• "You own a homechulus," Carl managed to say around the sudden constriction of his throat. "I thought you were against them." #nwm
• "So I do, and so I am. Our clients expect it. It's sadly necessary--like your homechulus horses. You could never afford real ones." #nwm
• Slightly stunned there's a "Garden and Gun" magazine. It's Southern.
• Grr. Phone ( Read more... )

• It's pretty awesome having a hugging cat. Regularly scheduled cat-hug breaks from working!
• Fans of Jonathan Coulton might like The Funny Music Project (new songs x2 weekly): www.thefump.com/
• --Paranoid that the contractor boarded squirrels up inside our walls. Worried about them.
• Current effects of climate change (American Public Media): ping.fm/ ( Read more... )

• Ah, the sound of jackhammers in the morning! . . . Can't wait until all the neighborhood construction and tornado-repair is *done*.

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• The rain has turned to sleety snow. I wonder if I'll have to go to the dayjob today?
• (I hate just calling my day job "work" because it implies what I do the rest of the day isn't. Not true.)
• ----There are squirrels under our 2nd story floorboards. They got there because of repairs unfinished.

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Edited to Note: No, I did not have to go into work. ( Read more... )

Thanks to everybody who came out to the Sumo Party--I think it went quite well this year. And I actually got to see most of it, since for once I prepped most of the sumo soup chopped ingredients beforehand. Though I showed up late (3:00 PM) for my own party since I had a baby shower to attend first. Fu Manchu was quite the star of the party, with ( Read more... )

Ugh. And now our bathroom sink has decided to stop draining. At all. Drain cleaner, drain snake, and removing all accessible piping has not fixed it. This means it's plumber time, and--geez, house, could you cut us a break here? Your budget is already blown!

• First roofers are tromping all over my house like the billy goats gruff.
• Then Homeland Security stops by to investigate the guy across the street.
• Things are hurtling off the roof. The cats are freaked out, and I'm not sure I can leave the house without risk of head trauma.
• If I'm lucky enough to finish projects early today, I'm escaping to a ( Read more... )

• A highly entertaining Irish tale of time-travel (or is it?). Podcast, Escape Pod: ping.fm/oijJg
• 11 AM physical therapy apt = leaving 10:30, arriving home after at 1:20--and where did the day go?
• -- Fu Manchu just lunged forward and bit my eye! Ow! That'll teach me to name a kitten for villainy.
• Modern fashion so fabulously _Snow Crash_: PRI's The ( Read more... )

I would like to curl up on the couch with a book today (Green by Jay Lake, specifically) and cuddle with the cats and read, but I have four pressing projects that must be done instead of anything else.
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• Some days really are mac 'n cheese from a box and green beans from a can days--and that's okay!
• --The pack of feral neighborhood children is beating bees to death with sticks. In our yard/on the outside of their house. Sting, bees!
• + Drinking the first hot chocolate of Fall, creating a photo order record for Tuesday's photo gig.
• I drink hot tea ( Read more... )