Miscellany

Diet update:

I’m down 13 lbs as of this morning. Ye-haw! In phase II of this diet, with 3 splurge days mingled in, I’m averaging 2 lbs per week in weight loss. Still, it’s early in the game.

I must have eaten something rather bad a few days ago, because yesterday morning I had some sort of food poisoning-esque issue. I woke up with that discovery. Thank goodness I cannot remember my dreams when this happens.
( Warning TMI ahead )

Other:
The Call of Cthulhu game was fun, yesterday. My character tried to set up the handsome-yet-unctuous Vinnie with an unattractive waitress whose father was a greasy spoon chef and whose was a Sea Devil. Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match. Find me a find, catch me a catch! At least that’s what I thought Vinnie was humming under his breath…

I think I finally pulled my head out of my arse and figured out how to do non-compressed DVD-*cough*-Backups without ruining the whole thing. We'll see tonight when I get home. If it works, I will have to confess that the solution was there all along, and I grossly overlooked it.

Platinumchefs.com is now owned by yours truly. It will be a site for my cooking club to catalog our recipes and adjustments, as well as keep track of our past dishes, etc. I just need to settle on a hosting provider (I'm thinking phpwebhosting.com, right now), and set to building the site. I want to do something that might be collaborative with the other cooking club members.

In that light, does anyone have any thoughts on WikiWikiWeb, or it's clones?

I may stop by Fry's tonight and buy Paintshop Pro 8. For the price it packs in all the features I'm looking for, but not at the high price of Photoshop. Any thoughts?

Today's Word Challenge!

Use "potvaliant" to describe a coworker, in front of his/her face!

potvaliant (POT-val-iant) adjective, also pot-valiant

Showing courage under the influence of drink.
Such courage is also known as Dutch courage.

[From pot (vessel) + valiant (courageous).]

"Russian generals and Russia's unstable, potvaliant president are
turning Chechen children into bleeding carcasses, food for stray
dogs."
Jeff Jacoby; Chechnya: the Fruits of US Silence; Boston Globe;
Jan 19, 1995.

"One night when I was potvaliant, I wagered everything on the turn."
Newport Daily News (Rhode Island); Aug 27, 1957.

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Man...it looks like my khakis got in a slap-fight with balsamic vinegrette and lost.

Thank heavens for Shout stain wipes.

Oh, he was so yours

Ms Tao, I should have taken you with me to Fry's. There were some men there that were yours, all yours!

For the rest of the audience, here are the rules to the Yours and Mine(tm) game:
Objective: to "claim" all the gorgeous people you see (or gorgeous enough to you), and to give the unsavory people to your good friend and co-conspirator in this shallow and tasteless game.
1. Your genders do not matter, but you must be pursuing the same gender. It's just more fun that way.
2. Be wary. You have to keep your eyes open for all the objects of your affection and disaffection.
3. First one to call it wins. Simultaneous calls are painful, but the first one to finish "She/He is yours!" first wins.
4. You cannot be obvious in your claiming or bequeathing. At least, not obvious to the individual you are referring to.

Did I get the rules right, Ms. Tao?

I think Ms Tao has stuck me with the worst ones, in my opinion. I'll never forget Vegas in 2000. My bethrothed was a bad cloning of Kenny G and Peter Frampton, complete with high-waters. Whoa.

Hey Cthulu fans and Computer geeks:

http://www.callofcthulhu.com/index.html

Testing, uno, dos, tres

Well, I bought Painthop Pro tonight. I am used to photoshop, so things are a bit different, but they have the features I crave!

In the event that someone challenges me to say, create a new bogus newpaper headline, I'll be ready now! And with layering, and opening numerous graphics at once, I'll be able to edit and adjust to my happy heart's content!

I played around with the animate gif utility. I just used jpegs I already had around. So I threw in the hard to read images, with dialogue that cannot be read! But I don't care! It's animated, dammit!

Now, I must head to bed. I am a sleepy animated gif creator.

On the fitness front:
Despite my abdominal distress from yesterday, I was rather energetic on the treadmill. Relative to my normal jogging activity, I was like a gazelle! More gazellish than I have ever been! I was a joggernaut! I was Pepe le Peu on cocaine!

Now that time has passed and I'm ready to assume the fetal position in bed.

Goodnight, all.