The mega post of doom

edited to add this first section was written on Friday night

I got a Hogswatch present from Eightball!  Shanghai Knights on DVD, and Starbucks chocolate covered espresso beans. :)  And a really lovely card - some sort of Sun/Earth/Moon goddess.

Today was lashing down rain, early on, and I guess the wires in VWs get wet - the van didn't want to start this morning, so eor had to snag the car to get to work on time, and I took the bus.  Thankfully by the time I left the rain had died down a bit, but I was glad I had worn other clothes and wrapped my uniform in plastic in my knapsack.  Dry socks make things so much better.  Other than that it wasn't bad, because it was actually 50 degrees (F).  (It got colder during the day and things are freezing, now, so tomorrow it might be quite a mess, I suppose.)

I guess I'll have plenty of time to work on this post, as LJ is down right now.  Hard, apparently - now that I'm home I've heard about the power loss thing.  I tried to look at it from work around 7:30PM and was baffled by how the browser didn't even seem to try after it put up the first 'unable to connect' type message.  I have this fear that I'm someday going to be blocked from looking at LJ from work. 

I suppose I should really be spending this time thinking about writing stories or something useful, though.  Am cooking supper at the moment.  And I'm sooo tired.  I really just feel like reading.  I wonder if my cat would consent to having some lap time if I sat on the floor to read.  She attempted to jump on my lap the other day and fell hard, poor old thing.  Her back legs just didn't catch her like they should have. 

Y'know, I may have mentioned this before, but seeing as I have all this time to compose I might as well ramble...  Our uniforms are made in a variety of far-flung countries.  I just thought of this because eor mentioned Bush is going to be removing the limits on imports from China, so probably our uniforms are going to be made there, next.  Now, not that I have anything against people making a living, but doesn't it seem that at least our government should be buying within the country?  Keeping jobs and money here?  It's just a thought.

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So I wrote that stuff above last night.  Tonight we just got back from having a drink at the pub at the end of the street (the Bramhall, for Portlanders).  There was a band there, and they were really pretty decent - I guess they were rockabilly.  Fun, anyway, and they seemed to know their instruments.  But the nice restaurant upstairs (the Roma) sent a message down to ask them to stop playing for a while because they had some sort of function going on up there which was being disturbed.  Boo, hiss.  So we left.  We'd finished our drinks and our discussion of train trips, and the pool table was still occupied by the third game in a row by this foursome (the girl of which could dance), so it seemed like a good time to leave.

I invited Teena over for TV this evening (not real TV, but DVDs), but she has to work early tomorrow (4AM!) so she countered by asking us over for dinner, but she since it's so hard for other people to find something eor can eat we ended up deciding she will come over tomorrow evening, instead. :)

now for some silliness....
yonmei wrote:
I said I wondered if, when people expected to live to be 70, did he think the 35th birthday had loomed as significantly in people's lives? Because, like it or not, odds are at 38-40, you're at about the middle of your life: half of it over, half to go. And that is an awesome and uncomfortable thought, if you think about it too hard.

I read this aloud to eor and he responded "Especially when the first fifteen years of your life is wasted.  But then again, most of your life is wasted.  That's really the point, isn't it?"  And then he realized he was channeling Rimmer.:) 

I'd better go put the clothes away so we can use the bed. :)