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Actually, I think it’s the other way, Van. I’m a fairly energetic and bouncy person.
I actually enjoy when he’s home. I don’t have to make the bed in the morning, the lunch time dishes are done for me. I could almost get used to this.
Bouncy !?! A Bunny !?!
Hmmm I’ll be in my bunk.
More like a Tigger!!!
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I’m the only one
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is Tiggers are wonderful chaps
They’re loaded with vim and with vigor
They love to leap in your laps
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I’m the only one.
Tiggers are wonderful fellahs.
Tiggers are awfully sweet.
Everyone elses is jealous,
And thats why I repeat…
The wonderful thing about Tiggers
Are Tiggers are wonderful things
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs
They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, FUN!
But the most wonderful thing about Tiggers
Is I’m the only one.
Yes, I’m the only one
I’m sure the last dinosaur had a more downbeat look on being the only one.
:razz:
Back to the grind.
grind… grind… grind…
Jack, I just told Todd that if you guys don’t treat him well during Westercon you’ll have to answer to me. So behave!
This one from the the latest Ansible made me chuckle:
Outraged Letters. Jordin Kare on sf grant proposals (A263): ‘For the decade or so during which I was a freelance rocket scientist (“Will design satellites for food”) I would often appear on SF convention panels surrounded by authors. When asked to introduce myself, I would explain that I, too, wrote both science fiction and fantasy, with the science fiction generally being titled “Technical Proposal” and the fantasy titled “Budget Proposal”.’
That is cute, Van :)
Good morning.
I’m alive.
It’s a start.
The pain has reduced to a dull throb so I’m at the tail end of the migraine. I finally ate something too and it is staying down.
I have a doctor appointment in a few hours for something completely different, but I’ll be sure to bring this up.
hmmm should have pics of our awesome vacation posted today. :)
Hope you feel better soon, Cj. I know you have month end coming up, too and spreadsheets can be a bitch with a throbbing head.
Trying not to think about spreadsheets. Oh the nightmare that will be tomorrow’s workload. Pfft.
I am feeling markedly better moment by moment though, I must admit so yay for that!
Yah for a pain free Cj.
Nomad Scry: That’s right. Although the actual Jaffee was providing the voice, the words and thoughts were fictional. Why 7? Just because 7 is the go-to number when you need a number related to supernatural matters.
Time to think about lunch!
I put some pics up if anyone wants to see our fun trip pics. I’ll be locking them down to friends only after a day or so, but my mom and so forth aren’t on flickr so for right now they are open.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovelongandprosper/sets/72157620775365202/
I actually have that Tigger song on my iPod….
I’ll be nice to every Todd I meet at Westercon, Bunny.
Cj, big ears?
Cj, will you always have Perris?
Random comment since I’m on my touch -silly computer is only at 13% of its scan
Aww, nice pictures, Cj. :-)
Thanks, Amy.
Yes, TEB, I will always have Perris and luckily I have a lifelong friend there :)
Very cute pics, Cj!
37%
This is a daily check-in.
Ouch, it’s hot.
It took five hours to do a virus check on my computer. Why? Because I’m an idiot. I had my pocket drive hooked up to do my regular backup. Dilly virus checker decided to check that drive too. The reason this is doubly silly is because I don’t usually do my backup until after I’ve done the virus check so I don’t copy infected file. It check an old backup unnecessarily. :)
Just finished the first of the Sookie Stackhouse books. I think I was underwhelmed.
TEB: That’s how my wife & I feel too. Though she has enjoyed the series on HBO.
WeWWw picked up season one on blu-Ray but haven’t started it yet
CP: Percussion Gun — White Rabbits
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Hi, just making idle workplace conversation.
CW: Colbert. Jeff Goldblum gave a nice eulogy for himself after a New Zeland TV station mistakenly pronounced him dead ;)
Okay Arizona time check.
It’s 23.55 here.
..and 14.55 DP times..so what time is in Arizona?
Some days it pays to call celebs press agents rather than listen to Twitter
We finally get Franken, that’s the big news today…
17:00 here
Miss Amy I am looking for you…
According to Facebook, I’m 24% gay. Man is my girlfriend going to be pissed.
New Wander Radio..nice.
Careful Van… It might blow your speakers…
Next month is the answer.
I think Jack is having a moment of media overload.
This is I never turn the TV on. It is off and the children are playing in their rooms.
I’d have immense joy right now were it not for this migraine.
Oh, nevermind. I’m having joy anyway! Happy Fricken joy I tell you!
Oh so I went to the doctor and to add to my joy (see above) I am now 40. Welcoming me into this lovely year of life is mammograms. TMI? I don’t care, I’m telling you all anyway. I have never had one and now I get to go do that.
I also have to have some more lovely bloodwork done so they can keep my crazy bad anemia down to a dull roar. Boo for needles.
New Wander Radio you say?
Booting up iTunes.
Oh and one more thing. The doctor prescribed this medicine called Midrin for me. I hope it works because end of month spreadsheet hell starts at midnight and I have to take my Gram to the doctor tomorrow too.
http://www.migraineawarenessgroup.com/treatment/promidrn.htm
Oooh it might make me dizzy and sleepy. So.. basically.. nothing different than my usual self. :P
Not exactly like clockwork (I had trouble with the embedding) the last Saturday is a music show…
CJ – I do Mammograms… no charge.
*cough*
:oops:
The Harry Potter preview looks great!
Neil Degrasse Tyson was on Colbert last night.
CP: F*ck You – Lily Allen
WNDRWolf: I got your e-mail. :-)
It’s been a crazy month-end for me, too, and it will continue to be crazy through this weekend. I’m planning on making a recording session part of the craziness, though.
Okay. Done checking Facebook. Time for bed. Good night, Pan.
Crap. I forgot to manually D/L the new Wander. Bah.
Oh, Michael Bay.
Morning Pan,
A friends mother (in her 60′s) calls her mammogram procedure ‘The Titty Squeeze’..ahem.
That was your useless bit of information for a Wednesday morning.
Well, that’s an interesting bit of imagery to start the day.
Cool pics, CJ. Though, if I was going to take the TARDIS out for a spin, I think I’d go back farther than 2.5 years :)
I just remembered another thought I had while I was writing Episode 6 of Questors: There are 7 people in the questing party. Trucker Overdrive (within the story, that is) thinks that entertaining a number of spectators at least equal to the number of performers is a fair minimum standard for the success of a play.
Getting ready for our road trip to Kansas. I hope my butt still holds its shape after 14 hours in the car.
Morning Pan! Canada Day Holiday here – Woo Hoo!
Cj; I’ve had them. They can either be meh, or hurt like hell depending upon how things are feeling at the time.
I’m awake.
The pain of the migraine has decreased … some. I think the medicine works in a weird way.
Today is 12 page spreadsheet day.
And I have to take my Gram to the doctor.
And I have to write my show.
And I have to unpack from the trip still.
I need a wife.
Cj: I can relate to the work thing. Even though it’s technically a holiday here, I’m still sitting at my desk. I have to do some work or I’ll be completely overwhelmed tomorrow with a very tight deadline.
Oh, and now that my hubby’s home for the summer, I have a maid, if not a wife.
Rhettro: If you are in the area and have time, give me a call.
Comment 667.
Does that mean ditto had 666?
That’s ditto. Just beastly
There. Just finished downloading six hours of podcasts.
Only six TEB???
I remember when I did that… 4 years ago…
This morning I had 8+ hours
Muwahahahahahahaha
Forget Bad Horse. ;)
I had to seriously cull my podcast listening, Wolf. Right now I’m at about 30 hours a week.
ditto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5BrE1Pi5cU&feature=fvst
Happy Canada Day!
I had to seriously cull my podcast listening about 2 years ago–has it really been so long?–to about 10 hours a week. I just couldn’t find the time for more than 1.5 hours of listening a day. Talking podcasts tend to interfere with my concentration.
I have a question for you Americans. Since your holiday falls on the Saturday, will you get Friday or Monday off instead?
We get Friday off.
Friday Off!
My work is pretty mindless, I can have podcasts on in the background. I really only get a half listen on what is being said, but it’s enough for me.
Although I admit it’s harder to listen to stuff with my hubby home. He keeps coming into the office wanting to talk.
If my husband leaves for work at some point today, I plan to watch season 1 of Buffy while I work. Right now, hubby is playing Magic the Gathering on the Xbox 360 so I just get to sit here and work while the horrible music plays and he keeps yelling things like, “Doh!” and “oh no!” and “Ugh!”
It’s soooo entertaining.
;)
Friday off here as well. Had the 4th been a Sunday, I’d have had Monday off. It’s almost rational :)
I find I can pay enough attention to most discussion/interview type podcasts while I work to get the gist of them. Though I don’t catch all the details.
But, story telling type podcasts I can only listen to in the car or while I’m out walking. With those, if I’m paying close enough attention to follow the story, then I’m just staring at my computer monitor like a zombie instead of working.
Pretty much the same here Ed. And it depends on what kinds of things I have to do at work. Unfortunately, when I have to spend several hours writing a single email describing why something has to be done a certain way, then I really can’t listen to much.
I also refuse to get a backlog of podcasts again. With few exceptions, like Deadpan, if I get behind on a podcast series, I just delete them.
CP: Run So Fast — Echo Slightly
http://insomniaradio.net/2009/07/01/echo-slightly-run-so-fast/
Reminds me of Jakalope, but a lighter industrial feel.
I seem to be keeping on top of my podcast list at the moment, I don’t want to think of how many hours that accounts for.
Change of subject:
We have one neighbour who is really picky. If you have one weed on your lawn, he’ll complain about how it looks. If your house needs painting, you’ll hear about it. Recently the neighbour between him and us moved out and decided to rent his place out. The grumpy neighbour was complaining to me about it saying they better keep the yard up and upset that the renters had three young kids (they make messes and noise you know).
The reason I mention this is because the neighbour across the street has their music up really, really loud (mummy and daddy must be out of town camping). Hubby and I are waiting to see how long it takes for Mr. Grumpy to complain.
ditto: Yes, imag1narynumber at hot mail dot com. :-)
I’m going to have to hunker down on this. The third basic pointer-related program has me baffled. Doing research a bit tonight if I have time. Feeling a bit light-weight.
ditto: Or I could e-mail your LJ account.
First day back to work. Walls closing in . . . coffee . . . lapsing.
I listen to the vast majority of my podcasts at work. I’ve got surround-sound speakers hooked up to my (Windows) box.
Cj: Indeed, very cute pictures.
XBox 360 has Magic: the Gathering?
(I will not buy XBox… I will not buy XBox… I will not buy XBox…)
A half hour. That’s how long it took. Music has stopped now.
No sleep till Babylon….beautiful.
imag1narynumber: feel free to email me questions. I don’t mind.
Hubby’s complaining (good naturedly) that he had to put in about 45 minutes of work today. Poor baby, I’ve been at my desk for four hours already.
Yes WR 41 was almost as good as that one I won’t mention again.
Cough
Almost… I must be slipping. ;)
I won’t have time to listen to it until tomorrow!
Off to a Canada Day Rum Tasting/BBQ! Later Pan!
Why is it they don’t have rum tasting here in the States?
I like rum. My friends like rum. We should mingle.
I love rum. Especially of the Capt. Morgan Spiced Variety.
As for podcasts. I’m a terrible podcast listener. I d/l many of them. Put them on my iPod and only listen to Deadpan.
I say I’m GOING to listen to all these podcasts… and someday, I will.
But… I’m only loyal to Deadpan.
Little numbers! EVERYWHERE! aaahahahahahaahhahaggggggggggghhhhh!
Cj: Look out, one’s getting away and running up your sleeve.
Cap’n Morgan is… OK. It’s good for the price, and it mixes well.
Right now, when I go for a nice sipping rum, I reach for either Barrow’s Grand Reserve or Zaya (mmmm, Zaya).
I’m a rum philistine I’m afraid, only like it when it’s mixed into malibu (and even then it needs cola added).
I don’t really care for rum, especially when it is coconut flavored.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly has just started on Channel 5.
T G, TB, a t U – THE Classic Spaghetti western.
For a follow up, you should see if they’re playing “They Call Me Trinity” – the classic spoof of Spaghetti westerns.
I suppose rum is an acquired taste – so go out and acquire some!
Sorry – Rum Snob here –
A good rum is like a good whiskey: It should only be mixed with water (if anything), it will most likely be expensive, and no one will agree how it tastes.
I’ll stick to Scotch.
*hic*
ditto: That’s not a bad either.
I would still need to add cola to the most expensive rum to be able to drink the stuff.
I’ll get my coat.
I get Friday off, too. We usually have official meetings or teambuilding activities organized by our program supervisors on Fridays, but this week we don’t.
I just finished and submitted all my spreadsheets for this quarter! HUZZAH!!! In case any of you who have to do spreadsheets are still working on them: YOU CAN DO IT!!!
I’m just getting into drinking whiskey. Not bad, but right now I’m settling for cheap swill until I can feel less guilty about spending money on pain-go-bye-bye-juice.
I do enjoy a good sake now and again.
Other than that, tequila or Jager are fine and dandy with me
I’m for the most part spreadsheet-free.
Oh, and Up was amazing and wonderful.
ditto: Thanks much! I’ll be taking you up on that offer soon.
My S/O is much more into rum than I am, but I am getting to enjoy it more.
*end data burst*
I hope you RS232 interface was upto spec.
+r
Vanamonde: Yes no problems there, it’s just the PEBKAC.
This ad made me laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd1PLWICpBs
I agree with Vanamonde about the rum. It’s all pretty vile to me. . .
I’ll get my pants.
ZP turns his glare onto Sims 3:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/800-The-Sims-3
I’d slur my speech, but who’d notice.
I cannot stand Malibu Rum. Coconut flavor does not belong.
I’ve never tasted Scotch. I would like to.
Whiskey makes me grouchy so I avoid it.
I think I like Rum best because it’s tasty and makes me happy.
I do have some pretty amazing tequilas here though. My almond and coffee flavored tequilas are exceptionally yummy.
Pulling my spreadsheet back over my head again.
imag1narynumber: I sent you two word docs. Let me know if you get them.
ditto: Crap, no. I’m going to e-mail your LJ account.
yeah, that didn’t work. lots.
This now qualifies as WTF? I don’t get what’s gone wrong.
Re: hotmail, of course.
/unsolicitedadvice
You guys should just transfer whatever you are doing over Skype.
/unsolicitedadvice
I don’t have Skype.
hotmail tends to get blocked by many places.
Try ditto at acm dot org
I sent ya from another addy :-)
My brain is so completely fried right now.
Tempura batter and all that.
Great. Now I’m hungry.
CP: Pendulum — Ume
http://umemusic.com/sunshower/songs/Ume-EP-Pendulum.mp3
CW: Helvetica
First, where the hell is Justa JOe?
Second, I get Friday off. Since I have to fly to effing VA Beach Sunday — ALL day — I am also taking tomorrow off.
Rum = no. Whiskey, though = somebody stop me.
CW: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 1, episode 1. (while I work)
Dig Cordelia, Cj. “I see you’ve found the softer side of Sears.” LOL
My new blog post is complete! Click on my name if you want to read all about the awesome murder mystery party I went to last Friday.
Looks like fun, Amy! I look forward to reading it!
I’ve finished my biggest spreadsheet. Woot! Time for a break. :)
Morning Pan, need caffeine.
..or a cold shower.
Karl Malden checked out:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=agL7Ij2O4_vM