Gonna be a bit rambly here, so bear with me…

Well, the appearance of my journal has changed a bit off and on while I’ve been playing with styles. There’s a lot of flexibility there, but it’s going to take some time to sort things out.

Here I am, slave to technology: sitting on the living room sofa, typing on Dan’s laptop which is connected wirelessly to our Network Access Point upstairs in Dan’s office. I’m playing MP3’s that I’m pulling from my desktop which is in our bedroom (where Dan’s still asleep). The gas fireplace is turned on (it’s a bit nippy down here this morning) and the TiVo is whirring away recording, I believe, the latest airing of “Hometime” (aka “Ken and Barbie Do Home Repair”). Meanwhile, I can smell the bread in the bread machine starting to rise.

Damn, I could get to like this.

Well, we’ll be heading to the store today to pick up one more gift for tonight’s Christmas-Year’s Party. The Gang down here – a loose conglomeration of Virginia Tech alumni, former SCAdians, and adopted coworkers – agree that everyone is too busy in December for a party then, so we combine Christmas and New Year’s parties into one party in January. We’re at John Franklin‘s new house this year. Gee, I hope he got more furniture…

Planning continues apace for our trip up to Chicago next weekend. We’ll be at NoCoasterCon on Saturday, then the first Midwest Furfest staff meeting of the year on Sunday. I have no concerns about those events, though the flights up and back might be a bit exciting.

Well, what do you know – I thought you had to be a paid member for at least a week before you could invite someone to set up a LiveJournal account. Evidently not. Well, I’ll send that off to Dan – I reckon we’ll be seeing a new journal from him soon.

Hmm…my pictures aren’t showing up next to my recent diary entries, though they do appear int eh comments. I wonder what’s up with that?

I guess I’ll wrap up with some juicy bits of linkage that have caught my eye this morning:

– This site is just plain awesome. A few clicks and you’re opted-out (at least temporarily) of some of the biggest pop-up/popunder services on the net. I need to remember to do this on my desktop upstairs, too. Thanks to BoingBoing

– What do you do when you arrive in a city very late at night, the hotel loses your reservation, and the night clerk gets snarky about it? Why, you prepare a very funny PowerPoint presentation about it and put it up on the net! (After you see the presentation, see the ensuing fallout, which included a story in USA Today)

– TiVo is rolling out Series2, with improved features and functionality. Seems to me like they’re playing a bit of catch-up with the Replay4000. We’ll stick with our older Phillips 30-hour TiVo for now, but I’m keeping an eye on it. For those of you who haven’t heard, the PVR revolution is here, and astonishingly enough, the hype is true: it really does change the way you watch TV.

Laters!