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claudi007 sent me. It is truly a thing of awesomeness. I am grooving on it far more than I had expected, which is something. So thank you, claudi007!
Apparently Elrohir's guarantees are enough to keep CDs from breaking in the post. I will have to keep that in mind.
I was Good today, I think, but I am as usual left at the end of the day with a sort of befuddled sense of wondering where all those hours went. But... well, an hour for the rest of the laundry, an hour for cleaning off the hard drive, an hour for getting iLife '06 installed and working, two hours for planting a dozen pepper seeds and a half-dozen foxgloves, another hour for tidying and rearranging the living room yet again (now I have a bunch of plants in the windowsill, and an impromptu table made out of bits of an old entertainment center, two coffee tables, and a pair of phonebooks, upon which I am putting yet more pots to start seeds in)... I mean, it's not like it wasn't a busy day, and it's not like I wasted any time, per se, but GOD I am never going to finish this novel. Tomorrow is going to be writing and writing and writing because I think I have finally mentally digested the stumbling block I'd come up against, and it is time and past to finish this thing.
In the meantime, I am feeling ingenious because instead of running out to buy those little plastic seed-starting trays, I have made my own out of the plastic containers the grocery store sells olives and feta and parmesan cheese in. Poke holes in the bottom, and use the lids as trays for underneath, and they're just the right size to put four seeds into potting soil inside. They also fit precisely onto the windowsills of this house, which is an added bonus, as I'm sort of, well, will shortly be out of space under the grow light.
I have not yet had one single seed of any sort sprout, however, so I remain trepidatious: It is possible I am secretly utterly incompetent. My mother said to put plastic wrap loosely over the pots until the seeds sprout, so they don't dry out, but I remain somewhat worried.
Oh: edit to add. The friendslist bonus is that you get to read Z's latest biweekly-published humor column two hours before the rest of the Internet does. This one's a good one: I'm in it.
MELSOR the Barbatuan! (ostensibly a review of the Macintosh SE-30, but really an excuse to dork out and drink sherry.)
The print version ran with a different photo, which featured the SE-30 sitting on a desk with a bottle of sherry next to it, and a half-empty cordial glass of same. The screenshot on that one was a bit of art we did together that had an awful tiled background and read, in white bubble text, "I AM A SENSITIVE ARTIST."
It's a good photo, but I confess I do have a soft spot for the dialogue box that reads "Fuckadoo!", given that we had both entirely forgotten that we'd put that in there.
claudi007 sent me. It is truly a thing of awesomeness. I am grooving on it far more than I had expected, which is something. So thank you, claudi007!Apparently Elrohir's guarantees are enough to keep CDs from breaking in the post. I will have to keep that in mind.
I was Good today, I think, but I am as usual left at the end of the day with a sort of befuddled sense of wondering where all those hours went. But... well, an hour for the rest of the laundry, an hour for cleaning off the hard drive, an hour for getting iLife '06 installed and working, two hours for planting a dozen pepper seeds and a half-dozen foxgloves, another hour for tidying and rearranging the living room yet again (now I have a bunch of plants in the windowsill, and an impromptu table made out of bits of an old entertainment center, two coffee tables, and a pair of phonebooks, upon which I am putting yet more pots to start seeds in)... I mean, it's not like it wasn't a busy day, and it's not like I wasted any time, per se, but GOD I am never going to finish this novel. Tomorrow is going to be writing and writing and writing because I think I have finally mentally digested the stumbling block I'd come up against, and it is time and past to finish this thing.
In the meantime, I am feeling ingenious because instead of running out to buy those little plastic seed-starting trays, I have made my own out of the plastic containers the grocery store sells olives and feta and parmesan cheese in. Poke holes in the bottom, and use the lids as trays for underneath, and they're just the right size to put four seeds into potting soil inside. They also fit precisely onto the windowsills of this house, which is an added bonus, as I'm sort of, well, will shortly be out of space under the grow light.
I have not yet had one single seed of any sort sprout, however, so I remain trepidatious: It is possible I am secretly utterly incompetent. My mother said to put plastic wrap loosely over the pots until the seeds sprout, so they don't dry out, but I remain somewhat worried.
Oh: edit to add. The friendslist bonus is that you get to read Z's latest biweekly-published humor column two hours before the rest of the Internet does. This one's a good one: I'm in it.
MELSOR the Barbatuan! (ostensibly a review of the Macintosh SE-30, but really an excuse to dork out and drink sherry.)
The print version ran with a different photo, which featured the SE-30 sitting on a desk with a bottle of sherry next to it, and a half-empty cordial glass of same. The screenshot on that one was a bit of art we did together that had an awful tiled background and read, in white bubble text, "I AM A SENSITIVE ARTIST."
It's a good photo, but I confess I do have a soft spot for the dialogue box that reads "Fuckadoo!", given that we had both entirely forgotten that we'd put that in there.
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Date: 2006-02-17 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-17 09:28 pm (UTC)source listing (http://claudi007.livejournal.com/71421.html#cutid1)
track list and lyrics, act One (http://elffetish.com/actone.html)
track list and lyrics, Act Two (http://elffetish.com/acttwo.html)
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:54 am (UTC)Now I'll know what is going on, till now I was just guessing ;)
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Date: 2006-02-17 11:00 pm (UTC)And "fuckadoo" is probably the best word I've heard all year. I'm going to have to make an effort to use it in everyday conversation, now.