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mitchy at 07:03pm on 14/01/2005
mitchy at 07:03pm on 14/01/2005Good stuff:
I downloaded a bit torrent client recommended by the ever resourceful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lithium_doll, mostly just for a laugh. I figured trying to download a TV programme on a 56k modem would be an impossibility. It isn't! *squees* I reckon it's going to take me about 4 nights and I'll have the most recent episode of "Cold Case". Happiness!
thalinoviel is having a birthday bash tomorrow in London, so there will be food and booze and more fun at Questros. Hurrah!
I have one of my favourite teas tonight - bacon, eggs and a long life potato mix that is gorgeous. The only way this would be better is if I had sausages instead of bacon :)
I slept really well, had some good dreams as opposed to the vaguely disturbing ones I was having earlier in the week. I do NOT like dreaming about being in plane crashes. Or fighting off snakes. *shivers*
Just had a wonderfully hot bubble bath *purrs* One of life's necessities :)
Not so Good stuff:-
Was looking forward to seeing "Elektra" today but it looks like the release date has been pushed back to next Friday. Gits.
Still no news on the job front.
Kitchen radiator still leaking.
Last night I saw the first episode of "Rescue Me", a drama series starring Denis Leary. I like Leary so I've been looking forward to the show and I wasn't disappointed. It's pretty grim but it has a thick vein of very, very black humour running through it that just gives it the sorta edge I like. I was intrigued to note that Leary not only stars, he's credited as the creator, writer and executive producer. So I checked it out and it seems he founded a charity for fireman after his cousin and a high school friend, firemen both, were killed in 1999. He really knows his stuff and that explains the quality of the show, I think.
Leary plays a fireman who survived 9/11 and is dealing with some of the fallout, albeit not very well. His dead cousin still appears and talks to him, and he often hallucinates seeing other victims. Gotta love a show that puts a talking decapitated head in a locker in the first ten minutes. And, as I say, there's a strong vein of humour, some of it very black, running all the way through the show. The scene where Tommy (Leary's character) bribes his kids to tell him all about his soon-to-be-ex-wife's new boyfriend is hilarious, as is the scene where he tries to spy on their date.
Early days yet but I'm looking forward to following this one and, for once, we're not years behind the Yanks. I'm hoping it might get onto a bit torrent at some point which would be way cool.
Also saw the beginning of Season 2 of "Cold Case". I saw the first two episodes of this season while in Toronto so I'm glad I now have the chance to tape them off UK TV. And, obviously, I might be able to download them from now on. Squee! Great show. Now, I wonder if I can download "Without A Trace" as well, If I can, there will be much happy squeaking in the land of Mitchy :)
More good things than bad so hey! I'm ahead! :)
I downloaded a bit torrent client recommended by the ever resourceful
lithium_doll, mostly just for a laugh. I figured trying to download a TV programme on a 56k modem would be an impossibility. It isn't! *squees* I reckon it's going to take me about 4 nights and I'll have the most recent episode of "Cold Case". Happiness!thalinoviel is having a birthday bash tomorrow in London, so there will be food and booze and more fun at Questros. Hurrah!I have one of my favourite teas tonight - bacon, eggs and a long life potato mix that is gorgeous. The only way this would be better is if I had sausages instead of bacon :)
I slept really well, had some good dreams as opposed to the vaguely disturbing ones I was having earlier in the week. I do NOT like dreaming about being in plane crashes. Or fighting off snakes. *shivers*
Just had a wonderfully hot bubble bath *purrs* One of life's necessities :)
Not so Good stuff:-
Was looking forward to seeing "Elektra" today but it looks like the release date has been pushed back to next Friday. Gits.
Still no news on the job front.
Kitchen radiator still leaking.
Last night I saw the first episode of "Rescue Me", a drama series starring Denis Leary. I like Leary so I've been looking forward to the show and I wasn't disappointed. It's pretty grim but it has a thick vein of very, very black humour running through it that just gives it the sorta edge I like. I was intrigued to note that Leary not only stars, he's credited as the creator, writer and executive producer. So I checked it out and it seems he founded a charity for fireman after his cousin and a high school friend, firemen both, were killed in 1999. He really knows his stuff and that explains the quality of the show, I think.
Leary plays a fireman who survived 9/11 and is dealing with some of the fallout, albeit not very well. His dead cousin still appears and talks to him, and he often hallucinates seeing other victims. Gotta love a show that puts a talking decapitated head in a locker in the first ten minutes. And, as I say, there's a strong vein of humour, some of it very black, running all the way through the show. The scene where Tommy (Leary's character) bribes his kids to tell him all about his soon-to-be-ex-wife's new boyfriend is hilarious, as is the scene where he tries to spy on their date.
Early days yet but I'm looking forward to following this one and, for once, we're not years behind the Yanks. I'm hoping it might get onto a bit torrent at some point which would be way cool.
Also saw the beginning of Season 2 of "Cold Case". I saw the first two episodes of this season while in Toronto so I'm glad I now have the chance to tape them off UK TV. And, obviously, I might be able to download them from now on. Squee! Great show. Now, I wonder if I can download "Without A Trace" as well, If I can, there will be much happy squeaking in the land of Mitchy :)
More good things than bad so hey! I'm ahead! :)
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Funnily enough, though, "git" is a variant of "get", as in "to beget", and that's a word that theoretically is harmless but when it's used to mean "begotten of", the implication is not nice at all. It's not defined as a bad word but it's acquired that connotation in that particular context through use. Which explains how we got from "get" to "gits" :)