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Month: January 2009

  • Upside, Downside: January ’09 Edition

    It’s time for another in our ongoing series of looks at the good and the bad about my life at the moment…

    Downside: I just spent the last of my usable funds at the grocery store and I don’t get paid until Wednesday morning, so if anything bad happens I’m in a world of hurt.

    Upside: I have everything I need, right now, to get through ’til Wednesday morning.

    Downside: It’s a world of thugs and bums out there tonight. Every two blocks I passed one or a group of shambling guys in dark clothing. They didn’t indicate a desire to eat my brains, so I’m assuming they’re just normal, living bottom-dwellers rather than actual zombies.

    Upside: The thugs and bums, even the ones who wanted something from me, were all very polite.

    Downside: It’s awfully damned chilly out there, which requires bundling up, which means that after a hike to the store and back I’m cold and sweaty. Bleh.

    Upside: The fog is absolutely perfect out there tonight. Seriously. I love a good foggy night. That made the whole trek worthwhile, I tell you.

    Downside: It’s already 8:00 and I haven’t actually relaxed or had any kind of fun yet, and bedtime’s only a couple of hours away.

    Upside: Tomorrow’s Friday. ‘Nuff said.

    As long as nothing goes pear-shaped for the next five days or so, I’ll tentatively call January of 2009 an upside in general. My optimism is sometimes misplaced, but it gets me through the day…

  • Four More Days?

    If LiveJournal could’ve waited four more days for their money, I’d have uninterrupted paid access to that service. Unfortunately they wanted to bill me on the 31st of January… and I cannot afford that.

    Timing and luck. The hallmarks of my life.

    (At least they emailed a reminder beforehand or I’d have really been in a world of financial hurt.)

  • Some patches here, some patches there…

    In anticipation of the descending hordes expected for Double XP Rewards Weekend in City Of Heroes, NCSoft released a patch containing a number of fixes. (One wonders at the use of the term “corrected,” however. Looks like a euphemism to me.)

    Not to be outdone, another organization seems to have patched their operations somewhat as well. I’m sure there’ll be an outcry about nerfs and balance-breaking changes, but we’ll see how it plays out…

  • MightyGodKing and the Book Covers… Redux

    It looks like MGK got his website back after it was completely obliterated during the linkfest he spawned by skewering a number of sacred cows beloved SF and Fantasy novels. (Yes, this means that the links in this old post work again!) Turns out that he went back for a third round… check it out, won’t you?

  • James Burke on YouTube

    Recently I Twittered (tweeted, whatever) about the sudden disappearance of the JamesBurkeFan collection of videos on YouTube containing the entirety of “Connections” (1, 2 and 3) as well as “The Day The Universe Changed,” my favorite educational series of all time. Turned out that YouTube pulled the videos at the request of the publisher of the upcoming new boxed set of “Universe Changed.”

    Oh, by the way? My birthday is coming up…

    Alan Carre, the man behind the JamesBurkeFan collection, stopped by a couple of days ago to let me know that he’s back on YouTube. Awfully nice for a guy to follow me back here from Twitter, I think! Check out his page, say something nice, and patronize the folks offering the boxed sets if you can. I particularly recommend the original “Connections” and, of course, “The Day The Universe Changed.”

  • Seven Years Of This Gibberish

    Holy guacamole. I first posted to a journal on the greyduck.net domain seven years ago today.

    Time flies when you’re having fun. And by “having fun” I mean posting memes, silly links, pictures, videos, rants, raves, ramblings, memories of youth, memories of my kids’ youth, trials, tribulations, triumphs, and tripe.

    Here’s to much more of the same, friends. Thanks for reading.

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