A miscellaney that involves dogsitting. Also, insert wry commentary from Mike here.

[azurelunatic]

2:33 AM 6/24/2010
One of the things I like about the White Collar fics that I've been reading: El is enjoying herself with her men, and no one, but no one -- not her, not Peter, not Neal, not the authors -- think that she should be ashamed of herself for wanting what she wants and getting what she wants and getting what she hardly allowed herself to dream of wanting.

Now *that's* the kind of escapist porn I like.

5:01 PM 6/25/2010
Adventures with an elderly black lab mix: apparently that loaf of v. tasty Trader Joe's sourdough was not far enough out of harm's way, as harm dragged it off the counter and chewed on it while I was out retrieving the laptop, which I'd forgotten at home in my clatter to get out and here. Heh. I just hope that harm's digestion is not adversely affected.

5:48 PM 6/25/2010
Called parents early this afternoon, chatted for nearly an hour. We think in quite a few of the same ways, a lot of the time.

6:44 PM 6/26/2010
Harm's digestion seems fine. Spent part of today over at my aunt's for dog supervision. The other day Dazzle and Deacon were playing, and Deacon fell and went down hard, so they can't play unsupervised anymore, given Deacon's rear end failure.

Then I came back, got a bite to eat, walked Harm (not his actual name), fed Harm, let him out, let him back in, and talked to Kat, who is having Gutter Woes. ND folks, she could use a hand getting Mr. Gutter and Mr. House talking again. [A helpful neighbor helped her out.]

Sounding: you're doing it wrong. If you are not aware of "sounding" as a sexual practice, this link will inform you. May be scarring to babyfish (in other words, my dear babyfish, do not click this).

9:57 PM 6/26/2010
So, on Twitter, one of my associates wanted to know who would make the best human vuvuzela. I obliged by putting my brass training together with a circle made of thumb and forefinger, and a voice post.

11:31 PM 6/27/2010
Today involved Pride. Sometimes public events with great huge crowds of people are my thing, and sometimes they are not. Given that my left knee is feeling more gimpy than usual, and since I am dogsitting I do not like to leave the dog home alone for any significant length of time, that was a not-my-thing-this-week for me. I did, however, enjoy myself, as there was a late-afternoon-into-evening-into-night mini-marathon of MythBusters episodes on the Discovery channel, and I called the best friend and we giggled at each other and made bad puns back and forth (as per usual). Advised him of my Geek Walk of Shame, and the Towing Horror. There are some things we don't agree on, but some things we very much do. <3

12:18 AM 6/28/2010
"7 things about #mythbusters that science can't explain" (from http://linkbaitgenerator.com/index.php via @MrsGneissGirl) sounds like a fic title.

My brain is making me expound upon stuff. It's stuff that isn't quite finished, and in any case it would be lolno timing (entirely by coincidence, actually), but my brain is saying things upon it, and so I write, and eventually it will emerge. Although I repeat that I am not Denys Nye, even though my files are ... maybe starting to look a little like his in places. But still. NOT. (Please don't give me the replicate of a mentor of mine to raise. That would be a bad plan.)

OH DEAR GOODNESS. The next one I got? "6 depraved sexual fetishes involving the MythBusters" PLEH PLEH PLEH RUNNING FROM MIKE NOW PLEH PLEH.

Comments

[ajnabieh]

Apparently on some youtube videos there is a vuvuzuela button. Like, go here and click on the soccer ball.

[azurelunatic]

I observed this.

It's amazingly, incredibly, hilariously scarring to watch certain sex toy advertisement videos with auto-subtitle and the vuvuzelas turned on. I recommend it.

[trixieleitz]

I came across that linkbait generator independently, and you are right, it is a wonderful source of plotbunnies. Although most of the afflicted that I know are already overrun with the little darlings :D

[azurelunatic]

mathsnerd had to send khasael plotweasels and then a plotstoat to take care of all of hers.

[trixieleitz]

So that's what that was about!

I guess those infested with plottribbles need some poisoned plotquadrotriticale or something, and a horde of plotKlingons.

[cleverthylacine]

Sounding is actually the insertion of objects (sounds) into the urethra that are meant to go into the urethra. It is normally a medical treatment, and kind of a rare one, but it is used to treat urethritis from unknown causes that responds to it--they don't know why it works on some people and not on others--and people whose urethras are too narrow and not working properly or who have adhesions in the urethra.

It is a medical treatment I have had to have kind of a lot, due to issues with my urethra, and I don't think of it as fun, but when I found out that people do it for fun, I looked it up because I know that nothing can go in the urethra that hasn't been sterilised into an inch of its life. When I have to get sounded, the items come in a sealed packet.

The insertion of anything that is not meant to go into the urethra is called "fucking stupid and dangerous". Tops who do sounding as a kink use medical sounds. The urethra and bladder are delicate and also really easy to infect with bacteria normally found in the vagina and elsewhere in the perineum. Nobody should ever stick anything in the urethra that wasn't designed for this purpose. OMG LOL NO.

[mathsnerd]

Yeeeaaahhhh, plottribbles. Do I need to breed you a specialised Klingon!plotweasel to eat them up for you?

[eternal-vows.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. There goes the sourdough! (I have been good and not clicked the link, Oh Good Azz.)

*I* stayed up late watching the daytime Emmy awards. I didn't recognize a single person. Except for Ben Bailey who won an award about best game show host or something. And then I got up at 7:40 in the morning. Something to be said about this...

[azurelunatic]

He did not eat all of the bread! There was still quite a bit left, so I cut off the bitten piece and a chunk that might have gotten slobbered on, and ate the rest. Tasty!

I got up at 5:45 when the dog whined/whuffled/farted at me. And I let him out to pee. And then I waited until 6am before giving him his breakfast. He was so disappointed that he did not get it 15 minutes early.

[eternal-vows.livejournal.com]

Poor doggy. Fifteen minutes must seem a lifetime to him.

[azurelunatic]

I think he was hopeful because he got dinner 10 minutes early last night, on account of commercial break. I did not want to miss any of the mythbusting! So I was on alert for the last commercial break before 6pm, and that's when I served doggy dinnertime!

[eternal-vows.livejournal.com]

Like my French teacher always says, "Give a man dog an inch, and he will want a yard."

Though it is good that you did not miss any Mythbusting!

[azurelunatic]

And he has a yard! It is a very nice yard for him to run around in, and also to excrete in!

I did miss a few bits because my Drewface (durandal) called, but it was mostly on one of the ones I had seen before, so that was OK, and they were all reruns anyway, so it is not like I was missing one that was actually new.

I cannot wait for my own episode!