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Thu 26th Nov 2009 10:05 am - turkey!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Wed 25th Nov 2009 10:41 am - nightmare
I must be having Thanksgiving anxiety. Last night I dreamed that my mother, with whom I was sharing a house but not a kitchen, had given away all of my silverware and dishes (sorry, Mom). Except for my table-knives. Right before I woke up, I discovered that this included the rack I bought a few years ago specifically for roasting turkey on.
Tue 24th Nov 2009 06:34 pm - The Muppets Do Queen
Muppet Rhapsody

"Scooter, remind me to stop setting up these videoconferences. They're not very productive."
Ha! Target now has dark green crew-length socks, too. They come in a multi-color 6-pack along with (among others) brown and lime green, neither of which I would ever wear, but if I'd seen them last week when I was there, I would have snapped them up with cries of delight. I'd swear they weren't there last week, though.

(We now return you to your regularly-scheduled sockless ramblings.)
Thu 19th Nov 2009 06:38 pm - success!
Hunter green ladies bobby socks at absolutesocks.com and sockwizard.com! Hooray!
Mon 16th Nov 2009 04:43 pm - shopping woes
Why is it so impossible to find dark green* crew-length socks? Plain or patterned, I'm not fussy, as long as they're predominantly dark green. Buster Brown seems to have stopped making that color, nor does anyone else I can locate, and my last two pairs just died. I'm not fussy about the fabric, either; cotton or cotton blend are good, but at this point I'll take just about anything. Knee-socks are available, but those are too tall. I'm almost to the point of buying "Natural" (undyed) Buster Browns and dyeing my own.

*pine, forest, whatever
Fri 6th Nov 2009 12:50 pm - Hippos! Birdies!
Happy Birthday, [info]tanned_featherd!
Thu 5th Nov 2009 11:15 am - why cell phones are bad
Did you see the unicycling clown?

Best line: "You don’t have a student who unicycles in a clown suit every day, so you have to take advantage of these things."
Wed 4th Nov 2009 10:35 am - birf-day!
Happy Birthday to the male half of [info]purpleajuga!
Sat 31st Oct 2009 11:51 am - silly poem
Fall has fell
The leaves are down
I wonder where the birdies gone?

Happy Halloween/Blessed Samhain!
Sat 31st Oct 2009 11:49 am - Public Service Announcement
Daylight Saving Time ends tonight in the US. Turn your clocks BACK one hour when you go to bed.
Fri 30th Oct 2009 08:01 pm - Pink Carnation
I just finished Lauren Willig's The Secret History of the Pink Carnation. Why did no one tell me of this book before? I mean, I had heard of it, but no one mentioned it was so far up my alley it's practically in the next street.

The reviews made it sound rather Scarlet Pimpernelish. And it is, kind of, but that's not all. What it really is is a Regency romance with a pair of intelligent and witty protagonists who drive each other crazy as they fall in love. Plus the frame story of a historian researching dashing English spies is a delight, with a romance brewing there as well.

When the book ends, Eloise (the historian) is off to the Purple Gentian's descendent's country house to investigate further. There are several more books, which should keep me happily occupied for a while.
Thu 29th Oct 2009 07:33 pm - Rosemary and Rue
Rosemary and Rue, by Seanan McGuire, is a welcome return to the roots of urban fantasy, which originally meant Faerie intruding in a modern urban setting, in this case San Francisco. October Daye is a changeling, half human, half fae. She is a private investigator and in the service of a powerful faerie duke. As the story begins, she is trying to track down the duke's abducted wife and daughter, but things go horribly wrong. After fourteen years out of circulation, Toby is trying to pick her life back up again, working as a late-night supermarket cashier and avoiding the fae as much as possible. But when her former mentor/patron is murdered, Toby is sucked back in.

The plot of this is classic murder mystery, private investigator subtype. But the real charm is the interaction between our world and the world of Faerie. Toby is an appealing character, strong but flawed and damaged by life.

There are two sequels in the works; I am eagerly looking forward to them.
Sat 24th Oct 2009 12:42 pm - trying this again
I just emailed Verizon again about the bounced emails (a few trickled few, but the vast majority bounced). Any bets on whether it'll help? (Personally, I'll be surprised if they even acknowledge my query.)
Fri 23rd Oct 2009 12:45 pm - coming soon: YASI
I hab a code id de head ad a dup-dup doze.
Wed 21st Oct 2009 03:49 pm - thumbs down
I recently read (okay, skimmed) the new, authorized Pooh sequel, Return to the Hundred-Acre Wood. It's not awful, but there's no spark. And the new character, Lottie the Otter, turns out to be quite annoying. Doubly so since she's the only girl (Kanga's a mom, not a playmate), and she's vain, bossy, and full of herself. Ugh!

Don't bother with this; read the original two again instead.
Wed 14th Oct 2009 03:21 pm - further update
Aaaaaaaand, it's been three days and I still haven't heard from Verizon. So much for getting back to me "within one business day."

But at least I'm getting my emails.
Sun 11th Oct 2009 07:04 pm - update
I haven't heard back yet from Verizon (didn't expect to, their site says "within one business day" and this is Sunday--fair enough), but the email bounce problem seems to have resolved itself. No idea whether my contacting them made any difference.
Sun 11th Oct 2009 09:45 am - rant
I hate!hate!hate! company contact webpages that force you to choose categories, none of which fit my question, then won't let me send the email. DO NOT WANT!

Yahoo did the former recently; I was able to send the email--twice, choosing two different wrong categories--but they then never responded. Verizon just did both. When I picked "support" as being closest to what I wanted, they dropped me on their FAQ page--which I had just unsuccessfully searched, which is why I was trying to email them.

GAH!

(Why do I need support? A mailing list I subscribe to is being bounced. I haven't had a message get through in weeks.)
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