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May. 7th, 2005 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatThe day decided to be pretty and sunny and warm. Which was nice. Took a little walk. Picked up a few odds and ends. Wasted an hour and a half trying to install a Brita Water purification system on my sink facet (the one they keep advertising on the telly), only to finally declare defeat. Takes me a while to give up on something - I'll try everything I can think of first, especially if it cost me money. I even took apart the nozel on my faucet, then put it back on. Wasted the money and the time. Have decided to speak to my landlord about the possibility of getting a new faucet - after taking it apart - discovered how truly gross it was. Very glad I've been drinking Poland Spring Water for the last six years, not tap, or if tap, rarely or through Brita filters. Any doubts about drinking the Poland Spring went out the window after taking apart that nozzle.
Water. When did it become expensive?
Just watched two more Wonderfalls episodes - really enjoying this little series. Identify with the heroine quite a bit, which I'm not sure is necessarily a good thing. Got bogged down a bit in the Mail Order Bride episode, that and my mother called, then it was time to watch JL Unlimited, which I keep missing because I either forget it's on or when I remember it's a rerun I've seen more than once. This one was nifty - Superman vs. Doomsday (in the comics - Superman died at Doomsday's hands - I have the limited series, if anyone wants it. Or rather my parents do, I think it's in Hilton Head. One of these days I'm going to get around to selling my comics collection on Ebay. Assuming of course anyone wants it.), but the best part of the episode was the Batman bits.
Batman sacrificing himself to save Superman, then lying beaten up in the hospital bed as Superman and Diana come in. Batman being human, is of course injured, where Superman, being an invulnerable superhero, is looking pretty sturdy. This contrast - emphasizes Bat's point to Superman and Diana, how if they wanted to they could destroy the delicate balance of power, or take away humanity's free will and rule as Gods. That the human government has every reason to fear them. Nice point. Haven't seen anyone deal with that outside of the X-men in a while. Was always a major theme in those novels. So it's hardly new.
Wrote a little more on my story, working on Chapter 3 at the moment. Building up a new character. This character's voice is a tad snarky - hence the tone of the journal. Also a little foul-mouthed. Actually all the characters are a bit on the snarky side...not sure this is a good thing or a bad thing. Oh well, will worry about it later. Assignment for this week is to go with the flow and see what happens. No worrying allowed. We'll see if I succeed. Haven't so far.
Spoke to Wales on the phone - we're doing Hitchhiker's Guide tomorrow at 1pm, the $5 showing. She was working on a list (or meme) of her neuroses or rather: "If I didn't do these things, I wouldn't be so neurotic". Heh. Some of the items on her list fit me - so I found it oddly reassuring, even though I kept arguing with her and saying, uhm, sorry, but you don't do that. She said she wasn't comfortable in her own skin. (Wales is the most comfortable person I've met in her own skin outside of maybe my pal pumpkinpuss. Me? Not so much.)
The other thing she said that made me cackle - was "If verbal self-abuse were a crime, I'd have you arrested". A friend told her that. Lovely. If it were a crime? I'd certainly be in jail serving a life sentence.
Oh - PSA announcement - I had Clean Space 8 on my system to deal with spyware?
Well got infected with a Trojan Horse virus, which my Norton's just detected and quarantined and I've deleted. Might want to be careful with internet spyware services. I'm thinking of asking my companies information security department for tips on which ones to get.
Water. When did it become expensive?
Just watched two more Wonderfalls episodes - really enjoying this little series. Identify with the heroine quite a bit, which I'm not sure is necessarily a good thing. Got bogged down a bit in the Mail Order Bride episode, that and my mother called, then it was time to watch JL Unlimited, which I keep missing because I either forget it's on or when I remember it's a rerun I've seen more than once. This one was nifty - Superman vs. Doomsday (in the comics - Superman died at Doomsday's hands - I have the limited series, if anyone wants it. Or rather my parents do, I think it's in Hilton Head. One of these days I'm going to get around to selling my comics collection on Ebay. Assuming of course anyone wants it.), but the best part of the episode was the Batman bits.
Batman sacrificing himself to save Superman, then lying beaten up in the hospital bed as Superman and Diana come in. Batman being human, is of course injured, where Superman, being an invulnerable superhero, is looking pretty sturdy. This contrast - emphasizes Bat's point to Superman and Diana, how if they wanted to they could destroy the delicate balance of power, or take away humanity's free will and rule as Gods. That the human government has every reason to fear them. Nice point. Haven't seen anyone deal with that outside of the X-men in a while. Was always a major theme in those novels. So it's hardly new.
Wrote a little more on my story, working on Chapter 3 at the moment. Building up a new character. This character's voice is a tad snarky - hence the tone of the journal. Also a little foul-mouthed. Actually all the characters are a bit on the snarky side...not sure this is a good thing or a bad thing. Oh well, will worry about it later. Assignment for this week is to go with the flow and see what happens. No worrying allowed. We'll see if I succeed. Haven't so far.
Spoke to Wales on the phone - we're doing Hitchhiker's Guide tomorrow at 1pm, the $5 showing. She was working on a list (or meme) of her neuroses or rather: "If I didn't do these things, I wouldn't be so neurotic". Heh. Some of the items on her list fit me - so I found it oddly reassuring, even though I kept arguing with her and saying, uhm, sorry, but you don't do that. She said she wasn't comfortable in her own skin. (Wales is the most comfortable person I've met in her own skin outside of maybe my pal pumpkinpuss. Me? Not so much.)
The other thing she said that made me cackle - was "If verbal self-abuse were a crime, I'd have you arrested". A friend told her that. Lovely. If it were a crime? I'd certainly be in jail serving a life sentence.
Oh - PSA announcement - I had Clean Space 8 on my system to deal with spyware?
Well got infected with a Trojan Horse virus, which my Norton's just detected and quarantined and I've deleted. Might want to be careful with internet spyware services. I'm thinking of asking my companies information security department for tips on which ones to get.
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it occurs to me...
Date: 2005-05-07 10:26 pm (UTC)...that in a way it is a life sentence. And its own punishment.