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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! | |
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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. | |
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Muppet Rhapsody"Scooter, remind me to stop setting up these videoconferences. They're not very productive." | |
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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.) | |
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Hunter green ladies bobby socks at absolutesocks.com and sockwizard.com! Hooray! | |
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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 - Tags:socks
- Mood:frustrated
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Fall has fell The leaves are down I wonder where the birdies gone?
Happy Halloween/Blessed Samhain! | |
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Daylight Saving Time ends tonight in the US. Turn your clocks BACK one hour when you go to bed. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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.) | |
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I hab a code id de head ad a dup-dup doze. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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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