The Band Gazebo

Have now checked and Husband's state of the art blu ray player does indeed play data discs. Including all my Fame discs that cheapevilgirl burned for me back before Nimoy came along. *squee* This also promises great things for the other files that have mysteriously found their way onto my computer of their own accord; to wit, seasons two and three of Picket Fences, seasons five and six of LA Law (Grace/Victor FTW!!!! The reunion movie never happened!) and season two of Boomtown (which has some of the best Joel/Teresa, not to mention Shirtless!Donnie).

I want to marry this player and call it George.

Summer course continues in the same vein; spent the first hour and a half today being told how to surf the internet. (Sample question from one of the other teachers on the course; "so, hang on, the g in gmail, does it stand for google then, because it seems like they're linked." I managed not to weep.) We did get to learn a couple of search term short cuts, interesting ways to use google docs and a crash course in delicious.com so all was not lost.

Nimoy came up to me today, at random, hit me on the arm and said "Mammy, you're it!" and ran off. No idea where she got that from but when I asked her she said "Ben and Holly". Who says kids don't learn anything from tv?

Speaking of Nimoy, here, have a picture.

So, courtesy of a post from mini_miss, I've just spent the last little while looking through some West Wing fic sites (finding a lot of them are now dead and gone alas) and found a couple of diamonds that I thought were lost amid the mists of html.

Marguerite's site is one of the few that still seems to be there, and it has "The Rarest Faith", a novel length fic, in all its glorious splendour on there. sparkgirls.com is still there too, with lots of CJ/Toby goodness, and in particular two that I am over the moon to read again.

The Book, When He Wrote It by Ellen Milholland is 500 words of amazing. It's CJ/Toby but even if that's not your thing, the writing, oh the writing. *weeps at its beauty*

You and Me of the 10,000 Wars by Violet and Ellen M, and yes, it's Sam/Josh but oh, the way it ends... it's got its very own Jerry Maguire moment in there!

EUREKA!!!!! Fanfic with Footnotes, The Jo March and Ryo Sen fic site! I has found it, Google I loves you!!! The fic that I have only read once which is an AU from Two Gunmen that made me sob and sob and sob! Partyverse! Exit Strategy! (Which also made me cry at the end!) *hugs site and squishes it tightly*

Off to read!

Because it had to be done... GIP!!!!

A bit dark because the lighting in OPs is s***... but look at that smile!

Wahooey!!! Season 6 of Fame has finally finished downloading! (Thought it would be all night getting the last .3%; it did it in five minutes or less after school today!)

Oh, I see my weekend before me...

Just got a message from a friend of mine about the weekend... "Don't forget to bring Due South season three to get signed by Callum Keith Rennie..."

I blink. I send back "Excuse me???"

I check the website.

We have no Trucco. But we do have Callum Keith Rennie!!!!!!!!!!!!

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*

And! I have my Canadian mountie "Musical Ride" t-shirt! But then, I also have a BSG "I *heart* Cylons" t-shirt. Decisions decisions!

OH MY GOD THEY ARE EXTENDING THE CLOSING DATE OF RENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WILL NOT NOW CLOSE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 7TH! I WILL BE IN NEW YORK IN JULY!!!!!!!!!

Wahooey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night, in a tea-making break during a Heroes marathon, I robbed smiley_b's internet connection and checked to see if there were any results from US Nationals. What I saw on SI.com made me flail epically. Rena and John! And there was a picture and there was squealing and it was all good and then I came home today and downloaded the program and saw it for myself and I literally bawled my eyes out during it...John Baldwin, you just made me cry for the first time ever in your career!!

Cutest thing ever!

Has anyone ever heard the saying, "What's for you won't pass you?" Well, on Saturday, that was proven to me... in a second hand bookshop, in the children's section, where they keep the sci-fi books (lot of Roswell High novels that I was looking at) and what did I see? A heap of Xena magazines. And one TV Zone with Xena on the front of it. And there, bold as brass on the front of it, was a headline that, in this issue, there was an interview with none other than Jeffrey D. Sams. At that time, Champ in Cupid, most recently known to many on my friends list as Detective Cyrus Lockwood, aka Dectective Hot, on CSI. Yes, funnily enough, I did bounce up and down rather a lot! Did I mention the nice pictures? OK then.

( Olympic Men's High Bar. Please don't read unless you've seen )

Of course, I'm also looking at the end of the first night of the Rose of Tralee and all the escorts are on the stage serending the Roses with You're the one that I want... I may just be in hell already... oh my... blonde wigs on three of them who are, in falsetto, singing Hopelessly Devoted as three other lads do a male counterpoint to it... oh my word...

Here's hoping NYPD Blue will restore sanity to me.

LOOK!!!

It's the same as the other one, but closer-up!!!!

(I'm way too happy about this. I realise this. I'm fine with it. Just so's you all know)

And now, I have to find Middleman and write fic-as-thank-you.

The donnaficathon fic is kicking my ass BTW. Shiny new icons will not help me find my muse I fear.

Ah well.