Oh yes, I forgot...
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solarbirdStill no DSL for us; the DSL modem does now train up, which is a step forward, but when I talked to Northwest Link this morning, they report that they'll often bind it to the ISP but then disable it until they've run a bunch of pointless (as far as I can tell) tests. So on Friday, late, they got it routed around but not tested yet. It's remotely possible they're working today, so I'll play with it early this evening and see what, if anything, happens.
Last night, we hosted poker, which was fun. I ended up at exactly break-even, which is kind of funny, and not too bad given that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wrog pretty much schooled everybody, as we assumed he would, and that I was down quite a bit earlier in the evening. When spazzkat and llachglin got chased out of the game, they decided that the media room was the Loser's Lounge and played Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee for a while.
So it was a pretty good evening, despite things having gotten off to a horrible start whenkathrynt phoned saying that their car had quit on them and, despite being only 40 feet from their house, they were stuck in front of a stop sign so had to wait until the tow truck got there. Which it eventually did, but that took forever. Hopefully it's just the alternator. Once they did get here, they brought us a very pretty little martini glass set and a drink shaker, which Kathryn referred to as "the most self-serving gift ever," since we don't drink except at poker night. But they're quite pretty, so yay. ^_^
I scrambled around all day before still moving stuff from MurkSouth with help fromspazzkat and grabbing some more semi-furniture from Ikea (a stand for the stereo) before running to MurkNorth and trying to reduce the extent of the Cardbordian People's Republic over our territory. Anybody making an art installation out of cardboard? I'm your girl! (And that's just counting the boxes, and not the cardboard the Ikea furniture is made from! Ar ar ar ar ar.)
Still, I do like their designs. Sometimes I like them enough that I think about making my own versions of some of it, just so that I know it's durable. I'm sure I'll get to that someday. Snicker.
Wow, it's already 5pm. Polly has lost interest in trying to go out into the Big Wet Room, and is lying on one of her new favourite spots watching the front door, then occasionally rolling over and watching the open double-doors onto the deck. I guess all that excitement wore her out. Hee. ^_^
Last night, we hosted poker, which was fun. I ended up at exactly break-even, which is kind of funny, and not too bad given that
wrog pretty much schooled everybody, as we assumed he would, and that I was down quite a bit earlier in the evening. When spazzkat and llachglin got chased out of the game, they decided that the media room was the Loser's Lounge and played Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee for a while.So it was a pretty good evening, despite things having gotten off to a horrible start when
kathrynt phoned saying that their car had quit on them and, despite being only 40 feet from their house, they were stuck in front of a stop sign so had to wait until the tow truck got there. Which it eventually did, but that took forever. Hopefully it's just the alternator. Once they did get here, they brought us a very pretty little martini glass set and a drink shaker, which Kathryn referred to as "the most self-serving gift ever," since we don't drink except at poker night. But they're quite pretty, so yay. ^_^I scrambled around all day before still moving stuff from MurkSouth with help from
spazzkat and grabbing some more semi-furniture from Ikea (a stand for the stereo) before running to MurkNorth and trying to reduce the extent of the Cardbordian People's Republic over our territory. Anybody making an art installation out of cardboard? I'm your girl! (And that's just counting the boxes, and not the cardboard the Ikea furniture is made from! Ar ar ar ar ar.)Still, I do like their designs. Sometimes I like them enough that I think about making my own versions of some of it, just so that I know it's durable. I'm sure I'll get to that someday. Snicker.
Wow, it's already 5pm. Polly has lost interest in trying to go out into the Big Wet Room, and is lying on one of her new favourite spots watching the front door, then occasionally rolling over and watching the open double-doors onto the deck. I guess all that excitement wore her out. Hee. ^_^
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Date: 2004-08-21 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-21 05:31 pm (UTC)Well, you know, given everything. ^_^
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Date: 2004-08-24 04:24 pm (UTC)I need more time in my life. :(
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Date: 2004-08-24 04:42 pm (UTC)