Well, so much for that project
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Head games
It looks like the blogging of Briar County Blues is at an end. This is due to missing archive posts, laziness on the part of yours truly as editor, and a feeling that it isn't necessary anyway. The game itself is still going fine. Slow, but fine.

Now I guess I can free up the time I wasn't using to edit it to not do some other writing project.

Moo!
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Life in Texas
We have 11 head of cattle now. 2 of them are currently penned up because their testicles are giving me grief. The black bull has been giving me attitude the past couple weeks, so his balls have to come off. I also got to chase half of our new ones the other day because they managed to get loose. It's a huge pain in the ass trying to herd cattle with only 1 person.

And there is your cattle report. Tune in next week when our big bulls become big steers.

Strange little meme
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Various webshit
Stole this off of Satanosphere. Don't tell anybody.

Instructions: Go to your iTunes/media player and put it all on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and after each one press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question.

What do you think of me, Rio Nitrus mp3 Player?
Subbacultcha - the Pixies

Will I have a happy life?
Deity - Ministry

What do my friends really think of me?
I Should Know - Dirty Vegas

Do people secretly lust after me?
Leave Home - the Chemical Brothers

How can I make myself happy?
Cowtown - They Might Be Giants

What should I do with my life?
Green Grow the Rushes - REM

Why must life be so full of pain?
My Friend Goo - Sonic Youth

How can I maximize my pleasure during sex?
Song to the Siren - the Chemical Brothers

Will I ever have children?
She's an Angel - They Might Be Giants

Will I die happy?
Confusion [Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix] - New Order [Blade Soundtrack]

Can you give me some advice?
Gangster Tripping - Fatboy Slim

What do you think happiness is?
Jezebel - 10,000 Maniacs

What's my favorite fetish?
Against All Odds - Dune

I'm fixing to jinx a good thing
Mood:  surprised
Topic: Life in Texas
How much more fucking rain are we going to get this month?

There, I said it. I know that the usual complaint is that there is no rain, and that the drought conditions are killing the crop - but for fuck's sake can we spread the precipitation over a longer period please? The humidity is driving me crazy!

But that's not the worst part. It hailed yesterday. Psycho ass chunks of ice pelting down. Okay, so it wasn't anything emergency-ish like softball sized, but they were still the size of ice cubes and it was freaky. It didn't help at all that the front doorknob decided to be a total bitch and not cooperate, so we had to take the damn thing off so we could let the kitties in the house until the rain of death lightened up. Oy, what a weekend.

So now we get to smell the wet stink of dairies for another couple weeks, and we still haven't gotten the other farm planted because it's too mushy out there to run a tractor. Crazy weather, calm it down. You know, just a little bit.

The cold cruel world
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Life in Texas
The kitties are all now banished outside. They didn't do anything specific, they're just big enough to handle it and I'm tired of bothering to try taming the last few when they so obviously aren't interested.

Now, of course, when I went out to visit with the whole crowd, the ones that weren't particularly tame were all cute and climbing on me and friendly. No you little bastards, you can't come back in the house.

So tomorrow or sometime around then I'll put the cage away, clean up the mess that was in it, and I'll be able to get to the front door easily again.

They're so cute in a pile on the front porch!

Let's go sexin'
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: Brain candy
A Dirty Shame deserves every bit of the NC-17 rating it got. This movie is decadent, perverted, trashy, raunchy and funny as fuck.

Every time I get that stupid survey/meme question 'What famous person do you want to meet/have lunch with/go on a killing spree with?' I had no idea that I was lying every time. I want to meet John Waters. I want to stalk him. I want John Waters to give me a look of terrible disdain and dismiss me so I can have a story about how one of the coolest ever filmmakers totally dissed me. John Waters, I bow to you.

Anyway, A Dirty Shame is so fucking funny, I nearly peed myself in the first half hour. They couldn't have done any better than Tracy Ullman in the lead role, and having Johnny Knoxville as Ray Ray was fantastic. The movie just plain rocks. If you can't handle the vulgar and gratuitous celebration of oddball sex then you'd be better off avoiding this movie. But if you get a giggle at the thought of a payday or spontaneous nudity, then you just gotta see this.

Essay question: What did I do on my birthday?
Mood:  special
Topic: It's all about me
Chatted on IRC. Told everyone in the #bearcave that it was my birthday. Received a generally mild response.

Looked at porn, but was not particularly moved by it.

Did a little work on a gaming project that should be occupying my time for a month or so. But it gave me a headache so I decided to be lazy and put it off til later. Printed up a bunch of the stuff for it so it would be easier to work with than a pdf.

Played with our mass of kitties until sunrise, then booted the 4 big ones outside.

Said good morning/goodbye to the hubby on his way out to work.

Put drops in my ear. Fell asleep with the little bottle in my hand. Woke up later and looked for it, but couldn't find it so I went back to sleep. Woke up a little bit later because I was laying on it, so I put drops in the other ear and waited for about 20 minutes before letting the stuff drip out so I could go back to sleep.

Woke up sometime around 3 and had breakfast. Went out to feed the 2 penned up calves because I had forgot to the day before. Discovered that the sickly one had died in the barn, which we knew was going to happen anyway. Fed the other one.

Continued my daily routine - moved the water to the next tree and got the mail. Waved hello to our neighbor as he drove by.

Fed the little caged kitties in the house and petted Rocky, trying to get that little bastard to bond.

Basically bummed around the house watching TV because it was too hot and sticky to even want to think about doing anything. When the hubby got home I was introduced to yet another new kitty rescue. Named this one Jet - it's still pretty wary of me.

Since the hubby brought me ice cream (Caramel Turtle Fudge - Blue Bell, of course) the day improved quite a bit. Put it in the freezer to get solid again. Also got a 6-pack of peanut butter cups and some gum - promptly ate one pack of the cups.

Got a call from the hubby's office girlfriend. She had managed to catch the 4th of the litter that she'd been sending over and wanted to know if she could bring it by. I said yes, and now we have 9 kitties total.

Finally remembered to tell the hubby that the calf died, so he had to go out and put a chain on its legs to drag it out of the barn. I was busy feeding the latest kitty (as yet unnamed) from the bottle to get it perked up a bit. When I was done with that I went out to help and saw our neighbor lending a hand. Helped them get the calf dragged out, then got to getting the pens situated while the hubby dragged the calf out in the field to let nature take its course. It got stormy and rained a bit.

Got out the sprayer and sprayed some weeds that were getting out of control.

Decided that I didn't have to be health conscious on my birthday and had a big bowl of cheese dip with tortilla chips for dinner. Followed this up with a bowl of ice cream. MMMmmmmm...

Hubby and I played with the kitties for a while, but he had to take over when the phone calls came in. Talked to the fam and did the birthday thing with them.

Put the hubby to bed. 'Nuff said.

Put the big 4 kitties back outside so they can acclimate to living outside at night. Petted on the tiny 4 a little bit, but the 3 new ones are still leery of me.

Got online and cleared out the spam box before going on IRC again.

Now is that exciting of what?

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.