I Ain't Afraid of No Daleks

"Oh ma'word, back away ladies! Quick! Somebody call the fire brigade! I'm stuck up this tree 'cos I had to run away from all these sex-mad women! Being hottie-licious has its drawbacks"

I've borrowed a computer for a very short time--30 minutes to be precise. I blogged something on Roasting David Tennant, and now I have this to say about the the big divide between republicans (conservatives) and democrats (liberals):

When Clinton--a democrat was prez, we were at peace. When Clinton was prez we had no massive foreign terrorist scares. When Clinton was prez, poor kids, the elderly and disabled had better access to food, education, job training, housing assistance and medicine.

Oh yeah, and isn't it funny (or not) how Republicans conveniently forget that Bill Clinton nearly wiped out our national debt--the national debt clock in Time Square was nearly down to zero---and under George H W Bush...they've literally run out of numbers!!

Who would YOU rather trust???

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Tagged by Tardisgurl again:

"newspaper meme"

1. How often do you read a newspaper either from a news agents or online?

Online, daily to several times a week. hard copy newspaper...seldom, as the Post-Star has gone from a respected regional paper to a rubbish republican rag pubished for people with low educational standards.

2. How often you read the national news?

Almost daily

3. International news?

Daily

4. local/regional news

Almost daily to a couple times a week.

5. Finacial news

Hardly ever

6. Sports

Never

7. Celebrity gossip?

a few times a month maybe

8. Arts/culture?

several times a week

9. Food?

Hardly ever

10. Editorial/opinions, letters to the editor, blogs?

Daily to several times a week..depends.

11. Advice columns, horoscopes, etc.

Seldom

12. Comics

Sometimes

13. Obituraries

Only rarely

14. Classifieds

Sometimes

15. Human interest/feature articles

Sometimes

BCUK IS NOT SHOWING PROPER SPACES ON THIS BLOG...SORRY EVERYTHING'S CROWDED TOGETHER, NOT MY DOING.

I had to check an e-mail---was hoping for some advice, but the consensus is that I've well and truly somehow screwed up this new hard drive. Anyway, I noticed that I had one last two-part meme in my saved box that I'd missed, so I copied and pasted it on here. My last hoo-ra, so to speak.

It's boring so if you're having insomnia troubles, these two are just the cure for that, ha-ha.

It's just 7am, I've been up since half-past six, as my coughing woke me again. It's grey, cold and dreary...oh, is that a few snowflakes I see? Brrr! Just a couple though. For us native northeastern New Yorkers--and most people in neighbouring Vermont--, a couple of snowflakes don't make us turn a hair. We have to get at least a foot or more of white stuff, before we even deem to start to complain...tho' we may grumble a bit, about having to haul out our sweaters (jumpers) and winter coats and all that...it has to get below zero (F, not C), before we get into true grumble mode.

That reminds me. Next month I have to start looking for some proper winter boots--my thermal insulated wellies sprung a hole in the left foot last year...all I have is a pair of ugly black knee-length rubber wellies that I got for ten bucks at Tractor Supply Company last winter--good for slush and deep puddles, but totally unsuited for sub-zero F weather.

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PART I "The inner-you meme"

1. Name a significant event that occured when you were 5 years old.
My mum's dad committed suicide...tho' I wasn't told this until I was around 20 or so.

2. A significant event that happened at the age of 10.
Our school's health, music and gym teachers--whom all lived in our village and of course, whom we all knew personally-- were on a hijacked plane that was forced to land in Egypt, I think. When they came back to school, it made national and international news, and we had a local/national press conference in our school's gym that we were allowed to attend.

3. Age 20?
Let's see, I THINK there was the hostage crisis over in the Iran, I think, and Mount Saint Helen's blew her top, killing a mess of people, and causing temperatures to rise that summer and also some truly spectactular sunsets...oh, and Moonraker was released in the local theater..tho' I don't know if a non-Bond fan would consider that a "significant event," ha-ha. I was in college and living away from home for the first time. I went off by myself a couple of thousand miles away, to work and live in the Wyoming wilderness (Yellowstone Park) for the summer.

4. Age 30?
Wasn't that when we had the Gulf War? And, that's the year I left my cushy $16,000 plus a year--with 2 week's paid holiday time and full medical/dental/optical benefits-- office job, working for a Fortune 500 company, to take a $7,000 a year job--with zero holiday time and absolutely no benefits, including no health care insurance--- to go work solo five days a week, as a stable hand at a big dressage barn...and I loved ALMOST every minute of it.

5. How did you see yourself when you were a teen?
I thought I was fat and ugly. I was country, when country (with my peers) very much wasn't cool--tho' ironically, it would be, less than five years later-- an outsider--tree huggers and straight (non pot smoking non-drinking) kids were considered way uncool in my high school--, I felt..well knew, actually. I was very quiet and shy and introverted, I was clumsy and forgetful and unsure of myself a lot...except when I was out in the woods and fields with just me and the dogs, then I could be anything I wanted to be, and felt like I could take on the world. And, I suspect I may have been a bit of a spoiled mummy's girl. But, all that said, I feel that I hadn't lived in the outside world long enough to really dislike myself yet.

6. How do you see yourself today?
I think I'm fat and ugly. I don't like myself very well...okay, I hate myself a lot, I guess. I think I'm tetchy, cranky--bordering on the tempermental--, selfish, depressed and too negative. I've basically given up on myself, I suppose. Tho' I like to think I've become more understanding of people's problems and motives than I was when I was younger, and much much more self-aware of my own motives emotions, and also, I think I have developed a good sense of humour.

7. How many long term relationships have you had with men/women?
A sum total of none. I've never dated anyone long enough to have anything that might be termed a relationship.

8. Had any big career or life changes in the past five years?
Oh yes. I tried to go back to college to change my life and also to have a career I loved, rather than a job I hated...didn't work though, and I had to drop out in '05 a year shy of getting my BA degree. Went to Egypt, almost bought my dream home--but became disgusted with my (now I realize rather shady) mortgage lender and backed off--Lost my dad and mum and pretty much all of my aunts and uncles. Lost my caravan home, my car, two jobs (due to circumstances beyond my control), five of my seven cats, evicted for the first time in my life, almost died last year, got a permanent (and painful) limp last year, and, on the positive side, made new and wonderful friends--such as I've never had before...oh, and Dr Who came back...belive it or not, that was a very big deal for me.

9. Dreams?
Used to want to write or do something creative and/or do something useful/helpful for a living, have my own little home, own a horse--or at least get to be near horses more often, visit (or live in) the UK, have friends to hang out with. Don't wish for any of that, any more. Waste of time.

10. Your personal philosophy/outlook right now?

Keep my head ducked down, don't look back too much, or forward...just take it one day at a time and hope to heck I survive.

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PART II fun meme (NOTE: some answers changed, 'cos I did this a couple of months ago, and I wanted to update a couple of the answers (DVD/CD queries).

1. What are you wearing?
My grey retro Pink Floyd tee, indigo denim jeans, grey socks, my Ariat jameson boots.

2. Last five DVD's you watched?
Dr Who Utopia, Shadow of the Thin Man, A Double Life, Scarlet Street, The Magnificent Seven.

3. Three favourite actors?
Derek Jacobi
David Tennant
James Stewart

4. Three favourite actresses
Catherine Hepburn
Lauren Bacall
Catherine Tate

5. Three favourite bands at the moment?
The Proclaimers
The New Pornographers
Kaiser Cheifs or the La's

6. Last three CD's you played?
The New Pornogrpahers Electric Verson
Dr Who Series 3 soundtrack
The best of the Proclaimers

7. Three favourite television programmes of all time?
Dr Who
Remember WENN (an American A&E cable network series back in the 1990's)
Are You Being Served?

8. Three favourite police dramas/Detective programmes of all time?

Law and Order
Columbo
Simon and Simon

9. Three favourite Sci-fi or action type programmes?
Dr Who
Original Battlestar Galactica (25 years ago)
Bionic Woman or Quantum Leap

10. Three favourite reality programmes?
US version of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo network)
Both (US/UK) versions of Anitiques Roadshow
Top Chef (Bravo network)

I keep getting booted off the internet and my screen's going wonky. Hard drive problem? I can't get a registry cleaner, and can't find anything that will fix this, so I'm going to go offline at home in a day or so. I will go back online briefly, perhaps now and again, to check PM's...but can't stay on long without everything totally crashing, so I'm leery of turning on the computer too much. Thanks all.

Well, about 45 minutes to go before quitting time. Hope my voice holds out, it's getting a bit rough. Ah well, such is life.

It was a lovely sunset tonight, downright picturesque, actually. If I'd had a camera or could paint, I think I would have liked to capture it for posterity. The dark roiling clouds of autumn parted just enough to bathe everything--the cream coloured deco style building on the corner of Bay Street, the ponderous granite of the Episcopal church, the orange maple trees the dark looming bulk of the Adirondack foothill to the south--all cast in a pale orange and rosy glow.

We're to get a dusting of snow tomorrow, and it's to be rather chilly for a few days, with temps in the 20's to 40's F, with high winds behind it.

The golddust twins--my nickname for the two chav teens next to me, have been spending most of their time, popping up and down out of their seats. Another teen in the next row is alternating between singing out loud and hiccuping. That should impress the clients visiting the office tonight, yesirre bob.

Ah well. Wot the hell, some other evening, some other time...I'm outta' here in ten minutes. Don't think I'll bother with supper after I get home. Think I'll sit up for a bit..see if a miracle has happened and my computer is back to normal, LOL, then feed the cats and go to bed and hope I can get some sleep tonight.