GeeCee's Not-Entirely-Original Miscellany

I got pretty much sweet f##k-all done this weekend. Friday, nminusone and I revived the old "Chinese takeout and a movie" date night, hooked up the laptop to the TV, and watched "The Core" courtesy of Netflix streaming. That movie is so godawful that it wraps back around to being pretty entertaining. How on earth did they get Stanley Tucci and Hilary Swank to sign on for this?

Saturday I'd meant to do some cleaning and some working outside on the front floodplain lawn. Instead, I spent the day reading Small Favor. I liked it, I think it might be one of my favorites of the series to date. Hulu provided us with BSG 4.1, thank goodness, so I don't have to bother turning back on cable TV service to see it, if I'm willing to wait for a day.

Yesterday I did actually manage to do some kitchen cleaning and a few loads of laundry, and stumbled across--chadu, cover your eyes--a Dresden Files fic community devoted to Bob/Harry. My brain envisions that pairing as, of course, Paul Blackthorne and Terrence Mann and then I kinda flail about going "ohIwanttowatchthosetwomakeoutlikewhoa" and all productive thought stops for a while. Later there was lunch and some hanging-out time with Boyfriend[2], whom I kindly did not traumatize by going on about DF slash, and I read about half of The Wild Trees. That book has a good description of the sort of acrophobia I experience. Even being near windows in a tall building causes a physical reaction (in my case, my feet start tingling like circulation is returning to them) and there's a feeling that I should throw myself off whatever high place I happen to be. Boyfriend[2] has a 16th-floor balcony, and I sometimes have a very hard time getting myself out there because I'm afraid I'm going to find myself climbing over the railing. Note: that's not because I'm in the least suicidal (I'm not), there's just something in the back of my brain saying that it would be an intense experience, and don't I want to try it?

Today I'm trying to get a Twiki upgrade from Cairo to Freetown working without completely mangling plugin customizations; that's what I've been doing for the last 5+ hours, yay. Hopefully I'll work myself up to spending half an hour or so decluttering tonight; trying to do any one room is kind of overwhelming if I try to do it all at once, but half an hour at a time ought to be manageable. At some point, I should also write up an intro post for crankysavers and catch up on some email that needs answering. I'm not holding my breath for that though, nor should anyone else. =/

Temporary distraction: poking around and figuring out the URL to download one of the QuickTime HD trailers for "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" so that I can watch it from my desktop when I need a break. Entirely worksafe porn! ("Wtf?" icon not particularly relevant to post content other than in the context of "Girl, don't you have anything at all better to do?", but I'm using it anyway because it gives me bad, slashy thoughts; the only thing it's missing is scruffy Norrington. Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot!)

If you care, the direct link to the 127 MB 720p trailer is here and the 50 MB 480p version is here