Spinning on that dizzy edge

Just in time for the weekend, I am all caught with LJ. Then I'll probably be away from it for the next two days, come back to skip=300, and repeat the catch-up cycle. *sigh* And now that Dreamwidth is up and running in open beta, I want to keep up with that, too. Oh, and Twitter. Basically, I'm insane. I need one huge conglomerating tool that will fold it all up, locked posts and all, and lay it out for me.

Speaking of Dreamwidth - I've got five invite codes. Lemme know if you would like one. My user name is the same - chime in with yours if you got an account already.

I found out some potentially happy news -- evidently David R. Palmer, author of one of my favorite books, Emergence, wrote a sequel named "Tracking" that was serialized in three parts in the Analog magazine issues from July to October of 2008. Now to track those down somewhere...

One of my least admirable qualities is that I am quick to bitch'n'moan about things going wrong, but rarely do I give praise where it is due. I don't know if it's due to a newfound love of Lego PS2 games, the potential loss of which keeps him in line, but the Emperor has been AMAZING at school. Every day, we get raves from the teachers about how well he's doing, and what a funny, exuberant guy he is. I have to admit, playing video games with him is a blast (when he's not yelling at me for having sniped his coins). And the things his brain comes up with, like the other day when he said, "I am R2-D2, please insert robot." (Think Futurama's Bender for the original quote, and the Lego Star Wars games, where R2 can disable any robot.) I just about died.

I am off to pick up my new glasses. Let's hope that the pain and expense were worth it. Now if only the Emperor's would come in, so we can get his horrendously scratched-up ones replaced.

Happy Friday, everybody!

Heh. Lots of things bouncing around in this here grey matter.

I want many of these T-shirts, especially the aliens and the Pyramids, and the Discworld one, and...

A 14valentines entry here listed a bunch of Faith (from "Buffy") and Dean (from "Supernatural") fics and vids, and sweet holy bejeebus, do I have a new kink. Hot like hellfire doesn't begin to describe it. Where have I been all these years? Following (as I do) down the rabbit hole (or rather, link to link to link), I stumbled across Wildcat as well, which is Dean/Sam/F (where I'm pretty sure I've spoiled who F is), and WHOA NELLY. Major distraction. (I don't even WATCH Supernatural, but c'mon. Jensen Ackles is too damned pretty to resist.)

For those of us who have been bad pet parents, Advantage is sponsoring an awesome deal where if you can score one of their online vouchers and then take your pet to the vet sometime between now and May 31st, they'll reimburse you up to $20. Warning: it took me several tries to get a voucher. I had to be ready to click right at the beginning of an hour, as their counter resets then.

miniglik is currently smitten with Legend of the Seeker, and based on her posts and the screencaps here, I am so, so tempted. But the books it's based on? Yeah, it's Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth, a series that I tried really hard to slog through, and I made it about four or five books in before I had to give up. Thus, I dither.

Eek! Quitting time. Later!

Oh, one more thing: my list of vid ideas is now at 100 entries. Anyone got a pocket dimension I can nip into for a year or so to get these out of my system, and return home without time having passed?

We're in the future, now - where are our damned teleporters? *Sigh*

So yeah, remember how a couple of months ago I was all looking forward to Neil Gaiman signing books in Downers Grove? I have no idea where the intervening weeks went, but due to a number of different factors (time and distance being primary), I can't go. *pout* Can I ask anyone out there who's planning on going to pick up a signed copy for me? I'll reimburse you the book price and shipping and everything.

In the overall scheme of things, I can't be TOO disappointed by it, since one of the mitigating factors is that the husband has himself a job! He's now working Tier II tech support for a media distribution company here in town, with the potential of moving up in the chain of command after a few months. He is so much happier now, and our bank account will breath a huge sigh of relief once the double income starts rolling in. My thanks go out to everyone who sent us good wishes.

It's been an interesting transition for us, since now mundane things like laundry, dishes, and grocery shopping have to be handled in the off hours. I haven't been stepping up as much as I should, what with ongoing work crap (they moved me to another frelling cube in the department for no other reason than to punish me) and this cold that is finally wearing off (2.5 weeks later). I have A Plan, though, that involves A) Going to Bed on Time (So easy, yet so elusive), B) Getting up early to exercise and Lose Some Damned Weight, Jellybelly (Not so easy, but necessary), and C) Getting a handle on expenses so the debts go away quicker. Hopefully, all of these will lead to a Happier Me, which is a Me less inclined to loll around on the couch, using TV and LJ as my anti-depressants.

Buh. Wednesday. Back to work.

Boosted from logodaedaly:

The original instructions, which seem to have gotten dumped early on:

"What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish."

I'm gonna go with simply listing them in my own arbitrary categories.
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God bless the internet, and LJ in particular, making it easier than ever to stalkkeep up on your favorite authors...

( Hi, my name is Kim, and I like to read, in the way that most people like to breathe. )
I think I have to stop now, as my brain is full. Feel free to chime in with authors I've missed.