I'm looking for advice on behalf of Artyem, who is still very much bedevilled by his flaky and painful back, and who is rather thoroughly bored with lying in bed reading or watching tv while reclining in a beanbag. And since I know that quite a few of my readers are wise in the ways of dealing with the shitty stuff life hands us sometimes, I'm ( Read more... )

I love getting Stuff In The Mail. I'm sure you must have heard me burble on happily about it before. And one of the nice things about my Second Life business is that it generates a nice bit of regular Internet Money for the purchase of Stuff In The Mail. :-) By Internet Money I mean that when I withdraw my monthly profits from SL I use Paypal. And ( Read more... )

I just downloaded the contents of my digicam onto my computer, and found a pile of charming kittypics there. (What a surprise!) So I decided to share the best half dozen of them... ( Read more... )

Courtesy of micheinnz, for no particular reason beyond "I should post something in my LJ and coming up with Real Content is a bit too hard when life is being stressful"... ( Read more... )

I've mentioned that almost all the content in Second Life is user-created before, haven't I? While that can lead to some tasteless eyesores, it can also wind up with builds that are fabulous or positively sublime. I came across this little filmed-in-Second-Life video recently, and thought it might be worth sharing as it showcases the kind of ( Read more... )

How long is it since I did the last general-purpose update? Quite a while. Probably too long. So in a spirit of study-avoidance, here's what's been going on in my life lately (or at least, a reasonable subset of it). ( Click for stuff about recent events, study, relationships, Second Life and more... )

I just had a post-surgery followup appointment with the urologist, and I'm recording the results mostly for my own benefit, but I'll put the details behind a cut tag so that it's there to read for those who might be interested. ( Read more... )

I've been using Microplanet Gravity as a newsreader for yearsandyears, and it's (mostly) run just fine for me. Today, all of a sudden and for no reason that I can plausibly identify, it's decided to rebel. It shows me the list of message headers but won't display the bodies, when it has clearly downloaded the bodies since it quotes them in full if ( Read more... )

I had my appointment with the urosurgeon/specialist this morning regarding my remaining kidneystones. It turns out that the kidneystone from a previous episode that had been sent off to the lab for analysis is what they call a struvite stone - formed as a result of bacterial infection. The presence of these stones suggests the possibility that the ( Read more... )

Okay. I'll chuckle indulgently when Shansu digs my hand-knitted socks out of the laundry pile and high-tails it across the house with them in her teeth. I'll giggle when she attempts (not entirely successfully) to do the same thing to a pair of my slacks. I'll fall about laughing when she hops up onto the edge of the bath, grabs a towel corner in ( Read more... )