Oooooookay
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Various webshit

You're The Moon!
You frequently take small steps, but you think very highly of each and every one of them. This aloof attitude doesn't begin to reflect how high and mighty you actually are, though you are able to reflect light onto others when it seems appropriate. Whether the glass is half full, half empty, waxing pedantic, or even crescent-shaped is something ever-changing in your perspective. These mood swings at least follow a consistent cycle, one that makes others believe you have mystical powers. Ultimately, your head is always in the clouds and you just can't seem to stay grounded.
Take the State Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

WANT!
Mood:  cool
Topic: Nothing in particular
Flaming Carrot costume

Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme!

This guy is officially cooler than me because he got off his ass and did what I've only been thinking about for around a decade. The bastard.

Hanging by a thread
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Brain candy
I so can't wait for the next Project Runway. Wendy Pepper, or the Wicked Witch of the West as we like to call her, has managed once again to avoid the axe and make it to the final elimination before the big event. She's goin' down! If you didn't catch the last episode you must see it. They'll be replaying it on Wednesday before they play the new one - I'm serious now, you gotta watch it.

Why? Because Kara Saun disses the Wicked Witch on the runway. Because Jay calls her a cockroach to her face. Because she has a breakdown on camera (though really it was entirely fuctup and not worth being evil and giggly over). Because you get to see Austin Scarlett walk the runway - and be called butch in the process.

I wonder if the sisters of Snark will take a scratch at this show...

Had to change my shorts
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Brain candy
Finally had just the perfect day to sit down and watch Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.

Oh. My. GAWD! Did that movie rock my world? I think I'll be calling it Daddy in the morning, that's how much it fucking rocked. I still have wood. It was better than the original. Worth every penny - I'll be watching that movie until my eyes need to be replaced with cybernetic knock-offs from Wal*Mart. If you like sci-fi you must see this flick. Go!

Stalk
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Out of my mind
I can see your sly glances, the look of recognition. We make a silent, secret conspiracy as we play this game. My name whispers in the soft brush of your hair against your cheek; my taste lingers at your fingertips. I can't feel the heat of your desire from this distance, but I can see the haze of it rippling around you. You crave my attention, and you will turn towards it like a sunflower - helpless against your natural evolution. We orbit one another in a constant series of near collisions. I have your utmost wishes in my back pocket.

Do you ever tire of the clumsy dance we make? Will I be tossed aside casually when you find a better lover? When will your unknown caress go cold and be denied? I know my time draws shorter; my breath comes in lessening gasps. We are made of the same flesh you and I, but our conjoining is conspired against. We are traitors in a crumbling democracy of shame and fear.

Match your feet into my footsteps as I lead - as I follow the trail you yourself have led, and the spiral becomes an endless mandala of our mutual but unspoken obsession. Each hiding place I find still bears the warmth of your recent habitation. I look at you and I see my twin reflections in your wide eyes. They snap shut like a trap and hold me helpless; I bleed love letters in looping script until the pen runs dry.

I broke my damn Sims!
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: Brain candy
Now see, this is what happens when you go insane and download a bunch of hacked Sims crap that you don't need. The Sims won't load up anymore, and I have to figure out what I put in there that broke it so I can keep playing. Of course I'm tempted to just hang the whole damn thing, uninstall it and defrag, and then start all over again. It's not like I haven't done that plenty of times now.

But of course that still means I have to sort through the gigantic mess of downloaded Sims crapola and decide what I can't live without. Because the yakyak end table is a MUST!

Greg and his freaky stray cat
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Brain candy
I got the Unleashed update for The Sims over the weekend, and have been playing quite a bit lately. I wanted it more for the expanded neighborhood and other options than for the animals, because you can't create pets in the family deal (you have to either befriend them or buy them) and the strays tend to make a huge nuisance of themselves.

A couple weeks back I started the very bad habit of downloading various Sims crap from fan sites. I especially like creatively hacked items that fix little things that make the game wonky. I found this really cool endtable that when you place it in a room everyone in the room is considered to be in a group conversation. This is the best way to develop a friendship, since you only have to be in the same room as the other Sim to build up Relationship points.

I usually build a few families and move them in around the neighborhood, overload them with the money cheat to build their house if I feel like it, or just buy them a phone if I'm lazy, and leave them be to be friends of my 'real' Sim. The real one I don't use cheats on, and generally play exclusively - hoping to find him true love, a fascinating career, and all that happy shit. This is Greg Bear - the Sim I'm currently playing.

I've finally managed to get him promoted to Lieutenant - he's a cop. He hasn't yet found love, but he's flirted around a bit. Since I added Unleashed he has a lot of animals running around. Normally I have him shoo them away because they are annoying as hell, but there are 2 cute little black cats that I've decided he's going to adopt.

So the readme's these hacked objects came with warned me of possible strange side effects. The aforementioned end table causes adults to talk about child topics at random. It also causes the pets to join in the conversation too, meaning that they are now a bit easier to befriend. Now I had been warned about it, but this is the strangest side effect I've ever seen:

This is Cali the cat, having a cup of coffee. The coffee pot is hacked - and it's very much a compromise with me. See, the coffee makers that come with the Sims are practically worthless. They give only the barest amount of Energy with a slight decrease in Bladder as a side effect, and really just don't help at all. I found one some time back that was a mixed blessing - it would increase all your motives to max, and those of everyone on the lot. This was far more than I ever wanted it to do, and all the Sims would get addicted to it and go crazy trying to get some. It was great for parties. I did finally find one that increased Energy to max while putting Bladder at near emergency levels. Not convenient at all - especially considering it had a strange habit of backfiring and giving the Sim brain damage, making him lose all his Logic skill points.

So this coffee maker is sort of the least of all evils until I can find one that does what I want. It comes with a little coffee cup icon decor that you have to place somewhere on the lot. This icon controls it - you set the coffee to increase your motives to a certain level. The thing I don't like is that it increases motives that have nothing to do with coffee, including Bladder. What I want is a coffee maker that gives a substantial, but not insane increase in Energy (a good emergency boost), while impacting the Bladder motive in a realistic fashion as well. I could also see it giving a bonus to Hunger, since caffeine is an appetite suppressant, though I could live if it didn't have that.

But isn't that just the cutest thing? Awww, the kitty gets a caffeine fix. I laughed so hard when I saw this and just had to capture a pic so everyone could see.

More irritation
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Bitchy rants
Somebody at Emerson will pay.

The hubby and I went to Wal*Mart a couple weeks back to buy a completely overpriced and unnecessary piece of equipment - a VHS/DVD recorder, mainly to dub some tapes to disc. We had to return it because it was fuctup and ate a tape, and got a new one. We have bought 2 stacks of blank DVDs to feed the thing. And how many DVDs have we burned so far?

ZERO

The first stack of DVDs wouldn't work because they are DVD+R, and it doesn't specify anywhere on the box that the little '+' means 'does not work on this machine.' I can live with that - they should still work fine on the laptop.

After reading the instructions (which were obviously written in some other language and then translated to 'English' by crack monkeys) I learned that we needed DVD-R. Note the dash, not plus in there. So I grabbed a stack of non-plus bearing dash-R DVD type discs. And how many of them are now bearing dubbed VHS goodness? You know the answer. Apparently the fucking machine just plain doesn't like the brand of discs I got, or it didn't feel like working yesterday, or maybe - just maybe - I'm being fucked with again.

I so don't want to have to deal with some bitch tech motherfucker on the phone. I know he won't speak English with any clarity and I just can't tolerate Geek Speak, especially when I'm in a pissy mood. I had the urge to just beat the shit out of the machine. I hate it when inanimate objects defy me. But no - it would be the height of counterproductive to destroy the damn thing, unless I were to use it to beat some asshole at Emerson senseless for making it behave this way in the first place.

A little weak in the knees
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Various webshit
So I found this little 100 question quizzy here and here. (And who knows where else this filthy little whore meme has been?) I had fully intended to be a good lemming meme fiend and post my answers. I already have them copied somewhere, neatly formatted and everything.

Except I'm not posting it... Yup. Totally pussed out. I find it endlessly amusing that there is no question #23, because that was the one I had decided I would post no matter what it was. You know, as a tease. So I am forced to choose another number of significance as my teaser.

18. Used hot melted wax erotically? Once, a long time ago when I didn't know any better

And that's really all I have to say on the matter.

It's only been like 2 months
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Head games
I finally finished editing the latest entry for Briar County Blues. I've got another one filed up and ready to format for posting, which should be sometime around the weekend. I'm hoping to get another 2 or 3 posted soon too - if I don't keep up on it my natural procrastination urge takes over and the project just sits. I hope I managed to catch most of the little formatting errors - it just irks me when they creep through, and I hate having to go back and fix them.