It's raining, YAY.

Got up at 8 and started laundry & drilled holes in base of vanity to shove bamboo in to further strengthen it. Varnished it inside and out (now wait til 4pm to give another coat). Took 15 minutes to get lid off can. Finally took 2 pair of pliers to get it up high enough to hammer a wedge into the crack. *sheesh* NOTE: Always remember to wipe the groove in paint can clean before replacing lid. Found big coffee can full of assorted craft wood bits, including buncha knobs. Varnished one. Found metal door strips & carpet strips. Poss. use these to frame top and door on vanity. Have not found any hinges, but did find black wire spine from old notebook... may use that.

Started a pot of chicken boiling. Need MEAT. Mmmeeeeeeeeeat. Body is doing good today. Have lost the 3 pound gluten bloat and feet are lean and lovely. *kiss kiss*

Should brush & vacc pool, but think I will spread lawnfood first. I like to feed it at least 3 times a year to compensate for having no watering system & spreading it on rainy days is best.

EDIT: Fed the lawn & decided to feed the weeds at the verge too, to use up the last of the food in the spreader. That brought me to the pile 'o logs & I remembered this Monday coming is bulk pick-up, so I dragged them out away from the stop sign and neatenized (that's a family word) the heap to make it obvious I want them to pick it up. Saw several creature heads in the way the light/shadows formed on the wood, so took a few snaps. Went to the pool and skimmed up some debris from the bottom, but it started to rain again so I came in and turned off the chicken and cut up some old Dove wrappers into giraffes.

EDIT 2: 5pm. I had only meant to pick out some leaf debris, brush and vacc the pool, but when I went to clear out the leaf-skimmer basket (in the corner of the pool) a long-dead lizard got sucked into the line before I could get the basket clear. So I stopped the machinery and cleaned out the filter basket (in the pumphouse) and while I was at it, I took apart the huge fiber filter and hosed that clean, too.) So by the time I got everything done, I was too tired to swim. Shall go varnish the vanity once more and that's the last of the big stuff I'll do tonight. *sigh* I always have more stuff to do than time/energy.

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In Bed (B7 fic, slashish insinuation) 100 words

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Doctor Who pic - a blast from the past

Taking a breather before I go back out to work on cleaning the pool, I sorted more of the old paper pile & discovered this drawing I'd made on my first computer, a MacPlus. The printer used a ribbon, like a typewriter, and it got awfully gray before I found a place to buy them. (This was pre-internet-- 1984?) There was no color ink, but then the monitor had no color, either. And was tiny. And the drawing program was MacPaint, with about 6 tools. You shaded mainly by using patterns. No scanning. No importing of photos. Single-sided floppies. Paper with holes in a perforated side bit to tear off after the printer cranked it through using little spokes like a torture rack. You could only run one program at a time, and only one document at that. And I wrote fic and played games and drew pics, and loved my MacPlus to death.

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Found an old Bluffer's Guide to Fandom

I've never attended Media-west convention, but a correspondence friend (back in the day when I wrote actual letters and mailed them) did, and she sent me a much-mimeoed 'cheat sheet' on the then currently likely to be discussed fandoms. If you have the energy to check when the most recent of these shows ran you'd know how old it is. After 1990, anyway. I'm sorry some of the symbols are impossible difficult to discern. I did my best, but they weren't clear in the pages I scanned.

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