Domestic Geek

I'm enjoying reading season one's Apprentice firee Sam's commentary on this season's shows. I figure I'd better link it here so I don't have to go google-ing for it every week.

Sorry about the lack of posting lately. I just haven't been up to it. All I've been doing lately is working, vegging in front of the TV and sleeping . . . A LOT of sleeping. The good news is I think I kicked the bug I got last week and my neck is feeling somewhat better. Bad news is my back is still killing me.

The Gilmore Girls season premiere I was so looking forward to on Tuesday was a tad disappointing. Oh, well. I still liked the show for the most part, though. The whole Rory/Dean storyline really annoys me. I really wasn't impressed by Jason Alexander's new show Listen Up. Too bad it sits in between two shows I like to watch. I cried a lot Monday when they killed off my favorite character Tim Speedle (Rory Cochrane) on CSI: Miami. I read on a message board somewhere that he wants to concentrate on movies. *sigh* I'll miss him. What else? Oh, the new season of Dr. Phil is boooooring. I've started watching a show called Starting Over that is kind of interesting. Joey is pretty funny so far and I know I'll like The Apprentice more when I get to know the contestants better. Well, guess that about covers my premiere week so far. Man, I am watching way too much TV lately.

A friend of mine from school found this cool avatar maker that I was dinking around with a couple of nights ago. Here's the results:

I think the one I made of Marcus came out pretty good. There wasn't any hair that was just like mine (too frumpy, I guess), but this is close enough. I found it highly amusing that both of our laptop models were there. LOL

Current mood: sick
In addition to the sore neck and back, I'm now sick. Yay. I was bitten by several mosquitos the other day, so I'm sure that probably has something to do with it. I hope they weren't infected with West Nile or anything. LOL My mouth broke out in cancre (sp?) sores and I'm achy, coughy and sneezy (sounds like three of Snow White's dwarves!). The other possibility is Marcus brought it home from work. He said some guys there were ill. All I know is, I'm staying home here to rest. No need making this worse or sharing it with others. What sucks is I had planned on going out to try out my new camera. I finally decided on a Canon PowerShot A75. The final selling point on that as opposed to the Nikon I was considering is that you can change out the lenses. Apparently there is a telephoto lens and a wide angle lens that you can buy separately.

I'm just noticing that the floaters I have in my left eye have shifted. They used to be in my lower field of vision, now they're right in the middle of it. Weird.

Well, the insurance lady from the other company is sending me a release form so I can get a $1000 check for the accident. It's the only way I can see getting to a doctor. Then Marcus and I can sign the papers that get me onto his insurance at work and I'll have the money for the $500 deductable and a couple of months premiums. It'll be 10 weeks on Friday since the accident. I'm really tired of the pain and the lack of mobility. I've gain 11 pounds and lost most of my muscle tone in my abdomen since the crash. It sucks.

I love the layouts the Moxie Girls did for halloween this year, expecially Joelle's. I want to know how to do the alternating post colors. I'm sure it's some php or javascript thing to pull in different css class names, but since I'm know just enough about programming to get me in trouble, I can't code it. I'll have to poke around on the Internet when I get better and see if I can find someone who has done it or something similar that I can hack around with. I tried to see how Joelle had done it, but she's smart and has encrypted her code, so you can't see what she's done if you view the source. I also want to know how to do that. Not so much for my own site, but if I ever get good enough at this to actually do it for a living, it might be a handy piece of info.

I made some really good stuffed peppers for dinner last night. For once the peppers that came into work were large, green and not moldy or squishy. Perfect for stuffed peppers. I offered to pay for some, but the manager (for once not being an @ssh0le) let me just take some. Maybe going off on him the other morning about how frustrating my whole life has been lately including all the nonsense going on in that store (not getting paid, no room to work, etc) had some kind of effect on him. We'll see how long this lasts.

OK, that's all for now. My bed is calling.

As seen in the MarcusLingl.net forums:

Current mood: apathetic
So, I'm sitting here watching the Denver Broncos season opener tonight on ESPN. I don't know if it has to do with the fact that all my favorite players are gone or if I just don't know these new guys well enough or what, but I'm not overly excited about football this year. I miss Ed McCaffrey.