General Support Log: Week 7

General Support Log
v. 1, week 7

Lunchtime for Torchwood! Croissanwiches and beer.

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)
NEWLY PROMOTED Junior Junior Agent Captain John Hart (oh_doask)
Island Castaways T and Andy (timeagency and dontask_pcandy)
HRH Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (inquireof_liz) (and Butler Harold Putnam)
Time Traveling Time Lords The Doctor (askfor_bananas) and Jenny (askmydad) and briefly Donna (not a Time Lord).
Time Linear Time Lord Sherlock Holmes (ask_sigerson)
Max the Beagle, Myfanwy the Dinosaur, Bebe the Alien Chick, and some moggie Hart dragged in.

( The Week, In Review )

Hart and I tussled over sock puppets this week. Sock puppets. Can you think of anything stranger to fight about?

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LOL -- comments to last night's Steamboot post have brought up ads on google for support/posture braces, golf shoes, steampunk accessories, and chastity belts. We must confuse googleads SO MUCH.

For those of you asking about R -- I don't have the full story yet, I haven't seen him since I got back (we kept having to bail on each other). He did call me and tell me the power should have been back on when I got there, and that he'd been out running errands, which leads me to believe that my he-forgot-to-pay-the-power-bill theory is correct. He had job interviews last weekend and this week I personally have just been trying to survive, so we've been unable to meet up. We're supposed to do Wheel and burgers tonight, though. Or possibly I'll make sushi.

seshat1 has a traveling question and as I love travel I thought I'd share -- she has a post about it here, but essentially is looking for tips on places to stay in several US cities: Boston, New York, Forth Worth, and Las Vegas. Despite having lived in Boston and visited Fort Worth I find I have very little to offer, since we always daytrip in Texas and in Boston I was poor, poor, poor and stayed in a hostel when I visited.

And in Nameless news, the webmaster of Online Novels contacted me this morning about listing Nameless on the blog. Online Novels is a pretty awesome-looking resource for novels published and available for free online; it's like an extribulum library :D Go ye and investigate! Legally free books sorted by genre and title, and she's especially interested in finding LGBT lit since it can be difficult to locate.

That's all the news from here...slow Friday, though it feels a bit hectic as I try to catch up from all the stuff that's gone on this week.

Also, a good friend sent me a GET WELL CHEESE BASKET. This weekend I dine on DAIRY! *waves cheese knife*

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I got a text from Mum this afternoon. It said:

Signed you up for laundry service. Put all laundry in plastic bag and leave it outside your door. They will pick it up at 9 tomorrow. Also give them keys. Love you!

I am frankly over the moon about this because oh my GOD did I not want to do laundry this weekend. At the same time, however, the text makes it sound like the mafia are coming to do my laundry.

"Leave the gun. Take the dry-cleaning."

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FOODIE POST.

I had a PeaPod delivery tonight which included, among other things, bacon and fresh eggs. This is the most delicious and convenient way to make bacon, thank you Alton Brown:

Line a cookie sheet with foil and then a few layers of paper towel. Place a cooling rack on top of the paper towel and cover the cooling rack with bacon. Put it in a cold oven and set it to heat to 375F. Bake for 30-45 minutes, checking occasionally, until cooked.

It comes out incredibly crisp, and most of the fat renders off so it's not half as greasy as pan-cooked. Cleaning is a pain, but it's not any more of a pain than cleaning out a pan and wiping down the grease on the stove. While I did that, I whipped three eggs with a bit of sugar and soy and poured it into my wide griddle pan and made tamago.

I will make rice tomorrow, and roll it with spinach leaves, tamago, and bacon to make BREAKFAZUSHI!

I might add bleu cheese.

The only problem with oven-cooking bacon is that it's so good fresh from the oven I tend to eat a lot of what I make.

Point of interest, I have split my "cooking" tag into two categories: Defining Foodie, my ever-constant grasping at the appreciation of food, and Recipes, which are actually recipes for the things I cook.

I noticed today that I was walking a lot easier -- I can get through a revolving door without shuffling ridiculously -- and I'm less cranky and scattered. I got a shitload of work done. I've been tumbling over in my head what I'd like to work on next, writing-wise, and I've narrowed it down a bit. As interested as I am in writing the companion to Nameless -- not quite a sequel, but set in the same universe -- I'm more interested in two other things: editing Dead Isle and working on my Genderfuckery Space Opera (technically it's called Anize, but I like Genderfuckery Space Opera better). I'm not sure if I'm going to do both concurrently, or focus on one or the other first. Then there's fanfic of all sorts. We'll see what tumbles out. I do think that for Dead Isle, when I do publish it, I'll do it in paperback format rather than the larger 6x9" format I used for Nameless, since it's a bit more of a pulp than Nameless. It needs a lot of work.

Still, I'm not going to push anything. This week has been a struggle, and I suspect I will continue to have difficulty for a few weeks to come. It's not quite the same as when I broke my wrist; it's a different set of stresses, a different kind of coping. It's an adaptation, just like anything. But I'm doing okay.

Gotta finish the SteamBoot this weekend too. I won't be able to put the logo on it until Monday, but I can foil the other buckles, figure out what I'm doing with the typewriter keys, and work on a fix for the rivets on the heel that keep falling off. I'm really proud of it -- when I look at it sitting in the corner it looks antique. It's neat. :)