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[asimplechord]

+ eckerlilas wins tonight! ♥ I hope she, shutyourface, fiddleyoumust, ericaplease, and harriet_vane (and others I'm sure I'm forgetting) had an awesome time at the Discos' show tonight. PICS OF THE STEAM PUNK KIT, I WANT THEM!

+ Happy birthday to harriet_vane! Here's to a new year, full of exciting travel plans and a new place and hopefully lots of positive thoughts and events!

+ Spent the day wigged out because I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen my wedding ring. I don't even wear it 99% of the time, but when I was digging out earrings to wear this morning I didn't see it in its spot, and I couldn't figure out when I'd last worn it or where I might've put it. Searched before work, then after work I dug through all backpacks, bags, totes, and pockets before finding it.

All that stress for a hunk of pressed metal and crystal?

+ Spent half my work day using one of the department's confocal microscopes. IDK, it's good that the manager wants to help me learn the system, but she's a physicist, not a cell biologist, so I'm not sure that her advice will give me the result that I need. But at least I know now how to work the set-up, and I didn't bleach my samples, so I can always sign up for more time and re-acquire images with a higher magnification and redefining the original Z plane where I want, rather than where she thinks the cells look best.

+ Hey, new Against Me! album. I'm enjoying you. (Even though you're just different recordings/demos from Searching for a Former Clarity.)

+ Billie Joe Armstrong's teenaged sons have a band? And he produced their first album? I can't decide if I'm intrigued or if that convinces me even more that it's all about who you know.

+ So TAI's following in the footsteps of other DD/FBR bands? I'm sure I'll be sad about the departure of MGC and the Butcher at some point, but a) I'm enjoying his Animal Upstairs project, b) I'm curious to hear the new album without their influences, and c) I feel like, if there's any truth to the rumors about how Tomrad was given the heave-ho, we should enjoy some irony.

+ Time to settle into bed and set the TV so that I fall asleep watching today's French Open matches. I hear Rafa's match against Isner was more epic than it should've been? And that Nando's hair is making the FO its last stand?

+ I mentioned this in an email to why_me_why_not and jmc_bks. The world doesn't need more schmoop, right? But this pic cries out for it.

(From TRicks' blog last week)


Brad isn't a dog person, right? But the bomb-sniffing dog for his team in Afghanistan has puppies, and one imprints on him instead of its mom. He ends up naming it Person, per why_me_why_not's suggestion.

How hard do you think he ends up working to get Person not disposed of, and then get the pup home when he redeploys? And what does Ray (or better yet, Nate) say when they get there? Yeah. This is my brain on schmoop.


+ Last random thought for the day. Why did hero_living follow me back on twitter? I enjoy Rudy's (or whoever posts in lieu of Rudy) positive thoughts, but I didn't realize they followed people back. :/ Fourth wall, I like you.

Comments

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

Lol, eckerlilas totally wins. Idk how she managed to call all of us, but I love her for it! :) I'm pretty sure danacias was there with them?

[goshemily.livejournal.com]

omg that puppy I can't even

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This is more like schmooooop

[sheveled.livejournal.com]

Nate doesn’t say anything when he comes through the door and sees Person, cowering, backed up atop Brad’s boots. It’s one of the reasons Brad loves him.

Setting his duffle and laptop case down, his keys, Nate folds into a sitting position in the entryway, one long-fingered hand (also high on the list) out for Person to sniff. Then he waits, easily, like there’s nothing else he’d rather be doing.

The mutt doesn’t stand a chance.

Brad quits worrying about how to broach the topic of whether the lease on Nate’s shitty apartment allows pets, and starts wondering how long before he’s completely replaced in Person’s affections.

Then he goes to grab the furball already climbing over Nate’s legs and deposit him behind the gate in the kitchen. Brad’s got some affection of his own to give.

[jmc-bks.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask if you wanted Brad/Nate or Brad/Ray, but it looks like someone else has already written schmoop for you :)

Although Ray POV on Person would be good.

Person already takes orders and behaves better than Ray, yes? Although I bet he gets Brad to hide as many or more smiles than Ray, too.