November 13th, 2009
blahJust starting with the pilot ep. Other two eps to follow and a new one tonight.
Why no, I'm not a work. Oldest kidlet is throwing up so we're at home where I can monitor her and see if she keeps throwing various things up. So fun! :(
Why no, I'm not a work. Oldest kidlet is throwing up so we're at home where I can monitor her and see if she keeps throwing various things up. So fun! :(
exhausted
bouncyNovember 12th, 2009
For those who donated for the Healer Trilogy, the SGA story and Bakari and its sequel, the "Most Sekret Site" has now been deleted but all stories are now loaded at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
alysbasement . The Healer Trilogy and Bakari and its sequel, Bakari and Dingane, can be found here at the Table of Contents under The Sentinel stories and the SGA story can be found at the same place, but under SGA.
Thank you to everyone who donated for these stories and again (because you can never thank some one enough) thank you to Nat and Bluewolf for providing me with the copies of Fissures and Bakari & Dingane.
In addition, thank you to everyone who just answered my question about hiding warnings - the directions were very clear and easy! :) THANK YOU!
alysbasement . The Healer Trilogy and Bakari and its sequel, Bakari and Dingane, can be found here at the Table of Contents under The Sentinel stories and the SGA story can be found at the same place, but under SGA. Thank you to everyone who donated for these stories and again (because you can never thank some one enough) thank you to Nat and Bluewolf for providing me with the copies of Fissures and Bakari & Dingane.
In addition, thank you to everyone who just answered my question about hiding warnings - the directions were very clear and easy! :) THANK YOU!
Many clever authors are hiding their warnings under a colored line that we simply place our cursor over to see if we need to view warnings - anyone know how to do that? It seems the perfect answer for the warning debate and I want to utilize it! HELP!
I need to explain my mail problems to make this post make sense - so bear with me. I live in a low-low bond apartment in a 55 or older senior complex (yes, I'm VERY lucky to have it, believe me!) But my mail center is like a mile from my apartment (okay, it seems like a mile when you can't walk it)
This is the entrance and behind the apartments on the left is another u-shaped group of apartments and I live in the last 'wing'. The mail center is just inside the front entrance in the picture (and a few feet around a corner). If you try to walk it from inside, well, even on a gurney (which I've been on) it takes several minutes (and that's with several hunks pushing you! *G*). From the outside, it's shorter, but about three times too far for me to walk, let alone walk back once I get my mail. (For further reference, the only trash is at the end of that first apartment wing you see in the picture, so again, too far for me to walk)
Anyway, after they started to return my mail because it was so long before I could have it picked up, I finally called the USPO to find out that all I had to do to get my mail delivered to my door was write a letter explaining my disability followed by a confirmation letter from my doctor. I did both after placing my mail on hold so nothing else would be returned. Then BJ, this wonderful lady who comes in once a month to run errands and do stuff I can't do (I used to have her every week and mail and trash weren't a problem, but those days are long gone thanks to the economy) - and she delievered the letters to the main branch (and picked up my held mail). The guy accepted the letters and told her that as of the very next day, my mail would be delivered to me personally! YAY!
Except.
Seems my postal lady doesn't want to do that (even though there are others in the same boat and THEY get their mail - but none of them are on MY side of the complex!) so she's started to leave it in the OFFICE which means that only when someone has time is my mail delieverd - so I'm still getting my mail on a hit and miss basis - like every 3 or 4 days!
Point of story? I received a pack of rubber-banded mail on Tuesday (three days worth) and it included an envelope with the corner rubbed off by the rubber band! The return address was a blur with only one letter semi-visible (either a P or a B) - and inside was $30. But I don't know who or why - so if anyone sent this to me - what did I do? *G* Do I owe you something I've forgotten? Is it for Moonridge and should go to them and what did you donate for??
HELP!
I now return you to your regular programming!
Anyway, after they started to return my mail because it was so long before I could have it picked up, I finally called the USPO to find out that all I had to do to get my mail delivered to my door was write a letter explaining my disability followed by a confirmation letter from my doctor. I did both after placing my mail on hold so nothing else would be returned. Then BJ, this wonderful lady who comes in once a month to run errands and do stuff I can't do (I used to have her every week and mail and trash weren't a problem, but those days are long gone thanks to the economy) - and she delievered the letters to the main branch (and picked up my held mail). The guy accepted the letters and told her that as of the very next day, my mail would be delivered to me personally! YAY!
Except.
Seems my postal lady doesn't want to do that (even though there are others in the same boat and THEY get their mail - but none of them are on MY side of the complex!) so she's started to leave it in the OFFICE which means that only when someone has time is my mail delieverd - so I'm still getting my mail on a hit and miss basis - like every 3 or 4 days!
Point of story? I received a pack of rubber-banded mail on Tuesday (three days worth) and it included an envelope with the corner rubbed off by the rubber band! The return address was a blur with only one letter semi-visible (either a P or a B) - and inside was $30. But I don't know who or why - so if anyone sent this to me - what did I do? *G* Do I owe you something I've forgotten? Is it for Moonridge and should go to them and what did you donate for??
HELP!
I now return you to your regular programming!
November 11th, 2009
I chose this song title because of events in the NCIS:LA ep and also because I think G is Sam's 'Around the way girl.'
( Ncis:LA aka we thrive on angst and flirty looks )
( NCIS: Original flavor )
Someone needs to come talk to me about hot ass men on White collar who smirk and wear clothes that make me want to write about the designers, even though I have no clue. Or just entice me to write fic where Neal has to wear Peter's clothes for some reason.
( Ncis:LA aka we thrive on angst and flirty looks )
( NCIS: Original flavor )
Someone needs to come talk to me about hot ass men on White collar who smirk and wear clothes that make me want to write about the designers, even though I have no clue. Or just entice me to write fic where Neal has to wear Peter's clothes for some reason.
November 10th, 2009
gloomyI decided to stay up tonight (just because I can) - and redo my journal for...yeah, Christmas. Don't kill me - I'm in a snowy mood thanks to living in SoCal. :( This is as snowy as I'm allowed to get! :)
PS: John's rear end will be back in January *g*
PS: John's rear end will be back in January *g*
November 9th, 2009
annoyed- 19:18 Guess I better get up, take a shower and go into work to put down my time for being sick.
more for myself than any other reason - and since that's what a journal is for - to get the crap out of one's system, well, here we go:
First of all, what triggered this particular post was a line in one of the constant commercials shown on SyFy (damn, it's hard to watch reruns of SGA or SG1 with all the SGU commercials - grrrrrr) uttered by Rush (Robert Carlyle) to the effect that the discovery of the Ancient ship, Destiny, is the greatest find since the Stargate.
Huh?
Why? It's just a ship that plants stargates. There's nothing new on it, nothing we wouldn't expect from the Ancients. It doesn't do anything but what's it's been programmed to do, so what's the big deal? Why does this excite Rush so much? I mean, back in the SG1 days when Daniel first posited the idea that the stargates were a product of the Ancients, I remember thinking, "I wonder how they got the 'gates to all the planets?" and then I decided it had been done by ship, of course. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out nor was the idea of a ship on such a mission all that interesting to me. If it had been interesting, Ancients would have been aboard the Destiny during it's "Planting" mission instead of planning on boarding after all the gates had been placed. Duh.
The second thing that got my ire up was this quote from the infamous Joe Mallozzi when explaining how SGU isn't SG1 or SGA and how it's not:
"...flawless people, square-jawed heroes, and stories that set up and deliver all the answers over the course of a forty-five minute episode..."
Nothing like slamming your own previous shows and the fans who loved them just the way they were, square-jawed and all. But isn't that typical of the producers of the franchise and their entire history? Sure 'nuff. I truly believe they hate their previous shows because they became bigger than the producers - they took on lives of their own, thanks to the chemistry of the actors. The shows were about them. Look at how SG1 and SGA opened as compared to SGU. ACTORS opened both shows. ACTORS and their CHARACTERS were the stars. And what happened when the producers tried to open the shows briefly - with their names first and then just the actors names as the story opened? The fans screamed loud and clear, remember? And we got our beginning back.
What does that really say about the producers? About SGU?
IMHO, it says they want a show where they star - where it's their creativity, their writing, their imaginations that are on display each week. Hence you have so many actors, and so many with questionable motives, that one could say it's hard for any one of them to really break-out. Sure, they intended Eli to be popular, but (hard truth here) they made sure to cast someone who wouldn't be likely to end up as a pin-up on some 16 year-old girl's (or 45 year-old woman's *G*) wall (don't bother to tell me how you love him - you know what I mean by this). Almost every character has serious flaws - flaws that keep them from attaining the same status as a Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c or a John Sheppard.
Examples:
-The Strong Leader, Young. Loves his wife, but obviously had an affair with the medic and still has feelings for her
-The Young Hunk, Scott. Was having an illicit affair with a fellow soldier (who is also on the ship) but in less time than it takes to say, "Chloe", he's madly in love with someone else.
-The Brilliant Scientist, Rush. Is he bad or good? What does he really know? Does anyone care anymore?
The 'Other' Strong Leader Who Should Be Leader, Telford. Talk about abnoxious - and now evil too? *rolls eyes*
I could go on, but why? This show is a product of men who don't know how to do edgy or dark. To them, that translates into adultry, sex, flaws that overcome the positive, women who are no more than what the men make them and a ship (that's supposed to be the real star) that's even more predictable than the characters.
On the positive side: The show had potential and if it had been done by others, by men and women with real imaginations and normal-sized egos, SGU could have been truly different, and thus exciting and even nail-biting.
PS: I know the show has fans and more power to you. Different is what makes the world go 'round. *G*
First of all, what triggered this particular post was a line in one of the constant commercials shown on SyFy (damn, it's hard to watch reruns of SGA or SG1 with all the SGU commercials - grrrrrr) uttered by Rush (Robert Carlyle) to the effect that the discovery of the Ancient ship, Destiny, is the greatest find since the Stargate.
Huh?
Why? It's just a ship that plants stargates. There's nothing new on it, nothing we wouldn't expect from the Ancients. It doesn't do anything but what's it's been programmed to do, so what's the big deal? Why does this excite Rush so much? I mean, back in the SG1 days when Daniel first posited the idea that the stargates were a product of the Ancients, I remember thinking, "I wonder how they got the 'gates to all the planets?" and then I decided it had been done by ship, of course. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out nor was the idea of a ship on such a mission all that interesting to me. If it had been interesting, Ancients would have been aboard the Destiny during it's "Planting" mission instead of planning on boarding after all the gates had been placed. Duh.
The second thing that got my ire up was this quote from the infamous Joe Mallozzi when explaining how SGU isn't SG1 or SGA and how it's not:
"...flawless people, square-jawed heroes, and stories that set up and deliver all the answers over the course of a forty-five minute episode..."
Nothing like slamming your own previous shows and the fans who loved them just the way they were, square-jawed and all. But isn't that typical of the producers of the franchise and their entire history? Sure 'nuff. I truly believe they hate their previous shows because they became bigger than the producers - they took on lives of their own, thanks to the chemistry of the actors. The shows were about them. Look at how SG1 and SGA opened as compared to SGU. ACTORS opened both shows. ACTORS and their CHARACTERS were the stars. And what happened when the producers tried to open the shows briefly - with their names first and then just the actors names as the story opened? The fans screamed loud and clear, remember? And we got our beginning back.
What does that really say about the producers? About SGU?
IMHO, it says they want a show where they star - where it's their creativity, their writing, their imaginations that are on display each week. Hence you have so many actors, and so many with questionable motives, that one could say it's hard for any one of them to really break-out. Sure, they intended Eli to be popular, but (hard truth here) they made sure to cast someone who wouldn't be likely to end up as a pin-up on some 16 year-old girl's (or 45 year-old woman's *G*) wall (don't bother to tell me how you love him - you know what I mean by this). Almost every character has serious flaws - flaws that keep them from attaining the same status as a Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c or a John Sheppard.
Examples:
-The Strong Leader, Young. Loves his wife, but obviously had an affair with the medic and still has feelings for her
-The Young Hunk, Scott. Was having an illicit affair with a fellow soldier (who is also on the ship) but in less time than it takes to say, "Chloe", he's madly in love with someone else.
-The Brilliant Scientist, Rush. Is he bad or good? What does he really know? Does anyone care anymore?
The 'Other' Strong Leader Who Should Be Leader, Telford. Talk about abnoxious - and now evil too? *rolls eyes*
I could go on, but why? This show is a product of men who don't know how to do edgy or dark. To them, that translates into adultry, sex, flaws that overcome the positive, women who are no more than what the men make them and a ship (that's supposed to be the real star) that's even more predictable than the characters.
On the positive side: The show had potential and if it had been done by others, by men and women with real imaginations and normal-sized egos, SGU could have been truly different, and thus exciting and even nail-biting.
PS: I know the show has fans and more power to you. Different is what makes the world go 'round. *G*
November 7th, 2009
- 15:49 I'm sick. I ache. Eyes burning. Have a headache. No fever. Got standby on Thursday. Called in last night. Thinking of calling in 2nite.
The Family Channel is showing Dirty Dancing, a movie I've seen umpteen million times, right? So what's with all the scenes never before seen? All the scenes between "Baby" and her sister? Like the lipstick scene? All these viewings and NEVER have I seen that or the one where Baby blackmails her sister into covering for her!
Here I am, used to movies being cut to smithereens - and I'm watching a movie that's like...brand new! WOOHOO!
Here I am, used to movies being cut to smithereens - and I'm watching a movie that's like...brand new! WOOHOO!
to those who donated to Moonridge for any of my three offered stories (SGA: Appearances Can Be Deceiving, TS: Healer Trilogy and Bakari and its sequel): The 30 days are now up for the last story to be posted (Bakari and Bakari & Dingane) but the site will remain until the end of the day on Monday so you have time to either read or copy! :)
Thank you all for your support of the zoo and here's hoping whichever stories solicited your donation/s - you weren't disappointed! Thank you AGAIN!
Thank you all for your support of the zoo and here's hoping whichever stories solicited your donation/s - you weren't disappointed! Thank you AGAIN!
- 14:26 finally got out of bed - woohoo #
November 6th, 2009
- Home and on my corner of the couch
-
happy - The shower running and Hamish purring
