LadyCrimson

I don't think it's your imagination... This week I've been suffering from "dry/cold winter air" syndrome, where the sinuses become affected via those shooting pains whenever you breathe, bloody noses, crazily itchy skin, dry eyes and throat etc. Sometimes the sinus pains are so sudden and severe I'm bent over in eye-scrunching agony, especially if you add on quick temp. changes on top of it (outside to heated inside). I don't usually get this very much, so it's kind of weird. Maybe the latest chill-front is extra dry. Or it's the gas wall furnace heater in our new house w/it's intense radiant heating vs. central fan/vented heat we used to have. Whatever the reason, it's been bad. Anyway, I tried hanging wet towels from the ceiling over where the gas furnace heater is, but that didn't alleviate anything. Boiling a pot of water only steams up the kitchen windows like mad, which isn't good. After reading about the pros and cons of retail humidifiers and not liking the sound of any of them, I ended up taking an old electric rice cooker, filling it with water, leaving the lid off, and turning it on for an hour or so now and then. Produces a very wispy light steam, doesn't "sog" up the room/walls and I can put it in any room. Works great. ... my life is currently so exciting.

What OS are you using? I still use XP so I dunno if Vista is different, but if I open Explorer and r-click on the DVD drive letter and select Properties, there's an Autoplay menu where you can choose what action you want to happen depending on the type of content. It seems mostly program related - ie, you can tell it to auto-open movie DVD's with Nero or auto-open music files with WinAmp. By default, it has a "Prompt Me For Action" selected. I don't think this specifically affects games or install programs that try to self-auto-start, tho ... but I've never tried messing with it much, since I've never had a problem with those not starting.

Not a movie but I watched the season ender of Nip/Tuck again to refresh my memory. New season's 1st episode tonight...yay. The show has gone from over-the-top soap drama to way way way beyond that, but for some reason I still love to watch it.

I clicked on that link last night and got lost in the Anyone Can Die trope. All the links and such leading to examples and articles about their examples that lead to articles about the shows that lead to articles about...

I love squirrels. But I can appreciate when they decide to be ornery or troublesome etc., that they'd be a big pain in the arse, like any animal that dares to infringe upon human comfort and convenience. They pretend to be all cute and stuff to get our food, but then watch us from our roofs and make rude arm gestures at us.

Dark Knight - except for Ledger's riveting performance, I thought it was rather "meh." Not bad or anything, just "meh." Of the two, I liked Batman Begins a lot more.

A dozen cows = a flink. I wear size 5 1/2 womens shoes. Your toenails grow much slower than your fingernails.

They can look out the window. I do let 'em outside for a few supervised minutes now and then but not much. I don't like my kitties being run over by cars. :/ Don't like fleas either. heh One day I'll build an outdoor but fenced in cat-run. Hubby's having one of those days. It puts him to sleep. He needs "emergencies" to wake his brain up.

Heh, yeah, they scamper everywhere. And I think he buries most of them. I've never seen a squirrel so obsessed with burying nuts, he really goes to town. I think he'd come to the door every 10 minutes all day long, but I don't want our yard or the neighbors yards being nothing but peanuts so I only give him a handful. Mine are indoor-only, but there's about 6 cats who periodically frequent our yard. The squirrels don't seem very bothered by them. They'll even be aggressive and chase/battle the cats when they get too close, which is funny. But most of the cats here aren't very big - just the 5-7 lb sort.

This one now comes to the door for peanuts. Soon as he gets one, he dashes off, but in a few minutes comes right back for another one. Often I can tap the peanut on the wall and he'll show up almost immediately. I started doing it this way because of too many large birds that would "steal" peanuts out of a dish faster than the squirrels noticed they were there. The squirrel's buddies aren't as brave as this one, but they often dig up the peanuts he buries. So instead of the bread-winner, I guess he's the "peanut winner." The first hour of my morning now consists of sitting by the glass door drinking my caffeine, w/peanuts in my robe pocket. No, I don't try to pet him or anything stupid like that.

Yeah, we saw that not too long ago. It has a few almost-belly laughs, and is overall a cute movie, but it's not as funny as one might hope. But it's silly-entertaining. Got around to taking that Film Addict "test." Result was 55.6% Which surprised me since I don't tend to like sitting through most 30's-50's classics - the style of acting in those days grates on me. But I guess I saw a lot more of them than I thought I did when I was younger/forced to when I was kid, or something. I've seen a lot of the 60's/70's/80's films (and all Alfred Hitch**** movies, apparently). Like others, there's quite a few on that list I've seen bits and parts of, but not all in one sitting, so I had to say "no" on those.

Started my day by shuffling towards the kitchen for my dose of caffeine and slipping on un-noticed cat puke and falling on my arse. It could only get way better from there, and it did. Rain outside, warm fire inside, smells of cooking, and loved ones. Warm fuzzies.

Not a top 10, just some ones I liked: Rob Petrie - The Van Dyke Show Al Bundy - Married w/Children The Odd Couple (both of them) Benson - Soap Data - ST:TNG House - House MD Gil Grissom - CSI: Vegas Columbo KITT - Knight Rider (1980's) President David Palmer & George Mason - 2nd season of 24 Alex and his Dad - Family Ties Underdog! ...I'm sure there's more and better ones but that's all I feel like thinking of right now.

I don't have the system either, but I'd be tempted to buy one just to check this game out.

Oh noes.

On cable this afternoon I watched a 1996 Aussie film called "Dating the Enemy." I turned it on because it had a pre-LA Confidential Guy Pearce and I was curious. But it was one of those tired-plot body-switching movies - guy and gal switch bodies etc. So I didn't expect much but I thought maybe it'd be mildly amusing. Despite a few good jokes that worked (guy in the woman's body having menstrual cramps, stuff like that) it was abysmal...one of those films where the movie stars wished they'd never had to do, I bet.

Right now, I'm trying to convince myself that I like brown rice. I like brown rice It's really really nice Because unlike white rice It doesn't look like lice. ...it's not working.

I saw the title "scandalous" and was expecting drunk lampshade dancing pics or something. I'm disappointed. Seriously...nice pics. I really like the first one, great scenic portrait photo.

The rainwater that had collected in my birdfood dish outside was frozen this morning. Not all the way into a solid round bowl-shaped ice-cube, but more than half-way there. Hey, it's coastal California...doesn't happen too often. I'm still waiting for another sea-level snowfall, like when I was in 2nd grade. It could happen.

I ended up liking TQ/IT a lot and actually finished it. I thought I was going to re-play it, either w/new chrs. or higher difficulty, but it lost me after that. It was very fun while it lasted tho. And I absolutely loved the shared-stash feature. All hack n slash games should have those. :D Still playing Dungeon Siege2...mid-way through the 2nd difficulty and still having a blast. I didn't like the DS2 Broken World expansion very much, so I went back to the "original" version. Broken World has some ok skill re-balancing but the new Act sucks/is boring and I can't stand what they did to the item mods - where every single item feels like some variation of "Chance to do some magic effect on hit" and not much else. Feels lifeless and dull compared to the original three acts, so I'll stick to DS2 2.2.

DS2 has an easter egg level that, among other things, is filled with game-maker persona chrs standing around in many rooms, most with things to say if you click on them. It was kinda cool. The most fun, tho, was "meeting" Chris Taylor, who wa very busy having a pillow fight....and then "stealing" his pillow. Now time to try Broken World. After doing all the stuff to avoid the inn bug (no mods needed, either), I decided to start from scratch anyway, cause I got PO'd at the way BW's lvl 39 npc's are built, compared to what I'd turned them into.

No, I'm not using BW yet. I bought it since it was cheap, but I heard it changes levelup/power/chr. formulas or something - plus I'm a little worried about the inn-bug if you import your party I heard about - so I'm waiting till I finish the original game at least once. I'm almost there.

The thread title excited me. The actual article announcement did not. I thought it was fun. No replay value, but silly fun. It's not DK tho... That's my take on it. I'm sure they can take the environment (you play a monster instead of a "hero") and all of that and turn it into a MMORPG, but to me DK means strategy game...not a RPG. A DK-themed on-line RPG...I don't see it being anything but another WoW or whatever. What would the imps do in a RPG? Could you play as an imp? I suppose playing a Bile Demon with varying levels of super-farting powers might be kinda amusing tho.

Interesting...akin to the meanings behind our human names. I guess Oakland was named for having a lot of oak trees or something...not much change there, hah.

True Lies Terminator 1 & 2. Call me weird, but I also liked Twins a lot...