1. How to get extra treats:


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1. I apologize for barely reading any of you lately. A new job and shoulder problems aren't conducive to plowing through LJ posts and RSS feeds. If you've announced something to the world via LJ that you assume I know, I don't!
   
   
2. Shoulder. Ow, still, I had to get forceful with the internal medicine guy about the fact that the pace of investigation is ( Read more... )

• There is a nest of baby scorpions living in the left side of my sinuses. So-called "medical professionals" tell me it's the common cold, but I know better. No little virus could cause this throbbing ache, effusion of mucus, and spasmodically weak jaw muscle. I expect them to burst through my left eye socket and wave their happy claws at the sun ( Read more... )

I shouldn't complain because I'm already mostly over the damned thing after 24 hours and it's not the Flu-Bola™ that everyone else got, but rhinoviruses are overrrated. No sir, I don't like it. Snurfle.

COMFORT ME DAMNIT

Actually a pot of green jasmine tea and a largish glass of Barenjager have done a lot to make life bearable.

• A young guy in a ball cap and sweatshirt and jeans, very typical OC college student type, showed up on the patio and sat outside. He produced from somewhere a bird, a small green one, something similar to a parakeet. Odessa, who was sitting next to me inside, pointed him out. We watched him talk to the bird, who wandered around on the table in ( Read more... )

The latest addition to my collection of too many icons: three I made from gcrumb's photo of an unusual warning sign.


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I just spent the four hours from midnight until now waiting for a large technology company to fix their end of the giant mechanical badger we're building together so that could start it up again. Waiting for someone else to do something for four hours is much more annoying than working for this amount of time ( Read more... )

I think the last few have been coming directly from some peculiar research facility where they're beaming Jungian imagery over the internet into my head.

In my dream I'm Apollo chasing Daphne, knowing that she wants nothing to do with me and that she's going to turn into a damn plant, but this is my role so here I go. It's all about which arrow ( Read more... )

I got the #1 buzz with shave the dumb stuff on top option again this time. Remind me to keep it this way; feels so much better than tangly greasy fringe.


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leolo made the mistake of asking me if there'd been a nice-looking car produced in the last ten years. Why, yes! There have! Glad you asked. I won't go into wine-writing bullshit talking about why I like these designs, but they all please me greatly, the inexpensive and pricy ones both. They are below:

( don't click unless you want to see some pictures of cars )