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I wound up missing both Wednesday and Thursday from the bookstore, thanks to the web server upgrade at murkworks.net. I wound up having to go into late Wednesday evening because I couldn't figure out how to get Apache 2.0.39 to play nicely with PHP 4.2.1 -- and I wound up missing a viewing of Spirit in the bargain, since I'd promised to take care of the web server and I felt that took priority over going out to play that night (since we had social stuff coming on the weekend anyway). So I finally got everything working by downgrading to Apache 1.3.9 again, since Debian did release a patched version of their official Apache package. And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyricae, who is the most fantabulous boss in the world, was totally understanding when I told her I needed to spend Thursday getting caught up on the sleep I missed playing with the web server.
Well. The morning of Friday the 21st, I showed up at my dentist's for my semi-annual cleaning, only to find the parking lot entirely empty, the front and back doors locked up tight, and all the lights off. You can imagine my general confusion, given that nobody had bothered to inform me that the place was in fact CLOSED ON FRIDAY. I left them a message on the answering machine when I got back to the house, and although I found an appointment card in my wallet for Thursday June 21st, I'm fairly sure at this point that that's actually left over from last year. Memory seems to be niggling that when I'd gotten an appointment card for this appointment, I'd recycled it as soon as I got home and entered the appointment into my Outlook; on the other hand, the office receptionist did call me back this afternoon and confirmed that they'd had me down for the 21st, for some reason. They've rescheduled me for 1pm tomorrow since they'd had somebody else have to reschedule and so they can sneak me in. Oh goody.
I took the bus on over to the bookstore after that, and discovered to my pleasure that I didn't have to wait a whole half hour between getting off the 72 and getting on the 307, on Lake City Way. Which meant that it only took me about an hour to get to the bookstore by bus. Good information to know. Will have to see if I can duplicate the timing on the way back. I'd had to take the bus given that we were all going to meet for fondue that night, and sincesolarbird and spazzkat and mamishka would be driving on up to meet us at the Boiling Point, it would have been silly for me to drive in.
As it happened, though, I wound up not working very long that day anyway. I started getting twitchy for some fresh air since I hadn't biked at all that week, so Cheryl let me skip out to go spend some time out in the fresh air around 2:30pm or so. I read the rest of The Elusive Voice, a mystery novel, while hanging out near the river not far from the bookstore -- and being amused by random passing children, as well as one of the wild roosters who kept crowing like nobody's business. Then I wandered back to the bookstore, to meet Cheryl to go hang out at her place for a bit while she got showered and ready to go have fondue.
And fondue was had that night, with a big ol' herd of us, and lo, it was tasty.
Plus, I stayed up late trying to write a bit of prose about Aisleena, my gold rider in Segel Weyr, since I really do need to break her in. I mean, Segel went and gave me a gold and all, the least I can do is write about her. ;) Smitty darned well needs to answer that mail I sent her with the scene I wrote, though, and Mary, who writes for the bronzerider J'kob, is going to have to get back to me about her guy too, if she wants J'kob to have the angle of Aisleena bearing a striking resemblance to his tragically deceased weyrmate!
Saturday's big event turned out to be poor Mimi's accident with her thumb, and I blew a lot of Saturday afternoon at the ER while she got it stitched up and dealt with. Started reading Laurell K. Hamilton's A Kiss of Shadows, a book which has upheld the conviction that Ms. Hamilton's work as of late has been all about the slightly kinky sex; her Unseelie heroine does seem to spend a good portion of the novel being presented with excuses to have sex with this, that, and the other random fey dudes. I shall have to decide whether or not to read the next one, A Caress of Twilight, when it hits paperback.
I bought Mimi coffee-flavored ice cream and pizza, and we watched some Sakura off and on in between her puttering about and trying to tend to her hand. Amy Chused also came over, bearing the cake that Mimi's friend Liza had ever so kindly bought her, a chocolate cake with Lilo & Stitch themed decorations, and she also brought a kickass whale balloon for her as well. And Paul gave her a stuffed Stitch toy, which was quite adorable; turns out she got two of them, though, because her mother also bought her one, though she hadn't sent it to Meems yet.
No jam again. Grf. Read the rest of the Hamilton book. And in the meantime, my brother Donnie called, for no particular reason past just wanting to get caught up on things. Donnie relayed, though, that his band's album has been postponed probably until January, on the grounds that the guy at Lava/Atlantic with whom they were working apparently is breaking off from the company and going to form his own company. By the terms of their contract, they go with him. So now, they as well as all the other bands this guy is managing are in a sort of stasis until everything works out; in the meantime, everybody in the band except the lead singer (who has apparently scored some sort of publishing deal) has been given a living allowance and are taking part time jobs and such to make ends meet. Donnie says that they will be playing a few gigs and working on new material, as well. But the album is going to have to wait; apparently these things are done on a quarterly basis, and it's too late for 3rd quarter, and in the 4th quarter they would be completely overwhelmed by all the major acts who release new albums over the holidays.
Monday afternoon, Dar and I went downtown in search of presents for Mimi, and our quest to find the Gentlemen action figures from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush" was soundly thwarted on all sides. Sigh. We did, however, get her the stuffed Gir toy, and a Farscape DVD, both of which were quite happily received! We also got teriyaki at Tokyo Gardens on the Ave, and split an order; even half an order, though, stuffs both Dar and me pretty well.
Had some entertaining roleplay on Two Moons MUSH Monday night, though I continue to be vexed that the majority of players who got the whole "Seafarers" tinyplot going with me are pretty much AWOL. So as of late I've been doing a lot of emitting my character Vardeus' entire crew. I am consoled, however, by the knowledge that Amusing Things are actually happening, thanks to the Nastybad Evil Magic-User currently running around the MUSH and making all sorts of icky monsters to kill off innocent humans just because they happen to be descended from the Neanderthal-equivalents who beat the crap out of the High Ones when they landed. Details, details. ;) Anyway, Vardeus got to learn a bit about where elves come from -- and it was mightily amusing to have my ancient-Greek/ancient-Celt-flavored sailor's brain go sproing when the notion of "another world" was introduced to him. Sadly, Shay'la did not take my bait when I tried to see if she would explain that this "other world" was up in the stars -- where the gods live. Dang. ;)
At the same time, I also played a scene with my other active character, Wayfound, with whom I am having much amusement as I RP with Tefin, a Go-Back character who turns out to be as brainy as she is. The player has teased me about wondering whether they should curse me for getting them interested in the game again -- and unsurprisingly, they're making noises now about Tefin likely becoming romantically interested in Wayfound, though we've agreed to let things progress naturally in roleplay and just see what happens.ssha, in the meantime, who plays Arnos, the human on Vardeus' crew who has befriended Wayfound (though mostly off-camera), reports that apparently this new development in Wayfound's life will be making Arnos "frown". ;)
I also, for giggles and grins, finally got around to trying to put Rags into Open D tuning -- with an eye for seeing whether I could try to pick out "Judas Cart" Like Unto How Billy Dean Cochran Does It. Once I retuned the instrument I immediately learned that a) B minor, which is a bitch of a chord to play in standard tuning, is significantly easier in Open D; b) A7 would be a bit of a pain for me to work out, since the handy chord-generator thingie up on guitar.to wasn't doing it for me, and although I came up with what I think will work as a fingering, I'm not quite sure of it yet; and c) the whole voice of the instrument changes in this tuning. It's mellower and deeper, and maybe a little jazzy. But it's also way easier to pick out the melody of "Judas Cart" in this tuning, too, and I'm hoping I can work it out all the way.
My left foot's been annoying me for a few days now, feeling like I pulled a muscle in it or something. So I decided to get some new shoes, on the grounds that I had observed that I could comfortably walk while barefoot, but with the shoes on, my foot would hurt more. To the Ave I therefore went, and picked up a new pair of Nikes -- purple ones, mostly because they were the only pair of women's shoes on the rack at Big 5 which weren't fucking WHITE. The purple will look a bit funny when I go for the green-and-brown look, but well hey.
I also got, since it came out today, a shiny new copy of the DVD release of A Beautiful Mind. WHOO HOO new Russell Crowe movie for my collection!
After that, resumes. Oh goody. And finding out from Volt that the guy who called me on Friday (though I didn't know about this because I was at the bookstore at the time and Dar didn't get me the message until I was waiting for Cheryl to take me to her place) about an "opportunity" of some sort turned around and went on vacation then. He apparently won't be back until 7/2. Hopefully whatever opportunity he was wanting to ask me about won't have vanished by then.
Took Mimi to the post office so that she could pick up the birthday package from her mom, which had the aforementioned extra Stitch in it; then, came back and helped Dar for a bit with the walls in Din, since that needed doing.
And after dinner -- a bit of a chat with Tefin, who said he'd (using the pronoun of the character here, not the player, since I don't know the player) been reading old Wayfound logs today. I promised to post more, and have spent the night doing just that, posting several old Willowholt logs that involved Wayfound as well as several that didn't. It felt weird actually posting new logs to the Willowholt pages, though I amused myself by cross-referencing them on Wayfound's personal logs page, the Lostholt logs page, and even over on Nightfall's logs page up on TM's official web page. I'm nothing if not an information packrat. And I've been in a big ol' mode of reminding myself of TM-related information, too, since I've been trying to do a housecleaning of many of my old files and have been re-discovering a lot of old logs.
I'm even considering waking up Rillwhisper again for a little while, as part of the Zalehrin TP -- to have Rill lead a side expedition to go check out Doreel again, the last wacky mad Firstborn with a penchant for making icky monsters that Lostholt bumped into. I can use this whole TP as an excuse to bump off a couple Lostholt characters that probably aren't ever going to get played again... and maybe I can have some more fun with Rillwhisper and maybe also Ynderra.
But for now... sleep. Tomorrow, the dentist. Oh goody!
Wednesday & Thursday
I wound up missing both Wednesday and Thursday from the bookstore, thanks to the web server upgrade at murkworks.net. I wound up having to go into late Wednesday evening because I couldn't figure out how to get Apache 2.0.39 to play nicely with PHP 4.2.1 -- and I wound up missing a viewing of Spirit in the bargain, since I'd promised to take care of the web server and I felt that took priority over going out to play that night (since we had social stuff coming on the weekend anyway). So I finally got everything working by downgrading to Apache 1.3.9 again, since Debian did release a patched version of their official Apache package. And
lyricae, who is the most fantabulous boss in the world, was totally understanding when I told her I needed to spend Thursday getting caught up on the sleep I missed playing with the web server.
Friday
Well. The morning of Friday the 21st, I showed up at my dentist's for my semi-annual cleaning, only to find the parking lot entirely empty, the front and back doors locked up tight, and all the lights off. You can imagine my general confusion, given that nobody had bothered to inform me that the place was in fact CLOSED ON FRIDAY. I left them a message on the answering machine when I got back to the house, and although I found an appointment card in my wallet for Thursday June 21st, I'm fairly sure at this point that that's actually left over from last year. Memory seems to be niggling that when I'd gotten an appointment card for this appointment, I'd recycled it as soon as I got home and entered the appointment into my Outlook; on the other hand, the office receptionist did call me back this afternoon and confirmed that they'd had me down for the 21st, for some reason. They've rescheduled me for 1pm tomorrow since they'd had somebody else have to reschedule and so they can sneak me in. Oh goody.
I took the bus on over to the bookstore after that, and discovered to my pleasure that I didn't have to wait a whole half hour between getting off the 72 and getting on the 307, on Lake City Way. Which meant that it only took me about an hour to get to the bookstore by bus. Good information to know. Will have to see if I can duplicate the timing on the way back. I'd had to take the bus given that we were all going to meet for fondue that night, and since
solarbird and spazzkat and mamishka would be driving on up to meet us at the Boiling Point, it would have been silly for me to drive in.As it happened, though, I wound up not working very long that day anyway. I started getting twitchy for some fresh air since I hadn't biked at all that week, so Cheryl let me skip out to go spend some time out in the fresh air around 2:30pm or so. I read the rest of The Elusive Voice, a mystery novel, while hanging out near the river not far from the bookstore -- and being amused by random passing children, as well as one of the wild roosters who kept crowing like nobody's business. Then I wandered back to the bookstore, to meet Cheryl to go hang out at her place for a bit while she got showered and ready to go have fondue.
And fondue was had that night, with a big ol' herd of us, and lo, it was tasty.
Plus, I stayed up late trying to write a bit of prose about Aisleena, my gold rider in Segel Weyr, since I really do need to break her in. I mean, Segel went and gave me a gold and all, the least I can do is write about her. ;) Smitty darned well needs to answer that mail I sent her with the scene I wrote, though, and Mary, who writes for the bronzerider J'kob, is going to have to get back to me about her guy too, if she wants J'kob to have the angle of Aisleena bearing a striking resemblance to his tragically deceased weyrmate!
Saturday
Saturday's big event turned out to be poor Mimi's accident with her thumb, and I blew a lot of Saturday afternoon at the ER while she got it stitched up and dealt with. Started reading Laurell K. Hamilton's A Kiss of Shadows, a book which has upheld the conviction that Ms. Hamilton's work as of late has been all about the slightly kinky sex; her Unseelie heroine does seem to spend a good portion of the novel being presented with excuses to have sex with this, that, and the other random fey dudes. I shall have to decide whether or not to read the next one, A Caress of Twilight, when it hits paperback.
I bought Mimi coffee-flavored ice cream and pizza, and we watched some Sakura off and on in between her puttering about and trying to tend to her hand. Amy Chused also came over, bearing the cake that Mimi's friend Liza had ever so kindly bought her, a chocolate cake with Lilo & Stitch themed decorations, and she also brought a kickass whale balloon for her as well. And Paul gave her a stuffed Stitch toy, which was quite adorable; turns out she got two of them, though, because her mother also bought her one, though she hadn't sent it to Meems yet.
Sunday
No jam again. Grf. Read the rest of the Hamilton book. And in the meantime, my brother Donnie called, for no particular reason past just wanting to get caught up on things. Donnie relayed, though, that his band's album has been postponed probably until January, on the grounds that the guy at Lava/Atlantic with whom they were working apparently is breaking off from the company and going to form his own company. By the terms of their contract, they go with him. So now, they as well as all the other bands this guy is managing are in a sort of stasis until everything works out; in the meantime, everybody in the band except the lead singer (who has apparently scored some sort of publishing deal) has been given a living allowance and are taking part time jobs and such to make ends meet. Donnie says that they will be playing a few gigs and working on new material, as well. But the album is going to have to wait; apparently these things are done on a quarterly basis, and it's too late for 3rd quarter, and in the 4th quarter they would be completely overwhelmed by all the major acts who release new albums over the holidays.
Monday
Monday afternoon, Dar and I went downtown in search of presents for Mimi, and our quest to find the Gentlemen action figures from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Hush" was soundly thwarted on all sides. Sigh. We did, however, get her the stuffed Gir toy, and a Farscape DVD, both of which were quite happily received! We also got teriyaki at Tokyo Gardens on the Ave, and split an order; even half an order, though, stuffs both Dar and me pretty well.
Had some entertaining roleplay on Two Moons MUSH Monday night, though I continue to be vexed that the majority of players who got the whole "Seafarers" tinyplot going with me are pretty much AWOL. So as of late I've been doing a lot of emitting my character Vardeus' entire crew. I am consoled, however, by the knowledge that Amusing Things are actually happening, thanks to the Nastybad Evil Magic-User currently running around the MUSH and making all sorts of icky monsters to kill off innocent humans just because they happen to be descended from the Neanderthal-equivalents who beat the crap out of the High Ones when they landed. Details, details. ;) Anyway, Vardeus got to learn a bit about where elves come from -- and it was mightily amusing to have my ancient-Greek/ancient-Celt-flavored sailor's brain go sproing when the notion of "another world" was introduced to him. Sadly, Shay'la did not take my bait when I tried to see if she would explain that this "other world" was up in the stars -- where the gods live. Dang. ;)
At the same time, I also played a scene with my other active character, Wayfound, with whom I am having much amusement as I RP with Tefin, a Go-Back character who turns out to be as brainy as she is. The player has teased me about wondering whether they should curse me for getting them interested in the game again -- and unsurprisingly, they're making noises now about Tefin likely becoming romantically interested in Wayfound, though we've agreed to let things progress naturally in roleplay and just see what happens.
ssha, in the meantime, who plays Arnos, the human on Vardeus' crew who has befriended Wayfound (though mostly off-camera), reports that apparently this new development in Wayfound's life will be making Arnos "frown". ;)I also, for giggles and grins, finally got around to trying to put Rags into Open D tuning -- with an eye for seeing whether I could try to pick out "Judas Cart" Like Unto How Billy Dean Cochran Does It. Once I retuned the instrument I immediately learned that a) B minor, which is a bitch of a chord to play in standard tuning, is significantly easier in Open D; b) A7 would be a bit of a pain for me to work out, since the handy chord-generator thingie up on guitar.to wasn't doing it for me, and although I came up with what I think will work as a fingering, I'm not quite sure of it yet; and c) the whole voice of the instrument changes in this tuning. It's mellower and deeper, and maybe a little jazzy. But it's also way easier to pick out the melody of "Judas Cart" in this tuning, too, and I'm hoping I can work it out all the way.
Today
My left foot's been annoying me for a few days now, feeling like I pulled a muscle in it or something. So I decided to get some new shoes, on the grounds that I had observed that I could comfortably walk while barefoot, but with the shoes on, my foot would hurt more. To the Ave I therefore went, and picked up a new pair of Nikes -- purple ones, mostly because they were the only pair of women's shoes on the rack at Big 5 which weren't fucking WHITE. The purple will look a bit funny when I go for the green-and-brown look, but well hey.
I also got, since it came out today, a shiny new copy of the DVD release of A Beautiful Mind. WHOO HOO new Russell Crowe movie for my collection!
After that, resumes. Oh goody. And finding out from Volt that the guy who called me on Friday (though I didn't know about this because I was at the bookstore at the time and Dar didn't get me the message until I was waiting for Cheryl to take me to her place) about an "opportunity" of some sort turned around and went on vacation then. He apparently won't be back until 7/2. Hopefully whatever opportunity he was wanting to ask me about won't have vanished by then.
Took Mimi to the post office so that she could pick up the birthday package from her mom, which had the aforementioned extra Stitch in it; then, came back and helped Dar for a bit with the walls in Din, since that needed doing.
And after dinner -- a bit of a chat with Tefin, who said he'd (using the pronoun of the character here, not the player, since I don't know the player) been reading old Wayfound logs today. I promised to post more, and have spent the night doing just that, posting several old Willowholt logs that involved Wayfound as well as several that didn't. It felt weird actually posting new logs to the Willowholt pages, though I amused myself by cross-referencing them on Wayfound's personal logs page, the Lostholt logs page, and even over on Nightfall's logs page up on TM's official web page. I'm nothing if not an information packrat. And I've been in a big ol' mode of reminding myself of TM-related information, too, since I've been trying to do a housecleaning of many of my old files and have been re-discovering a lot of old logs.
I'm even considering waking up Rillwhisper again for a little while, as part of the Zalehrin TP -- to have Rill lead a side expedition to go check out Doreel again, the last wacky mad Firstborn with a penchant for making icky monsters that Lostholt bumped into. I can use this whole TP as an excuse to bump off a couple Lostholt characters that probably aren't ever going to get played again... and maybe I can have some more fun with Rillwhisper and maybe also Ynderra.
But for now... sleep. Tomorrow, the dentist. Oh goody!
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Date: 2002-06-26 08:52 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-06-26 12:25 pm (UTC)actually...
Date: 2002-06-29 12:21 pm (UTC)I can live with one Mary Sue. I was very, *very* disappointed when Merry turned out to be a short, dark-haired, bad-assed sidhe. Even if the book had had plot other than the sex, I don't think I'll read the next one, because it mostly seems to me at this point that Ms. Hamilton needs to get laid by a multitude of anime elf boys, and I've got my own fantasies. Don't need hers. :)
Re: actually...
Date: 2002-06-30 12:20 am (UTC)(And whoo! Post from Kit!)
I'm pretty sure I have the second one
Date: 2002-06-26 09:02 am (UTC)At any rate, if and when you are ready to read it, we do have a copy lurking around Casa Couvillion.
Re: I'm pretty sure I have the second one
Date: 2002-06-26 12:26 pm (UTC)