December 2009 Archives

I was going to write a post about the holidays and how luck I am to have amazing in-laws who love me as much as I love them, so many loving friends, my own family, and my incredible husband, but a speculation on the reason why one of our cats has lost a tremendous amount of weight all of the sudden has derailed any happy thoughts I had.  So, maybe tomorrow.

Sorry.

Spa Owner has shut down the spa until January 5th.  I am officially on a long vacation I haven't had since 2008.  Let the vegetation begin!

Okay, it won't be all vegetation.  I'm hoping to get some work on projects done, game, clean house, game, cook a lot of cool stuff, game, enjoy the holidays with friends and family, game...It could prove to be a rather fruitful vacation.

Solstihanukwanzamas is upon us at last.  Our plans are pretty simple: spend a nice evening together, shower the parents with gifts, have dinner and laughing with in-laws, curse at the stupid drivers.  Good times.

Okay, on with the Totally Random Show!

- Just watched the trailer for the new "Robin Hood" movie. It told me nothing about the movie beyond it was directed by Ridley Scott (which these days could be good or bad) and stars Russell Crowe (which is definitely up in the air for good or bad) and Cate Blanchett (who is awesome but her movies aren't always.)  So, as far as I'm concerned, according to the trailer, it's a bunch of fight scenes with a metal soundtrack.  Woo

- A bunch of us helped a good friend move out of the house and into her new apartment in about four hours.  Have we got it down to a science or what.

- I love my Louisiana peeps, but I still don't want to go down there next weekend.  Some know why it's painful for me to go there, but many others do not and I probably won't drop that on them.  Still, despite loving to visit my peeps down there, I really don't want to go.

-My mother just informed me that it's snowing at her house again.  I hate her.  I love her, but I hate her snow-getting abilities.  Telling her we've gotten a flash flood warning really doesn't relate to her getting snow.  Dammit.  Hate her.  (But, love her!)

-"Daybreakers" looks interesting.  What if the majority of humans become vampires and normal humans become cattle?  What if there was a shortage of that supply and while someone was in search for an artificial replacement he found a cure for vampirism?  Yeah, I'm liking the depth of that.  There are two things that appeal even more: one) the vampires reflect the worst of humans according to the trailers which makes them scary as all hell as they should be, and two) they don't fucking sparklel.  This film could terribly awesome.

- Although, on that note of "Daybreakers," if they are immortal, truly, why do they care if they run out of blood? I'm assuming that that's the problem, they are immortal as long as there is fresh blood.  If that's the way of the movie, I am still leaning to a terribly awesome anticipation.  If they are going to go all cheesy about "weeee'll staaaaaaarve!" *insert whining* even though they are bloody immortal and don't have that worry, I will laugh and ignore it.  BUT, there is a suggestion that without human blood what little humanity remains in the vampires disappears.  That is more like Super Husband's theory and tres cool.  Time will tell.

- I go into the sun room.  I do not hear the sounds of rain, but I hear this dull roar.  I look outside and immediately unlock the back door to get a better look outside.  We have a creek behind our house which is attached to a larger tributary-type system which has been adapted as a drainage system for the city during rain.  I've not see our creek turn to rapids this bad, even during the deluge of May.  It is awesome, beautiful, and scary all at once.  Wow.

- Am I the only one who saw on apple.com/trailers the listing for "Furry Vengeance" and didn't even watch it because it sounded too much like an uprising of bad costumes with a hoard of stuffed animals in tow?  Yeah.

- Yes, I've watched a lot of trailers lately.  Some of the theater appeal has reappeared since they started letting ushers enforce the "Shut up or get the fuck out" rule.

- I miss my family.  My mom almost was able to make it down for Christmas, but we figure we'll be happy with her making it down for her birthday. 

- My little brother is quitting the Air Force which is cool, but he's about to get himself into a debt with our mutual sperm donor that he will regret much later.  I would try to convince him otherwise, but he's a grown man.  I will be here to pick up the pieces.

- I am trying to not fall asleep at this computer.

May everyone have a very happy Solstihanukwanzamas and an even happier New Year!




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 Although, I have to wonder if falling asleep in front of the comp ups my geek points..

Okay, so my sidebar links are gone, as some of you may have noticed.  I'm seriously loving Movable Type, but the one thing it doesn't have is a built-in widget for sidebar links.  Very strange.  When Super Husband gets home later, I'm going to get him to help me install a possible plugin to fix that.  Fingers crossed, and stuff.

On another note, I've decided I have three distinct personalities.  There's the personality that runs things, let's call it the Mother Brain, my crafting/artistic/slightly insane personality, and my gaming girl/ADD-filled/very insane personality.  Mother Brain is often lazy and let's the other two run the show in one form or another.

At some point during the Little Rock gaming convention we went to, my gamer girl personality used it as a catalyst to hit my crafter personality in the head, gag and bind her, and throw her in a closet somewhere.  It's the only explanation I've got for being boring on the project side.

See, those two personalities haven't figured out how to live in harmony, yet.  They are in a constant struggle to maintain control.  It's a rare thing that I can work on artistic projects and still game and vice-versa.  Normally, this isn't a big deal, but I think my gamer girl personality has been working out, for she is righteously strong and is refusing to let go.  This is a problem as I have a lot of projects to work on.

Thankfully, although Mother Brain is lazy, Mother Brain recognizes what must be done and has been slowly been reclaiming control, or at least giving the crafter personality a boost.  They will gang up on the gamer girl personality and get things back in line, especially since my gamer girl side has extreme ADD.

Now, somehow, I'm going to have to figure out a way to get these personalities to work together because, see, with all the conventions we're going to this year, there is a very real possibility the gamer girl personality will regain control and interrupt things.  I do not wish to have projects linger, but, on the other hand, I do not wish to give up gaming.

Maybe I need to create a personality who can mediate?

Or maybe, I should get some professional help, take some powerful drugs, and just drool in the corner.

I don't think anyone would really be surprised if that happened.





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Sometimes, I think it would be just easier to be stark, raving looney.  No one would really be surprised by anything I do.

Okay, so it turns out we have a two year contract with GoDaddy.  Apparently, the combination of GoDaddy and SuckPress is what has created the hackable nightmare.  Because of the hosting and such, Blogger isn't quite the option it was although, to tell the truth, I wasn't looking forward to going back.  I have my reasons.  Either way, we've got a new bit of softward.

How ya'll likin' the new look?

It will be changing as well you all know.

And, you will also notice that, well, the text is kind of funky in the old posts, and the pictures are gone.  It's the price of changing venues.  I will try to recover everything.  It will take time. 

Either way, we're back!  Can I have a good, old squee?


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I do not take back the things I said about the hackers.  They deserve the hell to which I hope I've cursed them, at least until they repent and promise at least a hundred years of servitude in the blogging mines where they must endure nothing but emo blogs and bad goth poetry.

Well, I left Blogger because I wanted to be able to use my own domain names that were generously bought for me by my husband, but didn't think I could. WordPress blows. Now, recently, I found out, Blogger does have an option to keep the blog under my registered domains, but it's kind of a process.  So, since the boy has Schola tonight, I'm going to hope that maybe we can get it sorted over the next few days, and that maybe, just maybe, I won't have to physically move the blogs again.  Supposedly, it'll just remap to my domain.  Could be interesting considering my old Blogger accounts haven't officially closed.  I might have to re-copy all the posts I've written since moving to SucksPress. Once again, folks, bear with me. _____________________ If Blogger doesn't work, I'm going to just sit and cry.

So, you might have noticed a definite lack of posting lately. This is because WordPress, which I have decided is a hackable nightmare, has been screwed up in ways I find hard to describe. For instance: I'm currently typing in invisible ink. I hit keys on the keyboard and the cursor moves, but it's still a blank page. Apparently, there was an option to type posts in lemon juice that I wasn't aware of nor can I disable it. So, you guys might need to hold your monitor near a candle flame to be able to read it. My other blog, Kamikaze Kumquat, is in even worse shape as posting has been rendered impossible there. When I hit "add new post" I am sent to a page that is nothing but a few letters written in some alien script. Apparently, I'm meant to contact the mothership instead. I have to tell you guys, I'm fed up with this shit. My blogs will never get a decent readership if I can't bloody update them on a regular basis, and believe me folks, I have tried. 99% of the time I can't get a post up because of WordPress. I have never seen a site that gets hit with hacks so often, except maybe, anything hosted by AOL. I am keeping my domain names, but I fully intend to move the blogs to a new hosting site soon. It will be my birthday present to me. Now, I'm going to go highlight this post so I can see whether or not it makes any sense at all, after which I will go drown my sorrows in gaming. Dear WordPress: Bite me. Love, Papermasks ________________________ Moi? Bitter? Perish the thought!