General Support Log, Week 11

General Support Log
v. 1, week 11


Hart, who did you bribe/threaten/fuck to get your hArt Project on the wall at the Louvre?

Monitoring:
Captain Jack Harkness (ask_captainjack)
Senior Agent PC Gwen Cooper and Executive Husband Rhys Williams (gwen_e_cooper, therant_willask)
Junior Senior Ianto Jones (ask_aboutcoffee)
Senior Junior Agent Doctor Martha Jones (ask_arealdoctor)
Junior Junior Agent Captain John Hart (oh_doask)
Costume Players T and Andy (timeagency and dontask_pcandy)
HRH Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor and Butler Harold Putnam (inquireof_liz)
Time Lords The Doctor (askfor_bananas) and Jenny (askmydad)
Myfanwy the Dinosaur, Max the Beagle, and Tomb Raider the cat.

( The Week, In Review )

Why can't I help the tasteless jokes I make? Or the puns about lifts? I think the bear puns were the worst, though.

Thank you, by the way, to those anonymous donors who sent me the handcuffs and the whip as bedwarming presents. Quality kit!

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IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE!

I feel much better today, and have got a lot of stuff done this morning. Though one of the things I was working on was the "Lucky Book", the collage of old advertising broadsides and medieval manuscripts that I've been turning, slowly, into an artbook. To my dismay I realised I was counting each page individually, when I should have done in pairs, so my nice fifty-page book is really only twenty-five.

So if you know of any digital libraries of high-resolution scans of old books, adverts, and preferably freaky 19th-century or medieval graphics, especially to do with witchcraft, the supernatural, folklore, or cooking, do pass them on. twirlynoodle just linked me to the British Library's recent archival of 19th century newspapers, so I'mma start there. :D

In the meantime, cageyklio has sent me some more Dreamwidth codes, and I was given a few of my own, so welcome to

CODEFEST III: REVENGE OF DREAMWIDTH.

If you need a code, please check the comments to see if anyone's offering, then comment with your email address to receive one. If you have a code, comment to let people know. I have ten for the first ten who comment!

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TOO HOT TO FUNCTION.

*collapses*

I'm going to lie on the futon under the fan until I stop melting. I was going to cook today, but fuck that noise.

I played on the Wii for the first time in six months today, and I always find myself getting all wrought up about it. I think because it's a super-expensive gift to give someone without CHECKING THAT THEY WANT IT FIRST, and it feels wasteful that I don't enjoy it more. But if my parents had offered me, say, the choice between a Wii with a Fit platform or the $300-whatever it probably cost them, that's a student loan payment and a lack of ongoing guilt, gimme the cash.

I still have never used the Fit. Lucky demonstrated it for me once, and it's incredibly good for LULZ if you watch someone else use it, but I find it kind of pointless on a day-to-day, personal-use basis.

Plus I'm stuck on the goddamn Air Castle in Twilight Princess. I can do what they want me to do if I could just find where they want me to do it!

(Plz not to link me to walkthroughs. I have like eight.)

SHORT VERSION: HEAT MAKES ME CRANKY. I miss winter.

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So then I installed a table.

OH YES, I SAID INSTALLED.

The Norbo table from Ikea is 1. awesome beyond telling and 2. IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. Every Ikea I or my family live near list it as "unshippable, not in stock" and have for months, but Mum found one mis-filed (OMG) in the Tables section of the Ikea warehouse, so she made off with it like a bandit. Except for how she paid for it and stuff, but still. Then she shipped it to me.

The Nobro is a "drop leaf" that installs directly onto a wall. When open, it sticks out from the wall and is propped by a triangular strut underneath. When closed, the strut folds in and the tabletop rests almost flush to the wall. I wanted the Norbo in particular because it is 32" long and I have 32 1/2" of clearance between my beloved Baker's Rack and the pantry door. I can't open the pantry door if there's a table there, but if I fold down the Norbo the door opens with clearance to spare.

It is very heavy and hard to install, and Ikea makes it EVEN HARDER, but I prevailed. I did NOT, as Ikea suggests, attach the tabletop to the wall strut and then screw the whole thing into the wall, but instead attached the wall strut to the wall and then attached the table. This also allowed me to perfectly level the wall strut, using a LEVEL APP on my iPhone which is possibly the most awesome app I have (of the, you know, five).

So now I have a table attached to my wall. I live in an Escher print, made possible by Ikea.

Also, I baked a cake. In the slow-cooker. It has 30 minutes to go, and it's starting to...undulate.

I may have created sentient chocolatey life.

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Photographic evidence of the Norbo, as requested!



And the Crockpot Cake. It's really more of a steamed pudding -- came out very moist and the sauce that forms under the cake is delicious.

( Molten Chocolate Cake )