Weekly highlights. Because, dangit, I'm fresh out of intelligent, creative, original ideas just now. (But it still beats summer reruns.)

Jan 03, 2007

Thursday Thirteen 74::10: My Week In...er...Review

Having just finished Holidailies, and experiencing some back-to-the-gig blues as well, I'm going to be a bit lazy and less interesting than usual. But look! A new header graphic for the taking!! This one's another picture from Astronomy Pic of the Day: the Witches' Broom Nebula (known to the astronomy posse as NGC 6960.) The picture is gorgeous — it will also make a nice desktop wallpaper — and I wanted to try and capture some of the peacock's-tail glory in the header graphic.

1. I have been listening to one song by MIDIval Punditz on infinite repeat since...oh, last Friday.
2. This is my first year participating in Holidailies, and two of my posts were selected as “Best of Holidailies”, which really surprised and pleased me. (Problem is, I've written all my good stuff! What will I do next year!! ...kidding, kidding. I kid.) I was tickled when someone else's entry that I'd previously read and really enjoyed...ended up being chosen as another Best of Holidailies post.
3. I enjoyed Holidailies very much; but the portal wouldn't allow me to add my final entry which summarized my year and my experience with Holidailies (including the interesting new reads I've found). So you get to enjoy it instead.
4. I've been spending far too much time over at the Cat Macros LJ community. How I avoided this visual crack for this long, I'll never know.
5. My cats are spectacularly unimpressed at my “ñomñom” face. As long as the food appears in its appointed place at the appointed times, I can make the “ñomñom” face at them as much as I want. Failure to comply, however, means trouble.
6. Things are so deadly slow at this gig that I've been learning new CSS tricks and creating new site skins.
7. And visiting Cat Macros.
8. I found a very interesting article which concluded, among other things, that 2 out of 5 bosses are liars.
9. When I forwarded the link to several of my former co-workers at Old Gig, one of them replied, “It's like they were a fly on the wall.” That person was right. (And this individual was a nice person, a good and incredibly conscientious co-worker, but a dreadful boss.)
10. While I did most of my laundry over the New Year's weekend, I left two loads: some of the whites, and the reds. I wanted to save some of the fun for this week.
11. Actually, everyone in my complex had all their laundry from the preceeding two weeks to do, and of course everyone waited until Sunday night. There was even one resident who was on the warpath, using up most of the 10 washers simultaneously and then dumping peoples' loads of clothes from the dryers so that they could get all of their laundry cycled through at once.
12. Since I found Word Plus One while doing Holidailies, I've been kicking around the idea of running a flash-fiction meme. I should probably investigate it a bit more, though: I haven't ever taken a formal writing course, and while I can come up with vignettes seemingly out of thin air, I don't know that they qualify as “flash fiction” (which requires a protagonist, conflict, obstacle, resolution).
13. I posted some thoughts about T13 comment / visiting etiquette over on the forums. Visit, register, add your thoughts...and post some header graphics :D

Links to other T13 posts

1. CraZedMoM
2. West of Mars
3. Writing Aspirations
4. Fond of Snape
5. simple pleasures
6. Ramblings by Alyndabear
7. scribbit
8. Observations from Missy's Window
9. One Woman Army
10. Unseal my Lips
11. Chez le laquet
12. Journey of Cross and Quill
13. Blossoming Heart Capture
14. Philly Transplant
15. Notes in the Key of Life

Related entry: Looking forward, looking back
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