We moved the washer and dryer a friend gave up into the basement. The washer is just fine; the dryer is slow, but works, so hurrah. The main issue with this, though, is that a number of boxes and random junk have been moved around to make even more of a mess of our main floor. A lot of these boxes are Colin's memorabilia from the dining room ( Read more... )

(Note. At the bottom, I ask for suggestions. I'm not kidding ( Read more... )

Good things happening recently:- watched Ponyo tonight. I don't think Miyazaki has written such a purely cheerful childlike movie since My Neighbour Totoro. (And having listened to the Disney dub of the latter recently, I am SO missing the old Fox version). Lovely, happy, just what I needed ( Read more... )

Periodically, I get these navel-gazing bits. This was actually word for word my comment on a recent Jim Hines post.

Before you read a word of mine, go read his post:

Rapists and Abusers (If I have to warn people it might be triggery, you didn't read the title ( Read more... )

This is going to deal with some sensitive personal areas. But I have a reason for making it a public post ( Read more... )

I know why this is hard ( Read more... )

So, since my post January 8th about Murdering a Big Darling, it took until *yesterday* to get That ONE scene right. I started it three times. Twice dreadfully. Then, after having screwed it up the second time, i got the opening dialogue down in my brain, but had no chance to do more than scribble the bare bones of the first exchange in my notebook ( Read more... )

So Brannie gifted me Heather Dale's the Gabriel Hounds for late birthday, and Taleisin did the same for Sherwood Smith's King's Shield (Which, with the arrival of Bear's books changed my to-read lsit to include both that and my current read, New Amsterdam ( Read more... )

It would almost be a good thing if there really were an Anomaly that got into people's heads from outside and turned them from obsessives to monsters, because then there might be something that can remotely explain thisI've been trying to decide if it's a terrible comment on the world that something like that could happen, or a positive comment on ( Read more... )

Today was a good day at SMD, the more hours-heavy of my new jobs. I made the bus that gets me there a minute late - not so good, but considering I got up an HOUR after my alarm was supposed to go off, I'll take it. I found out for sure I was doing pretty well on the rate I was told I should be accomplishing the work (So far, and accounting for my ( Read more... )