I don't make political posts very often, but when fannish mechanisms are so obviously at work in the real world, it's hard to resist ( Read more... )

But not whinging about gadgets, because gadgets are cool!

Let's get the whingin' out of the way first. Today, I got a call from the furniture shop where I ordered my bookcases and living room cupboard. Cool, I thought, they want to make an appointment for delivery. It's about that time...

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*sigh* Now that my new apartment is gradually nearing its ‘completion’ (first delivery is still expected to be the last week of February - at which point the kitchen still needs to be installed, as well as the flooring and wall decorations…), the problems start cropping up.

First, last week, it was a bathroom radiator that had been delivered to ( Read more... )

Was: friends only

I've been monitoring things about LJ's Great Delete of 2007 debacle. There's actually an interesting and moderate post over at fandom_lawywers here, that gives food for thought about LJ's standpoint. I can, very vaguely, see where they might have been coming from, now.

But that still leaves me with a sense that:

A) The rules have changed ( Read more... )

What everyone is doing, part 2:

Nobody puts Boromir in a corner.

Which movie was this quote from?
In other news, I seem to have misplaced a cat. Or rather, Sam has misplaced himself. To the deepest, darkest corner he could find. Yes, it's that time of year again: fireworks ( Read more... )

So, I spent some of my day off yesterday on much needed window washing instead of writing, right?

Why the hell are there dried up muddy rain droplets ALL OVER MY WINDOWS this morning?

*cries*

ETA: This is what my nice, shiny window looked like this morning. And those are not wet droplets, but dried up muddy ones. *cries some more*


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The surface of one of my season 3 Farscape DVDs was looking decidedly funny when I pulled it out of its box yesterday. And as expected, it was not playing well. It didn't refuse completely, but Farscape is hard enough to follow without all the characters stuttering their dialogue ( Read more... )

I just wasted an hour and a half of my life to try and buy some bug repellant that apparently is not available in Holland ( Read more... )