Category Archives: Play

Old Art

Graphics

In which I find some stuff.

Somewhere there’s a goblinbox logo with Christmas ornaments on it. I swear I’ve seen it recently; in the past year at least. But where?

I want to use it, but I can’t find a copy anywhere and the original files are long gone. I dug through the Wayback Machine but it’s not there. I looked on my old hard drive and it’s not there, either. I dug through all the junk on the server to see if I could find it, and I couldn’t.

But I did find these:

I used to be hella handy with a graphics art program! But not lately. My employer won’t let me load any software on to my work computer and my laptop’s too uncomfortable to do graphics on so I hardly ever do it any more.

Where in the hell is that logo with the Xmas balls on it?! Gaargh!

Words (and technical acronyms!) I've looked up in the past week.

Blurbs, Vocab, Work,

In which I share what I’ve used Google’s define1 function in the past seven days to better understand.

  • lemniscate
  • antipathy
  • sidereal
  • basque
  • DS3
  • SSP

I often look up words I’m familiar with just to make sure I really do know what they mean. Because sometimes? It turns out that I actually don’t.

Well, that’s not exactly true; I have extremely subtle inference skills, yo, and can grok most unfamiliar words easily by context. (I read at a high school level in grade school, and had a post-collegiate reading level in junior high, you dig). But sometimes it turns out that I don’t entirely know a word’s full meaning or etymology, and like anyone can always benefit from deeper research. Continue reading Words (and technical acronyms!) I've looked up in the past week. →

Details are unimportant

LOTD, Work

In which there’s lolcats.

I’ve been giggling at icanhascheezburger in between calls for the past hour or so; it’s the only thing keeping me sane at work this evening.

I have a really hard time supporting people who can’t read (srsly, it’s really hard) or who make up their own words for things (there’s no such thing as an “Internet cable”) or who keep talking over me telling me to slow down or that they’re “computer geeks” (meaning computer illiterate) instead of just hushing up and listening.

cat

If a customer tells me to go slow, I’ll go slow. If they tell me they’ve never been on a computer before, I’ll do everything in itsy bitsy baby steps. But when they just won’t shut the fuck up, or keep interrupting me to tell me about totally unrelated crap from last week that they saw on their sister’s computer, it drives me batshit! PARTICULARLY when I’m the only tech on the clock and I’ve got seven calls in the queue!

Thank God for the Intarwebz and all its funny websites, that’s all I’m sayin’.

Bling

Wishlists

In which you’d never believe I could be quite this enamoured with something that you’d normally think is not my style, but I love it so, so very much!

Over a year ago, Baby Girl turned me on to bidz.com. Last week, I freaked out and bought a couple of rings from them… no reason whatsoever, total impulse buy.

When I got home last night, there was a package on the stairs. I carried it up to my room and ripped into it with glee.

Behold my new ring! It’s a 29.5 carat CZ set in sterling silver! It’s big, it’s gaudy, it’s tacky, it’s VERY sparkly, and I adore it. It makes rainbows in the sunshine, even! (The other ring paled in comparison, so I gave it to my awesome co-worker and she liked it enough to give it a home.)

If for some reason you can’t actually see my new GINORMOUS RING over the Internet, you may view a close-up of it here. That picture is totally LIFE-SIZED.

In other news, I got my teeth cleaned this morning. I love clean teeth!

Big! Brown! Bento! Sweater!

Knitting, , , ,

In which there are two things! Two exciting things! Two!

The first exciting thing is that last night, while watching an episode of Torchwood, I completed the Big Brown Sweater. (You may cheer; I will hear you even over the Internet.) It spent a year and ten months on the needles, but it’s finally finished and it rules.

(The pattern is Abigail, the yarn is Decadence in chocolate, and both were from Knit Picks. Teh BF was forced at gun point by my pointing my coffee cup at him to photograph it this morning so I could put it on the intarwebz.)

It fits, it’s soft, it’s brown, I made it myself, and I intend to wear it every. single. day. from now until summer returns next year! Yay!

The other cool thing is that yesterday I decided to become obsessed with bento. (I believe it was this page that finally decided me, but I’ve had bento boxes on my wishlists for quite awhile now.)

Today I ordered the! cutest! bento box set! ever! and a few other necessary bento accoutrements (vegetable shapers, mini sauce bottles, a boiled egg shaper, resuable silicone food cups for separating wet from dry foods, and an onigiri mold) from jbox.com. They should be here late next week, and from then on I shall spend a little time after dinner every night cleverly packing leftovers for the next day’s lunch.

This new hobby will not only satisfy my cooking creativity to a certain extent (I hardly ever cook any more!), but will stop me eating at the Mexican restaurant across the street from work like twice a week. It will help me control my caloric intake, something I desperately need to do because I’m forty and built just like a brick these days, and it will have the added benefit of being way totally HELLA COOL!

Weekend Overview: Suddenly, Mush Shops Too Much Edition

Wishlists

In which there are fun times, my babies, fun times!

Saturday was Sibling Errand Day! My bro and I went to Chevron together and then to Taco Loco for GIHUGENT BURRITOES!!! Later we went to Walmart, where he bought a DVD player and blank media, and I bought some much-needed clothes (a long-sleeved t-shirt, three pairs of socks, and a pair of jeans).

When I got the jeans home I tried them on again and decided that they sucked – they were low rise so they basically won’t stay on my hipless body when I sit down – so I didn’t take the tags off of them. The other things I tossed into my dresser. I did a load of laundry and knitted on the Big Brown Sweater while watching a rip of War, Inc. with my bro on the new DVD player.

All in all, a highly wunnerful Saturday. Burritos, clothes, laundry, knitting, and a movie! I felt like teh winnar! W00t!

Saturday night I played with Barefoot, Cookie, and the Professor at Sapolil Cellars’ tasting room. My boyfriend and my brother came down to listen and drink wine. I got wine-drunk like I always do, and after the gig we went to Shari’s and pigged out on junk food.

I was pretty miserable after all that, so I ended up passing out on the couch over at Kaje’s place. I slept a lovely twelve hours and felt much refreshed.

Sunday I got a personalized tour of World of Warcrack. Kaje was playing when I woke up, so I went and sat on the counter behind him and drank my coffee and he showed me all around the place. One word: DORK. (Yes, I’ll probably start playing too; everyone else I know does.)

We went back to Walmart (yes, I went there twice this weekend. I know it’s disgusting; shoot me) and I exchanged the jeans for some knit tees and some other pants; KJ got socks. Then we went to Shopko so he could buy a crock pot. (I bought some Halloweeny Lindor truffles.) Sunday night we watched Destiny of the Daleks, which was KJ’s first exposure ever to the fifth doctor. He loved it.

Bindu and I enjoyed a morning walk to work today that looked like this:

Autumn

This morning, my brother deposited a belated b-day present on my desk. It’s a Zippo lighter! With the Serenity logo on it! I love it because it’s mine and because it’s awesome.

Glorious RAOK Glorious Day

Knitting,

In which it is all about the joy that was my local post office today.

This awesome woman (who blogs here) sent me a box (because she is hella awesome) containing:

Stash Relief
Yarn, with Sci-fi!

I happened to be at the post office because I was sending a RAOK package myself, to Vuboq, containing needles and stitch markers and manga that needs a home. When I checked my PO box to collect my dentist bill and the occasional bit of junk mail that I usually find, there was a ticket in it that said, “Parcel too large for box.”

So I was all, “OMG! A package! For meeeee!” And yea verily, it was yarnz!

Long story short: the Internet just plain rocks, because on it you meet people you can send stuff to, and people who send you stuff too. And it’s all just freakin’ bitchin’.

Birthday Win!

Knitting, , ,

In which Teh BF totally comes through with the goods!

Yesterday I got a belated b-day present from Kaje. And it’s not even electronic, but it still utterly RULEZ. It’s needles! Circular knitting needles! Awesome cute kick ass knitting needles that have been on my wishlist for, like, two years!

knitpicksoptionsharmonycirculars

And not just any needles, but the Options Interchangeable Harmony Wood Circular Knitting Needle set, in actual fact. These needles freakin’ rule, bitches. They’re all multi-colored laminated birch and I totally *heart* them.

I might even feel compelled to finally finish the Big Brown Sweater, which is well over a year old now and only a sleeve and a half away from total wearability!

Does my boyfriend kick ass or what. KNITTING NEEDLES! Holy cow. I am totally teh winnar.

Vegas Was Great, Thanks For Asking!

Travel, ,

In which I recap a very, very killer vacation.

Most of it’s already a blur. But here is the Flickr set, and below are the most important highlights:

Moar SlotzI played a lot of slots and drank a lot of booze.

The food was uniformly great.

Vegas looks pretty nasty during the day but is like a giant, endless Times Square at night. It’s fun, and gaudy, and weird, and I enjoyed the hell out of myself.

The shrine between Bally’s and Caesar’s Palace was beautiful and unexpected.

Teh BF is a completely easy-going travel companion, which bodes well in general.

On my birthday, my friend Adam – who booked me as part of the opening act of one of his very first shows ever, when he brought Richie Havens to Iowa about a decade ago – took me and his sister Mona, and our friend Jason, and KJ out for birthday dinner at Nove, a chichi restaurant at the top of the Palms. The food was incredible, the view was stunning, and the company was superb. I had so much fun I could have popped, but I didn’t get any pictures because it was so dark in there.

After the meal, we went downstairs to The Lounge and listened to my new favorite band, Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns. (You can hear ’em here.) Holy fuck, this band smokes. They’re like the new Tower Of Power. They’re all monster players – studio cats and seasoned players all – and they groove like you simply would not believe. This is the band I want to be in. I bought a CD and ripped it to my iPod when I got home last night. It’s been on the top of my playlist since and will probably stay there for months.

Although we never managed to make it over to Fremont street nor go bowling (we’d had the idea that bowling in Vegas would be hella fun), we did accomplish some sushi-eating on our last night in town. We stopped at Ah Sin and gorged on all-you-can-eat sushi. (Well, I gorged – I had six rolls. Teh BF had, like, four.)

I bought myself a new wallet. It was ten bucks. (I’m a big spender, I know, I know.)

When we got back to W2 yesterday evening it was thirty degrees colder than we’d been used to, so we stopped at the new Thai City restaurant and ordered yummy spicy food. I had the green curry and it was brilliant; Teh BF had pad thai and when I saw him on my lunch break was still raving about it. Thai City absolutely rocks.

In other, totally unrelated news: yummy cell phone pr0n! I totally want this, omgwtfbbq. Srsly.

Pre-vacation Geekfest

Travel, , ,

In which I’ll be in Vegas in twenty-four hours!

I’m certain I’m over-packing because it’s in the 70’s here. It’ll be in the 90’s in Vegas; of course we’ll probably spend a lot of time indoors and that’ll be air-conditioned, but I brought pants and long-sleeved shirts and in spite of the sun dresses I packed will probably end up buying a tank top somewhere anyway.

All of my shoes suck. I am so serious. I don’t own even a single pair of cute shoes. I might have to fix that in Vegas. Since I don’t really gamble I’ll need to blow my cash somehow. Wouldn’t want to come home with money, now would I?

Facebook fucking rules. Through it, I got Adam and Mona’s numbers – even texted with them both last night! – and Mr. Appel’s as well, and will hopefully be seeing some of the old Fairfield contingent during my stay there.

Monday is my 40th birthday. My life will be roughly half over, but I expect to be having an auspiciously hella good time when that little landmark is passed. (Teh BF says he bought me a present, but won’t tell me what it is and says I can’t have it ’til we get back.) I want to go out for sushi. Yum, sushi!

We’ll be packing my laptop along, so there will be updates on both our sites; hopefully the trip doesn’t finish loosening the panel ribbon from the motherboard and find me hauling around a useless bit of electronics. Even if the worst happens there’s Twitter and Flickr so you’ll know where I am.

I am so excited I could freakin’ pop, I tell you! Whoohoo! Vegas!