Well, I had to fight Equifax tooth and nail, and be extorted in the end (and *still* don’t have a free one),  but I finally got a credit report from them, and got it turned in to the bank before Thursday’s cutoff, about which they wrote us on the 3rd and mailed it on the 9th. We got it on the 12th, which was a Saturday,  Monday was a holiday (Stupid Lost Italian Day), cutoff was the 15th. Nice. We’ll know for sure by Friday, and close is scheduled for November 1st,  I believe. I’m not sure I’m ready for this!

Not that it held still for more than a nanosecond (wings don’t count for a sphinx), but I did see one yesterday, and this post is so I remember the first time I ever did!

Experian is fixed, and I called every one of my creditors to verify that they were reporting the correct SSN. Only one couldn’t tell me what SSN they’re using–I’d have to go in to the store and show some drone there my card, which is NOT going to happen–but they most likely have it correct because it’s a recent account, and the ones that didn’t have changed it, effective immediately. Just Equifax left to go, which I hope will be done tomorrow, and we can start the (slowly grinding) wheels in motion. I like this house and I love the yard, and my fucking trashy neighbours are driving me INSANE. I need to get out of here.

I’m also official videographer…they both really liked the first one, so we’re doing another trailer tomorrow, and die cutters will be done in the near future. I’m okay with it…at least it’s not PHP. God, I have to fix that fucking contact form. Ugh!

Grrrr! It’s the colour that exists and works. That’s what colour it is!

Tala till bönder på bönders språk, och till lärde män på latin.

I most certainly did need two pairs of jeans (wine and purple) like my green ones, because they were on sale for $14.99. The purple ones were regular $35, but the wine had gone up to $42 by the time I decided I wanted them. I think the wine are close to the Levis I got last year, but I love those, and I needed purple after being disappointed in the purple Levis from last year because they were narrower at the ankle. Okay for boots, but only boots. Anyway, I bought P. two pink shirts because his long-sleeved shirts are almost all blue, and he looks so nice in pink. He’ll mind less picking them up at the store because Borowiack’s isn’t a pickup anymore, and I wasn’t about to spend another $50 just to get free ship to home. So, now I have all the colours of those jeans that I liked; the grey was “meh” and I’m not much of a turquoise (teal-ish?) fan.

So…fuck this wind tunnel back yard, and fuck stupid storms that flatten the flowers my butterflies and hummingbirds need to store fat for winter. Fuck them with big, thorny sticks.

I didn’t like Unity when I first installed…whatever version of Ubuntu was first afflicted with it. Back then, I just switched to Gnome Classic with…something or other…and that was it. When I updated to 13.04, I decided to give Unity another try. At first, I hated it, but that’s not unusual when you change to a different interface; you can’t do what you do as fast as before because it’s different. I kept Unity for a while, and eventually got used to it, but never liked it, and especially not when I had Netflix in full-screen on my left monitor, which covered the stupid…whatever the fuck that string of giant icons sucking up screen real estate down the side is called. I couldn’t put one on my right monitor because Unity isn’t designed for a dual-monitor setup and allows only one. So, if I wanted to have Chrome open to half-assed read/surf/shop while watching Netflix in fullscreen, I had to open Chrome, drag it over to the right screen, then start Netflix and make sure I didn’t accidentally minimize Chrome or it would disappear to the…whatever string of icons (WTF is that thing called…Dash, maybe?) and be hidden behind Netflix unless I backed out of the active stream to the Netflix home page and hit F11 to exit full-screen. Yeah…that didn’t piss me off one bit. Don’t get me started on how much Unity and Chrome do not like each other and how I’d constantly have to Ctrl+Alt+Del to force Chrome to minimize. I don’t mind Firefox–used it for years–but I prefer Chrome, so suck it, Unity. What used to be Gnome Fallback, for GPUs that couldn’t manage the Unity effects is now called Gnome Flashback, and I finally got around to not only setting that as my default login, but figuring out why the fuck I could see and select my beloved “Neutral” cursor theme, but it wouldn’t actually be used. In the old days of Gnome, you could theme it any goddamned way you wanted, and all of the settings were in your /home, so you didn’t have to dick around with root access just to have a different fucking pointer. No more. Now, it’s in /usr/share/icons (I think), and I don’t like that one bit. Half of the reason I use Linux is because I can do whatever I want, and since it’s almost always just in my userspace, if I fuck something up, it’s not a disaster. Ubuntu is turning into Windows, except with a root password. I thought about Mint, but I have years of Gnome preferences in my /home (since it’s always on a separate partition and I just point whatever OS I install to it for settings), and I have all of the software I use already installed. I dunno…but for now, I have my Neutral cursor, and Gnome Fallback doesn’t hate Chrome the way that shitty Unity did…so fuck Unity. It’s still installed because I’m going to take a nap and can’t be arsed to remove it, but I set LightDM to use gnome-fallback (/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, for when I forget), so Unity can suck it.

Up until this year, I’d seen exactly two Pipevine Swallowtails, neither of which was in my yard. This year, I’m practically shoving them out of the way, and they’re all nice and fresh, though I’ve grown nothing that would act as a host plant. Whence (hee!) are they coming?! If we actually get to move to our new house, I’ll plant Virginia Snakeroot for them, but in the meantime…where the hell are all these Pipevines coming from?!

I got my coated skinny jeans today, and they fit okay; as long as they don’t stretch out as I wear them, they’ll be fine. I didn’t want them skin-tight anyway. That said…

How the manufacturers of skinny jeans think my legs look:

How the manufacturers of knee-high boots think my legs look:

News flash–my legs actually look like neither one of these pictures! These people need to get together and have a meeting or something because there is no way that skinny jeans should fit everywhere else and yet be tight on calves that look like a broomstick in a bucket in most boots. Who the fuck are they making this stuff for?! Anyway, the coated skinnies are kind of tight in the calf, but not ridiculously so, and the ankle isn’t too tight, plus they were pretty goddamned cheap, so I’m keeping them. I still have to wonder what the thundering FUCK the manufacturers are thinking. I could understand it if it was über-cheap Chinese stuff that had been fitted on some inflatable “US lady girl size” mannequin, but the jeans are FFS Levis, and the boots…well, it’s most of them, so whatever.

P.S. B. can correctly identify “burgundy”, and I know he can because that’s twice he’s got it right. Five! Five colours! Heh.

P.P.S. Oh, found some tutorials on DIY coated jeans. I might do the second pair of black skinny jeans that I got for $9.99. I love the first pair, and bought the second because…well, because I loved the first pair and they were ten bucks (free shipping). Might be fun to try, but I think maybe I’ll hunt down a pair of black jeans I don’t care about first, just to see how the finished product looks.