( Noodles with thick gravy )

I am in the midst of an unexpected emergency kitchen remodel. This is not the best of all types of kitchen remodels, but it is by no means the worst. What it means: I suddenly and unexpectedly had a horrendous leak in the kitchen, and it turned out that the hot and cold risers needed to be replaced. How is that not bad news? Work "in the walls" is ( Read more... )

In news of the slightly odd, there's a muggle news article out there on Charlotte Lennox and (as Lola called it) l'affaire msscribe, and it's by someone I know. Or, rather, knew long ago- I was friends with her in the mid-80s. Her name is Anna, and we worked together as temps not too long after graduating from our respective colleges. We hung out ( Read more... )

Partial list of animals I have seen in the park by my house (this is- just barely- in Manhattan) in the last 2 years, many in the last 2 months:

Bat (largish ( Read more... )

OK scratch that - mistake- only if you are in Austin and go to the store. Bleh ( Read more... )

Semi-automatic Livejournal Updater. I found this just now as I was searching for something I could put on my mac to remind me of people's birthdays, just like Semagic is s'posed to... The b-day wishes made me feel so good, so I want to do Better. Since I regularly miss almost everyone's.

Like sociofemme's. Happy belated, baby ( Read more... )

mulberry_fields made me this icon, because, in the cute animal quiz, I was a pony. She also created a new identity, idlepony, with which she has vowed to do evil in my name ( Read more... )

Hello! Yes, my connection still sucks- it takes 5 mins to load a page of my friends page, so I do about one a day. And see all sorts of fascinating stuff, and must sit on hands to keep myself from clicking on links or commenting. But here is some this and that from Rat World ( Read more... )

( Time Warner Cable continues to wreck my life )

I'm catching a wave from my neighbor's wireless here in the dead of night. I'm sure everyone who's actually reading is thoroughly sick of hearing about my connectivity traumas, but I feel like I have to pursue it as a unifying theme of the LJ. I have lots of other stuff to talk about, but there are certain topics, like tv shows and how they get ( Read more... )