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Thursday, March 29th, 2012 03:30 am
There is never enough time on my day off to get everything I need completed finished in a timely fashion. But, I did accomplish a lot. I will be re-reading the stories I wrote and editing them again, and I hope to post some this morning or certainly by tonight. I have stories dealing with a variety of items experienced by Feanaro's family while on a picnic near the shore, an examination of the meeting of Caranthir and Haleth, a story about Fingolfin's sword Ringil and one about Maglor and the Battle of Hastings. That leaves me with editing the four listed above and then I can write the one I was assigned last night. B2ME is wrapping up and I'm really happy about that. It's been one hell of a ride.

Coasters and Doors and Words below the cut )
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Friday, February 24th, 2012 04:49 am
Today is the birthday of two very important and vitally different people who followed their dreams and changed the world. The first person is Steve Jobs. Love him or hate him, you can't dispute his very prevelant presence over our everyday modern life. From Apple computers to the iPods in your pocket to iTunes and features of the cloud, Steve Jobs made an impact in so many aspects of our modern life that his ripples reached throughout the earth.

thoughts continue along with a marvelous illustration - click... )
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011 05:01 am
Yesterday was just as filled with work as I had thought, but things worked well. I had a fun-filled morning with Meghan, meeting Chickie for breakfast and then taking Meghan with me to the fabric store for some decorative braid, and Penco Art Supply Warehouse store. It's always so much fun to catch up with her.

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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 04:58 am
I actually got a lot done yesterday. I finished up my "Feast" story, now I need to get a quick beta on it, but that's not a problem. I did get some work done on my repair, although not as much as I had hoped. I got a chapter done for my writing friend in Germany, and did my errands, etc.


Want one of my cards? Read below the cut )
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011 04:34 am
 I finally had a good night's sleep last night, probably because I was too tired to do otherwise.  And I also had finally fixed the toilet in our guest bathroom. 


Text and pics below the cut... )

Part 2 and 2A above are what are broken and now covered by my margerine container. 


After getting the water level down a bit, I noticed that it actually was an interior valve that leaked, not the water supply pipe.  The interior valve which is attached to the float is not something that will be easy to replace.  It was the very top of it that was leaking, badly, causing water to wick down the tank top and down the tank body to the floor.  Very bad.  I did, however, work a temporary fix.  I wanted to keep the spray totally in the tank, so I enclosed it.  I cut an empty margarine container to fit over the valve and duck taped it in.  Then I tested it.  It works beautifully.  With the tank top back on, it is completely invisible.  This will have to get fixed, but not immediately, so I'm very grateful that my fix - using something that my recycling people don't accept, ended up getting recycled to a good purpose anyway. 





I spent the rest of yesterday on two things - scrubbing walls and floor in the main bathroom and the guest bathroom (still more to do, but some serious inroads - very happy, and finalizing a story for the August ALEC contest.  Thank goodness for friends who are willing to help me out by looking over stories at the last minute.  Thanks to Elfscribe, I ended up with a story that I'm quite pleased with.  So, all in all, my day off was a successful day, even if I did post late - LOL.  
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011 05:00 am
 Yesterday's goal was cleaning the bathroom. I got 50% (well, probably closer to 40%) of it done, and on my long list of places to go and people to see, I got 60% done. OMG - I have to give myself a failing grade for yesterday's accomplishments.

Pics and text below the cut... )


 
But, I did get the shower majorly washed even though I still want to tackle it again before Sharon arrives. I got the furnace filters, went to Barnes & Noble (had a 15% off coupon - spent too much but happy with my books), got to the art supply store and ended up with items that I will watercolor for this year's Solstice cards and two new specialized Winsor & Newton Series 7 000 micro brushes (call me happy), got groceries. I decided to leave the chocolate until next week.


In writing (well, I had to do something besides just laundry and waiting for chemicals to do their thing on my shower walls) I finished Section 1, Chapter 5 and started Section 1, Chapter 6. I'm dreadfully afraid of boring people to death, and I have, of course, a lot of editing to do before anyone else sees it, but I also have to remind myself that I am writing this because I feel compelled to tell her story and that it doesn't matter if I don't gather a following because of it. I also got two loads of laundry done and clean sheets on the bed.






 
Because of general frustration, I finally took a serious hunt and found my copy of Karen Wynn Fonstad's "The Atlas of Middle Earth". I was trying to figure out some travel times and hoped that her maps would be helpful. And they will be - but not in Valinor. So I called on a friend who has never yet let me down. I told Fiondil my issue and my speculated time frame, and he came back to me with the timeframe that he has worked out over the years. We're in accord, so that's a relief, and huge THANK YOU's go out to him and those few other friends who answer Emails promptly and generously share their knowledge. I don't know what I would do without all of you!

And thanks to all of you who commented on yesterday's "Tilting at Windmills" post.  I agree that it is pathetic that a firm could take such advantage of us, but it is partly our fault that DH didn't catch the charge and that I didn't pursue it stronger earlier.  But it should be ended now.  We'll find out for sure when our next bank statement comes.  Thanks again!