I think I just broke my toe, tripping over a shoe.

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Stupid.

Maybe it's time to stop randomly kicking them off as soon as I get through the door?

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Next week looks pretty amazing as well. The boys are headed into the lair of the monsters, one immobile, one unconscious, without any backup. Yikes!

Anyone know anyone who's going?

My sister K2 and I are going to be there Sunday, so I thought I'd just ask. I haven't been to an actor con for about ten years, so I have no idea really what to expect.

K2 bought tickets for a photo op; the photos are at 11:30, but the schedule says that the room will be open to start the line up at 9:00. Do we really need to be there that early to line up? Is there any benefit to being first/middle/last in line? This is her first con, so I really want it to work for her!

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Ansower if you like, but I'm trying to stay spoiler-free as much as possible. Anything published in TV guide is fair game, but leaks from the set are not. Thanks!

...has been my favorite author since I picked up Witch's Business at the local library when I was in junior high. I quickly found several other books (not at the library, since they had a very small budget, but at bookstores all over New England...I even bought the hardcovers, which my mother thought was a shocking waste of my hard-earned babysitting money.) It was after I read Charmed Life that I put her up on my "favorite author ever" list, and she's been there ever since. I have bought each of her books as soon as it came out since then, even ordering them from England before Amazon.com existed. I've always looked forward to a new book every year or so. Her books were so amazing, full of humor, adventure and great characters. I have always given them to my favorite readers, and enjoyed seeing their reactions.

Diana Wynne Jones passed away early this morning; she'd been fighting cancer for over a year. I know I only knew her through her books, but it feels like I've lost an amazing friend. My thoughts go out to her family and friends, and her fans all over the world.

Diana, you will be missed.

Has anyone seen the new Travelers Insurance commercial? The one with the little plastic toy people, where the little girl shakes their house?

I saw it the other day, and the music sounded SO familiar...I was humming along with it. But even though I knew how it was going to go, I had no idea how I knew. All I could think was that it was something I remembered from when I was really little.

I played a hunch, and looked up on You Tube...Captain Kangaroo. It's The Captain Kangaroo theme song! Heh.

can't believe I remembered that.

What is the deal with this stupid "plug-in container.exe" that Firefox has added? It's completely SUCKING UP ALL MY MEMORY! My computer is so slow, and I can't even type stuff because the buffer is so far behind.

Does anyone know if a way to fix it is in the works? Because I may have to look into another product if this is going to be such a problem. Ugh.

edited to add:
I found a way to turn it off. Thank goodness! I hope they fix it in the next version.

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I may change my mind upon re-watching. You never know. I do have the headache from hell, after a day full of annoying, screaming children and rude adults, so...

Has LJ lost Journal styles, or is it just mine?

I miss my Tikis!

I was vacuuming. The vacuum cleaner hit the stand the CPU is on, which has metal legs. There were sparks. I didn't think anything but "hey, those were blue sparks!" I kept vacuuming. When I came back to go on the computer, it was clicking, and the screen was frozen. I turned it off, waited, and turned it on. Absolutely nothing. Black screen. I tried it again. Nothing but black.

I screamed.

I turned off all the electricity to the computer and computer-related electronics by turning off the surge suppressors. Turned them on, turned the computer on, crossed my fingers and held my breath.

It came on normally. **whew** (There was a weird message I didn't catch because it went by very quickly, but it didn't seem to stop anything from going on normally.)

That was SCARY!


Huh. LJ is having icon troubles again, isn't it? the first icon I chose was supposed to be Dean, but it was Spam Carter. That was even scarier than a potentially dead computer.