happy unbirthdays to chemm80 and donutsweeper! look, if i'm late enough, it's unbirthday time. :D i hope your days were good, whatever you did or whoever you did it with. ideally there was cake ( Read more... )

the honey cake is slightly overbaked. >.< i think i'm going to cut off the ends and sides and (if i can) the top, so at least it doesn't have the tough bits still on when i slice it for company. the recipe says you can bake it in a loaf pan but i'm not sure. at least i know for next time not to bake it so long. but! it doesn't taste like ( Read more... )

last night it POURED RAIN, like biblical who's-building-the-ark rain, and when i got home (i met tamalinn for dinner) i discovered a flood alert on my phone - flood warning in your area until midnight! - and i thought no shit there's a flood warning, i drove through water up to my wheel wells TWICE. by the time i got to my car from tamalinn's apartment, ( Read more... )

happy birthday clyde tombaugh, discoverer of pluto. when new horizons made its historical pluto fly-by this past summer, it was carrying some of clyde's ashes. (he died in 1997.) i love that.

i am 99.44% sure there was something else i wanted to share, but i don't remember what it was.

florida cop responds to call at animal shelter, walks out ( Read more... )

o my flist, earlier today i was all itchy with wanting to write a massive fantasy epic. i walked home and the feeling passed. i have not-so-epic bigbang and nanowrimo to think about, altho to be honest the only thing i've done for nano is give the friar a name. (the heretic always calls him "friar". but his fellow friars - and the other ( Read more... )

can we pretend it's wednesday so i can do the reading meme? because i actually finished something.

What I just finished reading:
brown bread, boys, which i thoroughly enjoyed altho i think it ended too soon. like, i want to know what happens next. it's evidently based on julius caesar, which i don't remember reading and know i never saw, so ( Read more... )

i still have shit to do - get dressed, finish packing, pick up a prescription, go to the bank, eat lunch - but i'd rather sit here and watch numb3rs and think about a (sadly nonexistent) ww1 movie in which tom hardy is a common soldier and tom hiddleston is his commanding officer and there's pining and angst and class differences and strife and ( Read more... )