Warmer day today, but nothing I can't handle: summer seems to be lingering (and I seem to remember Ray Bradbury using a similar motif in, I think, "Something Wicked This Way Comes", which I'm tempted to reread on this account). Work today, but I had a quieter day than yesterday; mostly, I did overstock, which sure doesn't bother me, if anything, I' ( Read more... )

It's been way too long since I posted here: I admit, most days, I'm more likely to be found on Facebook, when I'm not posting video blogs -- or vlog -- entries over on Youtube. This has been a bit sporadic, since it does take some time and it's trickier to edit (though I did truncate one vid when I caught myself going into a rant). Also realized ( Read more... )

Thursday - Errands before I went to work: went to the bank in Wilmington to deposit/cash my state tax refund, also picked and cashed the rather tiny paycheck from last week. I may have supplemented it a bit from the tax refund, though I put most of it into the savings account ( Read more... )

Discovered that Netflix now carries the movie version of World War Z, which I had started watching on DVD some time ago, but never finished. I admit, it's not how I'd adapt the book (I'd run it as a kind of mockumentary, sort of Ken Burns with zacks), but it works as a movie: it's exciting, it's wrenching, it's terrifying, just a good zombie flick ( Read more... )

Had a rough night sleeping last night, as either my allergies are flaring up very badly or I've got a head cold (and I worry that it could the the latter since I have an annoying, persistent cough). Didn't sleep well last night and I woke up with a feeling like I had a loose hair in my sinuses that turned into a scratchy throat. Still, I managed to ( Read more... )

Bright sunny day today, so we opened more windows around the house, including the windows near our bird' cages: they got a bit leery of the open curtains, especially Oz the cockatiel, but Flurry the budgie seemed to enjoy it, started twittering and singing as the breeze ruffled his feathers. It's been a long winter: they needed fresh air as much as ( Read more... )

My dad's taking this week off from work: it's a slow time between seasons at the greenhouse, so he's taking advantage of it. I've got a couple short days on my own work schedule, but we can very easily schedule things around that. We've got nothing huge planned, so it's more of a Spending Time Together kind of vacation (I believe the modern term is ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good day today: brought back some DVDs to the library, picked up a few used books at their mini-book-sale (including Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned", just days after folks were discussing it in the carpe_ho_ras chat room). Also went to Blockbuster for the first time in months and rented a few more DVDs (first two disks of the first season on ( Read more... )

Looking at the list of fics and I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut one of the request fics, since it is not coming out the way that I want it to. I hate doing that, since I feel like I'm letting the requester down, but I'd rather not inflict them with the bit of crud that my mind spewed out. Trust me: this is not me being emo, this is me having a ( Read more... )

Inventory last night: They did this differently than they have in previous years. Instead of having all of us gather in the back room and get our assigned aisle there, we had our assignments listed on a sheet near the time clock and when we punched in, we had to head right to our assigned aisles. Except I somehow wasn't on the list, so I had to ( Read more... )