I've just been told that the laprop that I ordered may come with a DVD drive instead of the Blu-ray drive that was in the brochure. To be fair, they have upgraded the processor and doubled the video card memory as well. The salesgirl promised to confirm for sure by tomorrow.

Question of the day is... should I try a hissy fit if the Blu-ray ia downgraded?

This is the first day I haven't been in the shop for longer than I can remember. Go me!! Downside is that I've been told that I have major crap to deal with tomorrow. Ah well...

I've been doing a Star Trek marathon today starting from Star Trek I. I've always liked the orignal series' characters back but watching the first movie after all this time just reminds me of how simple movie-making was back then. You could just about make out the strings on the Enterprise flying in space. Heh.

Doesn't mean Trek doesn't kick ass. Love the even numbered one *bg*

Been away for too long and it's because I'm a big slacker. L will testify to that and I thank all the powers that be that she puts up with me this far. Must have done something good in the past, heh.

So where have I been hiding all this while? Let's see...one of my assistants left and I've been buried deep in work and getting stressed out about making things work as usual, boss-man has been on my ass about sales and how crappy they are at the moment and most importantly, I'll be 6.5k miles away from my wife on her birthday.

The only bright spark on the horizon right now is that we'll be together in about a month but it's still too long. Why haven't they invented transporters yet??!!

..signing out...

.. in case anyone's wondering ;)

A little late for seasons greetings but may the next 360 days be as interesting as the past 6 were.

Yes, I should be working but I just had to say this... fountain pens rock.

My second appointment with the hair-stylist is tomorrow so what colour should I be next...?

I'm rewatching their Fillmore concert for the hundredth time and the IGs kick serious ass when they're perform live. /throws envious looks in sravenk's direction/

In how many languages are you conversationally fluent?

wonkots42 and I want to know in the interest of settle an argument we were having :)

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In.Your.Face.Chelsea.

In. Your. Face.

*vbg*

I'm tempted to wear my Man United jersey tomorrow so if I disappear from here gor a while, it may mean that I got bashed up by a Chelsea fan.

The rest of the answers...

6) Please do not forget that our lips have met and I've held you tight, dear. - 'Non Dimenticar' Natalie Cole

7) Your beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green. - 'Jolene' Dolly Parton
I'm surprised no one got this one since I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only Dolly fan on my LJ *g*

10) I've got a dream about an angel on a beach and the perfect waves are staring to form. - Fire Inc. This is from the soundtrack of Streets of Fire' which starred a young (and very hot) Diane Lane. Not nearly as hawt as she was in Unfaithful...

11) If you're no one till someone loves you, then you're two people, maybe more. - 'I Was Born Without You' Tracy Bonham

13) Now I will tell you what I've done for you, fifty thousand tears I've cried.- 'Going Under' Evanescence

17) Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em out... - Rawhide' - Johnny Cash.
No one got this?!! *shakes head*

19) Strutting around in their size zeros, skinny little girls, no meat on their bones. - 'California Girls' Gretchen Wilson

22) I have heard it said so many times, "Love is blind", so why are you staring? - 'She'- Jen Foster. Really good new school dyke and I have a couple of tracks if anyone's interested :).

23) Yeah, something has invaded my night, painting my sleep with a colour so bright, changing the grey, and changing the blue, scarlet for me, and scarlet for you - 'Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart' Gene Pitney
Just two words - So.Gay.
*vbg*

I'm stealing this one because it's much more fun than working on a Sunday night.

Put your Media player on random and post the first line from 25 songs... unless the first line is the title, in which case, post an interesting line. As people guess whose song it is, strike a line through that one and post who guessed it.


1) A shot in the dark, I woke to find you've broke all the rules and changed your mind. wonkots42
2) A love struck romeo sings the streets a serenade, now he’s laying everybody low, he’s got a love song that he made.wonkots42
3) Start the car, I know a whoopee spot, where the gin is cold, but the piano’s hot.badtyler
4) I blew out all my plans, the world fell in my hands.aimers81
5) You saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own.badtyler
6) Please do not forget that our lips have met and I've held you tight, dear.
7) Your beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green.
8) We're leaving together but still its farewell, and maybe well come back to earth, who can tell?sravenk
9) Kiss me, like you just did, oh baby, do that to me once again.badtyler
10) I've got a dream about an angel on a beach and the perfect waves are staring to form.
11) If you're no one till someone loves you, then you're two people, maybe more.
12) Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a call that's hard to hear.wonkots42
13) Now I will tell you what I've done for you, fifty thousand tears I've cried.
14) I know what you're thinking baby, I used to be just like you.aimers81
15) Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine.badtyler
16) Colour me your colour, baby, colour me your car.badtyler
17) Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em out...
18) Are the stars out tonight? I don't care if it's cloudy or bright...stephanie75
19) Strutting around in their size zeros, skinny little girls, no meat on their bones.
20) Those fingers in my hair, that sly come-hither stare.aimers81
21) Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio.sravenk
22) I have heard it said so many times, "Love is blind", so why are you staring?
23) Yeah, something has invaded my night, painting my sleep with a colour so bright, changing the grey, and changing the blue, scarlet for me, and scarlet for you
24) Oh baby when you talk like that, you make a woman go mad.mantaraggio
25) Desert loving in your eyes all the way.sravenk


Anyone's who's not done is tagged. Go on... it's cathartic and fun.

Yes I'm still alive. Worn out, flu-ridden and over-worked but still alive.

The festivities officially started earlier tonight and will continue over the next two days until I go back to work. Between hanging out with the Horde family and hosting the BBQ cookout for the kids from work, my life will be busy, busy fun (yes, I still owe some of you questions *g*). There may be pictures - if they turn out alright.

So, Gong Xi Fa Cai!

I promised myself that I wouldn't do the bitch and moan routine about work tonight so I'll talk about random TV shows instead. So, is there anyone else around who's watching 30 Rock? What...? It's funny, in an inane sorta way *and* it's got Stephanie March playing a lesbian in one of the eps. What else does a shallow viewer need?

And oh, the glasses of P&J make a guest appearance as well. You know, just in case some of you need convincing to go watch the eps here. I had to do some craquing creative downloading but most of you should get to watch it for free. As for my other creative endeavours of the week so far, I'm almost ashamed to admit

*coughDante'sCovecough*

*bg*

Stolen from the lovely mantaraggio...

Take the five books nearest you, and use the following sentences to make a passage:

Book 1 - 1st sentence
Book 2 - last sentence, page 50
Book 3 - 2nd sentence, page 100
Book 4 - next to last sentence, page 150
Book 5 - final sentence

'Mother Nature's a mingy, stingy, two-faced bitch,' mutterred Madeline, as she re-adjusted her jumbo-sized sanitary towel, hoicked up the baby papoose and hobbled painfully into Harrods in search of prunes to ease her post-natal constipation. At other times, like now, when the static was clearly patternless, she would remind herself of Shannon's famous dictum in information theory, that the most efficiently coded message was indistinguishable from noise, unless you had the key to the encoding beforehand. What a difference it makes, how much more vibrant and alive it seems, to see children playing ball in the street or skipping rope on the front stoops. Suppose we have two suspects and a pair of chemical scissors that will snip every C to G bond in a string of DNA proteins. Zonular Fibers: Multiple small fibrils that suspend the lens from the ciliary body; together the fibrils constitute the zonule.

Book 1: Mad Cows - Kathy Lette. I was introduced to her writing nearly a decade ago and though the genre may veer dangerously close to fluff, it's pretty damn sarky fluff.

Book 2: Contact - Carl Sagan. So I may have read the book after watching the movie..*feels small and shallow*

Book 3: Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson.

Book 4: The Forensic Casebook - N.E. Genge - I am a geek. Nuff said *g*

Book 5: The Handbook of Opthalmology - Gardner and Shoch - More damning evidence of geekiness.

So what have I spending my evening other than doing this meme and missing L because she had a choir practice to go to? Watching last Friday's ep of BSG of course. Damn but Laura was all kinds of icy bitchy hawtness when she gave the order to execute genocide with a warm friendly smile.