Things have been non-optimal around here for a while, hence my lack of fannish (or any) content. I am behind on TV because of a combination of generalized work stress and a couple of specific work-related deadlines that left me feeling sort of unequipped to do much of anything mentally taxing, including write anything outside of work or process ( Read more... )

About a month ago, I posted about planning to set up a treadmill desk. It's now done and in use, and, as expected, I like it quite a bit. Also, my gerbil icon is now literally as well as metaphorically accurate.

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We had a fairly serious hailstorm a couple of weeks ago -- softball-sized rather than our usual ping-pong-ball sized hail, thank you climate change -- which broke some storm windows and did a bit of other damage ( Read more... )

There are bats living in the walls of my house, which is not surprising; they come standard around here. The bats are technically on my List Of Things To Deal With, but up to this point they have been nowhere near the top (as is the case with about 95% of the house-related items on that list ( Read more... )

Bell peppers! And they're purple! I really could not be more pleased ( Read more... )

I am a packrat, as anyone who has ever been in any of my dwellings can attest. I accumulate a lot of stuff, and I also tend to accumulate the packaging the stuff came in - a tendency I've justified by saying "I could move any time! I don't know where I'll be in five years!" which is, of course, a slightly more specific version of the rallying cry ( Read more... )

I'm moved ( Read more... )

katallison is my own personal Hero of the Revolution ( Read more... )

This chat transcript is from Wednesday night of last week and for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture I'm just getting around to posting it now. dualbunny can pretend that her TiVo lost it until today. Or, um, something.

( I logged into chat late that night to be greeted with... )

The past two and a half weeks have been a blur of getting other people to work on the house - updating the wiring and plumbing, refinishing floors, painting the exterior - and of working on it myself: stripping old shellac off the window woodwork; re-staining the woodwork and adding a couple coats of spar varnish; buying and installing new light ( Read more... )