Since I've decided I am going to bring my laptop with me next week, I'm going to need something to read. Because, there will be waiting times in train stations and then the train rides, which at the very least will be around four hours each way ( Read more... )

Yay I have potable water again! Seriously, you did not realize how much you miss watching your hands/brushing your teeth with water out of the tap until you can't anymore ( Read more... )

Back in New England, there is still snow on the ground, but at least they managed to clear the sidewalks off this time around.

Note to self: Never travel the day after Christmas ever again.

Also: I saw Sherlock Holmes last night as a last hurrah with the family. I enjoyed it. It dragged in some spots, and you did feel the length of it, but there ( Read more... )

Okay everyone, I shall be gone until some time late Sunday as I wake up before the dawn tomorrow to fly down the eastern seaboard and then to TN. Family Fun Weekend and cheering on my grandparents for being married a whole 60 years. Since it is my family, alas, I expect something to go wrong. Funny, but wrong.

Amazon, right now, at this moment has the NEW COMPLETE Series set on sale for $57.99. That is $91 off of the list price. That is only, like, $10 more than what they are selling the first season set for. If you are a Farscape fan, and someone is looking to buy you a holiday gift, send them there, now, before the sale is over. B/c, OMFG this just ( Read more... )

So I am really close to finishing what was supposed to be that really short story that kicks off the huge megafic of doom-verse. Right, so the story is currently at 19,651 words and not completely finished yet. Almost there, but not quite. To put this in perspective, bandombigbang fics must be at least 20,000 words and um, yeah, this fic is going to be longer ( Read more... )

Yes, I know I will be a Cat Lady in the future. No one has to tell me this.

Dogs and cats and randomness below.

( Zoe, Dusty, Lucy, Pippin aka the reason I am covered in pet hair )

Below are the pics I took a couple of weeks ago on the Ferry Ride between Boston and Salem, the difference of course, being, that these are all seaside/ocean pictures taken from the boat. Well, with the exception of one or two taken on land.

( We all live in a yellow submarine )

Right, so that airport shuttle? No go. Wrong Comfort Inn. So I was all, "Okay, I planned on a taxi until two days ago anyway." So I look up various taxi cabs online in the Newport News/Hampton Roads area, only finding one place with an online quote from the aiport to the Hampton Roads Convention thingy and they said "$65 flat rate," and I was all ( Read more... )

It took almost six years, but this is my 1,000th post and I am slightly more excited about that than I should be. It's the historian thing. We like marking things off ( Read more... )