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Friday, July 10th, 2009
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10:23 am - state of the f*sking day so far
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This morning is fired. Preferably from a large cannon trebuchet*.
I do have a purring sleepy snuggly kitten on my lap, so that's a plus.
* Gah, I must be tired. Using a cannon instead of a trebuchet? Tsk.
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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009
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11:18 am - two blips about foods
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Chocolate forgives/covers/obfuscates/overrides/enhances (delete according to personal taste) many sins.
Simple, delicious, healthy (moreso than most anything else I eat) salmon steak recipie: get a salmon steak (we use the Kirkland brand pre-packaged slabs from Costco). Defrost it (if necessary). Put it in a shallow dish. 1/2 cover with a combination of water, lemon juice, and spices to taste (I use a healthy splash of Liquid Garlic from Pasta & Co, because MMMM GARLIC). Cover dish lightly, with a bit of plastic wrap, a lid, whatever. Stick in the microwave at 60% power level and cook for 3.45 minutes (adjust power level and cooking time for desired cookedness). Remove; allow to cool slightly (this may be the most difficult step); OMNOMNOMNOM. I realize this may be anywhere from mind-numbingly simplistic to painfully slapdash for people who regularly cook their own food. I am a kitchen n00b; for me, this is just right - manageable, and produces something tastier than Bachelor Chow.
Which reminds me: I need to make a Bachelor Chow userpic for posts like this. Bachelor Chow - now with flavor!
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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10:25 am - fixing, lack of meterological vulcanism, caffeine pondering
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The kittens are off having their reproductive capabilities removed; wish them luck. Smokey is very concerned about their absence, and has been chirping plaintively. Nar has been less concerned, but is also getting his voice back; he has progressed from pathetic quacks to pathetic squeaks. I'm sure he'll be back at top volume in no time. Amber, as usual, doesn't give a damn.
It's actually kind of chilly today! After the last few days of annoyingly hot weather, this is wonderful. I might put on socks! ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) darkkatpouncing posted something about a weather advisory for volcanoes in Seattle/Tacoma, which is mildly alarming, but the NOAA forecast discussion for Seattle doesn't mention anything about that, so I think we're safe from volcanoes... dropping out of the sky? Which is good, because that would pretty much ruin everybody's plans for anything ever, really.
I am very tempted to have a second cup of coffee.
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| Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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4:57 pm - can't remember where I heard it first
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I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to mis-attribute this quote to Voltaire.
Happy beer and explosives day. Please blow things up while drunk responsibly try not to damage yourself, other people, or your surroundings too much. Remember, the goal is to wake up tomorrow with the same number of fingers and eyes that you had when you woke up today.*
For me, this is a lazy day. Not as unpleasantly hot as it was yesterday, fortunately. Soonish, a bunch of people will be coming over, and then there will be game! Yay! And in fact several of them have arrived, so - laters.
* And if you wake up with more, that's... something entirely different.
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| Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
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3:30 pm - Insert clever post title here.
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Half the velociraptor has been varnished*. I doubt I'll do more today, as it's getting windy; hopefully tomorrow will be clear and unwindy, so I can do the other side. I should take it into the garage - it doesn't look like it's going to rain, but You Never Know (TM), especially where Seattle weather is concerned.
We are keeping Ianto** Cyrano, but the folks who were tentatively interested in Gwen* Boudicca have decided against taking her, so we have a female black and white shorthair kitten available for adoption. I've posted some pictures, more will be forthcoming soonish. She is very social, loves to play, litter-trained, scratching-post-trained, and has trained herself to fetch bottlecaps. We would love to keep her, especially since we're keeping her brother, and we'd really like to keep them together - but we already have three cats; two more would require re-negotiating our lease. Also, Boo is a budding queen, and Amber is an elderly queen, and god help us all, we really don't need to deal with that situation. We would love to make sure that she's going to a good home, so if you have a good home for a healthy female kitten (who will be spayed and up to date on all her kitteny shots), or know someone who is looking for one, please let me know, or drop a comment on myclaudia's LJ.
I'm pretty sure I've killed off my rose - ah, well. It lasted far beyond my expectations. Maybe I'll pick up another one, and not try to make it bloom. Or maybe I'll pick up a different plant entirely. Or maybe not.
Oh, and my Spyderco Ladybug came in today! I has tiny knife again! :D I've taken a photo of that as well, I'll post it when the other photos get downloaded and posted and stuff. The Spyderco product guide includes a "whale rescue blade" - not a knife that goes to a save the whales fund, but a big-ass, serrated blade that attaches to the end of a pole, that Spyderco designed specifically for whale rescue crews to cut whales free of netting that they'd gotten tangled in. I *heart* Spyderco.
Hm... this batch of gluten-free cookies are dissapointing; they are also, as sadly many GF products tend to be, flavor-free. They compare especially poorly against the Glutino chocolate wafer cookies, which are OMNOMNOMNOM.
I seem to remember that there were a couple of other things I was going to write about. I'm sure their lack in this post will not cause the universe to implode.***
Oh, one other bit, sort of tangenting off the Torchwood fannishness: rm has written a most excellent post about homosexuality in fandom. I am not exactly terribly active in fandom as such, but for what I am active in, I tell you this. If I see you pulling the behaviors she describes in that post? I WILL CALL YOUR ASS OUT ON IT. Homosexual people - also bisexual people, transsexual people, and polyamorous people - are not trained animals or fetish toys, they are (ZOMFG NEWS FLASH) people. I swear to god, it would be really fucking great if people could stop with the fail on this subject. SNARL.
* "Varnishing the velociraptor" still sounds like some kind of euphemism to me. I have no idea what it would be an euphemism for, and I'm not entirely sure I'd want to know.
** I didn't come up with the Torchwood names for them until they'd effectively been given other names - which is sad, because it would mean Smokey is Captian Jack, which works on so many levels. Amber would be pretty perfect for Owen, too. I'm not sure who Nar would be; he's definitely not Toshiko... I think he might be the pterosaur.
*** If it does, I apologize in advance.
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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
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5:03 pm - couldn't think of a sideways, though
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Upsides:
* Found a very nice park, with a wooded walk to a lake.
* There were ducklings on the lake.
* I'm pretty sure I've assembled the correct tools to get my life-sized velociraptor outside, which has always been the goal, rather than having it sitting on my desk in the upstairs computer room, menacing cats and occasionally falling over.
* Much less depressed than I was when I left the house; may have had an epiphany, but I'm not sure.
Downsides:
* Spent rather more than I was planning/expecting getting the tools to get the velociraptor outside.
* Outside, in spring/summer, tromping through long plants, means possibly ticks. I have never been host to a tick; I'm really hoping that I won't learn what it's like in the next couple of days.
* I think I may have done something awkward to my knee, as it now hurts, but only sometimes, in some configurations. And myclaudia doesn't have any knee braces.
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7:58 am - And I share! Aren't you glad?
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I'm not quite sure how it's possible to earworm yourself in a dream, but I did it this morning. I'm going to be humming "Don't Stop Believin'" all damn day...
Also, I have kittens playing with my feet. This, officially, Does Not Suck. :)
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| Saturday, June 27th, 2009
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7:50 am - and then, PCs happened.
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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009
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5:13 pm - FUQ (Frequently Unasked Questions)
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| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
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5:40 pm - Now I'm hungry.
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via worldmage: "How to Dominate a Turkey." It - might not be considered worksafe. o.O Because it's - kind of - kinky-esque? It could possibly be described as somebody committing lewd acts with food...
( I giggled a lot. )
current mood: *snerk*
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| Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
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3:54 pm - If Space Marine models looked like this, I'd play.
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| Sunday, June 21st, 2009
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8:08 am - stuff & things
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As panzerwalt has already posted: boy-kitten is still sick, but doing much better, and we're no longer worried that we'll lose him. When I got up this morning, I stopped in the kitten room for a few minutes, and his purr is now so loud that it sounds like a little motor that's been wound up - you can hear it all the way across the room.
I went out last night! And interacted with people! And visited an incredibly awesome house! (like, no kidding, this place is a miniature slice of the Winchester mansion, and is a tourist attraction) And had fun! Yay me!
Before that, I used some different dye to get my hair a darker green, which I like much better. Different brand than the one originally put on, too; the first one was already starting to fade out. :P The lady at the place where I got the darker green also made an excellent suggestion of putting the excess dye in a bottle with conditioner, for touching up over time.
Ummmm, that's all I can think of for now. Laters. :)
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| Friday, June 19th, 2009
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10:36 am - fostered kitten update
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Little boy kitten has been to the vet, was pronounced to have either Something or Something Else (I didn't catch what the options were), given an injection of fluid (poor little thing, he looks like he's got a hunchback), and will be getting antibiotics and baby food for a while. Now that he's been thoroughly traumatized, it's time for reassuring snuggles and lots of sleep.
I'm less worried for him - still worried, but not as direfully so. Poor little.
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5:54 am - sundry stuff & things
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This morning, I woke up dreaming of a music video by Some Chick (random dream-insert person). ( Because not everybody wants to read about Another Goddamn Dream Sequence. )
It's raining. o.O I'm not complaining, it's much much better than scorching horrible heat, but... wtf Seattle?? Apparantly we were going to have, or were setting, a record for number of days without rain (for this time of year). Yeehah.
At the store yesterday, I picked up a sudoku book, then turned around to the SF/F books, and was glancing at the titles telling myself "No, I don't need another book, I have plenty I haven't read already, I don't - oh, well, I guess I do need a book." /facepalm
The boy kitten we're fostering (he's the Siamese-looking one) is sick. They've both been through a lot, poor little things. They got booster shots day before yesterday, and he's having a bad reaction to the shot or something. We'll be taking him to the vet today. I hope he comes through. He's adorable, a snuggler, and he was the runt of the litter - he's going to be a very small cat. Also, he has extra toes. If you're so inclined, please send goodthoughts for his health.
That's all for this morning - a lot, considering that I've been awake less than an hour. :P
ETA: Nar has discovered the rain, on the back porch. He's come in a couple of times to tell me "ZOMFG IT'S WET OUT THERE I'M DAMP ZOMFG ALSO PET ME NAO." I'm pretty sure that Nar has never been an outdoor cat; this "rain" business seems to alarm, intrigue, and confuse him to no end. It's pretty hilarious. Can't wait until he experiences snow, heh heh.
Revenge of ETA: panzerwalt posted about the sick boy kitten.
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| Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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1:56 pm - GIP: greenier
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| Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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4:03 pm - Flist Appreciation Day
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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.
There's a whole buncha you, actually. :)
Not really much else to say about today; got some errandy-things done, mucked around a bit, OH YEAH RIGHT I need to cook some chicken tonight, thank you for reminding me. ;)
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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7:42 am - It was actually quite easy, becoming green.
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5:54 am - copied from micheinnz, also seen elsewhere (now with bonus tuatara facts!)
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1. You can ONLY answer 'Yes' or 'No'.
2. You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages or comments you and asks—and, believe me, the temptation to explain some of these will be overwhelming. Nothing is exactly as it seems.
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| Saturday, June 13th, 2009
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11:20 am - Things I have learned from fostering kittens
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* Food is always better with company.
* Sleep is, too.
* Play as hard as you can when you get the chance.
* Everything is a toy. Everything. Some things may be put out of reach; this doesn't mean they aren't toys, they're just toys you can't get to right now.
* Some toys play back. This is both awesome and scary.
* Sometimes, poo happens. If you've got giardia, sometimes it can happen really quickly, and with little warning. Do your best to get to the litterbox in time, but don't be too hard on yourself if you can't.
* Giant scary hands will occasionally pick you up and do weird things to you. This is alarming, but not always bad, and fairly often it's actually really nice. It's best to make friends with the giant scary hands. They provide food, pets, and snuggles.
* There are at least two different kinds of cats in the world: the kind that will play with you (not too roughly), groom you, and generally hang out with you for a while when given the chance; and the kind that growl, hiss, and take a swat at you. Be careful not to get the two types mixed up. There may be a third kind of cat, the kind that lurks around the corner and seems a bit freaked out by you, but you're not really sure about that one.
Also, from the point of view of a giant scary hand: kittens have lots of sharp bits which they don't have very good control over yet. You will get scratched, probably a lot. It's 90% accidental, but it still stings and itches. Even so, it's well worth it for the chance of having a purring kitten sit in your lap while another kitten flies around the room chasing string.
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* Does that exciting stringlike wriggling thing you're chewing on make your butt hurt? If so, it just might be your own tail. Or it might be your littermate's tail, and she's simultaneously chewing on your tail. These things can be so difficult to sort out.
current mood:  kittened
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| Thursday, June 11th, 2009
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7:51 am - paleosquee
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sleepy
