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The tale of the empty inbox...
Jan. 7th, 2012 12:56 pmNo bites yet for long-term freelance work or steady, part-time writing gigs. Got offered a few projects, but nothing that will allow me to bid a fond Fuck You to my current day-job. Still, keeping up with my plan to apply to at least one new job every business day. Yay.
My yoga stuff finally showed up.
Will take it for a test toast tomorrow.
Speaking of test-toast, H and I received the Caprica Cylon Toaster, so we can make sammies with cylons on the front. I'm stoked. It was a gift from this couple that H knows thru work and I kind of know thru H. Full pictorial spread coming once we make our sammies.
Cylons like bacon, right?
Still working on some subs, some articles, and reading like a fiend on this here Kindle. I have to be careful of this whole "Oh, it's only $.99, or $2.99 or wait...$6.99 is a really good deal for blah blah blah and the next thing I know, H is demanding to know why I spent $60 on Amazon. Oops. It's similar to the "problem" I had with iTunes until I discovered streaming. Still...I'm getting very into this Jonathan Maberry cat. Turns out, he's not just a charming guy from The Facebook.
Thus endeth the 5-day-job-day work week, of which I am not a fan. Well, not quite yet, as I'm going to be trapped here until 5pm. Happily, it's slow as fuck. I can't really get any actual writing done at the day-job, but I can read the fuck out of some books.
I brought my Kindle with me so I can continue reading Lemony Snicket. I've only read the first 3 so far--and I'm rereading them all before I move forward. Snicket starts killing loveable characters off much earlier than Rowling did. I still don't know why they didn't make the rest of the series into movies. Damn, that first one was a ton of fun with spectacular art direction.
I want to sleep for an entire day. I suspect that this day will be tomorrow.
Also, we got new phones. I didn't want to go with Sprint again because their phones looked sucky. We got LGRumor Touch phones. Big surprise, they are sucky. The scrolling is terrible--especially if you're used to iPod scrolling--which is good. You can make your own ringtones, but only the stuff you buy can be made into alarms, message indicators, etc. So as much as I want my phone to yell Son of a Whooooooooore when I get a message, it won't. I can only set it as a ring, which means it does it multiple times--which is less funny. Oh well...
The phrase "Judeo-Christian Sharia" is thrilling me greatly. Not that people are doing it, but that people are calling it that. These damn Christians hate our freedom and want to destroy us. That's why they're blowing up our medical clinics and shaming our women.
Santorum, you disgust me.
Shark Night (2D) is going on my Ridiculist. (Take THAT, Anderson Cooper) I watched it for free, and knew that it would not be good. In fact, I presumed it would be slasher-quality, with decent CGI and a few laughs. It wasn't even that good. It was like, SyFy Saturday "good". If you're gonna have a guy lose an arm (bloodlessly, for some reason), he can't get up a few hours later and kill a hammerhead with his one good arm and a sharp stick. If you do, you can't THEN decide that he's suddenly near death and can't even sit up by himself. And the blonde who can't figure out how to stay dressed? Tired.
Cookie cutter sharks do not aggressively hunt in packs.
And if 3 blithering, illiterate, racist, drunken idiots have captured multiple large sharks alive and then moved them to a centralized location (something professionals often screw up), and then placed them into traps (where they can miraculously breathe while staying still in the water) where they can be released at will...actually, it doesn't matter. Just don't do it. It's stupid.
Shark Night essentially takes Hostel, Vacancy, Wrong Turn, and Lake Placid, adds some shark CGI, a few chicks in bikinis, and some dumbass rednecks and calls it a movie.
It isn't. Not really.
My yoga stuff finally showed up.
Will take it for a test toast tomorrow.
Speaking of test-toast, H and I received the Caprica Cylon Toaster, so we can make sammies with cylons on the front. I'm stoked. It was a gift from this couple that H knows thru work and I kind of know thru H. Full pictorial spread coming once we make our sammies.
Cylons like bacon, right?
Still working on some subs, some articles, and reading like a fiend on this here Kindle. I have to be careful of this whole "Oh, it's only $.99, or $2.99 or wait...$6.99 is a really good deal for blah blah blah and the next thing I know, H is demanding to know why I spent $60 on Amazon. Oops. It's similar to the "problem" I had with iTunes until I discovered streaming. Still...I'm getting very into this Jonathan Maberry cat. Turns out, he's not just a charming guy from The Facebook.
Thus endeth the 5-day-job-day work week, of which I am not a fan. Well, not quite yet, as I'm going to be trapped here until 5pm. Happily, it's slow as fuck. I can't really get any actual writing done at the day-job, but I can read the fuck out of some books.
I brought my Kindle with me so I can continue reading Lemony Snicket. I've only read the first 3 so far--and I'm rereading them all before I move forward. Snicket starts killing loveable characters off much earlier than Rowling did. I still don't know why they didn't make the rest of the series into movies. Damn, that first one was a ton of fun with spectacular art direction.
I want to sleep for an entire day. I suspect that this day will be tomorrow.
Also, we got new phones. I didn't want to go with Sprint again because their phones looked sucky. We got LGRumor Touch phones. Big surprise, they are sucky. The scrolling is terrible--especially if you're used to iPod scrolling--which is good. You can make your own ringtones, but only the stuff you buy can be made into alarms, message indicators, etc. So as much as I want my phone to yell Son of a Whooooooooore when I get a message, it won't. I can only set it as a ring, which means it does it multiple times--which is less funny. Oh well...
The phrase "Judeo-Christian Sharia" is thrilling me greatly. Not that people are doing it, but that people are calling it that. These damn Christians hate our freedom and want to destroy us. That's why they're blowing up our medical clinics and shaming our women.
Santorum, you disgust me.
Shark Night (2D) is going on my Ridiculist. (Take THAT, Anderson Cooper) I watched it for free, and knew that it would not be good. In fact, I presumed it would be slasher-quality, with decent CGI and a few laughs. It wasn't even that good. It was like, SyFy Saturday "good". If you're gonna have a guy lose an arm (bloodlessly, for some reason), he can't get up a few hours later and kill a hammerhead with his one good arm and a sharp stick. If you do, you can't THEN decide that he's suddenly near death and can't even sit up by himself. And the blonde who can't figure out how to stay dressed? Tired.
Cookie cutter sharks do not aggressively hunt in packs.
And if 3 blithering, illiterate, racist, drunken idiots have captured multiple large sharks alive and then moved them to a centralized location (something professionals often screw up), and then placed them into traps (where they can miraculously breathe while staying still in the water) where they can be released at will...actually, it doesn't matter. Just don't do it. It's stupid.
Shark Night essentially takes Hostel, Vacancy, Wrong Turn, and Lake Placid, adds some shark CGI, a few chicks in bikinis, and some dumbass rednecks and calls it a movie.
It isn't. Not really.
