Weblog 219
April 18, 2010~ 12:00am
I'm finally BETTER! The voice is 90 percent normal and I have my energy and my focus back. Gees, that was a long haul. It took a little over two weeks to get over that cold/allergy/virus thing, and I'm sure glad to wave goodbye to it.
I was even able to enjoy (really enjoy) my grandson Bill's 7th birthday cookout on Thursday evening. YES, BILL IS ALREADY SEVEN!! Holy cow....
and there he is, in seventh heaven opening his gifts, summer buzzcut and everything. I don't believe I've ever seen a kid as over-the-moon opening birthday gifts. LOL!!! He gushed and ooo'd and ah'd, and held each one up for the camera, and his smile went straight back to his ears! And here he is, fretting that the camera was not ready for the next present....lol
(yes, he's a fretter, alright.) And a deep thinker and oh my GOSH, what READER! He received several of the 'Magic Treehouse' series of juvenile books; his mum says he gobbles them up, a book an evening. (Nothing could make me happier. Books open more doors in the mind and provide more personal havens than anything else I can think of in life.) Here's Bill with his homebaked Martha Stewart COOKIE CAKE, prepared with love by his mom. It was yummy!
They shoot up so fast, those tykes. Life flies by, peddling along on bicycles, rollerskates....zooming in and out doors, changing every minute. Growing longer....taller....wiser. It's a joy to watch, I can tell you that.
Saturday evening, Wayne and I watched 'Inglourious Basterds'- and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I was a bit tentative because of the violence of 'the basterds', but honestly, there was something so 'showbiz' and campy about the film-- and let's face it, Nazis are so easy to hate, that their brutal ends didn't bother me one bit. Brad Pitt was a delight to watch in his role as 'Aldo Raines'- the 'apache'. It looked to me like he was doing a Clark Gable imitation most of the time, with a BAD Tennesse accent. LOL!!
What struck me most about the film was Tarentino's evident love of classic cinema. All the colors are just right, every detail- lighting, casting, costumes -as perfect as one could hope. Wedged in-between the campiness and homage to the heyday of 40's films, and the terrific beginning- a perfect mirror of 'Once Upon A Time In The West' -is one of the best scenes, a basement bar scene in France, where the tension could be cut with a knife as the resistance fighters, masquerading as Nazi's themselves, come face to face with a gestapo agent intent on playing a nail-biting game of 'cat and mouse'.
Just LOOK at those lovely sepia tones, the perfection of every detail. Of course, Christopher Waltz's oscar-winning performance as the creepy, urbane... sadistic Colonel Hans Landa is a marvelous thing to watch. A stunningly good portrayal of a complicated madman.
Was it a brutal movie? Absolutely, yes. Tarentino makes brutal films- but the man is a genius. Where else could you find campy humor cooking in the same pot as fine drama, and have it all come out so well. "Inglourious Basterds" is a movie that's certainly not to everyone's taste..... but Wayne and I loved it!
You know if I were a young woman again- (and one who had no trouble with alcohol...lol) -the one place I'd LOVE to visit is an underground bar in New York City that has completely captured my imagination. I came across it reading an article in the Village Voice.
I've always enjoyed the Broadway musical 'Caberet'-- and this place is it! It's the KIT KAT CLUB!
If you have a persistent love of speakeasy, prohibition glamour... and you drop in some of the decadence of 1930's German nightclubs...
what you will get peeking through that scarlet curtain into the red, tealighted tables is a place with an unusual name... Shanghai Mermaid. And what a place it is!! Go ahead. Browse around at the Betty Page hairdo's, the bowler hats, the beaded curtains, the leggy dames and their burlesque-- have a look through the photo galley. It's FUN DECADENCE......(and to tell you the truth, this old gal has a bit of Sally Bowles in her yet. You betcha!)
April 19, 2010~ 7:00pm
See that DOG-TIRED, old white haired 'bitch'? That's me. One of my doodle art images cropped and stuck here to illustrate just how pooped and discouraged I am with the whole internet run-around with images. SNAPDRIVE is still not showing any of my 2,000 plus images and I'm too damn tired to care, so I'm bowing out of posting for a week or so. Maybe for good. Let it all dwindle away to nothing. I've had it.
I can't even fathom trying to re-code everything I have on the net-- and pages without pictures are just plain boring. What I already have out there- (and I mean years of stuff) would take too much effort and aggravation to redo.
Snapdrive has NO support forum, as they used to, no email contact person.....nothing. I AM SO GLAD I DIDN'T WASTE MY MONEY PAYING FOR THE THING! Look here. The ONLY word I could find on Google about the problem was posted yesterday in Yahoo Answers.....every other reference to SnapdriveDOTnet is a link to get you to sign up. (yah...right. LOL)
That poor fella. Right now if I do decide to re-do everything, I'll go with IMGboot- a fine site from what I can tell so far. Been around since 2004, HAS SUPPORT, puts out word on downtimes for updates, etc. We'll see.
Sick of thinking about this the last 24 hours. Need a break from it. See you around....(maybe.) Might just pull the plug on the whole shebang.
April 20, 2010~ 4:30am
IT'S BACK!!
SNAPDRIVE BACK UP!
Thank goodness. (I will not remove the above entry, however. That site STILL needs to reestablish its user forum--- and utilize email and the blog they once had to let people what is going on.) That's an extremely important part of running a good solid business. When a server is down-- let folks know. (Statcounter is a perfect example of how service sites should work: they inform participants about what is going on- immediately -and yes, even the 'free users' like myself- because, let's face it, those sites make money on 'clicks' and on advertisements more than on paid subscriptions, so they want to build their numbers of users.)
So thank you, Snapdrive, but please, be more accessible and open.
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I'm finally BETTER! The voice is 90 percent normal and I have my energy and my focus back. Gees, that was a long haul. It took a little over two weeks to get over that cold/allergy/virus thing, and I'm sure glad to wave goodbye to it.
I was even able to enjoy (really enjoy) my grandson Bill's 7th birthday cookout on Thursday evening. YES, BILL IS ALREADY SEVEN!! Holy cow....
and there he is, in seventh heaven opening his gifts, summer buzzcut and everything. I don't believe I've ever seen a kid as over-the-moon opening birthday gifts. LOL!!! He gushed and ooo'd and ah'd, and held each one up for the camera, and his smile went straight back to his ears! And here he is, fretting that the camera was not ready for the next present....lol
(yes, he's a fretter, alright.) And a deep thinker and oh my GOSH, what READER! He received several of the 'Magic Treehouse' series of juvenile books; his mum says he gobbles them up, a book an evening. (Nothing could make me happier. Books open more doors in the mind and provide more personal havens than anything else I can think of in life.) Here's Bill with his homebaked Martha Stewart COOKIE CAKE, prepared with love by his mom. It was yummy!
They shoot up so fast, those tykes. Life flies by, peddling along on bicycles, rollerskates....zooming in and out doors, changing every minute. Growing longer....taller....wiser. It's a joy to watch, I can tell you that.
Saturday evening, Wayne and I watched 'Inglourious Basterds'- and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I was a bit tentative because of the violence of 'the basterds', but honestly, there was something so 'showbiz' and campy about the film-- and let's face it, Nazis are so easy to hate, that their brutal ends didn't bother me one bit. Brad Pitt was a delight to watch in his role as 'Aldo Raines'- the 'apache'. It looked to me like he was doing a Clark Gable imitation most of the time, with a BAD Tennesse accent. LOL!!
What struck me most about the film was Tarentino's evident love of classic cinema. All the colors are just right, every detail- lighting, casting, costumes -as perfect as one could hope. Wedged in-between the campiness and homage to the heyday of 40's films, and the terrific beginning- a perfect mirror of 'Once Upon A Time In The West' -is one of the best scenes, a basement bar scene in France, where the tension could be cut with a knife as the resistance fighters, masquerading as Nazi's themselves, come face to face with a gestapo agent intent on playing a nail-biting game of 'cat and mouse'.
Just LOOK at those lovely sepia tones, the perfection of every detail. Of course, Christopher Waltz's oscar-winning performance as the creepy, urbane... sadistic Colonel Hans Landa is a marvelous thing to watch. A stunningly good portrayal of a complicated madman.
Was it a brutal movie? Absolutely, yes. Tarentino makes brutal films- but the man is a genius. Where else could you find campy humor cooking in the same pot as fine drama, and have it all come out so well. "Inglourious Basterds" is a movie that's certainly not to everyone's taste..... but Wayne and I loved it!
You know if I were a young woman again- (and one who had no trouble with alcohol...lol) -the one place I'd LOVE to visit is an underground bar in New York City that has completely captured my imagination. I came across it reading an article in the Village Voice.
I've always enjoyed the Broadway musical 'Caberet'-- and this place is it! It's the KIT KAT CLUB!
If you have a persistent love of speakeasy, prohibition glamour... and you drop in some of the decadence of 1930's German nightclubs...
what you will get peeking through that scarlet curtain into the red, tealighted tables is a place with an unusual name... Shanghai Mermaid. And what a place it is!! Go ahead. Browse around at the Betty Page hairdo's, the bowler hats, the beaded curtains, the leggy dames and their burlesque-- have a look through the photo galley. It's FUN DECADENCE......(and to tell you the truth, this old gal has a bit of Sally Bowles in her yet. You betcha!)
April 19, 2010~ 7:00pm
See that DOG-TIRED, old white haired 'bitch'? That's me. One of my doodle art images cropped and stuck here to illustrate just how pooped and discouraged I am with the whole internet run-around with images. SNAPDRIVE is still not showing any of my 2,000 plus images and I'm too damn tired to care, so I'm bowing out of posting for a week or so. Maybe for good. Let it all dwindle away to nothing. I've had it.
I can't even fathom trying to re-code everything I have on the net-- and pages without pictures are just plain boring. What I already have out there- (and I mean years of stuff) would take too much effort and aggravation to redo.
Snapdrive has NO support forum, as they used to, no email contact person.....nothing. I AM SO GLAD I DIDN'T WASTE MY MONEY PAYING FOR THE THING! Look here. The ONLY word I could find on Google about the problem was posted yesterday in Yahoo Answers.....every other reference to SnapdriveDOTnet is a link to get you to sign up. (yah...right. LOL)
That poor fella. Right now if I do decide to re-do everything, I'll go with IMGboot- a fine site from what I can tell so far. Been around since 2004, HAS SUPPORT, puts out word on downtimes for updates, etc. We'll see.
Sick of thinking about this the last 24 hours. Need a break from it. See you around....(maybe.) Might just pull the plug on the whole shebang.
April 20, 2010~ 4:30am
SNAPDRIVE BACK UP!
Thank goodness. (I will not remove the above entry, however. That site STILL needs to reestablish its user forum--- and utilize email and the blog they once had to let people what is going on.) That's an extremely important part of running a good solid business. When a server is down-- let folks know. (Statcounter is a perfect example of how service sites should work: they inform participants about what is going on- immediately -and yes, even the 'free users' like myself- because, let's face it, those sites make money on 'clicks' and on advertisements more than on paid subscriptions, so they want to build their numbers of users.)
So thank you, Snapdrive, but please, be more accessible and open.
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