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feng_shui_houseI has got a fone!
Bro had been full of big plans yesterday (as usual when he's on something he's all running off at the mouth, can't shut up, brags, takes offense when I try as gently as possible to put a damper on the schemes that involve me, etc. Very time consuming.) Makes it impossible to fic, for one thing, because he comes in and stares at my computer monitor every couple of minutes... anyway, one of them was to go to Walmart today & pick up a few things on my list.
When I got up today I realized it was the day the phone guy so was supposed to come, so it was just as well that bro told me 'he had a bad night' and didn't feel up to going to Walmart. (Self-destructive indulgence has that effect.) I asked if he would still be ok to take me to my dentist appt for 2pm. Oh, yeah, sure. Then he went back to bed.
Phone guy showed up and discovered that the guy who was *supposed* to fix the dingus on the pole on the 31st did not do anything. I nagged phone guy to promise that either he would be able to get me a VERY GOOD phone line, or he would do nothing except call in requesting them to get whatever equipment/techs needed to do the job right. It turned out he decided he could do it properly, so... my judgment is in abeyance.
He did the installation all outside the house, so I didn't need to wake up bro. Good. I prefer to handle things myself as he always sides with *anyone* other than me. He left, saying the old company would have to 'release' my number before people could call in, but I could call out.
I called Aunt in NY for the second time today. Then I went back to reading![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kalinda001's wonderful PGP. index here.
Then I took a shower & got ready for the dentist. I figured I'd wait to wake bro till the last second and if he didn't feel up to it, I'd call the dentist to cancel.
I was half-dressed when the phone rang- dentist's office asking if I'd mind if the appt was 45 minutes later because they'd had unforeseen delays. Chortling inwardly (at least in part because now I has got a 2-way Fone), I magnanimously agreed. It's 1:55pm now and bro still not up. Fine. I'll go back and read more of Haldane's story. I've finished New Patterns and Old Friends and Broken Things.
EDIT: 2:10 bro gets up and tells me an old girl friend called and wants to stay in his room for couple weeks....I say, No, not going to happen. WHAT a nerve. After all the times he's mucked me up with his arrogance, laziness, carelessness & general unhelpfulness I'm going to allow a stranger to live here? I already pay half the grocery bill, with me getting maybe 1/4 of it stuff that I can/will eat. He's got twice the money I do; I've got three times the bills he has, and he thinks I'm going to cheerfully add someone else to up my bills?? NO.
Further EDIT: I misattributed the lovely PGP series to K.Haldane.kalinda001 is the author, as a half-second's thought would have told me, being as how it's ON her LJ. I plead brain-warp.
Bro had been full of big plans yesterday (as usual when he's on something he's all running off at the mouth, can't shut up, brags, takes offense when I try as gently as possible to put a damper on the schemes that involve me, etc. Very time consuming.) Makes it impossible to fic, for one thing, because he comes in and stares at my computer monitor every couple of minutes... anyway, one of them was to go to Walmart today & pick up a few things on my list.
When I got up today I realized it was the day the phone guy so was supposed to come, so it was just as well that bro told me 'he had a bad night' and didn't feel up to going to Walmart. (Self-destructive indulgence has that effect.) I asked if he would still be ok to take me to my dentist appt for 2pm. Oh, yeah, sure. Then he went back to bed.
Phone guy showed up and discovered that the guy who was *supposed* to fix the dingus on the pole on the 31st did not do anything. I nagged phone guy to promise that either he would be able to get me a VERY GOOD phone line, or he would do nothing except call in requesting them to get whatever equipment/techs needed to do the job right. It turned out he decided he could do it properly, so... my judgment is in abeyance.
He did the installation all outside the house, so I didn't need to wake up bro. Good. I prefer to handle things myself as he always sides with *anyone* other than me. He left, saying the old company would have to 'release' my number before people could call in, but I could call out.
I called Aunt in NY for the second time today. Then I went back to reading
kalinda001's wonderful PGP. index here.Then I took a shower & got ready for the dentist. I figured I'd wait to wake bro till the last second and if he didn't feel up to it, I'd call the dentist to cancel.
I was half-dressed when the phone rang- dentist's office asking if I'd mind if the appt was 45 minutes later because they'd had unforeseen delays. Chortling inwardly (at least in part because now I has got a 2-way Fone), I magnanimously agreed. It's 1:55pm now and bro still not up. Fine. I'll go back and read more of Haldane's story. I've finished New Patterns and Old Friends and Broken Things.
EDIT: 2:10 bro gets up and tells me an old girl friend called and wants to stay in his room for couple weeks....I say, No, not going to happen. WHAT a nerve. After all the times he's mucked me up with his arrogance, laziness, carelessness & general unhelpfulness I'm going to allow a stranger to live here? I already pay half the grocery bill, with me getting maybe 1/4 of it stuff that I can/will eat. He's got twice the money I do; I've got three times the bills he has, and he thinks I'm going to cheerfully add someone else to up my bills?? NO.
Further EDIT: I misattributed the lovely PGP series to K.Haldane.
kalinda001 is the author, as a half-second's thought would have told me, being as how it's ON her LJ. I plead brain-warp.
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Date: 2007-09-06 06:43 pm (UTC)Actually I believe you're referring to me for that story series, not Haldane =D
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Date: 2007-09-06 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-06 08:08 pm (UTC)Would you want one? (If so, what B7 characters would you like and you can throw in any story elements you like.)
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Date: 2007-09-06 08:19 pm (UTC)SmutOfAtonement
How about a funny gen story between Avon and Vila? Situated after Rumours and involving Vila becoming obsessed with trying to find out what Avon's favourite food is?
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Date: 2007-09-06 08:33 pm (UTC)Good prompts, I'll see what I can do with them.
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Date: 2007-09-07 01:09 am (UTC)What if I add Cally to the mix?
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Date: 2007-09-07 01:14 am (UTC)I think a lot of my problem was that I was trying to work on it while KNOWING there was UNREAD EXCELLENT AVON ANGST. My brain kept whimpering and wanting to read instead of write. :^)
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Date: 2007-09-06 11:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-07 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-06 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-07 12:13 am (UTC)Hmmm...Ok, Avon, Blake, a very small kitten and plaid (which can be a kilt/fabric/clothing/drapes, etc.) having a happy ending.
Your choice as to rating, tone of story, everything else.
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Date: 2007-09-07 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-07 03:42 am (UTC)All I have is total fearlessness.
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Date: 2007-09-07 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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