Friday I head down to Bergen, and Saturday I am flying to Stockholm where I'll meet up with aetherspoon Sunday morning ( Read more... )

I'm so not used to seeing myself smiling in the mirror ( Read more... )

I am still very sad over my continued catlessness. Last I heard, the only thing standing between me and foster kitties was transportation and scheduling difficulties, but that was over a month ago and our more recent inquiries have not been answered. Jerk brain insists that they have decided that we are unfit cat parents but are too "nice" to ( Read more... )

A while ago, I was trying to buy the rest of the volumes of the Mushishi manga, having bought volume 1 back when it was the only one released in English and subsequently ignoring the rest of the release dates. A few years later, some of the volumes are impossible to buy at a reasonable price. I don't remember if it was simply not available in ( Read more... )

What have I been doing? Not too much.

I have my new laptop, Zhaomi-Mei (received in the last week of last year). XCOM: Enemy Unknown works really well on her. I've also replayed Might and Magic VII: Day of the Destroyer. Just installed Skyrim the other day, and it defaulted to Ultra High settings. Very happy ( Read more... )

Our newest addition to the family: Zhaomi-Mei, a 15.6" laptop with a 1080p monitor. 8 GB RAM, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, dedicated graphics, the whole thing. Full-size keyboard. In short: Very shiny ( Read more... )

Had a pretty full day today. Tired now. Had an appointment with my doctor, to remove the stitches. My grandmother tagged along so she could visit my grandfather in the nursing home. I called ahead earlier in the morning to let the kitchen know she'd be coming and that she'd take her dinner there instead of having it delivered to her home, as she ( Read more... )

And then suddenly it was summer, as if it had been so all along. After weeks of rain and clouded skies, summer arrived in full force. Blinding light, burning heat where direct sunlight [direct? It has to pass through the atmosphere first..] falls on exposed skin ( Read more... )

I'm okay; the cat is okay. She's not complaining too much about her new medication. Another week of antibiotics left, but the meds for her hyperthyroidism is most likely something she's going to have to be on for the rest of her life. If I don't opt for surgery or radiation therapy. Since she's old, medication is probably going to be the cheapest ( Read more... )

Life is good. Of course it could be better, but I can't really complain ( Read more... )