Cycles of Wine

Well. I like it, anyway. So there.



Still looking for the song, but mostly that's because I got distracted by an embed-able version of the video (above) and wanted to share. Back to looking!

Who gets full off a few swallows of root beer? Me, apparently. What the hell.

Also, when the rest of the room is dark, the tree makes a red, red glow down the hall. It's a very magenta-red, and it's still and solid, so it doesn't resemble firelight at all, but it does bear some resemblance to movie!nuclear-reactor-glows. Kind of disturbing. But cool.

(As promised, this goes on IJ first. )

Oh, my pretty pretty IJ. I never write anything here.

But that's alright. I've not typed anything anywhere for quite some time. And you are by far the prettiest of places to not update. *pets*

I am very, very fond of this layout, I must admit.

And also, I'd be a lot more likely to post to IJ if I had a client to do so with. Not that I use any very often, but that's because I've been ignoring the XJ world, but when I do post, I prefer to use a client. Because I don't like loading the update-journal page, I guess. And it's a holdover from when you had to click on the "more options" thingie to set anything other than the title, which was very annoying.

Anyway.

I should make an attempt to post here first. That way I'll either maintain an equality, or I'll make up for previous abandonment.

And it's such a pretty layout. *pet pet*

... okay. I forgot. Again.

But then I ignored everyone for a long time, so it's all equal?

I will admit, though, that part of my ignoring-everyone (the bit that wasn't going off the deep end over important, serious issues, like the fact that, without feeling guilty or dirty, my reaction to my school trying to coerce me was just about as bad, and more open, as my reaction to that guy; the bit that's shallow and aesthetically impulsive) was due to the fact that I didn't like to look at my journal. Kinda bright and ugly and embarrassing, and I veered away from it ASAP, and didn't want to be associated with it. It was worse on LJ, actually.

... Anyway.

Voila, my masterpiece. I figured out how to get the entries side by side, so you side-scroll and read more like a book. Without the whole page becoming insanely sized. No html, no frames, all CSS. That said, it was written by hand, mostly from scratch, so there may be some bugs, some bits that could have been written more efficiently, yadda. Also, it was put together and tested using Firefox and Safari, so I'm not sure how well it will work on IE. I don't think there were any bits that had waving flags next to them (I am an amateur and I reference liek whoa) but...

Still.

Only problem? Now I look at the layouts I was so happy with before (or at least could stand) and they're not good enough any more. And I have a thing about reusing them, since if you're going from one place to another, they should look different.

Well. I also documented liek whoa, so maybe I can swing something similar but with a different feel, and that will work.

I found a brass Cthulhu head at the bead store! They said it was an octopus, but I know. It was the eyes.

... bleah. Not very coherent, huh? Basically, there were these brass charm-things, in the shape of an octopus, with writhy tentacles, only the eyes were set pretty forward, more human-like than anything. And I thought, Cthulhu!

And that was it.

No pictures, I'm falling asleep.

So I've started sort of carelessly, selectively backing up LJ to IJ. Which follows the trend, oh well.

Selectively, because there's a lot of angst that I don't need to reread again, let alone inflict on anyone else. (I may just avoid 2005 in general. It was a sucky year.) Carelessly, because I'm not really all that invested in it.

Which means that at the moment I have these three random months in '03, back when I started college and LJ together, and then a whole big blank of nothing until you get to when I started actually really posting here. For real, you know. Not as a copy.

Because I hit that guy (TGwFMBtmRaWTNfaA, that guy for short), and decided that that was enough for tonight. Man, the way we deal with things. From insouicant to flat out misery, self-disgust, and anger... and back to general indifference. Thank you, dissociation. You let me grow past self-centered pricks.

But yeah. Of all the angst, I think I need to keep that guy. He gets a tag, too. Someday, I'll be able to just point at that, and that will be all the explanation I need.

I'm sorry, IJ. I forgot all about you. *pets*

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So Ula got a bit cracked in the head, and while she was perfectly accessible through Fuji, couldn't work on her own. It was probably some minor bit in the users that got corrupted and made them invisible when trying to directly start up. Not fun.

In any case, this prompted a more-or-less complete rewrite. Varij is my backup now, and in order to make sure something similar doesn't happen to him, I need to remember to start up from him at least once a month. I'm also doing a less complete backup that involves no invisible files or users and doubled fiddly-bits like Library. Urgh, Library. You are the stuff that non-programmers dream of in nightmares.

Ula is a repository for everything interesting. Which means that I'm almost constantly accessing her, but also means that there's no inconvenient doubling of things that leaves me confused with multiple copies of things in all the wrong places and other things I wanted to find but couldn't hidden away until I forgot about them.

This setup also lets me let Fuji rest for a while every now and then. Be good to your internal drive, children. They will scream at you if they get upset enough, and there's nothing you can do about it when that happens.

As soon as this thing finished downloading, I think I'll switch back, though.

Kate says: It's a lot more fun to pet a dick than to worry about one.

... yes, this is the person I'm visiting right now.

Wai~~ I am currently at the crazy Kate's house (although you can't legally say she's insane because they tried to prove that she was psychotic and made her take this test and she totally beat their asses). I will be here for a week. Not sure what I'm going to get up to during that time, but it will probably be highly artistic and/or creative.

Ula's transferring her stuff to Renaissance (who is new) so I can wipe her clean and install the system fresh before putting everything back. And then she'll be joined by a new (hand-me-down) external! Ah, Fuji's fine. But if I add another one (names, people?) then I can save all my art to it and keep them as psd! Which would be of the win.

So yeah, I'm about to get another 115G of storage space, all for my art. Name, though... Eh... Fuji is Japanese for wisteria, and is also a name; Ula is a celtic name meaning 'ocean'... IOW, I need something light and feminine and nature-meaning... and exotic-ish, and two syllables long.

Of course, if Renaissance hadn't worked for Dad and we'd had to switch, I would have renamed it Morgan, but that's because it's a brand new, black, sleek, pretty little baby. I would want it, but he's only a little larger than Ula, and has only one port in back, whereas Ula and the yet-nameless have two. And in the end, Dad doesn't have to throw out an old external, and I get a new baby.

And I get to finally install my system properly on Ula. It's going to take a while, though.


[Also, NTS: need a cable for Liran that isn't falling apart.]

EDIT     :     The new drive's name is Varij. Which means 'lotus'. And is a boy's name, but I don't really care.

You know what? This seems like the perfect place for me to be facetious about religious philosophy!

Philosopher: Proclus
Subject: Oneness
Disclaimer: This is religious philosophy, people. Somebody is bound to be offended. If you flame me, I will wonder (pointedly) where you came from and why you seem to be stalking me. On the other hand, please feel free to respectfully disagree, so I can do the same right back and we can enjoy a pleasant discussion.

( being very facetious here, don't mind me )

I... I may have just accidentally finished a story I hadn't intended on being anywhere near done with. But I came to a moral ending phrase, and that's how I usually end my stories, and —

OMG, I now have the ending. God, it's so corny, but it works with the title perfectly. And I'm at... nearly 9k. Words, I mean. That's a decent short story.

Um.

Excuse me, I have to be stunned for a while, here. Completely blindsided.

Okay! I'm still not completely happy with this layout, but it's the best I can get over here. Still keeping some other options in reserve: I've screencapped them and can haul them back out if I decide I hate this.

And no, I don't know why I decided to use Greek.

I also don't really know why I have an IJ account, except that certain other people do, and I'd like to keep track of them. So it's a kind of peer pressure... I guess...? Thing is, what LJ's being kind of bitchy about doesn't really deal with me, since I'm not even squicked by most illegal!kinks, just icked.

... I suppose I can talk openly about why here, though. Maybe some other time.

This thing can't handle more than 100 interests, apparently, so I had to put it in myself, whee~~ Don't mind me, I'm just in a strange mood right now.

( meme )

You know, one of these days, I'm going to be on every __journal.com place, just trying to keep up with everyone else. I don't propose to be on here much, and I probably won't have any overlap between this place, my main journal, and the other one. Mostly because I can't be bothered to try to keep up with cross posting, and especially not when I use two clients to do so, and therefore have to log in differently at least a couple times just to do everything. So not happening.

So... you know... poke me, or something. I'll respond, even if it seems sometimes like I'm dealing with multiple personalities. Part of the fun. ♥♥♥

Mwah, darling.

EDIT     It's somewhat annoying to have to add a http:// before everything that I don't want to be just a subset of this journal. Actually, very annoying. Stop it, IJ.