Bone Weary

World's worst nightmare - to be trapped in Europe's biggest shopping centre unable to get a sit-down and a cuppa because everywhere was too busy.

What better way to wind down than to dream about Vincent? (This would have been a slideshow if Botophucket had let me, and it would have had MUCH juicier pictures if the same dear people hadn't deleted them - never fear, they live on on my plug-in hard drive, I just don't have the energy to go and get it right now).
















































The cuppa, when I found somewhere to have it, was actually a hot chocolate with whipped cream and a chocolate stirrer, to wash down a lemon and orange muffin. Nearly as yummy as Vincent.

I have GOT to get kissed by that man before I die!

A Good Question

Someone asked what the picture is on Eames' desk. This is the best view I've found of it, but I don't have the software to enhance or enlarge it. It looks like the rear end of a pantomime cow!

Anyone know, or have the wherewithal to find out? Eliza?...

Playing with my 'Bucket

Photobucket invites you to create an avatar. This one is so uncannily like me (cough, cough) as the choices are really aimed at fat middle-aged women (not).

Meet Goren_Fan

A Resolution for 2008

And I think it's one my fellow-Vixens can identify with.

No Wonder!

The ring finger on my right hand is hurting, and it's just occurred to me that having it poised bent over the keyboard and then deploying it to type is giving me some kind of repetitive strain injury, or perhaps an early arthritic condition.

Well, considering I realised last night that I type out posts in my head while lying in bed (or even sleeping) mentally placing my fingers as if touch-typing, I suppose it's inevitable that my digits will get overworked.

Yes, folks, I can touch-type in my sleep. I do so much typing these days that I really can almost do it without looking at the keys. When I was a kid I had a good quality kids' typewriter (a Petite, for those who remember them) and it had a course on placing the fingers on the correct keys, what the home keys were, etc. I never mastered it then, but I'm getting close now.

If I could only manage to stop hitting keys in the wrong order and getting words like "jsut" and things ending in the letters "emnt". (And accidentally posting this halfway through by blundering a finger on to who knows what key that gave the command.)

Happy New Vincent Year

(We hope!)

Here's a short celebration with pictures from another episode i didn't realise I hadn't capped - Con-Text. The one with some fo the best butt shots in the whole of CI...

Sorry about the watermark across the groin in that one picture :(

Of course, he is so beautiful throughout this episode.

Just for Jane - it will bore the rest of you

Jane, I know you only want to spread the benefit of your technical knowhow to us ignoramuses, but you really haven't understood the problem. I didn't either till I called Philips. I originally thought the problem was with my HDD/DVD recorder, on which I recorded the episodes directly from Sky+. When I tried to transfer it to DVD, I kept getting the "copy protected" message, and thought I had inadvertantly done something. When I could not put right what I thought I'd done, I phoned Philips, the manufacturer. They went through it all with me, and eventually concluded that it was a random restriction imposed by Sky. I asked them about using a switchable input/output scart plug to transfer the video copy on to the HDD (my TV-video combi is also Philips) and that was when they told me that there is no output signal from the unit, so I couldn't send it to the HDD no matter what bells and whistles I added. That's when I got out the old video recorder/dvd player combi and fiddled with the various scart plugs (I have a multi-scart socket so I can run extra things through my TV) till the signal got through to the HDD. Thus I recorded the episode to the HDD, edited it, and put it on DVD. I have to do that again to get the last Bobby episode on to a DVD. It has nothing to do with US recordings, it came via Sky and was recorded on Sky+.

The idea of Sky+ is to record a programme to watch later, not to transfer it and keep it. When we do that we are in breach of copyright laws, though of course everyone does it. This is probably just their way of keeping the progamme makers happy on the copyright front. It's very nice of you to tell me I should be able to do it as we live on the same island, but the facts are as I have told them. It is not do-able. The solution is as I have told it. The reason why I can't record my NTSC tapes to HDD/DVD is the lack of output of my TV/video, which has the NTSC capability, not the copyright protection, though that may figure if I ever found a vehicle to transfer it with.

Actually, I have another TV/video which I have just had repaired, and which also plays NTSC videos, so I may try and see if that has an output, then all my problems would be solved! But pretending they don't exist because someone else with different equipment doesn't have them is just a waste of time.

Cuba Libre

Profile With Tongue

Now, this bit of sleight-of-hand would defeat even our Vincent The Magician. First he shuffles the cards, then he deals them out IN SUITS and immediately knows where they are short.