Decadent Matters

11:24PM - I decided to split the pics up. Gnu, TIgers, Penguins.

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10:52PM - Slide pic spam. Ireland & a horse.

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7:13PM - Relatively speaking, Things could be Worse (100 words, gen)

"Why are we here?" The big-nosed, elderly scientist demanded from the teleport platform.

The large-eyed woman beside him glared at Blake. "It's obvious. These terrorists are holding us for ransom, Alva."

Blake said, "No, of course not. After your base is destroyed, we'll take you to a neutral planet."

"He's quite mad, Sido," Alva remarked.

Avon entered the room.

"This was all your idea, wasn't it?" Sido slapped Avon across the face. "All because we wouldn't buy you that computronic pony!"

Avon lifted his hand to his reddening cheek. He sighed. "Blake, I'd like you to meet my parents."

6:48PM - Warming up for Naarmamo. Scribble pics with added mess

Since I'm too aggravated to think, I decided to do something mindless. A few days ago I'd committed some random scribbles at http://www.jacksonpollock.org and saved them as screen captures. I threw them into photoshop and scribbled over them some more.

( 8 Scribbles-they all wound up animals, which shouldn't surprise anyone who knows me. )

10:35AM - Got up early- still no plumber...shall think fannish thoughts.

Currently- in the order of preference (counting only the options which received at least 3 votes) the Possible Direction Poll is:
A mandate for nookie, the survival of Blake, and a tie for Avon either surviving or continuing as an afterlife.

Hmmm... shall think on't.

EDIT: Plumber just called. Chris says he'll be here in an hour to an hour and a half. So I'm not going to bother thinking about fic until the pipes, the pipes are calling, Dannny Booyyyyy... erm. Later.

EDIT 2: Plumbers are here. That was quick. Glad I did laundry this morning- I don't know if water will have to be shut off for any of this. (Oh, and yesterday my new mower arrived. Man, I am so blowing money--but I'm tired of living with substandard stuff that I have to struggle to make do. The new mower is a breeze to push & to adjust the height.)

EDIT 3: When the sink & vanity came out of my bathroom, a lot of tiles came off the wall, too. Eh, they were mildewy, anyway. Shall soak what I can salvage and stick them back up later. Much. Much. Much later. I need coffee. Am not ingesting while toilets are being installed.

EDIT 4: Scavengers are quick. They're grabbing stuff off the truck.

EDIT 5: Home Depot called. The toilet manufacturer wants to get the complaint direct from me. I've been listening to Big Band music for 12 minutes, now.

EDIT 6: The manufacturer told me they normally only replace internal mechanisms direct to consumer and Home Depot should replace it, but that if I send them email with photo of the broken item they'll do me the unusual favor --but it'll take around 12 weeks. She suggested I call HD back and explain that ceramic replacement is their business.

EDIT 7: Home Depot said send back the smashed lid for replacement. I offered to email a photo- not good enough. I said I'm not mailing rubble. OK we'll escalate it, and in a day or two someone will call you to tell you if we'll do it.

EDIT 8: Plumbers said the box had parts from another toilet in it! They figure it had been delivered to someone else who dumped excess parts in with the broken lid and returned it. And then it was sold to me,

EDIT 9: The lever is broken on the other toilet.

ARGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

EDIT 10: After 15 minutes 30 seconds on hold, I put the phone down for 20 seconds to talk to the plumber. THEY HUNG UP ON ME.


KILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILL

EDIT 11: Plumbers are gone. $422. Not bad for 2 plumbers for a long time, removing dead dishwasher, installing faucet on old sink, fixing leak on old toilet,removing 2 old toilets, installing 2 new toilets, removing old sink, installing new sink. I finally got through to the manufacturer & emailed pics & copy of my HD confirmation of sale & got a reply that the order has been put in and the replacements will be shipped to me.

Whew. Now I need to clean up and put back stuff and put the bucket of displaced tiles out to soak.

4:16PM - Preview and Poll (workinprogress B/A for Dooooooom)

Ok, I decided to just go with the OBVIOUS PGP from the prompt I was given 'Never Kill a Boy on the First Date' and it went along ok (bearing in mind the whole point of the dooooooom challenge is to use taboo sex themes) up until my wrist and shoulder started twinging and put me off stride. I'd like to continue to at LEAST get it up to the minimum length- a measely 500 words- but having paused for a cup of tea and come back, suddenly I'm inundated with possibilities, and, like the millipede, I'm lying in a ditch, considering which leg comes after which.

So, if you would care to read the tiny bit I have (which has no explicit sex at all) and look at the options I've considered and check off as many as you like, maybe I'll be able to decide.

Get Your Sexy Name

2:03PM - Pic Spam. Butterfly and Racerunner lizard

( 4 of the same butterfly, 2 of the same lizard )

11:12AM - A bit more energy today

It's funny how you get to know all the little signs of whatever the heck it is. Today my shoulders ache less, my ankles burn less, the 'gray' in my side-eye is 'lighter', and I weigh a pound less than I did yesterday (I still am 2 pounds heavier than I was last week. Maybe I'll stick to tea and chocolate today.)

Tomorrow I hope to feel up to doing Real Work ™. At least I called the plumber today & told him I want 2 toilets & a sink taken out & replaced, running toilet fixed, dead dishwasher removed, would probably need new pipes, etc. & he said they'd haul away the old stuff too. He said the man would come either this afternoon or tomorrow. & will call ahead.

Yay. I'd better finish clearing out the stuff that would be in the way.

6:48PM - Let's see if this works...

I went to http://www.glitterfy.com/upload.php and uploaded a photo I'd taken and glitterfied it.


[Glitterfy.com - *Glitter Photos*]

( and another one )

5:44PM - I ache, therefore I meme

As seen on linda_joyce's journal.
Answer each question in exactly THREE words. It sounds easy, but it's harder than you think!

(to make it easier to pass on, I'm putting first the list of questions, and then the questions with my answers.)
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3:30PM - I give up.

Another day of being too tired and... don' wanna to do anything. I can't even get the energy to call the plumbers, let alone to start the hunt for competitive exterior house repairs. I *DID* open the boxes to give the new toilets a cursory inspection, but even that wiped me out. It's taken me *2 days* to get up the energy to open the packages from the Urban Birds folk with one of my prizes- a lovely book- (they're still waiting for Leica to send the camera) and 10 copies of their Birdscope newsletter with a tiny 'article' I wrote about taking bird pics.

The book is 'Letters from Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods' by Julie Zickefoose, personally signed by the author to me. It's lovely, check it out at Amazon. It's full of wonderful pencil sketches and watercolors and affectionate, but sensible, prose about the wildlife around her home in southern Ohio, both the ups and downs, and enough information to be interesting, without swamping you in scientific detail.

And now I think I must nap again...*sigh*

the problem is getting enough energy to get out of the chair...maybe I'll play a game of computer solitaire while I wait.

EDIT: I think linda_joyce must be right about me being agglutinated. The stinkin' Miami Herald woke me with ANOTHER of their automated renewal 'hold on until a person answers' phone calls, and when I woke my shoulders ached so fiercely ... just like they did when I was eating gluten.

2:20PM - Getting the Point (B7 slash, implied)

Once again, it is evil, but there is no actual, as such, nookie. I just... didn't have the heart to write it. Poor, poor, poor, Avon. Sequel to Sometimes It All Seems So Pointless.
Getting the Point
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1:55PM - *sigh* A do-nothing day

I woke up late, and tired, with burnie ankles and side-eye gray and a feeling of *everything* being too much trouble. I tried to combat it, to get the energy to do *SOME* of the necessary things on my to-do list, but the lassitude is so bone-deep and all-encompassing that cups of tea, chunks of chocolate, hunting butterflies... none of it is working (mind you, I did get some pics of a ruddy daggerwing...) So I give up & am going to futz around. I *DID* manage enough energy to clean the catbox, thank heaven.

I am trying to write a continuation of yesterday's fic. It's not turning out how I expected, or probably how anyone who commented expected.

1:00PM - Funniest Dr. Who ever

(well, IMO.) lizamanynames linked to a cute Dr. Who parody, but in the comments talking about it I learned of something else, which I tracked down on You Tube.

Dr. Who : The Curse of Fatal Death
(in which, among other things... buggrit, if I say any of the things I found wonderful about it, I'll spoiler it. Just... Watch and enjoy.)

( links follow, in order )

8:48PM - Sometimes It All Seems so Pointless (B7 fic, implied slash)

This was SUPPOSED to be a story exploring at least one sexual taboo for a ficathon due on the 1st of August. It just... didn't happen. Sex is mentioned in passing, but in no detail. It's.... I don't know. You tell me *what* it is.

Sometimes It All Seems so Pointless

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4:05PM - Mild Argh. Log in nuisance.

Anyone else getting logged out when they don't expect to be?

EDIT: I did some googling & found complaints that it's the latest Apple update that I downloaded which is automatically deleting all cookies Every time I close the browser. *sigh* This is why I hate updates. I don't have backtracking software, so I'll just have to put up with logging in every time I use my LJ on the other browser. I am going to try to remember not to use that browser for anything else I want to stay logged into.

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In good news, my toilets arrived today. I've not opened the boxes to check them out, though. I was very tired and took a nap in which I dreamed some producer from the BBC came to my house with his secretary to try to get me to make costumes for 5 kids who were supposed to play Victorian ghosts on a beach where a ship was wrecked.

9:00AM - Pic Spam the last for today! Birdies

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8:52AM - Pic Spam: Lizards, Hellholeah, Cat art & tshirts (more to come)

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8:50AM - Pic Spam: Beetles, mostly (more to come)

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7:32AM - Pic Spam: Butterflies mostly (more spam to come)

I was sooo wiped out yesterday. All I did was put iron-ons on 2 t-shirts and add another layer of joint compound to the ceiling where the closet had been and prepare a bunch of pics for posting today. This morning I wound up waking up *way* early today, & am v. tired again, but have to stay up & await delivery of new toilets. Coffee...

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