A dear friend of mine, living in DC, who has been unemployed since early June and is presently recovering from surgery, has just been advised by her landlord that she and her dog have 15-days to move out. Unless DC has laws that allow something other than 30-days notice to evict a person, this 15-days bit is bullshit. However, she is still faced ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving in Hatteras - 2009

For those who do not know, a few friends and I spent the week of Thanksgiving in an ocean-front beach house in Hatteras, NC - part of the Outer Banks (i.e. OBX).

And when I say a few friends, I mean a whole mess of us. Besides myself, there was pathweaverdana, selkiesyrin, her daughter (aka, The Spawn of Selkie, aka SOS) geekwuffie, scaleslea (Doc) and keetara (Kee ( Read more... )

( Except for the rain... )

( As a partial remedy... )

After the downpour that greeted me at Festival last Saturday, and after witnessing how my cloak did not so much keep me warm and dry as it did absorb water and then give me a cold, wet cloak to wear, I decided to take better preventive measures this weekend.

For FSG, I covered my tent with a spray called Camp Dry. It worked like a charm then, so ( Read more... )

( The past few weekends... )

( This has been one of the better birthdays I've had... )

I had a good trip to Gettysburg last weekend with my non-LJ OSO, and we got some cool pictures on our ghost-hunting expeditions. On the downside, my car was making some unsafe-sounding squeaking noises on the highway and also vibrating a bit. So, today, after a brief stop at work to ship some things out, it was off to the dealership. I'd been ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning, I shall not only be taking my first real vacation in ages, but I'm taking it at my first ever visit to Free Spirit Gathering. I've been hearing about this for years, but things just didn't come together to make it happen until now. Not only do I have enough leave to do this and other things I want later on this year, but pathweaverdana and ravenrose, ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, I went to spend a good chunk of the day with squire_liz. For those new to my history, a couple of years ago, The Liz and I used to date. Our breakup was mutually painful, but after some time passed, we got back in touch, started talking, and became friends again. We've also been trying to see one another as often as we can. Granted, with our ( Read more... )