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Aug. 7th, 2009 03:59 pmSo managed to get it down to less than a year between updates! Yay for me! Or not.
I finally have a laptop, which I'd never thought I'd get till I finished paying off the car, but thanks to a huge financial contribution from my mum, I am laptop owner! Browsing is much faster than my dinosaur, though I still use it. Of course, anything which costs me money has to wait until AFTER I've shelled out a fuckload of cash.
So, in quick succession, my ancient CRT (hey, it's 19" ok! And has a great picture!) is giving up the ghost, I really need a wireless router, and my glasses just snapped off at the temple. FML. The spectacle situation is the worst, my lenses cost a lot, I have to use glass, can't use plastic, and frames are expensive. Plus I probably need a new eye test too. Shit.
And the car. Yes. I was told that cars are a bottomless pit into which you throw money, but I wouldn't listen. Oh no.
I have a brand new, all-consuming obsession which I am not going to reveal, but which is making a typical surface-of-the-sun-hot Maltese summer much more bearable than usual. Suffice it to say that it makes me BREAK OUT IN ALL CAPS FREQUENTLY, and necessitated an SAS type raid on many bookshops to find a copy of a certain issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
Warning to any fellow Maltese who give a shit: AGENDA BOOKSHOP IS MADE OF FAIL. The people at the Plaza will lie to you and say something is unavailable when it is: go to the airport, where hidden treasure is . . . hidden, yes. I know it's Agenda at the airport too. Who knows WTF the Plaza people are smoking.
Mum is in Germany, where she was complaining about the rain last week. Look at me, crying many tears for your pain, oh wait, that's not tears, that's sweat! Possibly more annoyed than should be because have to water a jungle of plants and feed many picky cats. How can stray cats be picky? HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?
My tv shows are letting me down this summer. Burn Notice is ok, I guess. Leverage is kind of boring, Torchwood is FAIL as everyone knows by now. I got into Raising the Bar, which is ok, but Defying Gravity is Melrose Space (tm someone on TWOP), Virtuality is ass (thank God the pilot tanked) and The Bill has been retooled. IDK how to feel about that. Although Jack Meadows in uniform because he's the new Superintendent will never not be funny.
Am looking forward to the remake of V, though: I loved the original series and the trailers look good. Maybe the new series won't be so heavy-handed with the Nazi analogies. Also Flash Forward is looking good. Day One: don't know. Very Melrose Apocalypse. But I'll give it a try.
I finally have a laptop, which I'd never thought I'd get till I finished paying off the car, but thanks to a huge financial contribution from my mum, I am laptop owner! Browsing is much faster than my dinosaur, though I still use it. Of course, anything which costs me money has to wait until AFTER I've shelled out a fuckload of cash.
So, in quick succession, my ancient CRT (hey, it's 19" ok! And has a great picture!) is giving up the ghost, I really need a wireless router, and my glasses just snapped off at the temple. FML. The spectacle situation is the worst, my lenses cost a lot, I have to use glass, can't use plastic, and frames are expensive. Plus I probably need a new eye test too. Shit.
And the car. Yes. I was told that cars are a bottomless pit into which you throw money, but I wouldn't listen. Oh no.
I have a brand new, all-consuming obsession which I am not going to reveal, but which is making a typical surface-of-the-sun-hot Maltese summer much more bearable than usual. Suffice it to say that it makes me BREAK OUT IN ALL CAPS FREQUENTLY, and necessitated an SAS type raid on many bookshops to find a copy of a certain issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
Warning to any fellow Maltese who give a shit: AGENDA BOOKSHOP IS MADE OF FAIL. The people at the Plaza will lie to you and say something is unavailable when it is: go to the airport, where hidden treasure is . . . hidden, yes. I know it's Agenda at the airport too. Who knows WTF the Plaza people are smoking.
Mum is in Germany, where she was complaining about the rain last week. Look at me, crying many tears for your pain, oh wait, that's not tears, that's sweat! Possibly more annoyed than should be because have to water a jungle of plants and feed many picky cats. How can stray cats be picky? HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?
My tv shows are letting me down this summer. Burn Notice is ok, I guess. Leverage is kind of boring, Torchwood is FAIL as everyone knows by now. I got into Raising the Bar, which is ok, but Defying Gravity is Melrose Space (tm someone on TWOP), Virtuality is ass (thank God the pilot tanked) and The Bill has been retooled. IDK how to feel about that. Although Jack Meadows in uniform because he's the new Superintendent will never not be funny.
Am looking forward to the remake of V, though: I loved the original series and the trailers look good. Maybe the new series won't be so heavy-handed with the Nazi analogies. Also Flash Forward is looking good. Day One: don't know. Very Melrose Apocalypse. But I'll give it a try.
