Saturday, August 29th, 7:00 pm. Release, signing and reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco for Fairest of All.

Put me down on your dance cards, ladies and gentlemen, because I would like to you come out and help me celebrate the release of my novel.

I will post all the details soon.

A realistic review of my finances and other factors has convinced me that it would be irresponsible of me to go to Burning Man this year. I would therefore like to make my ticket available for whoever feels moved to claim it. Ideally, I would like to recover the $260 that I paid for it, but I can be flexible for the right person and circumstances.

Responses to this post will be screened. If nobody here is interested, I'll throw the offer to the local burn lists on Tuesday, and to Ebay on Thursday.

I'm disappointed that I won't be attending this year, but I'm also relieved by the reduction in stress accompanying this decision. A BIG thank you to those folks who tried to arrange things so that it would be easier for me to go. I cherish the gift of your help, even if I won't be accepting the help itself.

Green

My mouth burns from breathing fire at Jai's surprise half birthday all night! BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!!! ♥

A sweet older gentleman dress as Harold Llyod came up to me and said: "Why hello, Miss Brooks, I'm Harold Lloyd!" It was very charming.

Last night was The Gaucho. Today was Underworld. Enjoyed them both. More on the festival later. Hope you're enjoying your weekend.

for the birthday...a 15 foot Tesla Coil....max 26 feet sparks runs up to 55000 watts

Originally published at Misangela.com. Please leave any comments there.

My DJ is not any better. His heart murmur is worse and he is still battling some sort of infection that causes him to stay stuffed up. We waited for almost 2 hours today to see Dr Ellington - the best of the vet chicks at Dearborn - and she spotted a mass of some kind near his heart in the xrays from last time. Tobias totally missed it. Well, she either totally missed it or didn’t want to say anything. She is VERY sweet, but also tends to sugar coat things a bit much for my taste. I just want to KNOW so I can keep my emotions in check until I get to the root of the issue. I’m barely hanging onto my shit today… My heart is VERY heavy.

After the thorough exam and looking over the films from 10 wks ago, Dr Ellington told me that DJ was definitely throwing “red flags” and she’s very concerned. She said his murmur is the worst she’s EVER heard in a cat - it’s more like a good sized poodle. NOT GOOD. She’s also concerned about the mass… She’s thinking cancer, I know she is. Gods, I hope it’s not that. There’s no coming back from that for a 11.5 year old cat.

So, next week we’re off to St Francis over on Dekalb Ind for his full thorax ultrasound. That will tell us exactly what’s going on with him and if that mass is lymph nodes or cancer or what.

All I know is that DJ is not in pain (other than arthritis) and he’d be a lot happier if he could breathe. We’ve got him on another run of antibiotics to try and beat back the nasal infection and we’ll continue his other meds. He’s always been a lazy boy, but I think the heart murmur has really taken what little zip he had. He sleeps and/or lays down about 95% of the time now. Poor baby!

If everyone would send my sweet old cat some good health vibes, I’d appreciate it.

A shocking tale of disk space and betrayal by Green.

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I recently noticed that my C:\ drive on my workstation (Vista Business, SP2) was running low of free space, I cleared unused files, uninstalled unused programs, but was still very low. I went exploring my disk to find out what was occupying the volume. I found that my user directory was occupying 27G of my 58G partition, but when I added up the contents of that directory it came to only a little over a Gig.

The culprit was in the hidden folders. To see hidden folders in Vista click on Organize>Folder and search options, then under the "view" tab, check "show hidden files and folders"

I continued to Drill down to [C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\rs8ep4r7.default] and found nearly a thousand 19 meg files named "places.sqlite.corrupt-###". Places.sqlite is Firefox's bookmarks database. Apparently, each time Firefox encounters an error and recovers its database it leaves a copy of the original file marked "corrupt". This sounds like a good idea until it eats 18G of your system partition.

The rest of the mysterious missing space was legitimately used by local mail spools and backups.

So, if you are alone on a dark stormy night, and you hear a sniffing at the door, you might want to check your hidden user folders to make sure the fox hasn’t come to consume your partitions.

This week's questions were suggested by awstuff4friends.

1. What is your favorite vegetable?
2. What is your favorite salad dressing, sauce, gravy, or condiment?
3. What is your favorite culture's food (American, Chinese, Creole, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Soul Food, Southern U.S., etc.)?
4. What is your favorite beverage?
5. What is your favorite food?


Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/thefridayfive/1466.html

Old sets that were used have been deleted, so please feel free to suggest some more! Remember that we rely on you, our members, to help keep the community going.

I know some of you were looking forward to hearing from me this week. I've been sick with a nasty summer cold all week. I will get in touch as soon as my brain isn't all wonky. Sorry for the delay.

Last week's New York Times Magazine had some very interesting pictures of abandoned housing developments, inclyuding one in Dawsonville: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/28026

Does anybody know where the development is & how to get there?

I totally stole it from someone on the NIN forum! LOL

...LIVES HERE.

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My God, it's full of stars...

I am about to start work on a mural for a friend and my problem is that I don't have experience with spray can technique. I'll be painting old school with brushes and such, but I'd really like to learn some spray can techniques just to maybe speed the process up. Does anyone have any suggestions on websites or anyplace around Atlanta where I might be able to pick up some tips and basics on the fine art of the Spray can. I do pavement art mostly but have long said I'd be a tag artist if I were in better shape, as it is I'm just to out of shape to run from the cops so i sadly have to stick to the legal stuff, lol. I'd love some ideas, thanks guys.

04:05:06 on 07/08/09

and at 12:34:56 on 7/8/9 I was finishing up lunch

Got a friend who wants to pull audio off a youtube/vimeo/whatever vid and convert it to mp3...didnt say whether she wanted it DLing directly or DLing first then pulling it off the flv. Found some options but wanted to get recommendations on what the best thing to use is.

Thanks!