An un-seen episode of “The Prisoner”

I am psychically unwell this morning… no, I don’t mean I’m receiving bad telepathy, I mean I am in a state of mental unbalance. Like my consciousness spent too much time on a ride at the Salem Fair.

Rough dreams last night… the first one directly influenced by the TV Rain was watching last night. I dreamed I was Sarah Jessica Parker’s character on Sex and the City, pregnant, and being chased by government agents who wanted the Pelican Brief. (oookaaayyy…)

After the agents were stopped, they handed me my baby, and I broke down and cried. Just bawled. The only reason that’s pertinent is that, when I woke up, I felt emotionally like I really had cried, for a good long time… just wrung out and clouded.

But the dreams didn’t end there… I dreamed that I woke up – everything in the dream became hyper-clear. I got up, and went to the window in another room that overlooks the residential road. It seemed to be around 3 or 4 am. An 18-wheeler with way too many running lights drove by at a casual pace… there was a burst of golden sparks, like fireworks. When they cleared, the street was empty… until a light blue, t-shaped, levitating object bigger than a car cruised by just as casually. I left the window, convinced that I’d seen something I wasn’t supposed to have seen, and I was going to regret it shortly… it wouldn’t be a friendly Will Smith coming to neuralize me, oh no.

So when I finally woke up for real, I felt wrung out, clouded, paranoid and worried.

Good way to start the day, huh?

One more thing to clutter my friends page

For those users out there who don’t read the LJ news; now, if you are a paid user, you can add slashdot, the geek news site, as an LJ friend. Basically means you get the headline and links to each article.

I’m gonna try it for a while, but Iffen I don’t like it, gone it will be.

I cannt tyype…

I meant to say that MiB 2 was not as good as the first one.

Also, I’m glad that I’ll finally get to play Voyager: Elite Force holomatch with Rain. Of course, she’ll find her groove in about a game and a half and start kicking my butt, but at least I can spawn a cube’s worth of Borg to help out if it starts getting too humiliating.

So, like, I had a long post almost ready yesterday… but I had to slot a Zip disk to check a reference. I should know better. The Zip driver for OS X crashes the desktop every time (no big deal, the process restarts automatically)… but this time it locked up the whole machine, I had to do a hardware restart. Lost my post, and just wasn’t up to re-typing it.

Anyway.

Figured out the last problem I was having with the special effect for my friend’s wedding video. Rain wants me to change the timing slightly, but that will just be an evening’s work. I’m learning a lot – maybe I can be meiran and raininva‘s special-effects tech when they are famous moviemakers.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein is very hard in single-player. Hey, game designers – some of us don’t play Quake 3 Arena 40 hours a week. The easy setting is supposed to be… easy.

Yes, I enjoyed MiB 2… no, it was as good as the first one.

Got the final “Robotech: Macross” boxed set this weekend, thanks to Rain. It even has the “Robotech: Sentinels” pilot as an extra – a film that made Macross purists howl. Only four more boxed sets to go before I have the whole Robotech series… then I can get the UFO set… then Monty Python’s FC… then Thunderbirds… what do you mean they’re already released ST:TNG third season?

MPEG-2 is going to be very expensive to me, I can see that.

Ooops… my boss’ laptop is throwing a kernel panic… won’t boot off the hard drive or the CD. This oughta be fun…

I am loved

raininva got me a very nice present today!

This is a preview package of the miniatures for the new BattleTech collectible figures game.

'Mech figure

Saldy, they aren’t playable in the actual game, but they are a nice preivew. The paint jobs are good, the figure scale is nice, and I’ve had a chance to mess with the game system, which I think will be even more accessible than the original BattleTech.

I also have a bigger picture of the package and the three miniatures.

Thank you, sweetie!

Demoralizing

I was feeling really good about the 17 miles I’ve walked this month, until I looked up a reference in the Atlas of Middle-Earth.

In one month’s travel from Bag End to Rivendell, Frodo & Co. walked 450 miles!!!

Okay, they walked all day everyday, and were motivated by Black Riders on their tail. But still… I’m not quite so proud of myself.

Oh, yippie doodle.

Just got the niceset e-mail from Sony, offering to let me download Classic Everquest for free *and* throwing in a 30-day trial for the same low price.

Well, guess what, Sony, I am immune to your offer of EverCrack becuase you don’t feel the need to support my OS. So there.

Blizzard, on the other hand, is sending all my gamer friends to tell me how much they are loving Warcraft 3, and how I really won’t miss all my non-gamer friends that much…

On a Yahoo! mailing list I belong to, a couple people are being horrid and insulting to a woman because she won’t post topless or nude pictures of herself. Then another member leaps to her “defense”, telling her to ignore them ’cause they are obviously gay and that gay people just like to sit around harassing upstanding straight folk.

*sigh* Times like this, I just need to leve the computer and go watch something involving puppies, or kitties, or Hayao Miyazaki and childhood.

At work, they call me “The Oracle”

Hmmm… seconds ago I refreshed my friends page, and kittykatya had an entry up about her Sailor Senshi colors. Had to close the window before I could really read the entry… and now it’s gone.

Did the Matrix just glitch on me and I saw part of the simulation that won’t be up for a little while? Or am I just hallucinating again?

Not a happy post

Well…

I watched them put my cat to sleep today.

Okay, technically my mom’s cat, and an animal I’ve seen only occasionally since I moved out to be with Rain. But.

Pris was a friendly little animal who, throughout most of my twenties, kept me company, soothed bruised feelings, and generally offered unconditional support when I needed it. For a cat, she was very affectionate and open.

She became very very sick quickly, over a period of a few days. It was the vet’s opinion that medical treatment would just prolong her suffering, and to be honest, she got so much sicker over the short time I was there that I’m not sure she would have seen tomorrow anyway. We’re still not perfectly sure what was wrong.

So, anyway. I’m sure I’ll be over this shortly, but right now…

I watched them put my cat to sleep today.

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