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[salinea]

Something Positive on Alan Moore.

Trufax.

(yes this is the second time in a few that I rec something for S*P. That's because this web comic is awesome and the one I've been following for the longuest time. Shut up.)

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Now, in tales of my day to day life. You might remember my computer at home was broken. Now because I'm currently living at my parents' due to absence of showers at my home, I wasn't overly concerned with the lack of computer. However lots of stuff that could be useful are still on my computer, like the Photoshop program I could have used to make a pretty Bloody Valentine card today and old work in progress writing stuff.

So I've finally called someone to fix it. Guy asks about my Windows Licence. I kinda look hazy in answer, because all my installation, drivers and other v. serious CDs were left at my parents'. I say I'll look them up.

Back at Parental home, I soon realise something. The area I used to have those v. serious CD as well as v. v. old anime series CD (like the EVA series all in one CD with an image quality that makes You Tube videos look like HD) has undergone a serious restructuration and is now all GONE (I should have known that given that this is the place I've been living in for the last 4 monthes or so, I guess I'm not very observant). So I ask my father kindly where he put the CDs.

Father answers, kinda pissed off and haughty that I dare ask his help about something : there are no CDs. Even if there were CDs there would be at my home. He remembers giving me those CDs and the big brown boxes there were in.

Me, I have big brown boxes at home, but there's only DVDs and books in them, AFAIR, but I'm willing to check to make sure. Otherwise I'll have to buy back a windows licence for 80€, and would have lost all the ripped off programs like Photoshop I had along with my v. serious CDs. Yay.

So I go back home (1h30 to go from parents' home to my home), and of course I find nothing.

This time I'm pretty pissed off when I'm back at parent home (another 1h30) and demand to know what my father did of all the CDs. Father still doesn't remember anything and thinks maybe I never did have a Windows licence (he's the one who bought me the computer, it was a birthday gift), or something, but I do manage in covincing him to at least look up in the cellar.

Now, of course our cellar is a very big mess with lots of stuff hanging around half rotten in badly indicated boxes and dangerous piles of stuff with miraculous balance.

So we search, and search, and search (I find out my dad has hidden my RPG of Buffy!) and search and search. And we find it.

All my v. serious CDs (including some not relevant anymore to current state of computer) and v. old anime CDs and a bunch of miscelleanous kinds of CDs and my ripped off Photoshop one. (actually two of them, PS5 and PS7 both). In those same big brown boxes I also have home. Joy.

So now I've given my computer to be fixed and I hope I'll get it back today or tomorrow.

Conclusion : never ever ever trust your father. He knows not what he talks of.

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I've almost finished with catching up with House. I'm also downloading Battlestar Galactica but it's taking time.

So what should I watch now?

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And Happy Valentine to you all!



Because nothing says 'I love you' like defenestrating little kids who just caught you doing the naughty with your sister ^_^
(art by pojypojy)

Comments

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Wow, brilliant picture! I'm off to check the rest of this artist's work!

Also, dads know nothing about your stuff. It is known.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

she's very good, she does lots of HP art too.

Yes! trufax!

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

yay for House! the most recent ep with Mira Sorvino was fabulous, (love her!) and the one with the Chassidic woman was pretty good too. Guess what, they both had a **mystery illness** that only House could cure.

Have you seen The Wire yet? It's as good as people say, but it took about four eps for me (being a white kid from the suburbs) to get over culture shock of a show where 80% of the characters are black.

Also good is The Shield, if you like crime dramas. Season five was my favorite; Forrest Whitaker was acting up a storm. Also they only do about 13 eps a year, so it's not like you'd have to catch up on 200 individual shows. It's the last season this year, for which I'm glad. It jumped the shark a while ago.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

Guess what, they both had a **mystery illness** that only House could cure.

And at the last minute he was sitting there talking about something else, and then suddenly it occurred to him what they actually had!

Oh, wait, sorry, I didn't mean to spoil anything...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

No; no spoilers, nooooooooooooooooo!!!! ;_;

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

okay I guess I haven't seen the latest ep then.

The Wire, hmmm, I hadn't heard much about why not.

I did watch a bit of the Shield on TV, it was pretty interesting but I don't think I'd go as far as downloading it on purpose.

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

there's a lot of crossover for people who like GRRM also liking The Wire. totally different genres, I know, but it's all in how the story is told.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

well in The Wire, and a lot of HBO shows, they take a long time to develop the plot and characters. I can understand why a lot of folks don't like it for that reason; nothing really gets going until about episode four of season one. Also, a lot of te characters aren't simply good or evil, they're a bit of both. No one in The Wire is looking to be rich or even "happy" as they understand it, they're all just trying to get by. Even the gangsters aren't really about the trappings of material success, they're more about "the game" and having an untouchable position in it.

Oh, and like in GRRM, none of the characters are safe. People have said that the unfolding of the story is much like reading a long novel. I agree.

here's the latest wankfest on ASOIAF for The Wire:

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=25339

oh yeah and there's a bit of kinky sex. that Irish actor who plays McNulty must be having a great time. =)

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

Aww, I'm flattered XD Heck, Jaime surely is the epytome of hopelessly devoted love, in his own special way XD

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

wow you're good, how did you find me? o_o

yeah your art is gorgeous ^^

He kinda is XD

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

I just pay attention to my flist ;-) glad you like my stuff!

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*handpalms* can't believe I hadn't noticed you'd friended me ^^

[rebbe]

Because nothing says 'I love you' like defenestrating little kids who just caught you doing the naughty with your sister ^_^

I lol'd (:

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

You lol'd, now you must read!

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

XDD Well, that's the best Valentine's day image I've seen so far. Very apt for that series.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah :)

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! That's so disturbingly gorgeous, knowing exactly what they are looking at.

Awesome. :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

You should tell this to pojypojy ^^ she also did a couple other drawings of the scene.