The Project
Aug. 18th, 2007 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennis
And, here you have it. Come winter the air conditioner will roll into that spot in the top closet - just there on the bottom left. And the vertical floor fan will sit in the bottom closet there on the bottom left.
All nice and tidy. And there is more I can trash or take to downstairs storage if I need to.
And now I can find stuff. Finally.
Those curtains hide each cabinet. And I vacuumed and I removed the dead parts of the geraniums and watered. All is nice there now.
Then I had a shower. Whew. And watched Chelsea Lately from last night. I'm still trying to figure her out but so far, she's filling in while my other quick junk hits are in reruns or stupid teen tournaments.
Then I decided I was hungry so I walked across the parking lot and got some Orange chicken from the Thai place and brought it back and that did the trick.
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My friend, John, died a year and a half ago. We were close friends for a dozen years and very good friends for his last five. We were not lovers or soul mates or anything dramatic at all. I miss him but time heals. What time isn't doing is removing him from my dreams. The bastard is always turning up in them and it's beginning to annoy me. There is a lot of him in this house - pictures from our travels, stuff he brought me, gifts and stuff that I really treasure and don't want to get rid of. But, if he doesn't get out of my dreams I'm going to consider it. Geesh.
In the closet purge I found a box of cigarette lighters. He spent two years in Japan and two years in Australia when he worked with the Olympics (he worked for IBM). I still smoked and hated those fucking child proof lighters. At the time, neither Japan nor Australia felt the need to protect their child smokers so good lighters were in abundance and he kept me well supplied. I eventually tossed out all of them except this batch. They are really nice ones with the characters from the Nagano Olympics on them.
Guess that's what got him into last night's dream but I'd really really really like it if he's go be in someone else's dream or just go mind his own dead business.
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Date: 2007-08-19 01:23 am (UTC).
Hey! I'm dying to know: is there a simple html command that keeps the text from butting right up against the image when you have it wrapped around the image like that? I know how to wrap text with "align=left" (etc), but I have no idea how to keep the text from coming right against the image. Here you have a wonderful buffer zone around the image.
I could try harder at finding the command myself, but finding html commands for simple things like this on html coding pages is surprisingly difficult.
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Date: 2007-08-19 01:29 am (UTC)Right next to (either side is fine) your align=x, add hspace=x vspace=x
My entry has both set for 20. Fun, eh?
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Date: 2007-08-19 01:32 am (UTC).
Perfect -- thank you!
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Date: 2007-08-19 02:21 am (UTC)For the next 5 nights or so, as you are just about to go into bed, say firmly, either out loud or in your mind, "Tonight I will ask John to leave my dreams for a week or more" or whatever other ommand you find more suitable. Then get into bed, and imagine yourself dreaming about John, and asking him to go away for a week or more. Demeanor is not very important here. Repeat visualization for as long as you can stand.
What this priming does is slowly etch a subroutine, with a sense of importancy, in the brain to be executed up appearance of John, which is you asking him to go away for a week or more. From vague reports I read I would say the request gets honored more often than not, if JOhn even appears at all. Usually by the time I did this to ask my mother not to come over again for a while, she wouldn't even show up for me to ask, making me think the at alone of getting ready makes the brain hold off on showing the image it will be asked to not do again.
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Date: 2007-08-19 02:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-08-19 05:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-19 05:23 am (UTC)OR I'd spend all my time looking for and at your lorikeets.
But, it is fun to think of a visit, isn't it? I'm sorry I missed the rodeo. That looked like way fun.
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Date: 2007-08-20 02:24 pm (UTC)I've dreamed of my dead uncle twice now in the past month. I was never close to him so I find it strange that he haunts me dreams still.