She loves going to the groomers, but I'm not sure she likes coming home all femmie!
I don't usually remember my dreams . . .
May. 13th, 2006 09:57 amBut lately they've been sticking around for the morning's first light.
I was in a large Victorian house and there were lots of people around. They were celebrating the death of a man they believe to be a modern day Christ, he had been a junkie and overdosed. There was a sub-level feeling of evil in the house, but the visual felt like a 1960's sitcom, complete with a laugh track. People were talking and I was arraigning flowers with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kalmn. I think we had roamed the neighborhood "liberating" them from front yards. They were big, beautiful blooms. And there was lots of food. We were laughing along with everyone else as people told funny stories about the junkie. It felt like an Irish wake, but a cleaned up version for 60's prime time TV.
And then I woke up. I don't usually dream with real life people in them. I meetkalmn for the first time last year at a con, so I can verify she is real. ;-)
I was in a large Victorian house and there were lots of people around. They were celebrating the death of a man they believe to be a modern day Christ, he had been a junkie and overdosed. There was a sub-level feeling of evil in the house, but the visual felt like a 1960's sitcom, complete with a laugh track. People were talking and I was arraigning flowers with
kalmn. I think we had roamed the neighborhood "liberating" them from front yards. They were big, beautiful blooms. And there was lots of food. We were laughing along with everyone else as people told funny stories about the junkie. It felt like an Irish wake, but a cleaned up version for 60's prime time TV.And then I woke up. I don't usually dream with real life people in them. I meet
kalmn for the first time last year at a con, so I can verify she is real. ;-)
Dream or Memory
May. 13th, 2006 04:16 amIs there such a thing as a novel written as a vocabulary builder for adults? I dreamed about such a thing last night, but this morning it felt like a real life memory. This book used "big" or arcane words. And in the back, much like "A Clockwork Orange", there is a dictionary, but it includes every word in the book. (Then you don't have to wonder was "is" is!)
I would imagine this to be a very cumbersome book, unless it was a novella and it used small type, esp. for the dictionary part. On the other hand, I wonder how many different words a novel normally would use and what could you bump it up to if the object was to increase vocabulary?
I would imagine this to be a very cumbersome book, unless it was a novella and it used small type, esp. for the dictionary part. On the other hand, I wonder how many different words a novel normally would use and what could you bump it up to if the object was to increase vocabulary?
Attention People:
May. 12th, 2006 08:32 amStanding out in the middle of a busy traffic lane, looking towards on-coming traffic, DOES NOT make a bus come any faster. The view from the sidewalk should be sufficient and it is definitely safer.
A Beer Commericial or a New Sport?
May. 9th, 2006 08:40 pmhttp://mooseheadbeer.com/headball/
Just one more reason I love the net; the vicarious weirdness experience.
Just one more reason I love the net; the vicarious weirdness experience.
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May. 8th, 2006 06:43 amVia serenejournal...
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)
Teddy Emery
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy)
Nuncia Chocolate
3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name)
Csqu
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite animal, favorite color)
Dog Green
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, a city in the state or equivalent geographical area where you were born)
Sue Moline
6.YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of a grandmother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Squologil
7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, a grandmother's maiden name spelled backwards)
Eus Carletta
8. PORN STAR NAME: (middle name, street you grew up on)
Sue Emery
9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile you drive)
The Green Dodge
1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)
Teddy Emery
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dad's side, your favorite candy)
Nuncia Chocolate
3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name)
Csqu
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite animal, favorite color)
Dog Green
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, a city in the state or equivalent geographical area where you were born)
Sue Moline
6.YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of a grandmother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Squologil
7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, a grandmother's maiden name spelled backwards)
Eus Carletta
8. PORN STAR NAME: (middle name, street you grew up on)
Sue Emery
9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favorite color, the automobile you drive)
The Green Dodge
Welcome to My Xmas Obsession
May. 8th, 2006 12:17 amI finally uploaded all the photos from last years Xmas house decorations.
Warning: Click on Link Below at Your Own Risk, Cute Overload ispossible Probable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61898632@N00/sets/1710724/
There are also folders with pictures of the back yard and some of this years' tomato and green bean plants.
For my next trick, I want to get all the house redecorating photos together.
Warning: Click on Link Below at Your Own Risk, Cute Overload is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61898632@N00/sets/1710724/
There are also folders with pictures of the back yard and some of this years' tomato and green bean plants.
For my next trick, I want to get all the house redecorating photos together.
Why do I do these silly quizes?
May. 7th, 2006 09:12 am| You Are Sunshine |
 Soothing and calm You are often held up by others as the ideal But too much of you, and they'll get burned You are best known for: your warmth Your dominant state: connecting |
Whacking Weeds Ain't for Wimps
Apr. 30th, 2006 04:48 pmGood news - I done whacked me some weeds.
Bad news - There are still lots and lots more.
Good news - The weed whacker's rechargeable battery ran out about the same time mine did.
Bad news - I think the whacker's battery will be charged well before the convergence of my time/motivation/energy will.
Good news - I do have enough energy to weed whack shave ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbubley's head tonight.
When Illness Attacks
Apr. 12th, 2006 10:06 pmI am so, so, so, very, very, very grateful to have a working washer and dryer. 'nuff said
Not for me this time. stonebender and dbubley both are down and out today. Again serenejournal has come to help. I don't think it's food poisoning since they haven't eaten the same food recently. I guess it's a stomach bug of yucky origin. I must have been the carrier - just call me Typhoid Loracs!
stonebender and dbubley both are down and out today. Again serenejournal has come to help. I don't think it's food poisoning since they haven't eaten the same food recently. I guess it's a stomach bug of yucky origin. I must have been the carrier - just call me Typhoid Loracs!I only got 4 points!
Apr. 12th, 2006 02:08 pmDoes this mean I have an Unfortunate Life?
( A better, more adult Meme regarding privilege. )
( A better, more adult Meme regarding privilege. )
A Day . . .
Apr. 8th, 2006 11:31 pmI have a bazillion things I want to do this weekend, but I decided not to do my normal list making. I just wanted to wander from task to task and see how far I got.
Today I managed to pull a bunch of weeds, unfortunately that's just a very small portion of what needs to be done. Astroturf lawns are not looking as silly to me as they use to.
I placed the solar powered lights down the driveway. They did charge enough to turn on tonight and they look good.
I made chicken soup, but I was too lazy to thaw the thighs first and pull off some of the skin and fat before I put them in the crock pot. The broth is very, very greasy. I've strained it and will put in the fridge so I can remove the fat tomorrow. No soup for dinner tonight. It's suppose to rain (again!) tomorrow, so it will still feel like soup weather.
Now if I can just figure out how to getdbubley back on-line. For some unknown reason (weird planetary alignment?)her computer is saying our network is secured and won't let her on. As far as we know, neither of us have changed anything. It just doesn't like her anymore. 8-)
Stay tuned for tomorrow's excitement!
Today I managed to pull a bunch of weeds, unfortunately that's just a very small portion of what needs to be done. Astroturf lawns are not looking as silly to me as they use to.
I placed the solar powered lights down the driveway. They did charge enough to turn on tonight and they look good.
I made chicken soup, but I was too lazy to thaw the thighs first and pull off some of the skin and fat before I put them in the crock pot. The broth is very, very greasy. I've strained it and will put in the fridge so I can remove the fat tomorrow. No soup for dinner tonight. It's suppose to rain (again!) tomorrow, so it will still feel like soup weather.
Now if I can just figure out how to get
dbubley back on-line. For some unknown reason (weird planetary alignment?)her computer is saying our network is secured and won't let her on. As far as we know, neither of us have changed anything. It just doesn't like her anymore. 8-)Stay tuned for tomorrow's excitement!
A very odd meme
Apr. 8th, 2006 03:26 amSeen all over my friends LJ's. It's suppose to be about class but I think it's suppositions are little out of date, esp. re: technology. 10 years ago very few people had cell phones, now you're almost an oddity if you don't.
Here's my x's.
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Here's my x's.
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I love rain but
Mar. 31st, 2006 08:14 pmI want warm rain. I miss the warm midwestern rain of my youth. I've washed my hair and taken a shower in the rain. I've sat on the front steps and let the water streak down my face and into my mouth. I've walked barefoot through mud puddles. I've swam in lakes with the rain coming down so hard the line between lake and air gets blurred.
The month of March in the SF Bay Area has been one of the wettest in my 25 years here. But it's cold. Very cold. Snow on the local mountains - that kind of cold. Lingering in the rain is ill advised, unless you enjoy a shivering experience.
Until I find myself in a real warm rain, I'll just have to settle for a long, hot shower. I'll close my eyes and call up visual and olfactory memories of vivid greens and damp earth. If I go deep enough into memory, it feels pretty close to reality. Fade to a warm, wet, silly smile.
The month of March in the SF Bay Area has been one of the wettest in my 25 years here. But it's cold. Very cold. Snow on the local mountains - that kind of cold. Lingering in the rain is ill advised, unless you enjoy a shivering experience.
Until I find myself in a real warm rain, I'll just have to settle for a long, hot shower. I'll close my eyes and call up visual and olfactory memories of vivid greens and damp earth. If I go deep enough into memory, it feels pretty close to reality. Fade to a warm, wet, silly smile.
Just heard Bush say "No one should play on people's fear." Huh? This is the cornerstone of his entire political career! He said it in response to the immigration bill before Congress.
I am just so embarrassed for my country. This administration makes one stupid decision after another; a legacy we will have to live with for decades to come. It's a dangerous world and I do believe "if you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" and on a global basis, I think the U.S. is so much a part of the problem.
I am just so embarrassed for my country. This administration makes one stupid decision after another; a legacy we will have to live with for decades to come. It's a dangerous world and I do believe "if you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem" and on a global basis, I think the U.S. is so much a part of the problem.
I'm in the dark here!
Mar. 26th, 2006 10:51 amWe have a fluorescent light in our kitchen with 3 48" T8 tubes. One tube had been going out for a while. Finally all three went. Yesterday I replaced all three tubes. I think I put them in correctly. The two prongs on each end go in and then twist them to make contact. 2 of them went on pretty easily, but third (middle one)didn't want to make contact. For a short time (less than a minute) all three were on. Then the middle went out. Then the other two went out also. We "played" with them, trying to twist them in either direction to see if we could make them work. I had purchased an extra set and we tried them too. Nothing. No light.
Is there a trick to this? How many people does it take to replace fluorescent light bulbs? All suggestions, with or without humor, greatly appreciated.
Is there a trick to this? How many people does it take to replace fluorescent light bulbs? All suggestions, with or without humor, greatly appreciated.
It seems to be a day of mourning.
Mar. 24th, 2006 09:08 pmToday is the 10th anniversary of a friend and lover's death. He had AIDS. He was a gentle, gentle man. He was also one of the most tortured souls I've known. I use to think it was just a series of bad luck and being raised Catholic.
I met him the first day of classes at Southern Illinois University, Fall 1977. I was a Senior and he was a Freshman. He showed up at the Science Fiction Club meeting that evening with broken glasses (I think he was very close to legally blind without them) and there had been some mix up with his parent's payment, so he was not enrolled in any classes. He was all flustered
And this was not an unusual state to find him in. I'll never know how much drama he made and how much was the luck of the draw. Over the next 20 years we went from friends to lovers and back to friends. We spent hours and hours on the phone exchanging buckets of tears, advice and lots of laughter. During most of this time he lived in Chicago and I was in California.
Steady employment usually evaded him. He was married in early Dec. and was diagnosed HIV+ right after xmas. They had planned on having a child. The marriage lasted about a year. He died just a few months before some of the first "cocktails" started to bring folks back from the brink of death.
His was a life full of "bad timing". I loved him. I still love him.
I met him the first day of classes at Southern Illinois University, Fall 1977. I was a Senior and he was a Freshman. He showed up at the Science Fiction Club meeting that evening with broken glasses (I think he was very close to legally blind without them) and there had been some mix up with his parent's payment, so he was not enrolled in any classes. He was all flustered
And this was not an unusual state to find him in. I'll never know how much drama he made and how much was the luck of the draw. Over the next 20 years we went from friends to lovers and back to friends. We spent hours and hours on the phone exchanging buckets of tears, advice and lots of laughter. During most of this time he lived in Chicago and I was in California.
Steady employment usually evaded him. He was married in early Dec. and was diagnosed HIV+ right after xmas. They had planned on having a child. The marriage lasted about a year. He died just a few months before some of the first "cocktails" started to bring folks back from the brink of death.
His was a life full of "bad timing". I loved him. I still love him.
