Scales, yoga and fannish vids...

[fajrdrako]

Brunch with the ottawa_slashers crowd. Had a wonderful time. Everybody was great. There's such a good energy being around a lot of fans at once. And such a delightfully diverse crowd of fandoms we represented! Lots of overlap, which is good. Lots of diversity, which is good, too. Looking forward to doing it again next month.

Then I went to Shopper's Drug Mart because I've discovered that my bathroom scales were defective. The old cheap kind. It tends to say Err or to put my weight at ten pounds more or less than it was the day before. I'm not sure which is more disconcerting. If I can lose ten pounds in a night... well, bring it on.

But no. Changing batteries didn't help. So: new scales. I got the spiffly high-tech glass kind with a lifetime guarantee. On sale. Still a horrendous price - I didn't know scales had inflated past the $20 mark. Well, how would I? I've only ever bought such a thing once.

Groceries. Then home; planned to get a lot of things done, but ended up filing papers. maaseru threw away her old file cabinet, I grabbed it, and spent some time filing every piece of unfiled paper in this appartment. My excuse for not filing stuff has been that the box I was using as a file cabinet was too full, nothing fit any more - yes, lame. So now it's all filed in folders in my new cabinet: a year's worth of Bell Canada bills and Visa statements and - the biggest file of all - paperwork from Revenue Canada. I have a simple, tiny income. How can reporting it involve so much paper?

Did yoga with my new yoga DVDs. Looked worth it: I know Rodney Yee is good from the Yoga Journal DVDs and Mariel Hemingway is beautiful, which is a bonus.

The watched a pile of fannish music vids from Vividcon sent to maaseru bymeri_oddities. Three were absolutely brilliant - one of them by Luminosity - who's she? Some were either dull or just not fandoms any of us are into, though the general level of quality wasn't bad. The best was 300. Some other excellent vids were about Battlestar Galactica; others were multiple fandoms. Blast from the past, wit images from The Professionals and Starsky and Hutch and old Star Trek. It was fun to see Methos and Duncan on screen again. And just as we were saying we don't hear much about Xena and more, there she was. There was a femslash one we all liked, though we had no idea what the fandom was - my guess is it's The L Word, but I really don't know.

I mumbled that my favourite Battlestar Galactica pairing was Starbuck/Adama, and to my surprise, maaseru and maaboroshi didn't think that was weird. They see the rationale. Maybe I will get brave enough to write it, after all.

No Veronica Mars vids so far, which disappointed me, but maybe there's something on the vids we didn't get to yet. Too much Supernatural, but I expected that. (I mostly closed my eyes. Way too gross for me.) There was an interesting one based on Pan's Labyrinth. There were several that made me want to see the shows they were based on - like Charlie Jade, Nikita and (yes, surprisingly) even the American Queer as Folk, which I couldn't bear last time I tried.

And Buffy. Last time I'd seen a bunch of vids from Buffy the Vampire Slayer I saw a lot of anorexic young girls in tears. This time, I got a different impression entirely.

And to my great joy and delight, there were vids featuring Torchwood and Doctor Who, making me a very happy fan indeed. Lots of images of Ten licking things. Lots of images of Captain Jack Harkness hugging, kissing, or groping people of various genders and species. Brings a smile to my face.

We established also that there is a gravity anomaly situated underneath maaseru's couch, which is impossible to got out of when you have work tomorrow and a nice pile of relaxing music vids to watch: the gravity there must be at least four or five times normal. Be warned.

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Vid Recommendation -- You Know My Name

[raissad.livejournal.com]

This is currently the best marriage of song to chracter I've seen lately, imo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tYXM4ReJw4

Re: Vid Recommendation -- You Know My Name

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I have a simple, tiny income. How can reporting it involve so much paper?

Yet another pet peeve of mine ... tax returns are actually harder to fill out than they used to be. At one time, I could do all the math calculations required with pen & paper (or by looking up tables). Not any more ... a calculator is essential now (the percentage values you are supposed to multiply by have at least three significant figures), and there are some steps that are hard to do without a PC. [That annoys me because I do not really trust PCs for this sort of task -- especially if they run Windows. Remember how you felt when the computer simply refused to install some essential program? Been there, done that, quite a few times, did not want the T-shirt anyway.]

I strongly suspect that certain bureaucrats and lawmakers (whether you call them "MPs" or "Congress-critters") view the computer as a wonderful way to force you to tell them the most intimate and boring characteristics of your life to the most pettifogging detail. [I believe that most objections to the Income Tax Acts when they were passed in Canada & the US (around 1913) made exactly this point -- tax returns are, properly speaking, an invasion of privacy.]

We established also that there is a gravity anomaly situated underneath (a certain person)'s couch ...

I too have found a gravity anomaly under my bed ... it only exists on Thursdays and Fridays (my days off) and then only when I can read books. :-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You know, that same gravity anomaly displaced itself and put itself under my bed this morning....