Clean nibs

[mrissa]

The thing about having a major, life-affecting ongoing health problem like vertigo is that it's very hard to predict all the ways in which you will fall behind on Things What Need Doing. It's been easy enough to spot that most of the cooking duties are not things I can do, although I'd like to ease into more of them. It's certainly been easy to spot that if we wanted the house to be kept to my previous standards or some approximation thereof, I would need to pay for (and, in some of the interstices, ask for) some outside help.

There was no particular reason I couldn't clean my pen nibs. But it sort of got pushed off to the side: other things have been important and difficult, and I could use Rollerballs easily enough, and then I looked up and my nibs had not been cleaned in ages. So I did that today. They're drying on paper toweling in the kitchen, demonstrating capillary action beautifully with the one that had a dark greeny blue ink in it: blue in the center, green for a tiny ring, and a shocking yellow halo around the whole.

What small satisfying things have you gotten done lately?

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[mkille.livejournal.com]

I finally, finally got some pictures of Reid into frames and up on the wall. I also unpacked a box of already-framed pictures and put them around on mantle and piano.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

I found my passport. (I was really worried for a while.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Heh. I was just telling my mom I had a moment of panic thinking, "Oh no, what if renewing my passport is one of those things that's slipped through the cracks with the stupid vertigo?" And then I remembered that I got it renewed in Mendota, which definitely means it was after we moved home, and since the State Department acknowledges that I am a Real Live Grown-Up, we have no problem. It's sitting on my pile of books to pack, all unexpired and present and accounted for.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

I found my old one first (expired in Dec 1998), and got worried I might have to renew this one soon (between World Fantasy Con and Anticipation). But it seems I'd let it go for a few years, so I have until 2012.

[fmi-agent.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I can think of two from today: Changed cat litter/cleaned litterbox. Moved around the clutter in the spare bedroom so it's more organized (but still clutter).

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Took old computer down from shelf, took SCSI card out of it, cleaned shelf some. Waiting for long-running process to finish on new computer before putting SCSI card in and putting it on the shelf. Then I can haz sound with my Olympics videos again!

[ellarien]

Imported about a year's worth of photos into photoshop, and started tagging them, though that won't be completely satisfying until I've retconned all my existing photoshop tags into playing nicely with Windows Vista.

[ckd]

Repurposed an old PPC box as a Time Machine backup drive server. One of these days I'll get a phone line run in there, and then we'll also have a network-accessible fax modem....

Tingle All Over

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= I somehow manage to let things slide despite the lack of any ongoing health problem. I managed to run out of soap, so for the whole work week I've been dipping into the Dr. Bronner's All-One-God-Faith 18-in-1. Peppermint-flavored, with all the physical zing that implies.

So today I got a bar of soap. Eco-hippie stuff with soothing oats and aloe vera.

[carbonel]

I demonstrated spinning on a spinning wheel for four hours tonight at the Minnesota State Fair. I'd been watching the demonstrators there for over 20 years, and wishing I knew how to do that. Now I do, and I've come full circle.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

walked mr. dog before he lost control in the house after breaking and entering the treat bag and eating them ALL. so he had his digestive issues outside thanks to my lack of lazybumness.

[brooksmoses]

This weekend was pretty good for that sort of thing, I think. I finally got around to putting all the various bits that go onto bicycles onto the relevant bicycles; fenders on both my and suzimoses's bicycles (and I actually found some that will fit with only five minutes of whittling at parts with an x-acto knife, which is a distinct improvement over what I'd previously found), and a mirror on hers, and a luggage rack on mine, and I remounted the rear light onto the luggage rack, where it turned out to fit considerably better than I had been expecting. Almost in a "that was made to fit like that" sort of way, even. It's most pleasing.

I also got around to extracting the morning-glory tendrils from the garden -- the front of our lawn is a mixed flower/vegetable garden, and there's a short chain-link fence around it that is becoming a morning-glory hedge. The hedge had done a remarkable job of taking over the first three feet or so of the garden on the side where it's reasonably full, as well as sending runners all sorts of places. So I folded the thick bit back over the fence, and then on the side where there's just barely starting to be a hedge, I collected as many long runners as I could, which was quite a few, and wove them into the fence on that side so it can become more of a hedge.

And I made a mental note to keep the thick side pruned or folded back rather more thoroughly, because gracious.

And today tiger_spot came over and helped me clean my office, and while it is still cluttered to a rather annoying extent, it at least has a clean floor and the clutter is more neatly stacked. And there are not lots of books all stacked through the clutter, as those have been fished out and placed on shelves.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Got photos uploaded from weekend-before-last's small holiday as well as last weekend's adventures, blogged both on the travel blog. Erged both days of the weekend so I get an extra day off during the week. *And* did the more-or-less monthly Costco run. (We used to go to Sam's every 6 months or less in the States, but there are so many things we can't easily get in the supermarkets here, like pretzels and beef. I've been hearing a bit lately about how Costco treats their people like actual human beings, so though I still don't like going, I'm happy we switched.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Beef in general? Golly.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a Carrefour right down the block, and a Geant, which is the same thing, across the street from it. They do have beef, but different cuts and *extremely* well-marbled. I don't eat fat, if I can help it. (Not worried about calories, I just gag on it.)

[oursin.livejournal.com]

There has long been annoying inconsistency in the way in which manuscript references are given in various online finding aids at work (pretty much All My Fault). On Friday I went through and got them all into the same format. It took under an hour and was very satisfying.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Cleaned and decorated my patio this weekend so we could have friends over for dessert and fruity drinks.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Which was much appreciated by the said friends!

[seabream.livejournal.com]

We located the screws that I'd Put Somewhere Safe then forgotten the location of (stashed in the superglue container in the refrigerator) and used them for their intended purpose. So now the sweep for the door to the garage is firmly attached to said door.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I cleared my table desk down to the wood, and cleaned it, and wax-polished it. And while I was at it I wax-polished the table in the dining room too.

I could say I will keep it like that, but I won't, so I won't say I will.

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

In the midst of moving chaos, I got some work done translating an article for my thesis.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I planted the second batch of basil that sprouted in a cup of water.

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

I found the top of my dresser.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Where was it? :)

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

Taking an inter-dimensional hiatus, but I foiled its plan and gave it a proper cleaning too.