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aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2008-07-07 10:18 am

skip=eleventy billion!

Oh man, them is a lot of LJ posts to get caught up on.

I survived a weekend of family, which I think is to my credit; I haven't seen one sister for a couple of years now, and our relationship has never been good, but this weekend everything went relatively smoothly. On Saturday (an absolutely gorgeous day) we went to Maine--not a proper visit in my book, because I did not get to see a [livejournal.com profile] dogeared--and walked around Two Lights and revisited the Portland Head Light.



I love the thought of Rodney explaining to John how the Fresnel lens works, or, you know, thinking about John Sheppard, the lighthouse keeper who is pretty happy to be left alone up in his lighthouse, and Rodney McKay the mason/engineer, who comes out on occasion to check the tower and replace the lens (because it's a poorly-cast piece of crap, as he informs John one day).

Anyway.




Hallo!


In other news: I should go do working things now.

.eta: Wow, I only now discovered that I ran my memory stick through the wash, and it still reads! Wow.
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[personal profile] siria 2008-07-07 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Crouching Aitches, Hidden, um, ...Aitches! :D

Hallo! *waves*

[identity profile] dogeared.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
:O stealth aitches in Maine! Hallo hallo, a couple of days too late :D

And eeeeeeeee, lighthouse boys! :>
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
naww, lighthouse boyses. *waves also, from france to be all speshul like or something*

[identity profile] bitter-crimson.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
AESC ON THE ROCKS SOUNDS LIKE A FANTASTIC DRINK. I WANT ONE.

[identity profile] perspi.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hallo!

*waves back*

[identity profile] pennyplainknits.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty!

[identity profile] newkidfan.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
So pretty! *waves*

[identity profile] thegrrrl2002.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
::waves::

Hi!!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Helloooooo!!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
It really is a lovely area of the country! I grew up in Florida, where all the beaches are very sandy and smooth, with no rocks, and the water is warm... Verrrrry different from up here :D

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I loves it here!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:29 pm (UTC)(link)
OOOOOOH I WONDER WHAT MY INGREDIENTS WOULD BE?????

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Fronce! Fronce, Fronce, Fronce *waves back across the pond*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I wanted to ditch my family and go hang out with you!!!!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*snorfles Siris!!!*
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[identity profile] anatsuno.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet Aiches have biteables earses. scronche! :)

[identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
OOh, that's a pretty lighthouse, and amazing light. I went to Maine once, but I was really young and I don't really remember anything of it, nor did I want to be there, so I just sort of didn't see anything, and I really regret it now.

[identity profile] lilyfarfalla.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for surviving family and lighthouse boys!!

[identity profile] let-fate-decide.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
LOLOL THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I READ THE CUT. YAY BRAINTWINZ!

Also, I think it would taste DELICIOUS. By the way. :D

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I have so many quasi-memories like that :/

Once I was wandering around Piccadilly Circus and a group of people who practically wandered out of Central Casting--they were seriously the stereotypical Steaming American Tourist Family--came howling by me. The kids were whining about the heat, the walking, the awfulness of their parents for dragging them on this stupid vacation, the mother was trying to placate them by promising to find a McDonald's, and the father was cursing over his map.

I sincerely wanted to grab both of the kids and pull them close, and explain to them how, when she was their age, Auntie Aesc would have killed to go on a trip like this. She would have happily divorced her parents, who dragged her to places where was no TV or air conditioning, if it meant she got to go to Europe instead of going to backwoods North Carolina to commune with ticks.

They probably would have said "fuck you," kicked me in the shin, and started whining again immediately. Sigh.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-07 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*wears shiny medal for valor!*
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[personal profile] aurora 2008-07-07 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Woah, good memory stick!

*waves at you*
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[identity profile] ainsley.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hello, there, you-on-the-rocks!

Oh, the joys of backwoods NC. *valiantly does not further irritate the not-poison ivy*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
I can't believe it! The odd thing was, just the other day I was making noises about getting a new one, because this one is slightly bent and battered and only 128MBs. When I saw the memory stick in the washer, I was both horrified (because there's stuff on there, although most of it's backed up) and relieved (an excuse to get a new one!) Out of curiosity, I popped the drive in the USB port, and it read right away. Sigh :D

[identity profile] barely-bean.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
peek-a-boo aesc!

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
In its defense, backwoods NC was not wholly bad; it was lovely, and anything with mountains was a welcome change from the monotonous flatness that is central Florida. It just wasn't, you know, castles and cathedrals and ruins and people speaking other languages, which was what I yearned for when I was younger.

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
I seeeee youuuuuuu!
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[identity profile] kashmir1.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
*waves atchoo*

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Helloooooo!!