evile

bleh

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:20:36 GMT

I swear my planning-fu has gone out the window.

A friend lost her husband unexpectedly in March. She's really been struggling so one of our mutual friends decided to fly out and help her out, and invited me to join her. So I got that squared away - We are flying separately but I timed my flights so that I can share her rent-a-car to drive from Co Springs to Pueblo where our friend lives. We'll stay with her. Friday (tomorrow) to Wednesday 5/1. I had kinda wanted to drive but the other person has fibromyalgia (? or something? ) and being in a car for that long would make her feel so bad she'd have to take a day of rest before and after the trip and she doesn't have that kind of leave time from work.... So, flying. bleh. not my favorite but necessities abound.

Unrelated to that, a friend of mine from the TinyTim days, Clint Weathers AKA Zenrhino on TinyTIM MUSH, AKA FrozenRhino back on LiveJournal, passed away a few months ago and his friends who were giving him end of life care are hosting a celebration of life on May 4. They also live in CO. a couple hours north of Pueblo but not an unreasonable distance of driving.

If my brain was firing on all 4s like it used to, I would have put these facts together before TODAY, and logistick-ed up a way to get to all of these things and back again in some tidy fashion. I just can't make it work. I dicked around with the southwest site and car rental sites and tried to make it squish together in my brain and moneys but it's just not working right. blehhhhh.

Oh, and I had a horrible migraine that started yesterday afternoon and finally let me sleep around 1 this morning...crazy sinus pain/pressure (I sometimes get them before a weather change/storm) plus hot/cold, nausea at any and all smells, vomiting, shooting pains up the back of my neck. I had to change clothes a few times and shower because I managed to sick on myself even though I made it to the toilet. And eventually I learned my lesson and put a rubber band in my hair. It is short but apparently not short enough when i'm doing exorcist style migraine barfs.

good god. My mom, aunt, and I think my younger sister all get them. My cousin on my dad's side, too. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I got one too. I seem to remember something similar, but not as severe, once in Galveston when we'd rented a house for a long weekend for Dickens on the Strand.

bleh. anyhoo....still unemployed but not too worried about it. the Universe throws things my way in a timely fashion. I feel like the Universe wants me to go to Clint's celebration of life goodbye party....I am facebook freinds with some TIMsters still but I am not close-close with any of them. I dunno. bleh. bleh.

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Finished The Midnight Library last night

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:06:04 GMT

Main character Nora found a life she loved and then the rules changed so she couldn't keep it? and had to go back to her original life. Seemed forced. At least she didn't glom onto the man who had been her 'perfect' husband and father of her 'perfect' child in her other 'perfect' life right away as soon as she got back to her original life.

preachy. telling not showing. kind of hand-wavey at her clinical depression. Like, 'oh, just be nice and find kind people and people to love and you won't have depression anymore. ta-da!' Apparently Matt Haig has written other books that have anti-suicide themes and whatnot, from what I gathered in the author bio on the dust jacket at the back. blah. (people on Reddit agree with me!)

I also finished The Descent of Woman. It was a bit dated but I did like it, overall. It's infuriating how badly patriarchy/colonialism has tainted every fucking thing on this goddamn earth, including science. Anthropology/archaeology/paleontology are only as good as the scientists interpreting the objects and fossils they find....if their brains are stunted by patriarchy then what they find is tainted by it as well. :( grr

On the recommendation of my friend Gary H. (Kaa from tinyTIM), I got an e book bundle 'Twisted Folklore'

I am really enjoying it. Lots of women writers and female perspectives. The first book I read was a bunch of short stories that were based in Asian culture. Very cool. And I like short stories. To go with my attention span. LOL

I had not been reading much for the last couple years so it's nice to get back into that habit.

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2213icq w/Hoo

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:10:41 GMT

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evilE

May 21, 2004

evile: that was odd! I got disconnected by ICQ gremlins!

Hoovooloo: [Auto Response] I am currently away from the computer.

Hoovooloo: We all got shoved off here too.

evile: oh, good. Not just me.

Hoovooloo: So you were telling me I learned my lesson.

Hoovooloo: And I said - wait! What lesson?

evile: Heh. I dunno, maybe that it's not the best idea to surround

yourself with jealous TIMbims.

Hoovooloo: 'cause you know, there wasn't a great deal of downside to

that weekend for me.

evile: :P

evile: So maybe you needed to do more party pickups :)

Hoovooloo: It would have been nicer if she didn't immediately move

3,000 miles away, but I didn't really blame myself for that.

Hoovooloo: Should I have?

Hoovooloo: Nah, I never had the knack.

evile: Not at all. J-Law does what J-Law's gonna do. Her head rules her

heart pretty securely most of the time.

Hoovooloo: I'm glad she made it through law school.

Hoovooloo: I'm trying to remember what year that happened in.

Hoovooloo: 1995?

evile: Yup. We went out for the graduation ceremony :)

Hoovooloo: [Auto Response] I am currently away from the computer.

Hoovooloo: Old. I am very old now.

evile: STOP!!!

Hoovooloo: And creaky.

evile: that's just the bed, darlin'...

Hoovooloo: Don't bother sneakin' if the bed is a creakin'.

Hoovooloo: Or something to that effect.

evile: should have mentioned that to Gator...

Hoovooloo: She and Dan were at Loracs wedding.

Hoovooloo: At least back then she still had boobs.

evile: *LOL* Meow!!

Hoovooloo: She had them lopped off! She kept trying to show me the

scars.

evile: nice...

Hoovooloo: No. Not nice. Not nice at all.

evile: I've probably offered to show you my scar at some point...

evile: Or my tattoo. Or something...

Hoovooloo: I wouldn't mind that ;-)

evile: What is it about these drunk gals that want to take off their

clothes in front of you :P

Hoovooloo: One. One, and I don't remember her doing this drunk.

evile: oh, dear.

Hoovooloo: She came out to visit Dory for a weekend, back when she

and Dan were still in Chicago, and desperately trying to get her

pregneant.

Hoovooloo: Every time I read about the rate of children born into

marriages where the husband is not the father, I think of Christine

visiting that weekend.

evile: *shudder!*

Hoovooloo: And weirdly, her kid is blonde. Really, really blonde.

evile: *eyebrows raise* Hmm. VERY interesting.

Hoovooloo: NOT MY CHILD. Let me repeat.

Hoovooloo: There was some weird stuff going on in our house back then.

Hoovooloo: Do you remember that bigheart and faith were engaged?

evile: maybe....vaguely....

Hoovooloo: They were, and this was back when they, I, Dory, J'osh and

Dave were roommates.

evile: woo...

Hoovooloo: faith had a little fling with me before she became one of

our roommates.

evile: Interesting :)

Hoovooloo: Which got very weird. First time we hooked up I figured I

had a new girlfriend.

Hoovooloo: Afterwards she insisted on swearing me to secrecy.

evile: ew.

evile: My definitions of 'cheating' are pretty lax, but secrecy is

definitely a big red flag STILL in my book.

Hoovooloo: Yeah. So secretly slept with me, then publically accepts

the spare room in our group house.

Hoovooloo: I put my foot down and said either it's not a secret or it

doesn't continue, so it didn't continue.

Hoovooloo: She wasn't dating anyone else at the time, and neither was

evile: bizarre!!!

Hoovooloo: After which I didn't tell anyone and eventually just

forgot about it.

Hoovooloo: She, on the other hand, did not.

evile: Oh, lordy!! And it was her idea!

Hoovooloo: After Dory and Sketch broke up, and Dory had moved in to

our group house, Faith apparently started telling her that ....

Hoovooloo: I was very discreet, and that Dory should feel free to use

me for sex to get over Jason.

evile: *yargh!!!*

evile: I wouldn't do Dory with a borrowed dick..

Hoovooloo: Yeah, but you're a girl. Girls learn how to say 'no' a lot

younger than boys.

evile: heh. True enough.

Hoovooloo: Dory chose to hook up with J'osh on the sly instead.

Hoovooloo: But, I'm sure she shared that particular recommendation

with Christine.

Hoovooloo: Faith waited until her relationship with Bigheart was on

the rocks before telling him she'd slept with me.

Hoovooloo: And then she waited until I'd split up with Shani to tell

her about it.

evile: Oh,good lord!! As the TIM-house turns!

Hoovooloo: After which I found out that Faith had been telling people

about 'our secret'.

Hoovooloo: Shani went on and on about me sleeping with her 'best

friend', though they hadn't been friends while we were dating, and

didn't remain friends for much after that.

evile: Oh, for heavens sake!

Hoovooloo: Dory, Jenn and Shani closed ranks then and decided I was

scum.

Hoovooloo: A sentence that was only lifted at the after-party for

Lorac's wedding.

evile: good god!

evile: What a mess....

Hoovooloo: Three years ago I held my final TinyTIM New Years party -

the Year of the Ingrates

evile: AWW!

Hoovooloo: Grafton stiffed me for a room ($300!), Territan kept

clogging toilets and wouldn't leave after the party, and the crowning

moment...

Hoovooloo: Jenn, at 1am on New Years, reeling drunk, having just

accused Kahlua of boinking Mrs. Pew, and having spent half an hour

sucking on Ajax's tonsils, give's me a big hug and tells me that she

loves me dearly, and that I'm an asshole to women.

evile: BWAHAHAH! I wish I'd been there to clean some bimbos' clocks!

Hoovooloo: She'd got it into her head that I'd been complaining about

Jess's weight (we'd been dating for about six months then)

evile: Sorry, I'm sure it wasn't very funny...but I still wish I'd

been there to spank some silly butts.

Hoovooloo: In point of fact, I'd been talking up my own success with

my running regimen, and Jess had been complaining.

evile: bizarre.

Hoovooloo: I'd made up my mind to propose. My family all found out

about that over Xmas. I had a round of second thoughts after Jenn's

little heart-to-heart with me.

evile: yucko!

Hoovooloo: Jenn had decided that I'd posted Jess's weight in my

livejournal. In fact Jess had posted her weight in her livejournal.

evile: !!! I want some of whatever she was on!

Hoovooloo: After we all came home from the party, and after I'd

checked with Jess to see if I was doing anything particularly wrong,

I was hoping for an apology.

Hoovooloo: The apology I got from Jenn was "I'm sorry I told you what

I think of you"

evile: D'OH!!

Hoovooloo: In dropping off some missed items from the party to Dory's

apartment, Dory seemed shocked. Not at Jenn's non-apology, but that I

didn't see myself the same way.

evile: Good lord, what a pack of biotches. Hopefully Jenn's mellowed

out some?

Hoovooloo: I know Shani spit a lot of bile around after we broke up,

and Jenn certainly heard a lot more from Shani than she ever did from

me, but Dory was there, she was my roommate and Shani's friend during

that. She knew better.

evile: Dory...she likes to think whatever she wants to think. For

example, her boyfriend comes up to me and starts rubbing his mostly

naked except for a sheet self on me, and somehow *I'm* the skank..

Hoovooloo: Who knows. So I got another drunken hug at Lorac's

wedding, and Jenn tells me I'm a good guy.

evile: It's always best to try and be on good terms with people if

you can...harder to do if they're NUTS.

Hoovooloo: Of all the women Jason hit on, she chooses one he didn't

actually sleep with.

evile: *laff*

evile: Perish the thought!!

Hoovooloo: My father met her while we were still roomates. He pegged

her as bad news just from a couple of minutes conversation.

evile: Let's see...Sketch=Baloney. McAnnick (& You) = Prime Rib.

Which would you rather have?

evile: Honey, keep your baloney sandwich, I DONT want it...

Hoovooloo: This was at New Years?

evile: Yup! From what I understand, Rhiannon almost decked her in

Chicago because she was talking so much dirt about me.

Some people just like to keep the crap stirred up, makes 'em feel

like they're important. Whatever. Life is too short for drama.

Hoovooloo: That same party had Marian crawling all over

Nick/F'rajoke, with him only interested in Becka.

Hoovooloo: If you'd been single and shown an interest in me, I would

have chucked the rest of them out in the cold.

evile: heh :)

evile: If I'd known about poly back then, I would have just had me a

harem of pretty boys.

Hoovooloo: If I'd had a better sense of TIM politics, I wouldn't have

taken Marian back after that.

Hoovooloo: If I'd had a sense of self-worth back then...

evile: *laff* I'd forgotten how crazy TIM was...as long as you don't

take any of the drama personally, it's a great soap-opera.

Hoovooloo: Dory never got away with saying anything nasty about you

when I was around. She knew better than to try.

Hoovooloo: I saw her parents at Lorac's wedding. They're really nice

people.

Hoovooloo: Her Dad is one of the most extrordinary people I'll ever

meet.

evile: Isn't it interesting how that works out sometimes?

Hoovooloo: He invents bio-tech lab equipment. Has a PhD from Cornell,

and he has limitless energy.

Hoovooloo: He left a big company to start his own from his basement.

He invented a one room factory for the product he created.

evile: Probably treated Dory like a little princess all her life...

Hoovooloo: When he needed more space he read a book on barns, built

the sample barn from the plans in the back, then expanded on the

principles to create a three story addition to their house, complete

with loft walkways, skylights and double garage.

evile: How cool!

Hoovooloo: And he's a very experienced sailor. He raced with Ted

Turners transatlantic team while he was in grad school, and has a 30'

boat that he continually modifies and tinkers with.

Hoovooloo: Dory's a throwback in their family. Her parents are 90%

baby-boomer hippies.

Hoovooloo: It's her mother's family that's all money and princess-

shit.

evile: So she rebelled against them by getting a stick up her ass.

Hoovooloo: Why does that conjure the image of Jason with a plunger?

evile: meow, meow.

Hoovooloo: I wish I could have invited her parents to my wedding

without inviting her.

evile: aww!

Hoovooloo: For that matter, I would have liked to have had Wiley as a

groomsman, but there was no way we were having Jenn there.

evile: *nods* Yeah, you have to be civil to her in order to keep

Wiley in your life, but I can't imagine actually being NICE after all

that crap!

Hoovooloo: We went with the Sketch side of TIM. R'nice, Sketch, sabu,

Jost, Natalie, Coal and a few others.

evile: aww. I adore R'nice!

Hoovooloo: R'nice caught the garter.

evile: CUTE!!!

Hoovooloo: Oh, and tigerlily - but mostly becuase she's marrying my

best friend.

evile: wow....such a very small world, innit?

Hoovooloo: They met at my last New Years party. The one good bit

about that weekend.

evile: wow. so it wasn't a total loss

Hoovooloo: We all went on vacation together last November. A week in

New Orleans followed by a cruise to Cozumel. The cruise was a 'fan

club cruise', so we had one of Kerrys' favorite bands playing every

night.

Hoovooloo: Eddie from Ohio is the band. They're pretty good.

evile: Sweet!!

Hoovooloo: Kerry is a very active fan. He runs a website for them and

archives their performances on DAT tape.

evile: J-Law & I did the regular Carnival NO-cozumel cruise 2 Octobers

ago.

Hoovooloo: Huh!

Hoovooloo: That's exactly the trip we took - we just had the rear-

most bar (the one with the Western theme) as a private function room.

evile: Mostly we said snarky things about our fellow passengers &

hung out on the topless deck to avoid the noxious teenagers

evile: OMG, what a bizarre coincidence!

Hoovooloo: There were about 150 Ed-Heads on board. It meant we had a

bunch of people we knew at the meals, and we got extra performances.

evile: that is way cool.

Hoovooloo: That is!

Hoovooloo: What did you do in Cozumel for the day?

evile: shopped (disappointing) and hten went & drank 'ritas at Playa

Sol

evile: So you were on our boat, Oct 17-21 2002? really? I am still

just freaking...

evile: I can't believe we didn't run into y'all!!!

Hoovooloo: Ours was the week before thanksgiving, 2003.

Hoovooloo: No, we were a year later.

evile: Oh, okay then. whew. that would have been too weird.

Hoovooloo: Same boat, different year!

Hoovooloo: That would have been funny.

evile: More fun, probably.

Hoovooloo: Kerry surprised Jill (tigerlily) with a ring in the middle

of one of the on-board shows. The band played her favorite of their

songs and they danced.

evile: aww! how cute is THAT???

Hoovooloo: I think everyone there took pictures. It was like a pappa-

razzi explosion.

evile: heh. No lack of electronics among the TIMsters, true.

Hoovooloo: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/share/welcome?

i=EeFMWLRq0auJA&sm=0&sl=0

Hoovooloo: Here are the pictures from that vacation. They start in

New Orleans and then end with the cruise.

Hoovooloo: These weren't TIMsters, they were the ED-Heads, all the

band fans.

evile: Oh, 'kay then.

Hoovooloo: We did the Eco-Jeep tour on the island. It was definately

a winner. Four to a Jeep that you drive, we went to the national park

at the southern tip of the island.

evile: Yeah, we should have done something like that instead of

shopping.

Hoovooloo: We stopped to look at salt-water crocodiles, then another

stop for a mayan temple, then an empty stretch of beach for two hours

of snorkling, then a lighthouse, then off-roading in the Jeeps.

Hoovooloo: With two hours to spare so we could shop.

evile: I am just now looking at the flipper photos :) Too cute!

Hoovooloo: The two other girls are Kerry's sister and one of Jess's

college roommates.

Hoovooloo: I love the HUGE ASS BEERS sign.

evile: New Orleans, gotta love it.

Hoovooloo: Debbie (the roommate) goes there every year.

Hoovooloo: If I ever achieve financial independance, we might

consider a winter house there.

evile: I try to. Don't usually make it, even though it's only a 9

hour drive.

Hoovooloo: Aww. You know, my wife is damn cute.

evile: There's a big food & wine fest over Mem. day weekend, I may

just GO.

evile: I'd totally do your wife :P

Hoovooloo: Yeah, me too.

Hoovooloo: I suppose that's obvious.

evile: heh. I hope so.

Hoovooloo: Long arms are very useful for self-portraits. I picked up

that skill in Iceland.

evile: Oh, those dirty Icelandics, teaching you such things :P

Hoovooloo: That albums' not up at the moment. I popped the question

in Iceland.

evile: OMG..that is too cool!

evile: I wanna go to Iceland & ride the ponies.

Hoovooloo: I haven't told you that story?

Hoovooloo: Jess made me do that! The poor horse.

evile: Naw, they are strong little critters.

Hoovooloo: I'll share those pictures when they're back up. I look

like I can walk with the horse under me.

evile: I am just dying to find out what a tolt feels like... (horse

geek wannabe=me)

Hoovooloo: Tell McAnnick that the off-roading is excellent.

Hoovooloo: Hell, what they consider roads would be considered off-

roading.

Hoovooloo: I was very sneaky about that trip. I managed to convince

Jess she was getting a vacation *instead* of being proposed to.

evile: heh. that's awesome.

Hoovooloo: She suspected anyway, and we started with a weekend in

Reykyavik, ending with the fancy dinner in the revolving restaurant

over the city.

Hoovooloo: It's up on top of this thing :

http://www.iww.is/pages/quicktours/reyktour/reyktour21.html

evile: How very cool!

Hoovooloo: The tanks hold the hot water for the whole city, fed by

geothermal steam.

evile: wow! I wanna go.....

Hoovooloo: So we had the fancy dress-up dinner, and there's no

proposal.

Hoovooloo: The next morning we rent a cute little 4x4 and head off

down the coast.

evile: whee!

Hoovooloo: We stop around mid-day at the glacier where Jess did some

of her graduate studies.

Hoovooloo: That's where I whip out the ring.

evile: aww! How perfect!

Hoovooloo: If she said no, I could have left her there.

Hoovooloo: Hey, it's hit 5pm here. Time for the weekend.

evile: Awesome! Have a great one! Thanks for cheering me up!

evile: *HUGS!*

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3337icq w/Zenrhino

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 04:28:54 GMT

Jun. 30, 2005

evile: my icq got wacky and disconnected me for no reason.
Rhino: we had a network burp earlier that booted everyone.
evile: yay for computer fun.
Rhino: =)
evile: I am ready for my margarita now.
Rhino: HELL YEAH
evile: you drink 'lime things'...close enough :P
Rhino: limealicious
evile: and you won't get scurvy :)
Rhino: Scurvy prevention!
Rhino: thats my new marketing campaign. =)
evile: with lots of graphic scurvy photos--nobody wants that!
Rhino: Im hoping to combine my prostate cancer and scurvy prevention
campaigns. =)
evile: dare I even ask what your prostate cure is?
evile: *puts on gloves and thinks of england*
Rhino: LOL. Apparently the American Cancer Society backed a study
saying that regular orgasms for men help prevent prostate cancer.
evile: Go ACS! That would have been a fun study to participate in :)
Rhino: heh
evile: and then it turns out it's just sex while being watched by
scientists that's good for ya..
Rhino: fully agreed!
evile: pervs in labcoats. That might make a funny scene at a gwnn
party....
Rhino: LOL!
evile: better than the construction workers that Nikiyoy and I had been
pondering.
Rhino: heh
evile: Nikiyoy was doing big existential angst last night...she's 22 and
doesn't know what to do with her life. It was so unlike her, but very
quintessentially "22". I had no clue what to tell her.
Rhino: Tell her to relax and find a couple of boytoys for the weekend.
evile: yup. And for goddess' sake, DONT move in with any of them!
Rhino: Move in? Hell, all she needs is to rent a couple of
schlongs. Not even an option to lease. =)
evile: yup
evile: She might be visting her poly boyfriend in Dallas this weekend.
Rhino: good for her
evile: she keeps saying she's a lesbian, but then talking about boys.
Rhino: Heh
evile: I forget she's 22, she's very sensible about most stuff. So
when she gets pouty I take this step back.
Rhino: *nod*
evile: I guess everyone gets pouty sometimes.
Rhino: I know I do. =)
evile: I kind of hate geting stuck in the older/wiser slot
sometimes...like I know anything about anything. Maybe how NOT to do
it.
Rhino: thats the best kind.
evile: *shrug* whenever I'd pull the 'big sister' on my brother A,
he would always tell me I didn't know what I was talking about.
Eventually I gave up. "OK, A., Gravity doesn't apply to you. fine."
So it's wierd to have someone solicit that from me.
Rhino: =)
evile: People are silly.
Rhino: Im outa here. you have a great weekend. =)
evile: you too :)

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3334icq w/Kahlua

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 04:21:03 GMT

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Kahlua: EEK.
Kahlua: How goes?
evile: hey :)
Kahlua: That's one of my favorite email names, BTW. :)
evile: eek?
Kahlua: Eek @freaks.net
evile: yeah. It's gotten too spammy, though. I don't hardly ever look
at it.
Kahlua: Awww
Kahlua: Too bad.
Kahlua: Good address.
evile: that's what happens when you have the same email address for
10 years. And a lazy sysadmin.
Kahlua: Yeah, I've had @bellatlantic for a while now. And my
kahlua_Yahoo account for... Hmm. 8? 9?
evile: I feel old now.
Kahlua: We are. It's OK.
Kahlua: :P
evile: speak for yourself :P
Kahlua: I am speaking for myself! I'm saying we're old! Hee hee
Kahlua: OK, so not really.
evile: YOU're old.
Kahlua: No YOU are. No Tagbacks!
Kahlua: Hee hee
evile: heh. I got my first LJ 'anonymous' post today :) WHEE!
Kahlua: Anything good?
evile: It was not in the least bit nasty, just a little thing about
how they'd like to spend some time with me and figure out if they
still had a crush or whether it was just an infatuation. (to me,
crush and infatuation seem the same...but I suppose there is some
degree of difference)
Kahlua: Yeah, those are almost synonomous to me.
Kahlua: Synonocrush
evile: ongoing crush vs. passing infatuation, may be what was meant.
Kahlua: Oops
Kahlua: Crushatuation
evile: *giggle*
Kahlua: Infatucrush?
Kahlua: Severe LUSTING for?
evile: *laugh*
Kahlua: ACHY-LOINY thing?
evile: I'm glad they didn't say that!
evile: (unless they got specific about what they wanted to do about
it...that'd be entertaining)
Kahlua: *I GOTS THE CROTCH-GROINY THING GOIN' ON FOR YA!"
Kahlua: *cough*
evile: heh.
evile: that's specific..but not in a titillating way.
evile: I think I have it narrowed down to 2 possibilities, just from
the use of language.
Kahlua: Okay.,..
Kahlua: And?
evile: unless someone posted as themselves and then anon. to screw me
up. It's probably either kaleon or darque_lazarus.
Kahlua: Oh, you're trying to figure out who the Anon was. >)
Kahlua: Heh
evile: yup
evile: definitely a crush, if s/he'd rather keep me guessing than
actually spend time in RL.
Kahlua: Must be scared of ya
evile: silly. but I think I do that to some people.
evile: I just really get a kick out of taking people at their word
and watching them freak out, sometimes.
evile: or turning things around so that they're trying to shock me
and they get shocked instead, I guess.
Kahlua: *nod*
Kahlua: Their loss
evile: Oh, it makes me laugh, so it's not like it creates any bad
feelings on this end...but some people dont' like being taken at
their word, or pushed that tiny bit past what they were comfortable
with.
evile: well, it's about time for me to get on outta here. finally!

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3328icq w/Hoo

Sat, 31 Jul 2021 04:01:00 GMT

Jun. 28, 2005

evile: so what's the scoop on Sketch?
Hoovooloo: What do you mean?
evile: Oh, I just heard that 'everyone' was feeling sorry for him,
and I was wondering if there was a reason for that, or just in
general :P
Hoovooloo: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/B0009NN6EA/qid=1119978556/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9340225-2386331?
v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846
Hoovooloo: I haven't talked to him in a week or so. Last time we
spoke was after he missed my graduation party. He'd been at a
convention selling copies of his documentary.
Hoovooloo: Coal came. She appeared to be in good spirits.
evile: that's good :)
Hoovooloo: http://notes.nicoleandjason.com/archives/000084.html#more
Hoovooloo: Aha. Nicole's livejournal has something about Jason's
grandmother in a coma.
evile: dang.
Hoovooloo: That's my best guess.
evile: well, that's sad :(
Hoovooloo: That's also news from mid-May.
Hoovooloo: Who all was the bearer of woe tidings?
evile: Nobody specific, Rhino said he went to a gathering and
everyone was talking about 'poor sketch' and he didn't want to hear
it...so I figured he was not the one to ask why sketch was 'poor'
Hoovooloo: Huh.
Hoovooloo: Well, I haven't talked to anyone on TIM for ages (I
actually logged in last week, but everyone there was idle.)
evile: I logged in a while back, but it was very quiet.
Hoovooloo: It took Dory's Mom to point out that my graduation BBQ was
in fact on Lag Day.
evile: I was flying thru MSP on Lag Day.
Hoovooloo: MSP?
evile: Minneapolis st paul
Hoovooloo: Oh hey, I finally saw the TinyTIM livejournal group a
couple of weeks ago, how was Rhiannon*'s wedding? [*J-Law]
evile: she's engaged. the wedding hasn't happened yet.
Hoovooloo: Is she a lawyer now?
evile: 9/9/06
evile: she passed the CA bar, but she's working as a paralegal.
Hoovooloo: Sounds like a big wedding, with that much lead time.
evile: Nah, they are just wanting to pay as they go & not do a big
debt thing.
Hoovooloo: Emminently reasonable.
Hoovooloo: Do you approve of the future Mr. Rhiannon?
evile: oh, yeah. He's a doll :)
evile: He is cute, sweet, smart, he treats Rhi very well, and I even
like his family :P
Hoovooloo: Good!
evile: I think so. She asked me to be the MOH, but I'm not sure how
much I will actually be involved with anything since they're in CA
and I'm in TX
Hoovooloo: Jess got to fill in for an absent MOH three weeks ago.
evile: oy. I bet that was fun.
Hoovooloo: I even got roped into being a groomsman
evile: easier for guys--you just wear a suit.
Hoovooloo: Eight hours+ of 100 degree heat without AC. It was a real
joy.
evile: oh. ew!
Hoovooloo: I was eyeing the bare-shoulder/armless dresses on the
bridesmaids with considerable envy.
Hoovooloo: And of course the tuxedo I own was entirely the wrong
style, had to rent another one.
evile: *grinz*
Hoovooloo: In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't abuse my own tux with that
day.
Hoovooloo: And the rental came with lifts! I got to be 6'6" for a day.
evile: *laff!* That is _exactly_ what you needed.
Hoovooloo: I had a small victory this weekend, I recharged the AC on
my car, marking my second attempt at auto AC service, and the first
success.
evile: I didn't know you could do that yourself, I thought you needed
a freon license or something.
Hoovooloo: Well, the unsuccessful (and much more involved) attempt
was to convert a broke R12 system to the legal-for-DIY R134a.
Hoovooloo: This time I had one antique can of R12 that bigheart
bought circa 1990.
evile: *nod*
Hoovooloo: The tricky bit was finding the correct hose and tap to add
it to the system.
Hoovooloo: Between this and the fiddling I did with my father-in-law
and his brake lines, I'm feeling a lot more comfortable with high-
pressure systems.
Hoovooloo: And, as you can probably tell, I'd rather be home playing
with my car today.
evile: heh. Yeah. I can always think of stuff I'd rather be doing,
while I'm at work. Then I get home and hte Couch of Doom beckons...
Hoovooloo: Last night was lawn mowing
evile: ack. don't remind me. *adds another task to the list*
Hoovooloo: Followed by couch-potatoing and watching the DVDs of
Firefly.
evile: heh. yeah
evile: bunches of people are getting into firefly now.
Hoovooloo: We watched them when they were on (TiVo is good for
catching shows in bad timeslots). The DVDs arrived as a graduation
gift.
evile: oh, sweet :)
Hoovooloo: I was surprised by the graduation gifts. Really
surprised. :-)
evile: But it is an accomplishment, so it's good for people to
recognize that.
Hoovooloo: I see it a transition point, between people not believing
that I don't have degree, to not believing I have a degree from a
good school.
evile: *nod*
Hoovooloo: I get to look forward to exactly what I said to Woody on
seeing his degree, "You went to Harvard?!?"
evile: *LAUGH!*
Hoovooloo: Funnily enough, I saw tk's name in one of my classes.
Hoovooloo: One of the CS professors needed a body of information to
manipulate in demonstration, and he was using on-campus student
names, dorm rooms and phone numbers from the early 90's.
Hoovooloo: Sure enough, there was Tom Kim.
evile: OMG, too funny.
evile: small world!
evile: cute LJ comment. That would be awesome :)
Hoovooloo: Yeah, I'm still bummed the cruise isn't leaving from there
this year.
Hoovooloo: It's Tampa this year. Joy. Tampa.
evile: the last (only) time I cruised, wandering around NO and
wandering around Cozumel were the good parts. The boat itself...I
could pretty much do without.
Hoovooloo: Sounds like we took the same boat!
Hoovooloo: I wouldn't want to cruise without an event on the boat.
evile: *nod* yeah, or a bunch of friends onboard to go and be silly
with.
evile: boot the teenagers out of the elevator and play grownup
7 "minutes in heaven" :P
Hoovooloo: http://www.fanclubcruises.com/efo_pictures.htm
evile: OMG, that was totally the boat we were on. Carnival's
Holiday :P
Hoovooloo: There were about 120 or so of the Ed-Heads on board. We
got the 'Doc Holidays' bar all to ourselves.
Hoovooloo: And each night we'd move from there to the Casablanca-
themed piano bar and take it over.
evile: that sounds like fun :)
Hoovooloo: This year it's on a bigger boat :
http://www.fanclubcruises.com/efo.htm
Hoovooloo: I think there's a size limit to the boats that can get up
the river to NOLA.,
evile: probably.
Hoovooloo: This one is 120 feet longer.
Hoovooloo: I'm internally debating whether it's worth going to Tampa
for this one. It doesn't seem worth it to spend that long on a plane
to get to a 4 night cruise.
evile: yeah...plus: FLORIDA.
Hoovooloo: Isn't that a minus?
Hoovooloo: Last time we spent a week in New Orleans before the
cruise. Spending time in Tampa sounds a bit dull.
evile: Oh, I meant, one more chalk mark on the 'not worth it' side.
Hoovooloo: On the plus side, Kerry & Jill/Tigerlily are going, and
they're fun to vacation with.
evile: yeah.
Hoovooloo: Huh, I wonder if I could find a beach house within an hour
or so of Tampa.
evile: probably.
Hoovooloo: Ooh, there's a tampa.craigslist.
evile: I've got friends who are craigslist junkies :)
Hoovooloo: I bought a rowing machine from the local craigslist.
evile: how do you like it?
evile: it's a great workout, but it hurts, and I'm a wuss.
evile: (when I belonged to a gym, they had one)
Hoovooloo: It's the same brand and model I was trained on when I
rowed crew for a year at GMU.
Hoovooloo: A Concept D Erg.
evile: oh, so you're used to the pain. :P
Hoovooloo: Rowing is nice and low-impact. I tend to wheeze out rather
than injure myself with it.
evile: heh. 'wheeze out'
Hoovooloo: Wheeze and callous.
evile: I never actually hurt while using it, but the muscle pain the
next day or so was always really bad!

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