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[incandescens]

Well, that's a day back at work survived. The sweets I acquired in New Hampshire went down very well (and very fast) but fortunately a few were left for the people who will be in tomorrow. Did not fall asleep over desk. Everyone was pleasantly glad to see me, which is always nice.

Sidenotes from earlier. I was due to fly from Boston to Washington Dulles, then (after about an hour and a half's pause) from Washington to Heathrow. As it was, the plane was about an hour and a quarter left taking off from Boston, due to problems at both ends, and made it into Washington with twenty minutes to spare. I just made it to the Heathrow plane in time. (And my luggage too, thank goodness.) Brisk cardiovascular exercise is all well and good, but I really wouldn't have minded sitting around for an hour or so and getting a decent meal, rather than aircraft food. Oh well. I will stick with my paranoia and keep on making sure any transfers I may make have plenty of spare time in case of near-disasters like that.

Work is much as it was before, right up to the unresolved forthcoming move and suchlike. I'd almost forgotten what the bitter speculations were like.

Still, I have my iPod. Did I mention that I have an iPod? I have an iPod! (Thank you very, very, very much, Beth and Walter.) I'm currently loading it with music. The earphones are a little strange -- I'm not used to having phones that much inside my ear, even if I've got the volume sensibly low -- but the iPod as a whole . . . mmmmmmmm. Especially when put on random shuffle over lunch. Am not playing it while actually at my desk at work, since we do need to be able to use the phone. Am, however, gloating.

Slight tickle in throat and nose. Time to start dosing myself with anything relevant.

The downstairs bathroom had its decoration finished while I was away. It looks very nice indeed, in the shades of grey and white that my father and I chose. The new shower is also very good -- stronger than the old one, and taking less time to heat up. So. Overall excellent.

---

The Puppet

The puppet thinks:
It's not so much
what they make me do
as their hands inside me.

-- Charles de Lint

Comments

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Glad you're back safe! :)

[incandescens]

Thanks. Had an excellent time.

[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

YAY IPOD

I would die without my iPod!

[incandescens]

I can feel the addiction to my own setting in.

[archangelbeth]

We had to get her one. I mean, we just had to.

And we decided on it, mostly, with couple telepathy. Mmmm!

[archangelbeth]

Good luck not getting sick. If you can get the cold-shot, try for it? You'd have thought we were not contagious... Though you were also on planes, so no telling if it might have been someone else. O:/

[incandescens]

It could indeed have been a great many other people, so don't feel to blame.

[yagathai.livejournal.com]

So you've joined the ranks of the iPod-people, have you?

You do know they're using those accursed things to brainwash the masses in an effort to achieve total world domination, right?

[incandescens]

Sorry, were you saying something? I was too busy working on the iPod propaganda I was producing as my first contribution to the Great Cause. :)

[krecik.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you made it back safely.

[takadainmate.livejournal.com]

Please excuse the dissappearing act but, well, it is important to go to work because without that how would I but Get Backers? And to make my day wonderful the AIM on my computer at work is having a hissy fit. And it's doing it in Japanese so I don't even know what's wrong. I will have to wait until next week to hear about your fic. And I really wanted to as well. :o(

[incandescens]

Indeed, work must be done. Totally agree. Sympathy on your AIM and computer at work.

Here's the first chapter of the fic, just to keep you going.

http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~maya/fanfic/gbtower1.html

[takadainmate.livejournal.com]

A very interesting start. It's always fun to kill a character off at the start. I would say more but on the cycle to work I seem to have got ill somehow so I am rapidly losing the ability to do anything other than wobble when I stand up and sleep at my desk. Oh well, at least I have an excuse to sleep at my desk for once.

[incandescens]

Thanks -- glad you like it. I hope that you're feeling better by now, or that at least you're able to put your feet up and relax a bit.