Current Location: work
Current Mood: bouncy
Listening To: guess!

It's Yayday! For those of you not in the know, Yayday is a Friday that's also a Payday. Yay!

ps, if I had a nickel dollar for every time we were served dire warnings that a Storm of Do0m is about to descend upon the greater DC area, only to find it transformed the next morning into something much less inconvenient (and not nearly as work-close-y), I wouldn't have to be getting ready right now to go to the job I hoped I might have a day off from today.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: caffeinated
Listening To: the sound of not-snow

Finally went and downloaded GIMP for Windows. While I'm pretty familiar with Photoshop, I hadn't ever tried GIMP before. It installed very quickly and it took me less than five minutes to figure out how to Do Stuff. I've been meaning to do it for ages, and now I have a good photo editor ... so yay!

Also: while Event Horizon isn't really a great movie, it's a fun one to have running while Doing Other Stuff. I borrowed it from friends a while back and just hadn't found the time to watch it.

( ah, the 90s )

Tags: done, to-do
Current Location: the zen room
Current Mood: awake
Listening To: "justin is in the airlock and he is not wearing a suit!"

Colorado's Stanley Hotel, inspiration for Stephen King's novel The Shining, runs Kubrick's R-rated theatrical version of The Shining followed by the TV miniseries The Shining in a continuous loop on Channel 60 of the hotel's TV service.

There's also something called The Shining Ball, scheduled for October 27th, starting at 6:00 pm "until the knife stroke of MIDNIGHT" - spo0ky!

Current Location: work
Current Mood: friday!
Listening To: Jeremy - Pearl Jam (Ten)

I've been doing a lot of work on my playlists lately, and have recently been successfully tempted (too many times) to pick up new music on iTunes. DaveRadio, however, is shaping up better, faster, stronger so that will be nice for next weekend.

( just a taste )

ps, Underworld: Evolution is, um ... not as good as the first one.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: friday!
Listening To: TiVo (Underworld: Evolution)

There's a StarCraft board game!

Well, not just yet. But soon ...

Current Location: work
Current Mood: friday!
Listening To: Rooster - Alice in Chains (Dirt)

a) CNN asks "[I]s Bush a lame duck among bloggers?"

b) Amazon has revived the CDNow brand as a CD subscription service, similar to the Columbia House music club.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: friday
Listening To: vent fans

I'm alive! Or, at least, reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I've been even busier than usual lately, mostly catching up on a project that got out of hand here at work. Not much otherwise of any real interest going on lately, mainly just the normal routine. I've been doing a lot of work with my various iTunes playlists, and am very excited that iTunes Plus is finally launching. Come to me, my high-bitrate, no-DRM lovelies ...

I've been playing a lot of Spiderman 3 on XBox lately. It's mainly an exercise in button-mashing, but once you get the hang of web-swinging you can just ignore the random crimes going on around you and clear your head with a tour through the greater New York area. I need to get back on the ball with prep time for the D&D game, and of course my minis collection is overflowing the area set aside to hold it and is badly in need of re-organization.

Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and co-founder of Air America Radio, will be appearing at the Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse this weekend. I'll be there tomorrow night representing Drinking Liberally Arlington, so if you're free and end up out there tomorrow make sure to look me up.

Also, if you (like me) are pissed off at the Democrats in Congress for supporting a funding bill for Bush's Folly (aka the Occupation of Iraq) that includes no meaningful (or even optional, sneer) benchmarks, guidelines, or timetables, then this MoveOn.org Political Action may be up your alley.

( my note to senator reid )

Current Location: work
Current Mood: busy
Listening To: Nothing - Depeche Mode (Music for the Masses)

Thanks to tolkiencub, I found LOLTrek. If you're into lolcat pics, like the folks over at I Can Has Cheezburger, I think you'll like it.

Bonus points if you've seen the episode; there's a cool twist in there somewhere.

Current Location: home
Current Mood: relaxed
Listening To: Serotonin 151 - Astralyte (To the Nines)

I'd like to know 33 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other.

( thirty-three things )

In other news, I am still alive! Things are pretty much ordinary with me - get up, drink coffee, eat cereal, go to work, come home, do various and sundry things, go to bed, repeat as necessary.

Last night's D&D session went really well. We started the Scourge of the Howling Horde adventure last night, which was fun. The party completed the first encounter (after a random encounter with a marauding ankheg), and next session they'll head into the town of Barrow's Edge to suss out what to do next.

I've been exploring Microsoft OneNote (which came with my new laptop) and I think organizing my session notes in OneNote notebooks is going to be a huge help. I always end up with random scraps of paper fluttering every which way, getting lost under books and dice and pencils and such, so hopefully this will help me run games better.

And now - Wednesday! I'm behind on some things at work (of course), and am making a super near-human effort to get caught up.

Current Location: work
Current Mood: awake-ish
Listening To: Lonely Is the Night - Billy Squier (Don't Say No)