Home alone

The other half is off to Berlin today, for two nights, but it's more like 3 days, since he's now on the coach and won't be back until Friday night. On the other hand, he has WiFi on the coach, so he's probably reading this right now *waves* HI, HONEY!

Because he is generally wonderful, he's left me with a list of things I should eat (I get flustered if I have to make up a meal on the spot) and 2 seasons of NCIS to make me happy :) After yesterday's incident, I'm taking today off as well, hoping it'll get me over the shakes and weakness and leave me strong enough to do some long days Thursday and Friday. I want to be completely up to date by the weekend if I can manage it.

In the meantime, today's list consists of 'lie on sofa' and 'make medical appointments' neither of which require more energy than I have. I'm also working on my tardis_bigbang story, which needs a bit of life injecting into it, and prodding at some other things. But mostly, I'm going to be squeeing at Gibbs and the gang. *squees*

Mid-point of the week folks. It's all downhill from here! I'll keep the coffee on all day if you want to drop in. Just prod me if I doze off ;D

"People in glass houses shouldn't...? That quote of course is complete as it stands."

Did I mention I hate being off work sick? No matter how much fun it sounds having a day under a blanket watching NCIS, I'm booooooooored.

Ooh, I've still got those links, haven't I? And these random things that I feel like sharing because I don't have anyone here to talk to. *spams you*

~ Here on my own, I don't really want to eat properly. On the other hand, I also don't want to pass out again while I'm on my own, so I'm going to make a huge plate of oven chips.

~ This place is a tip. Once this episode of NCIS is over, I'm going to tidy up, then switch MP3s around on my player which is something I've been meaning to do for months.

~ While I'm on my own, I'm going to sleep on the sofa bed with the large, fluffy dog that I got for finishing my finals and the small, cuddly tiger that crystalshard got me. This possibly makes me pathetic, but I think I'm going to find it easier to sleep in a strange bed than a half-empty one.

Right. 20 more minutes of the completely wonderful NCIS team then I must get on with some tidying. Links to follow. Probably.

ETA: First tidying job done. When I last owned basil, I found that it needed plenty of watering and lots of trimming to keep it growing. Both of those jobs are now done :)

Spam spam spam spam (2nd verse, the same as the first)

Normally I try to put these into some kind of logical order, but I'm on my little computer and LJ runs intermittently slow, making shifting stuff around tricky. So it's pot luck, I'm afraid! It also froze and crashed just as I was about to post *loves LJ's draft function*

Now *rubs hands together* Let's clear this delicious account, shall we?

I try not to make assumptions about what people know, and this post was useful to me: How to highlight spoilers for all journals Someone recently tried this for a fic, but because I have a brown background for my reading list, I could see the spoiler pretty clearly in their white text. Highlights matter, folks!

The galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries

Encyclopaedia Romana. There was a time when I saw this kind of thing and thought about my degree. Now, I just think about Nightdog's Annals series *g*

I haven't had much of a chance to check this out properly, but Book Army looks interesting for helping people find other books they might like.

Blackmare, you may not want to scroll down to the bottom of this. Seriously, why would you make a cake that looks like that?

I have no idea what the sciencey words mean, but so pretty!

I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I want my tap recognising me...

This is for those of us who often have trouble proving we're human. Some of those warped letters are seriously hard to read...

Music folks, take your collection to any computer (legally!)

Tweeting by telepathy. Yes, really.

An interesting perspective on reinventing the book

I really enjoy the O'Reilly Radar blog, and this piece about teaching and memory is a good example of why.

I still can't quite get over the fact that I've lived through a time when a proper noun has become a verb, and now a verb. Let's face it, very few people are ever going to call it "the dysoning", but Un-Googlable is a neologism people will instantly recognise. It's fascinating. Oh, and the article's quite fun too.

Fantasy maps are always great. Fantasy book maps are even better

Keeping up with the digirati (this is another favourite blog, btw)

She's either desperate or mad, but either way, this is not how to get a good divorce settlement. Relatedly, the strangest legal cases of 2008

McSweeney's INTERNET-AGE WRITING SYLLABUS AND COURSE OVERVIEW. Someone possibly has too much time on their hands, but this is still brilliant.

Given I'm in a different timezone to at least 60% of my flist, Universal Greeting Time strikes me as an excellent idea.

And finally, if anyone has not seen Zoo borns (thanks naye!), it's gloriously sweet and highly recommended. And this is the cutest ass you will ever see

Tactical error

I think I just ate my body-weight in sausage casserole and chips. At some point I may be able to move again. This point may not come quickly.

Oomph. But yummy.