The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

Drug-fuzzed hazes are not fun. Especially when combined with an entire weekend of FamilyCrap (tm). Yay! I don't think I'll dwell on that.

On a positive note, we discovered that there's a marina, a gas station, and a restaurant four miles from our house. Not the swankiest of places, but it's better than a whole lot of nothing.

And, apparently, we're buying half a cow. To be more precise, we're paying half the costs to have a cow "processed", and we're going to be getting about half the meat from it. About 450-500 pounds worth. I think I need to buy a deep freezer...Also, I'm getting several bales of wool from Marshall (he's been throwing the stuff away), so I can start experimenting with spinning and dyeing. It's not alpaca wool, but it's something.

All the shows I like get cancelled - Carnivale has apparently been cancelled at the end of its second season. Carnivale was so good that I suppose it was inevitable - the battle between good and evil set against the backdrop of a depression-era carnival isn't exactly mainstream fare, I suppose. Bitter. Makes me feel better about not subscribing to HBO just to get the second season, though.

I thought I was feeling more coherent than this today. I guess it wore off.

Repeat after me: "By offering fair pricing, ease of use, and consistent quality, you can compete with free."

Interesting article, well worth the read. I can vouch for the increasing availability of used books, although I still run across the occasional title where I have to pay $30 for a battered paperback.

On my list for Stabbity Death today: People who write stupid databases. Ones that, for example, don't show a specific record when you search on one field, but shows them when you search on a different field. STABBITY DEATH!!

Also, people who use drop-down boxes with stupid choices with meanings that are unclear. From where I'm sitting, "cutover" and "rolled" are the exact same thing! Yet, they apparently have different meanings in this database than they do in the rest of the universe, even the part of the universe that generated these terms for these specific computers. And, apparently, I've been using the wrong one, which means I have to go back through every single record by hand and update that single drop-down box. Which, since the database is so freaking slow, is going to take at least six hours.

And they wonder why I can't get any freaking thing done. "This is a priority!" "Why isn't X, Y, and Z items, which were not as high a priority, not finished yet!?!"

This week is going to suck. I can sense these things.

Shingu: Secret of Stellar Wars is one of the most underrated series currently being released on DVD. It's good stuff - go forth and rent and/or buy it. It's like nothing else out there, except possibly Brigadoon, despite the fact that it's really nothing like Brigadoon at all.

I may be forced to kill my husband. Watch the news for me...