Title: The Sybil & Sam Collection - Behind Closed Doors Chapters 3, 4 and 5
Characters: Sybil Ramkin/Sam Vimes
Rating: T for the moment
Warnings: none - Just a series of vignettes focusing on Sam & Sybil
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. That distinction belongs to Pterry alone.....I just take them out for a stroll every now and then.


Chapter 3
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Chapter 4

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Chapter 5

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Comments always appreciated!

Tags: discworld, sam vimes, sybil ramkin, terry pratchett
Current Location: Home
frame of mind: accomplished
listening to: Pond

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Tags: politics, rant

Polly goes in tomorrow morning for her biopsies and skin spot removals (pre-cancerous carcenoma/Bowen's Disease).
I won't be at peace until she's back home safe and sound, annoyed with me for putting her through this and making her wear the Cone of Shame during her recovery.
Please send good thoughts - and if your kitties would like to cross their paws for luck, that would be great too! :)

I managed to get home fairly early from work, yesterday, and while my beloved was out milking, I watched/listened to some of the lectures I'd downloaded from iTunes. I also multi-tasked, in that I was doing laundry at the same time. The first lecture was about Diocletian and other Roman emperors of the time, the second was some of the foundation information that the lecturer thought was the basic reason that English has become a significant world language. Thirdly, I tried to listen to a lecture on Hannibal from Stanford University, but I found it to be poor in comparison to the others. I mean, the professor opens up bragging that he was expecting to be called upon to work on a movie on the subject; how is that relevant to teaching the material? So I dumped that one after about an hour's investment (two hour lecture...).

Once she was back, and we'd had dinner, I put on the final Netflix disc of Game of Thrones season one. I have to confirm that I put season two on the list...this was very good.

No spoilers. That to folks out there who are discussing season two as the shows turn up on HBO, since we don't and won't get the premium channels.

Happy birthday, doafy!

You too can learn Kitty Piano!

http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05142012.shtml

http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/7207905856/in/set-72157600296941365/

Ape Lad posted a photo:

http://xkcd.com/1056/

home again. A fantastic trip, meeting Margaret, Andrew, Lord Squish and the corgs, hanging with Destiny and all of it.

Will do again.

Shopped, vegged out, saw the city.

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the downside is...the lung issues came roaring back, possibly the late nights, over exertion, a slight carelessness of taking some of my meds, and environmental factors, which nessesitated re-starting the prednisone and it's wreaking havok on my mouth now. Feel like I've been bunched in the gob with a hedgehog.

And I have to reschedule the dentist..AGAIN. Fuckery.

Anyway. Come home to R having gone on some kind of re-org spree and the place looks tossed, and I'm FUCK, more work and I'm sick. So I'm kind of ragey crabby because the prednisone's making me tetchy ( like HULK rAGE) and I'm trying to keep that under wraps but oh MY God. It just started today, every last human alive is bugging the shit out of me.

So I'm sore, sick, ragey and the apartment's a disaster. Yay. man.

R"s been working crazy OT. He's sleep deprived and re arranging the house.

if we both survive to friday, we're good.

Tomorrow I'll go get some popsicles and easy to eat things till the mouthparts heal. FUck, man.

( and I'm taking my fine-needle file to the sharp corner of a tooth. Can't effin cope.)

rest. drink liquids. feeling better than I was two days ago.

Important update about my life, please read:  http://neuroptik.blogspot.com/2012/05/my-gender-identity-evolution-past.html

Current Location: 94607
frame of mind: optimistic

Ok ready to start my online web presence/business and enough talking about it for years.

First thing I did was download some web development tools. I have to learn IE 6/7 and other 10 year old browsers as I plan to brown nose Corporate America for my business oriented site.

So I need Windows XP since they refuse to upgrade and use 10 year old products. Thank God for virtualization



Its like 2 computers inside 1! Weird hu? I am glad this desktop has virtualization support to run more than one operating system inside another. I plan to put Linux next too for database stuff like SQL development.

I plan to use Firefox 3.6, IE 6, and IE 7 testing with this virtual machine of XP. By 2014 I can dump this solution and focus just on modern browsers when Microsoft ends official support.

Tags: web development, work
frame of mind: contemplative

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Settling down for a nice nap in a sunbeam.

Note the matted fur on his flanks that we'd been trying to deal with, unsuccessfully.


Breakfast is over, time to sleep.... and ignore the cat box that my thumbslaves have prepared.


What did they do to me!? I look like I've been attacked by giant moths!

Note from thumblave : Sorry Murph, your mats were too much for us to handle, especially as you won't let us groom you without acting like we're murdering you... maybe now you'll let us brush you?


Nap was interupted by giant moths. Time to nap more.


Insert amusing jokes about shaven cats here.... :-D

Before I left for the day's work, yesterday, I finished reading the other comic book of last week, Mystery in Space #1, which was very much like reading a pulp SF magazine of the 30s or 40s, except that there was no prose, but comic strips instead. Many of the ideas used in the book were familiar; set up an SF scenario, build in a twist, and run with it. I was amused with a couple of the stories, but not all, and most of the artwork put me off. I doubt I'll follow it up, if more issues are expected.

I was busy at the office, which is always nice, and in the evening, I had two admissions to nursing homes (both somewhat complicated), so I got home moderately late. I ate some leftover this, and tasteless that, and I was happy to see my spouse's return from her quilt club. We cleared a couple things from the DVR, and then I crashed into bed.

Looks like one of my email accounts has been hacked (AOL, of course), so I'll have to work on that later today...SIGH.

Busy though yesterday was, I had rather well-advanced in reading a couple of books on my ereader, and so I managed to finish two.

First was Osprey Campaign #220: Operation Crusader 1941: Rommel in Retreat which was a pretty fair rendering of the WWII event.

Second was Osprey Raid #9: Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943, another WWII event, though this one was more political than military; it deals with the German raid to pull out Mussolini from the "treasonous" captivity when Italy surrendered to the Allies. The later fighting up the peninsula was primarily against German forces. This raid set a tone for special forces use that one could argue leads to the killing of Osama bin Laden...