...Calgary and Area are under a state of emergency as a huge chunk of Southern Alberta is flooding. *sigh*

Alberta flood: 'I watched couches go by. It's insane'
Witnesses share their first-hand experiences with massive floods

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I watched The Reflecting Skin this afternoon. From a completist's standpoint, fantastic, it's one more Viggo film I can scratch off my To Watch list. (It remains on the To Acquire list, just because I watched it off the PVR and deleted it after.) Viggo was interesting as always, and while his acting has a little more of a raw, unrefined edge to it ( Read more... )

Oh, and further to the Rapture thing, The Calgary Herald apparently posted this picture today. No idea who took it, sorry, but I do know exactly where it was taken. ^_^

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♥ Happy Canada Day! ♥

Canada is 143 years old today, and of course this means that today my Flist gets a larger-than-average dose of Canadiana! I've done trivia and picspams and info posts in the past, and while I had vague ideas for what I was going to do today, I got a request for this year's theme to be "Creepy Canada," and that sounded way more ( Read more... )

For those who are keeping track, which would be me and... me, my fiction index has been updated. (Just FYI, don't let such tasks lie fallow for eight months, because then it's just a big friggin' chore.) It's now current, and includes some stuff I haven't yet crossposted to LJ whoops. (I also fixed some alphabetical errors in my Sharpe section. WTF ( Read more... )

I am utterly thrilled by the fuzzy flurry of puppies on my profile. *mwah* Thank you, guys! You're fantastic. ♥Called the comp guys yesterday afternoon, since I hadn't heard from them yet on my laptop woes. Turns out I was bang on: the fan and DVD drive need replacing. They've ordered the needed parts, and now it's a waiting game. They're hoping ( Read more... )

Um. So, ok. I'm... well, I'm a little grossed out. And creeped out.

It's kinda early, I know. I couldn't sleep very well, mostly because I was wondering WTF was going on in the backyard last night. (Anybody who saw the ETAs on my last post'll know what I'm talking about ( Read more... )

Some of you may have already seen this, but it has been making me smile for days now, so I have to pass it on.

Scene-stealing squirrel crashes Banff tourist photo


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Note to self: No more dahlias. They're pretty, but they attract aphids like fuck, and the cure is always as bad as the disease. Jesus. Also, stop killing off a third of all the lobelia you buy every year. Plant early, water often. (This is in stark contrast to my usual method, which is: "Plant when I get around to it; oh fuck, do they need water ( Read more... )

And in case I'm out of steam for Canada Day, I'm going to repost a non-fiction primer that I wrote for toft_froggy when she asked for recommendations on how to learn more about Canada a little while ago. It's not as entertaining as a poll or a picspam, but... man, I'm beat. Seriously. And really, if you've ever wanted to learn a little more about Canada as a ( Read more... )