Religion and love...

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin. - Anatole France, 1844 - 1924

Exhausting but satisfying...

Wotta day. It was supposed to be simple. Clean the bathroom, move a bookcase, work on some editing, have a nice dinner with lunacy_gal, maaseru, and josanpq. But it didn't turn out that way.

First of all, I cleaned the bathroom, sorted out the shelves in there, and even dusted the Torchwood action figures. I don't do things by halves. That part went according to plan.

Then Pim went to IKEA with maaseru and bought a dining table and chairs. This impelled her to get rid of her rather large desk, which she hasn't been using because she uses her laptop and likes to sit around with it on her knee. Unlike me; my laptop only gets used when I'm away from home - I like sitting at my desk. So she offered me my old desk. That's a fine tradition; I've been using her previous old desk for years.

Yes, says I. So we set out to move her desk to my place. What a job! Did I mention that her desk is big? L-shaped? That it has drawers? We had to dismantle and rebuild it. We had to carry the pieces down in the elevator, which is exceptionally slow today, and much in use because the other elevator is out of order. And of course I had to move all the stuff that was in and under my old desk and lug it to the basement.

Then I had to dismantle and reconstruct all my computer equipment, and my goodness, I have a lot of odds and ends - computer, printer, monitor, speakers, scanner, label printer, two external hard drives, a TARDIS, a keyboard, a mouse, and (if I want to use it) a mousepad with USB ports in it. And now I have my very own keyboard tray!

It didn't work the first time - for reasons I never did quite figure out, the monitor gave me a lot of trouble. Finally got it working, then decided to move the hard drive under the desk, which meant doing it all over again.

Done now, and I'm proud as punch, with my big new desk and a whole new perspective on the world. I'm facing the opposite direction now. And the living room is a mess - what will I do with all my odds and ends? Find places for them or discard them, I guess.

Tomorrow will be devoted to two things: the editing work and moving the bookcase.

Vids...

People sent me two vids this evening. One, from lunacy_gal, is a Road Runner cartoon: Coyote Falls. I'm sure I watched Road Runner sometimes as a kid, but not much, and I was never much of a Looney Tunes fan. Is taht heresy? Anyway, seeing it in this style was kind of fun, in a 'blast from the past' sort of way. I like the use of music and rhythm.

The other thing is a version of the preview of the upcoming Green Lantern move that aired at WonderCon this year. In brightest day, in blackest night.... I found it loaded slowly, but it's worth waiting for.

Now, really, I've never been much of a Green Lantern fan - his stories seem to epitomize the DC style that I don't much care for, which is not to say I haven't enjoyed some of the Green Lantern stories I've read. I'm sort of indifferent to both character and the comic. And yes, I know there have been several Green Lanterns from Earth. I always think of Hal Jordan as being 'my' Green Lantern.

Here we have Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. I thought he was gorgeous in Wolverine - not so much so in this clip, though I'm not sure why not. A little dorky, not the tough but likable hotshot pilot I always pictured. I don't like the alien space adventure aspect of the Green Lantern Corps - for that sort of thing, give me the Legion of Super-Heroes any time. Now, there's a movie I'd like to see.

Despite my misgivings, this sort of pulled me in, and before I was at the end of the preview I found myself curious, and wanting to see it. Despite the funny-looking aliens and the green-light power-magic that is the hallmark of the comic. Reminds me of the aspects of Superman that I don't much like. Yeah, I know, picky, picky.