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A Divers Tale of the Week's End Mon Feb 27 11:02:06 CST 2006
Mood: weird Music of the Day: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Yig Snake Daddy
Well, another weekend had come to a close. Was a fairly quiet weekend, Friday was my usual being a vegetable, recovering from being sick can suck. I did get to play cat sitter for Amythest, but Corwin is a sweet kitty. The redhead is out of town for a while, and we don't want Corwin going stircrazy. After cat care, I came home. Watched Stargate SG-1, Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica as usual. Even went to bed kinda early, and got some real sleep. Saturday I mostly spent playing World of Warcraft. Saturday evening I met up with Techie and 'Stina, along with her roommate and the roomie's BF at Fuddrucker's for dinner. After dinner we headed back to Techie's to watch Strictly Ballroom. I've seen it before, it's cute. For those not in the know, it's about ballroom dancing in Australia. Sounds dull ? It's not, and even me, who isn't a fan of romantic movies. It's funny as hell in spots, and the sap is minor. Came home, tried to sleep...failed mostly. Eventually dozed off and had a bizarre dream involving me sneaking into a jail to free a bunch of prostitutes who were in danger. No, I have no idea why.

Woke up Sunday, did more vegging around the house. Went to the store, got stuff for the week. Also got an email from the volunteer coordinator for the North Texas Irish Fest. Got my schedual for next weekend. Been many years since I did the volunteering thing, got burned out doing it all the time during my coven days. I'm hoping it's fun. As for the rest of Sunday, I watched Potergeist: The Legacy and Andromeda, thanks to Netflix. Made dinner (chicken nachos, was actually pretty tasty) and generally didn't do a whole lot. Kinda got moody, as I am wont to do on Sundays, but some ferret time and chatting with a few good friends made things better. Went to sleep, and did my usual wake up 10 times a night thing....ugg. So tired now. But, it will pass and soon I'll have a new(ish) futon to sleep on. Yeah, not sure I mentioned this, but a friend of mine is selling me her own futon, with extra covers. And I like sleeping on futons, so this should be a very good thing. Well, other than having to buy new sheets (it's a full, and I currently have a twin). Maybe then I'll get some good sleep. *hope* Well, on that note, back to the salt mines.

Sick Thu Feb 23 17:33:28 CST 2006
Mood: bleah Music of the Day: History Channel on TV
Came home early from work, I'm feeling like I'm coming down with a cold, so I cut out early and fed myself drugs, mac and cheese and grape/cranberry juice. No idea why I like that stuff, I only want it when I don't feel good. Maybe it's the sharp taste, cuts though the gunk. So I'm home, probably won't be online much tonight. I'm thinking curling up in bed with a book. Or just curling up. Send good thoughts if you want, I can use em.

Vacation Thu Feb 23 10:15:38 CST 2006
Mood: soso Music of the Day: Lillian Axe - Crucified
Well, my vacation time was approved. So I'll be off starting Thursday March 16 and I go back to work on Tuesday the 21st. 5 whole days of vegging. Yay me. And since I was bored, I wrote a little countdown page. Yeah, I used ASP, sue me ;)

Vulpine's Vacation Countdown.

Not sure what I will do, got some ideas about vegging, going to various favorite places in D/FW, and this vague thought about organizing my books. We'll see. Woo for vacation.

WTF !?! Wed Feb 22 21:22:30 CST 2006
Mood: perplexed Music of the Day: Good Eats on TV
Ok...I found gum tonight. Not on the bottom of my shoe. In my shoe. attached to the sock. No flippin' clue where it's from. I don't chew gum. I don't walk around outside in my sockfeet, and I'm fairly sure there wasn't gum on my sock when I put it on this morning. So how in the heck did I get gum inside my shoe? A friend of mine suggests sockgnomes. I believe that the universe is just messing with me in a unique way.

Hail Eris
All Hail Discordia !!!

Insomnia and other Babblings Wed Feb 22 14:06:10 CST 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Dream Theater = A Fortune in Lies
hate not sleeping. Specifically, I hate when I go to bed tired, then can't settle in. Hard to get comfortable in bed, especially when the weather has gone wonky and my sinuses are filling up. And then I wake up at every little sound. I may try the Tylenol PM again, it tends to keep me mostly done though the night...even if I feel like a hungover dope fiend the next day. I think alot of it is stress, not wanting to go to work the next day. Cause on Friday/Saturday nights, I sleep though the night more often than not. Of course, I also wait til I'm about to fall over before I go. So I don't know. Maybe I need to just expect to not sleep, stay up til I'm about to fall over, and see if that helps. Or take up drinking. Probably also need to find something fairly dull to read before bed, something like history of columns or something similar.

On the subject of relaxing, I'm thinking of taking a few days off in the middle of March. Not going anywhere, at least as I've planned. I just can't afford the cash to roadtrip right now, nor do I trust my car to go far. So I'm thinking a long weekend running around DFW. Maybe hit the Ft. Worth Zoo and the Dallas Aquarium. Curl up with a bunch of books and the work connections turned off. :) Recharge the old batteries a bit, so I don't end up going postal at work. Going postal would be bad. So lets hope for more sleep between now and then, and a ton of sleep while I'm off.

Weekend Update Mon Feb 20 19:03:33 CST 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Star Trek on TV
Well it's been an ok weekend. Friday night I cut out of work a little early and went birthday present shopping with Amythest for Skipper's bday. Went to Walmart, picked up some Starwars stuff for him, and food and a blender for me. Yay for milkshakes. Came home, made dinner (hotdogs and chips) and a few attempts at milkshakes, too much milk...but still was kinda tasty. Didn't mind drinking the mistakes. *grin* Then settled in to watch Stargates SG1 and Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica. I'm really enjoying all three shows, SG1 seems to have survived without Jack ONeil (it's not the same, but still enjoyable) and Atlantis doesn't seem to be a cheap knockoff of SG1. Battlestar Galactica has been rather enjoyable, if a little overly dark for me. But then again, annilhilation of the human race is a fairly dark subject ;) Played a bit of WOW, not alot read for a while. Attempted to take a hot bath, but the best I could get is warmish...which wasn't what my aching bod wanted. So ended up going to bed fairly early.

Saturday I slept in, puttered around the house and proceded to fail at most everything I tried. Tried upgrading Shub-Internet: failed. Tried making hamburger helper, got distracted and ended up generating a small fire. No damage but still...yeep. Cleaned that up, decided to make fried ravoli instead...they ended up tasting nasty. At that point I gave up and vegged in front of the tube til it was time for Skipper's bday party. Went out, after spending a long while deicing the car, stopped by the store for soda and stuff. Was a nice, lowkey party. Watched Saved! which was amusing, though watching all the born agains was a tad disconcerting. Fundementalist christians, even on TV, make no sense to me. Though I did have some quasi-amusing thoughts of things like "Little Fishes" the daycare subsiderary of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Too bad The Grim Squeaker wasn't there, he would have been the only one to really get the humor ;) We also watched Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human. Very funny movie about dating, done as an Alien documentary, sorta like what you see on National Geographic. After that we watched a video of the D/FW Ufies List Halloween party a few years back. The one I wasn't at because I was living in Austin. Meh. After that I headed home and crashed out.

Sunday I woke up later than planned, headed over to Amythest's to help her out with running errands and such. Got to watch a few episodes of Poltergeist: The Legacy, a cool show from Showtime that never got the attention it deserved. Then we went out to see Final Destination 3. Now I wasn't a big fan of the first one, never saw the second. But I did enjoy the 3rd. I wasn't taking it too seriously, basically the plot is if you cheat death, death comes back to get you in a series of bizare Rube Goldberg like scenarios. All plausable, but very very unlikely. Amusing and gory, not much scare though. Came home, vegged watching a show on prototype fighters and bombers on history channel. Then went and let the ferrets play while watching 'Allo 'Allo. Arwen got a nice shock, literally. He's been making a game of attacking my feet/legs when I'm around. Well I was laying down, and he attacked my toe...and I guess I had a nice charge of static electricity...ferret got a zap, and avoided me the rest of the night. Poor weasel. He got extra treats to make up for it... what can I say, I'm a sucker. ;) Went to bed, slept VERY erratically. Woke up about 10 times in the night, generally went right back to sleep, but I still feel kinda run down today. *yawn*

Clean at Last, Clean at Last Wed Feb 15 21:46:47 CST 2006
Mood: CLEAN !!! Music of the Day: Mythbusters on TV
Thank Cthulhu almighty, I'm clean at last. Hot shower, tons of water pressure, almost painful. Yay !!!! Happy fox. Now, lets continue this trend, and let me sleep tonight. Please ?

I'm in Hot Water Wed Feb 15 13:16:40 CST 2006
Mood: much better Music of the Day: Running Hot Water
Yep, they finally did it, I have hot water again. *happy dance* Yay I can be clean tonight. WOOHOO !!!

Happy St. Cthulhu's Day part 2 Tue Feb 14 20:12:48 CST 2006
Mood: soso Music of the Day: Dagon on DVD
Well, so far my St. Cthulhu's day has had it's ups and downs. Work was good, a mostly quiet and calm day that gave me the chance to catch up on everything. I also ordered a copy of Weird Shadows over Innsmouth from a local weird book dealer. Literally down the road in Dallas, so I should see it by Thursday or Friday at the latest. I probably should have saved the cash, but I wanted a treat, and I've wanted this book for a while now.

Downsides to today, still no hot water. And by the time I got home from work, the apartment office was closed. *grumble* So another day with no hot shower, or bath, or whatever. More cleaning myself in the sink it seems. :( I also went to the store, got a few things I needed, but forgot the whole reason I went in the first place. Catfood. Diamond and Cassilda will deal...or devour my flesh while I sleep ;)

It's not so bad, just kinda grumpy over the shower thing, and the store thing. I hate cold showers, and I hate apartment people who don't do their damn jobs. So instead I'm watching Dagon and generally vegging til time for bed. Which will probably be early tonight.

On the lighter side, I've avoided comment about the whole Mohammad cartoon fiasco, and the repercussions. But...I have to link to this... Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest. "We'll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published!" said Amitai Sandy "No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!" Now this is something I can get behind. Hurrah for people with a sense of humor. :) Thanks to Rialian for the link.

Happy St. Cthulhu Day Tue Feb 14 10:47:41 CST 2006
Mood: weird Music of the Day: Dagon - End Credits
Hope everyone gets a nice box of chocolate covered calamari for St. Cthulhu's day ;)

Yes, I'm in an odd mood. Not bad, unlike most of my single bretheren I'm not terribly bitter about the holiday, mostly because I try to ignore it's existance. Happyness due to good mental shielding, that's me.

I did get myself a good StC day pressie in the mail yesterday, a first printing of House of the Toad by Richard Tierney. Yay for mythos novels, and for works of one of my favorite authors. *grin*

Not much else, no real plans for tonight...depends on my mood, my energy level and if I have hot water in the shower by tonight or not. Damn apartments. *grr* Oh well, have fun...and stay squamous everybody.

Thoughts of Vacation Sun Feb 12 19:06:44 CST 2006
Mood: moody Music of the Day: Before the Dinosaurs on Discovery Channel
Been thinking of vacations. I am so beyond stressed right now, with work and stuff at home, plus some personal stuff I won't go into. So, the idea of taking a weekend or so to myself and getting away is very tempting. I'm thinking of renting a cabin in the middle of nowhere, bringing up food, books and stuff and just being by myself for a while. I'm thinking of Turner Falls in Oklahoma. It's pretty, it's not far, it's got some remoteness, but not so much as to be lacking in the basic requirements. I'd spend the weekend walking around, reading, generally being a vegetable.

There is a downside to this plan. In the assorted weird fiction I so love, it never fails. Someone rents a cabin to get away from it all, and bad things happen. Evil spirits, possessed books, fungi from a far planet wanting to put the person's brain in a jar. So...I might go and never been seen again. Or come back as a possessed avatar of Cthulhu. Or just run afoul of killer hillbillies. But, it's worth the risk to me. *wink*

Oh, and for those who think I couldn't handle being without the internet for a weekend, that won't be too hard to deal with. Be kinda nice to be away from the 'net and all it encompasses for a while.

Babbling time... Fri Feb 10 11:56:39 CST 2006
Mood: sleepy Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Nomad
Well, it's been an odd week. Tuesday I went back to work, worked...felt like a monday+ :( Wednesday was similar, but more like a monday - than a monday +. Thursday well, was about the same...save it was more like a Wednesday. My internal calendar is way off...I woke up Thursday hoping it was Friday. Now that I got you all confused ;) Thursday night was fun at least, went out with a bunch from the D/FW Ufies List to a Greek place in Dallas. Nice enough place, food wasn't great (kinda bland for what I got, but everyone else seemed pretty happy with the food). They also had belly dancers, but I had the offically worst seat in the house. I turned around to watch the dance floor...and I had a giant black pillar in my way. *laugh* Just my luck. Oh well. Afterwards headed home and sacked out, I was pooped.

Today at work is...odd. Walked in to 3 different techs asking me goofy/bizare questions. Not stupid, none of these were things in their experience. Problem was, neither were they things I knew off the top of my head, and 3 of them messaging at me like crazy didn't help. Got that all straightened out. Now to survive the rest of the dull day.

Tonight, I plan to veg. Get a pizza, watch Stargate, be a bum. :) Yay bumness. Tomorrow is housework, ick...but well, it needs to be done. Badly. Tomorrow night is SugarFae's going away party *sad look*. Sunday...not much planned yet. Busyish weekend. Wee fun.

Additional From the Weekend Tue Feb 7 13:07:57 CST 2006
Mood: tired Music of the Day: Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - The Innsmouth Look
I didn't win the Cthulhu chess set, the bidding went up to $721.00, and while yes I could pay that out over 8 months, still that's not something I need. Darn being a responsible adult. ;) But, on the plus side, I got some nifty computer parts from Pat, specifically a motherboard for Shub-Internet, and a HP Deskjet printer of some kind. He's been trying to give this stuff away, and well...I was there. The motherboard has a Duron cpu, that is probably bad. So I'll swap it out and see how it runs. *crosses fingers* The printer needs a serial cable and a new ink cartridge, hopefully I'll get that all setup this weekend, then I can print :) Thanks Pat, for all the toys.

The Rest of my Weekend Mon Feb 6 21:26:23 CST 2006
Mood: not so good Music of the Day: Exorcists on the History Channel
Well, here's the rest of my weekend. After the 'con I came home, and I was in a great mood driving home. Said mood went slightly left field when I saw 3-4 cop cars around my apartment. Eep. Ask the cop what was going on. "Sorry sir, I can't talk about it." Err...ok. But not about my apartment itself, so it was all ok. Came in, changed shirts to the new Cthulhu The Destroyer shirt, and headed down to downtown Fort Worth to meet up with a few D/FW Ufies to celebrate The Silia's birthday. The original plan was to go to some place called P.F. Chang's for Chinese...well we got there, and there was an bit of a wait. Ok, Ms.Silla had been there already about 30-45 min, and there was still an hour or so wait. Ok, plan be...Pizzarea Uno. That's good. 45 min wait. *grumble* So we decide to split up and find someplace with less of a wait. Eventually a la Madeline's was found with no wait, so we converged on the land of faux French food. I had some chicken sandwich, it was actually rather good...other than the crunchy french bread was more like eating a rock. Hurrah for forks. After dinner we split up, and a few of us headed to Techie's place to watch Ice Age. Yay sabertooth squirrels. *grin* It's a funny movie, and made for a good end of the day.

Sunday was less perky. Had a series of bad dreams, and woke up in a less than stellar mood and not feeling too swift. Ran some errands, got people and ferret food, went home, vegged out for a while and eventally went with Amythest to Pat's Superbowl party. Yep, I went to do something football related, quit fainting. I had fun, some of the commercials were good, and the company was alot of fun. New people to laugh at my jokes, hurrah. Came home, watched a little TV, got ready for bed and read til a little after midnight. Woke up Monday feeling rather icky, and just not up for work. So I called in, got some more sleep, read some more, watched a movie I picked up at the 'con, played some World of Warcraft and generally was lazy. Not in the best mood today, could have been worse, but it could have been better as well. Going to bed in a little while, and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

Horror Movie Fanboy Sun Feb 5 01:52:58 CST 2006
Mood: happy Music of the Day: Metallica - the Call of Ktulu
Well I offically had a majorly kick ass Saturday. I went to Texas Frightmare Weekend which is a local horror movie convention. Originally Nymaz told me about it, saying that the director and a bunch of the cast from American Nightmare would be there. And since I was part of the cast, I should show up. This is the movie I was an extra in back in 2000. Sounds good, mark it in my calendar... but I had no clue what the con was called, or where it was. Then about 5-6 days ago, I get an email from Sigh Co. (the people who made my Esoteric Order of Dagon shirt, saying they'll be vending at a con in DFW...same weekend. Hmm, what are the odds of two horror cons in DFW at the same time ? ;) So I looked, saw on the schedual "American Nightmare panel". Bingo. So, I plan to go.

Saturday I woke up, headed to Grapevine and found the con. A little pricy, but hey, I'm pretty sure I'll have fun. Walk in, looks like a cross between your standard sci-fi anime con, and an *ahem* alternative lifestyle con. Lots of piercings and tats, lots of geeky people, lots of pretty girls in slinky outfits. Looks like the right place. Walk around a bit, see this HUGE line. No idea what for, but in the corner by the end of the line I see John, the director of American Nightmare. Go over, say hi, shoot the breeze about life (last time we talked was pre-Austin.) and movies (he's finishing up his first crime drama.) Watch the strange people, talk to a few about the various horror movies Highland Myst has out. Later, John's wife joined us, she's a very old and dear friend, so we spent a long while catching up as well. Was very good. :)

After all the chit chat, I went and wandered the vendors area some more, lots of movies for sale, lots of stuff. Larry Kaufman was there, surrounded by a crowd most of the time. Oh yeah, the long line...was to get in to see some of the stars of The Devil's Rejects and Tom Savini. But I couldn't see waiting in line for hours for that. I did finally find Sigh Co, and chatted with the owner, I was wearing my EoD shirt, intentionally. Hey, got to show the vendors that they are appreciated.

Came back to the Highland Myst table, found out that instead of just a panel on American Nightmare, they were going to screen the movie first, then the panel, with Joe Bob Briggs running the thing. Cool, it's been a long while since I saw myself on screen. Go watch American Nightmare, it's still fun...Hey, where else can I see myself on screen saying "Hey Rick, turn the radio up. He's back on." *grin* I even cheered myself a little when my line came, and the person sitting next to me said "What, you know that guy ?" No, I am that guy. *GRIN* Then, the panel. Including a very very hot looking Debbie Rochon. *grin* Yum yum. The panel was about the making, and how the actors felt about making a slasher flick. Pretty interesting, plus I was asked (along with the rest of the crew that was there) to stand up. Major ego boost ;) Then we vacated the movie viewing room for the next horror flick. I did a little more shopping, got two new tshirts from Sigh Co, Indian Cthulhu and Pazuzu. I also got a book, by a fairly new Texan author Scott A. Johnson. He had a couple of ghost stories and a book about zombies, with a post apocalyptic setting. Nice guy, very pleasant, very eagar to talk about his books. So I took a chance and got the book on zombies. I like zombies (and so far it's pretty good). So if you like zombies, look for a book by Mr. Johnson called Deadlands. I also picked up a copy of Suburban Nightmare and an American Nightmare poster from Jon, the poster I got signed by the 3 big actresses ( Brandy Little Brinke Stevens and of course, Ms Rochon. (I also got a pic from another movie autographed, but hey I'm allowed my fanboy moments.) Then I said bye to everyone and headed home. I was bouncing around on a major good mood, this is the most fun I've had in a long while. I really hope they decide to do this con again next year, next time I won't make plans for the rest of the weekend and go see lots more indie horror movies. *grin* And now, now I'm going to bed. Well, as soon as I post this. (and yes, I know this has more links in it than any 5 normal posts of me. Sue me *wink*). There's more to my saturday, but I'll talk about cops, 2 hour waits for chinese food and sabertoothed squirrels tomorrow. Night night.

Happy Groundhog's Day Thu Feb 2 11:21:49 CST 2006
Mood: glum Music of the Day: Iron Maiden - Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Happy Groundhog's day/Imbolc/Candlemas/Feb 2nd. 19 years ago today I hit a car while on a bike. Wee. I'm having a less than stellar day at work. Not anything big, just lots of little annoyances, plus a general feeling of ick. Low grade depression, gotta love it. Oh well. Back to work, lets see what else gets on my nerves today.