Mood: chillin'
Topic: Various webshit
Here's a cute little flash deal. Peep it out.
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See, there's this gap in the fence. Remember, the one that killed the gothic cow a while back? Well we figured that the short hotwire gate we had across it was working well enough to keep the cattle in and didn't worry much about it. Stupid, I know. And with the weather (or complete lack of it other than wind) lately we've had to keep the 9 critters in the back yard since there's really nothing for them to eat out in the big field anyway, and the wind just messes up the hotwire so they keep getting out and causing trouble.
This isn't precisely why I'm mad at them. It's a simple fact of life out here that the beef occasionally escapes and I have to go chase it back in. In fact, they'd managed to knock the gate down a couple times and go wandering around in the pasture without getting out and into any real trouble. After a week of this we knew we'd have to plug that hole in the gate for real. As a quick fix I grabbed a couple poles and chunks of wood and wired them across it until the hubby could get a real piece of fence.
Those fuckers did not hesitate one bit and pushed right through my makeshift fence to get out. And then, to make sure I was completely pissed at them, most of them got out, across the street, and tried wandering off. We had to chase them, which turned out to be futile, and finally the hubby just got in the pickup and butted their belligerent asses back home.
So they've been penned up since Sunday. We've got more hay for them now, so there is a chance they'll be let out into the back yard again tomorrow. (Mind you, it's not like they were starving to death and needed to escape to get food. The feed may have been low, but not entirely gone.) But I swear if one of them so much as thinks about escaping I will make sure they regret it.
Nothing really to report - just imagine a chat room with under a dozen gay men in it getting bitchy - specifically about 4 of them. Yeah, basically like that.
But hate is so funny to watch.
Although I shouldn't complain too much - at least it's not at that uncomfortable no matter what I do stage. Here's to hoping it'll just go away. In any case, I know my online time will get a bit erratic. (Okay, a bit more erratic.)
I know I've been totally lagging on my Project Runway dish. I figure if you didn't want to watch it last season after I got all crazy about it then you probably didn't want to hear me this time around. Oh but I so have to vent about Santino. Sick of him. Just like Wendy "Hagletta" Pepper, this fucker refuses to go down in flames.
Hey - Santino: Shut the fuck up already. I will cheer the day Heidi gives you the auf wiedersehen. Get off my TV!
It's a good waste of an hour or 2.
Not bad. Makes a good finish to the whole pre-Dune saga. A couple of annoying little details in it (why would a cargo ship for thinking machines have windows in it for humans to look out?) but nothing bad enough to take me out of the story. Mainly for me it was just plain zippy to see how the various important organizations and concepts of the Dune world got their start. Maybe one day I'll get to do a Dune game.
So I took a couple days off from reading because I wasn't sure what I wanted to read next. My last shopping binge more than doubled my reading list. I finally decided to grab Gibson's Pattern Recognition and have had the most difficult time in putting it down. Really, I almost didn't make it online tonight because that book has me thoroughly hooked. I'm already halfway through it in less than 24 hrs - I'm usually a slow and lazy reader. Gibson makes me so jealous sometimes, and this book has it in spades - I've giggled several times at how he phrases and describes certain things. Fantastic read, you should pick it up.
And, to finish this little post up: for the past few days I've been looking for something to buy with my $25 Overstock.com gifty card, courtesy of MyPoints. At first it was just browsing CDs, then I got the big idea that maybe they would have the coffee grinder that I want. Big fat no on the grinder. So I decided to start putting various random wants into the search bar and whaddaya know, up pops Barker's The Great and Secret Show and Everville, two books I have been trying to find for the past couple years. They should be on their way very soon, and the happy dance will commence.