July 19th, 2008


03:07 pm - Out and about: These are pretty
And I have forgotten what they're called.

Waiting on M, who is in the tool store. The flowers are gorgeous company, though more than a little suggestive what with the bees getting frisky now and then. :)

Gas prices have gone down a dime in the past couple of days but I haven't been able to get a clear enough pic.

M is finishing the water heater install today which is supposed to involve sawing a hole in the roof for the vent. Yeah, on demand water heaters have to be vented to the outside, turns out. So he's looking for an 8" hole saw. Who knew there were such things?

He also installed my dryer today (major Freecycle score!) and pitched all the old appliance motors and transmissions out into the yard for the guy who's hauling all that stuff off. :) Which means the shop part of the laundry room is finally free of all the crap that's accumulated for over a decade.... Yay!







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July 17th, 2008


09:33 pm - New Site Banner

Originally published at LCG:. You can comment here or there.

LostCoastGaming.com

And, courtesy of [info]dancing_ashes:

LostCoastGaming.com

Please feel free to right-click and save to your machine, then upload it wherever it would be welcome to help spread the word. You can find more ideas on how to do that by clicking here.

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09:14 pm - Do. Want. Naow. Plz.

7 Deadly Glasses.

From the website (which definitely could use the skills of a good webmatrix):
These red wine glasses are based on the 7 deadly sins. Each glass encapsulates a sin, which is revealed through the ritual of drinking. The ‘7 Deadly Glasses’ are about celebrating passion and encouraging the user to be sinful in a theatrical fashion.


Image of Wrath )

It's the first one on the site. The remaining ones, in order, are Greed, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, and Sloth.

Wowzers.

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July 15th, 2008


06:05 pm - Rob has me bemused again.


From Breszny's Freewill Astrology this week:
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It's like you've stumbled upon the
Cosmic Lost and Found Office, Sagittarius. Whether or not it happened
"by mistake" is irrelevant: It's an opportunity to recover good stuff that
prematurely disappeared from your life. But keep in mind that your
valuables may be mixed in with abandoned and forgotten junk, both yours
and other people's. You might initially feel discouraged at the prospect of
having to wade through all that meaningless dross in order to locate your
treasures. Don't give up. Your diligence will ultimately be rewarded.


Some musings about that here. Not for you if you think personal evolution is stupid. )
Okay, that quite honestly scares the bejesus out of me -- which means it must be time.

*sigh* And here I was enjoying the peace and quiet...
Current Mood: [mood icon] lethargic

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03:10 pm - This is, literally, the last result I would have expected.



You Belong in Paris



You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris.

You're the perfect person to wander the streets of Paris aimlessly, enjoying architecture and a crepe.



Vienna, Amsterdam, Madrid, Athens, yes. But snobby, dirty, stuck up Paris? Crazy.


Current Mood: [mood icon] blah
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July 13th, 2008


06:11 pm - Russian Orthodox Music -- seems appropriate for a Sunday.
This stuff is just amazing, and not for the faint of heart.

Let's see....

  • I have clean sheets and a freshly-laundered quilt on my bed right now. My skin is already tingling in anticipation of crawling in between the sheets.

  • We have all three Pirates of the Caribbean moves this weekend. Watched Curse of the Black Pearl last night. Tonight, it's Dead Man's Chest, of course. I lust after Johnny Depp but by God, Geoffrey Rush just steals scene after scene in At World's End.

  • Bathroom deconstruction progresses well. My role is mostly clean up right now while M does the technical stuff that takes his know-how. As soon as he finishes getting the drywall up, I'll be doing the taping & joint compound thing -- reminds me, we need to grab a texturing thingie next time we're in the hardware store...

  • A guy showed up out of the blue (=heh=) today to talk to M about hauling off a lot of the old appliance husks and scrap metal that he's been storing here against the day we had the extra funds to haul it all off ourselves. He's starting tomorrow -- I'm stoked!

  • On Friday poor MacDuff got his pads run off chasing the disc in a parking lot during our all-day ordeal in Eureka. Well, just one pad actually, and one of his claws worn down into the quick - that dog will run himself into the grave if there's a disc or a ball or a stick involved, I swear. We got him home and cleaned up and he's been a very good boy about not licking it like crazy. As a result, he's almost back to normal today -- though I must confess it's been kinda nice to have a couple of days of mellow MacDuff...

  • Did I mention Russian Orthodox Church music yet? Oh yeah huh... The Chorovaya Akademia is an all-male choir singing these hymns a capella and the vocal ranges involved are enough to take your breath away. One of these tracks ends in one of those chords where the contrabasses are singing the lowest notes you can hear (seriously -- any lower in pitch and only the dogs could hear it) while the contratenors are up in the stratosphere somewhere and the baritones and tenors are filling in everything between with mathematical artistry... makes me choke up and get hard goosebumps every time I hear them hit that final chord. The CD is entitled Ancient Echoes, for those interested. I highly recommend it.

  • Cycling back to movies for a bit, I started my very first-ever list of movies to own, and movies to rent, in my Treo last night. We finally got fed up with getting into the video store and going "duuuuurrrr.... what did we want to see, again?" Hopefully, if I've got my Treo at hand, we'll never have another of those embarrassing moments again. ;)

  • I still don't watch enough movies to join the community [info]creativedv8tion was just journaling about though. Sorry to say.

  • I made a kick ass pasta salad with a balsamic vinaigrette as a side for the leftover cold fried chicken from last night. Had a very sharp bite, it did, but it offset the relative blandness of the chicken just perfectly...

  • In addition to spear-heading the bathroom thing, M is also on point for the MediaWiki installation and integration thing at LCG. I love this man -- I could do neither of these things as quickly or as well as he does them, I swear. :)


Current Mood: [mood icon] enthralled
Current Music: Duh?

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July 12th, 2008


02:42 pm - Tearing into the bathroom
It's today!!

The Freecycled on-demand water heater is converted to LP and M has been tearing out drywall in the bathroom ever since.

Original plans modified once, on first contact with reality.

Pictures being taken -- will be posted to Alternative Building Services' blogsite for a sweet DIY entry or six...

Woo-hoo -- I wonder if I got enough tile....?


Current Mood: [mood icon] busy
Current Music: 5 CD's in the changer -- could be almost anything

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11:02 am - Until about an hour ago
I seriously thought it was Friday.

Was making plans as if it were Friday. Even 2 espressos and a cup of regular coffee didn't manage to dispel that particular veil -- took [info]dancing_ashes and my husband to finally break through the fog.

Okay, I'm back now. Yesterday was Friday, and it was such a long, tiring day that it's probably no wonder its end didn't register properly with me. :)
Current Mood: [mood icon] wtf?
Current Music: I should think about putting some on...

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July 11th, 2008


06:19 pm - Why having lightning storms in summer here is NOT a good idea....
This part of the world would be unliveable, if we did.

We've got a lot of ash here just now. High in the sky, which should be blue but is in fact a light dirty grey from the particulate matter just hovering up there. Our usual summer winds have failed us too -- which is probably a good thing, in some quarters, I have to admit.

On the CALFire site, the Dept. of Forestry says the fires here in Humboldt County are pretty much contained -- but I saw today that Hwy 299 is closed in two places, and all of Buckhorn Summit appears to be burning (that's one of the closures). These fires were started by the lightning from the storms on June 21st -- kinda freaky to have had thunderstorms in late June, I thought at the time. Now 3/4 of a million acres are burning.

It's not nearly as bad here as it is in Chico and Shelter Cove (M's design-build site appears to be safe for now), but people are already complaining about their lungs and even mine feel a little weird, now.

THAT'S why we don't have thunderstorms here in the summertime, like everyone else does. It's just too damned dry, once it stops raining (and we're having a drought, to boot). We have our thunderstorms (such as they are) in the winter, when the rains soak everything down so thoroughly nothing can even think of burning.

In addition to my friend from LCG who's so sick, and [info]creativedv8tion for his dental recovery and my brother [info]aaronymous who's just having heinous real life right now, I've been keeping all those firefighters in my prayers of late.

Yes, of course I still pray -- once I understood what prayer really was, and what it was for, I found I couldn't help but pray, wish I was strong enough to spend my entire life in a prayerful state, in fact. It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said "Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view," and that's just a dandy place to be. :)

Okay, I'm rambling. I'll shut it down for now.


Current Location: Home, thank god
Current Mood: [mood icon] drained
Current Music: too tired for that -- and THAT'S damned tired

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July 10th, 2008


07:19 pm - EDD: Riskier Business

Originally published at LCG:. You can comment here or there.

The first part of this story can be read by clicking here.

September 1930

They were waiting for me when I arrived at the tiny flat I'd taken in Fribourg, two slabs of stupid whose primary attribute was every muscle except the one between their respective ears. I'd never been handled roughly in my life to that point; one of them grabbed me, the other slapped me and my world spun dizzily for several moments. The next thing I remembered was snapping to acute awareness in the cool air outside and seeing a lone man walking across the street.

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Current Mood: [mood icon] enthralled
Current Music: Russian Orthodox Church music...

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July 9th, 2008


10:15 pm - Thought for the Night
The smell of baking bread has got to be one of the most aggravatingly beautiful scents on this Earth. It's lovely, luscious, and you cannot get away from it when it's in your house. It compels you to slice open that steaming loaf and have some. With butter. And preferably, honey. :)

No, I'm not complaining. There are definitely worse things.
Current Mood: [mood icon] hungry
Current Music: Hadra by Lumin, again.

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July 8th, 2008


09:45 pm - I think this technically qualifies as more Sloth...





Your Deadly Sins



Lust: 40%

Greed: 20%

Sloth: 20%

Wrath: 20%

Envy: 0%

Gluttony: 0%

Pride: 0%


Chance You'll Go to Hell: 14%

You'll die from overexertion. *wink*


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Current Music: Uuuhhh....
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July 6th, 2008


08:17 pm - Home Again
Just chillin' out, sinking our roots back into our home space. Feels really good to be home again -- and clean. :)

MacDuff was sad to leave Stick Heaven, but he rediscovered Ball Heaven like about 5 minutes after we got the truck unloaded. Both dogs ate some Duppy Supper (kibble of some brand or other, Iams I think) and passed out for hours. Anniel was happy-joyed to have real rugs and carpets and even a bed to lie upon, again. She's such a hedonistic little bitch in that way, although: She did get into a hornet's nest on Friday and got stung on her left flank a couple of times, poor little girl. I batted them off her and stepped on them, and she had no reaction to the venom (not even any swelling) so we got lucky.

She really liked the water and I am sad that I didn't get a picture of her following her nose downstream. :) Maybe M did though -- I'll have to ask.

More post-camping natterings behind the tuck to save your bandwidth )

Until then, I definitely need a better "mobile posting program" for my Treo and I'll be looking for that in the next couple of days. Plus, I think I really do want to change out the minimalistic blogs at LCG to Wordpress blogs, and I think I know how to do it. And will, once we get the wiki installed and running site-wide.

It really is good to be home.


Current Location: see the title, duh
Current Mood: [mood icon] relaxed
Current Music: quiet hum of a fan

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01:29 pm - Out and about: A sign for our times
Have been saving that pic for the last entry from camp. After weighing the pros and cons we decided to stick to our original plans and head home today. M has his equilibrium back and we both want a real shower rather than a stand-up bath. Someone had used the tree's natural features to turn nature into art - a six pointed star, the symbol for the sacred space where heaven and earth overlap. It's an apt one for this place; I'm sorry to leave it but it seems we can't stay in this particular sacred space forever. Time to leave it for someone else to find - we'll take some of it with us when we go.

I'll be back online for realz this evening. :)



Current Location: East Fork Campground
Current Mood: [mood icon] cheerful

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01:29 pm - Out and about: Being, in camp
If indeed what you see is what you are (I'll find and insert the link to that post for my F-list when I get back home), then I am natural beauty, peace, and contentment.

So of course, M is trying to take a picture of me and they're all hideous! lol...

I suppose the saying that what you see is what you become, not what you look like.

The pic gives a fairly good idea of our little piece of heaven looks like.

Ooooh, random idea, better d/l it here before I forget )

Anyway, the creek is just out of frame to the right. My mother taught me to keep a neat campsite and I'm a lot more compulsive about it than I am keeping a neat house (which she was certainly compulsive about!).

Time to think aboout getting the riblets on, if that's what we're doing for dinner.




Current Location: East Fork Campground
Current Mood: [mood icon] cheerful

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July 5th, 2008


01:56 pm - Out and about: What puts me to sleep every night
The creek runs not 30 feet away from our tent. This is the kind of all-natural sound city people pay $$ for, to have around on CD or mp3.

Of course, I want to record it to take it home with me, too.

It seems really loud, almost intrusive, the first night. The second night, it's pleasant, melodic. The third and subsequent nights it's like background noise - life is weird when it's missing.

We're contemplating staying through 'til Monday now. And M gets to eat some of his snarky, smart-ass comments about ME going into withdrawal from the Internet - HE is the one jonesing, not me. =)

Kiss my phat ass, white boy. ;)





Current Location: East Fork Campground
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01:56 pm - Out and about: *sigh*
I need a version of this software that will let me go in and edit a nonpublished post after I hit a key that bumps me out of writing a post.

Anyway, I started to say that last year at this time, M was nursing me through the end of that staph infection in addition to working full time out in the field. Hes's understandably fatigued.

Oh, and butterflies. We has them . :) It's always either too wet or too windy on the coast for them. I never realize how much I miss them 'til we get here.

Duffy Prickle-Face.



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01:54 pm - Out and about: Home Sweet Home (Away From Home)
Saturday morning, our last full day of camp. There are finally other people in the campground around us, but we actually have to go looking for them to see them. That's one good reason I like camping here - huge campsites, lots of privacy. It makes for an easy, low stress get-away on a long weekend.

M and I spent most of last evening sitting by the fire talking about a range of things, quietly and intimately. Hels been journaling this trip too but not for a blog - it's been over two years since he's had any real downtime and it shows in how strung out he's been, up to today.





Current Location: East Fork Campground
Current Mood: [mood icon] cheerful

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July 4th, 2008


03:13 pm - Out and about: Heaven

Just sayin'.




Current Location: East Fork Campground
Current Mood: [mood icon] hungry
Current Music: bacon sizzling on the griddle

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03:12 pm - Out and about: Brrr... Thurs. Night
Note to self: When camping in the mountains, always bring a scarf, hatm gloves, and other cool weather gear - especially if it's July and you think you won't need it.
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