random and sundry
Nov. 22nd, 2011 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castiron1. Why do the housing lists for folk dance camp keep disappearing in my house? (Besides the obvious reason that the house is exceedingly cluttered and I'm clearly not choosing a consistent place to put them.)
2. Things to be thankful for: I can afford to get a replacement computer while I'm figuring out what's wrong with the old one and whether it's fixable.
3. Watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with spouse and spuds. Spouse connected the climactic battle sequence with both Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (but not all three together, which would have been truly bizarre). He passes for normal, but I'm really not the weirdest person in this household.
4. Got my Yuletide assignment; there are actually *two* requests in it that I'd be comfortable writing. I doubt I have time to do both (especially with the Sherlock Holmes Fic of Doom still unfinished), but we'll see.
5. (The SHFoD: ACD/BBC crossover with a side of a mystery fandom. Hoping to have it ready for beta & Brit-picking soon, though knowing my writing variability, "soon" could mean either "next week" or "July 2012". At least it's AU enough that BBC season 2 shouldn't joss it.)
6. What I love about the iPod isn't just having my own personal soundtrack whenever I want one; it's being able to hear the insides of pieces. There are all these nifty harmonies and countermelodies and background rhythms that I simply don't hear when I'm listening to music on speakers, but with earbuds? I hear them. It gives me one of the things I loved about being in band/orchestra/choir -- hearing more of the parts instead of just the whole.
7. Drat, I hope I didn't leave those housing lists at work, because I don't feel like recreating them.
2. Things to be thankful for: I can afford to get a replacement computer while I'm figuring out what's wrong with the old one and whether it's fixable.
3. Watched The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with spouse and spuds. Spouse connected the climactic battle sequence with both Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the life of Mary, Queen of Scots (but not all three together, which would have been truly bizarre). He passes for normal, but I'm really not the weirdest person in this household.
4. Got my Yuletide assignment; there are actually *two* requests in it that I'd be comfortable writing. I doubt I have time to do both (especially with the Sherlock Holmes Fic of Doom still unfinished), but we'll see.
5. (The SHFoD: ACD/BBC crossover with a side of a mystery fandom. Hoping to have it ready for beta & Brit-picking soon, though knowing my writing variability, "soon" could mean either "next week" or "July 2012". At least it's AU enough that BBC season 2 shouldn't joss it.)
6. What I love about the iPod isn't just having my own personal soundtrack whenever I want one; it's being able to hear the insides of pieces. There are all these nifty harmonies and countermelodies and background rhythms that I simply don't hear when I'm listening to music on speakers, but with earbuds? I hear them. It gives me one of the things I loved about being in band/orchestra/choir -- hearing more of the parts instead of just the whole.
7. Drat, I hope I didn't leave those housing lists at work, because I don't feel like recreating them.