Hi! I'm Tippi Hedron!

I'm living in mini version of the The Birds right now and it's starting to freak me out.

Last week, a robin decided it was going to fly through the picture window in our kitchen. Thank goodness there's a lilac bush in front of it that prevented him building up enough speed to kill himself, but not for the lack of trying. All day long. Closing the blinds to reduce a non-existent reflection didn't help. He was obviously being driven mad by something.

Yesterday, a lovely little male goldfinch decided he wanted in. He's tried every window in the front of the house multiple times and he woke us up this morning trying to get in through the bedroom window. We have video of this now. Again, the blinds are down and it's drizzling out. No freaking reflections! In between trying to fly through the windows, he's sitting in the maple tree out front and being the loudest goldfinch we've ever had around our house. I'm sitting in my livingroom and I can hear him banging on the windows upstairs.

I wonder if it's safe to walk up the driveway and get the mail. *raises eyebrows*

An Idiot Sits On My Couch

Downloads GIMP.

Ooooh, shiny!

Fiddles and tinkers.

Ooooh, more shiny!

Creates banner instead of writing.

Ooooh, very shiny and plays with journal configuration instead of writing.

Creates cover for story.
Creates icon from cover for story.

Repeat.

Repeat.

Uploads covers.
Uploads icons.
Adds covers to first and last part of stories instead of writing.

Ooooh, shiny!

Adds icons to all parts of stories (all 30+ parts).

Ooooh shiny!

Decides to reduce icon count for future non-payment for extra icons, default OK for most posts.

Ooooh shiny!

'Fixes' name on new cover icons because not sorting as expected (missed dash, extra space.

Damn.

Not so shiny...

Memo to incredibly stoopid self: Icons use the name to match on for display, else use default icon. You change the freaking name, you will end up with the default for all the posts that used to point to the old icon name.

Idiot.

Re-adds icons to all parts of stories (all 30+ parts).

Ooooh shiny!