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INTERNET INTERNET WE HAVE INTERNET AHOY CONNECTIVITY AND EMPLOYMENT ARE AT HAND.
In order to secure this state of affairs, I had to run down the street after a UPS driver who didn't even have our package from Comcast, just the phone number of a manager he could call to find out why his company believed they had already made one attempt to deliver the package at a time when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel and I were quite definitely at home, listening for the doorbell, and had already double-checked that there were no first-attempt stickers on the front door. Twice. He was very patient both times and I talked to his manager while Rob made very sure with Comcast that they hadn't gotten our address wrong. We still don't know what happened, but just as the manager called back to tell me that we should be receiving our delivery at any second, a UPS truck rolled up to our front door and a man in the appropriate uniform handed me an extremely large box. Which contained two somewhat smaller boxes. Which contained even smaller boxes of their own, but before we began to fall endlessly through a Mandelbrot sequence of cardboard, we found the modem and the cable box and hooked them both up and I haven't a clue if we can watch TCM yet, but I can post this without having to walk over to anyone else's house, which is kind of nice considering how cold it is out there. (Our new television courtesy of Dean, who also let us meet the two tiny, lively, inquisitive kittens his family is fostering. "Adopt them or else!" his daughter hollered after us. Considering we have a prior offer on other kittens, this begins to feel like a moral dilemma.) And now it is upgrading its firmware and then we can really mess around with things.
The ravioli of the day at Dave's Fresh Pasta were duck, porcini, and Great Hill Blue. Of course we bought some for dinner. Hello, umami.
Today sucks a lot less right now than it did at five-thirty.
In order to secure this state of affairs, I had to run down the street after a UPS driver who didn't even have our package from Comcast, just the phone number of a manager he could call to find out why his company believed they had already made one attempt to deliver the package at a time when
derspatchel and I were quite definitely at home, listening for the doorbell, and had already double-checked that there were no first-attempt stickers on the front door. Twice. He was very patient both times and I talked to his manager while Rob made very sure with Comcast that they hadn't gotten our address wrong. We still don't know what happened, but just as the manager called back to tell me that we should be receiving our delivery at any second, a UPS truck rolled up to our front door and a man in the appropriate uniform handed me an extremely large box. Which contained two somewhat smaller boxes. Which contained even smaller boxes of their own, but before we began to fall endlessly through a Mandelbrot sequence of cardboard, we found the modem and the cable box and hooked them both up and I haven't a clue if we can watch TCM yet, but I can post this without having to walk over to anyone else's house, which is kind of nice considering how cold it is out there. (Our new television courtesy of Dean, who also let us meet the two tiny, lively, inquisitive kittens his family is fostering. "Adopt them or else!" his daughter hollered after us. Considering we have a prior offer on other kittens, this begins to feel like a moral dilemma.) And now it is upgrading its firmware and then we can really mess around with things.The ravioli of the day at Dave's Fresh Pasta were duck, porcini, and Great Hill Blue. Of course we bought some for dinner. Hello, umami.
Today sucks a lot less right now than it did at five-thirty.
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We have no idea! But at least we have internet!
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It was pretty ridiculous, but the results were good!
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We have no idea. I am just glad it finally showed.
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I am much happier than I was around this time last night, in great part because I am not sitting on the couch at Rob's old place so as not to lose my job.
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I'm not sure if I told you that I bought a copy of Roddy MacDowell's Tam Lin, but I did.
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You did not! Tell me how it is!
Have a pair of essays by Matt Cheney on Rob Zombie's Lords of Salem. Which I'm still pretty sure I need to see.
INTERNET!
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If you didn't have a prior kitten-offer, I'd be pointing to Observatory Cats. I understand their person has kittens home-hunting too.
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It's true. You don't feel like you live somewhere if you keep having to leave it in order to get important parts of your life done. Somewhere I couldn't cook would not be home to me.
If you didn't have a prior kitten-offer, I'd be pointing to Observatory Cats. I understand their person has kittens home-hunting too.
THIS WORLD CONTAINS SO MANY KITTENS.
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Indeed!
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I don't even like everything on them, but the access is important!
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Today sucks a lot less right now than it did at five-thirty.
Excellent. May this state of affairs continue.
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Hoping!
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Hang on, is that three separate ravioli or one all-embracing, um, raviolum? Because I can go either way, and I think I need to know which way they went...
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One all-encompassing raviol. It was magnificent.
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It was a good place.
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Casual perusal of all social media indicates you are right.
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It's good to be here!
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Also what is your subject line from? I love it.
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And above all, Internet!
The intermittent gods pour down their blessings.
Nine
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It was a very encouraging conjunction after the stress of the day.
(Seriously, insanely rich ravioli. We have half a pound left because it simply wasn't possible to eat that many in a sitting. Hello, tonight's dinner!)
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It's better than Mandelbrot kittens! We're already feeling swamped.
Also what is your subject line from? I love it.
Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"!
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It's good to see it called out like that. It is an excellent line. Everything firm is undercut and transfused by something mutable....
(thx btw it was not one I actually had)
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(Welcome! The entire concert is amazing, but there are some songs from it I especially like, and "Once in a Lifetime" is one.)
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Amen!
[edited for Tiny Wittgenstein. Dude, don't you have anyone else to bother?]
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It was useful for me to see the effect on my writing habits: being unable to research a story with a historical setting, I just banged out 1300 words over the course of a couple of days and told myself I'd fact-check it later. I haven't had the chance to go back to it since, because I've been making up work, but this may need to be how I approach certain projects from now on. Traditionally I write very little (or very short) historical fiction because it requires so much research for me just to feel comfortable with the setting and then I'm choking on all the things I don't know and the stories never go anywhere. I'd rather this story keep going, even if I have to turn off my wireless to see if it will. But it is also useful to be able to answer my e-mail and not have to leave the house if I want to remain employed! Cafés with free wi-fi are not for me.
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