Corner of Bourbon & Division

I got home yesterday after fighting off a migraine for most of the day, feeling seriously out of sorts. That was after the Overtime Fairy visited. So Overtime Fairy + Migraine Fairy = Seriously Cranky Phnee.

I took a bubble bath (YAY!), with the intention of doing some tidying afterward, since the cleaning lady is coming today. Yeah. That didn't happen. I felt marginally better but still overall crummy after my bath, so instead I went to bed and set my alarm early.

Now, normally this is where my well-paved road usually goes to hell. I am not good at getting up early, especially when I'm tired. Today, however, appears to have been an exception to the rule. I got up when my alarm rang (okay, I hit "snooze" for 15 minutes, but that was part of the plan), and have been tidying for the past little while. I also made breakfast and had coffee, which NEVER happens when I'm on day shift, because I'm usually not up on time to have breakfast at home (I keep breakfast in my locker at work for just such contingencies).

Now I just have to tidy the front entrance, change the litter in the cat pans, and make my bed. Oh, and get dressed. :P I have exactly fifty-five minutes for this, which means it's all going to get done. w00t!

Tonight is Hump Night at Hurley's. Must remember to bring MacGyver for sorceror.


I think one of the non-work things I will do today will be to come up with a comprehensive list of names for my co-workers, to which I can refer if I want. Maybe a list of other frequently-used non-LJ names as well. That way I won't have to try to remember who I've already named and so forth.

Okay. The cat pans aren't going to clean themselves. Off I go!

I am very, very bored. I am on the stand-alone computer at work, which means I can check my friends pages and suchlike.

I have therefore been fussing with LJ, and have re-vamped my other two LJs to the current S2 style, in particular secret_history, which is no longer entirely BLACKDOOMEGADS, but a pale hue which is doubtless more restful to the eye.

Sadly, it's Sunday, which means everyone is off doing happy weekend things, and not providing me with entertainment. Bored cat is therefore bored.

My co-worker, Big!Bear, brought a few movies, including No Country For Old Men which was both depressing and narratively unsatisfying. Did I mention that I hate detectives and police officers who seem incapable of doing their jobs? Yeah. In spades.

He also brought There Will Be Blood and 3:10 to Yuma. I've seen the latter and know it's highly enjoyable, but I'm curious about the former. We shall see...

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 174
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 195
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Yup, although I'm still trying to figure out which ones to use for my available space.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: That I'm a colossal geek?
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Babylon 5
AND THE SECOND MOST: Firefly
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: No ship icons. Horrendous, isn't it?
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: A lot were made by curtana. She is lovely and talented and a pearl among women. Also, we share a bunch of fandoms.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: I used to but lost my image editing software between computers.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: I like 'em, but I mostly just crop existing images. I'm not especially talented.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Annoying when they're too fast, but otherwise lots of fun.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

Okay, I'm having weird issues with my LJ Navigation Strip. I have it set to show up everywhere I go, but when I click other people's entries, not only do I lose the Navigation Strip, but in entries that are viewed in the default LJ style (as opposed to the custom style of the journal in question) I don't even get the LJ menu bar anymore.

Anyone know what's up with that?

I have been sitting on my hands in order not to buy more books. I am in a fidgety kind of mood lately, in which I want things to be "finished." The painting in my apartment (still not done, but it's looking good for mid-to-end of December), the buying of furniture, the decorating, all of it. Of course I know it's a process, that it won't all get done overnight, blah blah blah. I still want it DONE.

*shrug*

I'm weird, I know.

Anyway, my fidgety "I-want-it-DONE" mood is translating into books. Specifically, books that "complete" a series. I have been reading a lot of series of late, and many of these were lent to me by friend (owldaughter and toughlovemuse are the worst offenders in this department, but there have been others). The problem with that is that I then want to have the books on hand, for when I will inevitably re-read them. There are few books I own that I haven't read more than once. So I buy the books when I see them on the shelves, especially when they're second-hand. This presents me with a second problem: bookstores (especially second-hand bookstores) have no consideration AT ALL for my OCD tendencies, and stubbornly refuse to sell the books to me in the order in which I want them. Many times they actually don't even have the books in the store! Shocking, I know.

So last week I went on a bit of a binge, and managed to complete a number of the series in which I had large gaps. I now own all the Kelley Armstrong novels except the most recent one. Katharine Kerr went on the list, as did Lynn Flewelling (known on LJ as otterdance, Jim Butcher, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Dianne Day, Gregory MacGuire, C.J. Cherryh (I was good and only bought one), and a few others. I was disappointed not to find any of Carole Nelson Douglas' Irene Adler series: they had a few of her Midnight Louie books, but I haven't read any of those yet, and if I do I'd like to start with the first one and work my way through them in order (yes, I know, OCD). They look like they might be fun, though, since Midnight Louie is a crime-solving cat.

Also, because I didn't want to just buy books I had already read or were part of a series I already owned, and because I clearly needed more books to my name (I figure I'm safe so long as I have fewer books than owldaughter: she's my measuring stick), I bought myself a copy of Kushiel's Dart, which I started on Friday and then didn't have the time to continue until today. I'm enjoying it so far: it's refreshing to have a very obviously French-inspired fantasy setting, as opposed to a Gaelic one (don't get me wrong: when they're good, they're excellent; it's just that everyone and their cousin uses Celtic mythology, it seems), and I'm very much interested by the hints of the court intrigue and adventure that are being hinted at in the early pages of the novel. Overall I've heard good things about the series, and so far I have no reason to think otherwise.

Okay. Back to work.

LJ is meant to be down in the morning, but since I plan to be asleep during that time I hope that the transition will be seamless for me. I hope they can pull it off without losing data, because otherwise that'll be over six years' worth of journalling that will go down the tubes. Not the end of the world, but certainly a sentimental loss for me.

I am sneaking online at work to say that I am having connectivity issues at home. My modem appears to be snubbing me. I hope the problem will be resolved soon, but if you don't hear from me for a while, that's why.

Cheers!

Also: GIP courtesy of taxlady

:::ETA:::

After reading a number of frustrated posts from others, I have realized that it was my provider and not me, and that the situation has been resolved already. So, yay!

Not wanting to disappoint bodhifox, I tried to make a voice post today. They've changed the access number from Canada, however, and now when I call I seem to be getting someone's voicemail. It's odd.

Can anyone in Canada tell me what I'm doing wrong? It's most annoying. Then again, the last time I made a voice post was May 2006, so I guess that's the problem. Infrequent usage.

I was going to use the title "Not dead, just tired," but the auto-fill on my LJ form informed me that I'd already used it. Egads.

Worked a double shift Wednesday to Thursday. Am very tired, accordingly. Had a lovely morning with curtana yesterday, although I was a little out of it, having worked 16 hours the day before and been awake for 24 hours straight.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank the lovely fairies who cleared all the snow from my front steps and balcony. Coming home at 11pm yesterday, it was a terrific and very pleasant surprise. Thank you so very much. :)

In only slightly-related news, my recycling box is buried in a snowbank. I fear I shall never see it again.

Had dinner with the parental units to celebrate my mother's non-birthday at a nice Thai restaurant. My ever-active conscience spent most of the evening whispering that much of my food had traveled thousands of miles to get to my plate. Stupid conscience. Can't even have Thai food without feeling guilty now.

Okay. Going to go crash now. More later.

fearsclave, meet bodhifox.

bodhifox, meet fearsclave.

I strongly encourage the two of you to bond over the merits of various cheese puff products when used as fuel/fire starters.

The rest will follow.

Where the hell did the "backdate entry" option go? I have looked everywhere on the update page, and all I can do is "date out of order" which doesn't actually let me backdate. Dagnabbit.