I have a personal project that I’ve been poking at for a while now. My husband suggested that I put my favorite fan-fictions on an e-reader. Seems fairly innocuous, right? Especially since AO3 started making the stories in the archive available in various formats. What isn’t available there… well I use Calibre to catalog and manage the collection ( Read more... )

I somehow managed to overlook/forget that the offspring AND the husband have today off.  Looks like the husband and I will be taking care of a few things that need both of us, but we have been putting off ( Read more... )

... here comes Sandy.

Be back in touch later!

I got a chocolate torte!  Thank you, aquariuslover !

That was so sweet!  Ummm... pun not intended.  Thank you for offering me the opportunity to discover I could really do this.  I really do enjoy the editing/betaing/whatever-you-call-it, especially once I got past the nerves and worry that I was going to screw up your story. Thank you again!  

Hallelujah! We survived Prom Week ( Read more... )

"Shampoo cat feels soft and nicely plush, but smells kinda funny."

There were actually two cats bathed.  I know there are cats that like playing in the water, but I've never lived with any.  My scratches are healing nicely.

Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!

It occured to me, as I was making a fast sweep through my f-list in the hopes of not getting too far behind, that I am guilty of doing something that irritates me when others do it, although granted I am not an author leaving a story hanging for months or years.  I did just disappear though, when I had been making an effort to talk /comment on ( Read more... )

...has come and gone.  Good riddance!

But, we were EXTREMELY lucky... and we know it. We were not in her direct path, and we didn't lose our electricity. It blinked multiple times, and we blew multiple fuses (we live in a 60+ year old house), but that was a miniscule annoyance compared to how it could have turned out. 

Ever since I have been able to have some control over what music I listened to, my taste has been best described as eclectic, but I have come to the conclusion it's not a big enough word ( Read more... )