starshadow_rivaulx | On Vox: hm. time for a midnight snack.

So here I am, feeling fresh and clean after a pre-bedtime shower. I’ve got CNN on the TV, and I’ve made my way through e-mail, feeds and LJ-land. Time and some to put up a blog entry.

I was called on to help out with a simple layouting project, but for whatever technical reasons there were, I only received the text and not the photo that was supposed to go with it. ::shrug:: Maybe the corporate firewall didn’t like playing nice with Gmail, or perhaps they found someone in-house with the right amount of computer savvy. Either way, I didn’t get any comment about my non-production, so I suppose things turned out for the best.

In other news...brought the parents to the barangay office so they could get their benefit cards (aka Yellow Cards) for free/discounted treatment at the Ospital ng Makati. Then Dad had to make a side trip to the bank before we went back home.

Had a nap. Other than that, not much activity today.

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I’ve been thinking of changing my LJ journal title. The fires of my fanfic writing have cooled quite a bit for lack of practice and the viewing of material. ::sigh:: However, my craft side is on the ascendancy, what with the knitting of things. Working with colored threads has always been a shortcut to peace and serenity for me - be it cross-stitch, crochet, or at present, knitting. So maybe the new title, if there is one, will have something to do with that.

Hm? Seems like Michael Holmes and Colleen Edwards are off for tonight’s Your World Today (CNN). Isha Sesay is handling the news, and the first headline certainly looks grim. Iran appears to have gone missile-testing; and goose-bumps are a-rising across the world. The US is talking of sanctions, Israel is hinting at using force to destroy Iranian nuclear power. Iran of course saying it will respond harshly to any form of attack. Like anyone seriously expected them to say anything different? ::sigh::

Am currently engrossed in The Boleyn Inheritance, by Philippa Gregory. Told from the points of view of Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford (wife to George Boleyn, Anne’s brother); Anne of Cleves (one of two women who survived Henry VIII); and Katherine Howard (Anne Boleyn’s cousin, who met the same fate, alas). It’s rather engaging, even though I’m reading it all out of sequence. I started with the first five chapters in order, then skipped to the middle of the book, and skipped to the last chapters. Now I’m filling in the gaps. Sounds weird, but since it’s an era of history I enjoyed researching, I’m familiar enough with the general plot.

I like reading about Anne, and her portrayal as a pretty young woman at the mercy of a despot. Not only that, she’s also been given intelligence, which is nice after having seen stories where she’s portrayed as the King’s “Flanders mare”. Perhaps after this, I’ll pick up The Other Boleyn Girl, my copy having been printed before the movie came out, so that it has a pretty cover, and not the one with the movie cast.

Have made progress with the “Lakers sock” I’ve been knitting. I tried it over Ramon’s foot this afternoon, and the fit looks excellent. Have taken pictures to show, perhaps I’ll put them up if I remember to do a HotSync tomorrow.

(OMG - Richard Roth in varying shades of lime green. @.@ My eyes will never be the same!)

Not much else to report. Plugged in potential DVR recording times into Yahoo!Calendar. Added items to the grocery list - it’s long enough to warrant a trip to the grocery, but which one? The one that has the best deal on chicken, pork, and beef doesn’t have much of anything else...the one with the best deal on cat food has higher prices for various necessities. ::shrug:: Time enough to figure out that one tomorrow, to see which supermarket gives me the most items for the buck. Right now that looks like Cash-n-Carry, which we haven’t visited for a good long while.

That will be that, then, for today. May as well wrap this up so I can disconnect the external keyboard and let Buchi-cat take over the space between the laptop and the edge of the table. ::grin::

Originally posted on wallflowerwriter.vox.com