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1st - got tired of having all these baseball posts w/ no baseball icons, so, made a few. If you're reading on LJ or IJ, you can't see it, but the current one looks like this:



2nd - local MiLB team didn't lose tonight! \o/ The game was really good and I took lots of shiny photos that I'll show once I have the film processed. (Film will be processed at anywhere that is not Target.)


writing stuff: k_b card finished, kind of working on an extra, no idea if I'll finish it; bigbang is in final edits; and I found this nifty site that explains common English usage errors... all kinds of errors. It's a good read. (*cough*sneaked-not-snuck*cough*)


Premiere dates for shows I'm planning to watch this season:

* 9/20 - House, MD (tho it's gonna have to work real hard to keep me interested - I love Hugh, but fuck-all if I'm not angry about the current character arcs)
* 9/20 - Chase (is a maybe)
* 9/21 - Glee
* 9/22 - L&O:SVU
* 9/29 - L&O:LA - which will get about 2 eps to hook me, just like CI did

In Plain Sight - whenever it starts up again

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Local MiLB team won a game! They grabbed the lead early and held on through the end! Which is completely the opposite of what they've been doing most of the season.

Unfortunately, I think their luck might be tied to either playing on Friday the 13th, or katernater also being at a MiLB game at the same time near her hometown-ish place. *shakes head* As cool as the latter would be, I don't know if katernater can go to a MiLB game each time my $local_team has a game. I'm not sure she wants that much of the team's success on her shoulders in any case anyway. =)

The team actually made some minor line-up changes that might have helped a bit too. And maybe they got a strong talking-to by the coach as well. Either that, or he threatened to piss in their beer if they didn't play better. Who knows. *shrug* Maybe they got the pitcher breathing through the right eyelids. Anything's possible.

They're still in the bottom of their league, but a win's a win, right? =)



ION: 1.5 more kink_bingo stories down! What can I say, baseball's good for my writing muses. =)

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...ballgame rainout... lots and LOTS of rain. Probably a good thing though, b/c OMG was the team doing poorly. I mean like they were down by 6 after the 2nd inning. The 2nd. That's their worst start in the last 3 games. Hopefully they can pull their heads out of their butts and play better on the road.

Me? Imma try to dry out.

Also, I've realized I don't like working 1st shift b/c, even though it gets me out of work in time to go see ballgames during the summer, it is fucking impossible to get OUT of the place on time. Or close to on time. Even when I'm all set and ready to get out of there at 17:00, no dice. It's always at least 10 after before I get gone. Yeah, think I'll keep my 2nd shift, tyvm.


And, one of the greasemonkey scripts that I really miss not being able to use else-journaling sites? The collapse/expand entry one. That one needs to be standard on all the journaling sites b/c it makes for lovely 'bookmark' style reading... 'oh, left off here... next entry' - you know, if you leave and come back type of thing. =)

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Kind of more 'forgot abouts'... 'cept there's just the one. A fic I wrote for the 'A Fic Walks Into a Bar' challenge:

Average Night, Unusual Bar | DW | H2sMsK | OTW

I forgot to post about it/post it/etc... it was done back in like March or so. Whoops!



And - baseball stuffs. Okay, really, is there some special measuring stick they use for measuring the height of these guys? B/c I swear the ones they say are 5'10" or 5'11" are closer to 5'7" or 5'8". I mean, I've been close enough to a couple to be pretty damned sure they aren't the height the roster says they are. And there's one guy on one of the other teams and the roster claims he's 5'10" and I'm certain the only way he's that tall is when he stands on a milk crate. I'm pretty sure it's a conspiracy against average-height people and they add 2" to all the players 'real' heights to make them all feel taller. Way to go making us shorter folks feel shorter than we already felt. We already have to wear heels just to be the same height as everyone else. Stop this 'padding' thing already! =)

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Of a sort... dinner was good. The show? Well, think Elvis impersonator who does all sorts of '50's music, but is better at singing Johnny Cash. Really, he wasn't that bad, but he wasn't great. His dancing, however, could use a lot of help.


Now, back to resizing/formatting my photos from Vancouver/Gatecon.

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This week? Yeah, this week was much with the 'I do not have time for anything outside this very tiny list of things and $thing is totally not on it!'. AKA: worked so much OT this week that I will, have monies for my trip in 2 weeks and will probably sleep all of Saturday so I can go to work again on Sunday. (I'm actually gonna go in a bit on Friday - 06/25/10 (was gonna say 'tomorrow', but it's kinda 'tomorrow' already) - but only for a few hours.)

Spoons? Well, I have them, but they are all allocated to working 12hr days this week. And for sleeping. And those 2 trips outside so the dog doesn't potty in the house. But that's kind of it.

12hrs at work, plus 7-8hrs sleeping (OMG if I don't hit at least 7 that's the end of the world right there), plus approx 1hr commuting time and 1hr for getting ready for work leaves very few other minutes available for 'doing stuff'. So, lots of 'stuff' wasn't getting done. Upside? OT pay! That I only get a tiny portion of b/c the taxes will eat me alive, but it'll be *some* monies.

Mostly, I managed to clear out my inboxes of most stuff and skim through all my reading lists. So, if something hugely awesome happened and I didn't comment on it? Plx to not be taking it personal - I just haven't had the brainz for it of late.


I'm still working on my fic stuffs - when I have a spare minute or two (not many of those this week). And I have a couple other little things I've been tinkering with.

I did take a few minutes to skim the article tajasel linked in her post over here about how ADD brains work - at least that blog poster's anyway. What did I notice about that? My brain - not much different. (In case you couldn't tell from the really disjointed posts that I make. *g*)

I don't tend to lose my keys, wallet or phone all that much - unless I put it someplace where my brain hasn't determined that it should always be. Keys always go $here, phone and wallet go $here1 when not on my person, etc. Not kidding, I used to be hyper-organized with damn near everything. As in, I could tell if someone had been in my room b/c something had been moved even a fraction of an inch. That's mostly gone away, b/c I can almost never find anything b/c it's all in a pile somewhere. Not a cataloged pile, but a pile. Funny though, b/c a lot of times I know what's *in* the pile, but not specifically *where* in the pile something is.

I'm visual and kinetic - I have to see and do things to 'get' them. If I have an appointment - I have to physically write it down (not type it on a computer) to remember it. My brain recalls that act of writing, but doesn't always convert 'I typed this onna screen' into 'something that needs to be remembered'. Though, Outlook's reminder functionality is v. useful at work. And I need to *see* things to be reminded of them if there isn't a 'kinetic' thing. Like the little card on my desk glaring at me for paying my car registration for the year. Of course, that card doesn't realize that I have to wait until the paycheck is deposited before I can do that.

I also, quite possibly, annoy the shit out of my friends w/ IMs and e-mails. As thoughts hit - things I need or want to tell them - off they go into the IM window or an e-mail. Why? B/c if I do not do it *right now* as I'm thinking about it, it could be YEARS before I remember that I was gonna tell them something. And my brain will stare at that blank space of $thing_i_was_gonna_tell_X until I fucking figure out what it was. Typically, that ping of memory will happen at the most ANNOYING times - like just as I'm about to fall asleep. Yeah, there's a pen and paper on my nightstand for exactly situations like that one, again, b/c if I don't write it down - *poof* it's gone and we start all over.

It used to (and probably still does) annoy the fuck out of my parents, b/c I would say 'yeah, I'll do $thing', but four hours later, I still hadn't done it, no matter what I'd told them. And it wasn't necessarily that I didn't want to do $thing, but that I was involved with something else (and probably had 7 or 8 other 'elses' tag along for the ride) and completely *forgot* about $thing and rather than the parentals learning or devising a way to remind me of $thing that would work, they'd just get pissed off, which led to me not doing $thing (if it was a chore, especially) out of spite, b/c they were pissed off about something over which I really didn't have all that much control. This is part of why I have lists and sticky notes and stuff.

I also have a little dry-erase board that I write temporary things on - like book release dates for Jim Butcher or convention dates or things like that. Little reminder things that I can glance at quickly.

Now, if I could just find a job that worked well with this sort of brain activity, I'd be all set. Anyone know of a job where they don't care if you show up fifteen minutes late every day, have stickies everywhere, giant lists of things, a laptop equipped with Outlook and set, but slightly flexible deadlines? Oh - and they don't mind if you spend 15 or 20 minutes every couple of hours (or 5-10 minutes every hour) doing something that isn't specifically work-related b/c it helps you focus? I totally want that job, as long as it doesn't involve dealing with children or writing or debugging code, (b/c I suck at both with the code) and I just don't have the patience for code or kids. =)

It's almost 0400 - imma going to BED dammit.

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tesria is holding an auction here to help raise money for fire_and_a_rose and her family to help pay off medical expenses. There are more details in the linked post. But, the auction items can be anything and the bids can be whatever is feasible.

Also - feel free to advertise all over. Any help is appreciated!

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Rhetorical question time: What is the ONE thing one never does when processing film?

If you answered 'expose it to light', give yourself a gold star and four marks for being smarter than the folks at the local Target photo lab.

*****

To the folks at said photo lab:

Did it never occur to you that, when processing film, the reason it happens *inside* the machine is because once the film is exposed to light it no longer contains the images so delicately projected onto it? Yes. Really. Exposure to light is how the pretty pictures get ONTO the film in the first place. However, over-exposure to light does bad things. That's what the chemicals are for - developing the images and then STOPPING the development. (The final stage is rinsing off the chemicals, but that's less important than KEEPING OUT THE FUCKING LIGHT!

So, no, you were miles of wrong when the machine 'jammed' (or whatever-the-hell-happened) and you OPENED it to 'unjam' it. Why? Because you RUINED 36 exposures worth of photos. 80% of which I CAN'T GET BACK.

Oh, and the little, grammatically challenged note you left on the envelope that left NO explanation for what happened at all? Not even close to appropriate levels of customer service. That note was the equivalent of a 'happy' emoticon after an insult. Not cool. Not cool at all. Leaving the poor guy in the photolab later to try to explain your fuck up.

For the record, I won't be having Target process any of my film in the future. Not even if I snap 24 shots of a bug on the wall. Oh, and all of my important photos? They'll go to the camera shop downtown from now on.

See, Target, not only did you lose whatever money I would have paid for my film processing, you also managed to lose the sale of the other items I was going to buy tonight because I was too pissed off to shop anymore.

No love,
pissed-off!H2

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This was a big fail b/c one of those shots was of my sister with one of the local ball players that she's been poking at me to get processed since I took the photos at the game on Saturday, so, she'll be more disappointed than she was when I just hadn't had the film processed. Fucking photo lab.

The upside? I didn't have to pay for the other 2 rolls I had processed. Trust me, had they asked for money after having fucked up my film, there would've been an epic throwdown.

Yeah - this is my not-happy face: >:{

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Broad subject, I know.

* My 'other' 3w4DW project is on a mini-hiatus until I can get some coding things worked out. Hopefully next week I won't have a million things going on all at the same time and I don't have to work late, so all should be cool. (Or I'll go to 'plan b' until stuff works out.)

( $day_job stuffs under here )

* $local_milb_team won tonight! woot! No, this is big - they had a big honkin' losing streak while on the road last week. They needed a win. I still don't recognize half the players yet - they're all new b/c the team changed affiliates this year, so it's taking a little while. Our catcher's pretty awesome though - hit a homerun tonight. =)

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synecdochic posted what is probably the best recipe ever:

edible chocolate chip cookie dough - as in, 'safe to eat' b/c no raw eggs, thus not-so-much tummy ache after.

I haven't tried it yet, b/c I'm not in a 'pseudo-baking' mood just now, but this is on my list of 'things to toy with later'. =)

Because, really, who doesn't like eating just the dough?




In other news? OMG if some ppl on this $project at $day_job don't stop with the 'mine's bigger than yours' bullshit, imma have to open a can of whupass or something. Gah! Just do your shit so I can do my job, please?


However - all-in-all, nowhere near as shitty as my last job. Stress levels, overall? FAR lower. This I prefer, even if the pay is about half. I think I like being not-stressed all the time, TYVM.

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