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Is it the right-brain or the left-brain that best handles technical stuff? Whichever it is, I think mine's overloaded. I've been wrestling with technology since pretty much the moment I woke up. It's all because of the soopersekrit project (the one that isn't really secret at all, but I don't want to jinx it with premature squees) that my darlings shellydkitty and aldiara and I will have ready very soon.

I *love* it when technical things go smoothly. There's such a rush of accomplishment when you pick something apart and it finally rewards you. And then there are the times when you don't and it doesn't. That's what's been happening today.

Granted, some things did go beautifully. That's all due to the amazing paraka, who spent all day with me yesterday going over vidding techniques, sharing her favourite vids (you see them so differently when you know what to look for!!), and giving me just enough taste of vidding theory to want more. It's really fascinating stuff! I don't know that I'll ever become a serious vidder (famous last words, right?) but because of her I feel much more capable of handling this project. And check out her lovely QAF video.



Of course, as soon as she left I started fumbling. I never truly realised how much patience you have to have for this kind of work. And how much I just don't have. That 50 min. downtime for rendering drives me batty, since I have to devote my entire computer to it.

I'm trying my best to be zen though. I played with the animals, I finally got out my exacto and salvaged some of my graphic novels that got wet and the pages stuck together, I remembered how much I loved Sandman: The Dreamhunters when I reread it, I tried to take a walk but it was -9 so I didn't get far. I even picked up a pen and pad and wrote a silly little story by hand, which I haven't done in forever:

Making Out (Alles Was Zählt, Deniz, 350 words, PG-13)

It's just a little thing, but I'm quite pleased that at last one of my stories is inching towards porn. It's about time. And that alone beats my entire 3rd week of WriSo, in which I wrote one AWZ drabble and a Dumbledore crackfic. Not my best week. I'm one paragraph away from finishing another story, but I haven't been able to touch it for a few days. Do your muses ever scare you? Mine took a very dark, very disturbing turn down Obsessive Avenue and I had to coax him back. I let him wander down there one of these days, but it needs to be in another setting -- this story did *not* warrant that kind of behaviour!

I'm thinking bed now, and musing, and rendering more video files, all at the same time. Good night, kits!


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Tomorrow I am going to WW after being away a week. It's going to be scary because I know that I have not stayed on program. I haven't strayed wildly from it either. I'm going to take that weight and move on. I'm going to get back on track even if next Thursday is one of the few scary days of the year for all weight watchers. The dreaded Thanksgiving.

I can't beat myself up for the weight. I'm fine when I'm in the zone but the zone is off in the distance right now. It a lot of things...work...RL...the total disruption of routine at work. Work seems to be the source of my food issues right now. I think it's because everybody has stuff on their desks. I also had a weird week where I had to cut my fluids to the bone. Why? Hi, the company took out all the bathrooms on the floor I'm on. I literally have to take a ten minute break as I head off to the Ladies Room. I used to drink two 32oz bottles of water at work. I'm down to a couple of cups of tea. I also gave up coffee. This alone has totally skewed my diet. I was so thirsty that I began eating junk.

I can go on program again and I'll probably lose ten pounds. That's great but I need to lose about forty. The only way I'm going to do that is up my energy level. In January my health insurance changes and they have special deals and rebates on gyms. I need to do this because I'm almost a slug. My job has me sitting on my ass eight hours a day. I have very little contact with people beyond my cube. I'm too tired mentally and sluggish from inactivity to actually do anything. At my highest weight I actually went to the gym three or four times a week and walked a few miles a day. Something happened and if I don't fix it I'll need a wheelchair to get around.

Yesterday

I was given scary October to do. I was not given something which I could increase my production...No, why would anyone what me to be productive especially when it's one of my goals for the year. I was given reviews of six people. One person had over thirty items and I gave them eighteen procedural errors and one payment error...so far. I give up.

My manager sent out an e-mail. There is a big employee recognition event next month. People who have been at the company milestone years like five, ten, etc will get a service reward. I got one last year. The e-mail was to tell us the committee wants us to nominate someone for a special reward. The categories are kind of stupid and I would be distorting reality by choosing someone for any of the categories. I'm on a team where no one needs to interact with anyone else most of the time. I also don't think it's cool to nominate oneself...although I can see myself in a couple of the categories. Whatever...

Roman Dusk

Does anyone remember my quote form the book regarding St Germain and the Mary Sue of the moment? Well, I got to the earth shattering encounter. No offense but it was a "tale full of sound and fury...signifying nothing." There is this a brief heavy petting session which the woman's brother walks in on. This really had better not be the thing that I have suffered through 280 pages to get to. It's quite annoying. And No, I didn't finish the book yet.

The Market

I give up. I'm sick of all this panic. At the rate the Market is dropping it is probably going to crash. It's lost almost fifty percent of it's value this year. I'm not investing any more except for the work 401K. All my other money...what little is left...is going to be used to pay down the mortgage and slowly accrue in the bank. I'm stuck in the stock market for the next six years or I'll lose most of the money it took a long time to save. The next person who even mentions growing my money for my retirement will be shot by me in fit of aggravation.


Work calls...TGIF!!!!!

Don't put a picture of a measuring cup on your brownie mix that looks *exactly* like my 1-cup measuring cup, and then write under it "1/3 cup." When I need to procrastinate from my writing with some mindless baking, you can't expect me to think!!!

I'm just shoving it into the oven anyway. How bad could it be...?

(I guess I'll let you know in 24 minutes.)

ETA: Not bad, not bad at all. They didn't rise, and they look like little bits of dessicated lava, but they don't taste bad at all. Not that I'd recommend or replicate this modification, but at least I don't have to throw them out.

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I don't work on Fridays.

I have no appointments this Friday.

The husband has bowling league that night.

And both the girls are going to see Twlight-fail.

Home alone, running around naked with scissors.

Good times people....good times!!

So I was sitting in work around 8:20am on the phone with P.

Me: "I think that we're going to have to turn the heat on by Saturday because it's going to get very cold."
P: "The heat is on."
Me: "Huh?
P: "It's one thing when the floors are cold but it's another thing when the carpets are cold.
Me: "Well, okay then."</a>

Yes, my house was warm last night. The heat is not high but just enough to take the chill off. A benefit of the heat is that my arm which I was having problems with is a lot better. I think I have arthritis in my shoulder and between the air conditioning at work and the lack of heat at home I was having problems raising my are. This morning...there was less pain and more movement.

I finished the stupid audit. I went to try to get more work and my manager said...I'll send you a new report...I don't have it. Amused...I think not. I was doing testing but not really. Why? Nothing was working. I had the feeling I knew why. My manager told me to go into a certain testing environment but he was wrong. See I haven't really tested in a couple of months so they changed the testing environment and only sent an e-mail who were testing at the moment. This aggravated me big time. The thing I tested passed but I had to do research because my results were coming out wrong according to the expected results. The woman writing up the test transposed numbers which kind of defeated the purpose of the test.

Bummer...a friend of P's works at The Out of Town News in Harvard Square and it's closing down. I heard they extended the lease until the end of January. Besides R losing his job ...the freaking thing has been open for 53 years and is basically a landmark in Harvard Square. Harvard Square has changed and not in a good way.

The Market

OMG WTF!! Welcome to 1929 real soon.

Work is calling...ewww....

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Glaceau Vitamin water...XXX...OMG, it's bloody awful. It's a combo of Acai...Blueberry and Pomegranate. It was a test and it kind of failed as a drink. At least I get the nice bottle.

Okay...onto another topic.

Let us speak of bone chilling cold. How long do you think I can go without turning on my heat? I don't think much longer. I'm thinking at least by the weekend because it's dropping into the twenties at night and it's in the thirties during the day. Yeah, I'm thinking that Saturday is going to be the day. By then all the new curtains will be up and all the drafts plugged up. I've already closed off the top floor of the house. Have I mentioned that my fingers are a lovely shade of blue?

Here is stupid:

I have Comcast and I've already written about the deal we got for the coming year. Basically we get all the premium cable services, phone and internet for the price we are paying now. They are supposed to go up next month by about twenty dollars with half the premium services. I just talked to P about it last night. Included in this thing is a DVR. I asked him if he were kidding. We have three televisions and three Tivo's. What the heck am I going to do with another DVR. P tried to get them not to give it to us. They said we have to take it because it's part of the package. I'm either going to switch up P's Tivo or stick the thing in the closet. It's gets delivered today. The one thing I don't have to worry about if I actually use it is setting it up. I can set up a Tivo in my sleep. Whatever...at least we get Showtime, Cinemax and The Movie Channel. I kind of missed them...we dropped them at the beginning of the summer.


Here is another stupid:

I watched CSI:Miami. Why is this show on? Please tell me because I'd like to know? This is general comment of the last two weeks...

1. If you work in a crime lab it's not cool to play a practical joke on the new coroner by hiding the body. Especially, when it jeopardizes evidence.
2. There is a kidnapping...Where are the FBI? Does everyone on the earth have a moronic teenager who does stupid things because apparently he's going to be more successful then the authorities.
3. Who in the name of God dresses Ryan? In the last episode he was wearing a light orange shirt and a dark orange tie. Is this the reason I keep calling this show Miami Vice?
4. Please stop with the close ups of Emily Proctor's face. She looked normal once...a season or two ago.
5. Since there is not much story they keep having slo-mo montages of people doing lab tests. Sometimes the scenes are tinted for artistic effect...probably. If they cut those scenes the shows would be about fifteen minutes long.
6. 3D IBIS database...Seriously, what is the budget for that crime lab?
7. Major crimes seem to be solved in a few hours unless people are wearing the same clothes for weeks.
8. Has Teri Polo lost a lot of weight?

Again more stupid...Page 259 of The Book. I have 85 page left. For some reason I can only read it on the train home. I need to finish it. Oh, St Germain is finally under suspicion for something. It took 259 pages but someone is finally going to make his life...er...death...difficult and put some excitement into this book...I hope(fingers crossed).

Work...31 reviews for September to go...have I mentioned they're incredibly scary. I have to do a little creative writing to get through them.

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I'm just recovering from a really odd dream last night...so bear with me.

I was extremely wiped out last night...along with being incredibly cold. We have not put the heat on yet. I decided to grab a nice cup of peppermint tea...every quilt, comforter and plush blanket I own and decided to read in bed. Of course that lasted about three pages(The Book is sapping my will to read but I am determined to finished the blasted book) until I started to get drowsy. I put the book down and enveloped myself in warmth. A little while later as I was nearing a deep stage of sleep...P asked me how to set up a Paypal account. I'm drifting toward consciousness and trying to tell him what to do. The problem was I was talking but not making a lot of sense. I eventually woke up kind of. He figured it out himself...sort of.

Now to the dream...It was one of these really complicated dreams full of forensics and horror. I could deal with that. The problem was that it had some really odd work element and...wait for it...it all had to do with setting up a PayPal account. I woke up and told P never to do stupid things late at night. If he had asked me when I had gotten home I could have saved myself trying to think and let us not forget....The PayPal Dream.....key the thunder and lightening.


Yesterday

I was totally screwed up...Thank you, manager. I was working on October...the scary, craptastic sample. Around 9:30am my manager sends out the rest of September. Excuse me but ...Huh? I was finished with September. Oh, it gets better. He resorted the report that was there, that people were working on. I was getting my cube-mate's reviews. It's probably a good thing because she screwed something up and I had to fix it. She really doesn't understand stuff. This hell went on all day.

I went to the library to get rid of my books and maybe pick up something else. Forget it. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The BPL in Copley Square has a lot of books but it is almost impossible to find anything to read. I walked out...I had books at home...if I ever get finished with Roman Dusk. 238 pages and nothing has happened. I will finish it!!!!

Today

I know LJ will be down but I'm barred from it most of the day anyway so I will survive. Hopefully, I can post this before they take the system down.

Market

Come on people stop it. I was watching Bloomberg this morning and the guy said that he expected some devaluation of stock but this is way over stated. There is no reason for people to be panicking like they are. The whole Market is looking at things short term...like for the next six months and not long term. Long term accounts for most of the investments that are being lost...401K and other retirement accounts. Don't shoot me but I think that they should not bail out the auto industry. They should allow them to file bankruptcy. This is actually their only real chance to be restructured and pointed in the correct direction. Otherwise they are throwing billions away. If the three big auto makers are bleeding out over two billion a month what the heck is 25 billion going to do for them. It is a stop gap measure and does not address the problem.

I know it will have a pyramid effect in the economy. Isn't it better to fix this right the first time then find ourselves in a bigger hole later.


Work calls.....

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