Meanwhile, as for me

[solarbird]

Here, have bullet-point life:

• I wanna see Kannazuki no Miko. I have no idea whether it's any good. I'm also totally squeeing over Princess Princess, but I think I said that already. And yesterday at anime night a character started playing a song and the first six notes were from one of my songs which kind of fruck me out. But then it became completely different. So that was better.
• Does anyone know a 501(c)(3) that could use a 3/4 ton pickup truck? Directly, I mean, not auction-and-take-the-proceeds; I know a lot of ways to do that. But with the auto market in the toilet, sales attempts are full of fail so far. (Not unlike the two stores I put up for Cascadian Mecha Militia and League of Disgruntled Software Workers swag. Snif.)
• This whole mini-RBL+our blacklist+greylist thing is full of awesome. Since I threw it online, across four accounts, I've gotten two pieces of spam handed to spamassassin. (And, of course, zero in actual inboxes.) It's so far down that I've actually reported spam to postmasters again, since in this one case it came from an actual mail server of an actual (tiny) ISP. (They have two Class Cs. OooooOOOooo. Their mail servers are named things like "fish" and "fish2" and so on, meaning we received spam from, um, fish. In Canada. Nigerian scam mail, only rebranded North Korea. The fact that the count enough is low enough for me to care again is epic win.)
• My throat is still terrible. This is really bad. If I'm lucky, I'll be able to practice again by Saturday. That'll give me a week and two days to try to whip this Beethoven thing back into something like shape. AGH HATE HATE HATE NANG DIE. I'm dosing it constantly with nasty medicinal teas and it's helping a lot - two days ago I got about 10 minutes of practice before hitting FAIL (but otherwise felt fine), yesterday I couldn't talk (but felt fine, maybe a little tired), today I can talk a bit but I'm still _{all low like this} which is weird and unpleasant. Also, I can't do much flute practice, as that seems to dry out my throat pretty seriously.
• I'm done with the extra research I wanted to do for my next article, so I start writing it tomorrow, which is good; it's not due for a week and a half, but I don't want to push it. I like being able to do drafts, let them sit for a day, and come back to them.

And that's it for today's Bullet-Point Life. Yay?

ETA: Fred is in REM sleep and twitching furiously. HOW CAN THESE CATS BE SO CUTE?! ^_^

Comments

[mattsnaps.livejournal.com]

I think it officially dates you to call it a "Class C". I used the term "Class A" at work the other day, and my sysadmin said he didn't think I was that old.

The 67-72 trucks are the next big thing for truck restorers, apparently. the Task Force trucks (55 2nd through 59) are becoming less relevant as the people who remember them die off; plus as a lot of the truck guys get older, they kind of want to get into a truck where it is a lot easier to have power steering, power brakes, independent front suspension, and (gasp) maybe even air conditioning.

That said, 3/4 ton and bigger trucks never hold value like the half ton trucks, because they're usually work trucks anyway and it's hard to get some of the running gear parts for them.

[solarbird]

...what do they call them now? "/24s"? Or do they just not bother?

Thanks for the info on old truck fashion. (No, really. ^_^ ) I'm still just hoping to get it into the hands of a charity that can use it.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Kannazuki no Miko is thirteen episodes of angsting and confusion about two girl caught in a terrible curse, overshadowed by an absolutely ridiculous plot involving giant robots that you might have been able to safely ignore if it weren't for the fact that the hopeless (but not hapless) male love interest gets screwed so unfairly by the writers you can't help but wish for more, all to get one worthy frame.

It is absolutely one of my favorite animes of all time. Minus the giant robots. And the evil catgirl who's made sympathetic by a single in episode 12 still that ruins absolutely everything about her. (That could be said of most of the villains, by the way.)

Oh, and make sure you watch the twenty second easter egg after the credits of episode 13. Make damn sure.

When you've watched it, follow this link (http://www3.telus.net/juji_tc/bloggables/piccables/oogamisucks.png) to a webcomic that sums up the entirety of Kannazuki No Miko in one page.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

I have a laserdisc of _Beethoven Lives Upstairs_, which is about the boarding house where he lived during the completion of the 9th Symphony. The son of the owner strikes up a friendship with the eccentric composer, and sometimes sits in on rehearsals. During one choral practice session the female singers are complaining that their parts are two high.

[solarbird]

It's not so much too high, at least, not for me - I've got reasonable quality notes well above the highest he takes us here. (And have sung them! In jury!) It's the way he does it. It's hard for me to describe, but everybody I've talked to who has sung this thing (or anything else he's written) has had the same kind of reaction.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Hey, I bought a couple of the CMM and LDSW things. I'm going to be going back for more later, as well, but two was all I could afford right now.

[solarbird]

OMG really? It didn't tell me! <checks> It's STILL not telling me!

Maybe it won't tell me until I give it my tax number. I was holding off on that until I actually, you know, sold something. ^_^

[solarbird]

Huh! That was it! Oh look, sales! W00t ^_^