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May. 14th, 2005
Saturday evening
May. 14th, 2005 07:38 pm...and the wind it blows.
Busy week at work. Next week will be even busier because I have a report I need to finish before I take off for Wiscon. I have two meeting-free days that I have blocked off. All I'll need to do is find an empty office and hide.
We didn't get the rain they said we would today, so I had a chance to spread some mulch and plant a little grass seed. Mulching meant the use of landscape cloth to prevent the weeds from poking through. The cloth can be fastened to the ground with either plastic spikes or metal Frankenhairpins--I wish someone would explain to me WHY those fasteners come in bags of freakin' *10* when you can easily go through 20 or 30 of the things fastening down the cloth in a relatively small space. A bag of a hundred wouldn't have gone amiss here.
Next time, I guess I take a ride to the big hardware box.
Working through a tricky chapter in J5. The end of a couple of relationships and the rekindling of another.
Busy week at work. Next week will be even busier because I have a report I need to finish before I take off for Wiscon. I have two meeting-free days that I have blocked off. All I'll need to do is find an empty office and hide.
We didn't get the rain they said we would today, so I had a chance to spread some mulch and plant a little grass seed. Mulching meant the use of landscape cloth to prevent the weeds from poking through. The cloth can be fastened to the ground with either plastic spikes or metal Frankenhairpins--I wish someone would explain to me WHY those fasteners come in bags of freakin' *10* when you can easily go through 20 or 30 of the things fastening down the cloth in a relatively small space. A bag of a hundred wouldn't have gone amiss here.
Next time, I guess I take a ride to the big hardware box.
Working through a tricky chapter in J5. The end of a couple of relationships and the rekindling of another.
Saturday evening
May. 14th, 2005 07:38 pm...and the wind it blows.
Busy week at work. Next week will be even busier because I have a report I need to finish before I take off for Wiscon. I have two meeting-free days that I have blocked off. All I'll need to do is find an empty office and hide.
We didn't get the rain they said we would today, so I had a chance to spread some mulch and plant a little grass seed. Mulching meant the use of landscape cloth to prevent the weeds from poking through. The cloth can be fastened to the ground with either plastic spikes or metal Frankenhairpins--I wish someone would explain to me WHY those fasteners come in bags of freakin' *10* when you can easily go through 20 or 30 of the things fastening down the cloth in a relatively small space. A bag of a hundred wouldn't have gone amiss here.
Next time, I guess I take a ride to the big hardware box.
Working through a tricky chapter in J5. The end of a couple of relationships and the rekindling of another.
Busy week at work. Next week will be even busier because I have a report I need to finish before I take off for Wiscon. I have two meeting-free days that I have blocked off. All I'll need to do is find an empty office and hide.
We didn't get the rain they said we would today, so I had a chance to spread some mulch and plant a little grass seed. Mulching meant the use of landscape cloth to prevent the weeds from poking through. The cloth can be fastened to the ground with either plastic spikes or metal Frankenhairpins--I wish someone would explain to me WHY those fasteners come in bags of freakin' *10* when you can easily go through 20 or 30 of the things fastening down the cloth in a relatively small space. A bag of a hundred wouldn't have gone amiss here.
Next time, I guess I take a ride to the big hardware box.
Working through a tricky chapter in J5. The end of a couple of relationships and the rekindling of another.
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amyirene_40
1. Total number of books I've owned:
How can anyone answer this? Thousands, roughly.
2. Last book I bought:
Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell
3. Last book I read:
Thief of Time by T. Pratchett
4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carre. A two-fer, since I love them for the same reasons: The descriptions of places and people. The characters. Office politics that can get people killed. The long distance chess match between Smiley and Karla. My first exposure to the mindset of a spy.
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. I think Lord Peter was my first literary crush. The fine detail of Harriet's growing physical attraction to Peter was a pleasant awakening.
Asimov's I, Robot short stories--my first SF
GWOT!, by forgotten author. I was in grade school. This book was in the kid's section. It was funny horror. "Who's got my hairy toe? Who's got my hairy toe?" "Gwot! I ate it!" It scared me at the time because the illos were gross and the story was spooky. I figure anything that's stuck with me for 40 years counts as memorable.
Horror Times Ten--horror antho from the early 70s. Forgot the editor. My first exposure to horror--I loved it.
5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their LJs:
alfreda89
jacardie
trolleypup
equesgal
christymarx
amyirene_401. Total number of books I've owned:
How can anyone answer this? Thousands, roughly.
2. Last book I bought:
Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell
3. Last book I read:
Thief of Time by T. Pratchett
4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carre. A two-fer, since I love them for the same reasons: The descriptions of places and people. The characters. Office politics that can get people killed. The long distance chess match between Smiley and Karla. My first exposure to the mindset of a spy.
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. I think Lord Peter was my first literary crush. The fine detail of Harriet's growing physical attraction to Peter was a pleasant awakening.
Asimov's I, Robot short stories--my first SF
GWOT!, by forgotten author. I was in grade school. This book was in the kid's section. It was funny horror. "Who's got my hairy toe? Who's got my hairy toe?" "Gwot! I ate it!" It scared me at the time because the illos were gross and the story was spooky. I figure anything that's stuck with me for 40 years counts as memorable.
Horror Times Ten--horror antho from the early 70s. Forgot the editor. My first exposure to horror--I loved it.
5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their LJs:
alfreda89jacardietrolleypupequesgalchristymarx
I've been tagged by amyirene_40
1. Total number of books I've owned:
How can anyone answer this? Thousands, roughly.
2. Last book I bought:
Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell
3. Last book I read:
Thief of Time by T. Pratchett
4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carre. A two-fer, since I love them for the same reasons: The descriptions of places and people. The characters. Office politics that can get people killed. The long distance chess match between Smiley and Karla. My first exposure to the mindset of a spy.
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. I think Lord Peter was my first literary crush. The fine detail of Harriet's growing physical attraction to Peter was a pleasant awakening.
Asimov's I, Robot short stories--my first SF
GWOT!, by forgotten author. I was in grade school. This book was in the kid's section. It was funny horror. "Who's got my hairy toe? Who's got my hairy toe?" "Gwot! I ate it!" It scared me at the time because the illos were gross and the story was spooky. I figure anything that's stuck with me for 40 years counts as memorable.
Horror Times Ten--horror antho from the early 70s. Forgot the editor. My first exposure to horror--I loved it.
5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their LJs:
alfreda89
jacardie
trolleypup
equesgal
christymarx
amyirene_401. Total number of books I've owned:
How can anyone answer this? Thousands, roughly.
2. Last book I bought:
Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell
3. Last book I read:
Thief of Time by T. Pratchett
4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People by John le Carre. A two-fer, since I love them for the same reasons: The descriptions of places and people. The characters. Office politics that can get people killed. The long distance chess match between Smiley and Karla. My first exposure to the mindset of a spy.
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers. I think Lord Peter was my first literary crush. The fine detail of Harriet's growing physical attraction to Peter was a pleasant awakening.
Asimov's I, Robot short stories--my first SF
GWOT!, by forgotten author. I was in grade school. This book was in the kid's section. It was funny horror. "Who's got my hairy toe? Who's got my hairy toe?" "Gwot! I ate it!" It scared me at the time because the illos were gross and the story was spooky. I figure anything that's stuck with me for 40 years counts as memorable.
Horror Times Ten--horror antho from the early 70s. Forgot the editor. My first exposure to horror--I loved it.
5. Tag 5 people and have them fill this out in their LJs:
alfreda89jacardietrolleypupequesgalchristymarx