Musetastic Meanderings and Other Updatia
Apr. 28th, 2006 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianI've fallen and I can't get up... well, okay, I can, but I haven't yet. I've fallen behind on both exercise and on posting the results of (not) exercising. Two whole sets of medical data waiting for formatting and posting, and I just keep putting it off. Second set finished today, and it needs all the crunching done - I suppose I'll get to it after scribing this wee bit o' updatia, unless the muse captures my attention long enough to distract.
The muse has, of course, caught me. Or, at least, been restocking on juju of late. Bunches of books read recently, one in the works (The Winter Oak, by James Hetley,) one lined up - currently with Rachel - and another completing the pitiful to-be-read pile, brought by my mom.
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patrixa, part one of the visit was great - much work was done, some food was eaten, and a movie or two was watched (reviews of those are in the same pending stack as the books... first come, first served, stand in line, service is terribly slow, so sorry...)
On the note of slow, Justin went in to work with me yesterday (which will definitely tumble me once or twice in this post: for, lo, it is still today, but it will be tomorrow when I post this and you read it and thus I must needs refer to today as yesterday, and I am sure to get lost somewhere between the day before and the day after...) and, no, Justin is not slow, however, he was able to witness the blinding speediness of our Shared Drive, as he watched files open at the speed paint dries, except slower. Of course, those events were mere blinks of the eye compared to the gobs of time it took to copy a "Custom Under Maintenance" list of projects from one document to another. That resulted in Microsoft personally informing me that I really, really should send them some money and upgrade to a newer version of Office after choking and croaking over the course of the half-hour cut and paste. Yes, massive amounts of data were involved in the transaction - something like 3 columns and 18 rows. Or maybe that one was only 12. It's really not fair, I have OpenOffice.org in the latest and greatest flavor, but that just doesn't seem to count for certain work related things that must be done with bribes to Billy Boy.
While we're on the subject of bribery, I really have nothing at hand that I can jump to and discuss that has even the least bit of relevance to bribery, so I'll just mention that some of the wildflowers and/or grasses appear to be making their first appearances along the banks of the Rachel River - there's some stuff sprouting and it *looks* like it might be something *new*. The difficulty here is that I have no clue what any of the stuff I planted looks like, at least, not until it gets a bit bigger. I'm willing to bet it will take me a few years before I can identify the different types of grasses, no matter what. The wildflowers will be easier once they get to size and start, well, flowering.
And flowering is now something the Darmera peltata has taken up. Last year it missed that stage completely, having just jumped from one coast near to the other, but now it's settled in and put up one stalk with two odd little flowers. Looks like it's from another planet, or, at least, the cover of a 70's prog rock lp.
An "lp" was, for those youngsters out there, an ancient form of compact disc that wasn't compact and wasn't shiny. Whereas a cd can be used to reflect light and blind your enemies, an lp exposed to sunlight would just melt into a pile of black goo. However, that pile of goo could always be lobbed at your enemies, so it's really a toss-up as to which you prefer. Purists still insist that the lp is much warmer, which makes sense. The light off a cd might blind you with science for a moment, but hot, dripping vinyl probably lingers a bit longer, and remains problematic even once it cools off. In all seriousness, lp is probably better rendered as LP, as it was an abbreviation for "Long Post," which, since this has now become one, I'll stop.
The muse has, of course, caught me. Or, at least, been restocking on juju of late. Bunches of books read recently, one in the works (The Winter Oak, by James Hetley,) one lined up - currently with Rachel - and another completing the pitiful to-be-read pile, brought by my mom.
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patrixa, part one of the visit was great - much work was done, some food was eaten, and a movie or two was watched (reviews of those are in the same pending stack as the books... first come, first served, stand in line, service is terribly slow, so sorry...)On the note of slow, Justin went in to work with me yesterday (which will definitely tumble me once or twice in this post: for, lo, it is still today, but it will be tomorrow when I post this and you read it and thus I must needs refer to today as yesterday, and I am sure to get lost somewhere between the day before and the day after...) and, no, Justin is not slow, however, he was able to witness the blinding speediness of our Shared Drive, as he watched files open at the speed paint dries, except slower. Of course, those events were mere blinks of the eye compared to the gobs of time it took to copy a "Custom Under Maintenance" list of projects from one document to another. That resulted in Microsoft personally informing me that I really, really should send them some money and upgrade to a newer version of Office after choking and croaking over the course of the half-hour cut and paste. Yes, massive amounts of data were involved in the transaction - something like 3 columns and 18 rows. Or maybe that one was only 12. It's really not fair, I have OpenOffice.org in the latest and greatest flavor, but that just doesn't seem to count for certain work related things that must be done with bribes to Billy Boy.
While we're on the subject of bribery, I really have nothing at hand that I can jump to and discuss that has even the least bit of relevance to bribery, so I'll just mention that some of the wildflowers and/or grasses appear to be making their first appearances along the banks of the Rachel River - there's some stuff sprouting and it *looks* like it might be something *new*. The difficulty here is that I have no clue what any of the stuff I planted looks like, at least, not until it gets a bit bigger. I'm willing to bet it will take me a few years before I can identify the different types of grasses, no matter what. The wildflowers will be easier once they get to size and start, well, flowering.
And flowering is now something the Darmera peltata has taken up. Last year it missed that stage completely, having just jumped from one coast near to the other, but now it's settled in and put up one stalk with two odd little flowers. Looks like it's from another planet, or, at least, the cover of a 70's prog rock lp.
An "lp" was, for those youngsters out there, an ancient form of compact disc that wasn't compact and wasn't shiny. Whereas a cd can be used to reflect light and blind your enemies, an lp exposed to sunlight would just melt into a pile of black goo. However, that pile of goo could always be lobbed at your enemies, so it's really a toss-up as to which you prefer. Purists still insist that the lp is much warmer, which makes sense. The light off a cd might blind you with science for a moment, but hot, dripping vinyl probably lingers a bit longer, and remains problematic even once it cools off. In all seriousness, lp is probably better rendered as LP, as it was an abbreviation for "Long Post," which, since this has now become one, I'll stop.
