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Seen in a lot of places: 40 greatest uses of the Super Mario theme.

From the most awesome thewlisian_afer: 20 Wonders of the Microscopic World. I want huge prints of some of these to put on my walls. Nature is amazing.

How to Make Love like a Zombie. From the truly amazing razzle.

I will be offline most of the day: I'm going to kidlet's school and then to Trick or Treat at Microsoft. Good times, good times. <3 Seaners is going to be a KITTY (this is called 'kid will remove or get freaked out by nearly all costume materials so mom is going to use a touch of eyeliner pencil and hope for the best.')

I'm taking my camera. There will possibly be pictures.

the great escape

title: the great escape
author: phinnia
rating: pg-ish
illustrator and pixel queen: jane_hidell
disclaimer: a wandering mistrel I, a thing of shreds and patches. i own nothing.
authors note: More from the summer of fluff-a-thon from stuffonmywilson. I will finish them, this I vow. <3
( welcome back to the land of the living )

mea culpa (a three hour tour)

The short version: I'm sorry about missing people, we were late and I screwed up my knees and then my phone died before I could call back, augh.

The long version:

So I thought I'd give the county paratransit a chance to prove itself, thinking that it would pick me up at home (or at Sean's school) and then take me directly to Chris's building at MS.

First: they make you change buses, which is stupid, because one of the reasons I was using it was because it was a giant PITA to change buses.

On the second bus we were captained by a woman who I've nicknamed Gilligan.

We had four passengers: two old ladies, me, and Seaners. Gilligan was completely incapable of both operating the GPS system in her vehicle AND of retaining any kind of directions or indeed instructions. She could not independently figure out what order to drop off in, how to get anyxhere WITH the help of a map, or understand directions when given them. I have never met anyone before today who WANTED to be treated like a child. The very idea seemed ridiculous.

Then I met Gilligan. Actual Gilligan quote: "You gotta give me directions like a little kid, you know. I can't understand all of this blahblablah." as she TALKS OVER THE GUY TRYING TO GIVE HER DIRECTIONS, frequently hanging up on him and calling him back in fits of tantrum, etc etc.

She admitted she had no idea what she was doing. This would not have bothered me - except that if she didn't know what she was doing WHY DID SHE HAVE THIS JOB? If you are bad with directions it is NOT a good idea to have a job where you are somewhat responsible for disabled people, some of whom cannot talk for themselves or give their own directions (because if they could then they probably wouldn't be here?)

And then I get there, get inside the building (a miracle) and slip because the floor is wet RIGHT IN THE DOORWAY and then get swarmed on by people.

Stupid wet floors.

So - yes. That was the problem. I was late getting there because of Gilligan and then I killed my knee and then Seaners decided that it was time to eat his halloween candy as we were picking it up and he was hanging out in the 'teaming' areas (team is not a VERB but the signage disagrees with me. i want to go back with a container of whiteout and white out all the 'ing's.) and getting excited about the CHAIRS OMG and yeah, we went home after that and my phone died.

/flop!

twits

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