Bake a fucking cake
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: It's all about me
I'm 32 now. There is no ice cream or cake in the house. Something is dreadfully wrong.

Hey! You! Make with the singing!

It's a book review, don't get excited
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Brain candy
Finished reading Vinge's Dreamfall last night. Not a bad book. It's the end of a trilogy that started with the book Psion, which I remember reading a very long time ago. Apparently there's something wrong with that book though, because she's doing a rewrite on it. Now I kinda wish I had a copy of the original version so I can see what the differences will be.

Anyway, Dreamfall was pretty good. After reading the blurb I was a bit leery of the subject, because it talks about cloud-whales and a residue of solid thought, and that sort of nudged my fantasy-hippiecrap button. I picked the book up anyway, since I liked the previous two in the series, and I was happy to see she managed to make this story interesting and not hokey.

There is one small complaint though. I don't know why, but it seemed like she had to use the word 'murmur' on every page. Hardly anybody said anything, because apparently they were all embarrassed and shy and murmuring at each other. I know it's nice to break up the monotony and not use 'said' every time somebody speaks - but really, all the murmuration got a little silly towards the end. Speak up people!

Other than that, enjoyed it quite a bit, and I plan to get the other 2 books in my library so I can read all 3 through like I like to do with good trilogy sets.

Number 7
Mood:  hug me
Topic: Life in Texas
One of little Cid's littermates was found and delivered here today. They're almost identical, tho I have yet to determine this new one's gender. I'm naming it Rocky.

Rocky, being a bit older, is not as trusting as Cid was initially. We'll fix that in the coming days. I had to set up the cage again, and now the two of them are in it. For some reason Cid has yet to cooperate with me and be all friendly to his newfound littermate. We'll fix that as well.

That's quite enough kitties now. You can quit sending them my way.

Death to the colony
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Bitchy rants
Again with the fucking ear infection! Do I have to pull a Van Gogh and just lop the damn thing off?

At least I didn't have to waste time going to the doctor. The hubby just called in and got a prescription set up for me. New drops this time. One can only hope they'll kill the motherfuckers for longer than a couple weeks this time around.

And believe me, a rant will be posted if the other ear starts acting up. Bastard bacteria! DIE ALREADY!

Under the weather
Mood:  on fire
Topic: Life in Texas
Today was a fairly nice day, finally. The past couple days have been pure sticky misery. The weather has been entirely uncooperative. It's been sickeningly humid, and it actually spit a little rain on us, but not enough to cool anything off or to get us ready to replant the fields. Using the swamp cooler is basically useless, since it just makes the air stickier. I have the window right near me open right now and it's not doing a thing for the miserable staleness in here. And I know it's nice outside right now. Hell, if I could get the phone cord to go out the window I'd be posting this from outside.

Rain dammit!

That Eris number had to happen
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Life in Texas
No, just couldn't have only 1 new kitty. The neighbor came by tonight and delivered 4 more. At least these ones aren't bottle babies still. They're so cute! They live behind the fridge right now, like every other little kitty when they first come in the house. I suppose I could go in the kitchen and chirp at them to get them to come out, but I think I'll let them snooze a while.

Our cat count has now risen to 6.

Momma time again
Mood:  bright
Topic: Life in Texas
I've got another baby kitty to play momma to. He's this cute little ball of black fluff with white trim. I don't know what his name is yet, he's still a little too little to tell. I had to do the wet washcloth bit to get his eyes ungooped, but now he's looking around and being adorable. He's taking a bottle so far, and I'm hoping that by tomorrow he'll be eating some solid food. At least this time around he's not a helpless starving rescue near death.

A new pet, sort of
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Life in Texas
We've got a praying mantis living on our kitchen window. I saw it about a week ago hanging out in the office - I tried to get it to go outside, but failed miserably. I guess it decided the long climb up the counter was worth it, because it's been climbing around the window the past few days.

The hubby was concerned that it might starve to death, but the window is a major draw for those annoying flies that we get now due to the explosion of dairy farms around here. (Okay yes, we had plenty before, but now we're getting even more.) I just came in here from the kitchen after watching it stalk a fly. It took too long and I got bored, so I figured I'd pop in here and post this little bit about it.

I don't think I'm gonna name it. I doubt it would even appreciate the notion. I'll just let it live there as long as it wants (and as long as it doesn't decide to freak me out for no discernable reason). Hopefully it'll keep the nasty bug population down.

Pretty accurate actually
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Various webshit

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A 50/50 bar
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Brain candy
We caught Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Saturday. Not the best choice of days, what with all the kids in the the theater, but that's just how things timed out.

I enjoyed it certainly, but they did that thing that I really hate when a movie is made out of a book that I like - they added things. That just drives me fucking apeshit. I totally understand the things that had to be cut out - you can't make a 2 hour movie out of a book unless it's a very short (or dull) book. I even liked what they did to the kids to update them for today's audience. But that whole thing about Willy Wonka's dad... stupid - just plain fucking stupid. It did not in any way add to the story. In fact, it totally changed how Wonka behaved and warped the ending completely out of whack. Not happy about that.

I was very pleased with the Oompa Loompas this time around. When Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory trotted out those awful orange monsters that sang that awful creepy music I was completely annoyed. These Oompa Loompas actually seemed to be enjoying themselves. Okay, so it was just one guy, but it sure was a hell of a lot of him. I was glad they actually used the songs from the book, even though they had to cut them down a bit to make them fit, but the lyrics were a bit hard to make out in the music. But hey, you can't have perfection.

In all it was worth the watch. Very cute, very fun, and quite funny. I just wish these directors/screenwriters/producers would get their heads out of their asses and quit letting their collective ego screw with stories that I like. Count Dooku did not belong in this movie as a dentist.