chaletian: (mp god)
Katie's tiny laptop has been infected with a DEMON. We are casting it out by singing Lord of the Dance at it (and judicious use of antispyware technology, but I have more faith in good old hymn no 22 of Come and Praise...).

Also, we had giant courgette pasta. And watched Chuck. Good times. Bye for now. The hymn book beckons...

Stuff.

Feb. 12th, 2009 12:35 pm
chaletian: (bard r&j fuck it)
Eh bien, my chickadees, the promised post. And let me begin by saying how much I fail at life at the moment. Last Saturday I was supposed to go to Megan's birthday party; on Sunday, Katherine and Helen were coming round for a planning meeting etc. Didn't do either; just sat around feeling crap and miserable. And then I was planning to go to the Taking Liberties exhibition at the British Library with people, and due to waiting in for parcel which was fated never to arrive, didn't. Boo. Anyway, trying to be better now...

Anyway, back to liberties. Well, aren't we just a bit proud of ourselves? Odd, really, given that a police officer was recently suspended for being a member of the BNP, and the Church of England has just declared that its members (I am unclear whether they mean clergy or everyone; I assume the former) cannot belong to the BNP. Let me make my viewpoint clear. I think the BNP are shit. Nevertheless, they are a valid political party and I'm sorry but you just can't tell people they can't belong to a political party!! I'm sorry, where has the concept of freedom of association gone? What's wrong with people?

So, Supernatural, eh? I've been going off it ever so slightly what with the very serious angel aspect, though it still has its joyful moments. But women. Oh, the women. Now, I don't really do meta, or proper thinking, or providing evidence or anything, but it seems to me that they can't really do women except within the narrow confines of angel and whore. Or, to expand it slightly, it's all woman as "mother" or "helpless victim wife" or "bratty younger sister-type" or "betrayer" or whatever. It's a bit shit. I think Ellen was the best they've had, and I do think Jo had potential, but other than that they're mostly just female ciphers. Or something.

Anyway, I was going to tell you about my computer. MY COMPUTER AS WHAT DIED!!!. OMG, it was so traumatic!! I didn't know how I was going to cope. It was broken for a few days, and all was grief and woe around me. Then I shook it violently and it seemed to perk up a bit, so at the moment it's working: long may it last, though I am sceptical. But it matters not, because I have the world's most bee-you-tiful tiny laptop (a Compaq Mini 700) which is gorgeous and shiny and tiny and utterly adorable, and which I am using RIGHT NOW to post this. I LOVE IT AND WANT TO HAVE TINY ROBOT BABIES WITH IT!

Otherwise: it snowed, wheee! Katie and I went and played in Richmond Park and it was just lovely. All praise South West Trains, and the buses, and the tubes and everything for being shit and not working (even though, to be fair, there was an Awful Lot of snow).

Xanthe: fan museum - woo - when would you like to go. Rest assured I know NOTHING about fans and thus will feel free to wander around talking a load of bollocks on subjects about which I know nothing. I have never believed in letting no factual knowledge get in the way of my pretensions to education... though it would be so much easier if they didn't include those damned signs with actual FACTS and suchlike to stymie my best attempts at creativity...

Heigh ho. That's about all for now. Except, ooh, on Tuesday I was at home, and I made bread and enough leek and potato soup for an army, and washed the kitchen floor, and yesterday I actually swept and mopped the bathroom. I FEEL SO PROUD.
chaletian: (Default)
Ah, see how I have a whole list of random things to talk about. I shall adopt the tried and true bullet point formulation, I think.

♥ My laptop power cable is playing silly buggers, and frequently refusing to work (bit of a miracle it's doing anything at the moment, to be honest). At some stage, I feel a trip to Curry's will be in order.

♥ I went with the Brownies to a Christmas carolling extravaganza at the RFH which was very nice, and I sang lustily and, from time to time, with gestures. Also, as I walked back to Vauxhall with Katie and Jess, Jess and I sang Hark the Herald Angels Sing, and Jess foolishly, foolishly told me that I didn't sound dire, which is fatal, because given the slightest encouragement I will sing away like crazy until someone reminds me that I suck. Katie and I sang more carols on the path from Barnes station (insofar as we could remember the words to everything) which was Very Nice Indeed. I love Christmas. I love singing. I love Christmas carols. Dost thou see my joy in the season?

♥ Looks like there might be some sort of CBB spring gather on the cards after all. S'pose we'd better get organising...

♥ I am very pleased that it's the weekend. Tomorrow is the FOCS meeting followed by present distribution chez King (ooh, I get to borrow the first book in the new Nora Roberts trilogy - yoicks!), and I mun make yonder tiramisu. Also, there will have to be an industrial amount of tidying before folk come over for lunch on Sunday. We have a nice white damask tablecloth, folks. Don't ever say I don't know how to do these things properly. Ooh, and Katie, we must open this week's batch of advent calendar windows!

♥ I omitted to report that Katie and I went to dinner at Chris and Bex's on Wednesday, which was vee nice. We played Yahtzee and got very very enthused. I'm holding out a hope that Chris will supply us with our own version of the game for Christmas... I got somewhat drunk on some very nice M&S Kir Royale (as was pointed out at the time, basically ribena and cava, but yum). We listened to (and in some cases, sang along to) James Bond theme tunes. Chris ironed. It was fun. Oh, except for the part where I was a victim of DOMESTIC ABUSE. Oh yes. You heard me aright. Katie, the darling Katie, of whom we are all so very fond, is BUT A MASK TO HIDE THE EVIL BENEATH. Uh-huh. She threw a dice AT MY HEAD. Not an accidental dice. Oh no. One could forgive an accidental dice. Accidental dice, one tells oneself, with a philosophical shrug, could happen to the best of us. Accidental dice are the rough with which one must take the smooth. But this, this, my friends, was no accidental dice. This was a dice of WANTON DELIBERATION. At my HEAD. I gazed upon her mournfully and wept.*

♥ Work's being a bit difficult at the moment, but such is life. One can but do one's best. Or, y'know, one's vague mediocrity.



*Obviously a giant lie. I pulled a face, and then made no effort to retrieve the dice, so Katie had to come round to my side of the table to get it. She called me lazy, but she threw it, so I think it only right and proper...
chaletian: (hb oh jerry)
I composed a post about my weekend at two o'clock this morning. Would Marjorie connect? Would she fuck! Our internet is being very troublesome indeed, so much so that later today, as a special treat, I will be ringing Virgin whatsit to arrange for someone to come out and replace our modem. Hopefully I will post my composition tonight, Marjorie and/or Belkin willing. Beware. There will be capslock!squeen at the end of it...

Am very tired, on account of not going to sleep till about half past three. I need to stop having a little sleepy in the evening when I'm tired; it completely buggers up my sleep patterns.
chaletian: (fl geek pride)
Eh bien, I had a whole load of things to elljay about last night, but Marjorie was indulging in what can only be described as a fit of pique, and refused to have anything to do with me. Ee, she’s a moody one, that Marjorie. And now, obviously, I cannot remember any of them.

♥ So, bopped off to see Mock the Week being filmed last night with [livejournal.com profile] katie__pillar, [livejournal.com profile] xanantha, [livejournal.com profile] helenmia, [livejournal.com profile] davidbrider and David’s pal Tim (who may or may not have an LJ), which was jolly good fun. Obviously, with my sieve-like mind, I cannot remember a thing about the recording, except that it was jolly funny. And I love Hugh Dennis vee, vee much. Oh, and I had a Complete And Utter Trauma on the buying a drink front, because they refused to take a card payment for anything under five of our English pounds, so I had to buy a fruit salad and a chocolate muffin, which led to some melon speed-eating. I don’t know your views on melon speed-eating, but to my mind it’s never an edifying sight. Heigh ho. So that was fun. And Katie and I managed to get home at a decent time, what with being able to leap on a 72 bus (which managed, miraculously, to appear straight away), which goes to Barnes station.

♥ General consensus on my hair (I know, a riveting subject for everyone) is ‘a fiery sunrise of Titian splendour’, which is in a way unfortunate, as I put it in for a bit of a chuckle, and cannot actually use it to describe my hair to anyone. Well, I suppose I could. But I’d look a bit weird. But there was a healthy vote out for strawberry blonde (I’m still unsure exactly what strawberry blonde is supposed to look like, except that it was the colour of Nancy Drew’s hair – ooh, ooh, Nancy Drew film! I wonder when it’s out? – but I will go with it), so I will probly use that when, inevitably, I feel myself obliged to talk about my hair to one unfamiliar with its hue. Or I will just go with a fiery sunrise of Titian splendour. Just for a giggle.

♥ I changed my bed at the weekend, and still have yet to actually put the duvet cover on the duvet. I am a slattern. Perhaps I will manage tonight. Although probly not, for we are off (hopefully) to see Harry Potter at yonder Richmond Odeon.

♥ I am reading A New Girl at Melling (or a similar sounding title – it’s a Melling book and there’s a new girl), and it merely confirms in me a great desire to smack Susan Blake. She’s so annoying. Imagine demanding of Mrs Lacey why Laura can’t have a bicycle, when Laura’s already said it’s because they can’t afford it! She’s such a wretch, and her parents are hopeless.
chaletian: (eddie techno fear)
Wireless Routers. Anyone know anything about them? Here in the Love Nest we are ignorant like frogs, but must needs get one. How do they work? What do the numbers mean? How much do you have to pay for one? Which ones are good and which bad?

Basically, does anyone either know all of the above and fancies educating us, or know of a reliable, up-to-date and easy to understand source of information about them? Twould be greatly appreciated.

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