For some reason I have become the person who does the rough prep on the walls etc. in advance of painting. I understand why to a certain extent: it is more or less unskilled labour, uses smallish tools, doesn't require massive strength, does require some degree of precision ( Read more... )

A number of things in here seem to be working on blooming ( Read more... )

Working with the LiveJournal mobile sit just now. Surprisingly functional. Might make daily posting more likely....

Also considering checking text posting. We shall see.

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So we blew the phone back to factory, and I've started the slow process of adding all the downloaded apps back on. Some of them the data is safe on the SD card or in the cloud; some of them it is lost. Most of what is lost is relatively unimportant ( Read more... )

I don't, particularly. Though I apparently missed my daily post ( Read more... )

My house has a fig tree ( Read more... )

Or at least thunders and lightnings a bunch.

The sky is a bit grey and occasionally noisy. Even more occasionally I see a flash of light from the corner of my eye, through a corner of the window. No torrents of rain (yet), although there have been one or two moments of flickery power.

December in Houston. Charming weather.

Starting to check out places in the new neighborhood, or near the new neighborhood.

So far we've hit Doshi House (which has a lovely vegan "butter chicken" which has neither butter nor chicken) and Conscious Cafe (also very veggie, omg the bean pie is fabulous ( Read more... )

Ah, the sweet smell of plaster dust.

Break over. Back to work.

It may not count as much for some people, but I took the plunge yesterday and bought myself a Yoga mat.

I've been going to Yoga with zephre and wyrdfae for several weeks now, either borrowing a mat or using a towel. I keep saying "if I go to X classes I'll by a mat" or "if I'm still going after $date I will buy a mat ( Read more... )