An archive of my old LiveJournal
Finally logged onto Facebook after something like 2 months, and one of my friends had posted this.
Genius. Absolute Genius.
(Still trying to figure out whether they used the London or Broadway cast recording of Les Miserables. The most distinctive voices — Valjean and Eponine — were the same. There was a time I would have been able to tell instantly. I think it’s the London cast, but I’m not sure.)
Last Wednesday. Customer sends email to complain about spam. Asks, “Is spam filteirng even on this account? It’s getting 100s of spams a day!”
1. Finally took the time to finish reading Victory of Eagles. Very good — on a level with Throne of Jade, which had previously been my favorite in the Temeraire series.
2. Also took a bunch more boxes to storage, including 4 comic boxes. I’d intended to put half my comics in storage when we moved back in May, but I wanted to catalog them all first so that I could find them easily. Then my arms fell off after we moved, and I didn’t want to carry the boxes, and then I just kept putting it off. Now we’ve got a chance of clearing a patch from the co-ax outlet to the TV, so…
3. Arranged for cable. I’d been hoping we’d be somewhere more permanent by the time the fall TV season started, but we haven’t had much luck.
They’re coming on Thursday, but we’ve made arrangements for the second ep of Bones and the premieres of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles (try typing that three times fast) and Fringe (that was easier!). Seriously considered Time Warner’s DVR package, which is only around $10/month, but it’s only available with their digital cable package… which starts at around $50/month. And there isn’t really anything we’d be watching that isn’t on the $15/month broadcast-only package, at least not until BSG comes back sometime next year.
4. Finally saw Wall-E, in a theater with 4 other people, including a kid who kept making comments and hadn’t yet learned the art of moderating his volume. And a sound system that went wonky during the second-to-last preview and stayed that way through most of the film, even after I went out to report the problem during the short. Fortunately it was just an undercurrent that sounded kind of like a high-pitched refrigerator warble, and not distortion of the soundtrack. Also, the print was rather badly scratched in the middle third of the picture. Despite all that, the movie was still quite enjoyable.
Started moving boxes and furniture around so that we can actually have someone install cable. Moved some boxes into bedroom, made room in the closet for others, and dug out my corner desk from the corner of the living room where it’s sat since May. When we set up our computers in the bedroom, we left enough space for the desk, but never got around to moving it.
As it turns out, the desk won’t fit through the bedroom door.
It took both of us carrying it and rotating it about 3 feet in the air just to get it into the hallway, but there’s no way to get it from the hallway into the bedroom without removing the corner leg… and I’m not sure it’s possible to do that without breaking the thing.
So the desk is back in the corner of the living room, under a slightly smaller pile of boxes than before. I guess I’ll put some of them where I intended to put the desk.
Also: Watched Labyrinth. I still like most of the movie, but I can no longer take the goblins singing and dancing with David Bowie.
Got an email from Best Buy today that appears to be legit, inviting me to some "elite level" of their rewards program that "rewards our best customers for shopping at Best Buy stores."
I find this odd, because as best as I can figure, I’ve only made two purchases at a Best Buy since the last Christmas shopping season:
1. A new digital camera and accessories in July, just before Comic-Con, to replace one which had disappeared. (alenxa joked that we’d find it as soon as we bought a new one, but it still hasn’t surfaced.)
2. A cordless mouse.
Oh, and some DVDs that Katie picked up sometime around March or so, but I don’t know if she swiped the card or gave them the number.
So… is that all it takes to be one of Best Buy’s best customers? Buy a couple of items and don’t return them? (Or am I thinking too much of Frys?)
1. I’ve been going through old comic books looking for Hostess ads from the late 1970s. They had these one-page stories where a hero would run into a really lame villain, and be able to stop them by distracting them with Twinkies, or fruit pies, or cupcakes. Some of them are total crack, and there’s a web archive with snarky commentary. I got the idea to profile the villains that the Flash fought (even though there’s still a bunch of minor villains and supporting characters from canon to add), so I’ve been looking for pages to get higher-res scans. I found 2 of 4.
The funny thing? It turns out that the Omnivore’s 100 list I posted includes Hostess Fruit Pies because the author was nostalgic for those ads.
2. Dinner with MIL Saturday, after alenxa went to a cousin’s wedding shower.
3. Majorly dehydrated on Sunday, or something. Tried to start going through the piles of boxes against the edge of our living room, but ended up spending the afternoon on the couch reading, sipping water. Read sections from The Flash Companion and a comic book trade, Supergirl and The Legion of Super-Heroes: The Dominator War. I’d picked it up months ago, before we moved, since it was a sequel to a story I’d liked that came out in 1989 (Invasion!) but hadn’t gotten around to reading it. Not bad, but didn’t wow me either. Fortunately felt better in time to…
4. Hit the Orange Street Fair on Sunday evening. Passed on Abelskivers (sp) this time. Was in line, but realized I just didn’t want them. Agreed we have to explore Old Town Orange sometime when it’s not a fair and businesses are open. I think the last time I did that was more than 10 years ago.
5. Responsible day today. Groceries, Laundry, etc.
6. Interviewed the outgoing writer on The Flash last week!
Goals for this week:
1. Locate cable outlet.
2. Arrange for some sort of TV service. The fall season is starting, and we’ll actually be watching stuff live and not just off of DVDs.