Hester

Waiting for YouTube to process the video that I mentioned above. I was able to salvage it, but it was a technical nightmare! I kept having to "trick" the software into doing things it didn't want to do. Took forever!

Very mellow (thanks to the meds), even though the masons reconstructing my chimney accidentally punched two gaping holes through my 3rd floor wall today. Oopsy -- I can see daylight!

Meeting a friend at the Fish & Chip shop down the road.

Trying to salvage a video file that bloody Windows Movie Maker has corrupted all to shite. I need better software!

^My neighbour just suggested that I should dress up for Hallowe'en as a gin bottle! < Bugger the gin -- I want Pimm's! V Pass the Q: Hallowe'en plans?

KFC -- lazy me!

Sweet silence! A nice change after the sounds of sledgehammers and tumbling brick as my chimney was torn down this morning.

Unseasonably cool. But at least the sun is shining. First full day with no rain in as long as I can remember this summer

Drugged into a state of relative tranquility! Had my chimney torn down this morning, while I was inside the house. My office was shaking as the sledehammers swung, and I could hear chunks of brick falling down inside the chimney into the antique cast-iron & ceramic tile fireplace. I was afraid my living room ceiling was going to come down at one point. Eeek! I was totally freaked out and nearly in tears, thinking I'd made a very bad decision to agree to have this work done. So, anyway, I dug to the back of my medicine chest and found a bottle of anti-anxiety meds for my fear of flying, and popped one of those. After a few minutes, the panic subsided, and I became more confident that my ceiling and fireplace would survive the assault. Within a couple hours, the workers had finished and vacated, leaving the outside looking reasonably tidy (and a good thing too, because they'd had to access the chimney via my neighbours' front yard). Hopefully, tomorrow's scheduled work of building the new chimney will be much more sedate and less nerve-racking.

Beef tenderloin Potato salad Marinated artichokes ... that is, if Mr. H ever deigns to come home for supper!

Punk Revival http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=oh6FrbCyg8k

Yesterday: Not Mark's spicy ribs Cobalt-blue tiled BBQ & smoker All those neighbours whose names I can't remember Sean the neighbourhood skinny dipper

Lestat

Glad to hear that you had a fabulous birthday party, Rogue! [And I hope that you're not too hungover this morning.]

Frozen leftover pizza warmed in the microwave More rain Not a soul Paul McGann (mmmmm!): http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ncKr-613WXw

Nada. Don't feel like cooking! Hmmm... order in, or go out?

The endless fricking rain! Oh, bugger -- I'd better go close the windows again.

French toast Package in the drop box Marilyn Munro (seriously) Marilyn Monroe

Blood on the Saddle http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=-eBuDQAZl4w

Wow, Jill. Now I'm really glad I took the commuter train when I went from Boston to Salem. (Actually, I don't drive, so that was my only option.) I really felt quite intrepid managing that side-trip all on my own. I'd gone to Boston with my husband, who was on a business trip. He had meetings all day long, so I was on my own for sight-seeing during the daytime.

Frozen fish & chips. Which I significantly overcooked because I got distracted on-line while they were in the oven. Not really one of my culinary masterpieces!

Must be Spotted Dick, MadL. I had fresh Bing cherries for dessert.

cricket

Well, it's official -- this is the soggiest summer on record in Toronto. http://video.citynews.ca/?fr_story=88d6aed...5d45&rf=sitemap

Made a Stargate Atlantis fanvid: Till He Bled http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=tO3xDiEIiM8 And it's eve a tad piratey, since I think the female character in it could be described as a "space pirate".