When you’re busy chucking old, useless CDs from their jewel cases, avoid trying to be clever while snapping shut said jewel cases. For instance, doing so one-handed may result in pinching the flesh of your palm in the hinge.
Freakin’ ow. You wouldn’t think you could break skin by pinching yourself with a CD case, but… well, take it from me. You can.
I’m such a klutz…
We went north, we ate food, we chatted, we slept, we ate and chatted some more, we drove home.
Oh, I took some pictures. They’ll show up in the gallery as soon as I have a stretch of time that isn’t in-freaking-sane in which to process them.
Today? Not a good day, by most measures of such things. Le sigh. It wasn’t all bad, but it sure as heck wasn’t all good…
So a group of us are heading up to Seattle for a nice overnight visit and party and such. I’m bringing my camera, so if all goes well there’ll be pictures once I get back.
Don’t get into too much trouble while I’m gone, okay? Thanks.
In case you’re wondering, I have a perfectly good reason not to have written a single damned word on my NaNovel today. A very, perfectly, truly good reason. Yes.
You see, yesterday my beloved employers saw fit to replace my cranky, misbehaving old geekphone with, uh, this.
And, you know, I had to spend some quality time this morning doing very important things to get it up and running to my high standards of usefulness. That’s right!
So the fact that I installed this on my new phone has nothing to do with my lost NaNoWriMo productivity this morning. I categorically deny any and all reports that I spent three hours playing MIDI files from my old sound files collection and/or that I found on the web in search of spiffy new ringtones. I’m also most assuredly not desperate to find a non-crappy anime MIDI website. Not at all.
There’s nothing to see (or hear) here, move along now…
To say that I’m not thrilled about how things turned out would be an understatement. We’ve got four more years of smirking shrubbery to look forward to, and Oregon passed a measure that writes discrimination into the state constitution.
Color me underwhelmed.
My only real consolation is that very nearly half of everyone who voted is in the same boat I am right now. Misery loves company, wot?
I’ve seen a couple of solar eclipses. My first was when I was pretty darned young. Until tonight, though, I’d not seen a lunar eclipse. Thanks to Mari and Doug (and especially Doug’s nifty homemade telescope) that’s been remedied.
I don’t know about “blood red moons,” but there is a definite reddish tinge to an eclipsed full moon. The really notable part isn’t the color, though. It’s the strange darkness of what is normally a bright white circle in the sky. You get used to full moons looking a certain way, and it’s rather sinister to see it so dim and rusty-red.
It was a nifty experience, indeed. So… I wonder when Mari will get around to posting those pictures she took? (I didn’t bother trying with my camera. My first attempt to snap a picture of a full moon back when I first got the thing resulted in a high resolution picture of almost nothing, punctuated by a little white dot. Bleh.)
