The Band Gazebo

For some reason my lj is not showing up on the iPad as the custom journal I’ve had forever and a day? And now I have the ugly as sin generic one? I’m logged in and when I check the settings and go to customize it says that I’m using the customised view... any one else having this issue?

So I have been working on my Cotton Candy Bingo and strangely enough, I have been making icons. Nothing fancy, very basic in fact but icons nonetheless. And I have no clue of how to do an icon post but I know there are people on my flist who do, so I ask you, oh wise flist, how do I go about creating one of those icon table thingumybobs?

Right!!!

There is good news! I have almost, I mean so close to almost that it actually hurts, finished the first draft of my mentalist_bb fic. It clocks in at *checks* 10,132 words. Yay!

To help me complete it, is there anyone out there who can recall the name of the CBI office to which Rigsby was going to transfer in season two, but then he didn't have to because Grace called things off between them?

Alternatively, can someone give me the name of a city where the CBI could plausibly have an office one could work in but still live/commute to from Sacramento?

Thankies!

Question. Past tense of "to sneak"?

Would you use "sneaked" or "snuck"?

Because I'm reading something over that I wrote and I used the latter and now I'm wondering!

So, taraljc posted a link to a very interesting interview with Alexander Siddig. And I'm reading it, and I end up reading a sentence, doing a hard double take and reading it again.

When Himself got home, I asked him this question, which I am throwing out into the universe.

Am I (or we, as he didn't know either) the only two people on the planet who didn't know that Alexander Siddig's uncle (mother's brother) is Malcolm McDowall????

To the ten (so far) people who have responded to my last question, I thank you. You may, I'm sure, have wondered why I would ask such a thing. The reason is this: I had just got off the phone with WeddingVideoGuy. WVG had sent us our wedding DVD and we had looked at disc one last Thursday night, whereupon I emailed him straight away, for two reasons.

First when he said he'd edit out bits of the church, and I quote, "the bits you'd fast forward through", I assumed he meant the consecration of the Mass, the Communion, etc, the bits that are the same at every Mass.

The First and Second Readings, which were picked because they meant something to us were not on the DVD. Not a good sign.

Second, when going through the disc to double check we hadn't missed them (dirt on the disc meant it skipped on the first go around) I noticed that when I was walking up the aisle, I was walking up the "asile" according to the DVD titles.

So I mentioned this to him, assuming it was a mistake. He then proceeded to tell me that that is the correct way of spelling it, because it comes from Old Latin, and they spell it like that all the time, and I do quote, because "it avoids all the arguments then."

I managed to bite my tongue and not point out that I am not old, nor am I Latin, and merely pointed out that that might be all very well and good, but that it's not the way most people spell it. I was told that it was still right. I then asked could it be changed to the way that most people would spell it, because every time I looked at it, I would think automatically that it was wrong.

"Oh, we can do that," is what I was told.

Upon hanging up from him, I googled. I wikipedia'ed. I went to Merriam Webster online and Dictionary.com. I looked up etymology sites and Latin to English sites. And I checked the two print dictionaries that we have in the house. NOWHERE can I find reference to this Old Latin horseshit that got handed down the phone to me. And I mean, if google and wiki can't find it, how far off the path have we strayed???

Ergo, my question to see how you all would spell it!

And, I suppose, my further question - if this were your wedding video, or you were looking at a wedding video, and you saw "asile", would you think that it was spelled wrong?

By the way, he said he'd check about the readings and get back to me in the next couple of days; I don't give a rat's ass what he says, it's totally being changed!

HelsinkiMammy came through the operation fine, was home on Saturday morning, thank goodness. When she said what the doctors said to her to Himself yesterday, he went, "Oh right, it sounds like you've torn a rotator cuff" which makes sense... she's all strapped up and on painkillers but she's fine.

Question - one morning over breakfast, I looked at, for the first time, the Stargate episode The Road Not Taken. (I didn't have Sky when I moved and missed chunks of season ten. It sucked.) Anyhoo, my thought is this. There must, somewhere, somehow, by someone, be written AlternateUniverse Sam/Lorne fic out there. There has to be, hasn't there? Or must I write my own? (Planning a wedding, class from hell, not got time to do it people, there must be some out there!)

Bookmarking this for my own reference - Workshop - Finish That Epic!

Question - how does one put a banner up at the top of one's LJ?

I am back in Ireland, having left England today. Already I miss Himself. The only good part is that at least this time, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel... the house is sale agreed, and he is in the process of filling out 5001 forms that need to be filled out. He is making enquiries about jobs, has a contact in a recruiting agency, and has handed in his notice at work, and is hoping to make The Move sometime in March. So it's getting easier and harder at the same time.

I have a free day tomorrow wherein I must run around the town and try to get some stuff done.

And, God knows I don't often do this, but! If there is anyone on my flist with a broadband connection, the ability to download a 30meg file and throw it on a CD and post said CD over to me, with obviously the attendance cost/postage/name your price being covered by me, would you please be so kind as to drop me an email, or comment with your email address please, and thank you!