Note to self: Read the fine print

I took a closer look at the pink tag of doom that was hanging on my door. In fact, they have NOT turned off the water (as I discovered when I flushed), but they are threatening to do so if not paid on or before Thursday. (WTF is it about Thursday?! It's the day before payday, AND it's the pay-or-die date for the water bill and FPL.)

I'm home again---I still have stuff at Kat's to retrieve, but I have a major case of There's No Place Like Home going on. I don't care if it's hot here, I don't care if it's a mess. It's QUIET. No one is thundering around on wood floors early in the morning, there are no strange noises, no cats, I'm not confined to a mattress that's four inches thick and slightly narrower than my ass, and my computer does what I fucking tell it to do, albeit slowly.

Depending on which counter you trust more, my Jericho WIP is up to 4500 or 4800 words. And it's been enlightening: I knew about Melanie's backstory when I started---she's my OFC, after all---but this afternoon, Jonah Prowse dropped a dime talking to Bill. I had no idea!

There's nothing sweeter in the process of writing than the moment when your characters start telling you things about themselves that you didn't know when you started the story.

Oh, and btw---the begonias are thriving!

Note to self: Read the fine print

I took a closer look at the pink tag of doom that was hanging on my door. In fact, they have NOT turned off the water (as I discovered when I flushed), but they are threatening to do so if not paid on or before Thursday. (WTF is it about Thursday?! It's the day before payday, AND it's the pay-or-die date for the water bill and FPL.)

I'm home again---I still have stuff at Kat's to retrieve, but I have a major case of There's No Place Like Home going on. I don't care if it's hot here, I don't care if it's a mess. It's QUIET. No one is thundering around on wood floors early in the morning, there are no strange noises, no cats, I'm not confined to a mattress that's four inches thick and slightly narrower than my ass, and my computer does what I fucking tell it to do, albeit slowly.

Depending on which counter you trust more, my Jericho WIP is up to 4500 or 4800 words. And it's been enlightening: I knew about Melanie's backstory when I started---she's my OFC, after all---but this afternoon, Jonah Prowse dropped a dime talking to Bill. I had no idea!

There's nothing sweeter in the process of writing than the moment when your characters start telling you things about themselves that you didn't know when you started the story.

Oh, and btw---the begonias are thriving!

Comings and goings

Placing my faith in ang5fam's assertion that the water department takes several days to deposit checks, I swung by there after visiting the library and floated a check for $100, which will take care of my bill and then some. That won't work for FPL (power), so I'm going to hold my breath and hope that they won't cut me off at the stroke of Thursday midnight. My direct deposit will be in first thing Friday AM and I can either do pay by phone or run up to the ATM at WalMart for cash and hit the pay station on the way home.

I stopped by Kat's after that and fetched home my clothes, pillows and provisions. Chalked my departure up to the difference in our hours, which is true to an extent, but wouldn't be if I was sleeping in the guest room instead of on the sofa bed. Let's see what happens when GK gets down again---I *really* want to hear her reaction to "the cat sleeps in there"---because she's more likely to speak up about it. Me, I figure Kat was doing me a favor, it's not my place to criticize, and if she weren't on the meds, she would probably not have been so inflexable.

The library...god, I love the library. I got online the other night, made a few requests, and now I have discs 1-6 of Band of Brothers. I've been hearing about it for quite some time from shanghai_jim, caught a couple eps last week at Schnauzerland, and was intrigued enough to want to see the rest. Thanks to the miracle of free (borrowed) media, I can. That looks like what I'm going to be doing with my free time for the next week.

Ah, home sweet home....

Comings and goings

Placing my faith in ang5fam's assertion that the water department takes several days to deposit checks, I swung by there after visiting the library and floated a check for $100, which will take care of my bill and then some. That won't work for FPL (power), so I'm going to hold my breath and hope that they won't cut me off at the stroke of Thursday midnight. My direct deposit will be in first thing Friday AM and I can either do pay by phone or run up to the ATM at WalMart for cash and hit the pay station on the way home.

I stopped by Kat's after that and fetched home my clothes, pillows and provisions. Chalked my departure up to the difference in our hours, which is true to an extent, but wouldn't be if I was sleeping in the guest room instead of on the sofa bed. Let's see what happens when GK gets down again---I *really* want to hear her reaction to "the cat sleeps in there"---because she's more likely to speak up about it. Me, I figure Kat was doing me a favor, it's not my place to criticize, and if she weren't on the meds, she would probably not have been so inflexable.

The library...god, I love the library. I got online the other night, made a few requests, and now I have discs 1-6 of Band of Brothers. I've been hearing about it for quite some time from shanghai_jim, caught a couple eps last week at Schnauzerland, and was intrigued enough to want to see the rest. Thanks to the miracle of free (borrowed) media, I can. That looks like what I'm going to be doing with my free time for the next week.

Ah, home sweet home....