Regarding The Big LJ Outtage, clayfoot said (in phaedra_amunet‘s journal), “A massive power failure in San Francisco yesterday from around 3pm Pacific, onwards. Millions of emo kids and fanfic writers were ready to take their own lives, but they had nowhere to post their suicide notes.”
•July 25, 2007 • 3 Comments
My LJ entries aren’t showing up on people’s pages. *sigh* Don’t know why, yet.
EDIT: Posting seemed to have fixed it.
Someday somebody else besides me / Will call me by my stage name
•July 25, 2007 • 1 CommentAre any of you out there using Wesabe for financial stuffs? I’m considering it, but I want an opinion from my social web before I get into another social web. *laugh*
•July 23, 2007 • 4 Comments
So I’m listening to NPR on the way home, and they start off an HP segment by talking about the spoiler issue, etc etc. Then the guy says, “Here is our spoiler-free thought on the matter”.
And then goes on to say that the first person dies on page X.
*sigh*
I mean, yeah, everyone knows it’ll happen, and honestly, even if he said who or what circumstance, I doubt it would be spoiled for me – I don’t deal with reading in quite that way. Meaning, I take my time with the world, rather than gathering plot points like bulleted lists.
I just remember thinking, “Why, NPR guy? You could have said ‘this book is dark’ or whatever without having to lay out a page number.” And considering it came just after the story about spoilers, you’d think he knew better.
Ah well. I’m almost done rereading 6 – I’ll get to 7 when I get to it.
Geekery all around
•July 23, 2007 • Comments Off on Geekery all aroundWe’re in the midst of the 6 weeks of Future Products indexes, which means I’ll be enmeshed in some seriously crazy tables and charts at work. Yay, my favorite. However, there’s a gameplan set for less and less (paper) Production work, which is a genuine yay.
Protected: goddamnit!
•July 23, 2007 • Enter your password to view comments.A very long weekend it was.
•July 23, 2007 • 19 CommentsFriday came and went at work, and then Lucy came back from camp, and we spent the evening together. We broke up, and then we went to the Harry Potter event at Meijer, which was packed full of people, so decided to pick up the book on Saturday.
Saturday morning was spent feeding the horses at Camp Linden. They let me lead some of the horses, clipping them to the fence, and to play with the whip to keep one of them from chewing on the fence after the meal (his favorite thing). We then picked up Potter 7 with no fuss at all, and came home so I could reread 6 while she read 7.
In the evening, we shipped off to Al’s place for a fun and entertaining party. Anne rode with us, and we met George there, and all sorts of fun people were there that evening. I totally forgot Kendra’s in town!
Lucy left this morning for camp, and I spent the next 6 or 7 hours moving shay from that dump in ypsi to a lovely and roomy apartment in Farmington Hills. It is such a good move. George again helped out with his truck, his muscle, and the entertainment of his baby son. I cut my finger something good while moving a broken mug to safety, and the Hello Kitty band-aid is making typing a total bitch.
Finally, I met up with a whole bunch of people who wanted to go to Detroit to see They Might Be Giants play at the Max (where I saw the Star Wars DSO show). I saw lots of excellent people, and missed out on a few more (like juniper200), but those who remained went to a coney in Royal Oak to converse, shoot straw wrappers, and otherwise get in each other’s business. :) It was a good experience, and it was great to let myself go a little in a show that harkens back to my pre-nerdcore roots. TMBG were nerdy long before it was cool – strange and weird without any apology.
And yes, I just “threw in there” that Lucy and I broke up, because I really don’t know what to say about it. I trust her explicitly, care about her, and don’t want anyone to doubt for a moment what an amazing and wonderful woman she is. For a number of reasons, it wasn’t working, but she has been heart-wrenchingly sweet to me, both this weekend and over the span of our relationship. That’s all I really want to say about it right now.
If you’re in Lansing next weekend, please help us move Lucy to her new apartment complex a few miles south (Dover’s Crossing, for those who know). Currently, it will just be her and I, but she doesn’t have much to move, so a helper or two would be gratefully accepted.
•July 20, 2007 • 3 Comments
I look up at the sky outside the window here at work, and it is so painfully blue, with flat clouds floating past, each one at almost precisely the same height. It gives you the depth of the sky, from here – you get a feel for the staggering amount of space in the atmosphere.
Of course, my Mp3 player (which is what gets me through these long days) is playing Gabriel’s Sky Blue. It’s entirely appropriate, today.
Hsrry Potter and the spoiler fit
•July 19, 2007 • 2 CommentsLook, everyone, jsut stop reading communities. I mean, are your personal friends actually such assholes that they’re ruining the book for you? I don’t know them, but I doubt it.
Even with my communities, I’ve not seen any hint of any spoilerage. Not even in