telophase | Update on the state of the telophase

Still no internets.

myrialux is going to be dropping by the property management office today to find out why it's taking so long to get the electrician out.

Cleaned almost everything out of my apartment yesterday, will be going by

myrialux's apartment after work today to put the finishing touches on it.

Had second piano class last week. Still learning the basics, but that's the point of this course. :) Haven't had a chance to set up the MIDI keyboard at home yet, as we needed new cables for my monitors and my keyboard's foot broke, so I had to go buy a new one (RSI in wrists doesn't respond well to flat keyboards.)

Cats getting along better. I caught Nefer grooming Sora last night, which was the first time since we'd moved in. Nefer is taking the move fairly well and getting used to the new house (I think she likes that it's big enough she can escape from Sora if she wants). Sora is getting over his cold, after a scary Friday night when he was going SNEEZESNEEZESNEEZESNEEZE over and over. He's still incredibly skittish - he's always been somewhat skittish, but the new surroundings are emphasizing that personality trait - and acts terrified of

myrialux most of the time, for no reason other than (a) he exists and (b) Sora has to come to terms with the fact that he's not the only man in my life. :) We've instituted a new policy of "

myrialux feeds the cats" so that Sora will ealize that

myrialux is the Food-Bringer. So far, it works as long as

myrialux is holding the bag of food - he's Sora's best friend at that point, but once he puts it down, Sora acts as scared of him as ever.

We emptied most of the kitchen boxes this weekend, and although lots of things are still sitting on the counter before finding a home, lots of other things are put away. Also cooked a real meal for the first time - a whole roasting chicken in the crockpot with garlic, carrots, onion, and a lemon, served with mashed potatoes made by

myrialux. There was Drama when I couldn't find the crockpot, which led to us opening almost every box in the house and rearranging them, and then

myrialux went by the apartments to spackle the holes in the walls and discovered that we'd left it at my place. So we cooked on Sunday, instead of Saturday.

However, I'm just tired. Physically exhausted. Went by the apartments yesterday to clear out some more stuff, and it was hell just going up and down the stairs. Cannot wait until the moment we turn the keys in.

Finished Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and started Professor Layton and the Curious Village. Yes, I did the first game before the second, but we had a $50 Best Buy gift certificate and all they had was Diabolical Box, so I got it first. Went to Fry's on Saturday to pick up cables and keyboard and other things, and found a copy of Curious Village, so got it then. Prefer the second, as the puzzles are smoother and less reliant on tricky thinking. (Lateral thinking OK. Trying-to-fool-you not OK. Does that make sense?)

Also found in the classical CD section that a bunch of classical anthologies were on sale for $2-$3, so I bought 5 CDs of various and sundry classical pieces. :)

Continuing to think of

yuletide. Not sure I want to do it this year, as I'm behind on commissions and need to do kanzashi for my stylist and I'm already signed up for

yuletart, and am already beginning to feel vaguely resentful of demands on my time. Hmph.

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to find out why it's taking so long to get the electrician out.

When we bought our house we figured the repairs, etc. would be finished in two, three months. It's been about six. Part of this is that there are more things to fix than we had originally thought, but part of it is having workers that are "fixin' to come" and then don't show up for days on end. We've had a few people who show up when they say they will, but mostly? ...yeah, not so much.

The annoying thing is that every other work order we've put in has been replied to within 48 hours. Arg arg arg.

I'm sure Sora will acclimatise to not being the only man in your life sooner or later. :D As for feeding cats, it took me about 2 months to be "stranger lady!" to "god of food!" with my housemate's cats when I first moved in. Now I can't seem to get rid of them... ¬_¬' I may even have to take 2 of them with me if I ever move out because I was "adopted" by our super skittish cat and I'm the only one he'll go near and the other one has to come along because they are inseparable and only come as a pair XD

I didn't get very far in Professor Layton and the Curious Village, which is a shame because the story seemed really rather interesting. I just found it frustrating because the puzzles either had some sort of maths in them which my brain just doesn't do (at least I perceived them as being math-y, I could be mistaken as it's been awhile since I played), or they were so fiendishly tricky that I was left wondering how the hell I was supposed to have figured them out without hints. Now if there was a game like that with more perception, memory and shape recognition puzzles it'd be far more my thing. :D

The mathy puzzles usually aren't as mathy as they seem - if you start plugging reasonable numbers into them and working it out from there, you'll usually find the answer. Although I still hate them with a passion.

If you want to finish the game for the story's sake, I recommend Gamefaqs (http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/home/936050.html). :) I've downloaded walkthroughs for both games, as I missed several puzzles and didn't finish a couple of minigames in Diabolical Box and want to find them/finish them just to be a completist. I figure the same will happen for Curious Village, so I nabbed one from there, too.

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Sora's so funny - he likes to curl up next to my head and knead his paws on my arm and chest while purring at night, but he's still scared of Toby. So he walks up the bed, nervously glancing at the sleeping Toby, and then tries to curl up as close to me as possible, which is pretty funny when you're a 12-pound cat. XD He's occasionally gone under the covers and spent the night at our feet, too. (ETA: Also, Sora prefers to sleep on his left side, and thus to be able to ~~injure me~~ knead me with his paws, means he has to sleep between me and Toby. Poor kitten! Such a dilemma!)

Toby reported that a cat spent part of the night curled up behind his knees. On top of the covers, though, so we're not sure which one it was.

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B. and I refer to the first game as Professor Bitchass Layton and His Motherfucking Village. I borrowed it from B. and finished it yesterday. As B. also puts it, you can't use a bathroom in that village without having to do somebody's math homework. Great game, really, though I don't like how often it makes me feel stupid for hating math. On the other hand, there's a certain kind of logic puzzle it seems to think is hard that I just, you know, do.

I did eventually figure out that I didn't need to use algebra as much as it seemed I did. But I still hate the equivalency ones - is three black cats plus two white cats the same, more or less than four red cats plus one black cat? Gah!

The interface for Diabolical Box is better, because all the puzzles have a Memo function so you can take notes or draw on the screen, which you could only do with some of them in Curious Village.

In regards to feeding cats, watch out, he could become Sora's Favorite Person Ever, and you could be Backup Person. :) My cat dumped me for my now-husband after we moved in together. The cat comes back to me if my husband isn't around for a while, but definitely prefers him. Sigh.

Hee! I'll survive, though: I am still very much Nefer's Favorite Person Ever, although she doesn't mind Toby, especially when he scratches her ears really deeply. But Sora is such a momma's boy that it'll be a HUGE shift in his affections if it happens XD

Re Layton: I had to look online for the stupid What Are The Aliens Looking At One. IT WAS JUST UNFAIR

I gave the chickens and wolves puzzle to a kid whose parents were late picking him up. He spent like half an hour working out his irritation on the chickens.

I signed up for

yuletart! I think you should sign up for

yuletide to make it even. Although if you're behind it's of course your call. :D

I think I have to wait until after we get internet access to even begin to think if I might be able to. XD

But think of all the Internet-free time you have to work on commissions! Heh.

That would be fine if TOBY HADN'T BROKEN MY COMPUTER! (Well, ok, there seems to be a video card driver issue that needs to wait until we have internet access and can update the driver, but the upshot is that the computer is brokedy until it gets fixed.)

Are you using that problematic Earth Logic again? (I forget how much work you do on the computer versus pen and paper + computer.)

I even tend to do the sketching for my non-computer works online! I'm a messy sketcher and the ability to erase, or to change the color, lighten it up, and sketch over it to refine is so nice...

It makes sense! I just forget, especially since I don't do much art any more (YULETART TAKES CRAFTS WHEE).

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