Randomlings

[susandennis]

The thermometer says it's 94 on my terrace. I'm so grateful to my air conditioner every day but especially today. I have the blinds drawn and I'm trying not to move or think fast. So far so good. I'm a cool cuke.

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I did strip the bed today and after I finish this, I need to move, slowly, to the washer to transfer everything to the dryer. This is a day of thrilling escapades at SDHQ.

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My RAID system is back on duty. I took the backup spare hard drive and inserted it backwards and upside down into the case with the other two. There is room for 5 hard drives in there and I figure that when I need it, if it's right there, I won't have to go hunt it down.

But, then I got to thinking that maybe my brother might come in here after I die to sort stuff out and he'd look in there and think I was a total bozo for installing it wrong. So I sent him a note explaining.

It cracks me up that I care - I'll be DEAD! And he'll be distracted by why in the world I have so many band aids. And old wallets and who the fuck needs that many purses and bags? And did she not know that you can actually throw away a shower curtain liner when you are done with it? No need to save them all.

Etc. Etc. Etc. I now have yet another thing to be grateful for. I am so glad I will not have to to hear what they say about me when I'm dead.

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I need to gen up a yarn order today. I'm getting down to the dregs. It's always when work is slow (so paycheck is slim) that I have the time to spend the money that I'm not making. There has to be an axiom named after someone for that phenomenon.

Comments

[fj.livejournal.com]

You saved the shower curtain liners? For what, woman? The nuclear holocaust?

[susandennis]

Wul, like whatif I need an emergency tarp for something? Or a piece of plastic that I can cut up or yeah! what about that nuclear holocaust?!

[fj.livejournal.com]

You'll be dead: everyone wants to bomb that smug Seattle first. I bet it'll be an "accidental" friendly fire nuke if anything.

Ok, I can see emergency tarps, though.

[susandennis]

I live in the 3rd most overvalued zip code. I know my days are numbered. At some point I'm going to need to hide under one of those old shower curtain liners....

OR maybe they can use it as a makeshift body bag!

You'd better start saving yours.

[fj.livejournal.com]

The overvaluedness of London is diminishing every month, much to everyone's dismay. They still have ways to go, though.

I have a glass shower door. Besides, I am a renter now. (But also a landlord. Stay tuned.)

[susandennis]

Oh, dear, you poor glass door person! I'll mark one (or maybe two) of my shower curtain liners to be sent to you.

A landlord?? You do tease... I'm tuned. Very tuned.

is the note inside or outside?

[henare.livejournal.com]

because i'd totally forget that i had an extra disk in there just waiting to spring into service ...

Re: is the note inside or outside?

[susandennis]

Ah! sorry. Not clear. I sent him an email. Which, of course, he will forget until he looks into the case.

And... what will save me from forgetting is that this is the computer that sits just at my elbow AND has a clear side to the case so I can see right in and tell that some fool put that last drive in upside down and backwards.

Re: is the note inside or outside?

[henare.livejournal.com]

sweet! finally--those transparent cases are good for something.

Re: is the note inside or outside?

[susandennis]

those transparent cases are good for something.

you mean, besides amusing me?? Oh yeah. :)

[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

But, then I got to thinking that maybe my brother might come in here after I die to sort stuff out and he'd look in there and think I was a total bozo for installing it wrong. So I sent him a note explaining.

OMG, sounds like something I would do. As far as the shower curtain liners go, I do use them for tarps. Old plastic tablecloths are good for that too.

[susandennis]

One time my mother mis-ordered some powder puffs. She got something like a gross. I think it was the first time she ordered online. She was actually delighted to be able to even find them so she wasn't too upset at having extras but she did tell me more than once 'The minute I die, get in here and toss out those extras before anyone else finds them!'

[rsc.livejournal.com]

And did you? (And if so, did you not just spoil the effect by telling all and sundry on LJ?)

[susandennis]

Actually, we ended up tossing out most of them when she moved into assisted living but you are right about blowing her cover on LJ. Please do not tell her. Although I did have one scare when I VPN'd on to her machine and found my LJ Profile in her 'history', I'm pretty she still does not know about this journal.

However, I do, from time to time, get anonymous comments... hmmmmmmm

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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I actually have nothing to add here. But I couldn't break a promise!
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[susandennis]

You are on a roll today, blondie!

[sea-weed.livejournal.com]

I just apologised to my mum a few days ago about all the books I have, in case she has to deal with them when I die. Glad I'm not the only one having these thoughts.

[howeird]

Weird weather, down here it has cooled off and gotten all blustery.

Please do not store the spare drive inside the PC:
- Lots of rattling around from the vibration of the fans and the other drives
- Lots of heat
Better to keep it in its original box on a bookshelf. Write a note which says "spare drive is on the bookshelf" and tape it inside the PC on the drives bay when you remove the spare.

Shower curtains will come in handy when the condo falls down in the Big One, and you're living under the viaduct.

Seattle is no longer ground zero +3 - hasn't been ever since Boeing corporate moved to Chicago and lost most of their aerospace defense contracts.

[susandennis]

http://community.livejournal.com/seattle/5365191.html

[howeird]

Oh, overpriced. I misunderstood. I thought it was a list of which cities get nuked first in WW3.