Scratching Post

Going apple picking with the fam today, as is our usual tradition. May post pics later, if I remember to take them.

I have been gifted with a wonderful Alphas story! Binary Data is a view of Gary's world and how he sees not just everything around him, but has a fair idea of how everyone else sees it as well.

Go read. 'Tis awesome.

Have also been gifted with the most wonderful thing since the original Atari that we gave my dad when I was about ten: an iPad add-on with like 100 of the old games. Oh yeah, time be a wastin' soon. *g*

Now wolfie74 and I are off to complete our Christmas Day routine: eat Chinese food and watch Sherlock of the Holmes.

Merry Christmas to those that celebrate, Happy Sunday to those that do not. I hope your day(s) are filled with joy and all sorts of fun. :)

Now 3 am and the fire burns merrily on. Not really writing as I fear the grammar, spelling, and plot I would inflict upon others, so have another quote:

Me: Hey, it looks like the fire's down to almost smoldering. Do we need to turn it back on? Push a button to make the Yule Log go again? [reference to a gas fireplace at one place where we stayed a few years back]

wolfie74: You would never survive in the wilderness on your own, would you?

Me: Sure I would. I'd have my cell phone with GPS and be all, "Yeah, I'm here, come find me."

This, of course, led to reminiscing about the Yule everyone was sick and we took turns sleeping. She was passed out and the fire burned low. Youngest turned to me and asked, "So, um, if we keep it going with sticks and paper until Mom wakes up, it so totally counts, right?"

And he is far more outdoorsy than Eldest. Scary, huh?

It's that time of the year again, the night when I post random rumblings, growing more and more incoherent as the night wears on. Or, in other words, it's Yule!

Plans for the night include catching up at least a little on the backlog of comments, uploading fic to AO3, and, should those sites not want to work as planned (like now), maybe actually get some writing in and finish the holiday cards that have been languishing off to the side.

But for now, food. Of which Eldest has already finished his even though mine is not even done heating. Such is life.

Inky, aka The Little Bitch, crossed today.

Before anyone gets up in arms about calling her a bitch, know it was said with love. She was a wonderfully cranky old cat that did not take any crap from anyone, least of all the dog that was at least ten times her size. He'd sniff her and try to rile her up, and she would simply lick her little polydactal thumb and he'd whimper and run off, memories of that same thumb poking him in the eye no doubt running through his head.

We got her from a shelter when she was 10, not wanted even though she was older then her original owner's children because she did not get along with their new puppy. She had been abused and suffered major weight and muscle loss. No one had adopted her and she was due to be put down the next day. We couldn't bear it, and so cat #4 entered the household.

Flash forward almost five years later, and she suddenly stopped eating, losing what little weight she had, and wanted to do nothing but cuddle and sleep. Today cuddling was even too much. She's buried with the whiskey she always tried to go after, and a blanket to make the "caves" she loved so much. She was a familiar, and a fine bitch of a friend.

She will be missed.

Basement Cat (aka Inky) wishes you all a Blessed Samhain and good wishes for the new year!

wolfie74 has a post about food and recipes and Easter and Seders and Hippie Pagans. It made me giggle.

[If you want a recipe for Hot Cross Buns, that's there too.]

To those that celebrate, Happy Christmas! To those that don't, Happy End of December!

Just finished Christmas dinner/gift exchange at my aunt's, and am safely back home once more. wolfie74's mom is staying the night here instead of going home only to brave the roads again in the morning. We got dumped with snow since last night, and it's still coming down, with warnings in the north part of the state that, to quote one news station, "driving past midnight tonight would be suicidal". So she's here, the boys are here, wolfie74 is here, the cats and dog are here, and so am I. :)

And, because it's one of my favorite "holiday" songs of all time, I give you Dar Williams' "The Christians and the Pagans": ( Behind the cut to save some room )

At one point, I had this whole article I wrote for the WiCoM Newsletter about the song and meanings and such, but bugger if I can find it now...

Anyway, Happy Holidays, whatever that holiday may be!

I am attempting to stay awake for Yule. This is made more difficult by sheer boredom. Loaded all the SGA and SG-1 fics, but fear I'm not coherent enough to do more. Same reason I have stopped working on new fic right now. Well, that and the booze which was probably a bad idea for a lightweight trying to stay awake.

Anyone awake out there? Anyone have any fic recs? Anything else to keep me awake? More than the pain from my shoulder popping out again earlier today/yesterday?

Ah, Sinfest, never change...

Today's comic is the awesome. Debating making an animated icon out of it, but the question is: to include the last panel, or no? *g*

Edit: And today's xkcd is for every geek parent out there.