Because I haven't posted it for a while.
Monday, April 07, 2008
Toys
I love gadgets. I have loads that hide in cupboards because they never worked for me and are afraid I may do them a mischief.
Today I bought a new one that I hope will allow me to digitise my old videos. How pleased you will all be to see and hear me in the operas I managed to get videoed way back when I had a life outside V-blogging. Then there are the cute ones of my cats as kittens. And Henry counting (riveting stuff).
I have also been trying to play with Adobe Premiere Elements again and make a movie with actual clips in it, but it has defied me at every turn, from failing to recognise media, to freezing, to playing videos from my hard drive UPSIDE DOWN! I don't even know how to achieve that if I wanted to!
My little animated toy, Rio, has to go to the vet's to be spayed tomorrow. I must not resent having to get up at 6am during my holidays, given what my poor little bird is going to go through.
Today I bought a new one that I hope will allow me to digitise my old videos. How pleased you will all be to see and hear me in the operas I managed to get videoed way back when I had a life outside V-blogging. Then there are the cute ones of my cats as kittens. And Henry counting (riveting stuff).
I have also been trying to play with Adobe Premiere Elements again and make a movie with actual clips in it, but it has defied me at every turn, from failing to recognise media, to freezing, to playing videos from my hard drive UPSIDE DOWN! I don't even know how to achieve that if I wanted to!
My little animated toy, Rio, has to go to the vet's to be spayed tomorrow. I must not resent having to get up at 6am during my holidays, given what my poor little bird is going to go through.
Maths Genius
Don't you just hate getting lectures from people who are so ignorant they correct you on things you know far more about than they do?
I went shopping today, and parked in a multi-storey car park attached to the shopping centre (mall) by a pedestrian bridge.
Just as I was about to go back across to leave, I realised I didn't have any change for the ticket machine. I went to the cash desk in the store I was about to leave and asked if they could change a £5 note next time the till (cash register) was open, but everyone seemed to be paying with cards, so the cashier asked someone else (a supervisor?) if they could open a till and change the money for me.
No, she said, because the till would not then balance.
Of course it will, I said, I give you a £5 note, you give me 5 £1 coins, it's still the same amount of money.
No, she explained to the idiot who could not understand the simple principles of mathematics, it knows if you've taken £5 out.
Please don't talk rubbish to me, I replied. You will also have put £5 in, the till doesn't know if a customer has given you one £5 note or 5 £1 coins. Nor does it know if you gave change to a customer as a £5 note or five coins. She suggested getting someone who could explain her logic to this dolt customer.
Don't bother, I said, I'm now an ex-customer of this store. (For UK vixens, it was Debenhams in Bromley, a major store in a major shopping centre.)
Across the way a small one-off store changed my £5 with absolutely no problem, and I was able to get out of the car park without further ado.
I also made note of the fact that the machines in the car park can now give you change from notes...
I went shopping today, and parked in a multi-storey car park attached to the shopping centre (mall) by a pedestrian bridge.
Just as I was about to go back across to leave, I realised I didn't have any change for the ticket machine. I went to the cash desk in the store I was about to leave and asked if they could change a £5 note next time the till (cash register) was open, but everyone seemed to be paying with cards, so the cashier asked someone else (a supervisor?) if they could open a till and change the money for me.
No, she said, because the till would not then balance.
Of course it will, I said, I give you a £5 note, you give me 5 £1 coins, it's still the same amount of money.
No, she explained to the idiot who could not understand the simple principles of mathematics, it knows if you've taken £5 out.
Please don't talk rubbish to me, I replied. You will also have put £5 in, the till doesn't know if a customer has given you one £5 note or 5 £1 coins. Nor does it know if you gave change to a customer as a £5 note or five coins. She suggested getting someone who could explain her logic to this dolt customer.
Don't bother, I said, I'm now an ex-customer of this store. (For UK vixens, it was Debenhams in Bromley, a major store in a major shopping centre.)
Across the way a small one-off store changed my £5 with absolutely no problem, and I was able to get out of the car park without further ado.
I also made note of the fact that the machines in the car park can now give you change from notes...
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Great VDO Video!
I strongly encourage you all to visit the very creative Jazzylin's blog and view her Size 13 video of THE scene from Jones.
It's such a hoot!
http://jazzylin.blogspot.com/
It's such a hoot!
http://jazzylin.blogspot.com/
Welcome Sarah L.
I hope your entirely appropriate use of your husband's laptop enables you to see this slideshow without the screen steaming up.
It's Season 1 Bobby from The Enemy Within. I'm particularly fixated on the picture of his thigh and knee bulging through his trousers as he squats over the torch's body...
It's Season 1 Bobby from The Enemy Within. I'm particularly fixated on the picture of his thigh and knee bulging through his trousers as he squats over the torch's body...
Spring
The promised snow has arrived. Trees have a whole - ooh - centimetre or so of snow on the branches.
The roofs are almost covered in the stuff.
My bird feeders remain in the shelter of a - bush!
This tree was covered in white blossom yesterday. Today it's sprinkled with snow, too.
Have pity, those of you who know what it is like to suffer such extreme weather.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Deleting Comments
I have been powerless to delete the troll comment from a previous post because the terminally useless Blogger won't let me enter the comments page on my blog even when I try to do it from within the dashboard.
I'd email Blogger and ask "WTF?", except that I'm still waiting for them to bother to reply to my plea to them to stop giving me an error message every time I post a slideshow, and that was a couple of months ago. I know Diane has been waiting even longer.
I'd email Blogger and ask "WTF?", except that I'm still waiting for them to bother to reply to my plea to them to stop giving me an error message every time I post a slideshow, and that was a couple of months ago. I know Diane has been waiting even longer.
High standards - or low?
I just ran my blog through the Reading Level Test and this is how it came out:
Well, as a University Graduate I think this is rather a low standard for them to confer on me.
On the other hand, I suppose the content of my blog is rather limited...
Well, as a University Graduate I think this is rather a low standard for them to confer on me.
On the other hand, I suppose the content of my blog is rather limited...
Vincent Night In
My friend made her regular Friday night visit last night, and because there is no 8pm LOCI on Hallmark, we had to entertain ourselves with other V-works.
First we watched Fires Within, unable to comprehend how any woman could choose Jimmy Smits over Vincent (though of course, in real life, she didn't).
Then I dug out The Anatomy of a Homicide. (I wasn't feeling able to watch the actual "Subway" episode.) Luckily, my friend is not only keen on Vincent, but she has a great interest in and knowledge of things film-making, so was fascinated to see the process discussed and illustrated at length.
Unfortunately I haven't capped either of these works, so I've just selected various pictures I've found on the Internet over the years, but I can't account for them. If any of them are yours - many thanks!
First we watched Fires Within, unable to comprehend how any woman could choose Jimmy Smits over Vincent (though of course, in real life, she didn't).
Then I dug out The Anatomy of a Homicide. (I wasn't feeling able to watch the actual "Subway" episode.) Luckily, my friend is not only keen on Vincent, but she has a great interest in and knowledge of things film-making, so was fascinated to see the process discussed and illustrated at length.
Unfortunately I haven't capped either of these works, so I've just selected various pictures I've found on the Internet over the years, but I can't account for them. If any of them are yours - many thanks!
Friday, April 04, 2008
What a Kiss!
I haven't posted any V-films for ages. Claire Dolan is on my plug-in drive and on Photobucket - who have deleted the best butt action shots - but the kiss...mmm!
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Hand in...pocket
It would be such a pleasure to be touched by Vincent's hand. It would also be a great pleasure to BE Vincent's hand when it's in proximity to - er - his favourite body part.
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
The Unblinking Eye
Boy, it was difficult catching Bobby at rest in this episode. I'm sorry for any blurriness, but short of nailing him down (now THERE'S a happy thought!) he just won't always come into focus.
And then, of course, there's the bowl of nuts...
And then, of course, there's the bowl of nuts...
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