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This has been one hell of a week.
As most of you who care a smidgen must have understood, our cat is no longer with us. He rests beneath a white-violet covered mound of stone, surrounded by red clover and lady's mantle. We found a good lot of earthworms when we planted the violets, so it's my firm belief that he is well where he is. Period of mourning is over and we're looking forward to Friday, when we're picking up a kitten of thirteen weeks. I thought that this might be a bit early, but as Ida claims she cannot live without a cat and has very reasonably explained that she's expecting a completely different personality from what we lived with and not a replacement, I gave my okays. Hopefully this little lady will be as self-sustaining and willing to roam the outdoors as the late gentleman - and, if I'm being granted wishes here - she'll shed a lot less.
In other pet related news, I picked up an expensive new darling for my fish-tank just yesterday. I've tentatively called it Professor Leopold as we wait and see if we can ever distinguish a gender marking of sorts - it's not an ancistrus type pleco but an entirely different type of family, so apparently it won't grow a beard like Doctor Frank eventually will. Either way, he's keeping to himself at the moment despite the curious peering and stalking from the other two fish. Hopefully he'll fit right in and start eating soon.
My WoW account - which I have been abusing terribly lately - has been hacked by way of key-logger that I presently purged along with a lot of other disgusting little things I found in my hdd when I arrived back home. About 4k gold lost, as well as a couple of items from my death knight, but after a couple of days of waiting, GMs made certain I was reimbursed everything that was lost me, and I got to keep the stacks of saronite and jewels that the farmers had picked up while running around Sholazar basin ruining my plate armour for their own ends. At least they maxed my mining skill and got me leveled through exploration. Thanks for the help there, Blizzard, prompt responses and customer service has always been your forte.
As we're moving soon now - early fall '09 appears to be the time of choice for most of everyone to move; I know five people living out of boxes as of the moment - today I made a round of calls that had to be done. Let it be said here and now that I loathe electronic id's of all sorts, and that after having given them three separate attempts across the years I will be relying on paperwork from now on. Good grief, this was a day not very well spent at all. I thought I had noodles to treat my ravenous gut with when I was done with the harassing amount of calls, but it turned out I didn't, so I'm had to go with hard bread sandwiches again. For shame. At least we got salami yesterday, and the Indian cardamom coffee I picked up a while ago is still to die for. I need to find another distributor, because two hundred grams is not worth $7, no matter how delicious.
On the eighth I asked Ida if she would like to be engaged with me. She said yes, and I pressed a ring onto her finger. Then we had supper and mascarpone cheesecake with blackberries that I'd made for the special occasion. And that was that.
Last, and possibly least, I've started planning for the upcoming NaNoWriMo this November. For those who've known me a while, you will remember that I do this every year, powered at full steam, to fail at about ten thousand words. And that this has been going on since '03, and I've never completed it once. It will most likely go the same way this year, but I am not deterred, and have an idea I will actually enjoy writing this time around. No qualms about boring protagonists when they are in fact the antagonists of the story may help, as I never seem to be able to center a story around the good guys. We shall see where this one goes.
How many of you are thinking about joining in? Spinning ideas yet?
TL;DR getting new cat, picked up new fish, wow got hacked, moving stress, got engaged, planning nanowrimo, won award for writing long winded journal posts. celebrating with picture spam.
Doctor Frank, master of physics, defies gravity all day long.
Professor Leopold and his leotard suit.
Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, sports a black monocle.
And a smashing moustache.
I picked up new dress shoes yesterday.
And a pair more comfortable, but still highly attractive.
As most of you who care a smidgen must have understood, our cat is no longer with us. He rests beneath a white-violet covered mound of stone, surrounded by red clover and lady's mantle. We found a good lot of earthworms when we planted the violets, so it's my firm belief that he is well where he is. Period of mourning is over and we're looking forward to Friday, when we're picking up a kitten of thirteen weeks. I thought that this might be a bit early, but as Ida claims she cannot live without a cat and has very reasonably explained that she's expecting a completely different personality from what we lived with and not a replacement, I gave my okays. Hopefully this little lady will be as self-sustaining and willing to roam the outdoors as the late gentleman - and, if I'm being granted wishes here - she'll shed a lot less.
In other pet related news, I picked up an expensive new darling for my fish-tank just yesterday. I've tentatively called it Professor Leopold as we wait and see if we can ever distinguish a gender marking of sorts - it's not an ancistrus type pleco but an entirely different type of family, so apparently it won't grow a beard like Doctor Frank eventually will. Either way, he's keeping to himself at the moment despite the curious peering and stalking from the other two fish. Hopefully he'll fit right in and start eating soon.
My WoW account - which I have been abusing terribly lately - has been hacked by way of key-logger that I presently purged along with a lot of other disgusting little things I found in my hdd when I arrived back home. About 4k gold lost, as well as a couple of items from my death knight, but after a couple of days of waiting, GMs made certain I was reimbursed everything that was lost me, and I got to keep the stacks of saronite and jewels that the farmers had picked up while running around Sholazar basin ruining my plate armour for their own ends. At least they maxed my mining skill and got me leveled through exploration. Thanks for the help there, Blizzard, prompt responses and customer service has always been your forte.
As we're moving soon now - early fall '09 appears to be the time of choice for most of everyone to move; I know five people living out of boxes as of the moment - today I made a round of calls that had to be done. Let it be said here and now that I loathe electronic id's of all sorts, and that after having given them three separate attempts across the years I will be relying on paperwork from now on. Good grief, this was a day not very well spent at all. I thought I had noodles to treat my ravenous gut with when I was done with the harassing amount of calls, but it turned out I didn't, so I'm had to go with hard bread sandwiches again. For shame. At least we got salami yesterday, and the Indian cardamom coffee I picked up a while ago is still to die for. I need to find another distributor, because two hundred grams is not worth $7, no matter how delicious.
On the eighth I asked Ida if she would like to be engaged with me. She said yes, and I pressed a ring onto her finger. Then we had supper and mascarpone cheesecake with blackberries that I'd made for the special occasion. And that was that.
Last, and possibly least, I've started planning for the upcoming NaNoWriMo this November. For those who've known me a while, you will remember that I do this every year, powered at full steam, to fail at about ten thousand words. And that this has been going on since '03, and I've never completed it once. It will most likely go the same way this year, but I am not deterred, and have an idea I will actually enjoy writing this time around. No qualms about boring protagonists when they are in fact the antagonists of the story may help, as I never seem to be able to center a story around the good guys. We shall see where this one goes.
How many of you are thinking about joining in? Spinning ideas yet?
TL;DR getting new cat, picked up new fish, wow got hacked, moving stress, got engaged, planning nanowrimo, won award for writing long winded journal posts. celebrating with picture spam.
Doctor Frank, master of physics, defies gravity all day long.
Professor Leopold and his leotard suit.
Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, sports a black monocle.
And a smashing moustache.
I picked up new dress shoes yesterday.
And a pair more comfortable, but still highly attractive.