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From sunspiral, an awful gamer/geek pun. Seriously, it hurts. Except I liked it. (Huh. Does pun appreciation automatically make one masochistic?)

"And like apemen trying out sticks and stones and fire for the first time, there's a lot of spearing ourselves in the foot, accidentally dropping rocks on the kids, acute problems with trying to have sex with fire, and so on. We have to learn to deal with it." -Terry Pratchett, 2001: The Vision and the Reality, from "Once More: With Footnotes"

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From sunspiral, an awful gamer/geek pun. Seriously, it hurts. Except I liked it. (Huh. Does pun appreciation automatically make one masochistic?)

"And like apemen trying out sticks and stones and fire for the first time, there's a lot of spearing ourselves in the foot, accidentally dropping rocks on the kids, acute problems with trying to have sex with fire, and so on. We have to learn to deal with it." -Terry Pratchett, 2001: The Vision and the Reality, from "Once More: With Footnotes"

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Want. Toaster. Badly.

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Want. Toaster. Badly.

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Welcome to Livejournal, veebl, who has been on LiveJournal for one week. She says that I should say that she was on LiveJournal before kernelslacker. :)

Anyway. Go welcome her! And add her! Also, entertain her lots, because she's immensely bored (due to not being allowed to work).

I am also going to drag her with me the next time I go to Psinging (not this month. Probably next month). Mmm. For lo, I am the Psinging advocate!

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Welcome to Livejournal, veebl, who has been on LiveJournal for one week. She says that I should say that she was on LiveJournal before kernelslacker. :)

Anyway. Go welcome her! And add her! Also, entertain her lots, because she's immensely bored (due to not being allowed to work).

I am also going to drag her with me the next time I go to Psinging (not this month. Probably next month). Mmm. For lo, I am the Psinging advocate!

[today]

Very strange day, foodwise. Good food, mind. But strange.

Breakfast: Tiramisu
Lunch-ish: toasted everything bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon (I did not realize that this was also known as lox! The things I learn from regyt) and lemon juice. Also, yummy green tea.
Dinner-ish: a very dense chocolate mousse with whipped cream

I point out, notingly, that every single meal - for some value of meal - included caffeine. I suspect that the chocolate mousse was perhaps not terribly wise of me, for even though I was sleepy (and not just overstim'd from people) earlier, driving home had no alertness troubles. And the only healthy meal was lunch. I'm glad I had a healthy lunch! Sheesh! (gotta wonder how my stomach is going to cope with the pretense at dinner, since it's really quite confused right now)


I also played with both a world atlas and a dictionary today. Maps _and_ words! *glee*


There were two books lent to me. First was "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac", lent to me by veebl and/or kernelslacker (I'm really not actually sure which of them actually did the lending, oddly. I _think_ it was veebl, whose name I keep wanting to add an 'e' to the end of). Second was "The Golden Key", lent by regyt. Mmm. Tasty wildly different books. Did I mention glee?


I got good amounts of cuddle-touch from regyt, to the point where, when I got into my car to go home, and put on my seatbelt, it took me a minute to realize that the something which was missing on the right side of my body was, in fact, a cuddly regyt. My brain is so strange.


I was reminded of just how difficult it can be for me to switch between 'co-worker mode' and 'friend mode' sometimes, as I don't give hugs to people while I am at work, and if I have not gotten into a useful non-work mode, it's difficult to get out of that mindset. Which is weird when interacting with people who are so very strongly my kind of people!


It is strange to have as a reaction to me meowing, the comment 'you are not a cat!'. Mostly because I don't see how that matters, really. Confuses my head to get that reaction, it does. It's not just cats who have conversations in meows! Just listen to me talking to australian_joe or ayalanya sometimes! ;) "What part of 'meow' don't you understand?"


I dislike sleep which entails dreams involving being very tired, I note. It's like my brain isn't entirely sure that I get that I'm tired, or something. Yes. Tired. Thank you, now shut up!


Now, I am over-people'd and yet full of glee. There is an ayalanya, much to my surprise! And I am tired. But using my happy green light. There was much sun today, but there is likely snow for the next couple of days. Tired of snow, and of winter, but at least the light levels are becoming noticeably more useful for me.


I had a very, very, very giggly day, especially as evening came on, where I kept alternating between extreme giggles and spontaneous desire to sleep right where I was. And my sentence structure was actually worse than it is right now. And I had far fewer words available. Bad words! No biscuit! Or cookie! Or something.


(I wonder if I'm going to start forgetting which words to use with which people? I know I tend to adjust my speech patterns and parser depending on who I'm talking to, so I wonder how far the auto-adjust goes, as far as my speech patterns and word use? Wee! I collect words!)


ladytabitha visited yesterday, and dropped off some books. But she left with more books than she dropped off, as well as some buttons. TAKE MY STUFF! ;) (incidentally, I should go look at that poll, to see if I ought to just hold stuff for certain people, or actually attempt to have a 'take my stuff' party. :)


I have great difficulty with using Macs, I have determined. WHERE'S THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON?! And why do I have to do something other than just highlighting stuff to copy it?! (Windows has that annoyance, too, mind) Gah! It's apparently been too long since I was in school and using Mac, Windows, Linux, and various UNIXes regularly.


Done now. Yep.

[today]

Very strange day, foodwise. Good food, mind. But strange.

Breakfast: Tiramisu
Lunch-ish: toasted everything bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon (I did not realize that this was also known as lox! The things I learn from regyt) and lemon juice. Also, yummy green tea.
Dinner-ish: a very dense chocolate mousse with whipped cream

I point out, notingly, that every single meal - for some value of meal - included caffeine. I suspect that the chocolate mousse was perhaps not terribly wise of me, for even though I was sleepy (and not just overstim'd from people) earlier, driving home had no alertness troubles. And the only healthy meal was lunch. I'm glad I had a healthy lunch! Sheesh! (gotta wonder how my stomach is going to cope with the pretense at dinner, since it's really quite confused right now)


I also played with both a world atlas and a dictionary today. Maps _and_ words! *glee*


There were two books lent to me. First was "Johnny The Homicidal Maniac", lent to me by veebl and/or kernelslacker (I'm really not actually sure which of them actually did the lending, oddly. I _think_ it was veebl, whose name I keep wanting to add an 'e' to the end of). Second was "The Golden Key", lent by regyt. Mmm. Tasty wildly different books. Did I mention glee?


I got good amounts of cuddle-touch from regyt, to the point where, when I got into my car to go home, and put on my seatbelt, it took me a minute to realize that the something which was missing on the right side of my body was, in fact, a cuddly regyt. My brain is so strange.


I was reminded of just how difficult it can be for me to switch between 'co-worker mode' and 'friend mode' sometimes, as I don't give hugs to people while I am at work, and if I have not gotten into a useful non-work mode, it's difficult to get out of that mindset. Which is weird when interacting with people who are so very strongly my kind of people!


It is strange to have as a reaction to me meowing, the comment 'you are not a cat!'. Mostly because I don't see how that matters, really. Confuses my head to get that reaction, it does. It's not just cats who have conversations in meows! Just listen to me talking to australian_joe or ayalanya sometimes! ;) "What part of 'meow' don't you understand?"


I dislike sleep which entails dreams involving being very tired, I note. It's like my brain isn't entirely sure that I get that I'm tired, or something. Yes. Tired. Thank you, now shut up!


Now, I am over-people'd and yet full of glee. There is an ayalanya, much to my surprise! And I am tired. But using my happy green light. There was much sun today, but there is likely snow for the next couple of days. Tired of snow, and of winter, but at least the light levels are becoming noticeably more useful for me.


I had a very, very, very giggly day, especially as evening came on, where I kept alternating between extreme giggles and spontaneous desire to sleep right where I was. And my sentence structure was actually worse than it is right now. And I had far fewer words available. Bad words! No biscuit! Or cookie! Or something.


(I wonder if I'm going to start forgetting which words to use with which people? I know I tend to adjust my speech patterns and parser depending on who I'm talking to, so I wonder how far the auto-adjust goes, as far as my speech patterns and word use? Wee! I collect words!)


ladytabitha visited yesterday, and dropped off some books. But she left with more books than she dropped off, as well as some buttons. TAKE MY STUFF! ;) (incidentally, I should go look at that poll, to see if I ought to just hold stuff for certain people, or actually attempt to have a 'take my stuff' party. :)


I have great difficulty with using Macs, I have determined. WHERE'S THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON?! And why do I have to do something other than just highlighting stuff to copy it?! (Windows has that annoyance, too, mind) Gah! It's apparently been too long since I was in school and using Mac, Windows, Linux, and various UNIXes regularly.


Done now. Yep.

[clutter]

(This is all in reference to the results of this poll)

So, the sewing machine and table appears to have a home, once I schedule a time to drop it off. Yay!

Some of the books and buttons obtained a home yesterday.

I'm actually impressed that anyone wanted the Fantasy & Science Fiction back issues, and am probably going to attempt to contact the two who indicated interest (one local, one not) to see about figuring out a way to split them up and get them to people, because I was having major trouble finding a place to donate them. And while it's nice to have a table, it's kinda bugging me to be using boxes of nifty magazines as a table. Poor magazines feel unloved!

I suspect the vast majority of interesting pins/buttons (I appear to be unable to choose a single word for that!) were already taken, but probably not all of them. I also suspect that both the books and pins could easily turn into a post, and have stuff dispersed that way. There weren't many who were both interested and able to make something at my place, so I think I'm not going to bother with that idea.

There's such a small amount of clothing (and not much interesting clothing, as ayalanya gets first pick by virtue of living with me, and tends to take what I would consider the stuff anyone else is likely to want anyway) that I'll probably just drop it off at the nearby thrift store. Although, actually, someone might be interested in the two pairs of boots (size 7.5-8, women's, US sizes). I might post a picture of them.


Incidentally, and unrelated to the topic above, I'm impressed with the speed with which you people wandered over to say hi to veebl. Especially considering that it's a Sunday! *impressed and pleased*

So... does this mean that I can claim to have minions? ;)

[clutter]

(This is all in reference to the results of this poll)

So, the sewing machine and table appears to have a home, once I schedule a time to drop it off. Yay!

Some of the books and buttons obtained a home yesterday.

I'm actually impressed that anyone wanted the Fantasy & Science Fiction back issues, and am probably going to attempt to contact the two who indicated interest (one local, one not) to see about figuring out a way to split them up and get them to people, because I was having major trouble finding a place to donate them. And while it's nice to have a table, it's kinda bugging me to be using boxes of nifty magazines as a table. Poor magazines feel unloved!

I suspect the vast majority of interesting pins/buttons (I appear to be unable to choose a single word for that!) were already taken, but probably not all of them. I also suspect that both the books and pins could easily turn into a post, and have stuff dispersed that way. There weren't many who were both interested and able to make something at my place, so I think I'm not going to bother with that idea.

There's such a small amount of clothing (and not much interesting clothing, as ayalanya gets first pick by virtue of living with me, and tends to take what I would consider the stuff anyone else is likely to want anyway) that I'll probably just drop it off at the nearby thrift store. Although, actually, someone might be interested in the two pairs of boots (size 7.5-8, women's, US sizes). I might post a picture of them.


Incidentally, and unrelated to the topic above, I'm impressed with the speed with which you people wandered over to say hi to veebl. Especially considering that it's a Sunday! *impressed and pleased*

So... does this mean that I can claim to have minions? ;)

[links]

A few more links, and then I listen to my cat's attempts to get me to Go To Bed Already! Even if I'm not sure I'll sleep.

entrochan wins geek points!

mactavish points at pretty NASA software.

ladytabitha appears to not realize that her dorkiness is part of _why_ I, at least, like her.

[links]

A few more links, and then I listen to my cat's attempts to get me to Go To Bed Already! Even if I'm not sure I'll sleep.

entrochan wins geek points!

mactavish points at pretty NASA software.

ladytabitha appears to not realize that her dorkiness is part of _why_ I, at least, like her.