sundry and random
Oct. 18th, 2011 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castiron1. My car was broken into last night. Fortunately, there wasn't anything important in there, and it looks like nothing was taken. Spouse went to a junkyard, found a replacement window for about a tenth what it would've cost to get the auto glass folks out here, and installed it. (As my dad would say, I'm adding another year to his contract for that.)
2. The weather report did not lie! We are experiencing northern European summer temperatures! I wore the wool waistcoat.
3. No, brain, no. "Reichenbach" and "Turkish oil wrestling" do not go together in any universe.
4. Dear fiber: You have been drafting beautifully and making a very nice fine single. Please stop breaking now.
5. Things I have Googled for fic-in-progress: the status of the death penalty in Berne in 1891 (had been abolished some years earlier, FWIW); Swiss prisons of same era (never heard of Dr. Louis Guillaume before, but he sounds like an interesting person; his name shows up everywhere in prison reform literature of the time); photocopy policies of the British Library; frequency of autopsies in the UK.
6. Trying to search the BBC site for sound clips to find how a city name is pronounced -- a bit more challenging when a British political figure has that name as a surname. The goal, however, was achieved with a bit more search narrowing. (Different fic-in-progress.)
2. The weather report did not lie! We are experiencing northern European summer temperatures! I wore the wool waistcoat.
3. No, brain, no. "Reichenbach" and "Turkish oil wrestling" do not go together in any universe.
4. Dear fiber: You have been drafting beautifully and making a very nice fine single. Please stop breaking now.
5. Things I have Googled for fic-in-progress: the status of the death penalty in Berne in 1891 (had been abolished some years earlier, FWIW); Swiss prisons of same era (never heard of Dr. Louis Guillaume before, but he sounds like an interesting person; his name shows up everywhere in prison reform literature of the time); photocopy policies of the British Library; frequency of autopsies in the UK.
6. Trying to search the BBC site for sound clips to find how a city name is pronounced -- a bit more challenging when a British political figure has that name as a surname. The goal, however, was achieved with a bit more search narrowing. (Different fic-in-progress.)