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The weekend so far
Oct. 15th, 2016 03:09 pmThis weekend has been quite good so far. Last night I went to watch the premiere of Supernatural's season 12 with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vyperdd after work. There will be spoilers under the cut. Thanks very much for the invitation, vyperdd; I had a good time watching it with you and scritching your dog.
( Spoilers for Supernatural 12/1 )
Saturday so far; a hike to get groceries and hopefully burn off some of last night's pizza. Also a successful guerilla gardener raid on the neighbouring vacant block this morning. I had meant to snag some red poppies a few weeks ago, but when I came the next day, the block - and all remaining vegetation - had been levelled! Yesterday I spotted a single surviving poppy plant right by the road, where its days were numbered. As soon as the council mowed there again, it was a goner. Well, it's now residing in a nice pot with premium potting mix and I'm hoping it survives the transplant.
Plant rescue is a definite thing around here. I've got a rosebush from that same block which has now gone into a terrific growth spurt and I'm hoping to actually find out what colour flowers it has this season. One time I went back for another plant I spotted, only to find another resident crouched next to it with tools and a sack, carefully digging it out :-)
Beyond this; sweeping, laundry, the usual clean up. Barnaby's place gets room service tonight, under protest from the rodent tenant.
Also, further news on my goal to reach Finland. I decided to apply for a credit card as backup, since last time I went overseas I encountered trouble from my regular debit card when checking in at a convention hotel. Not what you want after a mostly sleep free 35 hours or so in overseas transit. I'd ticked the "contact by email" box, so of course the bank's minion rang me up at work to ask their questions. Among these, "In the section for middle name, you put Not Applicable. Is that...?" "No, Not Applicable is not my middle name. I don't have one but your system wouldn't let me leave the box blank." Some very literal people must work for banks.
Luckily for me, my supervisor consented to talk to the bank's minion and this, together with the fact that they can just look at my regular account statements to see what my pay and savings are like, frees me from having to show them any more documents. I think. I may even get the credit card.
vyperdd after work. There will be spoilers under the cut. Thanks very much for the invitation, vyperdd; I had a good time watching it with you and scritching your dog.( Spoilers for Supernatural 12/1 )
Saturday so far; a hike to get groceries and hopefully burn off some of last night's pizza. Also a successful guerilla gardener raid on the neighbouring vacant block this morning. I had meant to snag some red poppies a few weeks ago, but when I came the next day, the block - and all remaining vegetation - had been levelled! Yesterday I spotted a single surviving poppy plant right by the road, where its days were numbered. As soon as the council mowed there again, it was a goner. Well, it's now residing in a nice pot with premium potting mix and I'm hoping it survives the transplant.
Plant rescue is a definite thing around here. I've got a rosebush from that same block which has now gone into a terrific growth spurt and I'm hoping to actually find out what colour flowers it has this season. One time I went back for another plant I spotted, only to find another resident crouched next to it with tools and a sack, carefully digging it out :-)
Beyond this; sweeping, laundry, the usual clean up. Barnaby's place gets room service tonight, under protest from the rodent tenant.
Also, further news on my goal to reach Finland. I decided to apply for a credit card as backup, since last time I went overseas I encountered trouble from my regular debit card when checking in at a convention hotel. Not what you want after a mostly sleep free 35 hours or so in overseas transit. I'd ticked the "contact by email" box, so of course the bank's minion rang me up at work to ask their questions. Among these, "In the section for middle name, you put Not Applicable. Is that...?" "No, Not Applicable is not my middle name. I don't have one but your system wouldn't let me leave the box blank." Some very literal people must work for banks.
Luckily for me, my supervisor consented to talk to the bank's minion and this, together with the fact that they can just look at my regular account statements to see what my pay and savings are like, frees me from having to show them any more documents. I think. I may even get the credit card.
