I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

There are tens of thousands of fan-girls out there, who think you're hot-- from your hairy legs to your daft ol' hair.

One of them I am not, sorry to say, but hey, at least I think you're (almost) as good as Derek Jacobi, ey?

Yes David, there are female fans out there, who don't think you're a sex-god, and will never drool over your...erm--sexy (cough) bod.

(And by the way, would you PLEASE comb your hair?)

I for one, will never get all slurpy and swoon-ah, and also there's Skategurl, and an old woman named Edwina from a town called Altoona.

My ten-minute break today. The Turkish bath weather is on its way, coming in today and not leaving again 'till Sunday, perhaps. Bleh! I really do miss living near the water, sometimes. It was so great, just being able to pop up (or down) the road for a quick swim (or what I do that marginally passes for swimming) to cool off. Gotta' get rich so I can buy myself a little pool or a bungalow by the lake, ha-ha. Yeah...dream on. Couldn't even afford a kiddie's wading pool, LOL.

Oh well, it could be twenty below zero (F), and blowing a gale, or freezing rain, or sleet, or a raging blizzard dumping a couple of feet of snow on us. One has to look at the positives, when one can. It's that whole half-full/half-empty glass thing, ya'know?

Kind of chuffed over the prospect of MAYBE seeing a play this weekend. My first one in nearly 3 years. I don't know a thing about Two Gentlemen from Verona, but, who cares? It's a PLAY--and it's FREE. Far-out!

Well, break's over. At least my lunch is ready and waiting for me, when I get home. I've still got two hours to go and already I'm famished....after several weeks of not wanting to eat, my appetite came back yesterday with a vengence, and it seems to be trying to make up for lost time, today, ha-ha.

hair, and it might as well be me...

Okay, as my dear old late mum would likely say, the man looks like he's just stuck his fingers in a light socket.

Now, I know light-socket hair is apparently in, but...I'm afraid I am old-fashioned and I really just would like to know, why the blinking boy refuses to use a comb. Don't they make hair gel for that? Comb your hair David! And, don't forget to shave and put on clean pants every morning...

"There's always such a long quue for the loo, whenever we have an invasion-break..."

Apparently, Avent DOES have "glitch," a MAJOR one---It will not allow me to open two broswer windows at the same time. WHAT'S WITH THAT???

Unless I can figure out how to open multiple windows with this thing, so I can toggle back and forth, I guess Avent is OUT, and it's back to stinking Mozilla or IE. Who's stupid idea was that, not allowing the browser to open multiple windows? What IDIOT thought that would be a brilliant idea?

God, computer people sometimes haven't a lick of common sense, do they? No wonder this planet is doomed.

Well, actually, it's more like early afternoon. MOi accidentally overslept just a wee little longer than what's good for her. Woke at nearly quarter past ten! Considering that I'd intended to wake at half-past seven, that's a bit of long over-sleep for me. Now, after bustling about cooking breakfast of bacon and some potato pancakes (bad for the cholesterol but oh so very tasty...) I have all of about 15 minutes to blog in, before getting ready for work.

Lovely day here--may get hot later by right now there's a truly delicious breeze wafting through my open window--feels very refreshing. Also nice sleeping without waking up soaking wet. My bedroom was a nice comfy 74 F degrees last night, instead of the usual upper 80's F (30's C).

I lost my glasses this morning though--which is hard to do, as I always put them in the same place, every night..but somehow (I suspect the cat may be involved in this) they wound up way underneath my bed! Considering that my vision is garbage, it's not a good thing, losing my glasses--wouldn't be able to do my job, use a computer, cook, clean, etc...you can imagine my relief when I finally found them. I had spares--a pair of semi-freee NY state medicaid glasses--which literally fell apart less than a month after I bought them--nice to know the taxpayer's money is being so well spent. Every time the optomotrist fixed one bit, some other bit would come apart. Finally gave up on them and threw them away.

I changed browsers last night several times, until I found one that works..okay. I tried Opera--too complicated and it messed up my bookmark function...and the scroll bar was practically invisible.

IE, I found out is still total rubbish. I mean, rubbish. Lots of problems with IE that apparently MS has decided doesn't need fixing--and, MS wouldn't let me download the new version of IE, as well...so screw Microsoft.

Netscape proved to be sucking up to Mozilla, so I didn't even want to try them.

So I settled on Avent...which seems...so far, to MOSTLY be working well...have to get used to it, though, as it is a bit different. And, I have to re-programme my bookmarks, of course. Overall though--so far, Avent seems to work pretty fast and has few glitches. It's not perfect, but then nothing is. And at least it only has bogged down once, so far, as opposed to several times a day with Mozilla, and it doesn't kick me off the internet, like IE is wont to do.

Well, it's five past eleven, and I must change. Hope you all have a lovely day. Cheers.

Well, it proved to be a lovely summer evening.

I thumbed my nose at the north-bound trolley-bus, and instead walked downtown. Got there and found myself enjoying the walk, gawking at the buildings there (as if I hadn't seen them dozens of times before), like some kind of hayseed out on the town--"Golllleee, look at all them-there buildings!"

But, it was nice, seeing the crowds (or what laughingly passes for a crowd in Glens Falls), and the moon--the people in the library and in the sidewalk cafe, and looking at the stuff in the windows--I especially like looking in the windows of antique shops...always something interesting to see.

I took a quick gawk at the theatre...Altar Boyz is playing at the Wood theatre, and Indiana Jones is playing at Aimee's Dinner and a Movie. Can you believe? They want 30 flippin' dollars to see the play that's currently running for the Adirondack Theater Festival--The Wood Theatre is NOT income-friendly for us chav nobodys, more's the pity. Why don't they just hang a big sign in the window, "We posh people don't think you low-icomme people will appreciate our cultural entertainment--get lost." $30 flippin' dollars. The most I make in a week, at best, is 166 dollars--that $30 is a BIG chunk of change to someone like me. Screw the Adirondack Theatre Festival, I say. I'm all for supporting the arts--when the arts supports people like me, that is, and doesn't deliberately shut people out with unrealistic prices.

Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now.

However, the GOOD news is, that this weekend there's a FREE play in Lake George, at Battlefield Park, I think. Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen from Verona. For 2 dollars in bus fare, that's more to my budget (and, one can never get too much Shakespeare in their life, can they really?) Hoo-ray!!! I'm gonna' see a play!!! And it's SHAKESPEARE!!!

Providing I can remember where Battlefield Park is, that is. Sure, I lived in Lake George for roughly 7 months...but I WAS working at the motel 7 days a week for nearly 3 of those months, and prior to that, working a very physcially demanding job 20 miles away...so not a lot of time for attending events, when I lived there. I THINK it's across from the big "Million Dollar Beach" on Lake George, which is right on the trolley-bus's route. I'll have to bring my folding chair and a little cooler with beverages, I suppose. It's the 17th or the 19th...I'll have to re-check the paper. It's by some new theatre group--Lake George Theater Lab in Bolton Landing on Lake George, set up by a New York actress whose family has lived on the lake for nearly a century.

And, I'll have to brush up--never read or seen this play, so I will need to familiarize myself with it, so I can appreciate it better when (or if) I do see it.

Still, if I can't figure out where the play is at, there's always the free community band concert that same weekend, in Shepard Park (I've been there, so no problems finding it). The band concert features over 20 community bands, chamber orchestras and wind ensembles from all over New York state, New England and Ontario Canada. This is the same park where they hold the big jazz festival every autumn.

And, barring those two venues, there's a symphony concert down the road, in Crandall Park, I'm told. And some local bands, like Mercer, and Kings of Stupid Mountain (the latter of which is fronted by a former co-worker) (listen here: http://www.myspace.com/scotthannay )

So, despite the income pinch, this weekend I will have something NICE to do, for a change. Miss having mates to hang with, but I Sooo--feel like a human veggie these days, I NEED to get out and about and feel ALIVE again...even if I have to do it by myself.

Well, it's bed time. Hope you all have a fantasic Wednesday.

I have entered BROWSER HELL.

Mozzilla was giving me massive headaces, Oprea wasn't...well it sucks--too difficult to use for a Newbie, too many gadets cluttering up the page, the scroll bar was practically invisible (not good for someone with poor vision), and there was the crap with my bookmarks...
NOW, IE is kicking stalling out...when it's not REFUSING to put me on the internet altogether.

Now, you'd THINK that a big company like MICROSOFT would WANT people to use their browswer, but appranelty that Gates bloke is an idiot (albeit a very wealthy one) and doesn't get that people WON'T use a Mircosoft product if it performs like shite.

So, maybe I'll try Netscape, and see what's what. I got rid of IE because it was kicking me off...I would like to download IE 7, but IE isn't letting me access the download page--how stupid is that?

So, here' to hoping netscape works...if not, back to Mozilla I guess...at least I know how that works and even with the massive problems it has, at least I can USUALLY surf the net with it.

I'm dumping Mozilla Firefox tonight--and good riddance!

A page wasn't responding fast enough for stinking firefox, so it just froze up my whole computer before popping up a "program not responding" box...does this too often for my tastes. Mozilla is a VERY impatient and temperamental browser, with a mind of it's own....sort of like my cat, Flamey.

Gonna' try Opera...wish me luck...

So, I had to run to the shop for something (that's not available from the little store down the street), and while I was waiting, one of my hillbilly neighbour's friends wanted into the locked outside door, so I went and opened it for him---and just then, the bus blew by...NOW, IF I want to go to the blinking store, I have to wait ANOTHER 30 flipping minutes!!!

Okay people, you might have to stinking pay a lot for stinking petrol, but YOU don't have to be stuck waiting an HOUR to go to a store less than 2 miles away (I'm too disabled/ill to walk it), to run a 15 minute errand. Life SUCKS.