So, I said goodbye to Shamballa at Shady Grove, and I feel much lighter now. "Space is neat!" I really need to bother hooking up Xing while I have the time--it would be simple to set it up under my desk and hook the monitor up to the one I want to use [or, get one of those switches to do that, I GUESS]. I really don't put my feet underneath, so it ( Read more... )

Chars has asked me if I responded to Snob* about taste in books/movies/games/etc., but I don't really think it's worth it. Taste is so personal, even if misguided, and there's no real harm in letting someone even like Snob be snobbish about that, until it gets into violent racist or homophobic bigotry or that. Even a chiding response, like, "XYZ is ( Read more... )

Waking up is hard, because--as with most things in life--it's better if I don't need it, and when I need it, it's kinda crap. Going to bed is uncomfortable even with an electric blanket, as the bed is still cold under my pillow where it doesn't reach, and then when I lay down, my pulse starts pounding IN MY EAR and won't let me sleep, among other ( Read more... )

As usual, shortpacked is the first to go to for any sort of entertainment-related news, since he gets to work from home like I do [though barely, at current] but at least earns enough from it to do it every day, so I didn't bother to mention Heath Ledger as soon as I'd heard, 'cause Willis did it first, and better. [Also, Chars had just gotten home.] All I ( Read more... )

Ugh, I couldn't find a cart or handbasket when I went shopping yesterday, so I with my fully-laden hands forgot to get dryer sheets >_< [note to self]

Note to Chars: min. interior 12" x 12" x 20" box peas!One of the local builders owned a 32-acre lot, on which were built eight houses, as shown [H designates a house]:
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I may have jinxed myself by not gloating over my Power Grid win last session--thereby slighting the Power Grid Gads and incurring their Random-Factor-Driven wrath--but there were too many things on my mind at the time. The best win I could claim for tonight was solving Fawx's Puzzle-A-Day for the day after looking at it for about a minute, several ( Read more... )

Hey, I been busy. Well, not really, but since dinner Friday I've been occupied, since A Darkling Plain FINALLY came in! ::^^:: Interestingly, I managed to read it all in one night without murdering my eyes, though it's the thickness [though not quite the same depth] as Half-Blood Prince, nearly. It may have to do with the font, or that Philip Reeve ( Read more... )

Okay, it's supposed to autosave my draft every X minutes, but this is apparently a lie, and it saves one draft then fucks off, 'cause most of what I wrote is gone now. Ugh X( ...whatever, I don't care. Fuck it |:p ( Read more... )

Sorry it's late, but I get distracted easily. Most of them are of qats, yes, but hence the name? =p [page 2 has peeps]


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I'm just a bit miffed that A Darkling Plain has not yet arrived [or, is sitting unnoticed at the house, if so], because finishing Infernal Devices leaves that feeling of "Please sir, may I have some more?" It's as maddening as the wait for the HP books was, except the book's already out BUT NOT HERE WHERE I CAN READ IT ( Read more... )