Month: December 2006
Sit down and have a cookie
I snapped this last night at work, though I’m not sure if it’ll show up on everyone else’s monitor the way I was seeing it. There’s an out-of-date logo magnet (originally intended for a company vehicle) on the little fridge in the Promo Pod, and part of the “ABC” logo reflected in the glass door made it look like the chair on the weather set had eyes – and it already had a mouth. My God! It’s Cookie Monster, possessing the soul of this office chair! 😆 (You may have to adjust your monitor to see it. Trust me. It’s there. And it wants a cookie.)
I’ve got some stuff already written and put together that’ll be showing up here in the next couple of days, a special treat for the music lovers who visit the blog. These will be entries that you’ll definitely went to click through to my site for, just for a nifty little bonus feature I’m tagging on to the end of each entry. (For reasons that will become clear, the aforementioned bonus will vanish after about a week.)… Read more
Questionable
Those at work who hadn’t seen it in the past were really jazzed by the annual appearance of the question mark sweater Friday night. This is almost the only time of the year I actually wear it, because it looks kinda Christmas-y, and yet it’s kinda me too. And of course not one person knew what (or, perhaps, who) the origin of it was.
It’s toy time in my house – several days ago I got a small package from Japan with some goodies I’d ordered on eBay. Those who know me know of my deep and abiding love for toy representations of real life spacecraft, and these are two that I’ve always wanted decent models of.
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Various surprises
Work: I was asked to stay. Sorry, nope. I was then asked to stay a week longer. Sorry, nope. And no attempt was even made, not even a weak one, to entice me to do so. So…ooooookay. A week from tomorrow it still is.
Meow: Our new furry friend went to the vet today for a checkout and neutering. As it turns out, “she” is a “he” (though not a real “he” any more!). I’m beginning to feel pretty stupid – that’s the second time I’ve wound up with a Desmond who I thought was a Desdemona. For a boy cat, he’s very polite, well-groomed and pretty submissive to the other kitties in the house, regardless of all the hissing and growling Olivia sends in his direction. He’s a keeper. His name is Oberon, though he already has a nickname, “Obi-Wan” or just “Obi.”
I just hope he still loves us after we had his bits snipped.
Took two client meetings today from folks wanting me to do stuff for them; if I was on any kind of diet, I would’ve blown it in the past couple of weeks just from meeting with people who are paying for lunch/breakfast/what have you. Maybe I don’t even need to work – just meet with people who want me to do stuff for them, and that takes care of everything but the gas money. 😆
I still miss Sultry fiercely, and I keep having what I suspect will come to be known as “that nightmare.” I have to admit to being just about worn out because I’ve really been trying to put off sleep as much as possible just to avoid that. I don’t know that it will ever go away.… Read more
JUMP. NOW!
My last day at the TV station will be the 29th.
More interesting news to follow.
The panic may begin……..now.… Read more
The bit I forgot to mention
Here’s the other critter news I didn’t get around to mentioning what with everything that happened yesterday.
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Brain drain
I haven’t done much tonight. Just don’t have the mental energy. My eyes feel like they’re fused open, I’m barely functioning, and yet I can’t sleep.
I did put this together though: Sultry Gallery; there are quite a few pictures missing from 2002 and 2003, which I have to scan in. I’ll update that page later. … Read more
Of all the ways to go
You know, I can accept that there is a time, and a place, for everything and everyone to go.
I just cannot accept that this was supposed to be the way.
I’ve got to have a word or two with God about this one.… Read more
Oh God
I’m bundled up in a bunch of blankets writing this at the farm.
Oh God.
I just saw my horse die.
She’s been almost blind for quite a while, but here lately she’d gotten worse. The rest of the herd would leave her to her own devices and she’d circle until some outside stimulus could get her to move in a straight line toward or away from it. She’d always come to the sound of my voice.
I came up to the farm today to feed and saw she was circling, unattended, way the hell away from everyone else. She ran into the fence a few times and cut up her legs. Then she walked up on the earth dam and fell into the pond on the deep end.
She circled for almost half an hour, treading water, while I ran to get help; the guy who trains our horses happened to be working with the babies up at the barn, and I ran up there to get him to help. We tried to get out to Sultry in a boat to get a rope around her and lead her back to shore. Then the boat started taking on water (hence me sitting here without my clothes on, bundled up in blankets – I’m soaked to the bone). We had to get back to land and try to talk her to shore, but she didn’t make it. She got tangled up in something and started thrashing around and her head went under repeatedly. We started seeing legs kicking, but no head.
And then she stopped.
I’ve loved this horse since I first met her. She was supposed to be Jan’s horse. Then, of course, she picks me instead. I think it’s probably not much of a stretch to say I’m perhaps a little less overbearing than the rest of the family, so she gravitated toward me. Love at first sight. There were times when I’d have to be there for her to get shots, or an ultrasound, because she wouldn’t trust someone to do those things unless I was there. When she lost her last baby, she wouldn’t let the vet get close until I was holding her on a lead rope.
I thought maybe my being there would help her this time. But she was panicked, and too far gone.
I’m going to miss my horse.… Read more
Holy crap, it’s a new ELO song!
Go click on the compass-y looking bit. Heck, click on ALL the bits, they’re very interesting.
This song sounds GREAT. I know this sounds stupid, but I could sit here and listen to that little sample all day. This sounds like it’s going to be the gem of the unreleased material discovered for the remasters – and are those actual strings I hear in there, unlike some of the other recently discovered tracks? (Then again, think about it – this is a bonus track for Out Of The Blue, for cryin’ out loud. What an album to have to live up to/fit in with.)… Read more
