June 30th, 2005 at 11:50 am
(Artistic, News)
I am too proud of myself for upgrading to the latest version of WP without screwing anything up. Then again, it was horribly simple. *heh*
Found out yesterday that B1tch from the old job/old department has part of my old job/new department. She emigrated to Dairylandia. Of all places, of all places. I’ll bet she doesn’t do half of what I did. I wonder who she’s making shite up about and tattling on to make herself feel like big woman on campus now. Probably the Golden One. I hope he takes her back in the cooler and drops a pallet of skim on her. I have a bet with Mother that she will either be fired or quit by the new year. I mean, I thought the Deli was just teh shezzy after they got rid of nasty old me. *small snort* I almost wish I was still there, just to watch the sparks fly. I don’t need that sort of stress though. I’m finally starting to get this IC thing figured out.
Found a lot of nice alchemical documents yesterday that I’m going to turn into PSP8 brushes. I had the idea for another set or two yesterday morning- inspired by Brother Sebastian, I mean Theophilus of Rotterdam, I mean Brother Malachai, er Malachai. *L* (It’s a Judith Merkle-Riley joke. You have to have read her Margaret of Ashbury books to truly appreciate it). I think I have enough for perhaps three sets. I’ll do that some time. *sigh* I’m a little burnt out with working on my MCLM character layout for at least 10 hours yesterday. I’m not even done yet. Close-ish, I guess. But not done.
It is storming today, which is nice. We still need the rain.
*burns out and fries self to a crisp* Fah.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:27 pm
(Uncategorized)
June 28th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
(Reflections)
I had forgotten how mystical a summer rainstorm is, especially late, late at night when no one else is up. I had forgotten how it makes the air feel more inviting, how it makes the trees release their perfume, scenting the dark with sap and life.
It finally rained.
In fact, it stormed for about 45 minutes. It was wonderful. The sky grew progressivly darker, then the wind picked up and you could hear the distant thunder mumble and then grow louder. The rain came down softly at first and I was afraid that we would get just a sprinkle and nothing in the way of meaningful precipitation. I had planned on watering all of my trees and poor, crispy plants yesterday but then the rain came down in sheets. Eloric and I got giddy and sat in the garage watching the rain like a pair of fools.
I put a bowl under the poplars to catch some rain water. I think rainwater is the neatest thing- call me bizarre. The feel of the wet grass under my feet made me silly. I watched, fascinated, as the water rolled off the roof of the garage and fell into a little puddle in fat drops, flashing when there was lightening.
Later on when the rain stopped, I took my bowl back in the house and put the rainwater through a coffee filter. I drank some of it.
It tasted like trees.
June 28th, 2005 at 12:57 am
(News, Rants)
June 27th, 2005 at 5:03 pm
(Interstitial Cystitis, News, Rants)
Today is my last day of Levaquin, tomorrow will be my last day of Prosed. I have managed to dodge both YI and acute urinary retention with ruthless applications of coffee (though drinking it hurt earlier in the week) and acidophilis capsules. I was supposed to go in today if I wasn’t any better but I think I might be better. The only problem is that, despite large amounts of water and fiber, the Prosed exacerbated my IBS. Can’t win at everything, I guess.
I am getting closer to being done with setting up the other site. I have made most of my preview images and I’m getting my zips together. Redlillith has kindly offered to convert my stamps to PS7 brush files. I have some more images to make and then I’ll probably have to tweak the layout. Again. Oh well. I had wanted a trendy div+table layout but I’m stuck with one large side bar because I can’t figure out how to get rid of a piece of php. *grr* But I want to prove I can run an entire site on WP.
In the us vs. Nature Rapist saga there has been added another chapter: The fellow who is going to help us with our edition has known NR for his whole life. He says that several years ago, someone caught NR burying shingles on his property, took pictures, and NR had to spend somewhere in the realm of $30,000 cleaning it up because the EPA was involved, which explains why he was livid. Of course that would be stupid because if you are rude to me, well, I have no qualms in turning your ass in for illegal dumping. Because you should be shitty to people who have concrete proof of your dumping on STATE LAND *oh noes! caught!*
Auntie Louise will be down Friday, which means I can count on hearing about her latest grandchild. Mother has already stopped telling me about this newest cousin of mine and has stopped telling me about anything to do with the other little cousins, praise be to the gods. She has seen how I really could care less. Individually, I don’t mind children but when I have how someone has had a child or the child’s antics shoved down my throat, I get peeved. I don’t care of Child A is potty training, I don’t care if Person B has gotten knocked up again. Just like some people don’t want to hear about my bladder, I don’t want to hear about relative’s children. And Aunt Louise pushes the issue and gloats and crows and generally carries on like it’s a hot ticket item. Look- No one wants to hear about how smart my cats are or how my Druid just reached 13th level (AD&D, Eloric version). I keep mum about that, do me a favor and don’t tell me about your grandkids, okay Auntie? Just don’t. You won’t be happy with my reaction.
I must go. D&D time.
June 26th, 2005 at 10:15 pm
(oneword)
Snap!
the small dragon flowers
have captured a bee
in their scented interior
the sound of frantic buzzing
one second
before the crackling
incineration
June 25th, 2005 at 7:31 pm
(Artistic, Fannish, News)
Today has been spent mostly in making a new avatar and reading about Anne Boleyn. 100×100 images should not be that difficult to make. Maybe I’m too much of a perfectionist. Ok. So I am.
Need to get down to business TC-ing my portion of Mythology/Religion tonight/tomorrow. Dunno how long it’s going to take as I haven’t peeked at the portion I am to do. I’m getting this thing down. Sometimes I feel really evil, putting a list down for second inspection… but sometimes I want to and I can’t (like the one that told people to die and various other nasty things). *bler* And, naturally, this is one of my fave categories… Yeah. Humminahumminahumminahummina *drool* Things.
Screen-capped the bits of Hellboy I think I am going to use for the Movie Character Marathon. I may cap a bit more because I dunno if I want to use one of the bits or not… that and I like the part where Hellboy is grucching about not being able to pick up girls because he rides around in a garbage truck. *L*
Little bit bummed right now because we’re in the middle of a drought and there was a rageing thunderstorm about 10 miles to the east. What a bummer. I’m all for thunderstorms, even severe ones, as we need rain *that badly*. I know we were overdue for a drought but it doesn’t make it better. I feel sorry for my trees.
Coming along nicely with the other site. Getting the full value out of that tutorial and my book on XHTML and CSS. *heh* I wish everything hadn’t hit at once, as to bills and prior commitments on my internet time. I *could* get up earlier but I don’t want to get up when Eloric does for work. ‘Course I have to right now because I have to take my blue pee-pee medicine every time I turn around. Which reminds me- I drank my Cafe Verde today without ill-effects *woo-hoo!* /tangent. And I desperately need to get my scanner hooked up now as I hate to be tied to other people’s stock for brush resources. *bler* It’s not like it’s such a pain to credit other people but rather in making the brushes wholly mine.
June 23rd, 2005 at 12:54 pm
(Interstitial Cystitis, News)
Oh Crap.
Apparently I wasn’t paying attention in February and an invoice got past me for the site. Got a little side-tracked there with people wanting to shove scopes into various orifices and forgot to pay 
Well, I’m all paid up now. *sigh* Not the best time to have to pay the site off but I like it here and you do what you have to do. I’ll sell some blood or something. Or eggs *weg* I sure as hell don’t need ‘em now. *bwahahahahahaha!*
Well, so far the enbalming urine medicine is not causing “acute urinary retention”, which is always nice. If you have to go, you ought to be able to go without any strife through chemistry. It was very green this morning. I managed to sleep through the night *yay!* I had strange, strange dreams about driving a car all the way to Norway. I don’t know what that was about. I just remember at one point some lady’s kid spit water all over me, so I latched a hold of it and told it that people don’t do that and gave it a smack on the bum. Its mother came over and started yelling at me, so I poked her on the shoulder and told her I wasn’t responsible for taking care of her kid and that she needed to teach it some manners and get some herself… and she kind of wandered off after that. Dreams. *heh*
Dunno what’s going on today. I feel a little better- as in it doesn’t cause me excrutiating pain to stand for more than 2 minutes and I’m not nauseated all of the time… which is great. Still afraid that the Prosed is going to do me like Urised did me last time. Other than that… *sigh*
Maybe I’ll get on that *other* layout I’ve been meaning to do.
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