It took someone else saying it but yes, this is in fact the dark quarter of the year. Days get shorter. I never quite thought of it in those terms, is all. But even so, and even getting up at 11:30 after going back to sleep after the 8:15 pee break (and in spite of telling myself 'only two hours') I got a wash on the line by 1 which dried in the ( Read more... )

Days melt into each other, largely because they're all raining, or about to rain, or just finished raining for the moment. I believe I got out briefly on Thursday to the library and Friday to the super, in between thunderstorms. Yesterday was cooler but just as wet so I stayed in. Today however a great wind blew dryness in and I finally got out ( Read more... )

I've had this program called chair pilates for a year now and done a couple of the exercises, but before the operation a lot of it was just too iffy. Now I've decided to get serious about exercise so, battling my 'shan't' reflex all the way, I've started up again. Chair or no chair, I'm panting at the end of each ten minute segment. And I can't do ( Read more... )

I was never one for webcomics but I seem to have fallen for Questionable Content. Only I just realized that its large cast of characters and their complicated relationships- that I still haven't got straight onaccounta coming in at ep 200 or whatever-- feels exactly the same as the entries I read on my FFL or on various people's networks. Both are ( Read more... )

To wit, my comments finally loaded to DW. Now if I need cat waxing opportunities, I can go delete all those duplicate entries ( Read more... )

Third time's the charm. Which is to say, my LJ exported to DW the third time I tried the 'import content' function. Except the comments didn't Import. Have tried to reimport twice, and as before with the entries, I get an 'import failed' message. I also get duplicated entries from 2015 onwards when I started cross-posting. Not sure if I'll try for ( Read more... )

Tried importing my LJ to DW. Tried twice, actually. It imported everything but the entries. If LJ goes down, there goes everything from 2004 to mid-2015 ( Read more... )

So there's this stretch I do for hip flexxors, where you lie at the edge of the bed and let the leg on that side fall down, then pull your other leg to your chest. It was the one stretch that allowed me to bend my legs at any kind of angle, pre-op. My bed is high and the left leg didn't touch the floor so the stretch was really good. But it didn't ( Read more... )

Why doesn't DW autosave entries when it says it does? Second time this week. Open a new tab, go back to the old, entry has vanished ( Read more... )

Somewhere in this here journal I noted that the coda to Bede's story about the sparrow* in the meadhall was actually a pasage from a Russian short story by I think Gogol. Can't find it anywhere, can't think what else I might have tagged it with, cannot find it online, cannot find it ( Read more... )