derien: It's a cup of tea and a white mouse.  The mouse is offering to buy Arthur's brain and replace it with a simple computer. (Default)
( Mar. 30th, 2004 10:44 am)
I got spam (apparently) from my own address, just now. So don't block every address which sends you spam - the mail you save may be my own. (And yes, I am quite aware that any address can be spoofed. I just hate that there's no way to stop them spoofing.)

Here I am already into Tuesday and I still haven't gotten come to terms with the fact that the weekend is over. Damn it goes too fast. Saturday I went for a long walk with Caw, and Sunday she and I went to see Taking Lives, which I hated. It's full of plot holes and Angelina Jolie is a Mary Sue. She's still as lovely as ever. Caw just covered her eyes at all the violence, which meant most of the movie - yes, she dragged me to that movie JUST because she wanted to see Angelina Jolie. The depths of her shallowness are unplumbable.;)

Next weekend will go fast, too, as we start the moving process.

I tried Nair for the first time, this morning. It says on the bottle to let it stay on for 4 minutes, but (in bold!) not over 10 minutes, so I got out my timer and set it for 5 minutes and began flossing my teeth. After a little while I began to think 5 minutes was a damnably long time, so I looked at the timer and it still said I had 4 minutes and 49 seconds. Um. Yeah. I'd set it for 5 hours. Eep! Lots of cocoa butter.
derien: It's a cup of tea and a white mouse.  The mouse is offering to buy Arthur's brain and replace it with a simple computer. (Default)
( Mar. 30th, 2004 11:25 pm)
Bush jokes about weapons of mass destruction. Apparently Bush appeared at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner and joked about the fact that he has failed to find any evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. I think the writer draws a valid comparison: "The problem is not that someone told a joke about WMD. It's that as the chief purveyor of the WMD falsehood, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis, it is beyond bad taste for George W. Bush to joke about WMD. It's the difference between a comedian making a joke about O.J. Simpson looking for Nicole Brown Simpson's "real killer," and O.J. Simpson making the same joke."

Oops. I told [livejournal.com profile] eor I would be in bed by now. I've been reading Diary of a Mountie again. And yes, THIS time the link goes to the beginning of the story, for any of you who are silly like me and adore serialized adventure stories.:) And after you finish up the first few installments, then you go to [livejournal.com profile] sgt_preston and find the rest.

At work Preacher went into another of his ... well, you can't call them diatribes or rants, because he does them so sincerely and politely and kindly. Um. Sermons? Yes, sounds good - Preacher went into a sermon about loving the sinner but hating the sin around homosexual behavior. Which he apparently ranks up there around the same level as the sin of littering. :) His point was that he thinks some churchs carry things way too far when they fight against homosexuality because if the gays can't be part of the church community they can't be there to be saved and use the community to lead themselves back out of their sinful lifestyle. Anyway, he knows I don't agree with him, but I sat and nodded and smiled and said things like, "you're entitled to your opinion." And later when I'd gone to do an online training thing he came to find me and whispered (so as not to bother the other people who were training), "thank you for letting me express myself." I was quite touched, and said, "Certainly!" I felt like patting him on the cheek. He is a dear boy, even if he is The Adversary.;) (The training I happened to be doing used the phrase "the adversary" quite often, which amused me by sounding so Good Omens-esque.)

Edited: I forgot to mention! Before Preacher went into that sermon I'd explained to him the game of finding likely slash pairings in books/movies/tv shows, and he had a GREAT time with that. It came about because I was explaining to him the Red Dwarf/M*A*S*H* crossover of Doom and he said he just couldn't see Hawkeye/Frank, "Not because I don't approve of such relationships but because the characters! No! It just doesn't work! Not like Kirk/Spock, now that seems a natural." And then he came up with Kirk/Khan and I was like, "Eep! I can see that, but it'd be viscious."
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