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| Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | | 2:01 pm |
| | Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | | 5:46 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 11:59 pm |
a fawn in the garden
there was a fawn in the back garden today! I didn't see it, but Aja shot this video | | Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | | 12:07 am |
so it was a mini early birthday
so today, I gave Aja 2 of her birthday presents early. One intentionally, one not so much. She's making a cake for a combined her and her dad and her dad's girlfriend birthday party on saturday. To make this easier, I gave her an early birthday present of a cake decorating kit she had been wanting for a while. Then, when we were in Harris Teeter, the Ian Rennie Luck struck again. Let me explain. I don't really have bad luck per se, so much as I have weird luck. Today was a case in point. For years Aja has been looking for this hot cereal called Cream Of Rice. People in the UK, imagine Reddy Brek only made of rice. People in the US, imagine Cream of Wheat only made of... barley. No, wait, Sorghum. No, wait, millet. I'm pretty sure it's millet. Anyhoo, every time we have gone into a grocery store since about 2003, she has checked the hot cereals shelf for cream of rice, and we have never ever found it. So, for her birthday, I ordered her 12 boxes of it from Amazon. Last night, we were in Harris Teeter, and GUESS WHAT THEY HAD ON THE SHELF! Aja was excited, but she could see from my face I wasn't. I tried to fake joy. She said "You got me cream of rice for my birthday, didn't you?" So yeah, two presents for Aja, hope she likes them. Oh, and I just finished making something for her, and it's really awesome and I want her to have it, but I have to wait to her birthday to give it to her. so yeah, weird day but a happy one. | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 10:43 am |
| | Friday, June 5th, 2009 | | 1:49 am |
| | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | | 3:02 pm |
accidents will happen, it's only hit & run
some tosser in a huge truck nearly drove into the side of our car this morning. Cock. tired today, I've somehow got into the habit of staying up until 1:30, which is a horribly bad idea. Got to get some proper sleep and reset myself. | | Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 | | 10:26 pm |
bugger
after all our careful planning and attempts not to lose stuff from the old failing hard drive (imaging it onto a new drive, etc), a moment's carelessness on my part wiped it all unrecoverably. Bye bye photos from the 2007 trip bye bye folder of mp3 mixtape stuff byebye a hundred other things I'm starting to forget about. Fuck. | | Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | | 3:18 pm |
simcity.jpg
This was somewhere in Texas in the seventies. It convinces me that Sim City was not a game but rather a starkly realistic commentary on the coming Franchise Cities.  Damn, but that is a soulless place. | | 1:17 pm |
the grind
I have to get better at keeping this. All right, highlights of the last 24 hours: Book club last night was good. Nice, active discussion which helped to kill the bad mood I had going. I liked Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom while recognizing that it was a book with problems, the chief of which being that Cory Doctorow is better at doing cool than at doing good. When we got home, we had fried chicken and didn't watch So You Think You Can Dance because we got home after it started. It's weird how much I've turned against American Idol as being a dull cattle market but not against SYTYCD. I think it's because the things that people do on So You Think You Can Dance actually take pure objective skill. You can't do this without being very very good and very very physical. we're currently about 50% of the way through getting the desktop working again. The info off the old hard drive has been copied, and we have two choices. Either start entirely afresh with a new install of Windows XP (not touching Vista thankyouverymuch) or use the image from the knackered hard drive and boot from that, with all the problems of it possibly not working very well. The downside to the new install is that it doesn't recognize the modem or anything. We're looking at options. Sleep last night was hard to come by, it happened in bursts rather than in a long chunk. Part of this was cats, part of this was warm house, part of this was Aja having to get up and mess with the computer. Work today is long and slow. Oh well, I get a 3 day weekend, with aja torturing me with gardening. | | Monday, May 18th, 2009 | | 8:57 am |
a new harry potter film? That was nice 6 months ago.
so, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is finally coming out. Shame I won't be seeing it. This film was made and ready to go for its originally announced November 2008 release date. It wasn't pushed back because of not being finished, but instead because Warner Brothers through they would make more money from it as a summer release. Basically, them trying to gouge as much money as possible. So, fuck em. Had it come out in November, I would have been happy to go to the movie theater and pay a truly ridiculous amount of money to see it, probably on opening night. As they pushed it back, I'm not going to bother. Bollocks to them. I don't mind a piece of art taking a long time to make. I fully recognize that (in the words of Neil Gaiman) "George RR Martin is not your bitch". I will never be pissed off because of how long it takes someone to [i]write[/i] a book, or make a film, or whatever. That's the creative process and it takes as long as it takes. I reserve the right to be pissed off when a distributor holds up a finished piece of art in order to try and claw a few more dollars from the punters. | | Saturday, May 9th, 2009 | | 12:38 pm |
grr
some fucker stole our car stereo Aja got my that stereo for my birthday in 2006. It played CDs of MP3s. Pissed off about it now. Still, my own fault for not locking the passenger door. | | Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | | 1:17 am |
| | Monday, April 27th, 2009 | | 12:50 pm |
bad things and good things
bad things: it's really hot, the AC is playing up, I'm really tired, the cats are idiots, there are points where I never want to do any more gardening again ever, and the guy fixing the AC won't be here until Wednesday evening. Good things: I love aja, she loves me, I got a story published today: http://www.365tomorrows.com/04/27/eden/ | | Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 | | 4:59 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | | 7:33 pm |
I thought I was out, but the memes pulled me back in
1. Post a list of 15 fandoms. 2. Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each fandom 3. When guessed, bold the fandom, put in brackets who got it and a sentence why you like the character/person. 1. Life On Mars Gene Hunt, guessed by Ellen 2. Y: The Last Man 355, guessed by James 3. Bagpuss 4. Firefly 5. Red Dwarf Arnold Judas Rimmer, guessed by Ellen 6. Torchwood Aja got Ianto 7. A Song Of Ice And Fire 8. The Invisibles (comic, not TV series) James got it with Lord Fanny 9. Doctor Who 10. True Blood Aja got it with Lafayette 11. Captain Britain & MI:13 James got Pete Wisdom 12. The West Wing James got Josh 13. Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy James got Marvin 14. Good Omens Crowley, guessed by James 15. BlackadderBaldrick guessed by James | | 7:02 pm |
hi
feels like ages since I posted anything haven't really felt like much that's interesting is happening. Mum & Dad's visit was nice. Work has been chaos. I'm tired, despite sleeping until eleven today. I'm not sure if I need a break or just need a project. So, how is everyone else? | | Friday, April 10th, 2009 | | 4:56 pm |
today's best thing
a bunch of ultraconservative arseholes are starting an initiative called 2 Million For Marriage, to try and gather the signatures of the bigoted against extending marriage rights to same sex couples. But that's not the funny partThe funny part is that they're calling it 2M4M. In case you don't know, M4M is slang in certain places for, essentially "men seeking men". So they have essentially named their organization "2 men looking for a third man". Nice. Even better, someone grabbed up the 2M4M domain under the name "2 Men For Marriage". The best thing about stupid opponents is they do half the work for you. | | Sunday, April 5th, 2009 | | 10:42 pm |
"will you think I'm disgusting if I cover my hands in mayonnaise and sit behind you?" No context is needed for the awesome things Aja says | | 6:45 pm |
because everyone else is doing it
Leave a comment and I'll try to come up with three members of the appropriate sex for you to decide which one you would fuck, chuck off a cliff or marry. Post your responses in your own LJ. Aja left me (in her words): "Tilda Swinton Susan Sarandon YOUR GIRLFRIEND FROM THE VIDEO STORE" Background: When we lived in Gastonia, there was a local video store we went to where this girl worked. She seemed like a nice person and once said I had a "cute accent". Aja has been ragging me about her for five years now. Anyway: I couldn't marry Tilda Swinton. If I did, she would hook up with a painter from new zealand and leave me at home with the kids. However, I think she is utterly beautiful, so she's be the one I sleep with. There's always been something odd about Susan Sarandon for me. I've never found her that attractive, and while I'm sure she makes Tim Robbins very happoy, I just don't like her. So off the cliff she goes. Meaning I would marry the very nice girl from the video store. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, AJA? Ellen left me: "Death, Desire, Delight. (It was that or Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick- which you could do as well if you really wanted...)" Hmm... Death is a wonderful character, but has always unnerved me a little. She'd have to be the one I'd sleep with. Delight eventually becomes Delirium, but I won't hold that against her. Marry. I always hated Desire. I always found her venal and know-it-all-y and ultimately horrible, which I'm sure was the point. Over the cliff. as to the others: Granny Weatherwax is the hardest one to know what to do about. I very much doubt she'd want to marry or have sex with me. Providing she has a working broomstick, she can survive the cliff. So it comes down to the choice: Nanny Ogg certainly knows a thing or two about both husbands and lovers, however she has a habit of surviving her husbands by several decades (probably from heavy usage) so I'd sleep with her, and marry Magrat. Providing that Verence doesn't object. |
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