Happiness day 2: cloudy weather

Today I'm happy that it's cloudy and that it has been since Monday. This is the kind of weather baranduin likes, I think – cool, with a light breeze, some light rain from time to time. It's not usually my favorite but it's been nice for the sunburn recovery process. The skin on my face started peeling yesterday. My chest is still bright red and hurts, but a little less than it hurt two days ago.

I had a nice time playing with some MacBooks at the store yesterday. I had less fun with the netbooks but that might be because that particular store had very little interest in selling them. The salesperson I talked to was sort of what I think of as a stereotypical Mac guy – like, younger and cooler and better looking than me, not trying to lord it over you or do a hard sell, just really laid back and confident in the knowledge that his computer is a thousand times better than yours. :) I'm thinking I'm going to hold off on buying anything for now (will maybe wait and see how much money I have in late August, also see if the warranty on my old computer is good for anything), but I do want my next computer to be a Mac.

3 modern AU Merlin ficlets

As resolved in this post, I've answered several of the prompts at writing_game Week 61 with mini AUs. I think I'm better off sticking to Camelot from now on, but this was fun as an exercise. :) I'm using the same heading for all three:

Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur
Rating: G/PG
Warnings: none
Spoilers: none
Words: 200 each

( Insufferable (the hitchhiking AU) )

( The Deadline (the newspaper AU) )

( Hunger (the surfer AU) )