quidamling: (Shooting Star)
Hmm.  Driving back from doing the recycling and settling the balance on utilities stuff... I came to a startling realization. 

I think... I'm an adult. 

Like, I picked up the house recycling because I was there to grab a receipt, had the truck, and was going to the recycling center anyway.  And not that it was overflowing and we NEEDED to get it done, or anyone in the house was griping. But I was there, it needed doing, and I did it.  I'm the house husband in my place.  Loading the dishwasher, actually putting the TP on the holder, doing the trash.  I've reached that point where it needs doing and I do it and neither mind nor expect much notice. 

I mean, I've had to re-jumpstart my "career" (heavy emphasis on the quote-unquote) so often, I sometimes fall into this self-deprecating trap of "When the hell will I be an adult and not some struggling kid that can't manage to take care of myself?"

Well, not that I'm chasing around after a bratling (or herd of bratlings) or paying bills with a spouse when most people have that "I'm an adult" feeling.  No, 29, and no fanfare, and volunteering and driving around on a little island in Alaska in an endearingly rattletrap pickup truck, is when I finally have a quiet moment of "Well, I guess I'm a grownup."

/unrelated.  And I know I owe a picspam post.  I really do.  I will get to it, I promise.
quidamling: (Default)
So I did the TF quiz everyone else is.   Two things, unworthy of a cut, imho.  Sorry?

Who's got two thumbs and is unsurprised? This guy. XD


Find out which Transformer you are at LiquidGeneration!


Case in point... Tuesday, day 3 of work, they sent me to get a donated printer and set it up. This thing, is HULK class, Xbox huge.  I cannot underestimate the massiveness of this thing.  It practically makes you coffee and goes into orbit to collect meteoroids.

Set up and printing like a dream.



Why doesn't your printer work?  Because you are obviously not Wheeljack.  ♥

In other news, today I was on a boat.  And it. was. awesome.

Dear Bay,

Jul. 5th, 2011 04:52 pm
quidamling: (Spock - smug mode)
Truth, is stranger than fiction.

Robo-worm

A... drone that could wriggle through rubble and sense carbon dioxide, to find survivors by their breathing, is based on the movements of worms.

I find this fascinating.  o.0


ETA:  Dibs on this showing up in post-cleanup fic. >.>;  Because the best revenge is moving on and rebuilding.  <3
quidamling: (OP's Autobrand)
Ok, SHUSH!  I am one of those that can't see DotM, yet.  But awesome people are coming and we will all see it together.  Go Not!Con!  XD

Thank you to everyone LJ cutting spoilers. You rock, and eventually I will fangasm with you.

Though seriously and tangentially related, I love xkcd.  I love geek humor.  I love when I don't get the joke and *gasp* need to go learn something.  >3  I love when he pokes fun at something that is in some way my demographic.

And I love this comic.  Here.



Fandom, much!?  Mwahaha.  *waits on intending to fully enjoy DotM, because that's how I roll*
quidamling: (Optimus Prime - Never Give Up)
Well, this will pretty much peg my area, but I don't care since I am moving to Alaska in a month. 

I've been back in my hometown for the last few months, native soil of Mass-holes, unique, beloved, crazy Massachusetts.  I do love it here.  And this is where I grew up, so all these places are where I've known since I was 5.

Many pictures of damage... )

So there are lots of food drives, charity things and helping each other clean up.  I must admit, it's pulling together where small towns shine.
quidamling: (Prowl - kinky cuffs)
Because I have the resistance of a highly conductive metal...  and that is physics geek for NEXT TO NONE...

Anyway.  Meme, please?  Maybe this breeds ideas that I can shamelessly credit to people?  *Much loves*

Comment with any ship (romantic or platonic or maybe even non-existent!) from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about, and I will rant about aforementioned ship. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on your ship of choice.


Stole'd from... uh... much of my flist... currently at the top of the list is... drumroll please... [livejournal.com profile] mmouse15  But I think there's 4 or 5 others...
quidamling: (Malcolm - Talk Nerdy to Me)
One word of amusement after seeing Thor: Hawkeye.  :3

Though I did like it.  Not phenomenal, but I found it very eye-candy worthy.  I want a rainbow bridge. 

And fuck everything.  I am taking a shower and making cookies. 

...

Not at the same time.
quidamling: (FMA morons)
Ok, if I had posted this Thursday night, it would have been all 'woe is me' and self-flagellation of how awful I feel for making a mistake.

If I had posted this.... hmm... Friday around dinner time, this would have been "stupid stuff happens, and everything's pretty ok."

If I had posted this Friday night around 3 am, this would have been terribly annoyed and frustrated.

But I am posting this now.  At some time after noon on Saturday, so I am really just a few cognitive markers above comatose.  It's long, too long.  I just had to recount and rant.  It's better now.

The long and not-so-short of it... )

Flickr Meme

Apr. 3rd, 2011 03:40 pm
quidamling: (TFA Prime - srs face)
The Rules:
- Answer each of the questions below using the Flickr Search engine.
- Choose a photo from the first three pages.
- Copy the URL of your favorite photo into this site: bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php
- Save mosaic to some form of photo hosting thing, and share with the world.

Wow, I think the picture amusements are fun, but I am utterly uninterested in the last bit.

Stole'd from spacegarden and cut for saving flists... )
quidamling: (ferret greeting)
Oh, look.  LD tagged me.  Erm...

Standard rules: People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question.

Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you!


I tag, Ruu, Kitteh if she reads this, you, you at the back hoping if you keep your head down, yes- you picking your nose.... blah!  XD  Do it if you want.

Silly answers )
quidamling: (Troll or Stupid?)
Random updates:
  • Visit with April was awesome, and nice to get the escape.  I got cute winter boots, in Florida, in March, for a third of the regular price.  And cute little swag.  I miss being with cool people already.  Oh yeah, and Ruu was there, too.  >3
  • I am working on a character app for an RP game. One I would never have had the chutzpa to join, but the bug has bitten me hard. It's even a character I've never played before. Though I've written him in fic, and sort of asked permission of the friend who usually does play him. *Massive attempt to make sure I am not entirely goinking his characterization from her...*
  • Actual job applications, massive numbers of applications go out, a couple interviews come through, no job. Lather, rinse, repeat. I should just apply at damn Target...
  • Re: above, BotCon ain't happening.  Oh well, even last year it was the people that made it fun.  Not the building.  And pretty much none of my friends can go anyway.  So we're gonna meet up and do NotCon, later.  I just made that name up.  Patent pending.
  • Sister who managed to get Parvo (no, it's not just for dogs...) is out of the hospital in Okinawa and back at her apartment, her hands are less lobster-clawy.  She got her birthday presents from us.  And I think she's going back to work soon.

And on an unrelated note... omg... *headdesks repeatedly*  XD
quidamling: (War For Cybertron Ironhide - being badas)
Ok, so I am mooching  back at the parentals while on the job hunt.  Part of keeping sanity is staying up late enough to have the house seem to be just me.  Now, to be nice, I hide downstairs in the mancave so the light doesn't keep the rest of the house up.  I wrangle the doggies with me during the evening, then go upstairs to brush my teeth and go to bed with my herd.

One of the dogs, likes to midnight snack.  Or really, just snack whenever he damn well pleases.  It got to the point where he learned to open the cupboard where we keep the dogfood, and he could be nine whole pounds of unholy growling wrath if we caught him.  He'd never actually bite, but he puts on a hell of a show like he's going to take your arm off. 

At least he makes life interesting... )

I could not make this shit up. ♥

WTF Japan?

Feb. 26th, 2011 11:56 am
quidamling: (Lennox & Maggie - Shock)
Ok, first, my sister is currently working for the Navy (in the "I'm a physical therapist and stretch kids till they cry" way, not the "I wear a uniform and carry a gun" way) over in Okinawa.  She reports back with a lot of the cultural strangeness of being stationed in a foreign nation.  And as much as I love much of Japanese culture, there are a lot of times when there are utter moments of "WTF Japan?" 
Like this sort of thing... )



That is all.  Go back about your business.
quidamling: (Being a klutz)
I’m jumping aboard the WIP meme wagon. Wagons, ho! (Seriously, I think I’ve had a good chunk of people on my flist that have done this.)

Ok, the mission, that I chose to accept is thus: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.

WhIP it good! )

Now, I have decided to turn this into a writing exercise. So, if something sounds interesting, you can request a bit. And I promise (though it has to be on my honor, so it might take a little time) that I will write a shiny new snippet to share. Maybe it will help get gears grinding. I’d honestly love some of these to move from the “my WIP” folder toward the “My done fic” folder. ♥

ETA: Proof these things are new writings... I SEE TYPOS  *manic 3 AM laughter*  ...and seriously, some are kinda dumb.  *whaps self*
quidamling: (Mandarin Fish)
Yeah, I'm not that into valentines day, but still! 

Thanks to all that sent anon (or darling not-that-anon) valentines!  Even reading other people's, it was nice to see the love going around.

So I am slightly fail, and have re-discovered that due to the setup of the United States Postal System... umm, when the post office closes at noon on Saturday, whether you get there at 12:05 Saturday, or 6:55 AM Monday, that stuff is going out Monday.  Oops.  My bad.

Either way.  Have some doggie love.

 
 
 (Oh, randomly decided to webcam holding chilly puppers in sweatshirt...)

 



That's the traditional greeting for anyone that comes in the door.  She really loves people.  <3

Happy V-day, all!

(ETA, and yay!  Lost valentines appeared! *skishruu*)
quidamling: (lennox wtf)
So I had a dream this morning that was oddly vivid, and I must have woken up at the right moment to remember it.

Cut for absolute insanity... o.0 )

ABC meme

Jan. 11th, 2011 11:36 pm
quidamling: (Scotty - Hello Computer?)
Umm.  Stole'd from a bunch of darlings on flist.

So says the meme god... *clears throat and reads*

"Let's see how creative my LJ friends are...leave me a 1-word comment that best describes me using the THIRD letter of **YOUR FIRST** Name. It can only be 1 word. Then copy and paste this to your journal so I can leave a word about you. Don't just post a word & not copy, that's no fun!"

>.>  Wow, that so doesn't sound like anything I would say.  Should I stomp my foot at the 'no fun'?  *tries it*  Yes.  That seems to fit.  XD

Oh yeah.  If I take forever to get back to people... um.  It's because the snow has gotten me, and I am a buried, very well-preserved corpse trapped beneath 16 feet of blizzardy doom. ♥  Or actually, it is much more likely that I am perfectly fine, but with no power and as not the rich section of town will be the absolute last to get electricity back.  *snerk*
quidamling: (Ironhide - come the fuck on)
Ok, I have never ranted about politics here. But this, it... is just disgusting.

Republicans are simply refusing to let ANYTHING get done until they get their Bush tax cuts continued.  And there are bills waiting in the Republican thumb-up-their-ass queue about immigration, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and PASSING HEALTHCARE FOR SEPT. 11TH FIRST RESPONDERS.

Jon Stewart opened The Daily Show with the issue on the 13th.  Just watch it.   I dare you not to be appalled.

Daily Show, Dec 13

He is livid, it's obvious. 

And let me just say this again.  People that went immediately to the rubble of the World Trade Center, to help people with no thought for their own safety, the way that police and fire fighters and EMTs do on a regular basis... running in when everyone else is running out... are being denied a bill that will help take care of medical bills for injuries (things like cancer, heart and lung diseases) incurred at Ground Zero. 

This bill will not even be discussed until Republicans are assured the richest of the rich don't get a 3% tax hike.  The tactic of grinding the Senate to a halt until they get their way... is utterly juvenile and infuriating.  What about all the "adult conversation" campaign talk?  It's disgusting!

Tonight, Jon Stewart brought the issue up again.  None of the major networks have covered how this breakdown in the Senate over tax cuts is holding up the Zadroga bill.  There were first responders from New York talking about their health problems, how their medical bills are not covered because their issues "might not have been sustained in the line of duty."  Throat, lung and face cancers from the dust, and these people are being denied the medical coverage.

I was in tears. 

And for some strange reason, ABC, NBC, FOX (*snort*) are not calling the Republicans on the carpet for ignoring important issues in favor of ensuring more money for people that arguably have enough, already.

I'll add the link to tonight's Daily Show when it goes upDaily Show Dec. 16

I mean, personally.  I was in Boston at college where I could see Logan Airport on 9/11.  About a third or more of my school was from the NYC area and I spent the day with a friend who could not get in touch with her family because all the phone and cell line overloads.  And many in my family have been firefighters in the New York city, Rye, NY and New Jersey area.  I have many friends I grew up with that are police and fire fighters.  So on some levels I am personally touched.  All that aside, I think this bill, the immigration bill and repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell should be addressed immediately, if not sooner.

But just as a person with a soul, this filibuster shit is sick.
quidamling: (Default)

Woo.  I am at least attempting it though.  I must be honest and admit that it might not be one cohesive story.

Instead, this may very well end up being cummulative bits, but if I finish a lonely story that has been wasting away on my hard drive, google docs or thumb drive, I will take that as a huge victory.  ♥


(odds are I'll just keep editing this post over the month.)
quidamling: (NEST Trine)
Stolen from a bunch of people on my flist.

1. Comment in this post with a pairing, a character, or theory.
2. I shall write you back a paragraph explaining what I think about it (good, bad, indifferent) and why.
3. Repost in your own journal if you want.

So, I started today really really grumpy.  For a large variety of reasons that mainly revolved around my own ideas / self / etc. being utterly inconsequential.  I'm much happier now.  (Torturing / teasing / smutting Lennox always helps.) 

But anyway.  Ask me stuff!  It might not be immediate, but I'll answer.  ♥ ♥  Or pull something semi-plausible out of my aft.  >3

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