Title: I Got This Title from a Song
Rating: PG
Characters: Felix Gaeta, misc
Summary: uses the mod challenge (a gen fic about Gaeta) and the timed shuffled music meme
Warning: There's probably spelling and grammar mistakes. And coherency mistakes too. Tried to fix them all but I got sidetracked by Hogan's Heroes. *shakes fist* HOOOOGAN!

( Everybody Hare Hare Yukai Dance! )

( July 15th 2009 )

^ Can't tell you how happy I am that there is now a Mac application to transfer music to my Sony Erricson mobile phone. The sound from it is so much better than an ipod IMO.

Still here. Still at school. Still stupidly tired. Term goes on until the 24th July. I'm not sure I can last that long!

I've had this song stuck in my head lately and as I was trying to think of a post today, I realized that there were a lot of potential "Des moments" in the song.  So, I'm going to pull out some of the lyrics and couple them up with moments of our dear Desmond.  The song is "What a Day" and it's by the awesome Greg Laswell.  If you've never heard any of his stuff, you should give it a try because he's really, really good, currently my fav artist.  I'm including a link to the song on YouTube just for reference sake. "What a Day"



( And to Begin Breathing... )

Lately I have been pretty bad about updating my journal, but the main reason for this is I'm home looking for jobs and really there isn't much happening in my life. But stuff does happen and I have been negligent at maintaining this, so here is another update that should have been posted earlier in the week.

Saturday we had a canoe trip. This is normally more of a float trip, paddle a bit, make a few turns, but nothing really strenuous. So I didn't think much of going on it while pregnant. This year we had the most challenging stretch of river, narrow points of egress, constant tight S-curves, sand bars we had the drag the canoes over and all of this with 17 canoes all bottle necking at tight points. It was fun, don't get me wrong, but I would have enjoyed it more if it didn't wear me out quite so much. We made several stops along the way, to socialize and swim, and well, rest. My shoulders and gut muscles got real tired during all of this.

Then of coarse, do to the little one, I was under strict orders not to jump off anything. There are logs and cliffs and deep points in the river, but Hubby didn't want me doing anything that might compromise, so I would find a nice place in the river and sit and cool off. Despite it all I had a great time, with great company, even if I did miss a patch on my legs just beneath my swimsuit and get a horrible burn, I'm really glad I went.

The following day we went to my sister-in-laws house for a baby shower, were I got some really great things, I have already pulled what I have received off of my registry at Walmart. Problem is I don't really have any place to put it all yet. I need to go looking for a small dresser or something. Though there's this really great one on my registry, it looks like a blue snap on tool chest, complete with wheels. I think its the greatest thing ever, but know we won't be getting it.

For family out there reading this, don't worry, my sister is planning on hosting another one for my side of the family, if you want information contact her, though nothing is planned yet. I think she is planning on doing something either in October or late September. So there is plenty of time yet.

http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2447

This morning I found myself wearing a Mr Man T shirt, sitting on a vintage Chopper bike, floating above the ground attached to the roof with metal wires, in a wheelie position. 
What did you do at work today? 
I am 42. 
This wasn't just me dicking around though. This was important. We were shooting the cover photo for my new book "How Not To Grow Up", the idea for which is me cycling through a crowd of drab and grey commuters (businessmen in their suits and ties?) on a childish bike in childish clothes.

So my Empires stuff arrived, and OH MY GOD TOM CONRAD, YOU SHUT YOUR ADORABLE FUCKING FAAAAACE! I know everyone gets a note but still, ♥__♥

( They are my faaaavourites )

And now I'm probably going to be late for work, even though I was ready in good time for once. Oh well!

...even when they're totally, utterly, inaccurate.

In amongst a pile of papers, I just found a clipping that was presumably given to me by some quiz-going friends of mine, and is therefore presumably pretty recent, probably no more than a year or two old.

It's just a quiz question, taken from a newspaper/magazine:

"8. Which alien life form took its name from a single volume of a collection of encyclopaedias?"

The answer provided* is a.) obvious to anyone who knows their Doctor Who history, and b.) utterly wrong, and was indeed revealed as being utterly wrong some time ago, possibly back in the '70s. Possibly before then.

It's kind of sweet, I guess, that despite that, people keep wheeling it out. It's up there with the old Trivial Pursuit question about "who created Doctor Who?"** Kind of like a comfortable old baggy jumper that you keep wearing even though it's totally the wrong size and a ridiculous colour and who on earth knits a jumper with three sleeves and two neck holes anyway, but...

David.








* "Dalek. Creator Terry Nation saw the volume covering the sequence 'dal-lek'." Personally, I always thought "dal-ek" would be more likely...

** Terry Nation. Well, that's what it says on the card...

Eh bien, ce n'est plus le 14 juillet, mais voici ma réponse: moi, j'aime beaucoup le brie. Et les triangolini. Mais pas ensemble, je pense.

D'autres choses: j'ai malade. Tristesse. C'est une malaise qui n'est PAS DU TOUT comme flu. PAS DU TOUT! M'ENTEND, CORPS! Mais je ne vais pas au travail aujourd'hui; je vais rester chez nous, prendre un bain, et probablement me recoucher.

http://www.vinylabuse.com/?p=4289

FUTURAMA MINI FIGURES!!!

Kidrobot reports they they're having 300 pre-release figures for sale at the SDCC09!!

I know I'll be ordering a bunch when they are released for the masses!!

( July 14th 2009 )

^ Random spree at Borders. The flagship store on Oxford Street, London is closing down with 50% off everything :( Sad because this is one of my fav stores and was one of the first places I knew how to get to so to speak before moving to London to live.

I just sent the most hilariously over-excited email to saffronra because HEY MONDAY ARE BACK IN LONDON IN SEPTEMBER!!!! We only saw half of their set at Fall Out Boy because we failed so hard at meeting each other, and I only found out they were here with We the Kings when it was already sold out, so I'm v excited. Tickets go on sale on Friday and if Sam's busy then I'll go by myself. I don't even care!

It's the day after we get back from connotations though. Man, that's going to be a week of being dead tired.

Scheduled an extra hockey game, the parents are on their hands and knees thanking God for the extra practice time.

Schedule an extra baseball game and the bitching and the lame excuses start.

Boo. Just to say, I've listed some Antonia Forest and EBD books on eBay here for anyone who's interested. Buy my belongings, darlings! I'm going to the beach at the weekend, and I want to be able to afford fish and chips... *g*

http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2446

Les Hitler Moustache programmes sont arrivee. 
It's always an exciting day when the new programmes turn up and as I've upped the order (because we ran out last year and had to print more) there were an awful lot of boxes to get shifted into my lounge. And these 42 boxes were only two thirds of the total. God, I hope some people come and see the show. 
I opened up one of the boxes and pulled out the first programme, ready to spot whatever typos and mistakes I had missed.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wwdn/~3/dywjQEDwr6k/the-clockwork-century.html