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elspethdixon) wrote2009-10-26 10:01 am
elspethdixon) wrote2009-10-26 10:01 am
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Computer trauma, cats, and Tru Blood
Geocities is gone! It really does feel like the end of an era -- on the one hand, all of my trashy old attempts at website design have been erased from the intarwebs forever, probably to great rejoicing (almost all of my fic is on ff.net or lj, so none of that is gone except for one hideous old attempt at a pwp from back when I was 19 that I'm glad to see die), but on the other hand, so many sites that I used to spend hours on are gone. And thanks to my compuer dying this weekend, I never did get a chance to make any last-minute grabs for fic.
Now I need to go back through my fic links in the Big Damn List post and replace the dead ones with links to ff.net or lj.
Computer
My computer died Friday night -- blue screen of death and all -- and spent the entire weekend in the shop getting it's hard drive replaced while the computer tech guys did data recovery on it. They manage to save about 90% of my data, but it cost me $450. Which is about 1/3 what getting a new computer would have cost me, and I suspect I had at least $100 worth of itunes music on there and several hundred dollars more in comics, so saving those plus not losing all my graduate school work was definately worth it.
Fluffles
When seanchai got home this past Thursday (before me), the freezer door was open and the five pound bag of cat food that had previously been shut in the freezer where we'd mistakenly assumed the Stevelet and the Fluffle couldn't get at it was lying on the floor six feet away from the fridge, eviscerated.
The Fluffle has been sitting on top of the fridge periodically since he realized that that's where we keep the food now -- somehow he must have climbed up on top of the fridge and gotten the door open, then climbed inside and shoved the food bag out. Surprisigly, none of the ice cream containers in the freezer had been knocked down. He obviously knew exactly what he wanted.
When I got home about half an hour later, it was the first time I'd ever walked in the door and not been greeted by desperately begging cats. Apparently, they weren't hungry.
Also, the Fluffle is transported by glee over the heating pad we've been using to warm up the foot of the bed at night -- the past few nights he's been spread out flat like a kitty pancake on top of it, in a trance of blissfull warm.
Tru Blood
I watched the first three episodes of Tru Blood with blukitten this Saturday, and while I don't feel the urge to be fannish about it, I mostly really enjoyed it -- I love the sets, the fact that a lot of the characters dress like I've actually seen people in the rural south dress, the accents. I have only two real qualms thus far.
1)While I don't *dislike* the main character, Sookie doesn't exactly grab me, either. She's too sweet and naive, and I find Tara much more interesting and believable (seriously, Sookie can read people's minds and she's still that naive and determined to believe the best of everyone? Unless there are major hidden depths to her character that are revealed in episode 4 onward, she strikes me as too good to be true). I kind of wish that Tara was the main character and Sookie was her bubbly, cheerful best friend.
2) Does the black guy have to deal drugs, HBO? I mean, couldn't you have kept the rest of Lafayette's character the same but made someone else the go-to guy for illegal substances?
Now I need to go back through my fic links in the Big Damn List post and replace the dead ones with links to ff.net or lj.
Computer
My computer died Friday night -- blue screen of death and all -- and spent the entire weekend in the shop getting it's hard drive replaced while the computer tech guys did data recovery on it. They manage to save about 90% of my data, but it cost me $450. Which is about 1/3 what getting a new computer would have cost me, and I suspect I had at least $100 worth of itunes music on there and several hundred dollars more in comics, so saving those plus not losing all my graduate school work was definately worth it.
Fluffles
When seanchai got home this past Thursday (before me), the freezer door was open and the five pound bag of cat food that had previously been shut in the freezer where we'd mistakenly assumed the Stevelet and the Fluffle couldn't get at it was lying on the floor six feet away from the fridge, eviscerated.
The Fluffle has been sitting on top of the fridge periodically since he realized that that's where we keep the food now -- somehow he must have climbed up on top of the fridge and gotten the door open, then climbed inside and shoved the food bag out. Surprisigly, none of the ice cream containers in the freezer had been knocked down. He obviously knew exactly what he wanted.
When I got home about half an hour later, it was the first time I'd ever walked in the door and not been greeted by desperately begging cats. Apparently, they weren't hungry.
Also, the Fluffle is transported by glee over the heating pad we've been using to warm up the foot of the bed at night -- the past few nights he's been spread out flat like a kitty pancake on top of it, in a trance of blissfull warm.
Tru Blood
I watched the first three episodes of Tru Blood with blukitten this Saturday, and while I don't feel the urge to be fannish about it, I mostly really enjoyed it -- I love the sets, the fact that a lot of the characters dress like I've actually seen people in the rural south dress, the accents. I have only two real qualms thus far.
1)While I don't *dislike* the main character, Sookie doesn't exactly grab me, either. She's too sweet and naive, and I find Tara much more interesting and believable (seriously, Sookie can read people's minds and she's still that naive and determined to believe the best of everyone? Unless there are major hidden depths to her character that are revealed in episode 4 onward, she strikes me as too good to be true). I kind of wish that Tara was the main character and Sookie was her bubbly, cheerful best friend.
2) Does the black guy have to deal drugs, HBO? I mean, couldn't you have kept the rest of Lafayette's character the same but made someone else the go-to guy for illegal substances?