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July 13th, 2008
12:29 am - meme time!
(from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) triptychr)
My Debut Album:
Powder Box, It Costs You Nothing
( Your Debut Album )
Also, on Friday at my store-- but I'll type that up later. Sleep now.
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July 10th, 2008
02:36 am
OK. Got computer back from GeekSquad, paid (roughly) $138 for the massive restart. The Geek who got my computer out of the back room started it up and guess what: Blue Screen. Yup. I should've thrown it in his face, but no, I meekly waited while he restarted it a few more times and it was fine. He said my anti-virus Avast! could maybe have been the problem, and I could install it again only if it gets along okay with Vista. He also said that downloaded programs often have drivers, and drivers often cause blue screens. How true is this? I'm guessing not very.
So when I finally got the guts to fire up the ol' new computer, I checked the Avast web site (above) and it said it's fine with Vista. So there, nameless Geek who wasn't any fun. I downloaded it, and set it to do a boot-time scan thingy after the restart, and it did that, and then blah blah blah (this part is boring), and then an hour later I was actually running windows.
I've been sick the last couple of days with some barfy-sleepy-heartburny-coughy crap. I suspect some food I recently ate was a bad idea and my body is trying to get rid of it.
Well, now I'm going to bed. I only read the last few friend updates, so let me know if anything important has happened recently.
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June 26th, 2008
01:24 am - this just in!
OK, if you Google my username you get a bunch of stuff. Much of it on the front page is me. (Disclaimer: "Yanichka" is a common Russian nickname. S'why not all of those are me.)
Amazon.com lists: me.
Blogger.com account: not me.
This blog: me unless the cat is typing again.
h2g2 "About Yanichka": me.
Last.fm: Definitely not me.
RedHotPawn.com: not me.
also: Red Hot Pawn? Hu- never mind, I don't want to know.
Imagini.net: me.
GroupRecipes.com: me.
Yahoo! Answers: me.
Well! That was almost interesting. Not much of the next page is me, and this doesn't include the other usernames I employ here on the Intarwub. And if I told you what they were, well, that would defeat the purpose of employing multiple usernames.
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01:13 am - If I may whine for a bit...
My neck hurts.
My stomach hurts.
It was very warm today and so I did much laying on the couch as though I had melted into it.
I'm all groggy since I only had like six hours of sleep last night.
I need a shower (see above) but I also need sleep, like, now.
I have groceries to put away but I also need sleep, like, now.
Bah.
Okay, time for a book recommendation. The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs is all about a guy (himself) who tried to read the entire Encyclopedia Britainicca, which apparently I can't even spell. It's not just "And so, I turned another page." but also the bits of it he can remember. Chock-full of now-what-the-heck-am-I-supposed-to-do-with-this? knowledge bits, and peppered with jokes that he sneaks in so deftly that you may find yourself doing a spit-take as you read it. Beautiful. I'm about a third of the way through it and I already love it, which I knew after reading an early page.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/blank.gif) don't ask.
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June 11th, 2008
03:29 pm - famous people!
My friend Jerry, for whom I am sometimes an assistant, asked me to pick up somebody from the airport and drive him to the hotel. He's a little bit excited to see this person, as am I, since we played his CDs a lot on our old radio show. I know you most likely haven't heard of him, but it's B. B. Jay! He's a Christian rapper, and very famous to the people he's famous to. Things went fine; he's a perfectly nice guy, and we were even able to fit all his luggage in the back of my little car.
Sources:
Allmusic
Wikipedia
YouTube
Rhapsody (requires download) ("I Told You So" is my favorite)
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June 10th, 2008
01:17 am - just this.
mmm. Sleepy.
Tried to go on a diet with no pop, had a headache late and changed the diet to "just one can of pop a day". Trust me, that's still a lot of calories gone.
My, but this old computer is being slow. Slower than I ever remember it being.
I was exchanging msgs with this guy I met on that one dating site and tried to chat but their chat thinger didn't work. Asked if he has AIM, didn't hear back yet. Could be my computer being stupid. I don't know.
It was nice today. I went to the grocery store and bought a couple of things.
okay bye.
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June 6th, 2008
12:25 am - ...and so it's off to Geek Squad again.
Well, let's check the ol' BSOD log here...
6 BSODs,
after 1 of them the network vanished,
1 restart for no reason and with no warning.
Yep, I'm sorely tempted to defenestrate this thing. Off to Geek Squad tomorrow. Good thing those guys are so cute.
Did I say that last bit out loud?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/livid.gif) KAREN SMASH
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June 5th, 2008
10:31 pm - rrf.
Okay I'm ready to throw my computer out the window again. It's restarted a couple of times tonight; I've been trying to chat with Nix but the computer was havin' none of that.
BTW, you don't need to tell me your AIM names. I copied 'em over from the list in my old computer.
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June 3rd, 2008
10:07 pm - RARR
Tonight already, after twenty minutes, my new computer has restarted five times. (Why yes! That is the one running Vista! However did you guess that?) Twice after bluescreens, one of them "SOMETHING TRIED TO EXECUTE NON-EXECUTABLE MEMORY" or something like that, once for ABSOLUTELY NO REASON AND WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARNING, once for our old friend "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR
once for absolutely no reason and with absolutely no warning in the middle of typing that sentence, which was also in the middle of a virus scan,
-_EQUAL, and then one more time in the middle of restarting after that bluescreen.
I'm going to go lay down and whimper softly.
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03:01 am
Would someone please hack into my AIM account and steal the password? My old computer has it memorized and won't tell me what it is.
That, or you can all tell me your AIM names and I'll add them to some new & shiny username. Yeah, thinking that up won't take me an afternoon. ("...sigh.... Okay, how about Ilovetoeatwaffles? No, it's already taken. Um... Cheesecurdsareokaywithme? Taken.")
For safety's sake, delete your AIM name comment so it appears in my e-mail but doesn't hang out here for very long.
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12:56 am - subject? me?
"It's hard to eat ice cream with a cell phone." -My dad.
Today we went to the MOA to buy things. I wandered around a charming little artsy store* where I bought some really cute little birthday candles as Dad bought some shoes. "Meet me at the shoe store," he said, as if his errand was going to take longer than mine. He had to come meet me, but I hadn't yet finished looking at everything in the store. :) then we wandered over to the Kitchen Things store for a corn zipper (or as I put it to the sales guy when I couldn't find it, "You have an ear of corn and it's already peeled. And you take this thing and you go zzermp![hand motion] and the bits come off.") They had one and we bought it. Explanation: Mom has a new crown or whatever on a front toofy and, since the government is in charge of her insurance now, it's made of balsa and so can't handle tough jobs like chewing. Even though she lives in a nursing home, we take her out a lot and do things with her, one of which is eat corn on the cob. With this dealie she can continue to help us eat corn on the cob.
*That weird Mona Lisa thingy on the top of the page is a clock. It spooked me too.
The late-nite Oprah rerun is on at the moment and I'm collecting things I don't like about the way she talks. Is that petty? I do respect the woman. I've always liked how she uses her fame to spread good messages where-ever she can (with the exception of "This New Earth" or whatever that crap new age Ekhart Tolle book was called). That said, I'm bristling each time she calls a woman a "shero". I also hate it how she sometimes sings the end of a sentence as in "Today we have TOMMMMMMM CRUU-UUUUSE!"
I'm glad to get that off my chest. Tomorrow is my last cafe day in awhile and oh am I glad for that. After that, it's back to the bookfloor where I belong.
Cookie is in my lap, draped over my left arm. I can see his head bobbing when I move my wrist to hit the [ctrl] key to paste in that link above, for example. He must be really tired.
"...in your hands! I mean it's hard to eat ice cream when you're talking on--" My dad a little later, but I was already laughing.
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May 31st, 2008
01:03 am
Oh the sleepy, it overtakes me.
All the YouTube links in the article you're just about to read are from the record label or the band themselves so they are the highest possible quality. The exception is the last link; for some reason the band's corner of YouTube has another version of the video which is not anywhere near as well done. I can't find a version of it that's not taped off TV. I apologize.
I like this song so very much. It's "The World Is Not Enough" by Garbage, which was a James Bond movie theme song. Yes it's sung from the POV of the bad guys, but it's still a very cool song due to the incredible voice of Shirley Manson. I just love songs where the singer is passionate and throwing him/herself into the song. S'why I have a song by My Chemical Romance on my iPod.
Just the one, though: Helena. If you don't already know all the words so you can over-emote along with them, it's not that great of a song. Their very best video is this one, which is amazingly evocative of the young soldiers who died in WWII. I don't mind saying it always makes me cry, since I'm a girl. I don't have it on my iPod, though, for just that reason.
This video is a lot more fun. It's in the style of a fake movie trailer. This was their first single ever. Contains a swear word.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/yawn.gif) okay, bed now
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May 29th, 2008
03:00 am
argh! again I've stayed up waaay too late answering questions over at http://answers.yahoo.com . Apparently I need to set a timer or something before I start playing with that site.
BEWARE BEFORE CLICKING THAT LINK! Oh. My. Goodness. People can not spell. Or punctuate. Or, sometimes, put verbs in their questions. Seriously, I just gave crap to someone who asked, no joke, "Symmetrical playing cards?" It's entirely possible that there's only a question mark on there because Yahoo! Answers adds one automatically.
Off to weep for today's youth. And take care of the garbage, which is a day late this week due to Memorial Day.
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May 28th, 2008
05:47 pm - little meme
from musicalsguru
You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.
1. Where is your cell phone? *points*
3. Your hair? cute!
4. Your mother? sweet
5. Your father? goofy
6. Your favorite thing? marshmallows
7. Your dream last night? forgotten
8. Your favorite drink? Dew
9. Your dream/goal? family
10. The room you're in? breezy
12. Your fear? centipedes
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? house
14. Where were you last night? store
15. What you're not? gloomy
16. Muffins? please
17. One of your wish list items? Krycek
18. Where you grew up? here
19. The last thing you did? salad
20. What are you wearing? this
21. Your TV? big
22. Your pets? fuzzy
23. Your computer? frustrating
24. Your life? continues
25. Your mood? okay
26. Missing someone? always
27. Your car? perfect
28. Something you're not wearing? snowshoes
29. Favorite Store? Target
30. Your summer? cool
31. Like someone? perhaps
32. Your favorite color? green
33. When is the last time you laughed? today
34. Last time you cried? yesterday
35. Who will/would re-post? nix
Now remember, folks, memes are meant to be spread through the LJ. Copy and paste these words into your own blog and replace the answers with your own; don't just put it in the comments to this entry.
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May 27th, 2008
01:42 am - *blink* *blink*
Okay, yeah, it's been awhile since I updated. I've been reading my friends list but it's late and I can't read any more now. Who wants to sum up?
The 'rents and I went and saw "Prince Caspian" today. I understand it when a movie takes out some of the "lalala" moments and magnifies the "RRR" moments, but c'mon, Andrew Adamson! (Lewis fans, get ready for a "Prince Caspian" with NO ROMP AT ALL!) I just reread (much of) the book and you cut out like ALL of the "lalala" moments and made a freakin' war movie! Also, Reepicheep's voice is referred to as "shrill" in a couple of places; Eddie Izzard is a great choice for his voice but you have the technology to make his voice higher without speeding it up. I know you do.
You guys better not screw up the next one or-- I don't know. It's too late to come up with a decent threat.
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May 22nd, 2008
01:30 am
Okay, I haven't updated in awhile.
On Saturday my friends and I welcomed back one of our own, who went out of town for training since he joined the Reserves. Oh we all hope he doesn't get called up.
On Sunday it was Inventory night at the bookstore so I didn't get home until 2:47 and I'm still a little "jet-lagged", so to speak.
I think I'll re-watch Heroes on http://www.hulu.com if I have that right.
Contrary to what that customer (and everyone else at the registers that night including my co-worker) said, YOU CAN NOT SEE THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA FROM THE MOON. Not from "space," whereever that is, either. See?
*warning! that link leads to snopes.com, which will eat up all your spare time if you let it.
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May 7th, 2008
11:38 pm - wuf.
Whoa-- cafe days really take it out of me. Morning shifts also take it out of me, and so I'm really really tired and it's not even midnight.
11:39 and I'm retiring for the night. Mark your calendars, folks.
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12:22 am - yep. still here.
The movie "Speed Racer" looks truly awful, but then, I don't like sitting on an office chair and being spun around while people throw garish paint colors on me either, so what do I know?
In a minute I'll take the garbage out and then go to the drugstore for some Chee-Tos as I needs me some salty orange colored packing peanuts to eat.
I asked a guy on that one dating website where I'm a member out (whoa! diagram this one!) (with html even!) but he hasn't replied yet so I think that's a no. I'm not really that interested in him, but who knows what might happen if we go out to dinner, is my point.
Tomorrow I have to get up early and work in the cafe at the bookstore and then on Friday! O boy! I get to do it again! In between those days I'm getting a haircut and then maybe you can all see how cute this new color is.
Current Mood: pretty incoherent, apparently
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April 30th, 2008
11:50 pm - Where's the 'block' button, quick?!?
Okay but first I went over to that dating site where I'm a member and found this:
goddess:
would you be intersted in taking ownership of a well trained, worshipful, obedient slave to amuse yourself with????
i would love to be yours to do with as you please.
slave
[phone number]
And if you're not already gagging (like me), attached is his picture. With his motorcycle. And him in his motorcyclin' outfit: muscle shirt, bandana, sunglasses. Possibly a ponytail.
He's 48.
*MASSIVE SHUDDER*
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11:29 pm
Okay, I guess non-Beatons can look at that giant picture too. I'm very tired and I've been scrolling around my Friends page and now I have to stop so I can go to bed.
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