No, we're not having a "welcome back, Kotter" flashback.

I've been living with obstructive sleep apnea for quite some time. 
A couple of years ago, I had an operation on my schnooz, hoping that it would eliminate the problem.  The operation helped my sense of smell, and made breathing much easier, but did nothing about the apnea.

As my snoring was ( Read more... )

Okay, now that you're awake.

Life has been interesting at Casa de Cornell of late - but I don't want to write about that.

So, what do you want me to write?

Ask questions or set up scenarios - if I can, I'll indulge them.

Categories:

Pure Canon - post HPDH.

TLOS/SFSY

Maskirovat

Lost and Found Cycles

Dreams of Cold Fusion

And yes, Brad, I will entertain ( Read more... )

I really am trying to finish the last installment of The Unexpected Horcrux, but ...

Stories that I'm watching, with comments:

Harry Potter and the Toll of Destiny - by Legobean - archived on Phoenixsong.net

This is an interesting - picking up the pieces after the war story that for a while was working on being a psychological study (literally) in ( Read more... )

I've been a tad busy of late
- I'm still working on the final installment of The Unexpected Horcrux, but truth be told, I'm not particularly inspired to write fan-fic at the moment.  My regular writers that I edit (beta) have been productive, and I've been collaborating with JBern on a bit of original fiction.

I had a brain-dead day this week - I ( Read more... )

Quo Vadis, Kokopelli? (translation - where are you going?)

I began to write HP fan-fiction during the long interregnum between Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix.  I participated in the After the End Yahoo group, making a few small contributions to that seminal work of OBHWF fan-fic, and then began my own story, The Letters of Summer, on ( Read more... )

I normally didn’t think of myself as an eavesdropper, but some conversations are simply too riveting to ignore.  The day started with me noticing that Harry was eating breakfast in the sun room with a bandaged left hand.  Remus wasn’t living at our haven at the time, but he’d often eat breakfast there, volunteering to fix breakfast if he was ( Read more... )

As usual, the book was better.

The movie is visually sumptuous.

Mimublous Mimbletonia makes a cameo appearance.

Luna is not quite as I imagined her, but she's quite effective.

The Thestrals are not as menacing as I imagined.

Super-Hermione has been reined in - and Harry does a fair job of portraying Caps-Lock-Harry.

If you've read the book, it's a treat ( Read more... )

Tech rant ahead.

I've had two unsatisfactory experiences of late with things that I've purchased - I've been using a bread machine for the past eleven years and I'm now on my fourth machine.  With bread machines, the pan (which holds the bread as it bakes) and the paddle (which stirs the dough) are the two items that you need to have on hand as ( Read more... )

More or less...

Towards the end of June, I took a week off for a most unusual family reunion.  My Mom bankrolled a cruise for my family, my sisters, their families and significant others.  I spent a week away from my computer, and once on board, I locked my blackberry in the stateroom safe, which was a good experience.

The good:

Seeing Mom and my ( Read more... )

Has been sent to the Betas.