3/17/05

reading: The Second Assistant, still.

* * * It’s 11:40 and I have to run to Target because I have a huge list of stuff I need to buy, but it is SO COLD (40�) out and I am already SO COLD that I don’t want to leave the house. Possibly if I stopped drinking this big-ass cup of Diet Coke, I might warm up a little, ya think? I do need to get my butt in gear and go, though. I bought some new cordless phones a few weeks ago to replace the ones I had – which were starting to work only sporadically, and it was getting to the point where if the phone rang and we were in the living room, we’d pick up the phone, find it wouldn’t work, and have to go running around searching desperately for a phone that WOULD work. Anyway, I bought the new cordless phones and they work fine except for the fact that even with the volume turned all the way up, you can barely hear the person on the other line. So for the past few weeks when Fred calls from work our conversations have been like so: Fred: mumble mumble mumble Me: Are you talking to me? I can’t HEAR YOU. Fred: (marginally louder)MUMBLE MUMBLE MUMBLE Me: I CANNOT HEAR YOU. YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP. Fred: MUMBLE. MUMBLE. MUMBLE. Me: Oh, fuck it. Email me if it’s that important. Of course, in the best of times Fred is a mumbler and I have to say “Eh? What? WHAT’S THAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” until I get so annoyed I want to smack him. The funny thing is that when he talks to his father on the phone, he’s always saying “What? I can’t hear you, Dad…” Guess it must run in the family. * * * Another thing I’m going to pick up at Target is a teakettle, because I’ve really gotten into drinking a couple of cups of peppermint tea a day and I’m tired of boiling cups of water in the microwave. Also, Lisa the Awesome sent me a gift certificate for Adagio Teas a few days ago. I’ve been eyeballing a bunch of different things at Adagio for a while now – ever since Aimee (I think) linked to this – and trying to decide whether I wanted to buy that (in the 16-ounce size) and some different flavored teas, and the gift certificate was enough to get me off my butt and order some stuff. I ordered the ingenuiTEA teapot (linked above), two ounces of the peppermint tea, and samples of the vanilla, cocomint green, dewy cherry, and pina colada. My order should be here Saturday – I’m looking forward to it in a big way! Now’s your chance to recommend your favorite tea. Keep in mind that I don’t like bitter teas at ALL and I prefer flavored teas but am willing to try non-flavored; leave me a comment and tell me what I should try! * * * Someone asked in my comments a few days where people are redirected when they’re banned from my site. THIS IS NOT A WORK-SAFE SITE, and it’s kind of loud – this is where they’re being redirected right now. We used to have them redirected to a nasty porn site that I won’t link to; I haven’t actually looked at the page, but Fred tells me that I don’t want to, so it’s got to be pretty nasty. After a while I felt bad and wanted to redirect The Banned to a less offensive (yet still slightly offensive) site, so now they’re going to the page linked above. And now you know. 🙂 * * * To those of you who weren’t able to watch the Scrubs clip from last week: Fred says that you probably need to download Codecs. He doesn’t know which one, though. Helpful, no? * * * The seductive look. ]]>