News from the Comfy Chair

[rolanni]

My job today is to sit in the comfy chair with Hexapuma, Mozart and whoever else is on duty, The Leewit in lap (might as well start writing down all these Ghost Ship bits the back brain has been offering up as temptations, right?), several books and magazines to hand and Enchanted in the DVD player, icing my knee and my arm, practicing not reaching over my head.

Argh.

So, help me live vicariously. What're y'all doing on this (here in Central Maine) bright and seductive fall day?

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Delivering prints on the Stephen King laundry to my client . . .

Haven't mentioned, but CAROUSEL TIDES = Yum!

(And nyah nyah to the rest of you who have to wait!)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Delivering prints on the Stephen King laundry to my client . . .

Man, that project has been going on for some serious time. And they say writing a book is time-consuming.

Haven't mentioned, but CAROUSEL TIDES = Yum!

Ah, relief.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

That laundry project has a 2005 job number . . .

January 2005, in fact. This is maybe the fourth *major* plan change. If somebody doesn't move his ass, the glaciers may get there first.

As for the other, you were in doubt?

(Yes, I know *all* about Impostor Syndrome.)

[star-gazersusan.livejournal.com]

It's raining here in Metro Detorit. A very grey, cloudy wet day. It's a good day to be at work (which I am). I'd rather save the nice sunny days for my days off! LOL

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Our bright and shiny morning has slipped away into a gray and threatening afternoon. It makes me feel a little better about the whole Comfy Chair comedy...

[star-gazersusan.livejournal.com]

The rain eventually stopped here, but it's still overcast. Still - the rain stopping is an improvement!

Sorry your Sun went away though.

[growlycub.livejournal.com]

I'm currently bathing 3 Maine Coons and then will drive 6 hours to the show in Indy. Wish us luck two of the three are very close to achieving their titles and if Mister Studmuffin get his Grand Champion, he gets to make red tabby babies for us. :)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Good luck to all!

...and, oh tiny red tabbies...

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Seconded, tiny red kidlets, oh my!

I spent the afternoon at a meeting with many others. The meeting involved moving hundreds of sticky notes around. Fun in academia!

In this part of Michigan it is RAINing! Flooding everywhere. Braving the rain to get Thai food for dinner.

[birdhousefrog.livejournal.com]

Reading over a story to be submitted...somewhere. It rocks.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Go thou forth and submit.

[sraun]

Trying to get printing working on my server. For the afternoon, we've got grocery shopping planned. It looks to be a sunny day here in Minneapolis.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Here's hoping printing is now working. And that grocery shopping was...relaxing.

[(Anonymous)]

Eating lunch while doing lunch-things on the computer before going back to work at the computer.

This evening, my husband will deliver the 16 pasties and the large pot of lentil curry (made last evening, all of it)to the visiting university marching band members for their dinner.

Then, after we eat dinner at home, we shall proceed thence to the high school to listen to the high school marching band and the visiting university marching band in concert. (Earplugs recommended if indoors, which it probably will be.) Thence we shall take home two of the visiting university marching band members and feed them (again) and give them fold-out-couch room and shower room and all those things that hosts do. In the morning, I deliver uniformed visiting university marching band members to their buses, and my husband will work the game train.

Right now, football appears to be a much bigger deal in Iowa than for many years. It's not that the team is really good, it's that they're good enough to win the game, and then another one, and another one...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Busy! Have fun at the -- is it a concert when marching bands perform? -- and I hope your houseguests are everything that is delightful.

Rain, Rain Go Away...

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Raining here so doing computer chores today. I should be carving a pumpkin later this afternoon, too, but I still need an idea for a subject. If it stops raining in time we will do the evening Boo at the Zoo. Alternate plans are not too scary Halloween TV. (Ghostwhisperer & Medium)

Tomorrow (supposed to be dry & some sunny) is a drive in the Kettle Moraines to look at what is left of pretty foliage. Afternoon pay off the Trick or Treaters. Sunday, puppy sitting for a week at a friend's farm.

Re: Rain, Rain Go Away...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Boo at the Zoo?

Puppy sitting sounds like fun, though I'm thinking there won't be much siting involved.

I currently have one coon cat asleep on my lap, between me and The Leewit with his chin on my wrist; and the other coon cat asleep on the back of the chair. Scrabble sleeps with the Huffalumps.

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[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Boo at the Zoo is the zoo open late (till 9pm) which is exciting in that our zoo is not meant to be open after dark, so very little path lighting, etc. Flashlights are helpful, and it's a great place to wear those glowing bracelets and necklaces. And of course most of the animals are all "what the hell? It's our quiet time" or ese just sleeping. Outdoor animals can't bee seen if they are out, again do to lack of lighting. (Another good use for the flashlight - shining polar bears.)

There are trick or treat stops in most of the buildings for the kids. The Zoo Pride volunteers have carved hundreds of pumpkins that are candle lit (unless wind blows them out) and scattered throughout the zoo for atmosphere. There is the spooky train ride (just ghosts hung in trees & bushes along the tracks.) There are 12 or 14 dioramas throughout the zoo that tell a rhyming ghostly adventure (new every year) of 2 pumpkin-headed scarecrows (Fred & Harry) and the creatures they meet. Lots of lighted halloween decorations from the store and homemade ones used every year. So the outside stuff is a fun walk, and you see lots of kids & adults in costume. We try to avoid the buildings which (witch?) tend to be very crowded, with hyper kids. We shall try to spy our new gigantic male hippo, Happy, from the National Zoo in DC and maybe attempt the feline house to see if we can spy the 2 new tiger cubs.

I miss our long gone petite coon cat (all 6lbs of her), who would snuggle in a lap, unlike the 2 current furry roommates: one bites, the other hides. The joy of cats.

Puppy sitting will be interesting. We are told that Clancy no longer bites nips one in the butt while playing, and that at nearly 5 months he has "calmed down a lot." I reserve judgement. I am confident however that we can curb his tendencies to jump up on guests during our stay.

So sorry about your arm giving you grief at same time as knee. Not fair. Enjoy the comfy chair and associated furry accoutrements.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

I just got back from the gym where I went swimming and soake in the hot-tub. Beautiful, warm, VERY WINDY fall afternoon outside. I should be out planting daffodils, but I think I over did it yesterday, hence the hot-tub earlier. Instead I'll probably start trying to slay bugs again--computer type bugs, not flower type.

Boston and points west

[climbmaster.livejournal.com]

So I started the day leaving the Longwarf Marriott after a mere 3 hours of sleep to catch the early flight out - which was delayed more than three hours, one of those on the tarmac. After another 3.5 hours in flight, that comfy chair of yours started sounding really nice. I now site in front of fire with hot cocoa and the shiny new Fledgling, ready to brave the rainy fall weather using a tale of Korval. Life is, indeed, good.

Being Saturday...

[(Anonymous)]

... we have the usual Saturday morning sport run arounds mixed in with some need-bread-and-milk mayhem. And now I have a whole hour to make a start on a sociology paper Inequality: past, present and future. *sigh* (I'm actually hoping my Fledgling doesn't arrive before the darn thing is due - it'd be too much of a good excuse not to do the assignment.) And then I get to do the pick-up from sport thing.

But it is a beautiful warm spring day here in the 'burbs of Sydney 27 - 33 degrees C for the next few days.

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

I was making a cake for a Doctor Who themed Halloween party, featuring a cake TARDIS on a rocky cake landscape (one of the shows filmed in a disused quarry, no doubt) using turtle crumb sprinkles, gold and silver sanding sugar and chocolate rocks, and featuring one eyed aliens made with gummy eyeballs and light green fondant.