Fascinating Book

Last night I found an unexpected book: The Art of Spiritual Warfare (about the inner war of the spirit), based on Sun Tzu, written by a Swedenborgian minister!

So far, I'm enjoying it. More later, when I've gotten into the meat of it and I've had the chance to process it.

Computer Problems

I got home this evening, turned my laptop on, and couldn't figure out what the screen was so dark.

It turns out that the battery won't charge.

I took the adapter out, put it back in. No luck.
Tried different outlets.
Tried my daughter's identical adapter.
No luck.

Time to call Dell.

My LJ may be seriously curtailed for a while. I suspect I may have to send it back to get the battery swapped out. Fortunately, I'm pretty sure it's still under it's initial warranty.

But if my posts and/or responses are briefer than normal for a while, that's why.

(Although I may borrow my daughter's laptop in the morning before she wakes up.)

Halloween Quizzy-Meme

Most recently from oakmouse

Yes, I was deliberately perverse.
However: most of the wording is very close to the original and all the pairings are as given by the 'bot.

Halloween Meme

9thmoon creates a new deity of music from oakmouse, makhsihed and gnomic_noodler

a_belletrist goes trick or treating with kateri_thinks's raven

athenian_abroad haunts your jack o lantern

gnomic_noodler summons the undead armies of spring_heel_jim to steal your amber necklace

havah_prewett puts real eyeballs in your candy

kateri_thinks shows up with burning torches, pitchforks and a copy of Anne of Green Gables

laotzuribbon devours all your candy -- including the eyeballs

makhsihed steals your candy and leaves feathers

mam_adar calls 9thmoon to let them know the courtesan is in the trunk

oakmouse haunts rocket_jockey

queenofhalves TPs your ritual gear

quietearthling dresses up as a_belletrist and wins the costume contest

rocket_jockey buries uncrowned_king at the crossroads with a fresh mushroom on his heart

spring_heel_jim runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by laotzuribbon, wielding his undead army

uncrowned_king carves oakmouse's effigy on a pumpkin

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