Marcy just threw up a shoelace.

We had an awesome Thanksgiving!  Made our own turkey feast with all the fixin’s. I took it upon myself to do the carving this time, and didn’t screw it up.  Today (=yesterday) was real lazy, John worked on music and I messed around on the computer and jammed MP3s on the stereo.  We ate more turkey and did a ton of dishes.  I helped Soren fix his RSS feed too… just barged in and said "gimme your password" and there was little he could do but comply.  Now it works in NetNewsWire like all good feeds should, and I don’t have to check it by hand anymore.

For years I’ve been collecting a lot of crazy clip-art, saving stuff I find on the web and scanning pics from my own collection of mostly cowgirl-related paper stuff — calendars, magazine covers, matchbooks, postcards, Valentines, whatever!  I like to display the pics as rotating desktop backgrounds / tiles which change every half-hour or so.  I’ve been trying to get them a little more organized, but the built-in wallpaper changer in Panther doesn’t search subfolders; you can only give it one folder and have it choose pictures from there.  So I’ve been using this freeware utility called ChangeDesktop, which gives you lots more options, including subfolders.  One more option it gives you is the ability to upload your pictures to the web as they’re changing, so everyone can see what’s on your desktop.  I set it up to work on my server, but the question is, would anybody make use of it?

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The ASCII Matrix!!!  c/o Harper’s blog.

We can laugh about it now!

Look at all these wonderful old WPA posters.

Dirty rotten spammers!  Now they’ve found a way to hack into Movable Type. It involves the mt-send-entry script, which allows people to send copies of a blog post to anyone they want.  Three guesses what they’re doing with it!  Of course they’re using it to send their filthy spam to whoever they want, right from your server.  So if you’re using MT, go into your cgi bin and delete that thing right now until they post a fix!  If you’re using that feature, get rid of it for now.  It’s not safe.  If you’re not using the feature, you won’t break anything by deleting the file.

I feel a zillion times better today.  Yay for antibiotics!!  No pressure, no pain whatsoever, just a slight you’ve-been-fucking-with-me feeling around the tooth that had the root canal.

As God is my witness: I will be a good girl from now on.  I’ve wasted several of my lovely pearlies but I will try my best to save the rest and keep them happy from now on.  I will undergo the 2nd half of the scaling treatment, though it shall be painful, it is for the best.  I will return for cleanings just as often as my dentist tells me to.  I will floss daily and brush my teeth more than once a day.  Amen, roger, over and out!!

Forget what I said before, I want a root canal, right now!  The sooner the better!  The pain has escalated all day today, and has narrowed down to one tooth throbbing like a mofo and screaming in protest when I dare to bite down.  Plus another one in the back which isn’t too happy, but mostly this one in the front.  I had called the dental office around 3pm but they were already closed for the weekend.  So I waited a few hours and then did the unthinkable, I called my dentist AT HOME.  He was so nice… I’m meeting him at his office in the morning, on a Saturday!  Whoo-hoo!!!!  I don’t know what I would’ve done if I’d had to wait until Monday.  Now I just gotta get through the next fifteen or so hours.  All I got is 200mg Ibuprofin, it ain’t cuttin’ it.  AAiiiiiieeeee!!!!

My mouth has been hurting for freakin’ weeks!!  I think it’s just a bad case of sore gums and achey teeth, from the 3 new fillings, the cleaning and the 1/2-mouth scaling I got.  My jaws hurt too, from all the Novocaine shots.  It’s nothing too serious, just annoying… I’ve had teeth really die on me before and the pain was always a hell of a lot more intense than this.  Usually by the time you really need a root canal, you’re in so much pain you’re beggin’ to get it done ASAP!!  So thank god this is nothing that bad, it’s just annoying like I said.

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Oh goody, the new Worst Toys list is here!

Warnings: “Never Aim Balls at Another Person’s Face or an Animal. Do Not Shoot Anything Other Than the Balls Provided. Play in a Wide Open Area.”

Heheh.

I finally registered Tranquility.  I’ve been playing the demo levels at least a year, but now that I’m registered they can start ranking my skillz as a player.  I’m still a Neophyte on the Path to Understanding but one day I’ll be a total Master!  :-)

The art of Jose Guadalupe Posada

He actually went to WORK today, isn’t that insane?  I would never do that.

I had to go to the dentist again today for I think the fourth or fifth time in the past few months.  I got *three* shots of Novocaine for this; he was scaling my teeth and really went to town on ‘em.  He did one side and saved the other side for next week.  I’m glad I’m having all this work done, but damn!!  Why don’t they do something to make you look forward to it a little more?  I know they don’t want to give you *candy* but maybe a nice hot mocha drink or something.  With a straw please.  :-)

Another random weird video c/o Davina…