Typo and Shir, you should be shopping those scripts around. Ghouls are the new vampires! Coca-Cola is the new holy water!

I know someone who tells a story of meeting a ghoul F2F. He swears it's true. He's scrupulously honest, and I'd totally believe him if I believed in ghouls.

My father and not-stepmother are moving house in the near future. We've been discussing ways in which I can come and visit them in their temporary accommodation in the meantime, which isn't easy for me to access. In the course of the e-mail conversation, just now, he said: "We are taking your needs very carefully into account in our search for a home - have even considered installing a lift in some places."

Best. Dad. Ever. (But I should probably refrain from telling my 'it's only two flights of stairs' mother about this.)

I would pay real earth monies to see the film version of Typo Boy's dream.

I'm eating an enchirito with a fork and it feels so wrong. Why do I never remember the spork when I do carryout?

Thanks all.

I'm on my shiny new computer, which rocks like a rocking thing. Hi Internets! How I've missed you.

Okay, okay, okay.... I know I'm coming waaaay late to this particular party, but I was just looking at two web sites - one owned by one of us, and another owned by a crazy person.

I'm gonna start referring to myself as Sean(c)(tm)(r) Kozma(c)(tm)(r).

YAY new computer!

We did some yard work today; loaded 5 bags with trimmed off stuff, including some stuff that has been laying around for a month or so.

I am trying to bribe myself to clean up the little space by my front fence; we're really broke, but if I do it, I can get $10 worth of pansies. They're $1.99 for a 6...divot? container. I think that would be pretty.

Also, the Internets are totally hugging you back, Raq.

Oh yay new computer, which results in more Raq presence!

Work on the dining room alcove progresses. The rewiring's almost done. I will spare you the exciting details. As with most projects, there have been minor injuries, but none that required stitches or medical intervention.

Seska, I recycle sock cuffs. Both my hands are problematic. The left thumb still slips partway out of joint just above the wrist simply by turning the hand over, but only sometimes. Keeping them warm is necessary, but using a brace, or fingerless gloves, or even arm warmers is problematic because anything between the thumb and the palm eventually sets up its own ache. The sock cuffs (I wear out sweatsocks on the treadmill at an alarming rate) have been the solution. They're like sleeve extenders, come down to the knuckle and keep the palm and thumb warm without restricting the fingers' or thumbs' movement at all. If I need to wash my hands or get them in something dirty, they strip off easily and fit in a pocket, or I can just turn them back and push them up my arms, again like sleeves. They go in the washer and dryer, and I have several pairs, wear one or both, as needed, and best of all, they cost nothing, and are a use for socks that would otherwise be tossed out (because goodness knows neither of us would ever *darn*). Maybe they'd work for you.

Yay new computers!

I would watch either movie--the one with the ghouls or the coke-vanquished vampire one.

I just came back from a wine tasting at the local hippie grocery. There were seven tables with 5-6 bottles each. Mmmmmm. Feeling very charitable toward the whole world right now.

I'm glad you got your new computer, Raq.