Happy Tuesday!

[shadesong]

Administration
Happy birthday to alleigh and alphafenris!

Food for Thought
Much of it, this weekend.

Eight days til I see him next.

The Move!
The move is over! Many thanks to our last-minute moving crew, who busted their asses to help us get the last of the crap out of there by Saturday evening - and thank the gods for magenta_girl, who busted her ass to get the house clean... we owe you big time, hon.

Now we just need to continue setting up the new house... first order of business: Elayna's clothes. I have to pack her summer stuff to ship to Florida.

Jack's Total Exhaustion
Up too late. Most nights I was okay staying up way late, but for some reason, it's all caught up with me today...

Writing
Transcribed 2K words from my wmga notebook. They are now happily on my computer.

I need a printer. I so very much need a printer.

Wrote a piece this weekend about the arrival at the Sanctuary of ten-year-old Contessa Marie Stone.

Also, showed irana the "death of a major character". She yelled "no" a lot. And threatened to kill me. I shall take that as a compliment.

Skinny Puppy Concert
I may have an escort to the concert. 'Twould be most excellent.

Internet
Still not set up at home. yendi will be working on this today. Have not read anything since Friday midafternoon.

Rhetorical Questions in Pop Music #17
"Annie, are you okay?"

Comments

[irana.livejournal.com]

Like I said, it was brilliantly written. I just wasn't prepared. But hey...I've got comic years to wait for that right?

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*beam* Thank you, sweetie! And yes, you do.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

She yelled "no" a lot. And threatened to kill me. I shall take that as a compliment.

::giggle:: Yep, you're definitely a writer.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

*bows grandiosely*

Seriously - if the reader doesn't want to hurt me when I kill off a character, it means I haven't done my job.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Hey - I'm in print - almost. My fiction is being published online, and this is a shameless self-pimpage:

http://www.brainradio.com

Well, almost shameless. I think you will enjoy the story, but I can't tell you why yet because it's a spoiler. :)

[amokk]

"Are you okay, Annie?" Why do I like that song? Too catchy for it's own good.

welcome back to the internet :)

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

i betcha you missed your connectivity over the weekend ...

Re: welcome back to the internet :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Indeed I did...

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

I'd offer you one of my used HP deskjet collection, but I suspect you can probably get a new one for about what shipping would cost. Target's had some for about $40 lately.

disappointment

[whodouthinkiam.livejournal.com]

Song, I feel like I have to write this. It should tell you something that I am doing it under a random screen name, and not my own, despite the fact that I've been reading you for well over a year, because I'm worried that you'd drag my name through the mud or turn your readership against me. At 800 people, that's a lot of folks to avoid.

I really resent when you beg your readership for help. You beg more than anyone I've ever seen on LJ. Money for blog-a-thon, cookies for your daughter, begging for help moving, but the last straw for me was asking people to clean your house. Where do you get off doing that? You were in town, volta was in town, and yes, I realize you get limited time with him, but for heaven's sake! You're seeing him again in eight days! You two could have taken one day of the few he was with you this time, and cleaned your own house. That's just abusing your readership. That's a task that you either do yourself, or PAY someone to do, not mooch off someone, not tell them you "owe them big time."

I realize that it was her own decision to volunteer. But you shouldn't have asked in the first place. That's just plainly and simply rude.

Re: disappointment

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Money for blog-a-thon, cookies for your daughter, begging for help moving, but the last straw for me was asking people to clean your house.

Charity, Girl Scouts - yeah, the moving was for me, but nothing else was.

Regarding the housecleaning: Person A volunteered. I said great. Person A wandered out of town.

We paid magenta_girl to clean the house. It's something she does for a living. Therefore we paid her. I said "We owe you big time" because she gave us a sizable discount - but there was no way we were not going to pay her.

I believe that I am allowed to ask someone to do what they do for a living, and pay them for doing so. I really don't see how that can be seen as "abusing" my "readership". I don't see as how it's any different from volta getting a massage from ryokan this weekend. ryokan is a professional massage therapist. We called. He came and gave volta a massage. volta paid him. Is that objectionable? If so, you're going to have to elaborate, because I'm not getting it.

Thankee, Thankee

[alphafenris.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday

Much thank you! I'd offer ya a slice of cake, except:

1. I don't have a cake


2. I haven't yet figured out how to transport cake via the 'net

Re: Thankee, Thankee

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Both of those need to be rectified, IMO.

Re: Thankee, Thankee

[alphafenris.livejournal.com]

Well, see, I've settled on a form of input, but the transfer system is kind of lossy and the output sucks.

I tried scanning a cake and trying to have the other end print one out in paper-thick layers, but most laser printers can't output cake for some reason. And printer ink seems to come in stupid flavors like "cyan" and "black" instead of "vanilla" and "fudge".

So far we've determined that you can't shove cake into cat-5, coax, or a phone line and expect it to come out the other end.
But, maybe if you shove it into the line really hard. I mean really hard.

I'm not even going to describe what happened when we tried to get a speaker to output a slice of chocolate cake.

It's surprisingly easy, though, to shove some pound cake into a zip drive.

And, pancakes in a DVD drive? Definitely doable. But it doesn't do a good job of keeping the damn things warm, because I saw some smoke coming out of the computer. Adding maple syrup seemed to take care of the problem.

Okay, now I've got to go see if there's an LJ client program that has a cake upload option . . .

Re: Thankee, Thankee

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I adore you.

[alleigh.livejournal.com]

awww thank you sweetie