My comp is broken. Sorta. Actually, I think the problem is that it's old. Technically, I can still use it but it's not worth all the trouble. It's wicked slow and it won't let me listen to music and type at the same time. Don't ask about internet. I'm borrowing the Mister's computer, the Havelock Vetinari of computers. It's not so bad except that I miss all the stuff on mine. I've put some of my music and a fanfic I'm working on in a flash drive so I can access things while I wait for the Mister to buy and install all the new parts.

It was my birthday a few days ago. The Mister took me to Red Lobster and now that he's fixed the brakes on our car (they were squeaking a lot), he's gunna take me to one of the casinos 'round here that has an awesome buffet and birthday special. XD

So now, as a birthday gift to myself, I'm posting another round of the Music Drabble Meme. (let's be honest, I cheated a little. Doesn't everyone? The point is for you all to enjoy the drabbles.)

 

A girl on dA has posted a petition on dA, which I have already signed, in regards to Roman Polanski. www.thepetitionsite.com/1/art-does-not-excuse-rape-polanski-must-face-justice

I think it's really sick that someone thought a petition was needed so that a convicted rapist will finally face justice. And quite a few people have already said 'rape is rape', 'it doesn't matter that he's famous', etc. So that's all I'm gunna say about that. I just wanted to post this petition. Anyone who cares to sign it, I much appreciate it.

I don't know what just happened. I read an article someone had posted a link to on discworld yesterday. http://community.livejournal.com/discworld/970827.html (Very interesting article actually but the pictures kinda grossed me out, I really don't like how bare feet look.)

And somehow I ended up reading several blog entries on... random entertainment blogs about Megan Fox. I feel... dirty somehow. I'm starting to like... seriously dislike her and I took too much joy in reading all this gossip that made her look like a spoiled brat. Not that I ever liked her as such. I just thought she was dumb. Like, she always has this look on her face like she's waiting for the next thought to turn up.

The Mister and I call it the Pigeon Look*. He thinks that guy.... shit, what's his name? that guy that plays Edward in the Twilight movies, has that same look. It's nice to laugh about things as a couple. Robert Pattison! That's his name! I keep thinking of him as 'he played Cedric in Goblet of Fire'. 

And now... I'm posting this less than flattering moment when I really should be doing something constructive like writing fanfiction or reading Lindsey Davis.

Wait a minute...

*which I came up with one day when I saw her picture on a magazine cover and remember this quote in MR about messenger pigeons that William de Worde had with him. They looked at Polly and cooed which is Pigeon for 'duh?'

I just realized that I haven't posted anything in 12 weeks. Lots of stuff's happened. Actually no, it's the same old, same old. The most interesting thing that's happened to me was that the Mister and I went to NADWCon in Tempe, Az. It was pretty fun. (Except for some of the panels.) I got to meet Terry Pratchett (very briefly anyway) and the Mister and I got two books signed each. Oh, and the Mister bought me this pin that was sold out on http://www.paulkidby.com/

It was Vimes' badge! I love it so much like... you know how sometimes to celebrate big anniversaries, a husband will buy 'the engagement ring I couldn't afford to give you when we got married'? Well, now my Mister doesn't have to do that. This pin is way better than some damn old diamond engagement ring. I mean, any jewelry store will have nice rings but this pin was sold out for like a year! There is none like it! I love my Mister. =D

 

( And now for the Drabbles )

This isn't exactly the music drabble meme. I'm only posting a drabble for one song that I just discovered and felt compelled to write about. But I did follow the rules of the meme. I only wrote until the song was over. The song is called Stay by Coal. It was featured in the Chasing Amy soundtrack and if you wanna hear the song, here's a Chasing Amy fanvid from Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch
I just think this is such a beautiful song and it's now been added to the (quite long now) list of songs that I'd use for a Vimes/Sybil fanvid if (when) Guards! Guards! is made into a tv adaptation. (Incidently, I now have 26 signatures on my petition. Wahoo!)

So without further ado, lyrics and drabble.

Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted anything at all in like 4 weeks. But fear not, I shall not bore you by posting a chapter of the drama of my life... 'cause there's nothing much to tell. Went to the dentist, in-laws visited for the day, been reading the Falco books by Lindsey Davis. They're quite good and damn funny.

So I decided to post another music meme. I kept saying I would and after reading staciey 's post today I thought it was time. I will admit I did cheat a little. I happen to have all of Everclear's cds on my comp and so this meme could have very easily turned into the Everclear Music Drabble Meme if I wasn't careful. And there were some other songs I skipped if I hadn't heard them in a long time or really couldn't figure out how to make it a Vimes/Sybil drabble. For fun, I decided to add a bonus track. It's not really Vimes/Sybil but it's definitely Vimes and it started playing just as I was pasting the other drabbles into this post and I thought damn, 'why didn't this song come up when I was writing?' So I decided to write a drabble for that one anyway. And since it's a bonus track, it doesn't matter that I played it twice just to finish up my thoughts or anything, so there.

Now without further ado:

 

( Vimes/Sybil Music Drabble Meme Part 2 )

I nicked this meme from jeminisoul . It's the usual pick ten characters and answer the following questions.

1. vetinari
2. sybil
3. rosie palm
4. carrot
5. madam
6. nobby
7. colon
8. vimes
9. rust
10. dibbler


( answers )

Comment to this entry and I will pick a character you know. Then you answer the same questions I have posted.

Meme that was thrust upon me by gogollescent Character she picked was Sybil Vimes XD

( meme )

Ok, so I needed a part four to the prologue. That's a little annoying.


( Dragonfly Prologue Part Four )</div>

Here's part three of the prologue. I wonder if I'll have to post a part four to the prologue. I hope not.


( Dragonfly Prologue Part Three )

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Here's part two of my prologue of Dragonfly. Hopefully it doesn't give me as much grief as last time I tried to post it.

Here's the summary in case y'all forgot:

Summary: Sam Vimes, captain of the dragonfly class bulk transport ship, "The Watch" is just trying to get by in the 'Verse after the Unification War. He's got a crew made up of a fellow Browncoat (Carrot Ironfoundersson), two ex-coppers from his old police department in Ankh-Morpork, Dyton. (Nobby Nobbs and Detritus) and an engineer (Havelock Vetinari) who is very good friends with the Companion (Rosie Palm) renting Vimes' shuttle. Life in the 'Verse was complicated enough just making ends meet but when an old flame of Vimes' (Sybil Ramkin) turns up needing passage to Athens, Vimes is going to really miss the simple days when he just had to kiss Badger's arse for a job.

 

( Dragonfly Prologue Part Two )

 

  

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Here's a fanfic that I'm posting in insanejournal's community called roads_diverged. It's an AU mecca so be warned that there's a lot of weirdness involved in this fic. Basically, I took a bunch of Discworld characters and dumped them into the firefly 'Verse to see what would happen. I tweaked their pasts so that I wouldn't have to deal with the shock of suddenly being in a different universe. Here's the totally hokey summary I wrote for roads_diverged:

Summary: Sam Vimes, captain of the dragonfly class bulk transport ship, "The Watch" is just trying to get by in the 'Verse after the Unification War. He's got a crew made up of a fellow Browncoat (Carrot Ironfoundersson), two ex-coppers from his old police department in Ankh-Morpork, Dyton. (Nobby Nobbs and Detritus) and an engineer (Havelock Vetinari) who is very good friends with the Companion (Rosie Palm) renting Vimes' shuttle. Life in the 'Verse was complicated enough just making ends meet but when an old flame of Vimes' (Sybil Ramkin) turns up needing passage to Athens, Vimes is going to really miss the simple days when he just had to kiss Badger's arse for a job.

So... disclaimers: I don't own Discworld and I don't own Firefly and/or Serenity. If you don't like AU, that's fine. If you don't like crossovers, that's fine too. If you read it anyway and don't like it well... if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Or at least say something nice before you start your bitchin'. Sorry, if I'm sounding defensive but I've put a lot of work into this fic and would rather not have it picked apart. I'm already 47 pages into it and I just got started. ='D

Here's a meme I nicked from sarah_lilzfl , who had stolen it from gogollescent 

( questions )

50. Scary movies or happy endings? 
I actually rather like happy endings more. It's nice to escape the drudgery of real life and pretend that sometimes things work out properly</div>

Ugh, I think I've come down with a bit of a cold and the Mister's birfday is coming up so he's annoyed at me for getting sick so close to his day.

In other news, here's a meme I got off tmoh .

Meme Instructions
oo1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
oo2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
oo3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
oo4. Do ten of these, then post them.

Naturally, I picked Vimes/Sybil. It got rather tricky for some of them especially when I noticed most songs are about broken hearts. Go figure, eh?

 

 

( music drabble meme )

 

Meme I nicked from jeminisoul 

( I Cost $3000 a Night! )

Well my computer is finally virus free! The Mister downloaded an anti-virus program called Avast!* and... dude... It was a wonder that my poor computer was still alive. It had trojans, root kits**, trojan generators, worms. It was horrible. But Avast got rid of everything. And I guess the mister's old computer had some virus that would freeze his computer as soon as he turned it on but we got rid of that too so now we're a two comp household again. Woohoo!

Oh and on the car front, er... turns out that nothing was wrong with the fan. It just kicks on if it thinks the car's getting too hot. I think the problem the first time was that there was no coolant in the car at all, which is ridiculous because when we took it to get an oil change like... a week before, we paid to have the coolant topped off. *is bloody furious at Jiffy Lube* This is why I don't like mechanics. They tell you 'oh you might wanna get this changed before it becomes a big problem' and whether you do or not, like a couple days later it will royally break down. I swear half the time the mechanics mess up your car a little so you have to go back again. I could go on about this forever, my hatred and mistrust for mechanics is likes Vimes' hatred for vampires.

But we still need to get the radiator flushed 'cause our car is a really particular about what kind of coolant you put in it. Apparently, there's two kinds of coolant, orange and green. Most cars use green, ours uses orange and when we bought coolant we knew that it was really particular about coolant but we couldn't remember what kind it needed so we got some that's called 'any color' coolant and when that guy Roger looked at it, he said we should get it changed 'cause our car will only take orange. Just orange. It's such a princess.

* It's glorious and free. Get it!

** At least I think that's what they're called. They attach themselves to like the OS or the really important files your comp needs to run so they're a bitch to get rid of.

You will not believe that crummy day I had today. Today the Mister and I were going to go buy a new hard drive for my comp and just before we reach Best Buy, we saw that the car was overheating big time. Like it went all the way up and it was a miracle that we made it to the parking lot without it dying.

When we popped the hood we saw the radiator... thingy was totally empty. We ended up having to walk to the nearest auto part store to buy two gallon jugs of coolant/antifreeze to put in the car so we can drive home and the Mister was already getting really pissed off 'cause the last time the car overheated like that the head gasket had blown and it cost 1000 dollars to replace (which we do not have that kind of money usually).

But we managed to get it home, eventhough we had to stop once on the way to top it off again and then we saw that it didn't really leak that much. Well, the Mister works a gas (or petrol to my for'n friends) station in our neighborhood and the guy who owns it. Well, if you've read American Gods, he's a bit like Heinzellman  (or however his name's spelled). or like Vetinari. Everyone in our neighborhood knows him and I guess all the local businessmen in the area sorta help each other out. It's probably very sweet but I really prefer thinking of it more like he owns this town lol.

Anyway, we ended up going to the gas station and there's another auto part shop there and after one of the other guys that works at the gas station takes a look at it, he sees that the big fan in the car wasn't turning so that's probably what the problem was. So we go to the part store to see how much a new fan is... it's 200 bucks just for the fan and well, someone has to put it in and really, it's the labor that gets you when you have to have your car fixed (It's a big conspiracy, I swear it.)

Anyway, one of the managers at the auto part store mentions that maybe we just need a new motor for the fan and that's like 37 bucks and he called a guy, Roger, who can check to see if the fan's the problem and who'll replace it if it is and this is more or less what he said. "Hey, Roger, one of the guys from the Shell station is having a problem with we think the fan, how much do you want to check and fix it?" *pause* "One of the guys from the Shell station." *pause* "Ok, when can you do it?" *pause* "Ok."

He said he'd check it for free and replace it for 50 bucks if that's the problem and he'd come down the gas station. lol I swear the Mister's boss owns our neighborhood. lol

My comp was stricken with a virus. TinyProxy.exe to be exact. That's what the Mister says. He's been trying to fix it. From what I can tell, it's just a big pain in the arse. But I have semi-functional computer even if I keep getting pop ups every other second sometimes whatever I'm doing will freeze up. But it's not so bad that I can't do anything. The Mister tells me that I'll probably have to get a new hard drive. So boo.

In other news, I watched a documentary about the French Revolution on the History Channel. I Loved it. I used to be pretty keen on French history when I was a kid and whenever I stumbled upon a documentary about it, I would just stop whatever I was doing and watch it. I won't deny that it was a bit inspiring too. I started thinking about Night Watch and this fanfic I wrote called Flukes and Lilacs. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4331578/1/Flukes_and_Lilacs

I'm rather proud of it and have been trying to work out a sequel... well sequels since there's quite a lot of quantum involved. Anyway, watching this documentary got me thinking about one of the sequels where the main focus was Vetinari's rise to Patrician. Though since it's a Sam/Sybil fic, Sam takes a more active role than he might have done in the original cannon... I hope that's less confusing if you've already read the fic. Anyway now I have a line that I really want Sam to say to Lord Snapcase. "There was probably some point in your career where you coulda prevented things going this way, your lordship. There was one moment where if you'd just done one thing differently everything wouldn't have gone wrong. I bet it was on your first day too." Or something like that. I think you get the idea.

( More Ramblings about Fanfic )

Well, I guess I'm going to have to keep thinking about all this.

Well, it's christmas eve and the Mister should be off work soon but in the meantime I'm bored out of my mind. I've finished writing Courting, I Guess and now I don't have anything to work on. Right now I'm trying to write this fanfic about Old Stoneface... well actually Old Stoneface's sons. I have some bits worked out in my head but I'm having trouble getting started. Here's some of the ideas I have so far:

( my ideas )
Well any input anyone would like to give me is much appreciated and have a Happy Hogswatch.