Lemon fresh
Mar. 12th, 2012 06:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI read where cats are put off by the taste and smell of citrus. This has sunk into me so deep, I just read where the advice was to use lemon oil on your mission oak desk, and I thought "well, maybe not: don't want to drive the cats away."
Ahem. Barry is sitting beside the laptop here, chewing fresh lemon leaves from John's tree. Don't ask me.
In other news, I have a mission oak desk. Or I will have, on Thursday. It's old and big, and I like these attributes. It has one drawer that locks another. It has a file drawer, and other drawers. And now that I am a Whole New Chaz I should take good care of it, because I don't think it's been much cared for; and I should start while it's empty, yes? Hence the looking for instructions on how to care for old and tired mission oak furniture.
Also, I have a chair. The nice lady tried to sell me a blue one, but I wasn't having that. This one's brown.
In other other news, I have just changed the time zone on the LHP. This may not sound so dramatic, but I use Ubuntu, and the time/date option in the regular system settings is broken in this iteration. Last time, I had to poke about in fora and follow fairly complex directions for a fix that I thought would endure, but hasn't. This time? sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, and pick your city from a list. Which doesn't list Sunnyvale, or even San Francisco, but hey. I don't mind pretending I live in Los Angeles, if it gives me the time.
Which is 6.21 as I type, and I've been up an hour and awake ... some period longer. The boys have had Early Breakfast, and been prevented from sneaking outside, and also from disturbing Karen (I hope). I am currently preventing myself from working, by noodling on the internets. Hullo, internets. *noodles*
Ahem. Barry is sitting beside the laptop here, chewing fresh lemon leaves from John's tree. Don't ask me.
In other news, I have a mission oak desk. Or I will have, on Thursday. It's old and big, and I like these attributes. It has one drawer that locks another. It has a file drawer, and other drawers. And now that I am a Whole New Chaz I should take good care of it, because I don't think it's been much cared for; and I should start while it's empty, yes? Hence the looking for instructions on how to care for old and tired mission oak furniture.
Also, I have a chair. The nice lady tried to sell me a blue one, but I wasn't having that. This one's brown.
In other other news, I have just changed the time zone on the LHP. This may not sound so dramatic, but I use Ubuntu, and the time/date option in the regular system settings is broken in this iteration. Last time, I had to poke about in fora and follow fairly complex directions for a fix that I thought would endure, but hasn't. This time? sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, and pick your city from a list. Which doesn't list Sunnyvale, or even San Francisco, but hey. I don't mind pretending I live in Los Angeles, if it gives me the time.
Which is 6.21 as I type, and I've been up an hour and awake ... some period longer. The boys have had Early Breakfast, and been prevented from sneaking outside, and also from disturbing Karen (I hope). I am currently preventing myself from working, by noodling on the internets. Hullo, internets. *noodles*