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2009-11-08T00:56:11Z

The Men Who Stare at Goats was hysterically funny. If you are a Star Wars fan, especially of Ewan McGregor, you MUST go see it! :D

Writing not going so well. :P Just can't get in the groove.

I broke my pressure washer today. Granted it was like 15 years old and we bought it on a yard sale for 5 dollars like 10 years ago, but still... Now I have to get a new one to finish washing my siding and trim so that I can paint before winter.

How's things going for everyone?

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2009-06-27T00:55:03Z

RoboPoster sez:

03:24 @karikitten - #HUGS# Ed and Farrah, well, those were sad but not shocking. MJ, though... THAT was an OMGWTFBBQ moment. :( #

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2009-06-25T00:55:03Z

RoboPoster sez:

03:17 @karikitten - Wow, cool pics! Although I'm curious as to what the guys are doing in the junipers.... ;) #

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2009-06-22T00:55:02Z

RoboPoster sez:

22:35 Just spent 4 1/2 hours working on Alex's Halo 3 armor. My feet are KILLING me from standing at the island cutting and gluing. UGH. #
00:15 @LijitThePenguin - bit.ly/GYGII
- That's the bottom of the breastplate. Lots more to go. #

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Adium woes - Fixed!

2009-06-21T13:28:41Z

If you're a Mac user like me, and have had trouble connecting to Y!M with Adium, here is the fix:

To solve this problem:

Open Preferences, Accounts.
Select your Yahoo account and click the "Edit" button in the lower right corner.
Open the "Options" tab.
Change the login server to 66.163.181.189.
Click "OK".

The full ticket at the Adium website is at: http://trac.adium.im/ticket/12430

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2009-06-21T00:55:04Z

RoboPoster sez:

12:15 Basement flooding = #EPIC FAIL# #
17:23 @katroz We are TRYING to get a company to come out and install a cover, but they haven't called me back. :P *HUGS* #
17:23 @karikitten - Par for the course, lately. It's NOT been a good couple of weeks. :P Ah, well! #

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Happy Birthday!

2009-06-06T23:06:10Z

Happy birthday, Karasu!!!! I hope you have the most wonderful, Snupiny day ever!!!! :D

The Water Spirits still hate me

2009-04-03T15:31:31Z

I don't know when or how I pissed off the water spirits, but I came home from work to water in the basement. :( It's just SO typical that when we finally get a rain to put a dent in the deficit we've had, it decides to go to the most annoying place. :P

* Note to self: Never, ever, EVER have another French Drain on an external stairwell. EVER.

Entrelac

2009-03-17T00:28:03Z

I've been knitting a lot lately, and my latest project is a foray into entrelac, which I think is a very cool look. I made a felted bag out of Patons SWS yarn in the color Natural Geranium. Below the cut are a couple of pictures - the bag before felting, then after. :D

This is how the bag looked after I knit, blocked, and sewed the edges, but before I felted it.

And this is the bag after felting. Still damp, so the colors are a bit darker. I think I like it. :)

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2009-02-01T02:23:01Z

RoboPoster sez:

12:01 More knitting... I think I like this sweater machine thing. :D #

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2009-01-31T08:30:20Z

RoboPoster sez:

03:35 I can't stop sneezing!!!! At least it's Friday. Even sneezing is bearable on a Friday. #
19:40 It's the weekend! Woo! And time for Sci Fi! :D #

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2009-01-30T12:34:21Z

RoboPoster sez:

12:21 *splat* I'm tired. Too much work. :P #
03:35 I can't stop sneezing!!!! At least it's Friday. Even sneezing is bearable on a Friday. #

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2009-01-29T01:59:22Z

RoboPoster sez:

11:42 Loudtwitter will be on maintenance sometime thursday between 9h and 21h PST sorry for the inconvenience #

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2009-01-28T00:28:11Z

RoboPoster sez:

02:36 messing up with www.loudtwitter.com Thanks for your patience #

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Baaaa.

2009-01-27T23:55:10Z

Since all the cool kids are doing it. ;) Gakked shamelessly from all over.

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
- What I create will be just for you, and it will be a one-of-a-kind item.
- It'll be done this year.
- You have no clue what it's going to be. Neither do I at this point.
- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that if you sign up, you must re-post and make the same offer to your flist in return. That's right, there's no free lunch! So, we can all make stuff!! And send it. Into the universe. Yesssssss.

Happy Birthday, McKay!

2008-12-31T05:14:10Z

Wishing all the best to the most wonderful person in fandom!!! *HUGS*

Think you're safe?

2008-12-12T17:23:10Z

This is a little creepy.... I'm not sure I wanted to know which of my neighbors were criminals. :P

http://www.felonspy.com/search.html

BLEH!

2008-11-19T19:25:01Z

I'd love to know just when and how I offended Somnia, Goddess of Sleep, or Alpo, God of Dogs, because one or the other of them is determined to prevent me from ever getting a nap in the afternoons by keeping my blasted dogs barking CONSTANTLY. For the last week it seems like every afternoon when I lie down someone or something tells the dogs that it's time to raise an unholy racket. I only sleep for about five to six hours at night, I desperately need about an hour in the afternoons after work to recharge my sadly drained internal batteries, and as much as I love my dogs I'm ready to throttle them.

Not. Happy.

Back from the Great White North

2008-10-16T20:53:45Z

Just got back from five days in the beautiful environs of Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. My last foray into Canada was several years back and considerably further north and west, when we went to Edmonton and then drove the length of the Canadian Rockies down to Calgary, which was one of the most incredibly beautiful drives in the world. Ottawa and Gatineau are lovely, too, especially at this time of year when the leaves were changing.

Canadian Parliament building in Ottawa

The Fairmont Chateau Laurier
A beautiful hotel, but not ours, alas!

Rideau Canal, with changing leaves

Notre Dame Cathedral

The Spider - don't ask me!

Pretty leaves on the way in to Gatineau Park

Hubby and son at "The Ruins" at Moorside in Gatineau Park

More ruins

Moorside gardens

Moorside gardens and the King cottage

Leaves on the Waterfall Trail, Gatineau Park

Lovely trees on the Waterfall Trail

The waterfall!

Lac Meech

Parliament as seen from the Cultural Museum of Canada, Gatineau

Brain, brain, what is brain?

2008-09-14T13:33:30Z

I think it's a sign that's it's Renaissance Festival season when you see a job announcement for a "Midlevel Java Programmer" and read it as "Medieval Java Programmer". Okay, so we know where MY brain is...

X-Files

2008-07-25T22:00:40Z

1. WTF??? Where were my aliens?

2. Okay, seriously, did Chris Carter just dive into a bin of rejected episode ideas and decide to make it?

3. Aliens? I want aliens!

4. With such a rich history to draw on, why did they pick this storyline, then not even explain why the freaking villains were where they were, and how they got from Russia to the U.S.?

5. If you're going to bother to bring in evil Russian doctors, why in the hell can't you bring back Krycek?

6. NEEDS MORE ALIENS. NEEDS ANY ALIENS.

7. Sucked. Big time.

So...

2008-07-22T08:02:08Z

Where are all the Batman/Lost crossovers? Come on, people, you can't have missed the fact that Richard of the Others (and his guyliner) is Mayor of Gotham! Is Gotham the Island? (It is AN island, we know...) Anyone? No? Not even if he also played Batmanuel in The Tick?

Snupin Santa

2008-01-05T23:09:40Z

Well now that the masterlist is up, I can reveal that yes, indeed, I did write "Not Quite What the Doctor Ordered" for cordeliadelayne. I must say, I was very surprised at how many people guessed it was me! snegurochka_lee nailed me almost immediately, as did ellid. I guess my style is more recognizable than I thought! :D

Anyway, for those who haven't read and want to:

TItle: Not Quite What the Doctor Ordered
Pairing: Severus/Remus
Rating: R
Length: 33216
Summary: Severus Snape is a brilliant diagnostician, but Remus Lupin is a difficult case, in more ways than one
Notes: Now I can thank scribbulus_ink out loud - OMG, if it hadn't been for McKay holding my hand and patting my head, I might not have finished the fic. I LOVE the premise, but with RL issues and work stress, added to the fact that I canNOT write a short story any more, it was definitely a challenge! Thanks, McKay - as always you are my strength!!!

I loved the thought of writing "Snape as House" per Cordelia's prompt. The most difficult part was researching the "disease" and trying to come up with something plausible. I'm a bit anal that way, because of too many years of screaming about Star Trek technobabble saving the day. I will NOT claim that my research is bullet proof, but McKay can attest to the many hours of research I did in trying to find a disease to fit the "symptoms"! :D

Another thing I ended up enjoying very much in the story was the Regulus/Kingsley bits. I never thought of it before, really, but it just WORKED. And my Regulus is 100% based on McKay's boy from snark_n_bark. He is the ultimate Regulus to me, and so another kudo to McKay for inspiration!!!!

And a final word on that - McKay has done such an amazing, fantastic, incredible job on Snusa since the beginning, I think we all owe her an immense debt of gratitude for the hard work and frustration involved in running such an enormous fest. To me, McKay IS Snupin, and has been for years. Not just her writing, but the spirit she brings to things as well. Thanks, McKay! There is no one else like you in the world, and I treasure you dearly! :D

SQUEE!

2007-12-10T02:49:52Z

theladyfeylene wrote me Snupin! Angsty holiday Snupin with UST! :D OMG, please go read - http://theladyfeylene.insanejournal.com/21741.html and enjoy! Fey is a fabulous writer, and this story is great!

Thanks, Fey! :D I adore it!!! :D

#SPLAT#

2007-12-03T00:01:44Z

So, I'm horrible. I owe so many replies and I've not gotten to read ANY fics (*eyes snapelike's fic hungrily*). The good news is that scribbulus_ink and I finished a holiday collaboration which will go up in a few days. I'm rather squeeful about this one, I particularly like how it turned out. Can't say much about my Snusa because... well, it's Snusa, and secret, but I did get it done and I'm fairly happy with the result, even if a few parts of it had me ripping my hair out and crying on McKay's shoulder.

Work continues to be just absolutely insane. It gets better, and then when I take a deep breath it gets crazy again. Par for the course, I suppose. The good thing is that I'm taking almost two weeks off at the end of the year; the bad news is that I have a HUGE pile of work to finish before I can take off. My Christmas tree isn't up yet because I got horribly sick last week on the night we'd planned to set it up. Hopefully we'll get to it tomorrow afternoon, though, since this weekend has been busy.

Most of my Christmas shopping is done, thank goodness. I'm an unnatural female, I suppose, because I hate to shop. I love giving people presents, but I am definitely an online gifter - the mall makes me want to cry because of the noise and crowds. I had a Pampered Chef party with some friends and got all new pots and pans for my holiday cooking. Woo! For those who don't know, I cook a LOT, and I bake a lot, too. So new cookware is happy. :D

Best news of all: I've lost 20 lbs. My blood pressure was diagnosed as borderline about 3 months ago, and my doctor wanted to try treating with weight loss and exercise before putting me on meds, and I think I've done pretty well. I am a stress eater, and since work has been hell my weight has gone through the roof. I'd love to take off another 30, but I'll settle for 10 to 12 more, which will put me back in all my best clothes. I just hope that it takes the blood pressure down, too - strokes are THE killer of women in my family, and I'd rather stick around for a bit, to hassle McKay and Lore and Ellid and Karasu. ;) And the rest of you, too!

I hope everyone is doing well. My reading of LJ or IJ or anything else has been sporadic because most of my time has been used for writing, but I'll try to catch up. :D #HUGS# to all!