2/9: What I Accomplished Today

1. Ran the last through characters through the Lunar Festival.

2. Watched trashy movies on Sci Fi while doing this.

3. Television and Pogo badges.

4. We watched Good Night and Good News and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe this week. We watched the little pop-up video thing on the latter tonight. Irritating things: the bubbles didn't show up if you had it even in the slowest fast-forward, so you had to watch the movie at regular speed to see them--but there weren't enough of them for that to be particularly worthwhile, and many of the ones that were there were redundant (I believe we were told three times, in various combinations, that Tolkien, friend of Lewis, had been one of the readers of the manuscript and hadn't liked it because of the mixtures of mythologies). Elf had had much better integration of the extras into the movie, and I've read that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which I got for Christmas but haven't done my thing with yet, also has good integration of this.

5. You may have noticed (probably not) that for awhile in the summer I had various Potter-related work I was doing, but then school started. I thought I'd work some more in October, but that computer wouldn't boot, and it hasn't booted since. This month, Co-Vivant took it to a tech to either pull the files or fix the computer. He was hoping to have it on Tuesday, when she sees him for a meeting; he told her then that he didn't have it yet, but it looked like the computer would be able to boot stably, so that's good news. I wish it weren't this month (financially, this isn't shaping up well), but I'm beginning to be a little excited about getting back a computer I'd despaired of being able to use more.

I have some demos to play now.