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Oh, Sikh Day Parade or whatever Sikh event you are that made it almost impossible to get to work. You are my annual sign of spring. But you do make it really hard to get to work.

Someone has been removing screws from my office chair. Considering when this becomes apparent, it seems to be vengeful cleaning staff. We've now reached Chair is Hazardous point. I am puzzled? amused? annoyed? Mostly, I am not Dead By Chair. Yet.

Tonight? Wit's End, which has forced me to realize, yet again, that I really, really need a new brown belt. Also: men's clothes in 80+ temperatures? Utter crap. Current state of my hair: curling at the back of my neck. Must be cut. ugh ugh ugh. UGH.

Last night? Awoken by mosquitoes.

Tomorrow night? Patty comes home.

Basil: perkier, still a little droopy, some small, dead yellow leaves. Overwatering as many of you suggested seems likely. As does the fact that while it's in the warmest part of the house, it wants more warmth and sun (this weekend will be good for it). It's also grown like crazy since Patty got it, which was just last week. All the herbs have, so I think when we do Home Depot to get painting supplies, it's time for pots and what not and we'll re-pot those, start the strawberries, and maybe get some stuff to try doing tomatoes (once Patty starts getting heirloom tomatoes at the famers' market, we'll use those seeds).

I used to do this stuff a lot as a kid. My mom taught me how, but it's very latent knowledge in my mind, and despite wanting to get a garden plot in a community garden, it's never been convenient. I'd be thrilled if we can make these work and actually eat some stuff we grow. APOCALYPSE SKILLS.

The Rake's Song by The Decemberists is totally my descensus_hp theme song. (You know, if you're waiting for another installment of a Rach and Kali production and haven't read that yet and care about the HP universe at all, that might amuse you -- the early pieces are less than IHNIIHBT, but it's an effort to build a total universe/culture/history/moral framework for pureblood wizarding society, and if you like our stuff, it's very entertaining (and will be gotten back to soon). Also it's multimedia and timey-wimey. It's crazy amounts of fun and full of those little sharp notes and sexual politics stuff that we littered IHNIIHBT with.

Comments

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I think you may need special tomatoes for growing indoors.

Can you get to the roof? Regular tomatoes might do well up there.

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

It's easy to take care of herbs if you just remember that they are, essentially, weeds. Ignore them. Water 'em occasionally. They'll love you for it.

And for your chair? Loctite.

http://www.loctiteproducts.com/products/detail.asp?catid=10&subid=48&plid=153

Put a drop on, tighten bolts/screws. The people undo-ing them will still be there in the morning trying to get 'em off.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

On saving and cleaning heirloom tomato seeds.
Did this with a hybrid from my garden just to see what happened; got some reasonable seedlings out of it. Just now got verbally abused by neighbor over seed-starting flats sunning in the driveway-- ah, suburbia!
My nemesis is poor labeling on my starting pots. I just sort of assume I'll remember what's in there, when truth be told, the minute the dirt covers it, I've already forgotten.

Smallish things like lettuce and spinach are suitable for window boxes, if you can swing them...

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

How did I not know there was a club named after a Dorothy Parker quote? I love it that they have a dress code. No jeans!

[rackmount.livejournal.com]

this is maybe only very tangentially related, but the first opera i ever attended was the rake's progress. you might like it. somehow i think you would. i saw dawn upshaw in it, who is the only person who ever made me believe that sometimes live music is better than recordings.