and it shows.
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| User: |  lots42 |
| Date: | 2010-03-21 06:01 |
| Subject: | Bagged |
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I've been bagging up my book inventory. Great way to protect them from the flea market elements. And people who pace sodas everywhere willy-nilly.
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The pants are looong. So was yesterday. And much like the pants, it does not go on my head. Although it feels like it did.
Seems like I do not react well to the alarm.
Who does?
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| User: | sharan |
| Date: | 2010-03-21 00:03 |
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Happy belated birthday, demonicsymphony, ilikethequiet, minervacat, and rapunzelita!
And happy birthday, stellastars and thecomingnight!
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After twenty-some years I was finally able to reunite a Crankcase figure I own with an AWE Striker vehicle I own. Awesome.
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Look, ninja snow angels!
http://www.minnak.net/quietpicture/wp-content/2008/03/080321-2.jpg
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- I wish I spoke French. (I was going to say "better French," but my French was never that good to begin with).
- I wish I could draw.
- I wish I were more patient with the dogs and cats.
- I wish I were more patient in general.
- I wish I were a better writer.
- I wish I had more energy.
- I wish I were braver.
- I wish I hadn't allowed myself to get
fat chubby.
- I wish I'd realized something was wrong.
- I wish I could actually talk to the people that I love.
- I wish I could have as many ideas for original fiction as I do for fan fiction.
- I wish Faramir had died and Boromir had lived. (Just checking to see if anyone is paying attention.)
- I wish my house were in one piece.
- I wish maintaining a house were easier.
- I wish I properly understood the use of the subjunctive.
- I wish he'd given us a proper chance to get it right before running away.
- I wish I had a better eye for decorating.
- I wish I could teleport.
- I wish the chipmunks would go live in someone else's yard.
- I wish he still loved me.
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My feet hurt and I'm tired and I'm giving up for the day, with the closet unfinished. He To Whom I Was Married left quite a lot of garbage stacked up in that closet. Some¹ of it has been transferred to the garage for later sale. Some² has been transferred to the breezeway to be loaded into the van and dragged to the dumpster tomorrow (I hope the rain holds off until after about 8:00 a.m.; I should be back home by then. I also hope the dumpster was emptied yesterday like it was supposed to be). Some³ has been left where it is for the time being, until I can get some paper boxes from work to transfer it into and then haul it to the garage for later sale.
I did, however, accomplish all of my chores and get the bathroom scrubbed.
I think I'm going to go out later and buy a steak; I thought I still had one in the freezer, but I guess that's what I used the last time I made beef soup. Then I'm going to have steak and a baked potato for supper, probably with a salad for a vegetable.
Doesn't that sound exciting?
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¹ Coffee table books, a leather cowboy hat, some nice bags.
² Ancient dot matrix printers, diskettes, a hand-made wooden assault rifle that was a Halloween prop a few years back.
³ Various computery bits and bobs: SIMMs, CD drives, a webcam...and so on.
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I am feeling really lazy today, which is not a good sign since I Have Plans For The Day:
Things I Want To Accomplish: - Finish cleaning out library closet (the problem with this is that all the knick knackery that normally lives in the living room/dining room is currently squatting in the library closet so that I don't have to keep moving it back and forth)
- Move curtain/table linen dresser into library closet
- Finish cleaning library floor
- Sort and file Important Papers lying on library desk
- Clean bathroom¹ since I am having company next Friday and it won't get done if I don't do it today
Things I Will Accomplish: - Change kitty litter
- Vacuum
- Laundry
Get groceries- Pay end-of-month bills
Things I Won't Accomplish, But Will Think About: - Second coat of mud in bedroom
- Starting to scrape donated bathtub for upstairs
- Making headway in basement office
- Sanding first coat of mud in living/dining room
- Going stark, raving mad. Mad, I say. Mad!
It's supposed to be another nice day today, though a bit overcast. It's supposed to be in the mid-50s; if it were going to be sunny all day, it might hit 60, which would be warm enough to hang my laundry outside. I think, however, I'll wait another couple of weeks. We're getting to the tipping point, though, where it becomes more efficient to hang it outside than the basement because the temperature and/or humidity shifts in the basement and it starts to take things much longer to dry. There's also the little matter of not feeling like scrubbing down the laundry lines.... (I did say I was feeling lazy.)
Netflix surprised me by deliverying series 6 of As Time Goes By yesterday. It was a surprise because a) I hadn't realized that they'd skipped series 6 and gone straight to series 7 and b) I'd only received series 7 the day before and put it in yesterday's mail. I checked my account details and the billing and level were correct, but my queue showed two disks out at once. So I'm a little confused about it. Not enough to actually do something about it, like ask them what's up (did I mention lazy?).
I suppose I'd better get to work before I fall asleep at my desk. (Did I mention lazy? Perhaps I should upgrade that from lazy to pretty gosh-darned tired.)
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*One of these things is not entirely accurate.
¹ The one that's, you know, actually a room, not a hole.
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| User: | lots42 |
| Date: | 2010-03-20 07:15 |
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According to customerssuck I hate women.
WTH.
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So if a ninja dressed up like a pirate, would he have to fight himself?
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| User: | sharan |
| Date: | 2010-03-20 00:02 |
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Pyromania and Love-Muffins: Hmph. I decided to go to WickedMart to purchase some incendiary supplies this morning¹ ( Read more... )
A Bit Of History: I received the new deed and the title search to my house (mine!) in the mail the other day. ( Read more... )
The Perils of Home Ownership: I had been hoping for a quiet (i. e., not busy) weekend this weekend, but alas, I fear it is not to be. ( Read more... )
Miscellany: Oh, and the Paris trip? If I really thought I could do it, I have a volunteer to stay with the dogs for the week. But I still don't think I can get that much money together in only six months. Another time, perhaps.
I do intend to submit my passport application this coming week, though. I have to take Deuce to the vet's office on Wednesday, so I'll be taking the day off work. I'll probably also get my hair trimmed for the first time that day, too.
I know. Such excitement. I don't know how my heart can take it.
Footnotes: ( Read more... )
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bathing-machine: A covered vehicle used at the seaside resorts of Britain in which bathers dressed. [William Whitney's Century Dictionary, 1889]
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| User: | lots42 |
| Date: | 2010-03-19 04:44 |
| Subject: | Yo Joe |
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I'm not sure 'Colonel Courage' is a suitable name for any G.I.Joe character, much less a neat freak desk jockey.
And yes, he has a Wikipedia article.
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