Smile! You're On CandidGamera.

I think I enjoy this new freedom from daily posting, and I'm sure many of you enjoy the freedom from reading the usually-dull things I blogged about. Win-win!

Anyways, I wanted to mention a site here called Letterboxd. It's a website for tracking movies you've seen, and it's kind of awesome. On the off-chance that anyone else on my LJ list is interested, I thought I'd mention it and provide a link to my profile!

http://letterboxd.com/candidgamera/

Well, I came in to crow about having tomorrow off, but it looks like LJ has officially removed their good posting interface, leaving only the hideous new one as an option.

Oh, well. It was nice while it lasted.

Someone on Tumblr linked to WhoseLineOnline, which I guess is an aggregate site with embedded links to Youtube, comprising the entirety of Whose Line Is It Anyway - UK AND US versions.

I don't think I've ever used this particular colloquialism before, but I'm as happy as a pig in slop.

I am a bad fan. I DVRed Community last night rather than watch it right away.

I will get to it tonight, hopefully.

Someone forgot to feed the hamsters, I guess.

My heads hurts. I am having to deal with a very demanding (and simultaneously ignorant) person in another department at work; I re-wrote a process that used to require IT intervention to run into one they could use without us, and the news was greeted with "you should have asked us, here's a list of half a dozen vital changes to that process that we need now".. that they haven't needed in the six years its been running in its current form.

In other words, her tone is "Queen Bossypants."

.. this is a woman who once pitched a fit to my supervisor because I bolded a word in an email to her to clarify an explanation that she wasn't getting after three tries.

I've asked my supervisor to address the issue of her tone, but I'm not optimistic. My supervisor is a nice guy - we both had a laugh about the bold text thing - but he's absolutely avoidant of conflict. I guess I'll just have to prioritize her 'requests' appropriately.

So, one of my exercise goals was to get to the point where I can do pull-ups. And now I can do at least one, so that's awesome, but..

Holy mother of god, I think I overdid it yesterday. It's like every tendon and ligament in my arms is on fire, a little bit.

Or like I'm having phantom limb pains with my arms still there. I may need to ease up for a couple of days.

Finally watched both installments of the prototypical Santa-slasher series. As slasher films go, they're entertaining. The second suffers from the fact that almost half of it is flashbacks to the first film, but benefits from a much.. quirkier performance from its lead actor.

And I just love every minute of the second one's 'street rampage' scene. Much has been made of the 'Garbage Day!' line, but for my money, the funniest part is right after he kills his girlfriend's ex, and she's screaming at him : "I hate you! I hate you Ricky!" and he turns to look at her, and there's this little flicker of recognition in her eyes that she is screaming her hatred at a murderous psychopath, and she literally says : "Uh-oh."

Comedy gold.

Blah, blah, interrupted sleep cycle. You know the drill. Brain functioning at half capacity.

Of course, that still leaves me better off than most folks, it seems, so that's good.

I've been updating my Tumblr semi-regularly - my New Comics Day posts, my MST3K favorites posts, my 'Bad Movie Night' posts. I may just become a blogger, yet.

Awakened at 6:40 this morning by my boss - database troubles at work. Basically, to correct a problem we'd had with running out of disk space a couple weeks ago, he'd moved some things around, temporarily fixing the problem - but accelerating us into a different out-of-space error. Oops.

I am very tired and somewhat cranky.

The planned installation of partial central A/C for my house got pushed back, as the contractor signed up to do it went out of business rather suddenly.

Sometimes you just have to growl at the world.

One of my goals over the Christmas Break was to try out or complete a number of the video games I've piled up. I had a notion of 'a game a day' - pop one in, try it out, move on.

Well, I didn't achieve that, but I did finish several games to my satisfaction - enough to delete (on the PC) or sell (on a console) the game in question. Dragon Quest IV I have finished for the second time (on the NES ages ago, and now on the DS). Pokemon Heartgold is done except for a boss battle, and I completed the Platinum Pokedex as a result. Once I do some trading around, I should be able to put Pearl and Diamond to bed for good. I finished Scribblenauts and Super Scribblenauts enough to satisfy myself. I deleted Torchlight (superseded by its sequel) and a couple of minor Steam games I'd been trying out, and I started playing Warhammer 40K : Dawn of War. I'm working on Dragon Quest 9 now.

Feels good to make some progress.