Current Mood:
Sad
So last night I dreamt of being a “me” version of Captain Kirk in the episode The City on the Edge of Forever (omg I got the name wrong and had to look it up! -5 geek points!). Something had happened to my past and I had to fix it. I don’t remember too many specifics but despite all the crap I’ve gone through I knew I had to do it for my kids to be born. I’m sure they’ll be happy to know.
Mood: 
My absolute favourite Sesame Street skit didn’t even involve any of the regulars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKX0RN19zc0
Yep yep yep yep yep yep.
Mood: 
Yes, I’m still here!
Ball hockey season started up again, and with all the stuff I have to do at work and the family at home I haven’t had much time for myself. When I do get time alone I tend to just vegetate, except when I’m forced to figure out why my Usable Freeware site stopped working with its PHP database (host’s PHP upgrade broke my code).
I got sick quite a bit during the early part of the year, so I’ve hit my paid sick day limit already and it’s only halfway through the year. An air conditioned office is comfortable, but when someone gets sick and comes in because they’re out of sick days, everyone else gets sick and brings down the overall efficiency.
Emily is repeating lots of words. She’s still mostly babbling, but understands when we tell her to do basic things. She smiles all the time, loves hugging and kissing, and charms pretty much everyone.
Geoffrey is loving the new Dr. Who episodes. I suppose I’m going to have to get him a Sonic Screwdriver for Christmas…
I tried to update my ATI video card drivers and it couldn’t find an INI file. I tried to skip it and now my computer boots to 640×480 with 8 colours and no option to go higher. I tried System Restore, uninstalling and reinstalling, but no joy unless I use the Microsoft drivers from Windows Update, and they’re not great. Even DivX video is choppy. With all the problems I’ve had with ATI cards I think my next video card will be a GeForce and I’ll stick with those; never had any problems with nVidia.
I’m posting this with the Performancing Firefox plugin, which allows me to browse in a split-screen while I blog. If I like it I’ll probably give their free blog metrics service a go.
Mood:
Matt Kennedy Gould must be the nicest guy, ever. I’m sure the actors that played this huge prank on him were feeling torn as things went on. Hopefully the producers give him the $100K so he can keep his sanity by the time it all winds down.
Almost certainly “Brian” gets “voted” out next. Gotta keep Hutch there to the end to be the asshole foil, and certainly they’ll try to keep Ashleigh as long as possible, as the last, and certainly not the least, attractive girl left.
Mood: :grr:
Attention TV executives! Making the commercials louder than the shows doesn’t make us pay more attention to the products; it makes us mute and, consequently, ignore them.
If the commercials are clever and interesting we will watch them…at normal volume levels.
That is all.
