Our fake sump pump (aka R2D2, our new wet-dry vac) is keeping up with the water so far, and we both slept through the night last night.  Today we even had sunshine for most of the day, but another storm cell just moved through and dumped another 1/2 inch on us.  We went out digging trenches around our property just for something to do ( Read more... )

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This is not snow, but hail.  There was wind swirling, and lighting blasting very close by.  I'm waiting for locusts next.  We have no garden left - no tomatoes, no flowers, pretty near no leaves.

Looking out my back door:


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Although this post is entitled "On Work/Not Work", Imma start with a side topic: ( On Swamp Coolers )

My 10-year LJversary is coming up this Friday.  Ten years!  I have isiscolo to thank for my initial invite (back when one needed an invite to actually join).  Remember how you had to ask me twice, Isis,  after I turned you down the first time?  Sheesh!

Little did I know how much my life would change just by joining LJ and getting involved in Harry Potter ( Read more... )

This time I've got a decent excuse as to why I never have time to post: My daughter got married last week. So far this year we've now had 2 funerals (my mom and my mother-in-law), one graduation (my son), and a wedding. We had a boatload of visiting family as well, the last just left yesterday. It was a great wedding, with a fun theme of games ( ( Read more... )

I can't stop listening to this song, wheeee! Gorgeous. My first Thai pop tune.

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In other news, you can now say you know someone who's lost her job because of the US sequestration clusterfuck - me.

For my non-American friends, there was a big lottery drawing here a few days ago, called Powerball, with a top prize of 587 million dollars. (Sheee-it!) The last time the prize grew so large, Mr. Geoviki bought us one ticket for the drawing. Only one, of course, because the difference in the odds goes up the most between 0 tickets and 1, and not ( Read more... )

Thanks to all my FList buddies for the help I needed to post A Thousand Beautiful Things over on AO3. Yay, it can go onto e-readers now! Because of the length, I did have to break the story into two parts (I merged the original 9 chapters into 2). The stuff I have up so far is all here:

Geoviki's storiesEven with your help, I still ended up ( Read more... )

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