I tried to get both text and photos into the same posting and everything got screwed up. How I managed to do it yesterday, I do not know. There are photos in the other post.

Mr. Spikefan and I have lolled around at our vacation cottage for several days, with short day trips getting put off until mid-afternoon. Yesterday
we drove through the ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to the lovely marsterslady! Alley, I hope you have a wonderful birthday and everyone treats you like a queen.

First, before I explain why I was away so long, happy happy birthday to the royal anna--although it is offically a belated birthday wish as it's Sept. 21 here but Sept. 22 there in the UK. My best wishes in advance as to marsterslady whose birthday is on the 24th. One of these days I will relearn how to put a live link to other people's LJs (and ( Read more... )

I've been away from LJ for a couple of weeks due to a drop-dead date for turning in my dissertation proposal--the one I've been mentioning off and on here for months, with all the blown-off previous deadlines, lame excuses and horrendous procrastination. Hence, no reading of the flist and no comments on the entries of my LJ friends (assuming I ( Read more... )

I am a sheep because when I can think of nothing else to say, I just swipe a meme I saw in someone else's LJ and that's my creative output for the day. Without further ado (much), here's my renaissance village. (Mind you, they did not give an option to locate it in the US or Canada, so going on the theme of former colonies, I rather arbitrarily ( Read more... )

A pox upon LJ and my own stupidity. I just wrote what I thought was a witty and captivating post (yeah, hubris, and it was long too), spell-checked it, then closed what I was thinking of as the spell-check window, thereby losing the entire update, complete with links and lj-cuts and all that time consuming HTML crap ( Read more... )

I just spent way too much time with a post that somehow vanished because I am an idiot and haven't had enough sleep. Let me get straight to the point in case I screw myself again. If you don't already have the lovely and talented treacle_a on your flist, or for whatever reason you haven't read her post-NFA fic, "Mortal Wounds", go read it at the ( Read more... )

The deadlines loom, Spikefan goes surfing the Internet and commenting on everyone's LJs. I offer a new gem from the Bad Poetry Generator, having given it a first line based on a current thorn in my ...side.

Who the hell used all the tampons? Not I ( Read more... )

I’m watching James’ made for TV movie, "Cool Money". [It was still on when I wrote this part last night, then my wireless adapter had a problem and I was cast out of the online universe. *shudders* ] ( Read more... )

The "strange man" of the title is, of course, my chiropractor Dr. S. I have to say first that he's a great guy, and good at what he does. There have been times when my MD couldn't do a thing (aside from an overly-generous Vicodin prescription) and Dr. S got me back on my feet in a few visits. I just get highly skeptical when he says that spinal ( Read more... )