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Ow. Various parts of me are not happy with yesterday's crawling around in the attic space trying to balance on the ceiling joists (16 inches apart) and go over and under various obstacles. Still I can only imagine how sore my dad must being having done the same thing, since he's 65 years old and about 260 pounds whereas I'm 27 and about 130. And actually we didn't accomplish what we meant to accomplish because he wasn't physically capable, in the end, of reaching the place where the electrical work needed to be done. So instead we're going to cut a hole in the dining room ceiling to get at that improper splice and put it in a box, so that the insulators can come and blow in their newspaper and it won't risk an electrical fire.

Insulation is a good thing.

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Ow. Various parts of me are not happy with yesterday's crawling around in the attic space trying to balance on the ceiling joists (16 inches apart) and go over and under various obstacles. Still I can only imagine how sore my dad must being having done the same thing, since he's 65 years old and about 260 pounds whereas I'm 27 and about 130. And actually we didn't accomplish what we meant to accomplish because he wasn't physically capable, in the end, of reaching the place where the electrical work needed to be done. So instead we're going to cut a hole in the dining room ceiling to get at that improper splice and put it in a box, so that the insulators can come and blow in their newspaper and it won't risk an electrical fire.

Insulation is a good thing.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA useless today! None of the items from our two recent orders to Baker & Taylor have come in so I have nothing to check in! There is not enough on the shelf to start doing a cart of cataloging! No standing order items today! No invoices to process since I was told to wait until we had ones from the aforementioned orders to B&T! No donations to search or to create brief records for because once again Tom has left the two full carts untouched for over a week! Mending, but if I do that then I leave no work for Parvin (student) to do! *pops*

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA useless today! None of the items from our two recent orders to Baker & Taylor have come in so I have nothing to check in! There is not enough on the shelf to start doing a cart of cataloging! No standing order items today! No invoices to process since I was told to wait until we had ones from the aforementioned orders to B&T! No donations to search or to create brief records for because once again Tom has left the two full carts untouched for over a week! Mending, but if I do that then I leave no work for Parvin (student) to do! *pops*

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rialian posted in a comment in metaphorge's journal that someone asked him what is the thing he most loves, his "thing of passion" (wrt his path, magic, etc). I don't think it took him long to think of his answer (relation, spaces between) since he touches on it in almost everything he says. My answer for this is quite ready as well: mine is beauty. It's painful being without this, being trapped in the body I'm in and without any creative skills with which to make any, and on top of that being in a living situation that pretty well snuffs whatever is left over. Rialian said "The longer I do things, the more dificult it is to say the exact path I am working" and this is true for me too, although I suppose I would not say that I am comfortable with it as he seems to be. I need to know what I am trying to do and it seems that I am doing essentially nothing. I want "my path" to express beauty, to add more beauty to the world, for me to be beauty. This includes a sense of "power", "balance" or "rightness" (both for person and for place) as well as aesthetic.

*trails off pointlessly*

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rialian posted in a comment in metaphorge's journal that someone asked him what is the thing he most loves, his "thing of passion" (wrt his path, magic, etc). I don't think it took him long to think of his answer (relation, spaces between) since he touches on it in almost everything he says. My answer for this is quite ready as well: mine is beauty. It's painful being without this, being trapped in the body I'm in and without any creative skills with which to make any, and on top of that being in a living situation that pretty well snuffs whatever is left over. Rialian said "The longer I do things, the more dificult it is to say the exact path I am working" and this is true for me too, although I suppose I would not say that I am comfortable with it as he seems to be. I need to know what I am trying to do and it seems that I am doing essentially nothing. I want "my path" to express beauty, to add more beauty to the world, for me to be beauty. This includes a sense of "power", "balance" or "rightness" (both for person and for place) as well as aesthetic.

*trails off pointlessly*

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Ralph didn't realize he was a flying reindeer until much later in life.

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Ralph didn't realize he was a flying reindeer until much later in life.