Festive occasions

[flemmings]

I don't know which is happier-making, money in the mail or a sudden loss of a kilo plus when you step on the scale in the morning. As it's Sunday, you can figure for yourselves which constitutes today's happiness. As an object lesson, I lugged a 10-kilo bag of road salt home yesterday (22 pounds for the imperialists) and even factoring in the unwieldiness of road salt, like the worst kind of squashy parcel baby, the idea that I'm carrying two of those about my person now is a great impetus to virtue. The realization that I've lost half a bag of road salt since the summer is extremely satisfying. My knees certainly have ceased to grumble as much as they did.

Meanwhile, if the book is correct, it's shiny_monkey's birthday. Happy birthday, shiny_monkey!

Ganked from kickinpants:

Leave a comment here and I will:

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.

Comments

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

I, uh, okay!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

1. I found you following links on people's ljs, but damned if I can remember who it was had you friended when I did. For once I remember approximately when it was, because I bookmarked an entry of yours about your brother and his Rabbit and using orange juice for fuel.

2. You're associated with The Occult Rites of Editing, which still look strange and scary even after your explanations. 'Ooohhhhh weird things lurk in Word and you don't know anything about them but I do, dammit, I do. Do *not* tab to indent." (Then how does one indent? she cries.)

3. You snark well.

4. You sent me a computer when you didn't even know me. (snerf)

5. Where do you come in the family? You have an older bro and a younger bro but where does the sister fit in? Or is it sisters?

6. The sleeping cat one.

7. Not insisting, what with yuletide and all.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

I'm almost awake again now. ^^;

Oh, the lamented suds bunny. But he's moved along to other Bun-berg Variations now.

2. The answer, it is seeemple! See, you strip everything in ms. file down to flush right and code it (just like in html). The design specifications tell the typesetter which paragraphs are indented.

5. I'm number three: brother, sister, me, brother. Year apart for all (the evidence of parental insanity right there).

7. Must. watch. TV. T_T

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

2. But here am I, dorky Professor J, writing an incomprehensible paper. I indent to tell me where a paragraph starts a) because I have to *see* it indented to know it is and b) because I've never heard of codes. Therefore I tab. Editor U doesn't want tabs. What is Prof.J supposed to do?

7. Yappari. At least it's not a book?