Write Every Day: Day 15

Yesterday was much more productive - two pages of notes for the next podcast, plus another 200 words on the short story.

And once again I have forgotten to add my own name for a week. *head desk*. One of these days I will get the hang of... well everything, I swear.

Day 15 Tally:


Day 14 Tally:
china_shop regshoe sylvanwitch badly_knitted luzula sanguinity nafs cornerofmadness yasaman kate lferion trobadora carenejeans shadaras the_siobhan

Day 13 Tally:
( previous days )

Let me know if I missed you and feel free to jump in any time.

jack is in his corset jane is in her vest

( Questions of Days )

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The adjoining neighbours are not people who believe in repressing their emotions. On the contrary, conflict is dealt with promptly and with a frank exchange of views. Very very loud exchanges of views.

Apparently the issue this morning was that the teenage son wasn't leaving his room for school and both parents teamed up to express their concern about it. At one point Mr yelled "You're killing us J__" and it reminded me so much of Tommy Wideau's "You're tearing me apart!" that I've been walking around giggling all day.

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The fan in the bathroom has started working again? Like, out of nowhere?

I have no idea.

However now the lights in the living room are out. We have dimmers on all our lights, which require special bulbs - the housemate ordered some from Amazon and apparently they sent regular bulbs instead and housemate didn't think to check - so they blew out the switch. A simple fix, I just need to get around to going to a hardware store to pick one up. In the meantime I make my coffee by torchlight.

This fucking house man.

I also found out that the contractor has been in the hospital which is why I haven't seen him for three weeks. One of his employees was supposed to tell us, which in fairness he did, but I tend to interpret "Mike will be back Tuesday!" as meaning he will be back the next Tuesday, and not some unspecified Tuesday in the future.

He made noises about being back to work next week, so I guess I'll find out how he's doing if he makes it in. I hope he's OK. He's a good guy.

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I'm going to start insisting that if housemate is spending more than 50% of their time with their gf they start taking their cat with them - Dr River Song is very sweet and affectionate, but also very licky, and I come up all hives wherever she gets at me. I had to lock her out of my office today to keep her off me. In theory housemate takes care of all the cat stuff - but that requires them to actually be here, and the good Doctor will protest poop outside the box if it isn't up to her standards.

Which reminds me, I think his Lordship had a follow-up vet appointment but I have no idea when. I'll need to poke to make sure that's taken care of.

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The Old Man has been calling me non-stop about his computer. We had it set up with individual desktop icons for each of the sites he visits except Windows did an update and ate them all. I tried setting them up again in Chrome - which is what he expects and looks for - but MS has downgraded Chrome I guess? Anyway I couldn't get it to work last time I was there.

My brother-in-law has remote access to his computer so he can help with tech support so I asked if he could have a look. Which I can only assume hasn't happened because I keep getting phone calls about it. And no matter how many times I explain I can't look at his computer from here, I have to do it when I am in the room with him, which will happen on Friday, only BIL has the remote access - he just calls me back the next day because it still isn't working. "Oh and your sister called me this morning! "Great, did you ask her about the computer?" "No." *headdesk*

I'll try another whack at it tomorrow with a different browser. It won't look exactly the same, which is a problem, but if I can walk him through it a couple of times he can probably get it down. Hopefully Ill be able to get it sorted for him, it's not a big problem - just an annoying one.