- Hah. Tonight’s CSO performance of The Damnation of Faust was in French. I hadn’t realized that going in. #
- @shadow Be Palin! I wanna see pictures of the ‘do, too! #
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Browsing Posts published in October, 2008
so for the past few weeks, for some reason, my tivo recording of ‘house’ has cut off just before the end of the episode — usually leaving off a minute or so of the tag plus the preview. i don’t know why this is happening; i’d suspect the tivo’s timer is off except it ntps daily and all my other shows are fine, it’s just house. maybe it’s one of fox’s dippy and innumerable reality crapfests on before it (what do i know, i don’t watch reality television) running late because america is too goddamn slow texting in who gets kicked off the island next. but it hasn’t been a problem, because i’ve also been tivoing its immediate successor, ‘fringe,’ so i just skip down to that and watch it next, and it picks up with maybe a second or so gap.
EXCEPT TUESDAY’S HOUSE. BECAUSE TIVO DIDN’T RECORD FRINGE BECAUSE IT THOUGHT IT WAS A RERUN. or maybe it was a rerun I DON’T KNOW IT DIDN’T RECORD IT but anyways i missed the very last bit of ‘house’ which means
– fair spoiler warning –
I SAW x KISS y AND THEN IT STOPPED AND FOX.COM DOESN’T PUT UP THE FULL EPISODES UNTIL 8 DAYS AFTER THEY AIR AND THAT MEANS NEXT WEDNESDAY AND OMG raaaaaaaaaa jkl;dfsjkdfsjkdal;dfsa;sda;lkdjsafdklfsjdfs;fdjsakdf;dafskjldsdfskl;dfsjkldfsjkl;dajkladfdfskjldfs;dsfjkdflsjkdfasjkldfajkldjkaldfjkldfsjk!!!!!!!!!
*pant* *pant* *pant*
thank goodness for bittorrent. with luck, i should be able to watch the ep in under 90 minutes. OMG WTF AUUGHGHGHGHHH. DON’T DO THIS TO ME, TIVO!!!!
update: AND NOW I HAVE TO WAIT TWO WEEKS FOR THE NEXT EPISODE?!?!?!?!!?! DAMN YOU, DEMOCRACY!!!!
- Hooray! I passed my French exam! Je suis très heureuse! À niveau six pour moi! #
- mmmmmmmmmmmmcofffffffeeeeeeeeeeeee. #
- NOOOO DAVID TENNANT NOOOOOO :( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm #
- @mizmoose Soo displeased by this news :( <3 his crazy-ass Doctor! #
- Think my next pair of chucks should be red. Hi-tops probably, though lo-tops are, as always, appealing for their simplicity. #
- Loaned my car out for the wknd to a friend, and some truck threw a rock at my windshield. Stupid truck. I do not approve. #
- Hey, I passed 100,000 plays on last.fm. Go me! #
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- Can now say have done a jump. OK, it was a hop. But still, a JUMP. While wearing knives strapped to my feet and on a sheet of ice. SKILLZ. #
- Am so in <3 with ice skating. SO MUCH AWESOME. #
- Full of ache this morning due to skating related exertion last night. Fortunately it’s all good ache, no pain. Wanna do that again! #
- Mmmm, falafel. #
- Dear Linux Forum User: If you don’t know what they mean by “<arch>,” perhaps you should get a friend to build your kernel modules for you. #
- Dying laughing as I discover the source for a sample used on Dean Grey’s American Edit is the Pimsleur French I I just got. #
- For homework in French class, I just wrote what is probably the world’s worst CV, because I have no French sysadmin vocabulary. Woe! #
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- @robotviki This whole snow thing is bullshit. I demand autumn back. #
- @chowbok yeah! Sorry. I was going to hit you on IM today but lost track in all the breakage at work. Tomorrow? #
- Find self mesmerized by AA.com offer for cheap ord/lhr tix for next weekend. OMG WANNA GO. #
- This feature-absence is deeply, deeply lame: http://tinyurl.com/5oujkr #
- SCORE! Got my ticket request in for Obama Electionpalooza ‘08! Anyone wanna be my plus-one? #
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- Weather says with this cold snap, it might snow tonight. I do not approve. #
- It is snowing out there. It is freaking snowing. This is not right. #
- @mizmoose Tell me about it!! What the hell, Mother Nature? #
- Why are there no good bagel places around here?? WHY? WHY??? #
- Seriously. Do I have to frigging move to New York to find a good bagel or some matzoh ball soup? #
- Just splurged on the complete set of the West Wing. $115 on sale. Already have 1st 3 series, but remaining 4 are $45 each, never on sale. #
- Just got congratulated by a VIP end-user on some of the work I did over the weekend. Nearly makes up for management completely ignoring it. #
- @shadow http://tinyurl.com/5d3ofh=xs_gb_rss_47101/?ccmID=380205&tag=rssfeeds-20 #
- @jkknorr You and me both, bud, you and me both. Hey, remember when the First Lady went drinking with CJ, Donna, and Amy? Beat that, Laura! #
- I keep turning my head surreptitiously to peer out the window, expecting to see evil, evil snowflakes falling. #
- OMGWTFBBQ UNHAPPY #
- This is the point where I’m going to regret not going out on the balcony and cleaning the windows before they blocked it off, isn’t it? #
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they are doing work on the balconies on our building. like, the sort of work that involves cutting off the railings and taking them away, before demolishing some of the concrete and replacing it.
eep!
- Reading a modern-setting mystery in which it is remarked that, our heroine, “Despite her Chicago homeland, she had never built a fire.” WTF? #
- I mean, seriously, does the author think people in Chicago live in tiny cottages in the woods, hunting deer for our suppers? In 2008? #
- @shadow But… that wouldn’t require building a fire in a fireplace, it would mostly entail running. A hundred years ago. #
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- ‘anathema is not sexy.’ Bar wisdom, re: sarah palin. #
- OMGWTF. #
- And an ignomioious end to an ignominious day. #
- Walked down Clark St. from Fullerton all the way home, @RevPirateDan cheering me up most all the way. Tired now. #
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- Today’s group exercise: Finding alternate words that the F in NFS stands for. #
- This week: end faster. Also, end with a large win from a lottery, tax-free, and a lovely long vacation, poolside drinkies with umbrellas. #
- @chowbok I am with you on that one. I always have to put a fake little table in my user-talk page so I have a crib sheet. Lame. #
- I /swear/ I have some sort of weird allergy that makes my nose itch. #
- Obsessed with vacation, but afraid I won’t be able to go anywhere because of expense of boarding the cats. #
- Also, instead of this shitty having to work late bullshit, I really want to go dancing. #
- @shadow For real?? #
- Via ffakr: Maybe martians could cowbell better than we’ve cowbelled. http://tinyurl.com/6fk73q #
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so i am nearing the sort of burned-out state that comes with not having taken a real vacation in years– i’m all cranky and tired, and pretty much every bad thing that happens at work is another reason to claim that everything sucks. and, i mean, i know the solution is to take some time away from the computers. and i don’t even really mind spending money to do so. (well, i care, but i don’t /mind/, if that makes sense. not that i’m going all wild and crazy here, but i really want to take some time away and i am okay with spending some of my savings in pursuit of that.)
i don’t know what i’d want to do. i want to travel somewhere. i thought about going up to ontario or quebec. trains feature heavily in all my plans, and i thought about taking VIArail across canada from toronto to vancouver, then amtrak back. i thought about going way up to northern manitoba to see the northern lights. i thought about getting an amtrak pass and just riding around the country for a little while. i’ve thought about getting a eurail pass and just riding around europe for a little while. i’ve thought about renting a cottage in some village in scotland somewhere, and buying some local wool and borrowing a spinning wheel from someone and spending a week just sort of holed up blowing off the world and making yarn at the source. really, any of these things i am good with doing. there’s just one problem.
my cats.
i cannot figure out what to do with the furballs. i can’t ask a friend to catsit for two weeks, coming over twice daily to inject tiger with insulin. if i boarded them at my regular vet, that’s $35/night per cat — almost a grand for two weeks, before i even get on an airplane. a friend of mine has a vet he boards his cats at when he travels, which is ten bucks a night per cat (though that’s not necessarily their same price for a cat that needs medication), which is “only” like $300 for two weeks, but i hate the idea of leaving them trapped in tiny cages for two full weeks — they would feel so abandoned. a catsitter to come to my place? i don’t know that i could find someone — craigslist is full of dog-walkers, but that’s a little less skilled than cat medicators (especially since i would want someone to watch tiger for any signs of sluggishness or other symptoms).
but i can’t just take time off work and stay at home; i’m going completely fucking nuts for want of a change of scenery. it’s seriously been like 4 years since i’ve had vacation that was longer than a couple days and/or did not involve a dear family member’s death. i know i’ll need at least a week to unwind, and then i want at least a few days to really be on vacation, before i have to return to the slog. i just can’t figure out what to do about the cats. :(
- Got sworn at by some random dude for trying to open the door for him when his hands were obviously full. Hope the rest of today improves. #
- Bought a used roomba off craigslist yesterday. It makes the happiest little beep of robot success when it finishes up and docks itself! #
- @writchrd Au contraire! I got mine because I have hwfl… and I /hate/ sweeping kitty fur. It did a lovely job! #
- Checking the SAGE salary survey: depressing. I mean, I knew years in .edu wasn’t going to do me any favors money-wise, but jeez. #
- @secabeen Nah, no LISA for me this year, sadly. Current employer isn’t a send-away-to-conferences type, it seems. #
- @mizmoose I really did think about it! But that weekend was after about 3 straight weekends of running, +work, and I was so tired. #
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- Hooray for me! I passed my ice skating exam. Now I get to progress to the next class! More scary crossovers! #
- Only three weeks left until the millennium park ice rink opens – yay! Slacker midway rink doesn’t open until after Thanksgiving – boo. #
- Watching a constant iostat on a couple boxes to keep tabs on them. Just like old times, only databases instead of email. Old times suck. #
- Today, I forbid coworkers from touching my MacBook with their poisoned crashy fingers. NO NO NO TOUCHY #
- $coworker to me: “You’re like an overpaid DHCP server! And slow and grumpy about it, too!” #
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- @shadow You need a smaller living space! Then you won’t have to worry about such things. #
- @chowbok Hooray for you! Early voting, or absentee? If early, how did it go? #
- Absolutely flabbergasted by Facebook’s ability to dredge up names from the past and put you back in touch with people. FLABBER. GASTED. #
- v. jealous of coworkers who get to eat lunch by, like, actually leaving and staying away from the premises for more than ten minutes. #
- @chowbok Did you vote for this guy? http://tinyurl.com/6z9ugu #
- @mizmoose Yay for done! #
- @chowbok I know! The completely random candidate is strangely compelling. I am dying to see how many votes he gets. #
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- @hubbit Bit more than one actually! Still, it all worked out well enough in the end. #
- Watched all of “Blackpool” today, trying to finish my shawl. I think more television needs surrealist sing-and-dance pop numbers. JTIS. #
- New shawl > stupid broken computers. #
- Got a compliment on my hair today! Yay for me. #
- @shadow You’re learning curling? Like, rocks, ice, funny Paul Gross romantic comedy curling? THAT IS SO HOT. :) #
- Starving. Someone brought samosas to work but everyone ate them all before I got to have one. :( #
- Auditors moonlighting in our spare cubes driving me batshit crazy with their noisy giggling gossip and beepy gadgets. #
- @writchrd THERE IS A GOD, AND HE LOVES US! #
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