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Maybe It Isn’t the Flu

6 March 2010, 11:50 pm. No Comments. Filed under Family, Fun, Health, Reading, Relationships.

Katie seems to be feel­ing a bit bet­ter. She slept through most of the day, and just got up a few min­utes ago (right at the end of my and Sam’s date) feel­ing like she could eat some­thing. Solid food, even! That’s progress. Since she didn’t have any antivi­rals, I don’t think this was really the flu. She should still be much sicker if it was. I’m not at all unhappy about that. Read on…

“Go ahead, America. You don’t need us.”

9 December 2009, 6:51 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Fun.

“Watch all the top­soil go down the Mis­sis­sippi. Trans­port your chil­dren in bas­kets on top of your SUV death­mo­biles. Keep play­ing with your cute and cud­dly pal, the atom. Press your nose against the TV screen for even more edu­ca­tional 3rd Rock From The Sun enjoy­ment. Use plen­ti­ful gaso­line to burn book– read­ers at the stake. Don’t eat any­thing but sug­ared pork lard. Do what­ever you want.”

Nation’s Experts Give Up: ‘From Now On, You’re On Your Own,’ Say Experts

I needed that laugh, so I fig­ured you might enjoy it too.

Dollhouse Fans? TV stuff

13 May 2009, 12:39 am. 8 Comments. Filed under Fun.

Do any of you maybe record Doll­house? We don’t do cable, so Katie and I have been watch­ing it stream­ing on Hulu. This com­ing Friday’s episode isn’t going to be streamed, though, and we don’t want to miss it. Any chance of some help? Pretty please?

It’s fairly amaz­ing how much you can find to watch online now. Legally! I used to get the CSI DVDs from Net­flix when they were released each year, and watch the whole sea­son in a marathon. Now we watch all three CSI shows on the CBS web site. The same goes for NCIS and Numb3rs. While the site says you can see full episodes of The Men­tal­ist, I haven’t found a way to do it. ABC has The Unusu­als and Cas­tle stream­ing. Burn Notice, Chuck, Bones, and Lie to Me are all on Hulu.

There’s another show we watch once every few weeks, um, Leg­end? Leg­ends? Some­thing about a Seeker. I can’t han­dle more of it than that, because the plots rely heav­ily on stu­pid­ity. That’s too annoy­ing, and while there are pretty peo­ple run­ning around in nice scenery, it isn’t enough to make up for the stup.

Com­cast keeps send­ing more and more plain­tive offers, try­ing to get us to sub­scribe to their cable TV and tele­phone ser­vice. When we did sub­scribe to cable, we didn’t get around to watch­ing much. We don’t chan­nel surf or just leavve the set on for noise, so it was wasted money. I sup­pose if we’d also got­ten a Tivo or some­thing sim­i­lar, we would have recorded the shows we watch. But we didn’t, so we still watched them online when we did watch them.

We can still use the tele­vi­sion to view shows, thnks to a nifty cable Sam pro­cured. That’s bet­ter than watch­ing on a com­puter mon­i­tor, and we can watch together. (It isn’t much fun watch­ing alone.)

Cur­rent Mood: (recumbent) recumbent

Plinky: Three Songs I’d Sing at a Karaoke Bar

2 February 2009, 3:27 pm. 2 Comments. Filed under Fun, Music.

Cur­rent Mood:Cool emoticon Cool

Their text actu­ally says, “If you pay me enough, I’d sing these songs.” I wouldn’t have to be paid, though. I’ve never actu­ally been in a karaoke bar, but I love to sing, so there are plenty of songs that I would be will­ing to sing!

“Some­thing to Talk About“
by
Bon­nie Raitt

“Hold­ing Me Tonight“
by
Carly Simon

“Bet­ter Than Ice Cream“
by
Sarah McLach­lan



Cur­rent Mood: (thirsty) thirsty
Cur­rent Music: Four Bitchin’ Babes -

Scattered

31 August 2008, 10:29 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Family, Fun, Reading.

Any­body else using Live­Mocha? Espe­cially to learn French? I just joined (as Tech­noMom, of course) and would like to have “friends” there. I started with the begin­ner level, les­son one, and actu­ally learned a few new vocab­u­lary words. (My wee bit of for­eign lan­guage instruc­tion in high school sucked, to put it mildly.) You’re sup­posed to ask your “friends” for feed­back on your lessons, but I don’t have any and don’t really want to ask total strangers about how badly I did.

Sam and Katie have been at Dragon*Con for the past few days. We had a house guest, David, but I didn’t really “meet” him because of the late con hours and hav­ing a really bad pain flare. Sorry David! He went home this after­noon. I’m glad Sam has the day off tomor­row to recover. I’m glad Hope got to come to D*C, but pout­ing because I won’t get to see her while she’s in town. I know that she has bright­ened Sam’s weekend.

I fin­ished read­ing The Jen­nifer Morgue by Charles Stross last night, and started Phae­dra Weldon’s Wraith. I liked Morgue, but it wasn’t quite as strong as The Atroc­ity Archives. The short story at the end of the book, “Pimpf,” didn’t do too much for me, but I’m not a video gamer so that prob­a­bly has a lot to do with it.

I’m really lik­ing Wraith. A lot. The fact that it’s set in Atlanta is nice, because I can fol­low along the geog­ra­phy as the char­ac­ters move around. (Usu­ally, such things go right past me, even if there’s a map.) Thanks to Good Reads, I know that there’s a novella, “Out of the Dark,” on Weldon’s site that takes place between this book and Spec­tre.

I’ve also been brows­ing through the archives at Two Lumps, thanks to a link from [info]skit­ten. I had a pair of Russ­ian Blues who were entirely too much like Ebenezer and Snooch! If you’re a vet­eran of cat cohab­i­ta­tion, be care­ful when read­ing. I rec­om­mend not hav­ing a drink in hand (or in mouth) and being care­ful to empty your blad­der before you start reading.

Kyoshi is busy telling me that he still doesn’t want to cud­dle with any­body but Katie, but he wants her home NOW! RIGHT NOW! And that we really have to stop let­ting the kit­ten out of the house with­out his per­sonal supervision.

 

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