Gang aft agley

I was planning to take the underground home. It is very cold out, and it's warmer to wait underground. But "Muni subway service has been disrupted due to overhead wires being down at Van Ness Station in the inbound direction." So I took a jam-packed maroon and cream trolley home, instead. I was lucky to get aboard.

That model has very narrow aisles.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett

Two things

My boss's boss was in the office today celebrating the new fiscal year. He bought us all pizza, told us how we'd done this year, what's in the works for next year, that sort of thing. What's in the works for next year is huge. As in, someone figured out how to sell our stuff to everyone on the planet... and it's supposed to go live in August. At first I was all, "Profit!" and then I was like, "Wait, how many people will be calling to complain if I mess up?"
Scary. In a good way.

I got home to find a loan approval letter in my mailbox, with an interest rate on it and everything. A pretty good interest rate, too. So if the person who currently has my dream apartment under contract wanders off, I can actually for real buy the place. And if they don't, well, this suggests I can get a loan for another place, and it's time to get serious about looking.
Scary. In a good way.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Notes from the Fat-O-Sphere, Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby

Back to business

I called the nice realtor lady, and she put K's power source in US mail to the NYC address.

Now I just need to know where we're meeting for dinner.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: The Abbess of Crewe, Muriel Spark

Lent

Took me right up to the last day, but I finally decided I'm doing dishes for Lent. For the next forty days, I will do the dishes when I get home from work, before I turn on the computer.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett

Perseveration

noun
1.
the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it
2.
the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate"

- - Dictionary.com

Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Ringing Changes, R.A. Lafferty

Living in the Future

We are living in the future
I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper
Fifteen years ago
We're all driving rocket ships
And talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines

- - John Prine


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Hare Sitting Up, Michael Innes

Eureka

It's like watching the Golden Age of television again: the show is an anti-perspirant commercial with an A plot, a B plot, and a season-long arc... ok, so the Golden Age didn't really have season-long arcs.

They should have kept Dry Cleaner Lady; she could have gone around making remarks about how no one has sweat stains any more.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Interesting times, Terry Pratchett

In Outraged Stone

The look of indignation on the face of that artifact was matched only by the total outrage of her whole figure. Oh, she was a mad one! She was the comic masterpiece of the Oganta Collection. If only stone could speak she would be shrilling. She was a newly catalogued item among the grotesque alien stonery called the Paravata Oneirougma.

"You'd almost believe that she was alive!" was the laughing comment of many who watched her here in the display. "Oh, it's that she was alive once, and now she is furious at finding herself frozen in stone."

But that was the whole missed point of her outrage: she wasn't alive; and she never had been.

- - R.A. Lafferty

Today's earrings: spiders, green webs

Bedtime reading: "In Outraged Stone," R.A. Lafferty

Missed glass

Opening day at the Chihuly exhibit. I didn't go.


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: The Franchise Affair, Josephine Tey

Lipids: nourishing the spirit

Stopped on the way home to pick up the Wandering Albatross's Christmas present* and found this. So cute! I went on to dine at Fancy Restaurant, and had the cheese plate. (Always have the cheese plate, my friends.) Included was a section of a "crocodile tear" from Capriole. Utterly swoonworthy. They have sampler boxes. Christmas is coming. I'm just saying.


Today's earrings: tree frogs, circles of tangled green and yellow

Bedtime reading: Rethinking Thin, Gina Kolata
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*He asked for something that starts with the letter V, so he's getting Giant Microbe VD. I don't think this'll spoil the surprise because I don't think he's reading here. But, just to preserve a little mystery in case I'm wrong, I'm not going to say which disease I'm giving him.

So to speak.

Constellating deep meaning out of simple temporal junction

So last night, I post a bunny for no good reason, and tonight's episode of Supernatural is all about a rabbit's foot. Meaningful coincidence? Does my Dragonfly Future have a lagomorphic tone? And what of the turtles?


Today's earrings: flora, cobwebs

Bedtime reading: Wintersmith, Terry Pratchett

Happy Harry Potterday

Today's purchases:

• 1 set housekeys
• 2 pairs black cloth mary janes
• 20 yds brown 3/8" curtain cord
• Games, September 2007
• wordless diagrams, Nigel Holmes
• The American Way of Death Revisited, Jessica Mitford
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
• 3 scrumptious cheeses
• 2 links chicken-basil sausage
• 1 herb slab

And now, if you'll excuse me, I have some reading to do.


Today's earrings: spiders, green webs

Bedtime reading: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling

Tangled webs

Spindles and spindle flyers, spinning ring and ring travellers
Shuttles
Reeds for looms, healds and heald-frames
Sinkers, needles and other articles used in forming stitches
- World Customs Organization


Today's earrings: spiders, webs

Bedtime reading: Atlantic, May 2007