Because I was stupid and managed to give myself the same cold/fever again with my own toothbrush (don't ask), I decided to make productive use of my lying-in-bed time by making a post to share some of my favorite fanfic-reading Firefox utilities (plus a couple of random things). Unless otherwise indicated, everything works on both Mac OSX 10.14 and ( Read more... )

Someone posted a rant on fanficrants about the difference between Early Modern, Middle, and Old English. This led to the reposting of a partial translation of Beowulf. Into LOLcat. (Courtesy of aescHay thar! We can has knowingz of teh c00lniz of ( Read more... )

Um. Hello. Yes.

So. It's been approximately 10 days since I started watching Supernatural. Watched the latest aired episode last night. I think even for me that's a record for mainlining a series.

( First impressions, which, if you have been a fan of the show for more than five minutes, you have no doubt read a million times already at some point in the last five years )

I looked in the mirror today and thought, "Hey, I look great!"

I laughed out loud at Dan Patrick's singing.

I looked at pictures of kittens. Kittens!

Good grief, if I actually follow through and go knitting tomorrow, I might get a social life, too. Who knows what will happen then. :)

Okay, so, insomnia doesn't usually occasion glee, but because of the sleep apnea, for a year I have struggled with the problem of being constantly sleepy and the sleep I get never being quite enough. I have had to take three-hour naps every day for probably over a year, and while doing so has kept me functionally rested and able to drive cars ( Read more... )

Today was the Purim carnival at Boo's school. It was a bit touch and go whether or not she'd be able to go, because she was out of school Wednesday with a fever, and couldn't go Thursday because she still had it Wednesday evening and couldn't go back until she'd been fever-free for 24 hours. But, today dawned with no fever for over a day, so she ( Read more... )

I am approaching a state of readiness for my journey west. I am slightly more ready than I'd anticipated being today, because I made my last-minute run for last-minute items today instead of tomorrow. I had no intention of setting foot in any store the day after Christmas, but about two this afternoon I heard a thump downstairs. A few seconds after ( Read more... )

I just learned that schadenkatze died in a house fire early this morning. lunaris1013 will be collecting donations until the end of the month for her twin schaden_freude, who survived the fire.

I never met schadenkatze or schaden_freude in person, but they have nonetheless been a part of my life for over twelve years. Signal boost this to fellow SSCers if you can, and please help if you're able.

I have completed Phase One of the vacation process. For several years, my mother and stepdad have been mailing their luggage instead of checking it on the plane. They started by mailing one bag because they couldn't fit their metric crapton of ski gear into the checked bag allowance, and then eventually realized that just mailing off the bulk of ( Read more... )

( Here's what my family is doing right now )