Sorted the accumulated mail

Fuzzy peril

Today's earrings: llamas, rabbits

Bedtiem reading: The Danger, Dick Francis

Lunch in the food court

So nice living across the street from the mall.


Today's earrings: bunnies, other bunnies

Bedtime reading: Freeze My Margarita, Lauren Henderson

First, catch your...

The Basic Plan: 6pm Friday at the Elks.
Plan with Frills: we congregate at my place beforehand.
Plan B: we go get dim sum.
Sound good?

Random path-crossings this morning: a current neighbor, the Singhs. Sylvia actually came up with my name on the fly.
This evening: a woman I used to see on the bus before I moved.


Today's earrings: gingerbread men, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Murder Against the Grain, Emma Lathen

I understand there was an earthquake today

A 4.1, in Milpitas.

I didn't feel a thing.


Today's earrings: racing camels, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Rat Race, Dick Francis

The end is near

I actually believe I can have everything packed up by Monday morning... though I may come begging someone to do a charity schlep with me next week.

I keep forgetting to photograph the rejected furniture and post it on craigslist.
I spent the evening wrapping dishes in '89 newspaper, including classified ads.
Seems like those two tidbits juxtaposed should be significant, somehow.


Today's earrings: bunnies, other bunnies

Bedtime reading: The Ruins of Earth, Thomas M. Disch, ed.

I'm late I'm late I'm late

When I woke up this morning, the rain was coming down hard. So hard that I didn't hear my clock-radio. Seriously loud rain. My stubbed toe was an arrangement in brown and grey. I left a voicemail for my boss and limped off to work an hour late.

Turns out pretty much everybody was late. My boss got in 20 minutes after I did, listened to her voicemail, and then came out and announced to the department in general that if we'd just kept our calls to ourselves, she'd never have known any of us were late...

I left early to get my crown re-cemented. When I got home I discovered my toe had turned purple. I thought bruises were supposed to get less dramatic as you go along, not more. hmph.


Today's earrings: teacups, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Kind of a downer

I went to see an apartment this morning. It's a below market rental on top of Powell Station. It's a bit smaller than my current place, but other than that, it's pretty much exactly where I'd like to live. The fly doing the crawl across my chowder? I don't qualify. It didn't occur to me to do the math until after I'd submitted the application and made an appointment to see the place, but last year's COLA bumped me over the income limit. After I'd belatedly figured out my current pay, I started hoping that the apartment would be one large sour grape, so I could feel good about not getting it. But, no. It's a perfectly livable place. I just won't get to live there.

*sigh*


Today's earrings: flowers, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Dead Heat, Felix Francis

Happy Meg's Birthday

Party here.


Today's earrings: sapphires, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Sand Sharks, Margaret Maron

Little Bunny Foo Foo

Little Bunny Foo Foo hopping through the forest
Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head

Down came the Good Fairy, and she said:
"Little Bunny Foo Foo, I don't want to see you
Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head."

What does it mean?

Wikipedia tells us, "Little Bunny Foo Foo is a children's rhyme, involving a rabbit harassing a population of field mice. The rabbit is scolded and eventually punished by a fairy."

But why would a rabbit be molesting the mice? It makes little sense. Perhaps it's a political allegory to which we no longer see the key, like the Mother Goose rhymes. Or, if not, maybe we could make one up? (A political allegory, I mean.) That would be more fun than "origin unknown."

Today's earrings: mice, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Annals of Klepsis, R.A. Lafferty

Bunny

1690, dim. of Scottish dialectal bun, pet name for "rabbit," previously (1587) for "squirrel," and also a term of endearment for a young attractive woman or child (1606). Ultimately could be from Scottish bun "tail of a hare" (1538), or from Fr. bon, or from a Scand. source. The Playboy Club hostess sense is from 1960. The Bunny Hug (1912), along with the foxtrot and the Wilson glide, were among the popular/scandalous dances of the ragtime era.
- - http://www.etymonline.com/

Today's earrings: rabbits, other rabbits

Bedtime reading: Earth Song, Suzette Haden Elgin

Not so fast, there

Today's earrings: rockets, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Reflex, Dick Francis

Seen today at the corner of Bush & Montgomery

A 12-year-old girl, carrying a bright paper parasol, with a six inch safety pin through her nose.
Yes, I did stare after her and giggle.


Today's earrings: flowers, bunnies

Bedtime reading: Dolly and the Bird of Paradise, Dorothy Dunnett

Age of Aquarius Dawns!

At 11:35pm Pacific time, the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars. Now peace shall guide the planets and love will steer the stars. Isn't it great?


Today's earrings: tortoises, hares

Bedtime reading: Spaceland, Rudy Rucker

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Today at work I got several birthday emails, and one coworker came up and whispered, "Is today your birthday?" It was all extremely gratifying.

Lunched with b2. The pizza people gave me a free slice because she was standing behind me pointing and mouthing "it's her birthday" to them.

After lunch, I got a new hard drive from corporate IT in Detroit. My friendly local IT dude says he'll install it tomorrow morning before I get in. It's a Velociraptor. No, seriously, that's what the label said.

I took myself out to dinner at Fancy Restaurant. I found out what 'mache' is. (Cloverlike, chlorophyllacious and delicious.)

Got home to find a birthday voicemail on my machine. :)


Today's earrings: flowers, bunnies

Bedtime reading: Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman

Paint

They painted the hallway today, and the fumes have stuck around. Good thing it's warmed up a bit so I can open the windows.

I hope they're not sprucing the place up to sell it. That would be bad.


Today's earrings: deer, bunnies

Bedtime reading: Hare Sitting Up, Michael Innes

If at first you don't succeed

Left work just before seven and, as there wasn't a whole lot of edible food in the house, decided to go to the store. I got on the cable car at Sansome. At Montgomery we were passed by a fire truck. Then we came to a halt d/t the cable car stopped on the far side of Kearney. According to the brakeman's walkie talkie, it was a bad accident at Grant, with traffic stopped in both directions. I looked uphill and saw a lot of flashing lights.
"I think I'll catch a bus," I said.
"Aw, giving up so soon?" said the brakeman.
"What can I say? I'm a quitter like that," I replied.
I walked up to Sacramento and waited. A jam-packed bus blew by. A few drops of rain fell. I sighed petulantly and hailed a cab.
"California and Hyde," I told the cabbie, "but there's an accident on California..."


Today's earrings: suns, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Hare Sitting Up, Michael Innes

Devil with a Blue Dress

I had this totally awesome costume my sister made me. :)

Who were you today?


Today's earrings: diamonds, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett

Dangerous and Fluffy

http://www.webcomicsnation.com/adamcuerden/daftsod/series.php?view=archive&chapter=15733


Today's earrings: llamas, bunnies

Bedtime reading: Bimbos of the Death Sun, Sharyn McCrumb

Plus, it's good for my karma

Hoping to get to see another video of Sarah Bunting dancing around in a tomato costume, today I threw some money at the Tomato Nation fund-raising drive for Donors Choose. It's, like, totally an excellent cause, and if they make their fundraising goal, she'll go Tomato the White House. Who could resist a pitch like that?


Today's earrings: owls, rabbits

Bedtime reading: Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett