I haven't posted in a long while.

Very lazy.

The result I got doing this meme - was just too silly to pass up on posting though.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4.Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post it in your own journal.




Hee!

Memeage!

Also, At a draw at work today, won tickets to the NS International Tattoo on the weekend. Me! I never win anything. (speaking of Infinite Improbability) I had better go buy a 6-49 ticket for Saturday.

Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)		94%
Serenity (Firefly)		81%
Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)		69%
Moya (Farscape)		63%
Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)		63%
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)		63%
Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)		63%
Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)		56%
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)		56%
FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)		38%
SG-1 (Stargate)		38%
Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)		38%
Enterprise D (Star Trek)		25%

Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)
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Look what I won from jaynestills!



Colour me chuffed!

I just wish I was doing more icon making and gimpifying of things. I love playing around in gimp, but the job is more hours than I used to work, so I haven't as much time.

Strangely though, it doesn't seem to be any more money...

Back in November I told my supervisor at the store where I work that I wanted out of the hateful, mind-numbing, infuriating job I was doing, and maybe go to working in one of the stores fresh dept's. Finally, on Friday last week they found something else.

On Monday I started a job at the company's head office, probably for lack of anywhere else to go. It's answering phones and e-mails, really. Directing inquiries from the stores about ordering and pricing issues,etc. to the right contacts in HO, then relaying the answers back to the stores. That part I don't mind. It was kind of mind boggling the first day, because they kind of gave me a quick overview of what to do, then away you go.

The part I wasn't really prepared for was, "Oh, we answer calls to the customer service line too."
They never mentioned that, and I've never really been good at dealing with irate customer type people.

If not for that I'd really like this job. The time flies; you're not waiting on the clock while the hours crawl by. I don't even know how long I'm going to be there yet. It's supposed to be temporary, but they haven't given me a time frame.

Even if it doesn't last, it's a change from the monotony and frustration of the last job, I suppose.

What kind of pirate am I? You decide!
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What kind of pirate am I? I wanna be Captain Jack Sparrow, really. He's a fun pirate. And I've always wondered what it would be like to have dreads.

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Come on! Gary Oldman's only forty-nine, thats just twelve years older than me...bugger. I'm getting old.

Hah! No, triumphant Ha-HAH! (Fists on hips, superhero style)

Put aside my irrational dislike of haircuts, and got the whole big mess cut off today.
I was clothes shopping last night and the stuff just..pissed me off big time. Every time I tried on a shirt, or took off my jacket or anything it was Static Cling! Tangles! Messy! Ponytail Slipping! Catching on Buttons!

I went to town to get a coffee at Tim's and drove by a salon with 'walk-ins welcome' on the window, drove around til I finished the coffee, and went on in.

Went in with Firefly Zoe-length hair, came out with Jayne-length hair. (Jayne series, not BDM. His BDM hair is longer than mine.)

My head is five pounds lighter.

Frenchy's is awesome.

If you live outside of Atlantic Canada, you probably don't know what I'm talking about.
Used clothing store, piles of the stuff in big bins.

In the last week or so I've found a beautiful hand knitted Irish Aran sweater, bagsful of good kid clothing for my nephew, a pretty pale green duvet cover, a winter vest, big fluffy green bathrobe, and a chocolate brown corduroy wear-around-the-house cozy shirt by Giorgio Armani. In other words, stuff I couldn't afford if I was buying it new.

Kicker? None of it over $5. The most expensive thing was Stan the bathrobe (it's previous owner monogrammed it). I think I spent around $35 or so for two visits, and that got a lot of good stuff. I've never had such nice clothing before I started shopping there.

I don't even really like shopping in actual clothing stores now. I look at the prices and
go '$50? Nah, I'll find something like this at Frenchy's for $2'.
I'm all spoilt now. Stan the bathrobe and I are going to bed, on our Ralph Lauren sheets.
It's like being rich without having any money!

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1. Open your music library.
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the ‘next’ button.
6. Don’t lie

( Shuffle,shuffle... )

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My japanese name is 秋本 Akimoto (autumn book) 久美子 Kumiko (eternal beautiful child).
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But...but  it's so much prettier than the real one...

I got a digital camera for Christmas! Whoo!

Well, actually, I got a $50 Staples gift card and $50 cashy money for Christmas, but still, digital camera! It's an HP photosmart, just the basic model, but I'm loving it. Went out to some of my favorite wild places to take pictures of them, and they've turned out pretty well.

I was kind of concerned that I'd have to boot into windows to download the pictures to the computer, but Mepis, Sabayon and Ubuntu were all able to connect and download with only a little bit of hand editing of files or permissions. Thank goodness for Ubuntu forums. They nearly always know the answer, and more often than not, the info gives me a starting point on what to look for if my other distros are doing something similar.

( Cut for big-ass pics )

Also, my Mum just got home from a visit to my sister and her little guy, and she brought home Tamagotchis. Tamagotchis! I think she is already a bit addicted as she kept snatching mine away to do keep it happy type things to it in it's first few hours. I'm afraid I may get a bit addicted to the silly thing too. I've named my little boy blob Yoshi.

It's going to be like the keychain Tetris game I used to find so damn un-putdownable. I wonder where I put that? I could have two bleepy addictive things going at once! Then I'd never get any actual work done at all.

Bah. Work's no fun anyway.

C'mere Yoshi...

Took Harry the dog down to the beach for a run today, being Boxing Day I thought there might be a lot of dog-walkers about, but it was just me, Harry, the crows, seagulls and ducks.

It was just before snow, so the air had that ultra-clear quality to it, and it was really still. The tide was out and there were nice long low rollers coming in over the sandbar. If it wasn't December it would have been a perfect swimming day. I was still kinda tempted to dive right in, it just looked so inviting. There were tracks of somebody who'd gone barefoot today, so I guess I'm not the only one to got the urge to do something season-inappropriate.

Harry had a good time snuffling dog and deer tracks. He found a dead cormorant (Bonus!...if you're a dog. My thoughts were 'yuk') buried some shells and did inexplicable sprints.

Picked some bayberry twigs on the way out. They smell so good at the beach, but when you get them home the smell disappears. Too bad.

( cut for mini puppy picspam )

and there are puppies!

You Are a Chow Puppy

Don't fence me in! You're an independent spirit that won't be tied down.

Because I need cheering up, damn it!

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So we took our dog to the vet for a recheck because he has problems with allergies. Atopic Dermatitis is the technical term for it. He's been on prednisone for it on and off since early summer, which is when it usually manifests. Last year we were able to stop in winter, because it seemed to go away. This year, it isn't going away. It's probably an inhalant allergy, to dust or pollen or mold.( We've got mold problems in the lower level where the dog and I sleep.We get the visible stuff, but I imagine there's lots where we can't see it, like behind the drywall, built in bookshelves, etc.) Just to be sure though,the vet wants us to try the dog on a hypoallergenic diet for two months, just to eliminate food allergies as the cause.

Mom and I thought difficult, but okay. Might be good for him. The dog is overweight and this is tightly portion controlled. He might lose some weight this way.

When we get home and tell this to my Dad he has a hairy fit about it. Flat out refuses, because as he is retired and will be home with the dog, he will have to not feed him.

Boo fucking hoo. Because it's all about you, isn't it Dad? Not say, the little dog trying to scratch his face off on the doormat because you've overfed him to the point where he can't get his foot up to scratch his face? Nope. You just don't want the hassle of not giving the dog every little thing he wants.

Great. It's just great that you're killing my dog overfeeding him massively. It's just great that you don't ever listen when we ask you not to.Politely or otherwise, or listen to any of our other neighbors who worry the dog is overfed. Just the other day you were going on and on how being on the prednisone wasn't good for him, yet you throw a childish wobbly over a possible way out of that.

I can't really afford to move out, but if I want the dog to live past say, three years old, I may have to just to keep you from killing him.


Thanks a fucking lot, Dad. Merry Christmas

So I tried Beryl/Emerald on my Ubuntu install, because I liked how it looked in Sabayon, and it really shouldn't have surprised me that everything got buggy and slow after I did it. Uninstalled it,and Ubuntu was back to normal. Working fine.

Made me wonder about Sabayon, I'd reformatted the partition where I'd installed it,so I gave it another go, booting the liveDVD without desktop acceleration, and presto! After install I had a solid distro, everything working. I like it.

Bugger. I wanted the shiny eye-candy,too. I'm going to have to start saving for a new used computer.


On a different note: FINISHED CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!! No more mad bad nasty mall for a bit. Done!

...I think.

...Almost positive, anyway.

Just food and booze left to get, and the grocery/liquor store is so much easier to take.

Why do people seem to lose IQ points when at the mall? Somebody should investigate this.

Had myself a mini install-fest this weekend, three distros:Sabayon 3.2, Zenwalk 4.0
and Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft

The Ubuntu and Zenwalk installs were just to update to the latest versions.

Ubuntu was just a zippy, happy breeze of an install, no messing about with boot parameters to get it working, it just went perfectly; which was a great improvement over Dapper's Livecd installer. Quick and relatively painless. Not to say there weren't problems; my machine is old and a bit iffy, so there's always stuff to be fixing up after first boot. Had to reconfigure Xorg to get out of 800x600 screen resolution, and getting online was a bit of a challenge, but overall Ubuntu Edgy is lovely.

Zenwalk 4.0 is now my favorite lighter weight distro. Puppy used to hold that position, but I couldn't get the latest version to work with my machine, so it had to by the wayside for the time being. I'll try the next version when it comes out; see if anything changes. Zenwalk is another easy fast install. It's text instead of gui, but not appreciably harder. Again had to edit xorg.conf to get by 1600x1200 screen res, but I've had to do that for almost every distro.

These two distros make me happy. Geeky, but true anyway. Keepers, both of 'em.

Sabayon has been getting good reviews and has Nvidia and Ati driver included,plus beryl/aiglx eye-candy standard, so I gave it a try. It might just be my machine's age and quirky hardware, but nothing worked properly,really. It booted at 800x600, the installer crashed on me
twice, before finally succeeding. Now, it is gorgeous to look at, even at 800x600, and Beryl is really a neat, but it took up more than 9 gigs of HD space, and kept crashing. I worked at it,
on and off, all weekend but I think I'm going to give up on it for now.

The big thing that bugged me about all three was the lack of dial-up support. Usually in Ubuntu I would use the System>Admin>Networking tool to activate my dial-up connection long enough to
download gnome-ppp, but that function was missing this time, had to mess about editing lots
of .conf files to get wvdial (yech!) to dial-out. Zenwalk doesn't have a dialer, but there is a very good tutorial on how to edit several files to get a connection working. The ppp kernel modules weren't even loaded in Sabayon. I did get connected eventually, though.


I know high-speed internet is now widespread, and that's what most people are using, but really, would it take up that much space on the .iso's to make using dial-up less of an ordeal?
Not everybody lives in areas where high-speed internet is the standard, or even available yet.
High-Speed internet has only just made it's way out to our rural spot, and is priced a good deal higher than what we use now.

Ah well, .debs to download. Files to edit.

Gee! I didn't know that!

Retail work is generally held to be a deep well of suckage. (I know this because I work in retail, and yes, it is incredibly, horribly sucky.)
I just wish the higher-ups in the Department of Making Things More Difficult wouldn't keep going out of their way to make things even worse.

Hey! I've got a neat idea! Let's pile more stupid paperwork on the serfs at store level, make signage more complex and time consuming, then cut their hours! It'll be great! Sure, they'll be even more disgruntled than they were, but what the hell? Were they ever gruntled to begin with?


( BSG ep 3.10 )

Er...Hello

This is my first foray into LJ world (As a person who posts, anyway. I'm trying to break out of lurkerdom; really, I am!) I
live in out in the sticks in eastern Canada, with the dog that owns me and a couple of parents.

My life is fairly boring, which could be taken as being a good thing, or a sign that I don't get out
enough. Could be either. :)

Have gotten into Firefly fanfic in a big way in the last year or so, and it seems that
LJ is where you find all the good fanfic! (Got to start commenting. It's that lurking habit again. Working on it.)

BSG is pretty much the only show I'm watching on TV right now. Honestly, it seems to be the only show worth watching these days. Though this might just be because we don't have that many channels in our cable package. Funny,though I love this show to little pieces, I can't seem to read fanfic for it.
Usually when I find a show I love with a universe and characters that are so incredibly interesting and well-imagined, I'm there. Imagination runs away
into fanfics. (Mine and other folks. Mostly other folks. I am a big clucky chicken about posting anything of my own.)

I wonder if with BSG it's that their verse seems more complete to me, or maybe it's that we're just in the middle of the story and
I want to see where Ron Moore and Co. are going with it before I feel like I can play around in there.

Anyway. Nighty-Night