mundane things

Got an antique cedar chest in the bedroom now. It's cool. I love it.

remembered to price auto insurance. When I moved to FL, my auto insurance said NO WAY, we won't insure FL drivers so I ended up with the Gecko. Personally I found them to be expensive. I did a little online quote gathering and unless there's a catch Progressive (for the same coverage naturally) is 400$/year cheaper. I don't know if they're any good, then again I don't know if the Gecko is either.

After talking about house buying at the lake, evil_little_dog's search and showing mom homes I'd buy if I stayed here, I took her advice and looked them up at the realtors. Never found 'my' house because I gave up in fear. This is a tiny town with nothing in it in the middle of nowhere, 60-100 miles from everything and for homes with the SAME square footage as my apartment and not that much land they wanted 130K+. For two bedrooms I'm in a quarter of a million dollar range. The houses I was look at much be 300K+

Dear Dell

Just when I think you can't suck more, you find a new level of suckage. I was ready to sit down and reinstall my software like you told me to, to fix the problem this dell has had since hte day I took it out of the box only to find that you did NOT send me all the start up discs. In fact you only sent me Word Perfect, the anti viral package I don't use since it's worthless and the monitor disc. There's no start up discs at all.

Oh and thanks for sending my document to the printer in a way I can't even begin to explain but hey, cramming all the paragraphs in to one line per page and then randomnly pulling other lines out to print by themselves was sure festive.


Die Dell.

Fic - Immolation of Man's Pride (FMA)

I'm just going to apologize in advance for spamming my flist. Every archive that I use that accepts erotica is either down or wants you to prove membership and that wont' work for what I need to do with this story, so, just bear with me. Thanks guys.

Immolation of Man’s Pride
D M Evans
Disclaimer - not mine
Rating FRMAO (Nc-17)
Pairing - Roy/Riza
Time Line - Manga verse Pre-Ishbal, based off revelations of ch 58 but mostly written before 59 came out so we can safely say it contains spoilers for 58 and is totally AU after that
Summary -Riza finds herself caught on the horns of her past and the pride of the powerful men in her life with dire consequences
Author’s Note #1 - written for the royai_fiction fanfiction challenge and I have to say now, this turned into a very long piece.
Author’s Note # 2 - thanks to evil_little_dog and mjules for the beta
Author’s Note #3 - As mentioned in the time line description, I started writing this after seeing just a smidgen of Riza’s life in ch 58 and extrapolating what life in Amestris might be like based on Edwardian life styles for women here on Earth (with allowances for the fact that there are differences in tech levels and that women seem to be much more free in Amestris). Certainly after ch 59 came out before I was done with this, there are things that are very different in canon but I liked this story enough to want to continue it as is so let’s just consider it an AU. The lifestyles depicted here came full force with what we learned about the Hawkeyes and the challenge picture “the Color Red”
Author’s Note #4 - the challenge prompts used are listed at the end. All the clothing and jewelry pictures embedded came from various Edwardian, Victorian and similar sales catalogs on line

( Chapter One )

( Chapter Two )