So I like to play spontaneous games with my pets. Javert is generally the best at playing along, because he seems to understand the rules. He is positively ace at hide-and-seek and chasing games ( Read more... )

Whoo. It's another year. It's a little weird - it doesn't feel like it. Then again, it didn't really feel like Thanksgiving or Christmas this year, either. Everything still feels off and kind of wrong, but I expect I'll have to continue getting used to that ( Read more... )

I finally got one of Shinji's baby teeth. He's lost quite a few, but I had yet to actually recover one. I had to pluck it right out of his mouth, but it is mine. After all the bloody drool on my couch, I felt that I at least deserved a trophy.

( The puppy smelled like bad feet and old blood today. )

I have been awful about updating of late. Things have been happening ( Read more... )

This wasn't really planned and I honestly thought it would still be a long time before I considered something like this, but somehow it happened and it just felt right.


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I finally got something scheduled with another roofer, who'll be coming by tomorrow at lunch. Still waiting on the third roofing company. At this point, I strongly suspect I'll be going with the first company, since they've definitely been the easiest to deal with so far ( Read more... )

( Resin cut. )

$9 for a thermocouple at Lowe's and about 10 minutes of work. $130 saved and I have heat again. Thank you, Google and YouTube for being there for me every time I need lessons in how to be handy about the house ( Read more... )

Urgh. It started snowing this morning. I got the swamp cooler drained and covered yesterday, and turned off the water supply to the sprinklers. Today I ran down to the furnace to get the filters changed and get it running for the winter. It was full of moths (ick), so I vacuumed those out before running upstairs to reprogram the thermostat - ( Read more... )