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January 31, 2007
On the farm
It snowed again, last night a bit and tonight a bit. It may snow more tonight. But really, I'm sure you're weary of the weather reports.
Lila's abscess came back and I had to take her to the vet to get lanced. She's back home already and entirely frisky for having a big wound on her shoulder. And once again she keeps trying to rub it on me all the time. Ew!
That's about it really. Not much in the way of excitement around here.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)
January 30, 2007
Media explosion (or maybe a small pop, anyway)
You can blame the lag directly on Civ III. Every time I start playing that damn game I end up on this machine for like 15 hours. It's my latest time sink.
But that's not all I've been doing. I finally managed to find Silence of the Lambs while I was out for Northern Faire (I can't understand why that book was so hard to find), and finally managed to get myself into a reading mode to read it. That book, like the previous one, is a very fast and satisfying read. I already had Hannibal, but I was not about to touch it before reading Lambs because that's how it's supposed to be. Hannibal was a good read too, but nowhere near as fast as the previous two. And now I must get around to watching Hannibal Rising, because it should be at least a decent watch, if not downright bitchin'. (It better be good...)
I finally caught Napoleon Dynamite when Comedy Central played it awhile back. Cute, well worth the watch, but not at all up to the hype it got. But I guess it being an indie geek flick it needed the extra hype to get people's attention, so I won't say that the hype was undeserved. Still an entirely cute movie.
I also borrowed the bro-in-law's copy of King's little book The Colorado Kid, which is part of some Hard Case line of noir/detective type books. Interesting read, and fast considering that the book is really slim. It's not bad but it's not great, and I can't really critique it much because anything I say would be something of a spoiler. Definitely a good way to kill an afternoon at any rate.
I set a timer on the tube to catch The Dresden Files, and I have yet to be disappointed. The two eps I've seen so far have been good and left me wanting more. I haven't read (or even seen) the books that it's based on, but I like how the first episode didn't bother with any educational catch-up material - it just started and went on as if you had a good idea what was happening, letting the context come into play on its own. I get tired sometimes of having so much explained to me when that time could be spent just telling a good story.
I didn't set a timer for Enterprise though, and I suppose I should have. I miss part of the block because Six Feet Under comes on (yes, I've seen them all but I like that show) but at least I get to watch it and see how they managed the prehistory of the Star Trek series. Mainly I wanted to catch it to hear the theme song, because everyone said it was awful. It is. The whole beginning credits montage is nice, but having that horrible song playing over it turns it into pure Velveeta - somebody should be punished. Horrible theme aside, the show is pretty zippy - my only problem so far is how they're dealing with the Klingon thing. I don't know why, it just seems too PC and fakey.
Okay, that's enough babble out of the Entertainment Tonight section of my brain.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 12:11 AM | Comments (0)
January 25, 2007
From square one
Well I've finally done the backup/reformat thing on this machine. This means the list of small things that slipped through the cracks of the backup portion of that is starting to become apparent. Fortunately none of them are absolutely necessary.
I'm a little peeved that the latest version of the Y!IM has such quiet, barely audible alert tones. The previous ones were a bit obnoxious, but at least I could hear them while ironing. Now they're just these little puffs of sound. Pansies.
I think I got all the necessary updates and crap done. Of course I'll probably be spending most of tomorrow getting more while I install a couple things (time sinks mainly) that I haven't gotten to yet.
Filed under "Nothing in particular" by damyano at 01:12 AM | Comments (0)
I'm not mean, but I'm not friendly either
The cattle have gotten used to me going out there a couple times a day to water them. A couple of them have gotten a bit brave and one of them is starting to act a little friendly. This must stop. I can't deal with friendly cattle, it's just too much trouble - especially now that there is snow for me to slip and fall in. They're still wary of me, and we're going to keep it that way. I may have to continue my snowball attacks to make them aware that I do not want to play with them.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 12:35 AM | Comments (0)
January 20, 2007
Oh man they weren't kidding with the snow
This is how thick the snow has built up on the bomb shelter. They're predicting that it will snow all weekend. (No, it's not halfway up the sculpture - it's a closeup shot.)
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 03:38 PM | Comments (0)
January 19, 2007
Finally
It's snowing out there right now. Been snowing maybe an hour or so. It hasn't quite gotten up to an inch as yet, but I believe we'll be getting at least that. It's supposed to snow all weekend, in the 6" each day range. I'll believe it when I see it. But hey, at least it's actually snowing now.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 01:56 PM | Comments (0)
I am so done with this weather
It's supposed to snow tonight. I had to go into town and get a sheep tank so the cattle will have water, because the hose on their regular tank decided to bust. Not that it matters, since the whole faucet is frozen, the tank is half full and most of that is ice, and chances are I'm going to have to go out there and make it stop spraying once it all thaws out. If I remember I'll take the phone out tomorrow and snap a pic so you can see what I mean.
Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE the cold!
It had better fucking snow. I am so tired of putting up with freezing hell with no precipitation reward for it. And stupid frost, no matter how pretty it freezes, does not count. Snow dammit!
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 12:15 AM | Comments (0)
Quitting
I unsubbed my lurkage to the Aberrant games on Rondaks. It was just getting dull, insufferably so. They each had at least one character that I didn't want to bother trying to like or blathering on about how much I hated them. Total yawn fest. Hell, the one that had actually managed to get to the mission location has been lagified for like a couple weeks now. I've already got my own game laggage, why in hell do I want to read someone else's?
Filed under "Head games" by damyano at 12:12 AM | Comments (0)
January 16, 2007
So beautifully wrong
Okay, once you've exhausted the Partially Clips for hilarity, try out Monkey Fluids. Because they are indeed so entirely wrong.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 12:53 AM | Comments (0)
January 14, 2007
More winter wonderland
So today when I went out to bust ice again I noticed that the frost factor on everything was a little different. It's so frigged cold out there that ice is crystallizing in punky spikes on just about everything. Pics after the cut.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 12:38 PM | Comments (1)
January 13, 2007
It's fekin' cold!
It's so cold that when I went out to bust ice on the cattle tank, the spray from it that landed on my water resistant coveralls froze in a few seconds. I had little pebbles of ice clinging to me when I got back in the house. Pics behind the cutout.
That's not snow people, that's frost! It misted pretty much all day yesterday and quite a bit last night apparently, and all that froze on everything.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 11:50 AM | Comments (0)
It's just too damn strange not to blog this
So some random person IMs me via Y! and wants to run some sort of scenario by me. It's nothing provocative or even all that interesting, but I just had to preserve it here.
stagscrew05: hey what's up? I am ray 23/m/de here asking for your help with a role playing scenario i am working on for class
damyano: um, okay
stagscrew05: it's nothing sexual or perverse
damyano: k'
stagscrew05: ok basically I set up a scenario for you and then ask questions and formulate a story
damyano: k
stagscrew05: ok here's the scenario
stagscrew05: I am 5'11" 195 lbs. wear cammo pants black combat boots olive green mid-calf socks and black t-shirt
stagscrew05: I am an investigator for a community organization
damyano: alright
stagscrew05: you are the muscle for a businessman I am investigating... you are my nemesis
damyano: k
stagscrew05: I arrive at the office to question and snoop around
stagscrew05: you are waiting for me
damyano: k
stagscrew05: do you see me park outside or see me walking towards the door?
damyano: as I am the muscle chances are I'd see you walking towards the door. if the guy I'm working for has decent security I know you're coming before you're visible
stagscrew05: ok I am looking for you and I pass your office where you are hiding
stagscrew05: and get to the stairs
stagscrew05: you come on and casually grab my leg to stop me
damyano: um, being muscle I doubt I'd hide
stagscrew05: humor me... you are the only guard and you do things your own way
damyano: k
stagscrew05: do you get my knee or calf?
damyano: grabbing someone by the leg is a combative gesture, as it could trip them. doesn't seem like a good idea to start out that way. a good security man wants to keep things clean, so I'd more likely grab your shoulder
stagscrew05: this is meant to be strange
damyano: okay
damyano: knee
stagscrew05: how are your hands positioned?
damyano: well since you passed me by, I must have grabbed from behind
stagscrew05: yes your door is near the stairs
stagscrew05: to my left
damyano: then your left knee, palm to the back of your knee
damyano: it should only take one hand to get your attention
stagscrew05: do you say "leg" or "got that leg"?
damyano: I doubt I'd say either
stagscrew05: what do you say/
damyano: "Where are you going?"
stagscrew05: I turn we have been through this before
stagscrew05: you pat me down
stagscrew05: I am facing you
stagscrew05: what do you say as you have me stretch out?
damyano: well, since you say we've been through this before. "Do you really think you can get by me?"
stagscrew05: where do you feet?
stagscrew05: feel*?
damyano: you're being patted down, so this is standard procedure - sides to front, pockets, down each leg.
stagscrew05: do you have me remove my boots?
damyano: well, as we've been through this before, do you seem the type that I would need to do that?
stagscrew05: yes
damyano: then yes
stagscrew05: you have me sit down and remove them
stagscrew05: you look in them
stagscrew05: do you pick up my leg to search the socks or leave my feet on the ground?
damyano: if I'm going to search your boots then I will search your socks as well
damyano: as well as hat and jacket
stagscrew05: do you pick up my leg?
damyano: that is a given, yes
stagscrew05: where do you grip to lift?
damyano: ankle and calf
stagscrew05: how are your hands positioned? (this scenario focuses on leg control)
damyano: as I said, one on ankle one on calf. I don't want you to get unruly
stagscrew05: yes but which hand is placed where and how is the hand positioned?
damyano: the hand towards your center is on the ankle, the hand towards your outside on the calf
damyano: the lower hand is more for control while the upper hand does the search
stagscrew05: what do you say as you lift the leg?
damyano: polite is best - "Please lift your leg, sir."
stagscrew05: how do you search the socks?
damyano: patting them down should be sufficient
stagscrew05: well describe the hand motions and process
damyano: honestly I couldn't. I don't work in security so I don't know how it is done properly. this sort of situation is generally taken as given in a role playing situation
stagscrew05: it is meant to be strange
stagscrew05: come on
damyano: I've given you my answer. sorry
stagscrew05: ok
stagscrew05: do the socks wrinkle or stay tight?
damyano: I would assume they wrinkle some unless they are very new
stagscrew05: ok from previous encounters you know I like my socks to stay tight and you wrinkle slightly to get to me
stagscrew05: where do you grip to wrinkle?
damyano: I'm not wrinkling them, rather they become wrinkled due to the process. it isn't my problem if you have issues, as you can straighten your socks yourself
damyano: it's all organic. I don't actually have to do it on my own
stagscrew05: ok
stagscrew05: that's all I need
stagscrew05: thank you for your help
damyano: k
damyano: no worries
stagscrew05: later
damyano: have a good one
Okay - What the hell was all that about?
Filed under "Conversation pieces" by damyano at 11:44 AM | Comments (1)
Sucky
I woke up this morning in a pissy negative mood. I'm not going to get into it because it's just a bunch of narcissistic crap anyway, but I hate it when I wake up like that. I could blame the cold, or TV saturation, or isolation, or tax season, or...
*Yawn* What a waste. It isn't even worth the energy to blame anything or anyone. It's just me in my own head trying to make up another excuse to be hateful for no good reason. It won't blow over, it'll just go hide for awhile and come back later to bug me again. Lame.
Filed under "It's all about me" by damyano at 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
January 11, 2007
Stealing someone else's stuff
I realized tonight that I have some really snarky things to say about some people that I don't want to post here for fear that they might read it and be offended. It's not that I fear offending people, but these specific people are not ones I want to hurt, and believe me it probably would hurt, and I want to be nice.
So, with that totally irrelevant intro in mind I will steal the Shrug format of quasi-anonymous statements to people who may or may not read this blog. None of them involve the snark referenced in the previous paragraph, so don't look for it.
A: I'm sorry dude, but I really do not want to fuck you. Please don't take this personally because it's all me. I'm tremendously picky. It's not that I don't like you, because I do - I just don't want to get all crazy naked with you. Too much weirdness.
E: I'm not going to argue semantics with you because you don't even know what that means. Just because I'm younger than you doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm sorry that the way I use language is confusing to you.
I: I would really like to be friends with you, but your SO kind of gets in the way of it. Nothing involved, it's not like I want to hang out constantly and have in depth conversations all the time. I just want us to be on a friendly level. I think we kind of are right now, but it's hard to say, and the whole thing with your SO makes certain fuctup situations occur that I just don't know how to deal with. There is no way I can say any of this to your face, I'm sorry.
O: I have said some tremendously fuctup things about you. I am basically sorry about it, because it is fuctup and wrong, but it's funny as hell and I doubt I will stop doing it. I'd say it's not personal, because other than that I think you're pretty cool and a worthwhile person, but it is personal, terribly mean, and if you knew you would probably hit me. I should keep my mouth shut.
U: You, on the other hand, I do want to fuck. I want to fuck your brains out, scoop them up, and fuck them right back in. I want to dart you and keep you for a weekend. A 3-day weekend, and you may have to go home late afterwards. You will be dehydrated. None of this will happen though, and I'm over that brief awkward stage, so it's all cool now. If it looks like I'm aiming a hollow bamboo stalk at you, don't stand still.
Sometimes Y: I totally agree with you and the past should remain in the past. Things are better the way they are now.
Filed under "Mixed bag" by damyano at 02:03 AM | Comments (0)
Lazy
I'm supposed to be working on Strange Aeons. Supposed to have been working on it for a very long time now. Bleh. I hate it when something becomes work and it automatically turns me off to it. It's my own fault, I'm just plain lazy. It isn't that I don't want the project done, because it is going to be great when it is. Hell, even if the game I'm currently working on it for ends up being a bust (and it won't, mind you) I'll still have all this material to use for another game later. No, it's just the laziness for its own sake.
Filed under "Head games" by damyano at 01:58 AM | Comments (0)
January 10, 2007
Not safe for work, kids, or pretty much anyone else
It's the Fairy Godfather, and it's entirely wrong. So you know I laughed.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 11:29 PM | Comments (0)
Another waste of your precious time
This little game is so cute. You cruise around as a little witch, pick up kids, and drop them into your cauldron. The whining sound when you carry the kids is funny, as is the witch's laugh when you drop them into the stew. If you do play, don't use the keys to move around, just nudge yourself bit by bit and glide.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 03:39 AM | Comments (0)
January 09, 2007
A time sink for you
This game is psychotically funny and fast. Give it a whirl.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 08:59 AM | Comments (0)
January 08, 2007
Sour grapes
Both of the Aberrant games that I apped to and didn't get into are on my lurk list. They aren't particularly exciting. They both contain characters that I don't think I would like. I'm starting to think that my little infatuation with the whole Aberrant thing might be over, despite the fact that I still keep coming up with character ideas.
I'm overthinking this and getting way ahead of myself. PBP is wicked slow, these guys are still at the starting gate. Hell, the first one they only barely got to where the mission is, and the other one they're still hanging around the office. I'm still lurking, waiting to see if something happens.
But yes, I will still make catty commentary.
Filed under "Head games" by damyano at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)
Lag, yes I know
I have been lagging so bad that it looks like the front page is totally empty. (Well, except for that penis cartoon commentary below.) I'm a lazy biatch, what can I say? Normally this is when I'd do yet another choppy recap of whatever I can remember since the last time I bothered to blog, but I think that might not be worth it. So instead, here are a few highlights.
I went to church for xmas. No, I did not burst into flames immediately upon crossing the threshold of Lamesa 1st Baptist. In fact, the cammo was full on and everyone assumed I was nice and helpful and pleasant and xian. I behaved. I did not sing naughty lyrics to replace the words of xmas carols. I did not laugh when I saw "The First Nowell" appear on the big karaoke screen thing they have so you don't have to use the hymnal. I just smiled, stood occasionally, and shook hands. Here's what I don't get - why is Jesus allowed to make water into wine, but Baptists aren't allowed to even think about drinking it, even in the ritual meal deal where we have that tiny cracker and a shot of grape juice. Yeah, I know - we don't want to give booze to the kids, but come on. Jesus did it, you can too. Just don't tie the bottle to your wrist.
The hubby and I got thickly padded coveralls/bib overalls for xmas. This is a good thing, because freezing my ass off to bust ice sucks. Now I can just pull them on over my pajamas to go get the mail.
I'm irritated that I keep missing chunks of Heroes. That show is really cool and now I have to buy it on DVD so I can actually watch the whole damn thing without this gaping hole in the middle. If any of you watch it, do not tell me anything. I hate having surprises ruined. I'm also irritated that for some reason I am cursed to never see the myth of the exploding pants busted. That particular episode of Mythbusters (which I swear I watch for more reasons than Jamie's mustache) comes on, and somehow something happens so that I miss it. WTF is up with that?
I found Civilization III at the Dollar General for $6 and I can't stop playing it. I curse that game constantly (because it cheats) and still I come back for more. Those little blue Chinese bastards will rue the day they crossed my border!
Had a great weekend. Had a friend over for the first time in far too long and we stayed up all night playing card and dice games. It's nice to have a visit once in a while, and coming into tax season now means I may have to get creative with my entertainment. Good thing I drive now.
Okay, that's it for now. If I think of anything else I'll throw it on.
Filed under "Mixed bag" by damyano at 03:47 AM | Comments (0)
So wrong
I just listened to an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force where there was a talking dick. Making a ship...
out of dicks.
That show is just plain fuctup. I love it.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 01:40 AM | Comments (0)