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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
2:24 am	Movie of the moment. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
10:00 pm	LAS VEGAS RESTAURANT RECOMMENDATION OF THE MOMENT. China Mama 3420 S. Jones I'd been looking for a good dumpling place for a while, and had been unsuccessful in googling and asking around. So for a while I'd been reading all the little restaurant writeups in the Las Vegas Weekly. And several months ago I found a glowing review of this place. I cut it out and stuck it in my wallet, so I'd remember when I got the chance to try it. Was errand day with the girlperson today, and so for lunch we decided to go find China Mama and give them a try. BEST.IDEA.EVER. The foods we tried were a little spicer than I've been able to handle lately, but being recently reuped on medication it worked out ok. I startled one tonsil with a too hot, temperature-wise, bit of food but other than that the spicy didn't irritate my throat. I did drink a lot of water right after and gargled, so that probably did the trick. Which was yay, I've been missing spicy foods like crazy lately. The menu was full of fabulous engrish, the staff barely spoke English, so we ended up pointing for most of the ordering. What We Got. Tentale Rape Soup. Some sort of spicy chili broth soup with cilantro and transparent jelloy tentacle noodles. Really fabulous orange chicken, with skin still on and little blackened bits of orange peel. Possibly not quite as healthy as the Panda Express version, but so much tastier. The beef wrap thingy that was suggested in the Weekly blurb as the Must Order menu item. They didn't lie, this was amazing. It was meat, veggies, cilantro and I think more rice noodles. Tube of heaven. THE DUMPLINGS. We got a pork variety, and they were fabulous like everything else. Like more substantial and tastier potstickers. So cute, couldn't resist this picture. Just pretend I'm doing this for scale. Or draw eyes on it and pretend it's a tasty dumpling creature. They automatically bring you hot tea as soon as you sit down, and there's the little tea cups waiting on the table. The place was pretty, cozy, comfortable seats, very clean, the bathrooms were very clean. The waitstaff was very friendly and attentive despite the poor grasp of English. Overall 5/5 stars. They were so helpful that the language barrier was more quaint than a hinderance. If you like Chinese food, especially if you like dumplings, YOU MUST TRY THIS PLACE. The menu is extensive, and there was even a whole section of desert slush type drinks, which we did not try this time but they looked intriguing. A++++ Will go again, am telling all my friends. China Mama, Fabulousity. And of course, plenty of leftovers, this is my plate of leftovers I just had a bit ago. And I've still got a thing of the tentacle rape soup in the fridge. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
2:18 pm	Dying hard drives and medication fuckups. So for a few months now my desktop has been forcing me to manually FSCK on nearly every reboot, it appeared that there are bad sectors that are no longer holding data, so I came to the conclusion that my hard drive was dying. Decided to wait and decide what to do about it after upgrading to 9.10, just in case it was, on the off chance, ubuntu's fault. Upgraded yesterday. And Karmic comes with the SMART utility thingy, and so as soon as the new distro booted up, that came up and started yelling at me that my hard disk is failing. Got almost 500 bad sectors. Aside from that, 9.10 is super shiny and even with my busted ass video, is noticeably smoother and faster. However, now it's refusing to come back from reboot at all not even finding the hard drive. So I'm letting it sit a while. HD may have just finally bit it. The utility guy said it's been powered on for 8.2 years. Man I really get a lot of use out of my hardware, don't I? If it is dead, it really seems pointless to just replace the hard drive I'ma have to wait and just get a new barebones, as the motherboard is partially busted as it is, seems like if I just get another little IDE drive that the mb will just totally die next. In other news, I attempted to shift around one of my medications (without consulting anyone, even my pharmacist phriend) with horrible results. I've managed to correct it in time to not fuck up the whole day and my goings back out tomorrow. But it was really dumb. I seriously underestimated the level of fuckedupedness that are my tonsils. That's what I get for trying to doctor myself without professional advice. Dumbass me. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
1:36 am	Possibly only funny to me. Josh just came in to my room to say that he had gotten our recent shows and I needed to move the ones I wanted to watch to my drive over the network (cause he takes his to work with him) cause he was about to go to bed. He then gestured with his head and said "c'mon", meaning that he didn't feel like storming my pillow fort and wished me to get up to say goodnight to him. However, my brain was still on the transferring shows topic, and so for a few very confusing moments my tired brain thought by "c'mon" that he meant I needed to come into his room to get the shows from him. Brain not even smart enough to go so far as figuring out where the closest sd card with enough storage on it was, no. For those few moments I was imagining trying to carry plain data in my hands from one room to another. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 5th, 2009
11:33 pm	HAVE SOME DOM CHAT <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> It is odd how caffeine affects things. <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> It is a drug. <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> Your face is a drug <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> Is that why you lick my face, then? PLEASE DO NOT SNORT MY FACE. <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> Actually... I'm gonna inject your face between my toes <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> That is one of the more distressing things I've ever heard/seen you say. And I've known you since you were 16. So, that's impressive. <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> I'm upping my game baby <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> No shit. I'm probably going to livejournal that. Been a while since I've posted Dom quotes. <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> I'm gonna post a picture of my penis one pixel at a time to LJ, along with the coordinates for where the pixel goes. And after a few years you can put it all together to see DomWang. <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> I would be very impressed if you did that. <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> Holy shit. A 320/320 picture would take over 280 years to post. heh 64/64 would be over 11 years. <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> At what rate of posting? <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> One pixel a day. I could speed it up doing it hourly. <font color="red"><b>eris:</b></font> Set up an automated posting program to do one pixel an hour. <font color="blue"><b>Dom:</b></font> That would be a lot of programing for just my penis. (Comment on this)
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
6:32 am	Special Olympics Woke up at odd time due to surprise nap. And let myself get sucked into stupid arguments on the FarmVille Forum. They just released a charity seed. You can buy a "license" to plant sweet potatoes for the week for 25 FV dollars, if you haven't built up FV dollars by leveling that's $5 real money. 50% of the proceeds go to Haiti (You'd really think the Philippines would have been a more topical donation location, but whatever). So, naturally, there's been some freakout in the forum about what a scam this apparently is. As if there's not a billion other crops you can plant with better yield that only cost you ingame fake money. And of course, there are people excited about it, and then some well-meaning people happened to mention in their responses that they'd love to, but they can't afford the $5. Unfortunately this brought out the snarky HAHAURPOOR assholes, with the ridiculous "How are you on the Internet if you can't afford to spend 5 dollars!?" argument. I hate this argument. I hate the attitude that if you have less money than what someone thinks is acceptable that you're not allowed to do anything fun. I'm not usually one for donating, and I'm certainly not one for spending real money on silly flash games. But I would have considered it if I'd had more than $2 in my bank account. Why do I have just two bucks left? Because it was my turn to pay the Internets. Which I stupidly thought was a good argument which led to me being snarked at for having bad priorities for spending money on tehinternets. I didn't even bother going into that the only reason I have money is because I have Internet access to work. That's what I get for arguing on the Internet. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 18th, 2009
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
6:25 am	Heathcare. Dear friends against government healthcare, You are allowed to have your own opinion, however if you are my friend, and care about me I would like to ask that you keep a few things in mind. #1. When ranting against government healthcare, please remember that those of us that are uninsured are not all lazy drains on society. The common gripe seems to be against "those people on welfare having a dozen kids." These people already have medicaid/mediCAL/medicare. Those of us uninsured and freaking out about it, do not. I am 32. I have no children. I am not collecting welfare or any sort of state benefits. But I am trying to get at least something, so that I can also get healthcare. SO THAT I CAN WORK AGAIN. #2. Those of us who are uninsured and partially diagnosed or undiagosed with chronic illness basically only have two choices: (current)state benefits, or (proposed)state benefits. I've already been denied coverage for pre-existing conditions WHEN I WAS INSURED. I am now too far into the process for new diagnoses to be able to qualify for hardly any private healthcare in the future. I have admitted pre-existing conditions to ER and clinic in order to get help and they're on record. If I could manage to work long enough to get work covered insurance, my expensive antibiotics and some surgeries will still likely not be covered. #3. Yes there are clinics, no they are not free in most cases. I'm already hundreds of dollars further in debt from just a few doctors visits and have to often reschedule or cancel others from inability to pay the minimum. Attempting to qualify into a sliding fee program (among other things) which should lead to even further help. #3. If you care about me, or someone in my situation, at least try to be more aware of your phrasing when ranting against something that looks a lot less like socialism and a lot more like a light at the end of the tunnel to some of us. If you must rant, rant against specific points, not against those "lazy people trying to take [your] money." I understand that none of you (as far as I know) are ranting about ME specifically. But it is getting harder and harder, every day, to not take this personally. I just want to get better. What if this healthcare you hate turns out to be my only hope? I'm not saying it is, or that there aren't valid points against the current proposed program. I'm just asking you to please stop and think how some of the things you say, make me and people in my situation feel. And imagine, if it really is my (or someone you care about's) only hope, how would you feel then? This is one situation in which I will delete inflammatory responses, I will not debate specific points of healthcare with you, or listen to even one more person tell me I don't want government healthcare. I am not in a position to debate specifics, I do not have that privilege. I do not have a preference, I JUST WANT ANY HEALTHCARE, I'M SICK OF EXPENSIVE CLINICS AND STRESSFUL EMERGENCY ROOMS. Got it? Thanks. (Comment on this)
Monday, September 14th, 2009
11:53 am	WARNING Watching the True Blood finale. Had to screencap Terry's shirt. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
5:57 pm	Hello Wednesday. Mister J (wait, does that make me Harley Quinn?), is away on his second mini business trip this month, Dallas this week, last week was Philadelphia. I has Things To Do, today. He has finally had enough of Windows, and has gotten everything of importance off his internal hard drive, and has asked me to Ubuntu it while he's gone. I just need to burn a Jaunty install disk, and then get that going. It is also time for a re-dye of the hairs, and I still have a box of it left over from the initial dye. So, I'ma go start the Jaunty Burn, and dye my hairs. Then start the format and install. Which will leave only the lappys with windows, though I'm thinking Jlappy may be next on the chopping block, as it's an older thinkpad that should run linux a bit smoother than xp. Either way it needs to be either windows reisntalled or linux installed. It has swapped data with Jdesktop, which is virus riddled. Jlappy appears fine but that still makes me uneasy. (Comment on this)
Friday, September 4th, 2009
8:44 pm	Battle of The Sexes. Recently I have been watching a television show that got me thinking about something. It has no real artistic value, so which show it is doesn't matter. A running theme through its few seasons now, that they beat to fucking death, is that you cannot be friends with the gender to which you are attracted. Mostly this is men and women can't be friends, but there is also TEH GAY on the show and beat it to death a bit there also. You are either fuckbuddies (the show calls them funbuddies, har.) as a precursor to a Serious Relationship, in a Serious Relationship, or not friends at all, there are no other options. This has bothered and stuck in my brainmeats, however, I realised it is partially correct. The problem with the people on the show is they confuse attraction with OMGLOVE (oh my glove?). I was mentally going through all the friends (male and female) that I've been closest to over the years and I've been physically attracted to about 98% of them.* So I agree that it is highly unlikely to be very close to a gender that holds your attraction, without the whole package of closeness. But the divergence appears when one asks if I've fucked 98% of my close friends. Not even. About 48% (probably lower, I err on the high side of estimating) of my close friends, that I've had extrafriendly (which includes less than sex but more than random kiss) relations with. But then 95% OF that 48% are still close friends. I have been told that being physically attracted to friends or at least being aware of it, is one of my guy things. This seems supported by the fact that I have known and known of many girls who freak the fuck out when they find out a male friend finds them attractive, even if he has no intention of acting on it, it's apparently gross. The extreme example of this was a chick in an IRC channel who informed us that she thinks of her male friends as being penis-less, blank crotches like ken dolls. But this IRC chick supports both sides of it, inadvertently. Some part of her brain already momentarily thought of her male friends as sexual objects, and went out of the way to remove it. If I'm not attracted to someone, thoughts of their bits never enter into my mental picture of them at all without outside influence (a picture is shown, or someone brings it up). Like if someone asked me to picture said person naked, their bits wouldn't be missing, that seems much more obscene. This sorta explains to me the people who are grossed out to the point of flailing and covering their ears when a parent or sibling's sexuality is brought up. If you're unable to separate being attracted to someone with wanting to be with that someone, it then stands to reason that you're unable to separate an acknowledgment of another's sexuality without relating (pun unintended) to yourself. YOUR MOM HAD SEX, and unless you were artificially inseminated, THAT'S HOW YOU GOT HERE. This rambling ramble lacking any solid point was brought to you by the letter D and the number cheese. * ALL percentages listed are estimated (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
2:33 pm	It tells a story. Out with mother, for breakfast and walking around Freemont street. The hotel room is her husband's he's still staying in the city for the last of his truck driving school. (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
2:34 pm	Mom's lappy is a deadbeat dad! This past week mom brought her elderly little gateway lappy by for me to perform a format/reinstall on. This ended up triggering a huge multi-hour discussion lasternight which led to a new lappy for me. It has been stressing Josh that I haven't been making as much on ChaCha recently and the reasons for this not having computers that are working very well. Desktop needs a new video card, possibly more. As the ChaCha interface is really clunky and hard to deal with there, and my not being able to sit at a desk for the 5-10 hours required lately besides. And joshLappy has a fucked up dc jack, plus it's just old, so even if/when the dc jack is fixed, working ChaCha on it is laggy and jerky. So we came up with a solution that isn't the best but will result in me paying for this new lappy myself when all is said and done and taking some stress off Josh. It was such a long discussion cause it seems like there are more important things to spend money on (bills, medical bills, food, etc.) But me having a lappy that will allow me to work better, and work anywhere, will take the strain off those. So that's where we ended up. Here is lappy, which I have named Teeny, and I LOVE on top of joshlappy, and a really funny IM exchange with mother, about it. eris: I apparently left joshlappy and yourlappy alone too long, cause they had a baby. eris: picture incoming. Mother: My lappy is too old to have a baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! eris: apparently not eris: josh lappy is even older eris: and apparently its the girl since it is the one that gave birth. Mother: Mine is a GIRL! and it is definitely menopausal eris: Then I guess the male of the species carries the child. eris: And there were no other lappys around, so yours has to be the mother. Mother: I got it, doesn't look anything like my computer!! Another one snuck in!! eris: Are you saying joshlappy got impregnated by a wandering tom lappy? Mother: YES (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
11:15 am	O HAI, I COLOURED MY HAIRS. Excuse the tired and blotchy face, I was woken after only 4 hours sleep by a visting YAPPY DOG WHAT WON'T SHUT THE FUCK UP! *ahem* Even though I could technically afford the kind I prefer, it would have taken $20-$30 to get all of my hairs dyed, and then I wouldn't have been able to afford the upkeep at $10/box so it would have just faded. So I took a chance on Revlon ColorSilk at $2.97 a box. And I'm terribly pleased with the results. I didn't even notice till after I got it home that it is ammonia free. Which made for a much more pleasant application experience. We will have to see how it stands up to fading, but at lessa $3 I can afford that for upkeep. ( two more, not as fun ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
8:17 pm	HAIRS It rather seems like it suddenly got long, it also seems a lot thicker than last time it was long, and there's still some shorter bits in the underneath that are about half as long as the rest of the hair. I don't know if the light bits (previously bleached and then attempted to dye back dark) keep getting lighter or I'm just seeing it more cause it's longer and in my face. But it's annoying. This.is.not.my.hair.colour. I don't like being a dirty blonde. Looks a little darker here cause the roots are in the forefront. But my face looks so weird at this angle. I love having my long hair nearly back, but the colour, not so much. Unfortunately at this length, in order to dye it all, will take 3 or 4 boxes of dye. Which is why it hasn't quite happened yet. I may end up just dying half of it at a time, heh. Top half I mean, not like left or right half. (Comment on this)
9:17 am	Happy Lefthanders Day! And state of the wrist. I am both-handed, though my right is slightly more dominant. Sometimes I prefer one over the other, it's usually not a conscious choice when I switch it up, unless I notice that a particular skill is getting more sloppy with one hand than usual, so I'll give it more practice. I was just reading about leftys day and ended up on whole lot of stories about how hard it is to be left handed in this right handed world. One could say I don't notice cause I can just BE the accepted handedness if it comes up. However, I've never found it particularly hard to be a woman in this men's world, either. So who knows. I prefer left hand for eating, this has gotten me teased a lot in the past, so sometimes I'd just switch to not be bothered. In recent years I've not dated or been friends with anyone who cares which hand I do what with, though I still get stupidly excited to meet a lefty in an eating situation so I have a buddy, as it were. Sometimes friends still make noise at my desk with the mouse on the "wrong side" but never in a way implying I'm wrong. I always specifically get a mouse that fits in either hand, I currently use a logitech trackball guy, looks like this: Except mine only has the two buttons, an older model. I also don't switch my buttons, right click is right click, left click is left click no matter the hand. I understand some lefties or bothies switch the buttons, but that seems much more confusing to me. Since it's easy for me to just use the other hand, I didn't think I'd be bothered when my wrist went wonky. But I really didn't fully grasp, till then, how both-handed I really am. It's been ridiculously frustrating, I think I notice the lingering issues more than a plain-righty would since I'm not used to having one hand that can't do what the other can. Wrist has been suddenly getting much better in the past week, I haven't slept with the splint on in 5 days, and haven't had an ace bandage on in 4. Though I probably should ace it up if I'm typing a lot. I figure it should speed up the unstiffness if I go purposely mostly lefty for a while, which may be a bit frustrating. I can eat and mouse with left hand again, and I've been cooking and such with whatever hand's closest to what I'm doing, so it's not totally useless. Also redid nails yesterday and painting the right nails was much easier than last time. Happy Thursday! (Comment on this)
Monday, August 10th, 2009
7:26 am	Hello Monday. So of course I only slept about 6 hours, but that's entirely to be expected after some notfeelingtoowell, and being used to my sleep being suddenly attacked by silly giant dogthing. But it was 6 fabulous hours, and I'll make up the difference later. So got up, stuck some meatballs in the crockpot (maybe that's a metaphor?), and got online and was talking to cryo, he asked if I could check and see if some ads were working properly on one of his sites. I didn't do it right away and apparently paid the price. eris: The second I clicked on an ad, the power went out. eris: Just long enough for me to yell "Whoah! WHAT THE SHIT?!" and start to stand up, then it came back on. Cryo: do not underestimate my powers again eris: Fucking seriously. eris: I like my electricity, please not to be turning it off. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
6:35 pm	Hello August! I like August, cause August is nearly September, and September is the tail end of the OMGHOT. This pleases me. Right at this moment I can't remember what of recent illness has gone friended and what hasn't. Fuck it, I'll sum up. I was very sick for nearly a month and it looks like it's going to continue to bother me with some horrid off and on exhaustion for a while. I was feeling considerably better (tired-wise) sometime last week and thought I could act like a normal person. Which resulted in far too little sleep and far too many outs and doings. So by Friday I was feeling pretty awful and pretty stupid. But Josh really wanted to go to movies, and I really wanted to see Brüno. Brüno was fabulously horrible, as expected. I was entertained for every single one of the 80+ minute run time. However there was a chick a few rows back from me who was apparently watching a movie 4x as funny as I was, which was a little distressing. So since Josh went to see Transformers, which is like four hours long, after my movie was done I went over and sat with him. It was really (really really really) glaringly awful bad, honestly one of the worst movies I've ever seen. DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD. The robot animation was fucking gorgeous, the explosions and action were awesome. A couple camera shots were so beautifully framed they took my breath away for a second. However, the dialog was seriously twice as bad as the previous movie, to the point where I'm pretty sure there wasn't any actually written, that the actors were just given the storyline and told "say whatever you think your character would say in this situation". It would have significantly improved the movie if you were given the ability to mute the dialog, as mostly what they were doing was just narrating what was going on. With one exception; the old crazy senile decepticon was fucking awesome, I could have watched an entire movie with just him. With the exception of his long monolog explaining the entire story, during which I left to use the restroom and came back and realised that I hadn't missed a damn thing. And that's about it, went to library on Sunday, been helping son of owner with information on properties to buy to rent out here. Gonna dog-sit for LoopyLady later this week. State of the wrist: pissing me off. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
3:31 pm	Current claws. It's difficult to take pictures of when I do checkers, this was like the 5th attempt, and the only that turned out anywhere near decent. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
4:38 am	Blarg I seriously need to befriend more insomniacs. Or maybe just more Aussies. (Comment on this)