Still no power ( Read more... )

This has not been a good week. And it's only Tuesday ( Read more... )

So, how about this impending hurricane ( Read more... )

Hello, Internet ( Read more... )

Hey, I have a question!

Before I crawl back into my self-imposed silence (otherwise known as laziness), riddle me this:

Power tools as an anniversary present: y/n?Mr. Fleur and my first anniversary is next Monday. I am thinking of getting him a drill-driver, so we can give back my dad's, which has pretty much taken up residence here ( Read more... )

There are two Borders bookstores close to where I live ( Read more... )

It has been a week of failure all around, Interwebs.

Item One: The Pollyshawl. I knit up a lovely shawl for pollums and it took three whole tries to bind it off. The problem was that the pattern called for a picot bind-off (it makes little points for those of you who are Knitting Muggles), and I didn't have enough yarn to make it all the way to the end ( Read more... )

Good news, everyone! The air conditioning seems to have righted itself. Mr. Fleur emailed our furnace guy and literally thirty seconds later it kicked back on. Captain Furnace suggested that it might have been a brownout from the power company that was to blame and not the actual unit. We are keeping an eye on it ( Read more... )

Apparently our air conditioner has decided to declare its independence from working properly ( Read more... )

I think my new strategy for coping with life is playing Hall and Oates' "Maneater" really loudly whenever my day is awful as fuck. It was my favorite song when I was a kid, and it is still my favorite song ( Read more... )