| Poem for Wednesday |
[May. 28th, 2008|12:24 am] |
( Rain Light )
I had lots of things I was supposed to get done today, but either the latest Windows update or the latest McAfee update seriously disagreed with my computer, which took 20 minutes to boot this morning, and then, when I tried booting it in safe mode so I could set a restore point, asked for a Windows XP password that it had never needed before. To make a long story short, I spent most of my day just getting my computer back to its usual too-slow speed instead of the new slower-than-constipation speed. Then I shifted the latest batch of photos and music from the internal to the external hard drive to see if that helped matters any, but Windows Explorer seems to slow down whenever the external drive is turned on, so whatever benefit might have been gained from freeing up space is probably offset by that. Oh well, when things go really wrong, the usual annoyances don't seem nearly as annoying! Here, have some butterfly sex.
( Mating at Brookside )
My friend in London sent me a Sarah Jane Smith action figure with a Star Poet that lights up, so I am fannishly happy about that, at least. (I see that Christopher Tolkien is even greedier than Peter Jackson so The Hobbit may be delayed even further, and wouldn't it be nice if I was looking forward to it enough to care?) We watched Transformers now that it's on cable and the kids know who Shia LaBeouf is, and I enjoyed it more than I expected because it was so very Iron Giant. And many aspects of it were less preposterous than Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. My parents, who are in San Francisco for my father's birthday, got a tour of Lucasfilm's Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio today, so maybe I will get to hear some behind the scenes stories about it when they get home! |
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