The Happiness Thread

What a sweetie! I'm glad he found a forever home.

 

Max is one gorgeous sweetheart of a pup @big soft moose

 

Stumbled across a man on Goodreads with a shelf for 'cryptid novels'. I have found my soul mate.

 

Gotta love puppies!

 

I just bought a piece of consumer electronics and....

IT HAS ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May you never know how rare and precious a thing this can be.....

 

Holy crap! I just discovered a whole bunch of poems that I wrote for a creative writing class at school! <saves them all>

 

In the absence of an OMGWhattaveIdone? thread, I'm posting here.

Am nearly finished with a MAJOR clear-out of my office/hobby room/whatnot space ...and just made three trips to the paper recycle bin with all the printed-out copies of the former drafts of my novel. Man. I didn't realise I'd kept so many hard copies! I've still got them on computer, if I ever need a good laugh, but I really don't need them taking up space on my shelves ...which can now breathe. Now ...what to do with the empty folders? I need to start sorting my notes and research clips, which have become fragmented. I found part of my story calendar in one notebook and another part of it in yet another notebook, etc. But hey. This feels GREAT. This is not the way I planned to spend the start of the summer, but I'm glad I did.

 

You sent me to the dictionary with that one ...but I'm now enlightened.

 

I learned that one by getting (figuratively) screamed at by a Wikipedia editor several years ago. Apparently, users are supposed to click the links if they want to find out what an obscure word in the intro to an article means....

 

How strange a word. I had to look it up online, it was not in my trusty Funk & Wagnalls.

At first glance it made me think of some kind of alien parasite. (It happens sometimes).

 

I thought cryptid had something to do with graves ...crypts, geddit.... So this was a horror-type of novel about crypts, which is just up @Tenderiser's alley? Erm ...well, no....

 

I do like crypt stories too!

I thought cryptid was a better-known word, which may cause problems in my third MS. I mention cryptids and cryptozoologists.. will have to check if it's clear from context.

 

I just bought a light switch, which has a double-A4 sheet of paper with dozens of small boxes of diagrams and information, so it's in every language under the sun, isn't it? No, it's ALL in English; it's the standard set of instructions they have printed out en masse and put into EVERY light switch they sell, and you then have to spend many a happy minute working out which instructions apply to the actual light switch you bought! I suppose the death of a few trees is a small price to pay for the efficiency of the "instruction leaflet putter-in" not needing to wake up and be aware of which light switch he's putting them into!

 

Mixed melons for breakfast, makes Cave T. a happy Troll.

 

Not a whole melon and then another. It was two types of melon in a small tub together.

 

My guess is it's the common species dimelonius tubbae. It's commonly found in bachelors' refrigerators. Sometimes it roams the produce sections of supermarkets.

 

Sorta. My mom just put some watermelon and cantaloupe in a tub and sent it home with me on Sunday afternoon,
after bagging up their pine needles around her and her husbands house 35 miles away from where I reside in the
middle of BFE.

 

My dogs chewed up the lower kitchen cabinets when they were puppies. The missing paint and teeth marks are still there. And when one threw up over the back of the couch I threw the drape into the washer because it said washable. But it wasn't so the backing peeled off in spots. It looks like shabby drapes in a low rent motel with the light shining through.

All that plus other misc repairs needed around here makes it especially weird that Zillow now says my house is worth more than a million dollars.

The good news, OMG I have a million dollar house! The bad news, doesn't do me much good unless I want to move out of the Seattle area. Not complaining on my account, mind you. I do feel badly for all the people getting priced out of homes around here.

 

Well, I just found around 5K worth of words I could use for my fantasy stored somewhere else on my computer. Now my fantasy is a decent 6, 595 words so far.