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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
5:12 pm	Quick break in the hotel room in Grand Rapids, and what do I do? Connect to the wireless network and check Twitter, LJ and DW... All told, the trip has had way too many disasters, but they have all eventually been resolved, at least. I would like a less disastery vacation some day, but I suppose I shouldn't complain, as I am at least getting a vacation. Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Friday, August 7th, 2009
9:28 am	Streaks in my hair A couple of pictures of the new hair coloring (and recent cut). It came out subtler than I originally intended, but I like it. Current Mood: pleased (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
9:54 am	I haven't forgotten my promise to post pictures. I either need to get the ones Joel took or I need to grab the ones I took using Amy's camera and upload them, and I haven't done either yet. Interim update: three windows shattered, five more with frames broken so they'll have to be replaced even though the glass survived, lots of windowscreens trashed, a window air conditioner trashed, skylights trashed, roof will have to be replaced. We have a $4000 hail deductible on the house. We'll have to figure out whether we want to try to pay the incremental cost of any upgrades we could do as long as we have to replace a bunch of stuff. The Taurus is totaled, though we'll be buying it back since it's just cosmetic damage. We'll be getting around $4000 for it net, so that pretty much covers our deductible on the house. The Honda took approximately $7500 in damage. The trailer hasn't been evaluated yet but I suspect it's totaled as well. This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/1460.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: tired
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
12:05 am	ZOMG TORNADO So we had a close encounter with a tornado a couple of hours ago. Shattered windows but no injuries other than the hailstone that hit Bill in the ear and the little glass shard I stuck myself with cleaning up a bit. Still no power, posting from my phone. Should have some impressive photos in the morning... This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/1112.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: frustrated
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
3:31 am	Help me, VURD So for a game I'm playing, I need a phrase in Japanese (or, frankly, in bad wannabe Japanese). I'm wanting an overly-polite "Excuse me, Secretkeeper, please hear our prayers," sort of statement. The obvious bits are something like "Gomen nasai Secretkeeper-sama, ?? ?? kudasai," but I'm not sure what the ?? ?? should be. This is an spell invocation for a cleric of Hello Kitty, so weeabooness is totally in-character, if that matters any. ETA: Looks like I had anonymous and OpenID comments turned off. Whups. I think it's fixed now. ETA2: Here's what I have so far, in romaji: Gomennasai Secretkeeper-sama watashitachi no inori o kikite kudasai Thoughts? This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/874.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: awake
Friday, June 5th, 2009
2:32 pm	Why do I read transfeminist writings? It just ends up pissing me off. Especially when it's good. This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/663.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: pissed off
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
9:52 pm	Just testing the crossposter. Nothing to see here, these are not the posts you're looking for, move along. This entry was originally posted at http://ysabel.dreamwidth.org/450.html. Please comment there using OpenID. Current Mood: tired
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
1:03 pm	See LJ explode. Explode, LJ, explode! (Comment on this)
12:07 pm	Yes, this is the same Ysabel as over on LiveJournal. Staking out a place. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do right now, whether I'm going to split across both or what. We'll see. Current Mood: thoughtful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
9:51 am	Public Service Announcement I have a permanent InsaneJournal here: ysabel They're only $30 right now, though I hear the price is going up. (Comment on this)
7:37 am	Here's a great essay in reaction to the YouTube video of anti-abortion protesters reacting to being asked what the penalty for getting an illegal abortion should be. The insight that these people are not getting that crime != sin is, IMHO, a significant one. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
11:14 am	The Only Debate on Intelligent Design that is Worthy of its Subject. I've so wanted to do exactly this, after exhausting myself trying to be reasonable. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
11:57 am	I just got a spam email that included this phrase: I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed Sense of Rejection. I would certainly hope so. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
4:37 pm	I'm sure you've all seen it, but it bears repeating. Everyone else has had more sex than me. Just sayin'. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 9th, 2007
11:25 am	So, I had a five-day weekend (took Thursday and Friday off, and Wednesday was a holiday). I spent the whole time dealing with moving or prepping the old house for sale. I am exhausted and I hurt everwhere. I need a vacation. (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
8:00 am	It is extremely disorienting to wake up from a very vivid dream in which you had and then sort-of recovered from short-term (couple of months) amnesia. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
6:22 pm	Ask The Faeries So, I particularly like haikujaguar's One Card Draws (her latest is here, if you want to peek). She has her own divination deck she calls the Balance Cards, and she's often quite insightful. So, as an experiment (and sort of homage) I'm going to do something similar. I have the Brian Froud/Jessica Macbeth The Faeries' Oracle and the faeries are a lot of fun, though they do have a tendency to tell you what you already knew in a very mocking way sometimes. First fifteen people to ask for a card will get one (or possibly more, if the faeries insist, but I guarantee at least one). I probably won't do all the actual readings tonight, so you may not get answers until sometime tomorrow, but I'll try to get them all by tomorrow evening. If you give me a question, I'll try to interpret with that in mind. If not, I'll be more general. Be aware that this deck is really, really prone to poking fun at askers of questions, and I will not water down that tone at all. *grin* But it should be all in fun. Usually, anyway... We'll see how this goes... (haikujaguar, if you want one you can have one even if you're not in the first fifteen. Just ask. I have my doubts I can pull this off anywhere near as well as you do, but it seemed like a fun thing to try once, anyway. I hope you find this entertaining. I hope I find this entertaining. *grin*) ETA: As of 10:30 pm my time, I've done 12, so there are 3 left. I'm going to go crash and will see if anyone else has asked in the morning. G'night. ETA2: I have my last three questions, so this round is now closed. I probably won't get to those three readings until this evening, in case any of you three see this, but I will get to you. (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
12:46 pm	Wil Wheaton hits one out of the fucking park. Damn. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
11:17 am	Where to start? On Sunday, driving home, a two-inch-or-so crack opened up in the hose that delivers coolant to the turbo in my Eclipse. (The turbo in the 2G DSM engines is coolant-cooled instead of the usual oil-cooled.) It was a very hot day, I had been driving for a while, and it happened as I accelerated up the hill from a stoplight. It vented pretty much all my coolant very very quickly, and a few seconds later my temp gauge pegged. I heard a horrific rattling sound, and saw the gauge, and immediately pulled over. But not fast enough. At a bare minimum, I'm going to need a complete top-end job. The turbo may be fried. The 7-bolt DSM engines (of which mine is one) are very prone to blowing out a thrust and crankwalking within 5k miles of this kind of overheat. (For the non-engine inclined: that's very bad. Think "holes in your engine" bad.) So I may be best served by just buying a new engine. I originally bought this car (ten years ago!) with the intent to dump a few thousand into it and make it into a scary-fast fun car instead of just a fast fun car. I've never gotten around to it, though I've done a few things in the past as parts failed. It now has a racing clutch in it, for example, and I upgraded the rear brakes when they died. I bought this specific car entirely because it's eminently upgradable. People have gotten 700+ whp out of this engine. (I'm looking for more like 400 whp, but still.) The right answer to this is probably to buy a new engine and turbo. Obviously, I wouldn't bother to buy stock at that point, since performance parts just aren't significantly more expensive than the stock ones, and I'm paying for the same labor (or possibly doing all the same work myself) either way. If I wasn't currently dealing with having two houses, there'd be no question I'd just take this as an opportunity to get off my butt and do the upgrades I want. (As a friend of mine said, "The universe just handed you a round tuit.") But I know if I just put the car in storage to do this later, I'll never get around to it again. I could just unload the car for whatever I can get for it, and just give up on the entire idea. Buying another one is silly. And I don't desperately need this car; we have two others and Joel and I mostly ride public transit anyway. I can manage to come up with the money but it cuts into my reserve for emergencies I was trying to keep with the whole house situation. On one hand, your engine exploding is sort of an emergency, but it's not a required car. The purely practical solution is to find someone who wants it for parts or to rebuild and get out of it, but I didn't buy this car to be practical in the first place. So, yeah, I'll probably end up trying to spend the money to fix it. But I'll probably also feel guilty the whole time. Stupid, isn't it? Oh, and as a nice postscript, yesterday I was supposed to get my new crown on my back upper-right tooth. But it broke while the dentist was trying to seat it. They're sending it back to the lab to remake. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
3:26 pm	Ride's here. Heading home now. More when I get home. Phones and power and network all seem to be still working just fine here and at home, so that's a good sign. (Comment on this)