Junk!

[elfs]

So, this weekend, omahas and I moved a quarter-ton of junk. We had this ancient woodpile that the previous owners of the house had left and a ton of cardboard used in the last move. The cardboard had been wrecked by a storm that had caused the garage to leak, so was useless and kinda mouldy. There was also a slide that had gone with the jungle gym out back, but when we had bought the house the slide had already been so rusted we took it down and never let the kids play on it. The rest of the set is okay, although the chains on the swings could probably be renewed. So, after piling all of the dead, aging construction-quality wood, miscellaneous non-burnables, and assorted trash into the back of the rental truck, we made our way to the transfer station, where we unloaded it.

The transfer station is an intriguing place. They weigh you going in, and going out, and in the middle is this huge mechanized pit, within which live two of the unhappiest bulldozers ever to roam the Earth. You back up to this pit and dump everything you have. It's an amazing collection of the real detritus of a cast-off civilization. Our truck weighed 540 pounds less when we were done, and so that is what they charged us for.

I am either way ahead or way behind the teen music curve. I'm not sure which. When I rented the truck, I turned on the radio and was immediately rewarded by hearing TATU followed by Mirai. Are we tired of Avril yet? Why anyone thinks she would be as marketable as, say, Brittney, is beyond me. I loathe Brittney, but I understand why she succeeded.

I made chili and soft pretzels this weekend. That was fun. Kouryou-chan loved the pretzels, predictably. The secret is apparently to boil them in soda water first to make the crust soft and chewey. They were delicious. I posted the recipie on food_porn, in case anyone wants it.

And fallenpegasus came over and suffered through a bout of the MST3K edition of Hamlet with us. I wish Rhino would sell more; we could use a better collection than what they're feeding us now.

Still haven't gotten much writing done. I don't think anyone's complaining since I just posted three new stories-- and, hey, one of you even gave me money for it. Gawrsh. I might start to think a few of you like me if that keeps up. And it doesn't look like I'll be getting much done this week, either, since I'm driving four out of five days, with no possibilities for serious writing time in the interim. I'll try to get something out.

"Hey," I hear you cry. "If you've got time to write LJ posts, you've got time to write stories." Not really; stories require a little privacy, a little anonymity. I can write LJ posts just about anywhere, since my laptop will happily hold onto them until I can hook up with a network and click on the "Commit" button. But my "quiet space" at work-- a conference room near the lunch room, to where I retreat for a half-hour or so everyday and crank out 800 words in that time-- has been extraordinarily busy recently, booked even through lunch. I hope that's a good sign for the company, but it does slow me down a bit.

And it appears to be National Novel Editing Month (NaNoEdMo). If what I cranked out last November wasn't a steaming pile of dragonsnot, I'd actually have something to edit. Sigh. Oh, well, there's always next year.

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<rant on> sigh... I wish Rhino would CAPTION their MST3K offerings... Lazy cheapass company ... I'm glad Warner finally released South Park under their own name cause predictably... Rhino was too cheap to pony up to caption their South Park discs despite the fact they actually claimed they were on the packaging! </rant off> - Megalion