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Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
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| 1:53p | "Lost Like Me" and "Push" Andromeda slash: Lost Like Me [@ AO3] RATING: NC-17, Harper/Tyr. SPOILERS: Bunker Hill, Mad to Be Saved, Shadows Cast by a Final Salute, Soon the Nearing Vortex, The World Turns All Around Her, Immaculate Perception, Phear Phactor Phenom, Chaos and the Stillness of It, and The Heart of the Journey Part 2. SUMMARY: A freshly kidnapped Harper has to deal with his captor, Tyr, trying to convince him to cooperate and work with him. It doesn't help--or does it?--that you could cut their sexual tension with a knife. NOTES: Sequel to All Thats Mine in the A Lot Like You series. Thanks to  akira17 for the beta.Saiyuki slash: Push [@ AO3] RATING: PG-13, Hakkai/Gojyo. SPOILERS: Burial Gojyo and Hakkai and Be There. SUMMARY: Sometimes Hakkai just cant help himself. NOTES: Thanks to akira17 for the beta. |
| 1:53p | Wait, don't hold your breath for goodness' sake All the bs I've been going through I haven't been talking about here.... Here's one. I've told you about the issue with my Hyundai Elantra burning more oil than it should be and the warranty conditions Hyundai put me under to get a shot at them replacing the engine parts for free the way they damn well should since it's a known issue of their crapsack engineering. I hit the 1,000 miles! Time for an oil consumption check and topping off of whatever oil the Elantra had devoured, especially since it seemed to be shaking a bit more lately. And I left a voice message or two for the Service section every day from Wednesday through Saturday--I didn't Sunday because they're not open--and didn't get a single call back to my desperate requests for an appointment that made sense. I say "make sense" because I could reach scheduling and they said Service couldn't see my Elantra until September 13! Best offer, I show up September 2 at 7 a.m. as an "emergency." I told them it had to be around 1,000 miles to fulfill the warranty conditions and I couldn't stop using my car for a month. Were they going to give me another car to drive for free all that time? I doubted it, and I was correct. They absolutely did not care, and since this was just a scheduling person and not a Service person there was nothing she could do so there was no use in talking to her about it. With Koeppel Hyundai Service being an absolute neglectful bastard, I called another Hyundai dealer Saturday to see if I could transfer my case to them... and found out that I could not. But! The actual Service person I was on the phone with from Empire Hyundai suggested I just show up Monday at 7 am as an emergency since I would have to start this whole process all over again if I went a hundred miles over that 1,000. Having to pay $85 once for Hyundai-certified oil and a filter was enough. I'm glad somebody told me. So I did that. Showed up at 7 am with my Elantra, when asked if I had an appointment explained why I didn't, and they took my car and did the oil consumption check and topped off the oil while I waited there for over two hours. I'm glad that worked, though I was nervous Sunday about what hell they might try to put me through for it. Especially since I ended up being over 30 miles over because I had to keep driving my car while Service ducked all my calls for days. The blue post-it paper I put up shows the mileage I had when I brought the Elantra in this time, so I know what number I need to hit 1,000 miles again. The label above it is what Hyundai put on July 1 when I got the certified oil and filter.  By the way, it turned out that my Elantra burned half a quart of oil this time, better than the two quarts on regular oil but still far from normal. +++ A recent drive in which I spun I Dont Know How But They Found Me's Razzmatazz and sung along to the full album reiterated to me that I am far from being in performing shape. Here, part of it is the propulsive way idkHow's Dallon Weekes sometimes shoots syllables and interjections out and how high he sometimes pushes his voice, but I no longer have the diaphragm/muscle strength/control I once built into myself. My chest started to feel somewhat hollow by the end. It doesn't help that I was singing the whole thing sitting down while driving, since I "pull" the higher and more difficult notes up with my arms or from my legs as I stand when performing. I'm glad I was able to put the disappointing live show footage behind me so I could enjoy this album again. I'll let Razzmatazz mean what it means to me without bothering with whatever they choose to do or not do in live shows I won't go see in person or look for online. |
| 1:53p | Oh no, what have we here? Turns out this is a mask somebody put on the passenger seat headrest. Scared the crap out of me. I wonder if he uses it for the carpool lane?  Who put this on an exterior fence post of All Faiths Cemetery and why?  |
| 1:53p | Here I am I saw dine doing a 'show your age by sharing a music video' thing and decided to go along. This song was in the top 10 on the day of my birth. Though Reservoir Dogs forever shaped my feeling of this song.... +++ Urgh, the scar on the back of my head has been itching on and off today. The fact that this still happens sometimes almost 17 years after my surgery, even if it had been brain surgery.... |
| 1:53p | "Interruption" Saiyuki slash: Interruption [@ AO3] RATING: PG-13, Gojyo/Sanzo. SPOILERS: the Shot 4: Kouten arc and chapter 22 of Saiyuki Reload Blast. SUMMARY: Gojyo looks after people he cares about in his own ways. NOTES: Thanks to akira17 for the beta. |
| 1:53p | My cosmos is mine  I have about 29 new window display photos from Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, and Kleinfeld Bridal, as well as three shots of family cats Treble and Kiwi Herman, up at my Flickr. Kleinfeld Bridal again had a concept that it took me a bit of thinking to understand--the embedded thumbnail is of one of their two windows--but then I looked at the painting in the purple box and got it. She's painting Ken, and these mannequins are in Barbie doll boxes. +++ I borrowed Depeche Mode's new album, Memento Mori, from the library and I'm loving it, to my relief. When they performed "Ghosts Again" live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert they'd looked and sounded old and tired, so I worried, especially since an original band member, Andy Fletcher, had died in May 2022. Hilariously, Colbert released a clip of them doing "Personal Jesus" live on the same show only to YouTube, and there they sounded and did great. For those wondering, Memento Mori is kind of in the vein of their 2013 Delta Machine album, rather dark and with a lot of bass, full-bodied, synthy and with some industrial touches. I hear a bit of 2017's Spirit at times too. If someone had me in the 1980s that I'd still be listening to and enjoying new music from Depeche Mode 40 years later, my mind would've been boggled. |
| 1:53p | Cloudy with a Chance of Photos We've been having dramatic clouds in Queens this week. Here's a combination of storm and sunset clouds.   Shot at First Calvary Cemetery.  |
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| 1:53p | Tell me why.... I was so happy I didn't have any appointments to go to Friday because New York City was a mess from the rain. A lot of rain in a short amount of time, overwhelming the subway system and many roads and highways. It killed my head with pain, and I kept waking up that night and morning from the barometric pressure changes in the air. So glad I live on top of a hill. Like, NY1 News' Pat Kiernan had to go home from his job for a bit when he got the call that his house's basement had 18 inches of water in it. +++ Suddenly I'm seeing a ton of gray cars on the road. A lot of them don't even a sparkle coat to give more shine and depth, just flat grays beneath the shine of a clearcoat paint. I hope this trend ends soon and we can see fewer depressingly colored cars around. +++ My local oldies radio station is currently playing a lot of '80s and '90s music. When it recently played Michael Jackson's "Bad," my mind immediately went to Weird Al Yankovic's "Fat," then, to my amusement, it followed up right after with the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" that immediately turned into Weird Al's "eBay" for me. |
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