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mrissa1. I can't figure out whether I was supposed to clip this comic for Mom or whether Mom was supposed to clip it for Grandma.
2. We have a bathroom in the basement! There's one tiny fixture thing to be handled so it's just the way we want it--and, of course, cabinet drawers lined and pictures hung and all that--but hurrah for the new bathroom! We're talking to the same contractor about the rest of the basement work; we'll see whether that's the way we go with it. But it's really satisfying to have a pretty blue bathroom down there. I may be making people troop down to see it when they're at my house for quite some time now.
3. It is also really satisfying to be able to go about my morning routine with less expectation of a parade of contractors through my house. They are very good contractors, very considerate and polite and competent and punctual and all the things one would want of contractors. But they are still Not My People and they have been in My House, and it's nice to have a break from that.
4. The oaks in the backyard seem to have heard that we're nearing the end of our yard waste collection service for the year: the leaves are all falling today. Just boom, we're done hanging onto the tree now, buhbye.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
markgritter will have such a lovely surprise waiting for him when he gets home. If yard work can ever by its existence be truly surprising. But I honestly thought it was raining, and no, it was just the large number of leaves and twigs falling that made that noise.
5. I am filled with extremely good, general, unsolicited advice that nobody particularly wants to hear, and that people will misread as directed at them, unless it is directed at them, in which case they will misread it as directed at other people. It is not just one piece of good advice. I've got lots of 'em. So if you're feeling in need of advice, I guess today's the day to ask it of me. Otherwise I am mindfully practicing butting out. Mindful out-butting is a neglected spiritual practice these days, I feel. (Note: this should not be construed as advice that you should or should not butt out. Some of you can quite usefully butt in from time to time, and more power to your butting.)
2. We have a bathroom in the basement! There's one tiny fixture thing to be handled so it's just the way we want it--and, of course, cabinet drawers lined and pictures hung and all that--but hurrah for the new bathroom! We're talking to the same contractor about the rest of the basement work; we'll see whether that's the way we go with it. But it's really satisfying to have a pretty blue bathroom down there. I may be making people troop down to see it when they're at my house for quite some time now.
3. It is also really satisfying to be able to go about my morning routine with less expectation of a parade of contractors through my house. They are very good contractors, very considerate and polite and competent and punctual and all the things one would want of contractors. But they are still Not My People and they have been in My House, and it's nice to have a break from that.
4. The oaks in the backyard seem to have heard that we're nearing the end of our yard waste collection service for the year: the leaves are all falling today. Just boom, we're done hanging onto the tree now, buhbye.
markgritter will have such a lovely surprise waiting for him when he gets home. If yard work can ever by its existence be truly surprising. But I honestly thought it was raining, and no, it was just the large number of leaves and twigs falling that made that noise.5. I am filled with extremely good, general, unsolicited advice that nobody particularly wants to hear, and that people will misread as directed at them, unless it is directed at them, in which case they will misread it as directed at other people. It is not just one piece of good advice. I've got lots of 'em. So if you're feeling in need of advice, I guess today's the day to ask it of me. Otherwise I am mindfully practicing butting out. Mindful out-butting is a neglected spiritual practice these days, I feel. (Note: this should not be construed as advice that you should or should not butt out. Some of you can quite usefully butt in from time to time, and more power to your butting.)
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Date: 2009-10-30 05:54 pm (UTC)* Actually lots of things, but you know what I mean.
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Date: 2009-10-30 05:59 pm (UTC)Oh, all right, something that doesn't come from watching a bit of a Monty Python documentary last week? But is general, you understand, and not that I have watched you doing this problematically:
It's very important to keep disagreement and dislike separate. Someone who hates you can think your decisions are brilliant. Someone who loves you can think you are a wrongety wrong wronghead. Prefacing decisions with, "I know this won't make me popular," or, "You're going to hate me," is setting up the wrong framing.
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Date: 2009-10-30 06:07 pm (UTC)And can completely picture the leaves. "Now?
"Yeah.... now."
"OK, NOW!"
FWOOMP.
Advice!
camps out on your couch
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Date: 2009-10-30 06:18 pm (UTC)I may be making people troop down to see it when they're at my house for quite some time now.
We had our basement bathroom put in 3 years ago and we're still making people look at it! Basement bathrooms are fine things to have; congratulations on yours.
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Date: 2009-10-30 09:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-10-30 06:21 pm (UTC)(I have just watched a recent episode of Numb3rs, for which thank you, in which Larry butts out when everyone asks him to butt in. I spent the entire episode thinking: that man really is a genius.)
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Date: 2009-10-30 09:43 pm (UTC)Oh, wait, it's not hypnotism. Sorry. Right then:
"Pennywise and pound-foolish" doesn't just apply to money.
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Date: 2009-10-30 06:31 pm (UTC)And I'd be happy to receive some extremely good, general, unsolicited advice. :)
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Date: 2009-10-30 08:45 pm (UTC)But still yay.
We're not putting this in because we are currently underbathroomed. It's part of my longer evil plan. We will finish the rest of the basement and
Also, it's a long season, and you've gotta trust it. That's my general advice for you today.
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Date: 2009-10-30 09:46 pm (UTC)I'd give you more random advice, but my mom's voice takes over when I'm dealing with someone who's been under the weather.
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Date: 2009-10-30 08:06 pm (UTC)would be nice.
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Date: 2009-10-30 09:49 pm (UTC)(I think, non-randomly, that this is also true of Phil Kessel.)
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Date: 2009-10-30 09:47 pm (UTC)Ahem. Sorry, no, this is not the wheel of morality, this is the advice section. Okay, you get Winston Churchill from my fridge: When you're going through hell, keep going.
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Date: 2009-10-30 09:20 pm (UTC)And yes, please, I could do with some advice today.
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:29 pm (UTC)(I'm sorry this doesn't help with the O2.)
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:32 pm (UTC)Your random advice: while it may be tempting to assault people for homonym misuse, the jail time is probably not worth it in most cases. Well, in many cases. Let us say in some cases, then: in some cases the jail time is not worth it. Probably.
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Date: 2009-10-30 11:31 pm (UTC)The trees here have done that, too. Rendering my hours of leaf raking, totally wasted since it's a blanket 'o Fall outside again.
I need advice, but I'm afraid to ask!
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:40 pm (UTC)Following your heart does not excuse you from listening to your head, or vice versa.
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:41 pm (UTC)Okay, so that wasn't random, it was based on the last time I went to a con in San Jose: I got really good garlic fries then.
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Date: 2009-10-31 04:08 am (UTC){All I ask is that you be gentle.}
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Date: 2009-10-31 01:43 pm (UTC)If you see a break in the rain, get out and take a walk. Doesn't have to be a long one. (This can be literal or a metaphor, as you will.)