…for my bedroom.
I’ve only lived here since 2007—and for the first time in, oh, since 2000, I actually have bedroom curtains. This is epic.
If you recall, I got a double rod, put a severely tailored glass valance on the back one, and table runners with tassel (folded in half as a tapestry hanging) to hang from the ends of each main rod, so as to cover the start of the valance with about 12″ of ornately figured modern brocade in muted grey-green and bright silver and gold swirls….
The place looks downright civilized. I celebrated by sitting down in my working chair and spilling a mug of hot coffee onto myself and the computer: the lid was closed, thank goodness.
I fear elegance is not my middle name.
I immediately, in the next 10 minutes, followed that act by turning over my coffee cup on the keyboard of our accounting computer, during tax prep, and mid update…
I am batting a thousand.
Obviously caffeine is too stimulating for you. You need to find a nice wine to sip while doing taxes this year… or a cider? You should have good ciders out there.
Even the commercial bottled ciders aren’t too shabby. I used to like Hornsby’s, but this year they must have gotten a bad batch of apples, because the cider was mediocre. Redd’s and Angry Orchard (especially the ginger cider!) are pretty good this year. I got a craft cider at Costco that knocked people’s socks off, but of course being Costco, it was a one-off and gone this time.
IIRC, CJ likes chardonnay, and Jane likes merlot…..but then, it might have been what they felt like having at the time I saw them…….I don’t think my memory’s that fuzzy…….
What a waste of good(?) coffee 🙁
Perhaps next time blame a cat?
Maybe you could use a nice insulated sippy cup while working at a computer?
Or a lid with a straw that fits on your existing cups and mugs, and from the pictures can handle hot tea?
After getting coffee on your phone-connector more than once, and now on two computers in one day, it seems like a reasonable precaution to take, especially with the cats around.
Did the accounting computer and keyboard survive?
I once accidentally pushed my glass of buttermilk over my keyboard at work, just before closing time on friday, and it survived. I pulled it out of the PC immediately, removed the keys and cleaned underneath with wet/moist paper towels, dried it as well as I could and put the keys back. Left it to dry further over the weekend, started the machine on monay full of trepidation, and it worked without a hitch. I hope yours fares as well!
Hanneke, I did indeed have a lidded insulated sippy cup, which is all that saved us. We were able to use a paper towel’s absorbency to wick the coffee from under the keys on the accounting computer—and I take it black, thank goodness!
Oooh, are the “home-owners” intrigued with batting the tassels?
She’ll be here all week, folks!
Don’t forget to tip your waitress!
Try the veal!
*ducks deliberately flung mug of coffee*
I have yet to spill a cup of beverage onto my desk (the computer itself lives on a different table), but I fear it will happen.
Oohh! I just received the new gel wrist rest to replace my old disintegrating one, and Belkin has gotten clever: they had it in one of those gods-forsaken plastic clamshells, but had cleverly perforated the back along with a fingerhole, so it could be peeled open by hand without bloodshed!
Me neither. 🙂 I loathe the mugs that swoop in at the bottom; they’re a tipping waiting to happen! Straight-sided mugs are better. But what I’ve always used is a wide-bottomed tankard-shaped mug. They resist tipping best! This one at hand I even had thrown specifically for me. I bought it bisqued and did the decoration myself.
Travel mug from REI. Stainless steel, with a threaded lid. It’s comfortable to use without the lid (but they seem to have discontinued it). For iced tea, I use one of the waisted tumblers from the green mermaid.
When I do things like that, we call it ‘quality control testing’. I use the Cats’ Excuse. “I meant to do that.”
“Gravity check”?
I rejoice to say the computers are undamaged. And we got an hour’s worth of the credit card records entered in the computer. Since we use credit cards for everything, to have a record, this got us to July.
On the rebound from that wall, my mother-in-law’s middle name does mean ‘elegance’. It is Shizuko.
One suggests the auspicious nomenclature for the new fence should be:
The Great Fence of Fancherryha.
Ahem.
An interesting celebration ritual. I’m going to stick with Champagne, I think.
Probably duplicating BCS’s Compact Space list, I would be interested in more detail on the Earth that sent Tully; perhaps the gap between Pride and the trilogy could be filled on the A-U side and/or from Tully’s or Goldtooth’s viewpoint on the latter’s ship–maybe that’s two stories? As I’ve mentioned before, “[Redacted name] mapmaker,” a throwaway line at the end of the trilogy IIRC, is something I’d like to hear about. I’d like to see the Compact Space corpus expanded in a way that promotes a logical division of volumes–and cross fertilization with A-U seems good.
Another thought is that Star Wars Episode VII will be released in 2015. Disney has done pretty well with outside properties (Pixar, Muppets, Marvel…), though they do seem to get in trouble with classics, oddly. It might be a good time to write space opera since you (CJ) get listed as a MilSF writer frequently. (I don’t think MilSF represents well what you write, still if it attracts business….)
(BCS, I think we get something from Compact Space. How can we not when CJ daily faces the great, the magnificent Hani captain ker Tennss?)
Still voting on some pre-Bren back story on Banichi and Jago. Will settle for how they came to be chosen to be assigned to Bren.
Oh, and why are there no pictures of the Great Curtains of Cherryh?