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✒I got good news about my bad ankle from the foot doctor yesterday: the exercise program is working. I won't have to have surgery or take gut-shredding medication. Huzzah.

✒My favoritest show in the whole wide world started its new season last night: Ghost Hunters. Dig those wacky plumbers! Which means I still didn't watch my tape of Wire in the Blood.

✒I've spent the day designing the most ridiculous airship ever. It's been loads of fun, but I'm not sure it would ever get off the ground--or stay in the air. Cartoony, but fun. Frank Reade meets Loony Tunes. If form follows function, this probably doesn't function at all. Must make prettier, sleeker.

✒I spent another $50 at Amazon, justifying it with the "I need it to write my novel" excuse. Okay, maybe I needed one of those books. The others were just because. I will never be out of debt.

✒Being a writer is one of the wackiest things on earth. It means you have to get intimately acquainted with all sorts of strange subject matter: airships/hot air balloons, flintlocks, air currents, string theory, boundary branes, men's underwear...

✒Here's a funny link: Indiana Jones loses tenure.

ETA: Oops. Did that last one already. That's how random my brain is these days.


Random quote of the day:

"All these fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no nearer to the answer to the question 'What are light quanta?' Nowadays every rascal thinks he knows, but he is mistaken."

—Albert Einstein, letter to Michel Besso, 1951

Date: 2006-10-12 11:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magicnoire.livejournal.com
I love Ghost Hunters. I was probably a little too excited than I should be that it was premiering last night. Jay and Grant are totally the best parts of the show. (And it's way better than Most Haunted, which we all know is really just staged but still. People running around screaming is kinda dumb.)

Date: 2006-10-12 11:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merebrillante.livejournal.com
I like it that they run around screaming -- that's what makes it funny.

Date: 2006-10-13 01:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merebrillante.livejournal.com
Ooh, no, I haven't been watching it regularly. I'll have to look for that.

Date: 2006-10-13 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magicnoire.livejournal.com
Oh, Steve is so funny. He's scared of like everything in the world except for ghosts. It cracks me up without fail.

And, yeah, Brian remains a complete and utter mess.

And no, I didn't hear about the sting! I miss everything!

Date: 2006-10-12 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merebrillante.livejournal.com
Let me know when you've finished watching "The Torment of Others," and when you've finished reading The Mermaids Singing. I've got two of McDermid's book out on loan from the library, but they didn't have the next two or three books in the series following Mermaids, so I'm going to run over to the bookstore tomorrow and see if I can find them there. I want to read the series in order.

Date: 2006-10-13 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] affinity8.livejournal.com
Hooray for no surgery!

$50 at Amazon is a small price to pay for sanity.

And thanks for the Inidana Jones link. Pretty funny.

Date: 2006-10-13 06:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com
Yay... glad to hear you don't have to get that ankle cut on. Hope it heals quickly!

Date: 2006-10-15 03:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] java-fiend.livejournal.com
Yay indeed! Speedy recovery!

Date: 2006-10-13 09:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frigg.livejournal.com
Good to hear about your ankle. :)

Date: 2006-10-14 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kmkibble75.livejournal.com
Okay, the Indy thing was awesome. I don;t remember seeing it before.

Date: 2006-10-14 02:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kmkibble75.livejournal.com
and glad to hera your ankle will be okay!

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