![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
It was a dark and stormy weekend
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 05:04 pmIt was also foolishly warm, for November in Maine, though I suppose I shouldn't complain too loudly, since there's all that heating oil we're not burning.
We lost power for an hour or so last evening -- dunno why; it wasn't an important enough event to have made the local paper. Steve and I sat in the kitchen, listened Classic Rock 'n Roll on the radio and talked, Mozart and Hex in attendance while Scrabble slept with the hefalumps. A little thing like a power outage is no reason to interrupt a Perfectly Good Nap.
This morning, Hex woke us up early (thanks, guy) by standing on his hind legs and using his front paw to hook open the sliding door to the bedroom closet. Clever Hexapuma. Sigh.
A little later, I found one of his whiskers on the blanket he's been using -- half black and half white, it is, and approximately a mile-and-three-quarters long. Guess he went with the Custom Detailing Package.
I'm gratified and pleased to see that Mr. Obama has rolled up his sleeves and gone right to work ordering a census of Mr. Bush's executive orders. I got the sense that Mr. Bush simply called them into being, without bothering to, yanno, make a list -- a lot of Big Picture Guys are like that, I think.
On the topic of less pleasant surprises, my desk is beginning to fail. This is one of the pair that we bought back in 1988, a so-called "computer desk," when personal computers were themselves new-fangled, expensive toys. It has a slide-out keyboard tray/drawer combo, an enclosed hutch, and a couple shelves that can be configured as I Like Them. It weighs approximately four and a half tons. Apparently, I slid the drawer part out once too often and have broken the stop on the track. If I'm not veeerrryyy careful when I pull it out, I can have the whole unit on my knees, which is ...less than optimal. I suppose I can't really complain; ghod knows, it's done its duty and more, but -- have you seen how much desks are going for nowadays? I could buy a condo at the ocean with that kind of money.
Hmmm...
Some progress has been made on the Fledgling front -- not as much as I hoped for, of course. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to print it out and read it again. You'd think I'd have it memorized by now.
Progress on Fledgling rewrite:
And, tomorrow -- is Monday.
There oughta be a law.
We lost power for an hour or so last evening -- dunno why; it wasn't an important enough event to have made the local paper. Steve and I sat in the kitchen, listened Classic Rock 'n Roll on the radio and talked, Mozart and Hex in attendance while Scrabble slept with the hefalumps. A little thing like a power outage is no reason to interrupt a Perfectly Good Nap.
This morning, Hex woke us up early (thanks, guy) by standing on his hind legs and using his front paw to hook open the sliding door to the bedroom closet. Clever Hexapuma. Sigh.
A little later, I found one of his whiskers on the blanket he's been using -- half black and half white, it is, and approximately a mile-and-three-quarters long. Guess he went with the Custom Detailing Package.
I'm gratified and pleased to see that Mr. Obama has rolled up his sleeves and gone right to work ordering a census of Mr. Bush's executive orders. I got the sense that Mr. Bush simply called them into being, without bothering to, yanno, make a list -- a lot of Big Picture Guys are like that, I think.
On the topic of less pleasant surprises, my desk is beginning to fail. This is one of the pair that we bought back in 1988, a so-called "computer desk," when personal computers were themselves new-fangled, expensive toys. It has a slide-out keyboard tray/drawer combo, an enclosed hutch, and a couple shelves that can be configured as I Like Them. It weighs approximately four and a half tons. Apparently, I slid the drawer part out once too often and have broken the stop on the track. If I'm not veeerrryyy careful when I pull it out, I can have the whole unit on my knees, which is ...less than optimal. I suppose I can't really complain; ghod knows, it's done its duty and more, but -- have you seen how much desks are going for nowadays? I could buy a condo at the ocean with that kind of money.
Hmmm...
Some progress has been made on the Fledgling front -- not as much as I hoped for, of course. I'm thinking that I'm going to have to print it out and read it again. You'd think I'd have it memorized by now.
| |
75,467 / 100,000 (75.5%) |
And, tomorrow -- is Monday.
There oughta be a law.
