Kevin's Watch

I am up at 4.30. The light coming in woke me up. Forgot to close the curtains before bed. It would have been awful to be a vampire here at sommartime, I think. You would barely have time to bite a neck each night before it was back to the coffin.

Hey guys! I just read Lord Foul's Bane and just had to join! I'm feeling really awesome and ready to get hopping on The Illearth War!

I looked around the site and saw that you had YEARS of discussion on the books and won't bother you guys with questions, as I can just read the posts ;0.

Man! I'm glad I found this forum.

Can't wait to meet all of you!

Nice to meet you, Crystallized Edison. Feel free to head to the Summonsing and formally introduce yourself. And if you have any questions, ask; we're a fairly accommodating bunch.

[Syl] wrote:Nice to meet you, Crystallized Edison. Feel free to head to the Summonsing and formally introduce yourself. And if you have any questions, ask; we're a fairly accommodating bunch.

Oh cool! That's kind of a royal entrance I like it!

Damelon wrote:

aliantha wrote:I hate family-of-origin crap. My brother, who was rotten to me during all the years I was growing up, is the executor of my mother's estate. She died several years ago, and he's been waiting since then for the housing market to come back in order to put the place up for sale. The place needs some repairs, which he could have gotten done in the interim but hasn't. (I'm a ten-hour drive away, so upkeep falls to him.).

Even if the market rebounds, you won't get all that much for the house anyway if repairs haven't been kept up on for a few years. Better to sell the house for what you can now and close the estate, putting the absolute minimum into the house for repairs beforehand.

Can I pm you his phone number? Better yet, you could drive over and talk to him -- he lives in Northbrook.

He's keeping up with the exterior appearance (trimming bushes, cutting the grass), although that back door to the garage should have been replaced years ago. (Another thing we argued about -- I think it's rotted and ought to be replaced, he's convinced it's "chipped". I'd like to know what the hell "chipped" it so badly that it looks rotted. And every time we've gone 10 rounds over a repair to the place, my assessment has been correct. But what do I know, I'm just a girl. )

Frankly, judging by recent construction trends in the neighborhood, whoever buys the place is going to scrape it off and build bigger. But he's put a lot of sweat equity into the joint over the years and so he doesn't want to hear that.

Anyway, thanks, you guys -- you've talked me in off the ledge. I e-mailed him an apology. Haven't yet heard back.

a childhood friend of mine died yesterday. hadn't talked to him since before my dad died.

a feel bad about being out of touch so long.

he had an inoperable brain tumor.

life sucks at times.

Damn sarge, I'm sorry. not fun.

thanks balon.

i asked my mom to give his sister my phone number, in case she wanted to talk.

Want to rename my Twitter, but the obvious name, InspirationStruck, is too long...

balon!:

Sorry to hear about your friend, Sarge.

Murrin: how many characters do they give you for a name? If you're just one too long, you could do InspirationStruk, I guess...

I feel absolutely rotten. Came down with something on Thursday and have been in bed ever since. My neck is swollen to twice the normal size, my head is very woozy and my throat is very sore. Ive been sweating like a pig, but don't seem to have a temperature. I'm back off to bed.

Stops me with 2 to go. No elegant way to shorten that.

murrin : inspstruck?

Iolanthe - hope you feel better!

ali - ty.

waiting on julie to get home...

Iolanthe wrote:I feel absolutely rotten. Came down with something on Thursday and have been in bed ever since. My neck is swollen to twice the normal size, my head is very woozy and my throat is very sore. Ive been sweating like a pig, but don't seem to have a temperature. I'm back off to bed.

Hope you feel better soon Iolanthe!

Shit's going around at the moment (winter and stuff...). Kids and I have avoided it all so far (touch wood) and may it continue!

Feeling good. My contract runs out at the end of June, so may not be feeling so good in July, but here's hoping that things will drop into place and I'll be working on a job in July

Murrin wrote:Stops me with 2 to go. No elegant way to shorten that.

I-pirat-truck is my suggestion. You will get a lot of pirates and truckers and a few ironic hipsters who are fans of I, Robot.

InspirationHit

We had an earthquake here last night. WACKO (we get excited by these things because they don't happen very often and usually they're not too bad). So a 5.4 about 60km from here. Mr Seareach and I were standing in the lounge talking and then I could feel weird rumbling through my feet and could hear it, and then the house was shaking (particularly the windows). I looked at him and said "Earthquake" and we both stood there looking at each other. Went for about 20 seconds. The last one we had (a few years back) was only about 5 seconds and not as violent. I didn't even think of going to check on SoS while it was happening (who, it turns out) slept through it all.

Anyway, no one hurt, only a bit of damage near the epicenter (a place called Moe).

Glad you guys survived unscathed, Sea.

I got an e-mail today at work, inviting me to a baby shower on Friday. Ack! I dug out an uber-simple baby sweater pattern as soon as I got home. I'll be a knitting fool for the next couple of days. If all else fails, I'll give the guest of honor an I.O.U. on Friday and finish the sweater over the weekend (and hope she doesn't go into labor before Monday ).

So the rental office called in the painters for damage on the wall next to my living room radiator/AC unit. They came and plastered yesterday, then came back and painted today. I had to move my TV/stereo and CD collection so they could get to it. (Luckily I have a small TV and a not-very-big CD collection, but it's still kind of a pain.) I noticed tonight when I was putting everything back that some of the paint never actually dried -- it's dripping down the wall into the carpet, and leaving a bare plaster spot on the wall. I've figured out that the problem is condensation from the AC collecting on the metal radiator housing on that side and seeping into the plaster on the wall. Not sure they can do anything to keep that from happening. I expect we'll need a re-fix after the AC is turned off in the fall.

Sounds like a mess, ali.

My sister had a big leakage problem due to faulty AC in the unit upstairs from her and it was a big repair job.


I went to lead a meeting tonight and the key to the room I usually meet in didn't work - the lock had been changed and no one told me! Someone let me in, but I couldn't lock it up afterward and felt bad leaving it unlocked (the door goes to outside, not an internal hall). So I called the facility's emergency number (even though it really wasn't an emergency) and the person who answered was out of town, very nice, and said she would get someone who was in town to lock up for me.

Whew!