Oh yeah. Someone loaned me Serial Experiments Lain, and I’m only six episodes in. That’ll give me something to do for at least some of these little half-hour breaks, won’t it?

What do you mean, you don’t think I’m ever going to get off my arse and do anything other than chat, websurf and check email? Well, I never!

I’m not that bad. Really. (Right?)

So I’ve put away the 7th episode of Lain, and I’m still not sure if I’m going to end up really liking or loathing the series. It keeps skating the edge of being really trite and annoying in its little routine of dancing around the plotline and being oh-so-mysterious.

I’ll keep watching, though. Hopefully there’ll be foodstuffs arriving soon, so I can snack and watch anime to my heart’s content. Between housework, chatting and email, of course!

I have an organized collection of music files here on my computer, but I don’t rip all of every CD I have for my listening pleasure. This means that I have a catch-all directory, and when I got done listening to some anime soundtrack selections I decided to queue up a few tracks out of “AllTheRest.”

A few. Okay, it totals three and a half hours of music, and it’ll give you an idea of the kinds of things I listen to:

49 tracks in playlist, average track length: 4:16

Playlist length: 3 hours 29 minutes 35 seconds

    Playlist files:
    1. Lindsey Buckingham – Go Insane (3:05)

    2. AC-DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (4:10)

    3. Alanis Morissette – Uninvited (4:37)

    4. Apollo Four Forty – Stop The Rock (3:33)

    5. Arcadia – Goodbye Is Forever (3:44)

    6. Bangles – Hazy Shade Of Winter (2:47)

    7. Bankstatement – Diamonds Arent So Hard (5:12)

    8. Bankstatement – Queen Of Darkness (4:26)

    9. Basement Jaxx – Red Alert (4:17)

    10. Brainbox – Wet Pavement (4:25)

    11. Caroline’s Spine – Sullivan (4:05)

    12. Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll (3:23)

    13. Control Machete – Si Senor (3:58)

    14. Cranberries – Zombie (4:14)

    15. cult – fire woman (5:10)

    16. Cusco – Montezuma (5:17)

    17. Days of the New – Enemy (5:11)

    18. Dirty Vegas – Days Go By (7:07)

    19. Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee) (3:30)

    20. Emerson Lake and Powell – Touch and Go (3:38)

    21. Fastball – The Way (4:20)

    22. Foo Fighters – Next Year (3:22)

    23. Gorillaz – Tomorrow Comes Today (3:12)

    24. Guns N’ Roses – Civil War (7:36)

    25. Information Society – Mirrorshades (5:37)

    26. Johnny Clegg And Savuka – Cruel Crazy Beautiful World (4:25)

    27. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (3:50)

    28. Love Spit Love – How Soon Is Now (4:26)

    29. Men Without Hats – Moonbeam (3:38)

    30. Men Without Hats – Walk on Water (3:28)

    31. Mint Royale – Show Me (feat. Pos from De La Soul) (3:43)

    32. Nikolaj Steen – Tainted Love (3:39)

    33. Paul Simon and George Harrison – Homeward Bound (2:37)

    34. Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home) (4:59)

    35. Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi (3:29)

    36. Queensryche – Real World (4:22)

    37. R.E.M. – Stand (3:12)

    38. Russ Ballard – Voices (5:34)

    39. SES – Dreams Come True (3:51)

    40. Space Brothers – Shine (6:30)

    41. Telepopmusik – Breathe (4:58)

    42. The Breeze – Shine Your Love (4:00)

    43. The Damned – Grimly Fiendish (5:11)

    44. The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Radio Mix) (4:03)

    45. The Sighs – No Caroline (2:54)

    46. Thompson Twins – Play With Me (3:39)

    47. Vitamin C – Vacation (3:20)

    48. Wallflowers – One Headlight (5:04)

    49. ZZ Top – Cheap Sunglasses (4:47)

What do you think, eh?

So I checked my email after we got back from our trip to the coast (details and pictures to follow at some point this evening) to find that a handful of nifty people had seen fit to push my Blogathon sponsorship tally well past the $150 mark.

You know what that means, don’t you?

Cute, cuddly bunny pictures.

Proof of cuteness will appear bright and early… bright-eyed and bushy-tailed… tomorrow morning as I kick off my Blogathon run.

Thank you Sarah, Dave, and the inseparable team that is Lilith & Geoffrey! The total stands at $173… easily $100 more than I expected to generate.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention Mari! Ack! I’m so sorry! How can I make it up to you? How, I ask!

See that “sponsor me” link up there? Have you done as it asks yet? No? Well then.

Remember, starting 6am Pacific time this Saturday morning I’ll be posting at least once every half hour for a solid twenty-four hours. That’s a minimum of forty-nine journal entries. However will I fill the time, you ask?

I can think of one cute way to fill at least some of those entries. But I won’t do it for nothing. As things stand, I’ve garnered $118 in pledged donations to the World Wildlife Fund. I’m surprised and delighted at the giving nature of folks like Jenn, Wendi, Marty, Erin, and a handful of groovy folks from work who wished to remain anonymous.

This has gone better than I expected, but I’d like to break $150 before we start on Saturday, and towards that end I offer…

Cute, cuddly bunny rabbits.

You read that correctly: Cute, cuddly bunny rabbits.

The bunny we adopted recently turned out to be a Mama Bunny, so we have a passel of baby bunnies that are just cute as all get-out. I have a digital camera. I will take pictures of those bunnies for all you animal lovers out there, and post them here.

But not until there’s more than $150 in sponsorships. That’s right, I’m holding the bunny pictures hostage. It’s up to you now, Oh Generous Readership. Do the right thing. Do it for the World Wildlife Fund. Do it for me. Above all, do it for the bunnies.

Because every baby bunny should have 15 minutes of fame, don’t you think?
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