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Google has gone and done something with their coding, which now displays the "inbox" link on the Gmail preview portion of my homepage (in both FF and That Other Evil Thing) in a different color after it's been clicked on. Never mind that this is default browser behavior for eighteen gagillion other links, in this journal and elsewhere, but those I'm used to. This is new, and thus it bothers me.
On the bright side, I've caught up on several of the things I was behinder on as of yesterday. In a few moments, I'll finish the last of the short stories in the anthology edited by David Sedaris. David is a very funny guy, but his taste in fiction, frankly, is depressing as all getout. You reach the end of the collection and are accosted by a brutal rape/abduction story, two people-dying-in-hospitals tales and a Flannery O'Connor piece about Southern America on the cusp of my own lifetime which made me want to murder everyone in the plot.
I'll also be on the road tomorrow, probably for the only time all week and perhaps for the only time until the 22nd, so I'll get my mp3'ing and podcasting in and probably up to date. There'll also be new tunes to accompany them: Girlyman arrived today, two days ahead of the promised date, and it's quite nice. We've also been toodling around eMusic looking for things, and found two scrumptuous albums from a singer named Vienna Teng:
She evoked, at various times: Tori Amos, Paula Cole, Lisa Loeb, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Allison Kraus. How can one go wrong with any of those?
Bad joke heard over the weekend:
"What do you call a noodle in disguise?"
( Go on, I triple dog dare you! )
Both of our local basketball teams- well, the only two with any tournament prospects- got hosed by the selection committee. Syracuse missed out altogether and Niagara is being sent to the dreaded play-in game (why Dayton every year? You'd think it'd be punishment enough having a 50-50 choice between being left off the brackets altogether and being slaughtered by a #1 seed if you do win). I think it's just another example of Upstate getting no respect, no respect at all.
Right, enough babbling. Two dreary stories to go.
On the bright side, I've caught up on several of the things I was behinder on as of yesterday. In a few moments, I'll finish the last of the short stories in the anthology edited by David Sedaris. David is a very funny guy, but his taste in fiction, frankly, is depressing as all getout. You reach the end of the collection and are accosted by a brutal rape/abduction story, two people-dying-in-hospitals tales and a Flannery O'Connor piece about Southern America on the cusp of my own lifetime which made me want to murder everyone in the plot.
I'll also be on the road tomorrow, probably for the only time all week and perhaps for the only time until the 22nd, so I'll get my mp3'ing and podcasting in and probably up to date. There'll also be new tunes to accompany them: Girlyman arrived today, two days ahead of the promised date, and it's quite nice. We've also been toodling around eMusic looking for things, and found two scrumptuous albums from a singer named Vienna Teng:
She evoked, at various times: Tori Amos, Paula Cole, Lisa Loeb, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Allison Kraus. How can one go wrong with any of those?
Bad joke heard over the weekend:
"What do you call a noodle in disguise?"
( Go on, I triple dog dare you! )
Both of our local basketball teams- well, the only two with any tournament prospects- got hosed by the selection committee. Syracuse missed out altogether and Niagara is being sent to the dreaded play-in game (why Dayton every year? You'd think it'd be punishment enough having a 50-50 choice between being left off the brackets altogether and being slaughtered by a #1 seed if you do win). I think it's just another example of Upstate getting no respect, no respect at all.
Right, enough babbling. Two dreary stories to go.