rip bernard cribbins, aka donna noble's grandfather. i only ever saw him on doctor who, but i loved him as wilf. i mean, who wouldn't? right? i read part of a really lovely tribute from russell t davies on tumblr and was so glad i was locked away in my office and there was no one around ( Read more... )

I THINK WE FOUND AN APARTMENT. A NICE ONE, IN A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD THAT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IT'S MILES AND MILES FROM EVERYTHING. i don't want to jinx it so i don't want to say anything else, but there's a lot of preliminary yay. (more yay once our rental applications have been accepted and first month's rent paid.) now i really have to shift my ( Read more... )

first, my laptop works again! i took it back to the apple store yesterday and a different genius looked at it, got it to display a whole lot of code, saw the "too many corpses being created" error message (yes, really, that's what it said - coders having some fun), figured out the problem, and fixed it. OH MY GOD I AM SO RELIEVED. i need to back ( Read more... )

today is my dad's birthday. everyone say happy birthday. :D

a link i forgot to share yesterday: houston reporter saves truck driver stuck in flooded cab. she was reporting from what looks like a highway, saw the guy in the cab of the truck, and managed to flag down a sheriff's truck and boat to get him out. the tv station went off the air (the ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the avengers, which was as promised totally fascinating as a story, even if the author was weirdly attached to the idea of the avengers being wee babies, when in reality... they weren't. not that they were old, but one of the girls was born in 1920, so when the vilna ghetto was liquidated in 1943 and a bunch of jews ( Read more... )