Scalp?

The Woot Blog from last night really made me laugh. Y'see, musicals were an important part of my household for as long as I can remember. I've seen or at least heard most of these. (I mean, 16? Classic!)

"17 Fabulous Prequels To Broadway Musicals"

1. Kate, We Haven’t Been Introduced
2. Bar Mitzvah of La Mancha
3. Sand And Primer Your Wagon
4. A Chorus Dot
5. Fiddler Borrows A Ladder
6. Little Business Plan of Horrors
7. A Star's Mom Allows A Handsome Stranger To Buy Her A Drink
8. Indian Territory!
9. The Guy Who Is A Little Intense But Keeps To Himself And Isn’t Really Bothering Anyone Of The Opera
10. Annie There’s A Waiting Period
11. Kittens
12. Brand New Acquaintance Joey
13. Handshake Of The Spider Woman
14. Jesus Christ Waiter
15. Starlight Right-of-Way Allocation And Environmental Impact Study
16. Vocal Warm-ups On A Cloudy Day
17. West Side Backstory

Meme the First: Resolutions

In 2009, grammarwoman resolves to...

Start a chuck fund.
Be nicer to garrity.
Eat more dvds.
Overcome my secret fear of good omens.
Become a better highlander.
Apply for a new sg-1.

Get your own New Year's Resolutions:

1. Oooookay.
2. Always a good idea.
3. Only the bad ones. (There are no bad ones.)
4. *blink*
5. There can be only one.
6. YES PLEASE.

Meme the Second: 12 Days

( Cut for length. But seriously, anything that includes 'Eight vampires a-fangirling' must be read. )

Meme the Last (for now): Adventuring with me!

I know this dungeon adventure went around last year, but after the previous two memes, I had to play it again.

Behold, the dungeon of grammarwoman!

(Really, what prompted me to post it is that while I played, I came across these two gems:

"You quaff the potion marked 'KAZBABY'. It tastes like farscape."

"You quaff the potion marked 'KARL AGATHON'. You suffer a momentary vision of helo-has-sexual-chemistry-with-anything."

I am STILL fucking laughing about those.)

Oh, and if roaming around underground is not your thing, Welcome to Moon Colony Grammarwoman!

(And with that, I promise to stop spamming you for at least an hour.)

Good things come in small packages

Holy frelling crap. I thought the tracking information saying it arrived in town this morning must have been a mistake (I just ordered the thing on Tuesday!), but sure enough, my Eee showed up today. I was worried that UPS would try to deliver during the day and leave me a "Come get it yourself" note. When I found neither note nor package on my porch, I resigned myself to waiting until tomorrow for it. But no! The doorbell rang during dinner prep, and there it was! (The Emperor loudly announced his name to the delivery guy, and asked for his in return. Thanks for humoring my son, Bruce!)

I quickly decanted it from the box and marveled at its teeny stature. Like, smaller than a hardcover teeny. The husband pointed out that I needed to wait for it to come to room temperature before inserting the battery and hooking it all up. I pouted a bit, but he did have a point.

So after the waiting (and incidentally dinner and bedtime), I finally got to play. The Windows XP walkthrough took a bit, and I had to ponder a while before I thought up a name.

Everyone, say hello to Minutiae!

One minor quibble so far: the Amazon description claimed that it had Firefox already loaded. Nope. But that was easily amended. I'm also worried that I'm going to wear out the action on the click bar - it seems a little stiff. Other than that, I think I'll get along fine with the keyboard.

So, resolute and any other Eee users out there - got any tips/advice/software suggestions?

Still playing...

D00D! It's got an integrated webcam! Schweet!
( Not a terribly good picture... )