This, that, and the other.

[kiya]

Attempted to give myself a concussion today. Failed, but felt entertainingly lightheaded for a while. Note to self: do not stand up while under the corner of the mantel. It hurts. (I took aspirin, and that helped.) Seem to have given myself a black eye, though not much of one; perhaps an intensely tan eye would be better put.

At some point I should read the latest Harry Potter, which we picked up in the grocery store. At this point, however, I am too perturbed by the godawful colour scheme of its cover to be inspired. Not that I'm doing well at the fiction-reading anyway.

Did research for garb in the hope of being able to do major garb assembly in the next month or so. Folks I was in high school with will agree, it is a hat. Suspecting I will either have to do Russian persona or come up with a good reason for a Pole to be using Russian clothing styles, to the extent they differ. Meanwhile, this fellow provoked the comment from brooksmoses of, "History's full of interesting people we hardly ever hear of; he seems to be one of them."

Cauldron folks: I set up a feed for Heartshadow's religious blog on LJ, so if you want to get notifications of updates on your fpage, you can subscribe to flamekeeping.

Did some writing, both religious and work-related. Go me. This chapter is being oddly tricky.

Meanwhile, I am pleased with the increasing randomness of my playlist.

Comments

[nycshelly.livejournal.com]

heh, I've done it, too. In my case it was in the '70s and I stood up to crack my head against the corner of an overhanging cabinet. Ouch. I think I was more successful than you, tho, re: a concussion. I never went to a doctor so I don't know for sure, but for a day, I felt slightly nauseated. Along with the horrid headache, of course.

Many lessons are learned the hard way, unfortunately. Hope you're back to normal soon. :)

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

When I fell; off my bike the fioreman I had over for dinner later in the weekend said I had indeed had a concussion (corroborating what the pre-med said) but I didn't need to see a doctor because if it had been serious I would have known by then.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

That hat page -- what sort of maniac puts the instructions for making something in yellow type?

Instructions for making something! In yellow type! On a white page! What is she thinking!

Fight back!

[larksdream]

If using Firefox, View -> Page Style -> No Style. :)

[kiya]

I thought much the same thing, honestly, though for me it eventually loads a burgundy background image so it's readable.

[brooksmoses]

This is a very fine example of why people really need to remember to set the page background color, regardless of whether they're setting a background image as well. (Once the background image loads, it's pretty readable.)

Unfortunately, that's one of those 1995-era lessons that people have sadly forgotten, because it looks fine when they preview it on their own computer.

(And it would go away completely if people remembered the 2005-era lesson of "Don't use background images under type anyway; it's ugly and hard to read!")

[queenofhalves]

*pats you*