Current Mood: Bored

Another plasma blast went over Gareth’s head.  He hunkered down further into the hollow of the fallen tree.  Where the hell was Beatty?

Then there was a flurry of footfalls and Gareth’s partner’s slim form dived down next to him.  He had in his hands…

“Oh my God,” Gareth muttered.

Beatty’s eyes were locked on the round transparent sphere as he fiddled with the controls on the base.  “Yeah, it’s the antimatter drive,” he said, matter-of-factly.  “The Wells is damaged beyond repair, but the drive’s magnetic bottle is still intact.”

Gareth shook his head.  “Naw, man, naw…”

Beatty reached out and grabbed Gareth by his collar.  The man’s eyes put tempered steel to shame, Gareth thought.  “Nothing else we have has even made a mark on the enemy ship,” he said.

With the flip of a switch, the antimatter drive started to emit a keening wail.  Beatty continued, “The date is June 30, 1908 AD, and that river back there?  It’s called the Tunguska.  We have history on our side, Gareth.  Those bastards don’t have a chance.”

Current Mood: Playful

Geoffrey and Emily were playing with the blow-up hammers they got at the PNE.

Geoffrey: Emily’s hammer is bigger than mine.

Me: But do you know how to use it?

Geoffrey: Yeah.

Me: Okay then.

Current Mood: Playful

The other night I had a dream that I was hired to be a dealer for a high-stakes poker game in some guy’s garage.

Later, I agreed to a poker hand with a rich guy for lots of money, but instead of cards we used comics from my collection.  I’m happy to report that my quads of the same issue of Cherry Poptart (NSFW) beat a full house of 2 different classic issues of Incredible Hulk.

So I get from this that I’d better finish indexing my comics so I can make some money from them, and I miss playing poker.

Current Mood: Bored

The Sandman comic books introduced the idea of the library of unwritten books. Here is an excerpt from one of those books:

The old man’s eyes glistened with the promise of tears as he finished his story.

“A woman like that comes along but once in a lifetime. I would have given her anything she asked of me. In the end I did…I gave her her freedom.”

Current Mood: Confused

You know what I hate?

People that press Cancel on the microwave early and don’t press it a second time to clear the display. What, do you think you’re being nice to the next person so can use that 14 seconds themselves?

Plus, when I walk by clocks I generally note the time. 0:14 is not the time.

Is it really so tough to press Cancel one more time?

Current Mood: Confused

Yesterday I upgraded my CPU and added more RAM to my computer.  Today I tried to stream some video from my computer to my XBox360 using media sharing and it just wouldn’t see the computer.

Windows Media Player’s Sharing settings could see the XBox360 just fine.  I reset my router, turned off media sharing and turned it back on, I rebooted…nothing seemed to work.

Turns out that even though I didn’t make enough changes to the computer’s config to require a re-registration of Windows, Windows’ DRM settings didn’t like it.  I found the fix here (search for DRM).

Stupid.

Current Mood: Cool

Trying to figure out the meaning of life is like an ant trying to comprehend human nature as the foot comes down. — Jim Allison

Current Mood: Sad

http://io9.com/5283524/a-funeral-for-a-time-lord

Let this be my official notice that when I die I want to be cremated and my ashes put into an urn-sized police box.

Allons-y!

Current Mood: Surprised

Did you know I’ve lived (if you count the last time I lived in Abbotsford) next to an activity centre with a pool for over a year, and never went in once? Yeah.

So in an attempt to better myself, confidence-wise regarding swimming (which I suck at), and getting in better shape, off I go tonight! I’ll try to do this after work on my free nights, since I have nothing better to do.

Current Mood: Playful