No, I haven't been on the Pen-Elayne chatroom today. I want to find out how I can get op status before I go back on, so I can ban and/or kick trolls, which inability tends to really ruin an IRC environment. But it's shaping up to be a pretty good week in my offline world:
(1) The foliage around lower Westchester County seems to be peaking just about now, making my commute really beautiful - alas, I can't take photos whilst driving, or even stopped at traffic lights when there are any cars around me as I don't want the flash to interfere with other drivers, but I'm hoping to capture some nice shots this coming weekend.
(2) My job work seems fairly under control, there's nothing major really outstanding and I'm keeping up with my boss and his family.
(3) My ankle is healing slowly, although I still can't go out of the house without the air cast; my follow-up appointment with the orthopedist is next Monday so we'll see how that goes. I think I should be okay to food-shop by myself this evening; the hardest part is loading up the car as that involves both standing in place (more or less) and lifting things. I cooked a full meat-and-two-veg meal last night, so I'm getting back into my regular food-rhythm.
(4) I'm catching up pretty well on the TV stuff we've DVR'ed, although I was disappointed with both the most recent Dr. Who (the thing about time travel is that you can go anywhere, even to visit lost loves or past companions, so the only explanation for why this highly competent Doctor doesn't or can't is a meta-one, that it's not logistically possible or financially feasible for the TV show - and as we see over and over again in comics, one usually gets in trouble when trying to explain away external-to-story, real-life considerations within the fictional realm of the story itself) and the most recent Studio 60 (Sorkin telegraphed at least two subplots fairly clunkily, if even I guessed out how they'd end). Oh, and
(5) I have a paid writing gig, about which more anon.
There, that's my own version (albeit a lot less funny) of Merlin’s Lists of Five Things (via Cory at BoingBoing).
(1) The foliage around lower Westchester County seems to be peaking just about now, making my commute really beautiful - alas, I can't take photos whilst driving, or even stopped at traffic lights when there are any cars around me as I don't want the flash to interfere with other drivers, but I'm hoping to capture some nice shots this coming weekend.
(2) My job work seems fairly under control, there's nothing major really outstanding and I'm keeping up with my boss and his family.
(3) My ankle is healing slowly, although I still can't go out of the house without the air cast; my follow-up appointment with the orthopedist is next Monday so we'll see how that goes. I think I should be okay to food-shop by myself this evening; the hardest part is loading up the car as that involves both standing in place (more or less) and lifting things. I cooked a full meat-and-two-veg meal last night, so I'm getting back into my regular food-rhythm.
(4) I'm catching up pretty well on the TV stuff we've DVR'ed, although I was disappointed with both the most recent Dr. Who (the thing about time travel is that you can go anywhere, even to visit lost loves or past companions, so the only explanation for why this highly competent Doctor doesn't or can't is a meta-one, that it's not logistically possible or financially feasible for the TV show - and as we see over and over again in comics, one usually gets in trouble when trying to explain away external-to-story, real-life considerations within the fictional realm of the story itself) and the most recent Studio 60 (Sorkin telegraphed at least two subplots fairly clunkily, if even I guessed out how they'd end). Oh, and
(5) I have a paid writing gig, about which more anon.
There, that's my own version (albeit a lot less funny) of Merlin’s Lists of Five Things (via Cory at BoingBoing).
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