Six of one, half dozen of the other

[geoviki]

A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants...

Here's a cute H/D fic from a new LJ-er, riverlight. Christmas Presents "Consider it an early Christmas present."

On another note, painless_j and I decided the other day that this fandom has too many WIPs and too few rentboy!Draco and rentboy!Harry fics. I think wayfairer also mentioned that lack.

We currently have four (4) computers active in our house. We have three (3) people residing here. We currently have three (3) cars that run, and two (2) drivers. I still have only one (1) husband.

We're doing the big "switch from one computer to another, change service from painfully slow dial up to sexy DSL, move everything, and go wireless, baby!" So I've got email on one computer, the browser on another, bits and pieces all over the place. I shall conquer!

Gratuituous advice: For those of you on my list who are not already married and who would possibly consider rectifying that - listen to wise ol' geoviki. Don't go for looks or money or fast cars. Looks fade. Money disappears. Fast cars break down. No, what you really want to do is this: marry an engineer.

They can do clever things like create wireless computer networks in your very own home that rival anything the NSA can gin up. And all you have to do is pretend you understand what they're talking about as they set it up. Nod and smile. Maybe bake them a peach pie for their birthdays. Trust me on this one.

This morning I discovered that it is impossible to tell the difference between a diabetic with very low blood sugar, who is confused, disoriented, and silent, with a freshly awakened 13-year old teenaged boy, who is as a rule taciturn, laconic, and silent. Not that he chats me up when he wakes up, but the "standing in front of the refrigerator staring blankly" went on just a little too long. Better check that meter, then. Blood sugar of 43? Oh, yes, that explains that.

I promised I would begin laying vinyl flooring today. I'm avoiding that. Doing a good job of it, too.

Can I just say how I adore kattiya? Yes, I can. She is feeding my addiction, oh, yes.

Comments

[anehan]

I plan to become an engineer myself. Then I won't need a husband.

Your LJ has a new look.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Well, of course then you'd need to find someone to make you peach pies!

[anehan]

So, I need a wife. Any volunteers?

[kupukello.livejournal.com]

Looks fade. Money disappears. Fast cars break down. No, what you really want to do is this: marry an engineer.

Hear, hear! There are a few problems with them too, like the constant rebuilding of things and explanations that go like this 'So, I've now got gadget C connected to gadget A, B and D and you can switch between these four easily and control them with gadget G, but since I ran out of outputs in gadget F, I had to build a switch for that. So, if you want to turn the sauna on, you now just have to press button 1 on gadget C, turn this switch clockwise to 10, set gadget A to 'MOO', press button 'la-di-la-di-la' on the gray remote control, oh not that one, the other one of the twelve almost identical remote controls, and then say aloud '80' and voilá, sauna will be ready in an hour.'

I've also said, several times, that he isn't allowed to die before me. One of the 10¹² cords drops from somewhere and this household stops working, entirely, and he is the only person on earth to know which cord it was and where it should go.

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

ah yes- I'm with you on the "gadget conversation"- it weirdly tunes out in my head as "blah blah blah blah"- and I end up big-eyed nodding a lot-
(because yes, I so wanted to know how and why and the what's so interesting about certain ports and relays and whatever...)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know! There's a big disadvantage to only pretending to pay attention.

[balfrog.livejournal.com]

New layout!

anyway- I was about to say the opposite-
above all! go for the looks! because, yum!!
- you can be smart and capable on your own!
(having been a sensible girl and dated and married a nice good engineer,
am now in life with caring generous person who doubles as my tech support
and gives me tech gadgets for presents)- woe am i looking back on my boring un-misspent youth, and wishing i'd gone for the cuties instead...

on the other thing- too few rent!boy fics? really?
well... can't say I felt the lack- maybe you guys can set up a challenge or something.

and here-
since you're the one who comes through and gives me nice feel-good fic recs when I'm down, this one, if you haven't read it yet,
is just *cute*- curl your tows and go aw- cute..

http://www.livejournal.com/community/ickle_firsties/2103.html

hee

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh that was sweet. Never read little kid H/D before.

The cuties never gave me the time of day. And now they're all male-pattern-bald and meanwhile I have wireless internet all over the house!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

LOL...mine just managed to connect two broken routers (from the lightning) into one so that my computer is hooked up again to the network wireless...i love my nerdy engineer :D

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Yay for nerdy engineers!

yay!

[riverlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reccing my fic. That was really sweet.
On another note, I like your layout. And I like your marriage advice too, come to that... ;)

Re: yay!

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to rec your fic, because 1) I liked it and 2) more people should find it! And it looks like that's happening.

Everyone likes the layout, yo! I was just playing around because I was bored at work, and it's not even custom or anything. Well, I did change the font from something that was big and ugly to Times. Can't go wrong with Times, IMO.

Re: yay!

[riverlight.livejournal.com]

::grin:: Livejournal at work, hm? Good for you. ;)

[painless-j.livejournal.com]

You nearly became an unintentional murderer. I literally chocked on my pomegranade juice, reading this: "We currently have four (4) computers active in our house. We have three (3) people residing here. We currently have three (3) cars that run, and two (2) drivers. I still have only one (1) husband." Hee, I'm still giggling :)

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

And furina is looking for a wife, above. We're all about alternative marriages here.

Mr. Ciggie is for you, you evil smoker you!

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

um, ditto about fifty million times on the rentboy!d or rentboy!h issue.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

And you already did your part for the cause! I adore your rentboy!Draco in China.But if you check out painless_j's list of prostitution fics, there are so few and I've read them all.

[arsenicjade.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, I've checked the list out. Many times. Hoping that I've missed something. Alas, this is never the case. *sigh*

[tipgardner.livejournal.com]

Brilliant advice! Now what are we dumb, pretty boys suppposed to do with all the lasses going for nerd!blokes instead of one of the lads down the pub?! ;)

Rentboy!Draco and/or Harry fics...I've had a plot bunny for a while now but it probably requires a longer fic than I usually find I'm capable of writing these days.

Enjoy everything multiple in your life, but I gather the unspoken part of the advice was keep husbands in the singular and with that I would have to agree.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Dumb and pretty, huh? Glad to meet you.

Now while I believe that spousal units should be singular (or at least uniquely sequential), I also have noticed the distinct lack of cabana boys in my employ....

[tipgardner.livejournal.com]

You sound the engineer yourself. Or perhaps you understand that technical discussion better than you've let on, yeah?

And of course, at the end of the spouse's rainbow lies the only gold condoned...cabana boys. Well good luck finding a few of those.

[kattiya.livejournal.com]

Can i just say how much I loved that fic? So cute! It gave me the warm fuzzies. I fangirled riverlight for more. Thanks for the rec.

Can I just say how I adore kattiya? Yes, I can. She is feeding my addiction, oh, yes.

Hee. Glad to be of service. Because it's such a hardship spamming you with the Boyd. Oh yes, so difficult. *g*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Oh, how we suffer for our art!

I was happy to bring that story out of the shadows - I thought it was cleverly done and competently written. And sweet and seekritly hot.