I appear to have some sort of home delivery curse. We had a sofa take nearly 3 months to turn up. Food delivery folk need to call us for directions every time we order, because google maps doesn't know our street exists, most sat nav systems direct deliveries up the lane, which is only a means of access to our building on foot, and some ordinance ( Read more... )

Technologies throughout my home are failing and breaking and generally causing me irritation, but for once my computer and the internet are robust, so what's my usual cure for woe ( Read more... )

Some updates on the state of me!

Building stress: Still stressful, but inching towards completion every day, so my state of mind is distinctly better than it was. Given that the work was meant to be completed in October last year it would be quite good for my emotional well-being if it was finished before October of this year, however.

Telly stuff: ( Read more... )

Can you actually die from laughing too much? Or does that only happen in Gotham?

Anyway, watched "The Rashomon Job" last night. About 20 hours later and my cheeks still hurt from the massive amounts of guffawing. I'm going to have to watch it again to catch the 50% of dialogue I didn't even hear over my own very undignified snort-laughing. I love ( Read more... )

Many people on my flist have been doing the 30 days of TV meme and I've enjoyed reading them. But due to procrastination and short(ish) answers, I'm just posting my answers in a oner.

Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled

Firefly. I know it's something of a go-to answer for many geeker types, but when someone asks that question my ( Read more... )

And some more Christmas pressies, this time for adult sized humans.

We'll start with my favourite of the bunch:


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