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geekchickToday is Boomtime, day 63 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3269.
Yes, I'm still alive, just haven't had too much I felt inspired to post lately. I've been skimming and trying to keep up with everyone's posts, but there are some responses in the back of my brain that I feel deserve more of my focused attention than I've been capable of devoting to LJ in the last week.
Finished my big project and am taking a week or so to work on some of the lower-priority stuff on my goals checklist, like taking a couple of online classes, while I regroup, and then jump into a big database design/implementation project. Woo. Hoo. I also need to come up with a good justification for why I should get a Mac in my office as well. I'd like the dual-processor G5, but it would be overkill for my purposes and I've got zero chance of getting that much money for a new toy.
Good thing: getting your inbox whittled down to under 200 for the first time in months.
Bad thing: finding an evite to a birthday party which got buried in said inbox and you forgot to respond to. (Sorry,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gsh, it was complete spaciness on my part.)
If I owe any of you mail, poke me about it again please?
C. and I are going to trek out to the Green Valley Book Fair on Saturday; should be a nice drive since the leaves seem to have changed color pretty much overnight. Mmmm...books, leaf peeping, and possibly a hike if we can find a place to stay overnight, although odds on finding a place in October near the Shenandoah without booking way in advance are not so great. Other than that, I haven't scheduled too much so far as social activities go, as I just don't seem to be up for them much lately. I envision some 5-HTP in my near future, I think.
I'm trying to teach myself how to knit (starting this evening). I'd forgotten how very hard I find it to learn something like this from illustrations in a book, I really do need someone to actually show me how to do it, I think. I've gotten casting on down for the most part, and can get about 10 stitches done before things start to fall apart. Not too bad for a first couple of hours which were also spent watching a disappointing West Wing episode, I think. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it at some point.
The guinea pig still has no name. I think perhaps "Yuri Pigarin" since he apparently has some compulsion to launch himself into space. I was holding him the other night and he took a dive out of my hands and landed on his nose on the wooden ramp to his cage. Later that evening I was holding him and standing in the kitchen when something (still don't know what it was) terrified him and he bolted, ran up to my shoulder and then launched himself into midair. He took about a five foot tumble onto the tile floor, but rather miraculously he didn't hurt himself other than being a little bit dazed for a minute or two. Ugh. I think I was more shaken up about it than he was.
Yes, I'm still alive, just haven't had too much I felt inspired to post lately. I've been skimming and trying to keep up with everyone's posts, but there are some responses in the back of my brain that I feel deserve more of my focused attention than I've been capable of devoting to LJ in the last week.
Finished my big project and am taking a week or so to work on some of the lower-priority stuff on my goals checklist, like taking a couple of online classes, while I regroup, and then jump into a big database design/implementation project. Woo. Hoo. I also need to come up with a good justification for why I should get a Mac in my office as well. I'd like the dual-processor G5, but it would be overkill for my purposes and I've got zero chance of getting that much money for a new toy.
Good thing: getting your inbox whittled down to under 200 for the first time in months.
Bad thing: finding an evite to a birthday party which got buried in said inbox and you forgot to respond to. (Sorry,
gsh, it was complete spaciness on my part.)If I owe any of you mail, poke me about it again please?
C. and I are going to trek out to the Green Valley Book Fair on Saturday; should be a nice drive since the leaves seem to have changed color pretty much overnight. Mmmm...books, leaf peeping, and possibly a hike if we can find a place to stay overnight, although odds on finding a place in October near the Shenandoah without booking way in advance are not so great. Other than that, I haven't scheduled too much so far as social activities go, as I just don't seem to be up for them much lately. I envision some 5-HTP in my near future, I think.
I'm trying to teach myself how to knit (starting this evening). I'd forgotten how very hard I find it to learn something like this from illustrations in a book, I really do need someone to actually show me how to do it, I think. I've gotten casting on down for the most part, and can get about 10 stitches done before things start to fall apart. Not too bad for a first couple of hours which were also spent watching a disappointing West Wing episode, I think. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it at some point.
The guinea pig still has no name. I think perhaps "Yuri Pigarin" since he apparently has some compulsion to launch himself into space. I was holding him the other night and he took a dive out of my hands and landed on his nose on the wooden ramp to his cage. Later that evening I was holding him and standing in the kitchen when something (still don't know what it was) terrified him and he bolted, ran up to my shoulder and then launched himself into midair. He took about a five foot tumble onto the tile floor, but rather miraculously he didn't hurt himself other than being a little bit dazed for a minute or two. Ugh. I think I was more shaken up about it than he was.
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Date: 2003-10-08 11:06 pm (UTC)A leaping guinea pig? What about "Rocky", after a cartoon flying rodent? ;-)
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Date: 2003-10-09 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-09 06:15 am (UTC)