photo not-really-meme-sort-of-thing

[wook77]

Fic tomorrow but for today - kaalee wanted pictures of my feet and wendy wanted pictures of my new house. We're still finishing up crap (slowest unpacking evah) but I've taken a few of some of the cooler bits of the painting I've been doing. I also took a few photographs during a lull in one of the monsoon storms while getting off the highway (yes, I was stopped at the time for most of them).

Under the cut and probably not dial-up friendly.



I really need a pedicure. Really bad:


No really, I do:


If you're not horrified by my ugly beat up feet (dude, I didn't know that scratch was that huge), here's some of the house -

Study/Den/Guest Room (in progress,obviously):



Guest Bathroom (in progress):


Breakfast nook:


Kitchen (please to be noting the double wall ovens. Those three words almost make me squeegasm just typing them out):



Loft-ish thing (bonus room? and yes, I do love my Darth Vader phone. It does the breathing when it rings. Talk about freaky in the bedroom.):


Another look at the bonus room:


Best thing about Arizona Monsoon Season - Bright sunshine in one spot, torrents of rain in another:


see?


And a rainbow while I was writing a sort of DA Boys Orgy. I think it's a sign:


ETA: I was talking to kaalee about how I don't have any earlobes. She didn't believe me/couldn't figure that out - see in this photo (please ignore giant brown blob. My battery is dying and the flash doesn't work the greatest...), I have no earlobe. My ear goes straight in. Look, ma, no dangly earlobe! -




Anyone else have anything they'd like to see? As long as it isn't horribly embarrassing, I'm more than willing. I have to go buy a cord for the camera as my father took it with him when he went back to PA (even though it didn't fit his camera) but I'll upload as soon as I get a chance.

Comments

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's genetic, whether your earlobes hang down or not. There's a term for it but damned if I can remember it...

Wikipedia to the rescue! "Free" and "attached". You have attached earlobes, but they are still there, silly. ;) That means that both your parents have attached earlobes, since that's the recessive.

*has free earlobes*

Those scenery pictures are pretty!!!

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

pssst: what's the other 5%, re: your icon?

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Liquid awesome.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

but... but... I called mum and dad and my sisters and my brother. I'm the only one in the family with the attached ones.


Does this mean that my parents aren't really my parents?

[acromantular.livejournal.com]

Yes! Definitely adopted.

Or else they're both heterozygous for the gene, (ie both have a copy of the dominant and recessive verion of the allele, meaning the dominant wins, and they have free earlobes) and thus you had a 1/4 chance of inheriting the recessive from each, and have the recessive attached version.

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

Seriously, I can't believe I even temporarily spaced out on that. I'm totally going to get fired from my job if anyone there finds out. "You! Out of the genomics company!"

... This is why all I do now is program and not, you know, science.

[acromantular.livejournal.com]

;D

[incapricious.livejournal.com]

no, it means I was being an idiot. your parents both carry one copy of the attached earlobe gene (everyone has 2 copies... so one of theirs is free and the other attached, and since free is dominant, theirs are free). and you got one copy of attached from each of them.

I got an A in genetics in college, I swear. I just... ya know, temporarily forgot the really basic stuff.

*embarrassed*