They don't still have debtors' prison, do they?

[ealgylden]

It is mine! The Adventures of Commodore Norrington is mine! Bias? What bias? It, ah, may be possible that the only part of it I've watched so far is Norrington's deleted scenes, but I'm sure that means nothing. Nothing at all.

Also acquired or arrived today: TTT:EE, The Making of M&C, World's Finest #204 (from 1971), starring Superman (natch) and the "New" Wonder Woman (de-powered Diana in her mod kung fu spygirl phase- I collect that version of her), and a tape full of Kim Possible goodness from the most excellent kathlaw. Yay!

Not acquired today: the RotK soundtrack. Still! Argh! Oh well, at least I have an excuse to go to the good mall with the Borders and the theater playing M&C, since the lame mall by the casino was a bust.

Also, no new Hornblower movies for me, although that's more of a current-and-ongoing situation. Thank the gods and little fishes for video.

Really acquired today: mucho debt and mucho stress, and it's only the tip of the iceberg. Ah, December. I think everyone's getting cookies for presents this year. Cookies, I can do.

Oh, and since I'm spamming anyway, I thought this snowflake generator was very cute. Addictive, too- I haven't spent this much just fiddling with the mouse and not actually doing anything since I first saw the online Lite-brite. Oooh, swirly lights...

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[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

If they still had debtor's prison I'd be typing this from there.

And the snowflake generator? I may never write again.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that would end the supply of great Nick/Greg (and others)! A tragedy! I'd be crushed. Well, once I finally caught up with everything you've written in the last two weeks that's still waiting in my "to read" folder, that is. I figure I'll spend normal CSI time reading it all, unless they're repeating something really good.

I'm half convinced the snowflake generator a mind control device or some advanced form of hypnotism, disguised as a harmless little time-waster. Or maybe I'm just easily distracted and susceptible to shiny things. Nah, that can't be it.

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

It really is some form of hypnosis. I could stare at that thing for hours.

I believe they're showing "Homebodies" this week, which would be episode three of this season (the one with the teenage rape victim and all the tragedy). And WAT is re-airing. "Confidence".

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

"Homebodies" and "Confidence," eh? Hm. Subtext-light and bleakness-heavy. Yeah, reading fic while taping them sounds a lot more fun than watching. It's been too long a week for "Homebodies."

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

If they did have debtor's prison, I'd beg to be in the same cell with you 'cause at least then I'd never be bored. :-)

Acquired my own copy of "Rum and an Island" tonight and am holding it out like the best possible carrot for finishing this rewrite.

Glad the tapes arrived! Hope you like the KP eps. One of the things on my list for the L.A. trip in January (pitch meetings) is meeting with Bob Schooley and partner (producers/creators of KP) since rumor has it the Mouse is going more towards freelancers. Heaven would be writing for KP and RS, and Rufus of course.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

We'd be poor but merry! Like... oh heck. I'm totally blanking on the name of the poor-but-merry dude from David Copperfield. Oops. Anyway, like that guy. *g*

Hee,"Rum and an Island"! I like that one. That would be a very effective carrot, I'd think, so I hope the rewrite is going well. And I'll definitely keep all my fingers and toes crossed for your LA trip (about the KP possibility, of course, but also just in general). That would be so tremendously cool.

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

I'm totally blanking on the name of the poor-but-merry dude from David Copperfield.

I know who you mean, but I too am blanking. And yeah!

Um, Mr. Micawber?

I hope the rewrite is going well.

Thanks. It's a total rewrite so it's taking longer than I'd like. Of course I should have started it sooner, but it's me. I procrastinate. Learning new things, though, like it was James Watt being hired to build an engine to replace 12 horses at a sawmill that caused him to create the measure known as "horsepower." :-)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Yes! Mr. Micawber! That's him. Thanks. *g*

Learning new things, though, like it was James Watt being hired to build an engine to replace 12 horses at a sawmill that caused him to create the measure known as "horsepower."

Oh neat, really? I didn't know there were actual horses responsible. I love finding out stuff like that. It helps make up for the more annoying parts of the whole writing process (and I'm the last person who could ever pick on you for procrastinating. I procrastinate with work, I procrastinate with hobbies... the strictures of time are for other people.)

[kathlaw.livejournal.com]

Glad I remembered Micawber. Sometimes my brain actually works. :-)

Of course my source didn't explain HOW James Watt figured out a horse could lift 30,000 pounds the distance of one foot in one minute, but that's the actual amount involved in a single unit of horsepower. I'm guessing pulleys were involved, since horses aren't well equipped to lift straight up.

Thanks, on the procrastinating. I'm a little more than 25% through with it, and need to finish the rest tonight (by late sunrise). So I'm taking a break, then need to lie down and stretch my back out. I tend to perch, not properly sit in my desk chair, and my back has decided I hate it, so it hates me.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

I like your priorities *g* I squeed so much over Norrington's deleted scenes, and love him even more now, if that's possible. So. cute.

And, more lobsters! Their deleted scene is a little...strange, to say the least, but still, more lobsters! Happiness.

Hurrah for so many goodies in the mail! Hope you're enjoying them.

Cookies are good.

Dear god, so many shiny things. I could spend all day playing with the snowflake generator. And the Lite-brite...if only they had patterns so you could draw stuff. For those of us with no drawing ability, that is.

Pretty snowflakes....

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

I squeed so much over Norrington's deleted scenes, and love him even more now, if that's possible. So. cute.

Oh me too. I loved that he framed his rescue of Will in terms of his duty to a citizen of the Crown (which it was, but he phrased it well. And attractively. Heh.). But I felt so bad for him when Elizabeth raised his hopes a little, and he smiled so sweetly... They wouldn't have been happy together (though I don't think they would have been actively unhappy either, just dissatisfied), but still, poor Norrington. Oh well, he can chase after Jack happily ever after.

And, more lobsters! Their deleted scene is a little...strange, to say the least, but still, more lobsters! Happiness.

Hee! That was an odd scene, wasn't it? Nice to see Mullroy smiling, but ew. Oh well, any extra lobster scene is fine by me!

Cookies are good. Fun to make, too, and more fun to get than... um, I can't think of anything boring. I think I need to start hunting up cookie recipes.

That snowflake generator is the most addictive thing I've seen since the bee game. Have you seen these little games (http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/)? Most of them are fun (and cute), but the one where you have to catch the bees inside bubbles has eaten up hours of my life. Much like the snowflakes.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Poor Norrington. He really needs a boyfriend. Too bad Jack won't ever settle down and pick out china patterns with him.

Any luck finding cool cookie recipes?

Ooh, nifty site! The first one I tried was the Perilous Voyage game (the ship caught my eye). It's hard, but I'm getting quite good at shooting rocks with my cannons *g*

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Poor Norrington. He really needs a boyfriend. Too bad Jack won't ever settle down and pick out china patterns with him.

Hee! That's a fabulous image. Poor Norrington, herding Jack away from the tacky china with the parrots and the chili peppers on it, and toward the tasteful, subtle china... oh well. I can picture them sailing after each other for years, though, meeting up at little hidden coves and islands and occasionally catching each other. Aw. (I have a Jack icon, but no Norrington- poor James will have to share with the Pearl no matter what, I guess).

Looks like tomorrow is baking day- I put it off so long that probably the cookies won't get to people until after Christmas (I haven't done my cards yet either), but I wanted to wait until I had the energy to stand there measuring flour all day long. So far I know I'm making mandlebrot, egg nog cookies, some sort of chocolate thing, and something spicy, molasses or gingersnaps or something. Funny thing is, I bake more cookies over the course of a year than nearly anything else, and I don't really eat them myself. I like them and all, but I don't seek them out. Weird.

I'm terrible at the Perilous Voyage game. There is invariably much setting of the boat on fire. It's not pretty.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Heh. Now I have fic ideas, cute funny little fic bunnies...darn you :P I like your picture of how they'll spend the next dozen years or so. Occasionally catching each other - nice.

I don't blame you for putting it off; baking is a tiring job. I don't know what mandlebrot is (sounds, Jewish perhaps?), but the spicy cookies sound yummy. Mmmm, gingersnaps.

Yeah, it sucks that you die if you get hit just once. The poor, pretty boats, set aflame. Stupid dragons.