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I am very sad that I'm not going to Comic-Con this year, but there's a number of very good reasons (including just needing a year off) why this must be so. I'm still going to miss the hell out of my friends and all the cool stuff (and the McFarland booth -- oh you lovely McFarland booth). I usually take, like, a billion pictures at Con every year and I keep all the ones that don't turn out to be insanely fuzzy. So here's what I need from my friends who are going. Lots and lots of pictures, video, audio recordings, daily logs -- anything that will help me feel the Con experience vicariously. I'll try to post a daily reminder where you can dump links of media you've uploaded, squee posts, etc. Have friends going to Con? Encourage them to do the same! If you have my phone number, text me (or call me anytime after 6PM PST) and squee at me about how you just stumbled into Misha Collins's personal space. With any luck, it won't feel like I've missed a year when I'm back in San Diego next July. Tags: comic-con
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And in other news, just in time for today's 40th anniversary of man walking on the Moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions' lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon's surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules' locations evident. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC, was able to image five of the six Apollo sites, with the remaining Apollo 12 site expected to be photographed in the coming weeks. The satellite reached lunar orbit June 23 and captured the Apollo sites between July 11 and 15. Though it had been expected that LRO would be able to resolve the remnants of the Apollo mission, these first images came before the spacecraft reached its final mapping orbit. Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution. So celebrate the day by finding Bart Sibrel, and, like Buzz Aldrin, punch him in the face. Tags: astronomy, space
Current Mood:  enthralled
Current Music: Garbage - Nobody Loves You
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My boyfriend and I have lived almost six years together in an apt. complex and we're on the top floor. We never had any noise complaints during our time living here, until a new couple moved in about six months ago. Before we even had seen them, they filed a noise complaint about us a month after they moved in. I understand that there are differences between us, mainly my boyfriend and I are not on 9-5 schedules and tend to be night owls, while this couple seem to be early risers. I've tried to be considerate, but then we received another noise complaint two weeks ago, apparently from them again.
One major issue they complain about is our portable air conditioner- we aren't allowed to have window units yet our particular apt. location gets direct sunlight from dawn to dusk, and they cut down the trees that once provided shade.
It is so stifling up here (3rd floor with high ceilings) and when it gets above 80 it gets unbearable without AC. Even the portable AC isn't that great, but it's better than nothing.
But what irks me a lot more is the apt. manager put in the noise complaint note that residents should not be taking showers, running the dishwasher, etc. after 10 PM. Now, does that strike anyone else as a bit odd that the apt. manager and/or company is saying I can't shower when I want to?
While we would love to move, I'm unemployed and it's not financially possible at the moment. However, in the meantime, I'm worried that the complaints from this couple might get us evicted. It seems so ridiculous, but now if I want to take a shower and it's past 10, I feel like I'm putting us at risk, and this is not how I want to live. Or I feel I can't keep the AC on at night even though it's nearly ten degrees warmer in here than the outside.
Is there anything we can bring up in our defense if there are further noise issues? Can you really file a valid noise complaint against someone for taking a shower at night? There is nothing in the apartment rules handbook stating any of this, by the way.
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damnportlanders
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So my dog started barking out the window, and when he wouldn't shut up, I looked outside. There was a woman standing there with a wagon with a kid sitting in it, and their dog sitting next to them, waiting for someone. And waiting, and waiting. My dog was going crazy, and I came this close to walking outside and asking them to go somewhere else when a girl carrying an even smaller girl walked up, and I thought, OK, fine, they're about to leave.
But no, they didn't. My dog got to get more and more annoyed at another dog hanging out on his turf, and just as I thought, "Now I'll go ask them to leave", it turned out that the smaller girl needed to pee. So they hiked up her dress and held her hands (she had a cast on one leg, so I guess she couldn't do it herself), and held her.
OK, I thought, this is weird, but it'll be over soon, so I'll just let it be.
But my dog continued to woof, since the people weren't leaving, and so I looked again, and the little girl was still being suspended, bottomless, over my lawn. It'd been several minutes, so I decided it was time to do something. I knocked on the window and raised my shoulders in the universal sign for, "WTF?!" They shrugged back at me, and I figured I'd leave them alone, but when they were still there another minute later, I knocked again, and they glared at me, as if this were what my front lawn was for.
So, um, what do you think? Was I wrong to gently encourage them to move along, or should my front lawn be the world's toilet? I'm a little afraid to go out and take a look, y'know; for the amount of time they were there, I'm afraid she might have taken a dump!
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My new fantasy flash piece, Rites of Passage, is now up at A Fly in Amber www.aflyinamber.net/
Here's an excerpt to make you run over and read it.
"This was what the village boys called “Wooing Mother”. If the earth is Our Mother, the hills that rise around us her breasts, her hips, her thighs, then this deep valley is her inner passage. Boys had been plummeting into it for generations. If they fell in a bloody heap at the bottom, they weren’t yet men. If they ran into the Great Mother without spilling themselves, they’d proved themselves worthy of a more material woman. What it meant for me was something different. My first womb blood had come when I was ten. I’d gotten to paint it onto the carved door of the Wharenui, onto the tongues of my ancestors. I was already a woman. I had nothing to prove. Except that I was as good as any boy."
The other fiction at A Fly in Amber, most of it Speculative, is all quality. I'm very proud to be up there. If you go read Rites of Passage, be sure to comment at the website.
Yeah!
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