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Monday, October 10th, 2011
4:20 pm	Unbelievably Bad Writing So I was trying a writing exercise from "The 3 AM Epiphany" which, perhaps unsurprisingly, meshed with my usual writing style about as well as a baby dolphin blends with a threshing machine. ( And here is the proof ) Current Mood: embarrassed Current Music: Nobuo Uematsu - "Chasing the Black-Caped Man" (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, September 30th, 2011
1:36 pm	You what? Reading "Space Marine" by Ian Watson, which contains the most amazing spurs of WRONG, e.g. comparing duelling scars to "a dainty bite, a loving kiss", commenting on a statue's "lush, tough lips" and having burly manly-men Space Marines walking off arm-in-arm after a tiff over artistic foibles. And now, to make the internet work better. Current Mood: busy Current Music: Human Waste Project - "Graverobbers from Mars" (16 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 26th, 2011
8:15 pm	Begone, Foul Spider Demons of the Internet! As you may be aware, we have been having bad tech-fu up here. We have one working ceiling light out of four and, over the weekend, one working wireless connection out of four, two working computers out of five and one working wireless router out of two. The repair and regeneration of our tech-fu began with The Saga Of The Giant Spider Demons Of The Internet. This continued with a return to the Old Grey Router on Wednesday, exorcising a small wireless network spider demon onto the ceiling of my bedroom. Last night, frustrated beyond belief that a) Rath's laptop couldn't connect to the internet and b) the big old desktop [ex-Fishpater, now something like ten years old and eligible pension and bus pass] was barely functional due to some form of jammed-up system process that was consuming 100% of the CPU processing power, thus causing it to have mouse-lag that had to be seen to be believed. Rath's connection was solved by jigging around with the wireless network security until she could connect, prompting the arrival of a Giant Spider Demon of the Internet on the purple sheepskin rug. Rath bravely trapped it in a Wacken mug whilst I curled up on the chair shouting "Fuck off, you bastard!" in a very worried tone. This evening, having backed up as many essential files from Big Old Desktop as possible with a mouse that moves like it's got arthritis in every joints and a computer that's wheezing like it's about to have a coronary, we began searching for the Vista and XP install disks so we could begin the process of reformatting and reinstalling. However, Big Old Desktop is terribly old, so prior to wiping it, I opened it up to give its insides a dust-off ... and lo and behold! SPIDERWEBS. There were spiderwebs dangling from the motherboard and carpeting the I/O board. Having delicately scrubbed Big Old Desktop out with an old toothbrush, including flicking dust-matted cobwebs from the northbridge, and shutting the case again, I plugged him back, booted him back up and ... ... he's working perfectly. So I guess we're just awaiting the arrival of Final Boss Spider? EDIT: Big Old Desktop still freezes up when attempting to connect to a wireless network. Poor thing. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Borknagar - "Universal" (Comment on this)
Monday, August 15th, 2011
8:59 pm	Violet Bouts of Sequential Hilarity Boots is here. You can tell by the violent bouts of sequential hilarity that ended with Monday being cancelled on account of Man Dressed As Penguin. Which has just led to Boots filking up "Dude (Looks Like a Penguin)" which I'm sure will be funny when I've had something to eat Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Orphaned Land - "The Path part 1 - Treading Into Darkness" (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
7:01 pm	Three Rules To Live By Don't sleep with your best friend's ex Don't mosh to Mayhem Don't salute with your hat on. Current Mood: restless Current Music: W.A.S.P. - "Wild Child" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 19th, 2011
6:14 am	Bip? So about twenty minutes ago the fire alarm started going "bip?". Just "bip?". Not "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!". Just "bip?". Rath poked the test button. The fire alarm went " ... meh ... ". Apparently it is not well. Now I have to work out in which order to turn bastards out of bed in order to fix it. *Hopefully* this is just the fire alarm saying "I suffer!" rather than it saying "There's a fire downstairs but I'm too feeble to tell you!". Having been looking fire alarm faults up for twenty minutes, I find the most common cause of fire alarm faults is just-plain-oldness of the smoke heads [highly possible]. The second most common cause is spikes on the mains. We have, coincidentally, been having flickers on the electricity for quite some time. Oh, the joy. Coincidentally, my throat hurts, which could be from some exotic non-detectable-by-fishy-snout burning plastic vapour ... or could just be my resident throat infection aggravated by the smell from the kitchen drain. Updates to follow unless we fry. Or unless I fry the landlords/electricians/fire brigade/panful of mushrooms. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Peter Gabriel - "A Different Drum" (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
4:49 am	Wait, what? So ... apparently, when people read explicit fanfic/chat RP and go "squeak! thud!" it means they're turned on by it? Current Mood: confused Current Music: Virgin Steele - "Prelude to Evening" (45 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 14th, 2011
3:57 pm	Anyone want a screencap tour of my Minecraft world? Current Music: McAuley Schenker - "Anytime" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
11:44 am	FSST-HSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! Neighbours' pipe blew out last night. Spraying water all over the back court. Rath went round and rang their bells. Nobody answered. They've either turned it off now or it's just frozen. It's making strange KNTK! noises every few minutes. Silly buggers. Their court is still soaking wet. Wouldn't care a damn, but it blew at four thirty in the morning. I feel very bleagh. So does Rath. Perhaps we will go and do bleagh things together. Current Mood: uncomfortable Current Music: Golden Earring - "She Flies on Strange Wings" (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
5:03 pm	AAAAAAARGH! Having the most frustrating day known to man or fish. First I wake up at six in the morning and decide it's too cold to get out of bed, so I turn over for another hour or so and wake up at ... half past one. Fuck. Having dragged my carcass out of bed and managed to shower and dress with only two bouts of vicious insubordination from my digestive system, I discover my laundry basket is so full I have to do a load of washing, thereby delaying my intended afternoon's occupation [i.e. writing] yet further and adding yet another thing I must do later [i.e. hang the laundry out]. I attempt to make plans for Xmas shopping, get frustrated because I have no idea when I'm going to be able to go out, because all my energy is devoted to writing, followed by necessities like cooking, so when am I going to be able to go out again? I don't know. Fuck. I then pause for lunch, at about four thirty in the afternoon, dear gods, and finally make my coffee and go downstairs to write. At which point I spill damn-near-boiling hot coffee all over my left fingers. Fuck. So, having spilt coffee all over myself and the carpet, I go into the bathroom to douse my hand in cold water, at which point I snag my jersey on the door handle. I don't do that often, and when I do it's annoying, but this? This was just beyond the pale. So I soak my poor fingers in cold water and go back to my room to mop up the coffee, at which point I discover my fingers are so sore I can hardly hold anything with them. Although I've managed to clear up the coffee. Back to the bathroom to put aloe gel on my scalded fingers ... and then get aloe gel in the raw sore on my right hand. Fuck. Now my left fingers are covered in aloe gel, which means they're so sticky I can't, say, put my hair up, and how the hell am I going to hang out my laundry with a sticky, scalded hand? Just typing this I can feel my fingertips get stickier and stickier. All in all, this is the most monumental screw-up of a day I've had in a very long time. My hand hurts, my back hurts, my insides hurt, my face hurts, my neck hurts, I ache from CFS ... oh, and my slippers have disintegrated during all of this. Fuck this. I'm going to look at Jeff Hardy until I feel better. Current Mood: infuriated Current Music: Deathstars - Venus In Arms (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
8:47 pm	Apparently ... Everyone in Cambridge is having bad days. I'm not. The Doomcloud of Cambridge strikes again? Current Mood: hungry Current Music: The Prodigy - "Hot Ride" (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
2:17 pm	Ever-decreasing presence of fish Decided to stop doing book reviews due to lack of interest, primarily mine. They slow down my reading, cause big delays between books and take up an entire day's brainpower. I guess my LJ will be going defunct, since that's all I post there. No loss. Don't think anyone was reading it anyway. Now to go back to getting nothing done due to workmen thumping around downstairs rearranging the fabric of the house. Perhaps I will go and investigate the Hole outside the front door. Current Mood: annoyed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
9:09 pm	The less-than-successful-day Didn't get as much done as I hoped, largely due to sleeping until 4pm, oops. Listened to the new, and by "new" we mean "it came out in February", Rotting Christ album, AEALO, which is stonkingly awesome. Got a twitter account for which I blame Boots *entirely* [thinks: now what do I do with it?]. Didn't get around to watching Appleseed Ex Machina, because I fail at watching movies for some reason. Also didn't cook. Bleh. What a waste of a perfectly good day. Current Mood: blah Current Music: Rotting Christ - "Santa Muerte" (Comment on this)
Monday, August 2nd, 2010
5:21 pm	Egads! For the first time since February, I've actually written something. An original something. I'd almost forgotten how good it feels. Bwah. Current Mood: refreshed Current Music: KMFDM - "Light" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
9:18 pm	*dust dust dust* Finally got my book reviews up to date! Well, except for the one about untranslated ancient languages, but that's another matter. :: dusts fins off, goes to look for something to do :: Current Mood: full Current Music: Cradle of Filth - "Sweetest Maleficia" (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
1:21 pm	Moogle's Music Meme I need more icons on this account, yes ... ( Moogle's Music Meme ) ... hey, did I just do a meme? Egads. Current Mood: okay Current Music: Pain - "Reach Out [and Regret]" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
4:01 pm	BUAHAHA! Finished! Finished! Everything is finished and posted and done! :: dusts fins off and swims out of Transformers fandom :: Current Mood: victorious Current Music: ASP - "Ich Will Brennen [Rerecorded]" (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
5:24 pm	Argh argh Fris Argh argh Ajax argh argh Stoli argh free hosting argh bollocks. Current Mood: frustrated Current Music: Marilyn Manson - "Fundamentally Loathsome" (Comment on this)
Monday, June 28th, 2010
7:02 am	Bwah Fastest Civ victory ever - 8 minutes. Duel world, Quecha rush, oh dear, bad fish, heheheh. Current Mood: grumpy Current Music: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - "Mephistopheles" (Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
11:30 pm	I just gotta say ... ... I am *loving* Safari 5's new "don't worry about the URL, just type the *title* of the page into the URL bar" thing. It is made of shortcut and fastness. Current Mood: pleased Current Music: Deathstars - "Termination Bliss [Piano Remix]" (Comment on this)