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e:zobar has finished all the black in his cross-stitch pattern. It's a thing of beauty. I did NOT get a photo of his whole costume!!! I can't believe it. i brought my camera, and then, I ju0 . . .
I have been instructed to remind e:james of our conversation. Just google the words roy orbison clingfilm. You won't believe what comes up. That first result is exactly what you want. And how. 0 . . .
So I don't have a costume for me. I figured I'd be so sick I would either have to stay home, or would just curl up in a corner of the party and try not to breathe on anything, while Z went f0 . . .
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1009/photo_4aea3aed7e4cd_1029.jpg HAHA I moblogged!!! So can you guess what it is? It's a small part of the whole thing, but very labor-intensive. :)0 . . .
My boss's kids had H1N1 last week. His wife had it as well. It made his older daughter (7) pretty sick, and his wife was miserable, but it only slowed the 3-year-old slightly. (The 3-year-old has0 . . .
just for e:tinypliny-- I tried again to send this from my iPhone but no luck. I email using the address I have on file here, to mobl@estrip.org, and it just never shows up. :( 0 . . .
Not like e:Paul's entry, but the other night, the two guys on the closing shift were going about their business, and some guy who was "just looking" darted behind the counter, grabbed t0 . . .
I will have to try again to send photos from my iPhone. Hilarity keeps ensuing when it's around. Who is going to Music Is Art tomorrow?? e:Zobar and I are going to try to make it there! I have 0 . . .
I should probably mention that I got a new job a few months back, working at the camera store on Transit Ave. There are two locations, and the Delaware store is the bigger one, but the Transit one has0 . . .
Asked the boss when I got in & he said, huh. If we got robbed nobody called me. So he called the Delaware Ave store & they said everything was normal. Shrug! Store closes @ 8 so they were long0 . . .
Finally I have achieved my ambition of blogging from the bathroom at work. Edited to add: What, I get no love?! That's a moblogging milestone, that is!!0 . . .
This is my maiden attempt at e:stripping via iPhone. I am hoping to figure out how to add photos too because I am sewing a really cool case for the new phone and I want to post progress pics!0 . . .
I posted a bunch-ola of photos up on my Flickr account, lest you think e:zobar stretches the truth about Pennsic a tad. I didn't take any of topless women, or of anything that might be nudity, or0 . . .
I am exhausted today. I spent all day yesterday racing the impending rain-- it's supposed to rain/drizzle/be cloudy all week, and I know that I have trouble starting seeds outdoors because I neve0 . . .
So I've been gardening like a crazy thing lately. Did you know that coffee grounds make fabulous compost? They're basically potting soil as-is! They are very high in nitrogen, which plant0 . . .
So I haven't been around here much. And thought I'd stop in and say hi. I showed up yesterday in a fury because ok it's a long story, but to make it short, my LJ, which maybe I link to 0 . . .
I need a blog no one knows about so I can rant and rave about how I AM GOING TO BUY A BIG MULTI-PACK OF BIG GIRL PANTIES AND MAIL THEM TO A CERTAIN PERSON. But I really can't, since someone mi0 . . .
***Pre-entry commercial break: TICKETS FOR THE FIRST ROLLER DERBY BOUT OF THE SEASON HAVE GONE ON SALE ONLINE http://www.qcrg.net , ALONG WITH SEASON TICKETS FOR ALL OF THE BOUTS, AND YOU SHOULD BU0 . . .
So I'm starting off with awesome photos. My team had our photos taken this past month and just got the results posted up on the inter-netz for us to look at. One of our team members' boyfr0 . . .
i am just hung over. so so so hung over. so amazingly hung over. this is the worst hangover i have had since april. that was the worst hang over i ever had in my life. this one is less pukey, less dra0 . . .
So while I was at my folks' for Thanksgiving, they were showing how they get more channels now that they have a digital TV. They're out of range of cable, so they can't get it, but now 0 . . .
Facebook is messing with my head. All these people I'm sure I know, but their names-- is that really their real name? Wait... the blurry photos and partial-face photos and odd artsy photos don� . . .
Does anyone else ever re-read their own old blog archives and think it's entertaining to see what you thought days or weeks or months ago? I ask because e:zobar is doing it right now, because h0 . . .
i want to post a video on the Internet. But when I compress the video from iMovie "for Web", it's unwatchable. I mean, you can't tell what's going on; it's just a collect0 . . .
I'm still DOING NaNoWriMo, i'm just way behind schedule. Hey, there's an extra weekend in November just because of the way the calendar fell this year. That's plenty of time to do 0 . . .
So. NaNoWriMo is not going so good. The first day (I started on the 2nd) I wrote like 275 words. The second day I added another 850 or so to the total. OK. The third day, I racked up a pretty dec0 . . .
This is from the blog of an author whose books I don't read, but whose blog is the kind of haunting, poignant beautiful kick-in-the-gut stuff that make me believe in the Internet again. "0 . . .
http://www.noonprop8.com/articles/2008/10/31/no-on-prop-8-campaign-slams-dishonest-mailer-targeting-african-american-voters/ So what happened is that the Yes on 8 campaign sent out a mailer featuri0 . . .
New usersound: "We Shall Not Be Moved", by Sweet Honey on the Rock. Someone on my Livejournal friends-of-friends list uploaded that song and "Eyes On The Prize" in honor of today&0 . . .
Last night I sat down and finally started in on NaNoWriMo. I'm revisiting an old novel, which is contrary to NaNo's rules, but I need a new plot-hole-full hastily-written shitty first draft 0 . . .
Dear Red States I posted about this on LJ but thought that y'all here would enjoy it too. Someone sent my sister this forward and she read it to me today, and I just about pissed myself laugh0 . . .
I am so excited to party tonight! So excited! Yay! I have to finish my costume. I have to make e:zobar's costume, because he was going to do it today but got called in to a bunch of meetings. I 0 . . .
Is it actually snowing? I'm seeing little snowflakes here, but they went away. Funny, I learn about the weather after the fact from this website. I was going to blog about the country-fried s0 . . .
So I got home from practice and was really stinky. Stinky stinky gross. And a bit sore-- I'm breaking in new skates and they gave me some blisters on my instep. And we did a lot of hitting so I h0 . . .
How did I never notice that above every blog entry, the temperature it was when it was posted is listed? I am e:retarded. Or should that be e:tarded?0 . . .
I forgot, I was going to blog this last night. i didn't get a photo, though. The link to the original recipe is here: http://urban-homestead.livejournal.com/13770.html This is a great reci0 . . .
OK, I figured I should follow that up with some photos of said cats. So I can have an illustration. Since I seem to have managed to get the Upload button to work. 1008/IMG00481026.jpg Remi, F0 . . .
This is my second re-post, which has been revised and updated for the E:strip market. Cat Religion Watching Chita today I have become convinced that I understand the religion of cats. They wor0 . . .
I have an awful headache. I wanted to go out to party for Halloween last night but I have been so sick, I couldn't drag myself into costume. So we went down to the Century instead, on Pearl St. a0 . . .
http://theremina.livejournal.com/224143.html This Livejournal user posted a video she took when she encountered a group of protestors lobbying for Proposition 8. She simply walked up to the group w0 . . .
Now I don't remember what I was going to post. Dang it. I came to post something pithy, and then paused to read posts, and now I don't remember what I was going to say. D'oh. e:tinyp0 . . .
Today I finally took back the bottles from the party I had mumblemumbletwoweeksagomumble. It was $10 in bottles and cans. Work it out. That's a dang lot of bottles to haul. I used canvas grocery0 . . .
It's the final countdown!! Just kidding. But I've had that song stuck in my head for like three days now. When e:zobar writes a blog, he winds up to it for a while. Just wanted to post a0 . . .
Now I have Queen songs in my head because e:Paul is being Freddie Mercury. e:Zobar just turned our furnace on. He changed the air filter first, good boy. (I had gone out and bought it last week.) Re0 . . .
Not only will Z and I be joined by my little sister for Halloween, but also one of my teammates-- my former team captain and now coach, in fact. None other than the legendary Mia Mauler, who was teach0 . . .
The kielbasa thing was tasty, probably about a B on the overall scale of Things I've Made Lately. e:zobar theorized that it shouldn't be sweet; I wonder if that would work at all. I definite0 . . .
I am recovering from throwing a party last night. Before you all feel left out, it was a party to welcome the 2009 season rookies to the roller derby league, so I couldn't invite y'all, or I0 . . .
That's all, really. I hate everything. Everything is a pain in my ass, or oppresses my soul, or whatever. Hate it hate it hate it! I hate everything. *does a little dance* There we go. Hey,0 . . .
I'm doing my part to help Paul get the site stats up or whatever he's doing.:) I am looking forward to the party, immensely. Fi will be in town-- she may have to go back down to Cortland 0 . . .
So my sister's coming to live with us in Buffalo. Well, I should clarify. I have three sisters. I'm #2 of 4. #3 of 4, also known as Fi (rhymes with B, right? So we match), had to share Mi0 . . .
Looks like that news story didn't run. I keep meaning to email him and ask, but keep forgetting. I had an awesome time at Pennsic. I posted photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady0 . . .
Oh yes, I had also wanted to say, before I go, that if the news story does mention my blog at all, I wanted to link to the other blog that I had made just about size positivity issues since this blog 0 . . .
Well, I'm going out of town tonight (headed up to Hamilton to see the Madison, Wisconsin travel team take on the Hamilton league's travel team, in what should be an exciting bout). Then I� . . .
So yeah. We're going in for a photo shoot with the Buff News. I guess the guy decided that me and e:Zobar were a good illustration of the article. I had suggested I could wear my roller derby un0 . . .
As e:zobar already mentioned, we got interviewed by a features writer from the Buff News about "weight acceptance", or size-positivity. Z already explained how he got involved. The guy jus0 . . .
So have I explained on here that I'm going to Pennsic? http://www.pennsicwar.org/penn37/ http://www.pennsic.net/ Yeah, it's 2 weeks of pseudo-medieval camping and i need garb. So I� . . .
Oh I forgot now, duh, to post photos of my baby nephew. So here is a link to some cute photos of my baby nephew, who is six months old now. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/2574978355/ In ph0 . . .
I finally uploaded photos of London, because now I have photos of my baby nephew to upload and figured, I can't do them out of order, so London first. Sorry this took so long-- was finishing up0 . . .
OK. Got my makeup on, my contacts in, am lightly sprinkled with gold glitter. Have my uniform on. Didn't have time to sew on the last big gold star for the last bout I was in. (I mark my bouts li0 . . .
The 2008 roller derby season of the Queen City Roller Girls ends on Saturday. The winner of that bout will take the league championship, as well-- just by coincidence, the two teams scheduled for that0 . . .
Z and I have a bird feeder. I just blogged this in detail over on my Livejournal, but there's a local aspect I figured I'd share over here. Besides my smugness at my own innate knowledge of0 . . .
Related to my earlier post about becoming a Buffalonian, it just finally clicked and I realized why the Livejournal community Buffalo Dorks http://community.livejournal.com/buffalo_dorks/ is so succes0 . . .
So I have this theoretical situation brewing in the back of my mind about a hypothetical scenario in which I might have the need to create an ambiance of fog around an area, through which perhaps an a0 . . .
Oh hey, I heard a bunch of you were joining Allentown as a group? And going to Mia's fitness class? If you are, I'll see you there this morning. This morning, we will be working on s0 . . .
I never know what e:zobar is telling you about me. I have one photo to share, though it's posted elsewhere, of the lesbian shotgun wedding. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/2456010940 . . .
It's official, we are seriously actually going to go to the UK in three days to attend a lesbian shotgun wedding. I am terribly excited. There are apparently no consequences for doing it all a0 . . .
I cracked a rib with my tit. Yes I did. We were scrimmaging. I was trying to block the opposing jammer. She got past me, and then got taken out. So she went down sprawling, and I was behind her wi0 . . .
I should probably mention on here that there's roller derby tomorrow night. I'll be skating, it's my big comeback after losing nearly two months to my fucked-up knees (and the flu). I� . . .
I have just successfully brewed mead. This is something I've kind of always wanted to do. In college one of my roommates was a biochemistry major who worked in a lab on a project to determine the0 . . .
ok 2 things in this post. Yes we are attending a lesbian shotgun wedding. It's not... exactly... a shotgun wedding. It's a civil partnership ceremony. (You can't call them weddings!! 0 . . .
Apparently if you're not on e:strip you're not considered human company. Chita should have her own e:strip journal so e:zobar would take her more seriously. E:Chita isn't taken. So0 . . .
I think I am going to become a size-acceptance activist. But I am not necessarily going to do this in a conventional way. I am going to do it by making porn. I think that would be awesome. I rec0 . . .
I'm x-posting this from Myspace because I finished writing it and liked it, and figured it was as much about Buffalo as about roller derby. (I tend to compartmentalize my journals, so e:strip i0 . . .
Any of you members of Allentown Athletix? They have a nice facility. Also, they're smart. My team captain in roller derby is a fitness instructor by trade, and in general a fitness nut. She kic0 . . .
So once again it's time to shamelessly pimp roller derby. There's a bout this Saturday night. The most fun part: I am not skating in it. It is the other two teams vs. each other. So! I 0 . . .
Two things. 1) The sister of an online acquaintance is moving to town and asked me for the normal advice about moving to Buffalo. I gave it to her, mentioned e:strip. Said, where are you going to be 0 . . .
I can't believe I haven't posted this yet. It's taken me being home sick from work and trying desperately to do yet more roller derby crap to remind me to spread this particular bit o0 . . .
The Knockouts won!!!! The Knockouts won last night!!!! OMG!!! I can't even believe it. It was so close, so fucking close, I couldn't even tell you, we were sitting on the edge of the bench0 . . .
So today, I'm at work. Not a lot of motivation: my job seems really really meaningless lately and i can't summon enthusiasm. I don't care enough about money to love my job for it. Just 0 . . .
Hey-- it never occurred to me to ask anyone on here before this moment, but if you're interested in buying a pin-up calendar featuring the members of my roller derby league (I play a featured rol0 . . .
Just posting a reminder-- 1207/BashPoster1224.jpg Not dead. Just snowed under. Literally and figuratively. I had something else to post here. Crap, what was it? Ah yes. http://www.flick0 . . .
I'm totally still researching porn, lest you think all my earlier posts were in vain. But I just wanted to share this snippet I found. I think the website is www.sexysamantha38G.com or somesuch0 . . .
Hmph. I'm not trying to start drama with e:imk2, but her post about how great little boobies are is leaving me scratching my head. if little boobies are feminine, then what the hell are big boobi0 . . .
If I wait until I have time to be poetic about this, I won't ever write it. The time change sucks. I'm bummed that it's dark when I leave work. But it does mean that as I drive do0 . . .
Watch the Channel 2 morning show on Wednesday between 6 and 7 am. The Queen City Roller Girls had two reporters come skate with us at practice Thursday night, and we even had them do a scrimmage with 0 . . .
I still don't know if I explained the phenomenon well in the comment threads I was in-- I hope e:paul didn't think I was implying he was crazy. So here's an anecdotal case study from 0 . . .
I finally found it! I found the article I was referring to earlier. I wasn't saying that antique porn was more intellectual, I was saying that the current revival in antique pornographic art fo0 . . .
I had a lovely commute this morning. I know that's a weird thing to say. But I got in my car, which didn't have snow or frost on it, and drove down nice little back streets in North Buffalo,0 . . .
This is a test of the upload ability. Also it's an excuse to post the photo e:zobar just sent me. 1107/MyPicture1102.jpg He captioned it: "self-explanatory and inexplicable all roll0 . . .
I linked a coworker to a particularly nice photo of e:matthew's on this site, and all of a sudden I'm like, Crap, what if he recognizes my username from my personal email address that I used0 . . .
So Z upgraded me to Leopard... ... I haven't noticed yet. I feel very sad and ungrateful. There are all these things I was like oh yay i'll use that all the time... I kind of, well, just0 . . .
So I promised some of my collection of antique porn. I actually paid for a subscription to a site, a real porn site, made up entirely of vintage porn, and I have stolen most of these from that site. I0 . . .
Elsewhere I mentioned looking at vintage porn and e:vincent was like, 'Uh, from the 70s?' and I realized I haven't blogged about it here. I am totally considering going into porn to sup0 . . .
Someone had questions about roller derby and now I don't remember who it was: If you are interested in skating with us, either to be a referee or to skate on a team, come to one of our practices0 . . .
One last plug: Tonight from 9 pm to midnight is the Goth N Ghouls open skate prom at Rainbow Rink in North Tonawanda. It's $7 to get in which includes skate rental. Come in a crazy costume, buy m0 . . .
I know this is the same night as the e:strip Halloween party, but this is a really good way to get two uses out of one costume. October 27th, the Queen City Rollergirls are hosting an open skate, Ha0 . . .
We got Chita spayed on Friday. I had been nervous about it basically since we got her, though friends had reassured me-- most said oh you Do Not Want to Deal with a female cat in heat, but I still fel0 . . .
So I found the original post, I guess, about Blogtoberfest. http://jen14221.typepad.com/random_daily_thoughts/2007/08/blogtoberfest.html#comments Oh really? Yeah really? If you're not the0 . . .
I tried to leave this as a comment on allthingsjennifer but I guess she doesn't want to hear it, as when I clicked "post" it just disappeared. e:zobar said his got moderated, but I didn0 . . .
So this blogger thing on Saturday-- OBVIOUSLY we have to go to it dressed as strippers!!! Duh!!! E-strippers!!! If I knew where to get pasties, I would put them on, though I admit I am a bit of 0 . . .
I have been remiss about blogging here, and i apologize. It seems e:zobar has been amusing enough for both of us, however. Mostly, it's just struck me that i ought to link to the zillion phot0 . . .
I have all these awesome photos of Chita Rivera the Obscenely Cute Kitten on my camera and the cord for it is... somewhere in the house... and so I haven't posted anything here in ages because I 0 . . .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/644049917/ Photos I took of her the day before yesterday, when it was 90 degrees and the only decent thing to do was pass the hell out. This morning: 00 . . .
She doesn't have a name yet, but I just abducted one of e:leetee's neighbor's kittens. I stole the gray one from her post. We carried her out to the car in a shoebox, which upset her 0 . . .
The setting: The car, windows down, on a beautiful soft night after the rain has swept the day's muggy heat away. On the way home from a punishing roller derby practice of brutal scrimmaging and 0 . . .
http://www.estrip.org/articles/zobar/37398.html Apparently we've never blogged the catfish/green bean wrestling before. Too bad. It's amusing. But Pleco(saurus) hates it when we watch now. 0 . . .
So. e:zobar is at the http://aan.org/gyrobase/Conferences/?convID=181230 Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' Annual Convention, in Oregon of all places. I am horridly jealous, as I have ne0 . . .
e:zobar, I never knew you were so proud of doing naughty things to me. I think you should exercise your pride more frequently. My vagina will just be over here, ok? So if you need it, you know, to be 0 . . .
So someone on LJ was writing http://maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com/139079.html?nc=4 about some fascinating gender politics stuff she'd been reading, in particular someone's observations of0 . . .
Is the Hell on Wheels roller derby bout. I will be hosting it, singing the Canadian National Anthem, and in general being an enthused spectator. My team captain will be MCing in her leather chaps and 0 . . .
I came to a decision last night at roller derby practice while sitting on the wall with my other slacker-Knockout sisters surreptitiously checking out our captain's ass in the leather chaps she w0 . . .
I am so tired and sore and oof now. Itinerary/schedule was a bit overwhelming. I warn you, this is long. Just when you think it's over, there's MORE. Itinerary/schedule: Thursday: last 0 . . .
So last night we had car issues, and so e:zobar had to go take the car into the shop, and wouldn't be able to pick me up from work to take me to practice. We both had to be there because he'0 . . .
So I handed in my security badge and my micros (cash register) card and my bank key yesterday, and bade a perhaps-less-than-fond, but polite farewell to my old job. Whatever else I may say about it, a0 . . .
Z and I just went over to Niawanda Park for some hot dogs and ice cream at Old Man River's and Mississippi Mudd's. We took our ice creams down by the river and sat on a bench. Behind us, o0 . . .
So. Tomorrow night (ok, in half an hour, it's Today) is roller derby. 6:30 pm! North Tonawanda! 101 Oliver St.! Rainbow Rink! Knockouts vs. Dollies! _________________ She's Canadian; h0 . . .
So I only recently got a copy of Jefferson Airplane Starship Whatsit's "White Rabbit". I've seen Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (and read it) enough times that I'm famil0 . . .
Wow I accidentally hit "publish" before I even wrote anything in here. Quickest... blog entry... ever!!! I should share the photo i posted on my lj for 4/20 though. Should've posted 0 . . .
OH MY GOD. The world is full of crazy people. Crazy people. CRAZY PEOPLE. VIOLENT CRAZIES. Just ten minutes ago Z and I were driving down Kenmore Ave, driving safe, a bit like geezers, for lo! We n0 . . .
I forgot to blog the St. Patrick's Day presents I got last week. Maybe he didn't buy me conventional bling for Valentine's Day, but he did buy me an implausibly expensive irreverent0 . . .
Heh, what's funniest is that I can't view the video I posted. It doesn't load in my browser. I've already forgotten what I posted. I am sure it's dumb. I have been involve0 . . .
e:zobar's dancing rabbit is traumatizing me. He traumatized a lot of little kids too. That was pretty priceless. I am now filled with a perverse desire to breed. I can't explain it. I&0 . . .
See poster, previous draft. I suppose it would be gauche to post it again. Nickel City Knockouts vs. Suicidal Saucies, 7 pm Saturday, Rainbow Rink (just off the Twin City Hwy). The Knockouts got o0 . . .
0307/331poster0325.jpg I don't know if that's legible but it's the poster for the upcoming bout. Which will be awesome. I am not kidding. I'm not even talking about e:zobar in0 . . .
I'm about to get a new cellphone with video capabilities. So I hope I'll use it and blog here with it. I'll find out how. Somehow. I only ever post bitchy rants on here, but hopef0 . . .
I admit it, I let e:strip fall by the wayside. As it is I have the Livejournal I've had for almost six years, and the community of people I only interact with online through it, and now I have a 0 . . .
I missed roller derby practice this morning. :( I feel fine, but I am too sleepy to actually function. Also my legs are as sore as if I ran ten miles yesterday. Of course, I can't go back to sleep eit0 . . .
If you type "dragonla" into the search box above "Read The Latest" it suggests "visit dragonfire1024's journal". Even if you type my whole name in, it never suggests me; 0 . . .
Yesterday after I posted, e:zobar and I sat for like an hour in our living room, just instant-messaging photos of ourselves as we sat there taking them with our iSights. It's sort of disgusting that w0 . . .
I really like the built-in webcam on my new Macbook. It's sort of stupid, and sort of vain, but I really like to just take pictures of myself with it. So I was joking that I should start putting them 0 . . .
Oh dear, I am scatterbrained. I know what i was going to post about. e:chico was asking me about my novel/novels etc., and I thought, oh yes, I should link to them from here. I just posted the ope0 . . .
Is kooks ok? Why did he go outside? His clothes were all gritty like he'd been rolling around in the dirt. Poor child, I hope he's not completely destroyed this morning. My brownies were a hit but0 . . .
It's been one of those periods in my life, where everything is too hard to catch up with. I've let emails slide, let almost everything slide. e:zobar keeps me up to date on what y'all are doing, but0 . . .
I'm messing around trying to upload a new usersound, so we'll see how that goes. It is meant to be Operation Ivy's "Knowledge". My baby sister got the Operation Ivy cd when she was, like, te0 . . .
So I just bought rollerskates on the Intarwebs last night. I will let you all know how that goes. e:zobar got a pair too. I got a popup message from e:leetee and don't know how to reply to it, s0 . . .
Responding to comments from my previous entry, plus various observations. First, responses: mrmike: Oh, my dad at 61 still occasionally jokes about what he's going to do when he grows up. I am w0 . . .
My ipod is dead. Was listening to it yesterday on the bus when it died-- low battery. Unsurprising, as it hadn't gotten a full charge. Got to work. I have a 2 hour wait from the time the bus gets me 0 . . .
So I just went down to the open skate at the Rainbow Rink in NT. There's a roller derby league forming, and somebody's starting a Buffalo chapter. All-girl competitive amateur roller derby. I h0 . . .
I wasn't kidding when I said that t-shirt about blogging has totally backfired. I had my iTunes on random (ok not totally random, but as close as I get) and this song came on. I have a lot of ran0 . . .
I am still trying to find The Perfect Photo Hosting Service. I have two candidates currently in the running. 1) Flickr. I have just posted a bunch of pictures of drunk coworkers there. http://0 . . .
Last night I installed a bunch of software updates on my desktop computer. When they finished, the computer needed to be restarted. It gave me two options in the dialogue box: Restart or Shut Down. I 0 . . .
Over on my other blog http://dragonlady7.livejournal.com I posted a little essay about how everyone is expecting me to start nagging Z about getting married. All his friends have done it, now, and he 0 . . .
There's an actual post if you scroll to the next entry: this one's just the answer to the survey. I just thought I needed an interesting post title. Pardon my poor netiquette. :D Mostly I'm just sayin0 . . .
A recent event that was all over my livejournal friendslist got me really thinking about online relationships, how "real" the online world is, and just how seriously people can take it, and 0 . . .
e:zobar is going to Little Rock tomorrow, for the weekend. I am going to be alone! I am sort of torn between being psyched at a change of pace, and distressed: I am never apart from e:zobar and don't 0 . . .
When e:zobar says I took "a mental health day" he neglects to mention that I was lightheaded, disconnected, and seeing goddamned pink elephants. OK, maybe not elephants, but everything was0 . . .
I'm glad we've been having all this rain, as it saves me having to water the garden where I just planted more stuff, but it sort of bums me out because I have so much more garden work to do. Oh well. 0 . . .
Nice weather today. Laughing at e:carolinian's National Grid saga, as I actually sat down at my computer just now with the express purpose of checking whether I'd paid my National Grid bill, as I jus0 . . .
I've just completed one major spring cleaning task. This is something that's taken me four years to do. I paid off one of my student loans!! Now, in the grand scheme of things, this is noth0 . . .
I guess it's time for some spring cleaning. My folks are coming this weekend, although their response when I said that Z would entertain them for a few hours on Sunday since I couldn't get out of work0 . . .
I am thoroughly sad this morning, to the point of being puffy-eyed and snotty-nosed. So attractive, and also, so mature. I am far too old to be this useless, but oh well. So to distract myself I de0 . . .
I'm feeling eversoslightly blue tonight. I've just realized that the stupid damn novel I've spent like a year and a half working on wants to be a trilogy. And nobody but nobody sells a trilogy as her 0 . . .
The single number one issue I have that makes my job unendurable is that I will never ever ever have a holiday off. Any kind of holiday. If there is a day that other people want off, I will not have i0 . . .
Ahh. Brief nap, chill-out session, rereading a story I like, and I feel better. It's raining now, which makes me happy-- it's a soft rain, and I just planted a bunch of plants-- all my peppers are out0 . . .
I have been waiting for two weeks now to get my next restaurant review set up. At this point, I have to do it today. It's due tomorrow. Apparently the person at the restaurant who would approve su0 . . .
I'm blogging the trip to the Finger Lakes on Livejournal but only briefly (mostly, as is my specialty, I'm rambling about other things)-- e:zobar wrote about it thoroughly enough here. e:zobar,50 But0 . . .
I just spent like $140 on food, but that's good, as I hadn't been grocery shopping in ages and now I'm caught up. Wegman's, Spar's, and Jim's mean that now I have Everything. So by the way, I'm th0 . . .
Two things in this post. 1) A question. Z and I have not had a day off together in many moons. We have not left Buffalo in as many moons. So this week, to celebrate (not happily) the end of my par0 . . .
e:zobar has a pair of these travel coffee mugs that he got at his first job. They've got the company logo emblazoned on them, and are the oldskool sort of travel mugs you don't see nowadays: wide base0 . . .
I did something whlie at work and now my left ankle is killing me. This is a problem because I have two very trying eight-hour shifts ahead of me, and we're perpetually understaffed and overworked at 0 . . .
Guh! I was feeling clever for having updated my journal music, but I just managed to accidentally post a blank blog, so, eh, I guess I'm not all that smart. Music is called "Love Farewell&quo0 . . .
Duh. The whole purpose of coming here was that I was going to blog that I'd met e:jenks at the airport bar! I was at the Landmark on Sunday, by coincidence-- I was scheduled for All-Stars and someone 0 . . .
This is beautiful: a photographer fills a black pool with pretty naked ladies and takes a series of underwater photographs. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alberich/sets/1477911/ Tasteful nudes but maybe0 . . .
I have been suffering from obsessions lately, the kind of thing where I start reading and can't stop until it's done. This was always a problem of mine in print-- I was dead to the world until every b0 . . .
Oh wow awesome! This page just spontaneously refreshed itself and I lost my entire post. Sweet.0 . . .
The several real actual Polish, non-Buffalo people of my acquaintance all laugh when I mention that Dyngus Day is a big deal in Buffalo. Also, none of them have ever encountered anything involving pus0 . . .
The Easter bunny came! With a big white bag from Parkside Candy! And e:zobar and I have both just stuffed ourselves with chocolate! And washed it down with coffee! And I just chased him slowly around 0 . . .
Yikes, I just absentmindedly tabbed to the next field and wound up not in this one, but in one of the search fields. I still don't know this place very well! I was going to talk more about gardens0 . . .
Bad day. One shouldn't have such a bad day when it is so nice outside. I have two computers. Both are malfunctioning. I have a novel that is 136,631 words long. (I just hit the wordcount button in 0 . . .
I posted a review of this book already on my livejournal http://dragonlady7.livejournal.com/768193.html?nc=4, and it was mostly squeeing and babbling. As I am soon to be embarking upon a new bit of ca0 . . .
I'm figuring out how to upload things but oops, I think I missed the guideline about file sizes. 0406/IMG_25790906.jpg Anyway. Pansies, from last year.0 . . .
My brain is pretty well fried-- I had today off, and spent it reading the novel I'm currently trying to finish writing. It's 140,000 words long and I know how it's going to end but I thought I should 0 . . .
I am a transplant to Buffalo, having been born and raised in the eastern part of the state (east of Albany in the hamlet of Melrose in the little town of Schaghticoke, north of Troy in Rensselaer Coun0 . . .
How is it that adult humor is the most juvenile? Heh heh heh. So yesterday, e:Zobar and I are sitting at the dinner table, each discussing our sucky days at work, but good-naturedly, because, wel0 . . .
I keep meaning to update this blog and I keep not doing it. Livejournal's the one I'm in the habit of updating. I did manage to add the RSS feed of e:Zobar's journal to my LJ friendslist, but really I0 . . .
This site keeps making noises I don't understand. I feel very codgery, sort of like standing on my lawn and shaking my stick at all the esoteric icons. "You dang printery lookin' thing, get off m0 . . .
Normally I would be really excited, as I love thunderstorms. But today I am filled with dread. Why? Because planes can't fly in thunderstorms. (The turbulence makes them fall out of the air, which is 0 . . .
Obviously, I am not one of the cool kids. I had something witty and flippant all ready to go here, to make an impression and be fancy and witty, but then the browser ate it, and it's gone now. (To fur0 . . .