Today I had enough. No progress after a week of antibiotics. I want answers on Monday. So I've decided to heck with the constraints, I'm having a haircut and a wardrobe sort-out. Part one has been completed. Part two to continue. I had a very agreeable lunch with N. today, then spent a couple of hours wombling around town (because walking is ( Read more... )

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I was called on my mobile at midnight GMT.  The credit card provider (who has a call centre in Derby which obviously explains the time difference) left me a missed call ( Read more... )

Exodus

Eight times she’d seen sunset by the cracks in the hold roof as the miasma of machine oil, human excretia and rot forced itself on her every breath. The cargo hold was a hellish oven of steel, shit and seventy seven souls packed in tight, bilge buckets overflowing and the only water purifier buzzing ominously. Each had paid a corporate’s ( Read more... )

Testing out my RSS-fu, this should lead to the new Warren Ellis steampunk webcomic Freak Angels.

Free Knights of the Dinner Table issue in PDF. It's a cartoon! It's an RPG magazine!! It's a dessert topping (OK, the last one isn't true but the other stuff is). Did I mention it's free?

QOTD - "“Free societies are hopeful societies. And free ( Read more... )

Charles Fawcett - "Never confuse a Virginian with a Yankee."  Father of Farah Fawcett.  Lover of Hedy Lamarr.   Freedom fighter.  Married six concentration camp victims to get them out of France, airlifted refugees out of the Congo.  B-movie royalty in Rome.

Steve Gerber - Author of Howard the Duck.

Roy Scheider - Movie and TV icon.  Jaws, Marathon ( Read more... )

I also made a minor purchase from the Cinema Store.  The mask of a certain verbose, vengeful vigilante is now sat on my PC. 

I've spent the last couple of days in fugue state and ill (you don't want to know); I've been in and out of hibernation mode which is a good thing, as much as I've missed friends this year, this was for the best.  I feel like I've suspended many higher brain functions and played a huge amount of Asteroids on Facebook.  It may be Borg but it's a ( Read more... )

I admit, there is nothing - but nothing - like showing up at a crisis at work.  The moment I walked in through a door not usually expected, I did not expect an audible sigh of relief from five members of staff.  A few orders later, it was just like being a pirate cap'n but without the splinters.  The good ship lurches from side to side and it ( Read more... )

For no other reason than I can.

An example of Neapolitan justice in action.  Ignore Jessica Simpson, it would appear a lot of us have been as she has no relevance.

There were a couple of missing links in yesterday's post due to me living at Celerity 3 right now.  The steampunk stuff can be found here.  And the object of desire happens to be here.  ( Read more... )