General Support Log: Week 6

General Support Log
v. 1, week 6

When Jack and Rhys meet for Fairy Cakes, it's like Christmas In The Trenches, 1914.

Monitoring:
Captain Jack Harkness (ask_captainjack)
Senior Agent PC Gwen Cooper and Executive Husband Rhys Williams (gwen_e_cooper, therant_willask)
Junior Senior Agent Ianto Jones (ask_aboutcoffee)
Senior Junior Agent Doctor Martha Jones (ask_arealdoctor)
Senior Temporary Agent Captain John Hart (oh_doask)
Time Agency liaison "T" (timeagency)
Space Adventurer Andy Davidson (dontask_pcandy)
Time Traveling Gallifreyans The Doctor (askfor_bananas) and Jenny (askmydad)
HRH Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (inquireof_liz) (and Butler Harold Putnam)

( The Week, In Review )

Rickrolling (by many people) and puns continue to dominate and even electrify Torchwood's casual chatter.

And thank you to whomever sent me the faberge egg and roundabout death threat! It's been too long since I've watched Octopussy.

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STILL ALIVE. *collapses over LJ*

I spent most of yesterday afternoon resting and entertaining myself, and went to bed atrociously early so that I could get up atrociously early and have enough time to negotiate the shower, strapping on the boot, the stairs, and catching a cab to work. I'm going to do a trial run of public-transit-inna-boot on Monday, but today it just wasn't worth the angst.

Anyway, I've been welcomed back with open arms and desperate looks, but I've managed to sort out anything that got cocked up and the temp didn't touch my stuff too much, so now it's basically business as usual. I am having a lot of fun telling the story of how I once again tripped on THE GROUND and broke a limb. BossBoss couldn't stop laughing....

Most of my art supplies for Steampunking the boot arrived today; I bought everything except the copper foil at Joann's, which is a crafty-fabric-scrapbooky type store. It's probably not the cheapest but it is very convenient, and I manage to dig up a coupon so that cut the cost a bit.

I bought some staple supplies: glue, wire, a pair of pliers, some chain, a needle and thread, and then embellishments -- brass buttons, copper brads to use as "rivets", antiqued key-hole shapes to make it look like the boot "locks", and the BEST THINGS EVER:

Alphabet Brads.

They are nicely antiqued, paintable, and look like smallish typewriter keys. Which is good, because real typewriter keys (especially ones with the shank removed) are Very Expensive. These don't have holes for stitching-attachment but they do have bendable spikes in the back like paper brads do. THEY ARE SO AWESOME. I'm not sure what I'm going to "spell" on the boot yet but I believe you get two of each letter (there are 52 brads per pack). I might just put half a QWERTY keyboard on each side.

Coworker J has been very tolerant of me dorking out over them.