Author: Lou

Geeky fangirl and knitter, owned by large black mog. Sometime web designer. Lapsed musician.

This landed in my mailbox

This landed in my mailbox today. I felt I should share. *g* >

This landed in my mailbox today. I felt I should share. *g*

<< August 7th Census. As some of you may know there is a census coming around on August the 7th. For those who don't know, a census is where the government gets your details like number of people in the house, religion, etc. If there are enough people in the country, about 10 000, who put down the same religion, it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion. It is for this reason that it has been suggested that anyone who does not have a dominant religion put down "Jedi" as their religion. Don't worry, you can't get into any trouble. You're just helping to mess with the government in a small way. So send this on to all your friends and tell them to put down "Jedi" as their religion and we can have "Jedi Knights" running around. Yes, this is a Sci-Fi thing, but it will also **** with the government. So if not because you love Star Wars, then just to annoy the government....and annoying people is very important... >>

Ins makes some very good

Ins makes some very good points in her “Insomnia + insanity” post. Getting wound up about what happens in a TV show is silly – after all, it’s make-believe. I mean, yeah, I do get irritated if, say Buffy is bitchy to Spike *again* and he doesn’t get a snappy comeback. But that’ll only last … Continue reading “Ins makes some very good”

Ins makes some very good points in her “Insomnia + insanity” post. Getting wound up about what happens in a TV show is silly – after all, it’s make-believe. I mean, yeah, I do get irritated if, say Buffy is bitchy to Spike *again* and he doesn’t get a snappy comeback. But that’ll only last the duration of the show, maximum! But anyway, yeah, I think watching Buffy has done good things for me. I’m not saying that if Buffy didn’t exist that there wouldn’t be something else for me to be equally enthusiastic about, cos I’m sure there would be, and will be in future. But I’ve met lots of cool people through watching the show, and I’ve got into doing webdesign largely because of it, which I think I am slowly, but fairly steadily, getting better at.

I also noticed that Ins uses this thing that I’ve only noticed within the last few days, but I’m now seeing all over – putting an exclaimation mark after a descriptive and before a name. Eg, genuine!Tara or chipped!Spike and so on. So, where did that come from? I’m curious…….

Presenting…… A Tomb With a

Presenting…… A Tomb With a View. I opened this site yesterday, after working on it for 3-and-a-bit weeks. It’s a dedication to Darla and Drusilla (from Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). I’m pretty pleased with it. :-) So, the next thing for me to do is revamp Eternal…. Literally, I think. I can do … Continue reading “Presenting…… A Tomb With a”

Presenting…… A Tomb With a View. I opened this site yesterday, after working on it for 3-and-a-bit weeks. It’s a dedication to Darla and Drusilla (from Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). I’m pretty pleased with it. :-) So, the next thing for me to do is revamp Eternal…. Literally, I think. I can do most of the work on the UKBAWC in bits and pieces. And of course there is still the massive task of overhauling Spiked and Skewered. Maybe I should take some more time off work…… Heh.

*sniffle* No more comment count on Blogvoices. It’s speeded up performance no end, apparantly, so I can’t blame them for taking it out. But I liked it. I think there might be some way to install it locally – I’ll have to check it out. Or maybe I should be thinking about shifting to Greymatter. Megs, what d’you think? Is it easy to set up and use?

John of Site for Sore Eyes has been nice enough to link me from his blog. And his blog is a real, proper blog – unlike this one, which is much more of a journal, or perhaps a burblelog *g*. Also, he likes Buffy. :-) So anyway, if you want to see what a blog should really be like, go see John. I’ve actually been thinking about the distinct non-blog-ness of this …. er….. blog over the last few days. And I’ve come to the conclusion that I’d never be able to produce a site like John’s, because the vast majority of my time on the internet is invested (and it is an investment, honest! *g*) in working on my own sites, reading my vast amount of email, and chatting to my friends on ICQ or AIM. When I’m not doing that, I’ll really only be surfing Buffy-related sites, and other blogs. And since the other blogs are the only places I’ll come across current affairs type articles, there would be no point in then inserting that into *my* blog unless I have a comment to make about it. Still with me? (No? Oh well. *g*) Soooooo….. what I’m going to do, then, is blog about the sites I do visit – Buffy / Angel sites. Perhaps not everyday, I don’t know yet. I’ll still continue with the general rambling too. And that’s it, really. Bet you’re glad you read that lot, huh? *g*

My Dad told me that my aunt Mary went for a job interview the other day, and they didn’t believe her about her age, or something. Apparantly they were really rude, and she’s talking of sending my cousin Raymond round to sort ’em out. LOLOL. Thing is, she was applying for a job in an old people’s home. Mary is 77 years old. Raymond thinks she’s about 69. OK, so she doesn’t look her age, but I don’t think she’s going to be able to get away with pretending to be in her fifties any more. My Dad’s whole family is utterly barking, you know, and they’re not getting any better with age….. but at least they go on forever!

Meh, weather

It was such a lovely day today – all warm and sunny…… now, of course, there’s thunder and lightening, and it’s pissing it down. Oh well – April weather. Saw Mr Worf again earlier, too – he was sitting on the fence at the end of the garden. B saw him too, but when I … Continue reading “Meh, weather”

It was such a lovely day today – all warm and sunny…… now, of course, there’s thunder and lightening, and it’s pissing it down. Oh well – April weather. Saw Mr Worf again earlier, too – he was sitting on the fence at the end of the garden. B saw him too, but when I went outside, Willow ran after me (d’oh!!), and Worf legged it again. *sigh*

But anyway, The SPIKED Awards are now open for the second session. And I have a splash page up for my new domain, freaky.nu. Nothing else, yet, but I like the graphic. *g* Oh, and I finally managed to ftp into The Airlock this morning. Don’t know what’s been wrong with it! Tcha. Right then, I’ll get on with working on Tomb With a View. Go me…..

Search result fun

I have my first ‘interesting’ search result – “sluts are so good”. LOLOL. And *then* I found this in my guestbook at Spiked and Skewered: “I loved it. I think your really hot but hey your too old for me. I am only 16 going to be 17 I can’t wait. I do admire you … Continue reading “Search result fun”

I have my first ‘interesting’ search result – “sluts are so good”. LOLOL. And *then* I found this in my guestbook at Spiked and Skewered:
“I loved it. I think your really hot but hey your too old for me. I am only 16 going to be 17 I can’t wait. I do admire you in Buffy. #1 fan ****** “
Well, thanks…… but I’m actually not James Marsters. Guess I could pass it on to him when I see him at the con in June, though. Teehee! (2½ months to go!)

Oh yeah, and I thought of the other thing I need to do – I have to get my new project rolling. I’ve bought a new domain, and some space, and I’m going to be using it to host people. So, I need to get a front page up, and then find some way of getting good hostees. I was planning it to be a totally non-Buffy site, and only host people I didn’t already know, but I already offered to host Anji’s blog. I’m not going to host anyone else I know, though. But I may take a Buffy or Angel site. Preferably just the one, cos I want to have a good variety…… I want it to depend more on the webmaster than exactly what’s on their site. Does that make any sense? Probably not, but at least I know what I mean.

Hmmmm.

Hmmmm. This is so me (apart from the being a bloke bit, obviously), it’s a little worrying….. *g* Ah well. Read the rest of the comic, too – it rocks.

Hmmmm. This is so me (apart from the being a bloke bit, obviously), it’s a little worrying….. *g* Ah well. Read the rest of the comic, too – it rocks.

Still tired

Still tired and yawning my head off. Can’t concentrate on any one thing for more than…. hmm….. 20 or 30 seconds. Writing this sentence by sentence and doing other stuff between. I’m determined to acheive stuff today, though: 1) Finish, upload, and open Tomb with a View. As you’ll see if you look at the … Continue reading “Still tired”

Still tired and yawning my head off. Can’t concentrate on any one thing for more than…. hmm….. 20 or 30 seconds. Writing this sentence by sentence and doing other stuff between. I’m determined to acheive stuff today, though:

1) Finish, upload, and open Tomb with a View. As you’ll see if you look at the holding page, I’ve set today as the opening date. Though only one or two people actually know that. Til now. Forgot I was at work though. Still, it’s nearly done, so I should get it sorted tonight.

2) Open the second round of the SPIKED Awards. Again, I set the date for today. Shouldn’t take too long, though, since it’s just a matter of changing the links in the navigation. But I also need to send out that hon mention award I meant to do for the runners up from last time. Ooops.

3) I’m going to redesign Eternal…. Literally, and move stuff around. I did decide not to reapply to the new BtVS Writers’ Guild, but actually, looking at the requirements again now, I’m not so sure. The things I’ve got planned for the redesign, would pretty much cover it. So I’ll see how it goes.

4) Must remember to upload the pages of The Airlock that I updated yesterday. Couldn’t fricking ftp in last night again. Grrrr!

5) Tackle the daunting task of adding the backlog of new members who’ve applied to the UKBAWC. Oh god, there are hundreds of them. Well, more than 50, I think….. possibly up to 80, but I had some email probs and I know there are some duplicates in the mail box. I’m going to have to start a spreadsheet to keep track of everyone, I think. Ack!

Hey, I feel a bit more alive now. Yay! I won’t get all of that stuff done today, but 1, 2 & 4 should get sorted this evening, and I can do the others on my days off tomorrow and Tuesday.

Oh, and I nearly forgot – April Fool! Errrmm……

I have Salon Hair.

I have Salon Hair. It’s an odd feeling, especially since I know I’m never going to get it to go quite how the hairdresser did it again. Am I the only person who has that problem? Surely not. But I’m not a hair-style-y person – I never put anything on it (apart from coloured stuff, … Continue reading “I have Salon Hair.”

I have Salon Hair. It’s an odd feeling, especially since I know I’m never going to get it to go quite how the hairdresser did it again. Am I the only person who has that problem? Surely not. But I’m not a hair-style-y person – I never put anything on it (apart from coloured stuff, of course) – I just point the hairdryer and hope for the best. As for using one of those big round brushes…… if I try that, the brush usually has to be cut out of the resultant tangle. Happily, the hairdresser tells me that pointing the hairdryer and hoping should work well with this new cut. Hope so!

Wondered into Clinton’s Cards on the way back, cos I’d seen an Undertaker T shirt in the window (which I then couldn’t find inside, of course). But I discovered that the shop assistant and a customer (both in their 40’s) were having an intense discussion over whether Angel, Spike, or possibly Riley is sexiest. LOL! Y’see, Buffy rules! Thankyouverymuch.

Times, hair & shopping (how girly)

OK, so even though the times are showing up as an hour behind on the Blogger editor thingy, they’re coming out right when I publish the entry to here. So that’s OK then. Cool. I’m slightly irritated at the moment. See, I went shopping today (more in a mo), and one of the things I … Continue reading “Times, hair & shopping (how girly)”

OK, so even though the times are showing up as an hour behind on the Blogger editor thingy, they’re coming out right when I publish the entry to here. So that’s OK then. Cool.

I’m slightly irritated at the moment. See, I went shopping today (more in a mo), and one of the things I bought was purple hair dye. I had been going to dye my hair black with red bits, but I like purple too, and I figured doing just one colour would be easier. So when I got home, I followed all the instructions to the letter, put the dye in, left it for 30 mins like it said, rinsed it out…… and is my hair purple? Is it hell!! If you look really carefully, it’s slightly darker, and there are tinges of reddy-blueishness in places. Not impressed. I’m thinking of digging the packaging out of the bin and seeing if there’s somewhere to complain to. Back to the black and red, I guess.

Anyway, the shopping. First of all, I went to pick up my new Buffy box set from the sorting office (which was a whole palaver in itself which involved me getting horribly lost and having to ring them from my mobile (thank god for modern technology) to tell me which way to go next), and from there I went into town. I hadn’t really had a good shop there yet, just been in for specific things. So I hit the charity shops, and so on – and would you believe it, I found a pair of matt pvc trousers which fit perfectly, for

Clock changes

I’ve just realised, now the clocks have changed, the times on these posts are wrong – as well as lagging by 10 mins again, it’s an hour behind cos it still seems to be in GMT rather than BST. When do the clocks change in America? That should correct it. Or don’t they change?

I’ve just realised, now the clocks have changed, the times on these posts are wrong – as well as lagging by 10 mins again, it’s an hour behind cos it still seems to be in GMT rather than BST. When do the clocks change in America? That should correct it. Or don’t they change?

Weirdness

I only seem to be partially conscious today. It’s a weird feeling. Saw an odd (but useful!) thing on the way to work today. I was walking along the road that leads to the station, wondering to myself whether I had time to get a ticket in the station, or if I should just get … Continue reading “Weirdness”

I only seem to be partially conscious today. It’s a weird feeling.

Saw an odd (but useful!) thing on the way to work today. I was walking along the road that leads to the station, wondering to myself whether I had time to get a ticket in the station, or if I should just get one on the train. I was just about to hoick my sleeve up to look at my watch, when something caught my eye. In the window of one of the houses was a clock. A wall clock, facing out, into the street. I can’t think of any reason for it to be there, since it’s useless to anyone inside, unless it’s put there so people going for the train can see if they’re on time! Which would be nice, but very, very odd. And then, as I was pondering this, I walked past three full shopping bags by a lampost, with no owner in sight. It just get weirder, doesn’t it?

Meghan?

Meghan, if I hadn’t seen you on the train this morning, I’d be wondering if you were dead. A hangover is no excuse not to blog, you know, young fella-me-lad….. er….. lass……. oh, pants to it.    )o.o(   Owl!

Meghan, if I hadn’t seen you on the train this morning, I’d be wondering if you were dead. A hangover is no excuse not to blog, you know, young fella-me-lad….. er….. lass……. oh, pants to it.    )o.o(   Owl!

Klepto-kitty!

Oh, and something I forgot in all the Worf-excitement. Earlier on Friday, I glanced out the back window (happens a lot, cos that’s the way I face when I’m on the computer) and saw one of the cat toys (a small pink plastic ball with a bell inside) sitting outside the back door. I thought … Continue reading “Klepto-kitty!”

Oh, and something I forgot in all the Worf-excitement. Earlier on Friday, I glanced out the back window (happens a lot, cos that’s the way I face when I’m on the computer) and saw one of the cat toys (a small pink plastic ball with a bell inside) sitting outside the back door. I thought this was a little odd since it hadn’t been there went I went out the day before, and asked Willow if she’d taken it out there. She just twitched her ear. Tcha, cats. ;-) Anyway, later on when I was outside after looking for Worf, the next door neighbour came out, and asked if we had a yellow, and a pink one of these little balls. I said that yes, we did (there are two pink ones). Turns out that their cat Billy, a friendly chap who visits us quite frequently, is a bit of a klepto-kitty. He nicks ’em and takes them back to his, where he then completely ignores them. LOL. Oh well. As long as he doesn’t start going for cash or jewellery……

I saw this link at not.so.soft. I kind of know this story….. only the version I remember was a bit different. But I can’t remember how! Anyone?