Cars du jour

On the way to work, I was graced with a Maverick sighting (black, heading north on US 1 in Rockledge) and a rather nice vintage Chevy pickup (circa 1965-70) with a flame job. The Chevy was white, with a topper blended with the cab, and it had tasty orange and yellow flames licking back from the hood and front quarter panels.

Our software was glitching today, and callers were being sent erroneous emails saying their orders were being suspended due to a processing error...no lie, I took upwards of 70 calls tonight, and I swear, 60 of them were about that issue. Short and sweet, though.

Aside from that, though, it was really quiet, and after dinner, I got 8+ steno pages written on the crossover-in-progress...guess I won't shitcan it just yet....

Cars du jour

On the way to work, I was graced with a Maverick sighting (black, heading north on US 1 in Rockledge) and a rather nice vintage Chevy pickup (circa 1965-70) with a flame job. The Chevy was white, with a topper blended with the cab, and it had tasty orange and yellow flames licking back from the hood and front quarter panels.

Our software was glitching today, and callers were being sent erroneous emails saying their orders were being suspended due to a processing error...no lie, I took upwards of 70 calls tonight, and I swear, 60 of them were about that issue. Short and sweet, though.

Aside from that, though, it was really quiet, and after dinner, I got 8+ steno pages written on the crossover-in-progress...guess I won't shitcan it just yet....

The TV Fairy meme

Ganked from karaokegal

A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Simon and Simon has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.

Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!


1. You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! What do you choose?
Uh...um...well, crap. I'm gonna have to think about that. Because everything that comes to mind tends to be along the lines of #3. (Save Colonel Blake on M*A*S*H*, Tim Speedle on CSI: Miami, Johnston Green on Jericho....)
EDIT: Okay, first episode to go bye-bye is a Halloween episode of Simon & Simon, because their cheezy Hollywood take on witches really pissed me off. ZAP!
And then there was the Due South ep where they blew up the Riviera---NO! No blowing up of the fine Detroit steel! Delete!

2. You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history! CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
*whimper* Only one?! Damn. As much as I would *like* to save The Burning Zone, I'm going to have to resurrect Jericho, because the cumulative talent is greater. (JDM is damn scenic, but the post-Apocalyptic ensemble is formidible.)

To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can wield your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
Oh, goody! Let's completely eradicate Married, With Children, which I swear collectively lowered the average IQ of its viewers by at least 10 points.

3. LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
John Winchester lives! (Supernatural) Which balances the choice I made for #2....
Allison Cameron dies! (House, MD)

3.5 Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Delete: The whole second season of The Burning Zone where they wrote out Marcase and Shiroma.
Insert: Regular appearances of Jonah Prowse on Jericho rather than a few scattered guest spots. James Remar, yum.

The TV Fairy meme

Ganked from karaokegal

A supernatural glitch in your DVR occurs. At first you panic, hitting lots of random buttons on your remote control, but then are RELIEVED to discover that no, your entire series recording of Simon and Simon has not been deleted! But then, just as things appear to be back to normal, there's a puff of smoke, and a fairy appears! You have apparently freed the TV fairy from a televised hell in which she was made to watch endless reruns of Are You Hot?, and as fairies tend to be when freed, she is very grateful and wants to grant you magic wishes.

Now, the fairy has only TV-related powerz, and so she offers you the chance to go back in time and retroactively CHANGE the history of your favorite TV shows with 3.5 wishes!


1. You can go back in time and erase from the fabric of TV history THREE individual episodes of any TV show you want! What do you choose?
Uh...um...well, crap. I'm gonna have to think about that. Because everything that comes to mind tends to be along the lines of #3. (Save Colonel Blake on M*A*S*H*, Tim Speedle on CSI: Miami, Johnston Green on Jericho....)
EDIT: Okay, first episode to go bye-bye is a Halloween episode of Simon & Simon, because their cheezy Hollywood take on witches really pissed me off. ZAP!
And then there was the Due South ep where they blew up the Riviera---NO! No blowing up of the fine Detroit steel! Delete!

2. You can go back in time and revive ONE unfairly cancelled television show and return it to the annals of TV history! CHOOSE WISELY, because if you attempt to revive more than one show, the wish will backfire and you'll instead be treated to a whole bunch of crappy made-for-TV "reunion" movies full of replacement actors.
*whimper* Only one?! Damn. As much as I would *like* to save The Burning Zone, I'm going to have to resurrect Jericho, because the cumulative talent is greater. (JDM is damn scenic, but the post-Apocalyptic ensemble is formidible.)

To balance out the historical TV viewing schedule, you now have the power to retroactively CANCEL, at any point during the series, any one show! Alternately, you can wield your destructive might and DELETE one whole entire series from ever having been made.
Oh, goody! Let's completely eradicate Married, With Children, which I swear collectively lowered the average IQ of its viewers by at least 10 points.

3. LIFE AND DEATH! You can now bring ONE character back from the dead... and, to restore the balance, you must also kill off a character! They don't have to be from the same fandom.
John Winchester lives! (Supernatural) Which balances the choice I made for #2....
Allison Cameron dies! (House, MD)

3.5 Bonus tradeoff: you can delete a single scene, relationship pairing or plot arc from any series that gave you hives... AND you can plug in any one [scene, pairing, plot arc] that you never got to see!
Delete: The whole second season of The Burning Zone where they wrote out Marcase and Shiroma.
Insert: Regular appearances of Jonah Prowse on Jericho rather than a few scattered guest spots. James Remar, yum.

The last Sunday in June

This has been a lovely day. Church was pleasant. I returned home, answered emails, went over to Kat's for a brief swim (We'd only been in the water for 20-30 minutes before it started to sprinkle.) which was great, as we've had a bit of rain throughout the week, so the water was a few degrees cooler than the ambient temp, but not freezing.

Went to Publix on the way home, which was good for groceries, as well as for scenery. Gent I followed out to the parking lot was tall, broad-shouldered, my age or a bit older---short shorts and excellent legs, IMO. That he was balding was a bagatelle---I can cite quite a few bald guys I find attractive---I just wish I'd been able to think of a pretext to hit on him.

Just finished a chat with S, trying to instigate a card game for the 4th. It's been a while since we've gotten together, and I wouldn't mind visiting my godchildren the schnauzers.

Maybe I'll finish the day by doing something constructive, like laundry....

The last Sunday in June

This has been a lovely day. Church was pleasant. I returned home, answered emails, went over to Kat's for a brief swim (We'd only been in the water for 20-30 minutes before it started to sprinkle.) which was great, as we've had a bit of rain throughout the week, so the water was a few degrees cooler than the ambient temp, but not freezing.

Went to Publix on the way home, which was good for groceries, as well as for scenery. Gent I followed out to the parking lot was tall, broad-shouldered, my age or a bit older---short shorts and excellent legs, IMO. That he was balding was a bagatelle---I can cite quite a few bald guys I find attractive---I just wish I'd been able to think of a pretext to hit on him.

Just finished a chat with S, trying to instigate a card game for the 4th. It's been a while since we've gotten together, and I wouldn't mind visiting my godchildren the schnauzers.

Maybe I'll finish the day by doing something constructive, like laundry....