Well! So, I'm sure you all thought I'd gone off running through the streets singing "I Hate Men" from Kiss Me Kate after that last blog post...but I didn't! See, here's what happened. Ahem.

1. Had a bad day. People I can't ignore said mean things to me.
2. Incompetent creepy guy was incompetent at his job, and I was without internet and phone for ( Read more... )

Good Morning! You have reached Susie's Complaint Department. I'm sorry. All our operators are busy right now, but your complaint is important to us. Please enjoy the soothing music while you wait for the next available Complaint Gnome. (do do do do do do do do...) All our gnomes are busy. To leave a message with your complaint, press one, and we ( Read more... )

This morning (I desperately wanted to say tomorrow, but American Samoa is just east of the International Date Line), between Samoa (or Western Samoa if you are an American Samoan) and American Samoa there was an earthquake of magnitude between 7.9 and 8.3 (depending on whom you ask)*, creating a** tsunami traveling outward in three basic directions ( Read more... )

Apologies in advance for incoherence, due to exhaustion, gluttony, and possibly alcohol.

Is the warning really necessary?

I have been known to take sudden extravagant tangents. I don't want to be liable for mental whiplash.

Very sensible. Now then, what kind of wildlife day did you have yesterday?

Pretty darn good, I'd say. Especially if you like moose ( Read more... )

I probably should have mentioned that one of the letters to your congressperson I would suggest is ending corn-ethanol subsidies. Very bad thing. Think of all the tortillas that could have been made out of that corn. (I'm really mostly not kidding.)

So, I mentioned briefly a few days ago that I finished reading The Hobbit for the first time.

( Tolkien and Grahame and Badgers )

It's Day Four of the Grueling Mental Movie-Related Games over at celluloid_redux . Come over and play Connect Two!

I didn't get much sleep last night because of howling winds and lashing rain. I guess it's the Gales of November, or something. But there was a nice rainbow around 11 a.m. Heh, heh...really stupid thought...rainbow=the arc of the Covenant... Oh, man, ( Read more... )

Dear Readers,

I had so much I wanted to share with you, but since I got so busy, I feel almost like it would be better to start from scratch. I've been thinking a bit about where I started here and where I've come... I remember clearly the moment when I realized that everything on the internet is controlled by this thing called HTML, and that if I ( Read more... )

So. I am alive. It seems.  : )  Seriously, though, I go away for a week and the world falls to pieces without me! First of all, let the one among you who commented in my absence cast the first stone. How can I make you comment? How?? I know what you're thinking, "Well, duh, Susie, write something interesting that's worth commenting on." Yeah, yeah ( Read more... )

Once again, my glorious piano has won the love and devotion of a piano tuner. Yes, such beautiful music they made together. And I knew that some day, I would find someone and know, in that moment, that this was the person who was meant to play my piano until the end of time, the last person who would ever play my piano. And we would be so happy ( Read more... )

I have not been eaten by a hoard of rabid badgers, but last night's storm left a nice dusting of snow on the mountains. Sigh. It's the First of September and autumn seems to have arrived in the valley, although everything is still very green. This is probably the shortest summer I've ever experienced, but I loved it! And the autumn is still a great ( Read more... )