kyrielle | Through the years meme....

Ooo, meme! (Borrowed from

solcita)

Instructions: Look through your LJ calendar and post an entry from this day (or the nearest day with an entry) for all the years you've had a LiveJournal. If all your entries that day are dull, I give you license to look at 2 days either side.

I'm not taking that last option - I agree it seems like cheating - but it is part of the meme. I'm also not including locked posts. Of course, I end up days either side more than once for lack of posts or public posts....

August 22, 2005 (I was just back from Gencon).

Various quotes

This is not all the good quotes, only the ones I managed to write down. Several came from a table adjacent to our Deliria game on Sunday, rather than from a game I was in. Twice, they caused our Deliria table to stop, turn, look, and then applaud.

"I summoned a rock. A demon rock!"

"The monkeys are quite unimpressed."

"God damn it, this is the second giant monkey to climb the Empire State Building this year!"

"Don't worry. When your courage runs out, I'll be right there. Pushing you toward the danger in front of us."

"Plus one field mice?"

"I was getting a bad feeling just from the bones...." (After being told we got a bad feeling from the way the bones were moving/making noises/etc.)

August 18, 2004

Hyperhyperhyper Squeak.

We're on our way! As soon as I post this, I'm going to start the grab of the last few items still waiting to be grabbed, shut off the laptop and disconnect it from everything, and not long after that we'll be on our way to Indianapolis. I will almost certainly not get online from there (last Gencon, they did have some web-capable machines, but first you had to get to one, and then they were down half the weekend - frankly, I have better ways to spend time at a con!).

Lessee. Steve Jackson Games has forums on their website. Ref:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/sjgames/122584.html?mode=reply
http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?m=August&y=2004&d=18

Really, really pretty hayfield picture.

And yes, for those who know the flight schedule, this is a little (maybe a half hour) early out the door for getting the first flight. It's a weekday; and I've stood on line at the Portland airport; and I get edgy if it even remotely looks like we could be late to a flight. We'll have books and stuff to do and, now that we've read email and LJ, we're good to go.

August 19, 2003

Musings and day-stuff.

I got a letter from jillw - thank you, Jill!

Work was good today, as well; I got a fair bit done (somewhat in spite of myself), and at that, coding work, on the thing I'm supposedly working on. I was a bit spacy, since I got an after-hours call last night at 11:45 or so, waking me from a sound sleep. It turned out to be a confusion and I didn't have to do anything, but spent 45 minutes figuring that out, confirming it, and passing the information off to the person who did need to do something (read: could do something useful). Also found another issue that (had communication been clearer and I not been called in) would have gone unnoticed until it became a priority item (whereas now it is not). Also not mine to follow up on, so I wrote it up and the appropriate person is also chasing that.

I'm sure they appreciate me just loads, of course....

Scott is working on figuring out our sprinklers and seeing if we can get them working again. That would be nice.

And, on a sad note, my parents' cat Tips was hit by a car tonight, and died. She was a sweet, if highly nervous cat (the least-tamed of a batch of semi-wild kittens, though she could still be medicated, which is probably proof of success at domesticating her), and quite pretty. Rest in peace, Tips.

I have managed to stay off my usual route to work yesterday and today. Three more days to remember it.... (They are doing a "bit" of road construction, with 20-minute delays. My whole commute is around 20 minutes without that! Fortunately, it's out Stafford road, which means if I just hang a left there and go through north Wilsonville to the north Wilsonville exit, I bypass all the involved insanity....)

August 20, 2002

Hehehe. Showers. Showers. Right.

Today is supposed to bring intermittent light showers.

Uh-huh. I got up this morning and when I got outside, the street smelled pleasantly of rain; although things were wet, they weren't soaked.

By the time I got to I-5, it was pouring; I had my windshield wipers on full, and once I hit highway speeds, they were on high. Fortunately, I didn't have to stay at those speeds for long: traffic was massively slow wherever a new on-ramp merged in, and that means it was slow pretty much all the way up.

It had eased up when I got to work; I was able to get inside without getting myself, or the books I was bringing in, soaked. When I started writing this it was pouring agian, the rain beating down on trees and flowers (and the poor folks who are out there doing landscaping work even now). Now it's light again.

I understand, now: heavy rain with intermittent light showers....

August 19, 2001

Yay!

Shopping done. Laundry done (except for folding the towels). Now to pick two of the optional ones.

It was a good morning. I started laundry within an hour of the laundry room being unlocked, which is to say, I was NOT one of the three people who vied for the machines AFTER my loads were done. Since I had five loads, I was very very grateful for this.

People are odd. I drove down to the grocery store, and followed someone else up an aisle. He took the closest space to the store that was open (not counting the handicapped space) in that aisle. I took the next one, which was two down (i.e., there was a single car between us). I would have taken that one if I had been the first one of us there. Why? Because it was already warm out, and that one was shaded. Well-shaded, too.

He gave up shade, for about ten feet of walking? Bwah? Well, I'm glad he did, because it meant I got the shade. *grins* Never argue when the craziness does you a favor. Or at least, don't argue too loud.

...wow. Been a while.