Saturday rambles
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jasmineskieI have the house to myself and am procrastinating before I go back to writing. (The next (long!) chapter of Surviving will be up either later tonight or tomorrow, for those wondering. *g*)
So if I'm procrastinating, what better place to do it than here, right? ;)
First of all, congratulations to those whose teams are winning in World Cup, and *hugs* to those whose teams aren't. I don't follow WC at all, but I can tell a bunch of people on my flist do. :) I hope you don't mind that I've just been skipping over most of those posts, just like I'm sure almost everyone skips over my football posts. :P
I've made myself a couple of very simple icons from pics I've taken along the Oregon coast. The person in this icon isn't me, or anyone I know, for that matter; just some random person who was walking along the beach the same time I was. ;)
Since I knew I wasn't going to make a (self-imposed) deadline this week, I've been goofing off a little. For part of that goofing off, I watched the first twelve episodes of Boston Legal this week.
I normally don't like shows about lawyers who practice civil litigation. I know too much about it, and I guess I kind of react the way doctors and nurses react to shows like ER or Grey's Anatomy, or crime lab people react to CSI -- it's just not realistic. And in some instances the dramatic license the show takes is so outrageous that their license ought to be suspended. :P I'm a little more forgiving with criminal law shows because IRL I'm not involved in criminal cases. ANyway... I was really annoyed with BL for the first few episodes. I almost quit watching. But... at the same time I was really, really intrigued by Alan Shore and Denny Crane, the characters played by James Spader and William Shatner. Denny Crane seems custom-made for William Shatner. He does a marvelous job with it, and I can see why he won an Emmy. And James Spader -- man, he does such a good job with a character who isn't really a good guy, except when he is, and that's just often enough to keep you from hating him.
So, the more I watched, the more I concentrated on the characters, not the legal issues/plots, and the episodes got better for me. :) I watched eight eps in a row yesterday.
Now I have to watch the rest of the season. :P
I've gotten spoiled watching television shows on DVD. No annoying commercials, no waiting for next week, next month, next whenever. :P I can't imagine watching a show like 24 week to week. It's bad enough with Lost. It's so much easier to follow plotlines and subplots and pick up subtleties watching the eps on DVD.
We never did have the downpour/massive thunderstorms predicted for last week. We haven't had any more lightning storms *knock on wood*, so the fires are slowly being contained and burning themselves out, thank goodness.
Thanks to all the warm weather and rain this spring, we're going to have bumper crop of fruit this year. I've already picked probably eight pounds of cherries from our two cherry trees. We usually hardly get any, especially once the birds are finished eating the barely-ripe ones. Eight pounds is maybe a third of what's on the trees this year, not counting the fruit the birds have eaten/started to eat. And there's still more to pick. These aren't sweet cherries -- they're more the kind you'd make into pies -- but I still enjoy just eating them. Just not that *many* of them all at once. A bunch are going to go into the freezer as soon as they're pitted.
We're also going to have grapes in the peach tree. :P We used to have a concord grape vine that wound around the split rail fence we have in our front yard, but the poor thing didn't come back after the winter where we had four feet of snow for six weeks. The one grape vine that did survive is a thompson seedless that for years has never given us any fruit. It's grown up into the peach tree in our front yard, and I let it because yeah -- no fruit. Well, this year it's going to have bunches of grapes, which will all be in the peach tree about twelve feet off the ground. :P And we have lots of green peaches in the tree too. I wonder how many the birds will leave alone enough to pick by the end of the season.
Years ago I used to do a lot of rubber-stamping, mostly on cloth that I used as central squares in something else. When I was on vacation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carynita, we went into a craft store and I picked up a couple of new stamps, an art pen set, and some paper to play around with. Which I did yesterday while I was watching Boston Legal. *g* I'd forgotten how much fun that was. :D
So this afternoon I dug out the box of stamps I had stored in the garage to clean them up, see which ones have dried out too much to use anymore. I bought myself a spiral sketch book and a set of pastel art pens. I already have tons of colored pencils. I also have an old set of chalk pastels around the house somewhere. While I was in Ben Franklins (a craft store) this afternoon, I noticed that chalking is another way to fill in stamps, so I'm going to try the pastels for that. :)
Okay, time to get back to work. :P I've put in the first DVD of Lost for company. Hope everyone's have a good weekend -- World Cup, London premiere of POTC2, or 4th of July long weekend, or just a nice Saturday night. *hugs*
So if I'm procrastinating, what better place to do it than here, right? ;)
First of all, congratulations to those whose teams are winning in World Cup, and *hugs* to those whose teams aren't. I don't follow WC at all, but I can tell a bunch of people on my flist do. :) I hope you don't mind that I've just been skipping over most of those posts, just like I'm sure almost everyone skips over my football posts. :P
I've made myself a couple of very simple icons from pics I've taken along the Oregon coast. The person in this icon isn't me, or anyone I know, for that matter; just some random person who was walking along the beach the same time I was. ;)
Since I knew I wasn't going to make a (self-imposed) deadline this week, I've been goofing off a little. For part of that goofing off, I watched the first twelve episodes of Boston Legal this week.
I normally don't like shows about lawyers who practice civil litigation. I know too much about it, and I guess I kind of react the way doctors and nurses react to shows like ER or Grey's Anatomy, or crime lab people react to CSI -- it's just not realistic. And in some instances the dramatic license the show takes is so outrageous that their license ought to be suspended. :P I'm a little more forgiving with criminal law shows because IRL I'm not involved in criminal cases. ANyway... I was really annoyed with BL for the first few episodes. I almost quit watching. But... at the same time I was really, really intrigued by Alan Shore and Denny Crane, the characters played by James Spader and William Shatner. Denny Crane seems custom-made for William Shatner. He does a marvelous job with it, and I can see why he won an Emmy. And James Spader -- man, he does such a good job with a character who isn't really a good guy, except when he is, and that's just often enough to keep you from hating him.
So, the more I watched, the more I concentrated on the characters, not the legal issues/plots, and the episodes got better for me. :) I watched eight eps in a row yesterday.
Now I have to watch the rest of the season. :P
I've gotten spoiled watching television shows on DVD. No annoying commercials, no waiting for next week, next month, next whenever. :P I can't imagine watching a show like 24 week to week. It's bad enough with Lost. It's so much easier to follow plotlines and subplots and pick up subtleties watching the eps on DVD.
We never did have the downpour/massive thunderstorms predicted for last week. We haven't had any more lightning storms *knock on wood*, so the fires are slowly being contained and burning themselves out, thank goodness.
Thanks to all the warm weather and rain this spring, we're going to have bumper crop of fruit this year. I've already picked probably eight pounds of cherries from our two cherry trees. We usually hardly get any, especially once the birds are finished eating the barely-ripe ones. Eight pounds is maybe a third of what's on the trees this year, not counting the fruit the birds have eaten/started to eat. And there's still more to pick. These aren't sweet cherries -- they're more the kind you'd make into pies -- but I still enjoy just eating them. Just not that *many* of them all at once. A bunch are going to go into the freezer as soon as they're pitted.
We're also going to have grapes in the peach tree. :P We used to have a concord grape vine that wound around the split rail fence we have in our front yard, but the poor thing didn't come back after the winter where we had four feet of snow for six weeks. The one grape vine that did survive is a thompson seedless that for years has never given us any fruit. It's grown up into the peach tree in our front yard, and I let it because yeah -- no fruit. Well, this year it's going to have bunches of grapes, which will all be in the peach tree about twelve feet off the ground. :P And we have lots of green peaches in the tree too. I wonder how many the birds will leave alone enough to pick by the end of the season.
Years ago I used to do a lot of rubber-stamping, mostly on cloth that I used as central squares in something else. When I was on vacation with
carynita, we went into a craft store and I picked up a couple of new stamps, an art pen set, and some paper to play around with. Which I did yesterday while I was watching Boston Legal. *g* I'd forgotten how much fun that was. :D So this afternoon I dug out the box of stamps I had stored in the garage to clean them up, see which ones have dried out too much to use anymore. I bought myself a spiral sketch book and a set of pastel art pens. I already have tons of colored pencils. I also have an old set of chalk pastels around the house somewhere. While I was in Ben Franklins (a craft store) this afternoon, I noticed that chalking is another way to fill in stamps, so I'm going to try the pastels for that. :)
Okay, time to get back to work. :P I've put in the first DVD of Lost for company. Hope everyone's have a good weekend -- World Cup, London premiere of POTC2, or 4th of July long weekend, or just a nice Saturday night. *hugs*
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