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November 22nd, 2006

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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 05:59 pm
For some reason, all day, the second page back of my friends list is dated Nov.17. The third page reverts to the current day. The posts that have the Nov. 17 listing vary, but the top of the second page is always the Making Light syndication with a link to the article about Village Voice contemplating dumping "Tom Tomorrow."

On another front, there's two-thirds of a good movie packed into five-ninths of "Deck the Halls." (yeah, well, I didn't have to see "Happy Feet," at least) The other four-ninths is repetition beyond the effective point, scatology that doesn't help the story, people stating the obvious, and excesses that don't contribute to the "over the top" feeling.

On yet another front, I'm wearing my emergency backup glasses again which means I can't see a damned thing at near and mid distance. I can take off my glasses for the very near, but the middle distance, I have no way of coping with. The middle distance means the computer screen. Far stuff is fine. I always put my glasses in the same place on the bedstead as I climb into the bed. Sometimes I don't qujite reach the bedstead shelf and my glasses end up in the pillows. I tore my bed apart but didn't find my glasses. I hope I do. The only other time this happened I found my glasses the next day, tangled in my favorite "crunchy blanket" which I usually crunch up into a pillow shaped thing and sleep with just like a child sleeps with their security blanket.

Anyway, this time I've already shaken up my blanket and it's not there.

I never lost my glasses. My keys, my phone, my shoes, my bills, my checkbook, money, jump drive . . . but not my glasses!!!

on yet another front, all of a sudden I have lots of ideas for Marek and Jackson stories. I kind of think they might get boring if I wrote them all, though, because almost all of them end the same way. I do know of at least one that doesn't end with Jackson walking off, congratulating himself for not getting involved with Marek, and Marek moping: it's sort of more perverted than I usually write, though, so we'll see if it really gets written the way I think it goes.

Americans are really weird. We didn't stop the Israelis from blowing the country to bits repeatedly -- but we fucking airlifted 300 stray dogs and cats to be adopted here.
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 06:27 pm
So I was trying to figure out why I keep getting friended by people half my age (and younger), and I figured out that the latest is Miguel, who is the semi-sane friend of my son. This is awkward: but don't go away, Miguel, you and I both know that Awkward is your Forte. I am Not Dismayed.

If I say anything in here that embarrasses you for any reason, it's your own damned fault and I am not responsible, okay? If I say anything in here that embarrasses Frank, well, you probably won't see it, because I have a grownups filter for stuff I don't want my children or their friends to read.

So there.

Oh, and the Firefox on the computer I have to use at Gloria's saves every subject line I've ever used in lj or email and helpfully suggests that I might want to use them to head this entry. "about Lark and Sacteren's ending:" "Another pernicious movie:" "Fw: Another Tome Question:" "My footprint:" "distances:" "Gloat. impulse buy:" "Okay, another:" and two chicken lady headers.

Seriously, why is Firefox so stupid? It's supposed to be our savior from Internet Explorer.