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April 10th, 2009
April 9th, 2009
February 10th, 2009
12:04 pm - Anyone you know in trouble from the Australian fires?
I check the news every day, hoping the fires will be under control. But even though things are a little better, the stories are still warning people not to let their guard down yet. I've checked with some friends, one said the fires came close and her area was on alert for a couple days. A couple know people who have died, but not directly, friends of relatives. I also feel bad for all the wildlife, everything in the path for the fire, no escape from the inferno. It's terrible. I hope the people you love are safe.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090210/wl_afp/australiaweatherfirestoll
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090210/ts_nm/us_australia_fires
My mother was afraid of fire more than most people, because she saw a chicken coop burn to the ground when she was a little girl. She also had relatives who survived the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, perhaps she was fascinated with that part of her family history because of her own fear of fire. The fire happened the same night as the famous Chicago fire, although the one in the Peshtigo area of northern Wisconsin took hundreds more lives--estimated between 1200 and 2400. My mother took us to the Peshtigo museum when I was little. The museum had displays talking about what it was like for those who lived through it, staying in the river hoping it would end, how the air itself seemed to be on fire.
Link to donate to the Australian Red Cross
https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/sad.gif) worried
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September 30th, 2008
12:01 am - Stocks?
With the stock plunge today, Thomas and I don't understand why they didn't close the market early. It happened really fast, but it was clear what was going on with the vote, they do have the authority to close early. I thought after the last big plunge, they were going to put safeguards in place to close early almost automatically in the case of investor panic. I've been reading a few of the online news articles about the stock market drop, and none of the ones I've found so far have even mentioned the idea of closing the market early, let alone explain why they didn't do it. I get the impression the people who run the market welcomed the plunge, punishing the public for telling their congressmen to vote no on the bail out.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/yawn.gif) tired
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July 8th, 2008
March 25th, 2008
01:10 pm - I'm a Fatigued Ladybug Resting on a Tacky Floral Throw Pillow
The Most Useless Test Ever
This is still my most favoritest online quiz ever. Why, yes, I am old and boring, why do you ask? 
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March 18th, 2008
12:29 pm - My Forum
Asynjur's Forum for Friends
http://www.bearjests.com/forum/
I'm trying to reconnect with some of my other interests, and revive some neglected areas of the forum. The folders are a bit eclectic, because it's a combination of topics from what used to be separate forums I ran, so basically everything that interests me in particular was just tossed together, LOL! But you don't have to keep on topic, and there are a couple general discussion areas to talk about any number of things.
In Quixotic Welcome Mat you can say hello, tell us Three Things about You or join in other discussions. Exit 47 is a member's only folder where forum members can discuss whatever they like, even just how their week is going. Shiny Things is for posting fun links, sharing jokes, and the like.
Insomnia Zone is for forum games like 20 Questions, Movie Quotes (you guess the movie from quotes), TV Shows (you guess the show from quotes and/or clues), Who Or What Am I (guess any person or thing from clues), Word Scrambles, and Hot or Cold (another guessing games).
I'm hoping to breath some life into the Animals, Nature and Science folder, any help is appreciated! Fuzzy Fun is a place where teddy bears and other toys, and their humans, talk about adventures or just chillin' at home. Mythology, Monsters and Mysteries is a mixed bag, folklore, mythology, cryptozoology, legends of old, ghosts, monsters, and urban legends.
Creative Muse is a place to discuss your own art, poems, music, photography, web design, and other creative works. It's been kind of quiet lately. I'm trying to get Three Word Story going. That's a thread were you write a story as a group effort, but each post can only add 3 words. To talk about your favorite art, music, and writing by others, visit Artists and Authors. Screenplay is a place to talk about talk about movies, theater, television shows, video, and other media madness. I'm trying to post some mini movie reviews in the What movies have you seen lately? III thread every week. And last but not least, Gaming and Virtual Pets is for cyberpet agencies, virtual pets, sim games, role-playing, other computer games. Some time ago I removed the GoPets folders from my forum, so hopefully it will be more inviting to non-GoPets players now. I still play GoPets, but didn't want to be quite so immersed in it all the time.
Please stop by, and if anything intrigues you, do not hesitate to post! If you don't see any old threads you'd like to reply to, feel free to start your own.
Current Location: Isle of Demons, as always!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/hyper.gif) Boing!
Current Music: Forgot to turn on the iPod..
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December 20th, 2006
01:09 am - Tarot meme...
You are The High Priestess
Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.
The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
Current Mood: exhausted
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November 6th, 2006
04:44 pm - Glad it will be over soon...
So far today I've only deleted 3 political recorded messages off our voicemail. Still keeping the phone unplugged, as I did all weekend. Thank goodness tomorrow is election day.
Current Mood: Is there any hope?
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September 25th, 2006
06:31 pm - Praying Mantis
For the third year, not in a row, a praying mantis has shown up by our side door (one also showed up on the mailbox once). This time, it was much later in the year, and she's a lot bigger than the cute little green ones I've seen in the past.
Thomas found her just after dark, while he was finishing up changing the oil in the Mustang one evening. She was right on the door frame. I hope I didn't blind her with the flash, I didn't think of it at the time. It wasn't completey dark, though, and she was under the porch light.
I don't know why I've seen them three times on that side of the house. Or maybe they're all around the house, but we only notice them there because we come in that door. And the mantis' are always climbing UP the house. I don't know where they're trying to go, but they have a long way up because that's the highest part of the house.
We didn't have these back where I grew up in Wisconsin!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/balloon.gif) Tired, actually...
Current Music: Live
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September 19th, 2006
08:09 am - Ahoy, me hearties! Yo ho!
It be Talk like a Pirate Day! If ye need a wee bit o' help, click here to change yer words to sea dog words. Or e'en translate a whole webpage! (I tried it on me LJ friends page, funny! It e'en changed the page title to Asynjur's Shipmates!)
Current Location: The belly of the Kraken!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/happy.gif) Ahoy!
Current Music: What do you do with a drunken sailor?
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July 30th, 2006
10:31 pm - Mystery Science Theater 3000
I don't think there are a lot of MST3K fans around here, and I realize the show is kind of a hard sell. I admit, the first couple times I tried to watch it myself, years ago at the urging of a co-worker, I didn't quite get it. But once you're initiated, you never look at any movie the same way again, LOL! A few years ago, Sci-Fi channel stopped showing even the re-runs, and Thomas' misses his Saturday morning tradition of watching MST3K. So I've been picking episodes up, once and a while, from Netflix. Some episodes are duds, movies with so little action there isn't even enough to lampoon. But others are so hilarious, we often back up to listen to lines over and over again.
I know it's a cliche, but for a while tonight I was laughing so hard I was literally crying. I had to make a conscious effort to stop laughing long enough to breath! And Thomas was also having a laughing fit during the same scene, although I don't think he was having as much trouble breathing as I was, LOL! What was going on? Actually, very little. Two people in lab coats working separately, facing away from each other, and only periodically talking, somehow was a climax of absurdity in the movie. The breaks in conversation were long enough for Joel and the bots to squeeze in 4 or 5 jokes at a time. I realize describing just one of the jokes will sounds lame, outside of the context of the slow pace of the scene and the frantic pace of the wisecracks, but I will anyway. One of the characters kept looking down at the floor, something I didn't quite notice until Crow said, "I get it now! His script is on the floor!" And when the other character left, Crow said, "Wait! Page 25 is stuck to your shoe!"
What was this marvel, this work of celluloid art? Monster A Go-Go. This movie was so amature, at one point the sound of a ringing phone is made by a person trying to imitate the noise, "Brrrrrrrring!" This particular MST3K had a short before the movie, as they sometimes so. This one had a promotional film for an ice capades show, which was also great cannon fodder.
The thing with MST3K, is the more obscure references you get, the more you enjoy it. Thomas and I would often laugh at different things. I might notice a Monty Python line, while he laughs at a sports reference. It helps if you've seen a lot of movies, and not exactly current movies since MST3K stopped filming in 1999 (I feel old!) They also tend to reference previous episodes, so it's more fun as you watch more episodes. But even if you miss 2/3 of the jokes, there's still a lot to laugh at.
And the real thing that catches you and reals you in, is when a joke happens to touch on something rather obscure that means something to you, and yet you know it wouldn't mean anything to most of the audience. Because, unlike most forms of comedy, where the writers will throw out jokes unless all of the writers find that particular joke funny, MST3K would include lines that only one of the writers even understood. That's part of what gives MST3K that unique oh-so-not-Hollywood feel (the cheesy sets were just a bonus!)
If anyone is interested in renting any MST3K and would like recommendations, just ask. They aren't all funny, but some are extremely so (if you've only seen the MST3K movie, please be aware that it is by no means the funniest MST3K). Of course you need a particular kind of quirky, nerdy sense of humor to enjoy any, so results may vary. ;O)
I'd love to see an MST3K revival, but I can't imagine that will ever happen... They just don't make shows like that anymore.
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May 22nd, 2006
03:26 pm - Whole Peeled/The Maud Gonne Band
"But with my love for coffee, I know when I'm awake..."
First I'd like to say I know nothing about music, I just know what I like. So please pardon any inadequate descriptions or misused musical terms, thank you!
Years ago when I was living in Portland, Oregon, I happened to hear an unknown band from New Zealand playing at Saturday Market. I fell in love. They had kind of a celtic folk rock sound. The were selling a tape and a CD, the Maud Gonne Band's Difficult Third Album. I didn't have a CD player at the time, so I bought a tape. I gave them a $10 tip, which, ironically, along with the price of the tape, would have been enough to get the CD, instead. How I wish I had a CD! I was actually reluctant to buy an iPod now, only because I wouldn't be able to have this album on it, one of my all time favorite song collections.
I got an iPod anyway and searched for the Maud Gonne Band online, something I've done at various times in the past without much luck. This time, I first tried to email someone who had referenced the band on a website, but didn't get a reply. So I tried searching on the names of the band members, which I've also tried in the past. This time I had a significant hit.
I found a page on a website I'd never heard of called Lulu.com. It's a place where you can sign up to publish and sell your own books, CDs, DVDs, or images worldwide. This page was titled Whole Peeled Blog, which meant nothing to me. But one of the first things you see is an old play list, which made my jaw drop--it included the songs I was looking for--and the band members are listed farther down, exactly the same people as the Maud Gonne Band. (There's no explanation of the different name change, but on their MySpace page which I was directed to later, it says, "It should be noted that Whole Peeled also played more acoustic oriented music under the name of The Maud Gonne Band.") I ordered the CD Induce by Whole Peeled, which has a couple of the same songs from my tape, and anxiously waited for it to arrive. I also exchanged an email with Warwick Burton from the band, who was helpful.
My Whole Peeled CD arrived today. Having bonded so closely with The Difficult Third Album all these years, I was worried I'd be disappointed with Induce. But my fears were unfounded. I liked most of the new songs, and loved others, like Grady's Dream, Sugar Generation and Julia. Of course, I love the two songs that are also on my old tape, Bodega Midnight Coffee Song and Wellerman, although these versions are slightly different. Some of the songs on Induce have a little softer edge, but they still have the quirky lyrics and wonderful fiddling. There are a few fun unexpected choices, like a didgeridoo in the beginning of the instrumental Illinois Corn song. I'm grateful to have some more songs from this talented group of musicians and song writers.
My taste music is a bit eclectic, not completely dependent on genre. I tend to listen to more rock than folk, Alice in Chain's Dirt being another one of my favorite albums of all time. But then I also count Loreena McKennitt's Parallel Dreams among my favorites. Music hasn't been a big part of my life for a while, but when my husband got an iPod, I wanted one, too, hoping to reconnect with my enjoyment of music.
If you think you might like Whole Peeled, here are some links to visit.
Whole Peeled on Lulu.com
Some information about the band, and you can buy the CD Induce, or buy individual songs from the CD. Each song has a preview. Blog entries are here.
Whole Peeled on MySpace
Free download of the songs Home, Get Up Old Woman and Shake Yourself (instrumental), the Bodega Midnight Coffee Song, and Wellerman. The page also says a little bit about the band.
Soon May The Wellerman Come
This isn't a link for the band, it's about one of the folksongs they play. Whole Peeled seems to play a mix of folksongs and originals, but a lot more are originals.
Current Location: Isle of Demons
Current Mood: Hopeful
Current Music: Whole Peeled
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March 31st, 2006
10:43 am - Is there any way...?
Is there any way to see a list of the recent replies that I've made to other people's journals?
I see the My LJ page lists recent replies other people have made to my journals--but I comment on other people's entries much more than I add entries myself, as you've probably noticed. I signed up for LJ to check what other people are up to, but I only check every once and a while, and I'd like to follow up on entries where I replied some time ago. So I was wondering if there are tools to help me track what I've written to other people...
Current Location: Isle of Demons
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/blank.gif) out of it
Current Music: One of those GoPets tunes running through my head...
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December 31st, 2005
08:43 pm - Get your resolution...
Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ruthieangel !
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/bouncy.gif) Happy New Year
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November 22nd, 2005
10:43 pm - I'm 45% Geek Lit Savvy
Nabbed from menolie
Bold the ones you have read:
Top 20 Geek Novels from The Guardian
1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
20. Trouble with Lichen -- John Wyndham
It's been so long since I've read any books, I had to look up the plots to a few of these to confirm if I'd actually read them or not. Reading is for the young, LOL!
And I believe I should get some points for the fact that two different people, on two different occasions, felt they had to explain the whole book "Stranger in a Strange Land" to me, even though I've never read it. How annoying!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/sweat.gif) Does the penguin look thirsty?
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October 12th, 2005
05:20 pm - Monster Name Decoder
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/annoyed.gif) Monstrous ;O)
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September 7th, 2005
12:50 pm - Skeeball & Stuff
I first played skeeball when I visited my brother's family, living in New England at the time, I'm guessing this was around 25 years ago. Boy do I feel old! The skeeball was at some kind of seaside amusement area, I forget where.
After playing the GoPets skeeball mini game, recently, I was nostaligic to play the real thing. Turns out Dave & Busters is the closest place with skeeball, so we went there the other night. Thomas and I knew Dave & Buster's was a restaurant with games, and food that was too expensive. We'd never gone into the place. I thought D&Bs just had video games, and I didn't know you could go in just to play games and not eat there. The "doorman" at the front made us reluctant to go in, when we thought about it in the past. Seemed like a weird place.
But now that we've checked it out, we will be going again. Thomas and I both had a lot of fun! In the future we'll probably just eat at the food court (which is better than most food courts), and go in to D&Bs just to play games. The Skeeball game wasn't exactly like the ones I played years ago, but I enjoyed it. I probably enjoyed playing pool more, though, even though I am awful at it. Thomas and I haven't played pool for years, maybe if we play pool more again I will get better. In fact, I need to look up the rules to Eight Ball because we couldn't remember the details.
But the thing I did the best on at D&Bs, score wise, strangely, was the basketball shoot! I probably haven't touched a basketball since high school sophomore year gym class, and I was never good. Thomas wanted to give the basketball a try, but after he'd played once and felt he was embarrasingly bad, he pulled off our tickets and didn't even ask if I wanted to try--he didn't think I was interested. But I did want to at least give it a try. My first game, I was shocked that the ball kept going in time after time, and I actually got bonus time 3 times. My second play wasn't so good, it didn't give me the "classic" setting I'd pressed and the basket kept moving--plus, by the end, my arms were getting tired (my arms aren't used to this!) It wasn't as far away as a basket would be on a real court, so that was part of why I did well. But it was probably just beginners luck, since I never try to shoot baskets. If I try to play again, the next time we go, I'm sure I'll be terrible!
At any rate, it was something different for us to do. Including dinner we were there about 3 hours, we never stay out that late!
Current Mood: Hello!
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June 5th, 2005
03:45 pm - Random Personal News
Next week we're going to a wedding. My cousin's daughter is getting married (is that a second cousin?) I am hoping to have a lot of fun, like we did going to my neices wedding last year. This wedding is in the town where I grew up, and "going home" has brought up some family issues, but hopefully things will go well. I am looking forward to the trip.
A sad thing happened the other day, a sparrow hit one of our windows and died. I was by the window and heard it. I went to look for the poor little bird, hoping he was just knocked out, but no luck. I feel terrible about it. I wanted to put the curtains up as soon as possible, to make it less apt to happen again. So Thomas' folks came up yesterday, and helped us put up the new curtain rods. I'm glad to have that done, and they look good, better than the old ones. We're using the old curtains now, but will look for new drapes when we get back from our trip. Thomas' dad also helped us do some yard work, then we all went out to dinner at this friendly little local place.
For those of you who know my sister was ill, she is getting better and may be released some time next week. Where she will be released "to" is an issue. Most of the family would like to see some kind of assisted living situation, but she has no insurance, and she prefers to live alone even though she can't care for herself. I hope something can be worked out.
Last weekend Thomas and I saw Unleashed with Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, and Bob Hoskins. I didn't know anything about this movie when I went into it, which is a good way to see it, so I will only say a couple things about it. It is very dark and violent, if violence bothers you, you may want to avoid it. That said, Morgan Freeman adds a warm heart to the movie. Jet Li really acts, the movie works because he pulls off this complex preformance.
Current Mood: Cautiously Optimistic
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May 9th, 2005
11:18 pm - Insert Clever Journal Title Here
We had a nice weekend, even though the weather was nasty. We went out Friday night with my in-laws, as usual, but I suggested doing something on Sunday for Mother's Day, as well. Since the weather was rainy and windy, it wouldn't be good for anything outdoors. I suggested seeing a movie, Fever Pitch, which is a romantic comedy about a Red Sox fan. I'd heard it was toned down from the usual Farrelly brothers movies, and it was, although still a little in that vien. I found myself laughing a lot. Some of the jokes you'd definitely need to know some baseball history to get, but a lot of it would probably be funny to a normal person, as well! And it was funny to see it here in New England. Even though it was an afternoon showing late in the run of this movie, and the theater was fairly empty, you could still hear the crowd react to certain scenes.
On Saturday we watched a DVD, a 1996 independent film called Lone Star. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, a small town sheriff has to investigate a murder he suspects his own father, who was also a sheriff, may have commited. The plot unfolds slowly, but it is well written, and the characters keep it interesting. This movie is more about the journey of life, than it is about the murder. Even though it's a low budget film, a lot of the faces are familiar and it's well acted.
I haven't worked on any more of the window moldings, due to the weather... But I'm glad for the excuse not to work, LOL! It's going to bite me in the ass later, though. I mean, it has been too cold and rainy to leave the windows open, and air out the smell from the varnish--but later when I end up actually doing it, it's going to be too hot, and I hate that.
And I have to put in my usual plug for GoPets. I'm starting to make some friends there. Click here if you want to sign up and give me credit, I get shells for it. My little GoPets dog is named Roshambo.
Current Mood: sleepy
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May 1st, 2005
12:33 am - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
We did make it to see Hitchhiker's Guide today. Thomas enjoyed it, and I enjoyed parts of it. I saw Allen Rickman's name in the opening credits--I hadn't realized before that Marvin had his voice, even though I've seen trailers on the official website. I love Allen Rickman and when Marvin said a particular thing suddenly it clicked--I was embarrased I hadn't realized earlier. I love Marvin, both the original and this one, but they cut out some of his funny lines in the movie.
I really liked how the movie started, I thought I was going to enjoy all of it. But it started to go astray. Some of it was just the editing, ideas were "orphaned." For instance, although they refer several times to towels in the dialog, they cut out the HitchHiker's Guide entry on towels, and they don't really explain it in any other way, either. The towel obsession comes off more as a peculiarity of Ford Prefect's. So many ideas were lost, I was wondering if someone who didn't know anything about the story beforehand would think of it as anything more than an acid trip movie.
But then I thought the story got off track, as well, and I didn't like the ending at all. (I'd talk more about that, but I don't want to put spoilers since it was just released.) I didn't mind them expanding the story around Arthur's romance with Trish/Trillian a little, but it started to get to be a little much for this movie. I also hate it when movies have nod-nod-wink-wink there's going to be a sequel endings (again, I'd explain this more but don't want to put spoilers). I know the John Malkovich character was created by Douglas himself, just for the movie, but came off as being there just so the sequels could have a villian.
None the less, I would still recommend the movie, people should decide for themselves. There were things that made me laugh, and I thought the casting was good. Little joke for people who have seen the TV show, the original Marvin robot is in the line on the Vogon planet. And stay through the credits if you see it, they show one more of the Hitchhiker's Guide entries during the credits at the end.
I wanted to talk about some of the trailers we saw, too, maybe I'll do that when I have more time.
Current Mood: Sleepy
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April 30th, 2005
11:20 am - Mostly Musing About Restaurants
Planning to see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today, don't know if it will be any good.
Still spending a lot of time on GoPets. It's still in beta, being designed and changed, and they're adding new behaviors left and right. Click here if you want to sign up and give me credit, I get shells for it. If you join and log in, you can see my GoPets profile here, and "Add as Friend" if you want to.
We went to dinner with Thomas' folks last night, at TGI Fridays. We hadn't gone to any of those for a while, because the one by our old place didn't have the smoking separated enough. But now it doesn't matter, because Massachusetts and Rhode Island are non-smoking now. The food was good, but the portions were small for a restaurant. Most restaurants give you too much, anyway--but you get to expect that, so I hadn't eaten much all day knowing I was going to go out. I'd still like to go back again, though, and try some of the other entrees.
But it wasn't nearly as good as the place we went for dinner the Friday before. I think the place is called Longhorn steak house. I had a craving for the fried cheesecake dessert they have. We splurged, had both an appetizer and a dessert, when we usually have neither. It was funny when we got there, a group of about 25 women, mostly older and dressed in the same outfits, were singing all together. They were very good, great harmonies, don't know what the group was. I jokingly asked the waitress if they were going to sing the whole time, but they were just leaving. When they finished their song, they got applause from the other customers, and one even yelled, "Sing another one!"
Anyway, the food at Longhorn was all very good, and the service was great. It was very busy, and I guess our main course took a while to get to us, but we didn't notice with the bread and appetizers and stuff--but the manager of the restaurant felt bad about it, and offered us dessert for free! But we didn't feel that was necessary. As Thomas' dad remarked, better that than what happened a couple weeks before at another restaurant, when we'd only just gotten our soup and salad, and the meal came out. And I've had much worse happen to me at restaurants, like getting water spilled all over me, and not been offered anything. My mother-in-law Jo Anne made sure to tell the waitress we were happy with everything, and to pass that on to the manager.
Current Mood: Doing the wave...
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April 22nd, 2005
01:56 pm - Change in the weather...
Well, after 80 degrees on Wednesday, Thomas was surprised to find frost on the cars this morning. But it didn't surprise me at all, perfectly normal spring weather! It has been pretty nice this week, though, had the windows open a lot. Of course I had to, because of the polyurethane I'm putting on the window moldings. I did finish 2 windows, although one was just a small bathroom window. It's going to take me a long time, LOL! Today I'm putting the cans and stuff all in the basement for the weekend, though. We are doing out to dinner with Thomas' folks tonight.
Other than that, I wasted a lot of time on GoPets yesterday. (Click here if you want to sign up and give me credit, I get shells for it!) They are still in beta for a lot of stuff, so it can be a little odd. But it is fun to see the little critters wander around, and I'm starting to meet people a little. I was even showing Roshambo, the little doggie I made, to Thomas this morning. He thought it was pretty cute. But then the dog wouldn't eat or drink, even though his hydration and fullness were low. Thomas was saying, "I think we got a stupid dog!" Of course as soon as Thomas went into the shower to get ready for work, the dog started eating and drinking everything I put down, LOL!
Current Mood: Hello!
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April 19th, 2005
11:24 am - Varnish and Websites
Last week we picked up the stain I need to put a couple more coats on the window moldings. This project has been waiting since they finished the replacement windows last year, I was just waiting until the weather got warmer so I could have the windows open. Yesterday was beautiful, so I had no excuse not to work on it.
I'm trying to get a little closer to the color of the other wood moldings in the house. Not that it could ever match exactly, and the window moldings are 3 inches wide while the existing moldings were only 2, even if it did. But I worked on a couple windows yesterday and they look good, more "finished" than the single coat the contractor did. When we get the new curtain rods up (and some curtains, of course), people won't notice they don't match exactly. It's going to take me forever, though. I'm not that handy and don't have a lot of stamina--hopefully that will improve as I go. The weather was great yesterday so I had no excuse not to get started, and it will hold for today and tomorrow, but then it's going to get cold again (and rain on the weekend, if the long term forecast holds).
I'm also working on a web project, I'm going to redesign and reopen Mermaid Coast. Unlike Bear Jests, which is a shadow of it's former self and will probably remain so, Mermaid Coast may actually end up bigger than it was (even though I'm not reopening the ecards). I'm going to use some things that were in the "Asynjur" section of Bear Jests, as well as much of the material that was at Mermaid Coast before. I may even use some stuff I haven't had online since I closed my first website on Geocities, not sure about that. But I have to restructure Mermaid Coast, make it easier to update and maintain. The old design didn't come out the way I'd originally intended, and it really locked me in. I'll try to keep the pages simple, and I'm *trying* to be less paranoid about people stealing stuff. (I'm talking mostly about writing. I have a history of people stealing my writing, even before I was on the internet, LOL! Not for profit, as far as I know. My worst nightmare is someone who stole my work, will not only claim it as their own, but turn around and sue me! On the other hand, if you don't have it online, no one will see it, and what's the point of that? I'm not planning to submit to publishers or anything.)
Anyway, I'm also going to try to minimize outside links on the new Mermaid Coast, so I don't have to worry about links going dead. I just have to get out of the habit of linking to a million outside pages whenever I write a feature. I couldn't even get myself to just keep them all on the links page, so they would be easy to find and check! (Well, some of you know me as the "links for everything" person, LOL!) Don't worry, I can still link to friends, though, since I usually know what is up with those links. :o)
Current Mood: So much to do, so little time!
Current Music: Ray
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March 26th, 2005
09:32 pm - Happy Spring!
"In ancient Anglo-Saxon myth, Ostara is the personification of the rising sun. In that capacity she is associated with the spring and is considered to be a fertility goddess. She is the friend of all children and to amuse then she changed her pet bird into a rabbit. This rabbit brought forth brightly colored eggs, which the goddess gave to the children as gifts. From her name and rites the festival of Easter is derived..."
Ostara by Micha F. Lindemans, Encyclopedia Mythica
Tomorrow is the big day for Teddybunny--the little pink bunny pictured above, self appointed master of spring festivals at our house. She even had me use teddy bear wash on her white patches (well, our feisty little bunny is over 25 years old, eventually the shine wears off), to try to freshen up before "the big guy" comes to visit late tonight. She is in a great mood this year, even though her webpage is offline for the first Easter since it opened (I may eventually make a new page). To keep her in good spirits, we got her several new spring pals, including a few of the new plushy Peeps, have you seen them? And the Salvation Army store had a lot of pretty baskets so we picked up quite a few, and she has put them to good use decorating the dining room.
We're going down to the farm tomorrow for dinner (by "the farm" I mean my in-laws place). If we're lucky, maybe most of the snow will have melted!
Current Mood: chipper
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