Pen's Nest

I experienced a minor miracle today! Our dentist has sent out emails saying that they could be open for routine inspections... I called a couple of times last week and failed to get through, but this morning the call was answered on the first ring, and, well. I got appointments for both of us to get check-ups TOMORROW AFTERNOON.

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We had a lengthy text from our GP Practice telling us how they are now opening more... and saying very firmly that abuse will not be tolerated. They have had "foul and abusive language on an hourly basis for the past 15 months, threats of physical violence weekly, and have had to have the Police out to us". Ye gods. I mean... what do the abusive people think they stand to gain by this?

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My fingernails have a distinct line across the middle of the growth beyond the fingertips. It's quite odd. A white line, across more yellowish nail. I'm ruling out arsenic and thallium poisoning, renal therapy and chemotherapy, and I don't believe it's due to an unbalanced diet, either. But it is odd, because it's across every nail except for the left index finger, which broke, probably at the line, and was chewed off. Ahem.

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We have received a Weather Alert for Thunderstorms, which sounds pretty evil except... the rest of the weather app is telling us it'll be sunny. Then a nice, warm evening with sunshine. Ooh, there might be thunder tomorrow. Never had such a weather alert before, so this is unsettling.*

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Really lovely twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/nayright12/status/1414635135421538307 about England, and who 'is' or at least represents England, good and bad.

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Arrival of a diplodocus at Norwich Cathedral, and her (I can't help it, I think of Dippy as female) welcome by the organist and choir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGl1_dNIzXw

Follow it up with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gduevTTuwVM



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The Snowflake Challenge must happen! I haven't always managed to do much of it, but it is an inspiring and agreeable way to start the year's posting, and it'd be a real shame to see it end.

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This evening I came across the Calvin and Hobbes Snowmen page. Calvin's snowmen have filled me with joy ever since I first encountered Calvin and Hobbes, and I urge you to take a look, whether you are familiar with the comic or now.

And here on Bored Panda are some actual snowmen in much the same style, many of which are awesome. If our building work comes to a grinding halt in the New Year because we are buried under bushels of snow, I shall console myself by building sinister snowpeople.

Which led me to a link to Inappropriate Christmas Comics by Cyanide & Happiness, many of which are quite evil.

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BIL arrived this evening. I am now surrounded by Robinson males.

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And I have conjunctivitis.

Start the day with tears in your eyes: Disabled dog can run now.

Wow.

Via Shakesville, I saw and was awed by Christina Bianco's Diva Impressions today. You can be awed too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DlDPeurRw

This one is "Oh Holy Night". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_3y0F-toSM


Also, how amazing is this font! http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/24198381210/univers-revolved-letters-are-an-inherently It would make a great code - you could send little block figures like an ill-made chess set, to spell out a message. There is much coolth in the world.

Well. My day started exceptionally happily today, as frausorge sent me a link which filled me with joy.



Lance! Lance, looking so pretty! A single, perfect tear...

I'm still not gonna eat that stuff tho'

Also, Lance was hanging out with Alan Cumming recently. This can never be bad, although I could have wished for a better photo than this.

Heh. Like, this.

Does anyone else think Lance's nose is growing back?

And now, time for a meme:

1. Reply to this post with "LAVA LAMPS ARE COOL" and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

turlough picked these icons:



Alan Cumming is my kinky crush, as per this post. As for this particular picture, I just liked it - the sexual ambiguity in it is so brilliant. Sadly, I don't know what play (or other production) it's from, or why he's dressed as a woman.

The Crown Frog, made by amethystia, just happened to crop up when for some reason it was a brilliant icon to use for a story I was posting, or possibly commenting on, at the time, and I like it enough to have kept it. It's surprisingly useful!

made by celticfire, who did a great job. I only acquired it fairly recently, but how could I resist? One of those icons that's appropriate for almost anything.

This was made by rrr_nightingale, and I'm not surprised if it baffles you a bit. It's my Vorkosigan icon, for commenting on Bujold-centric posts. In one of the stories, we learn that Gregor (the Emperor) once gave away an elephant, something of a bribe to a visiting ambassador. Just goes to show, if you figure out what motivates people, you can get ever so much out of them.

Ah, Lance. There was a photoshoot not all that long ago in which Lance was made up all scruffy and collared and spike-haired and, well, all kinds of things that I don't think of as particularly appealing most of the time, but, well. Lance! I made a whole bunch of them (interspersed with similarly unlikely photos of Lance as a boxer). Woof.

This was something I made for one of the severalplums Hallowe'en challenges. I made the texture, and liked the result. But it doesn't get a lot of use.

Scientific Americat.

A few things I've come across today.

The Best People, something of a rant from Kari Sperring.

What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% of the speed of light

The fifty cutest things that ever happened. Well, there may be worthier candidates than these, but many of them made me smile. The soft toys, the cat family portraits, the pug in a horned helmet and the elephant at the seaside are probably my favourites.

And, for your delectation, ( possibly the most beautiful naked picture ever )

I was glancing through Cake Wrecks, as you do, and followed a link to another blog of Many Cool Things, and when I got to the foot of the page there was An Armoured Bear of awesomeness. Awesomeness!

I put Alan Cumming on my List as my kinky crush.

Mmmmmmmmm, yeah.

I picked this up somewhere on my Reading list, and it is a delightful little timewaster.

http://www.drawastickman.com/