<![CDATA[Camy's Thang!!!]]> Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:46:44 -0700 IP.Blog 60 Even harder with them around Music
I love Apple computers and their software. Final Cut rocks! All I have to do is log and capture the DVs, Sync them and snippety-snip. Easy-peasy! I'll see you next millenia, then. icon_rabbit.gif]]> Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:17:00 -0700 Hard when single handed Music "Good, good," said the cat, flexing her claws and going back to sleep.

And it nearly was good. The thing is that making a video on your own is bleedin' hard. No nifty camera moves, no slow zoom in whilst tracking out. All of the cutesy things you can have fun with with mates are impossible. And then there was the hat's damn label.

I was wearing a hat, and without anyone to point out that its label was showing, the label had a staring role ... or should that be starring. It's certainly there and very eye drawing. In fact it's all I can see. Turning the thing to sepia didn't help and then posterizing it was waaaay overboard. Oh well.

So today I have to do the whole thing again. Bah.

Cats are useless things. Love them I do, but they just won't help.]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 06:11:00 -0700 Lost ... and found, pills and trolls Claptrapish
So, sadly, with tears free flowing, I gave up on it. Then ... eventually ... I got sucked into getting Sky and there it was: Lost. By this time it had become sooooo weird I had no hope of catching up, and honestly I though I'd probably be floating around a graveyard before it finally finished.

Now, in less than three hours, the final episodes are being aired. At the same time all over the planet. W00T! wav.gif

But ... and here's the rub, am I going to struggle out of my beautifully warm and wuzzly pit to watch it? Do I really care that much? I guess it'd be kinda like having listened to the original Orson Welles 'War of the Worlds' transmission in the 50's.

2030 at a 2nd Life drinkyoos party. Everyone's wearing the latest virtual sex outfits with additional length (though smaller is still prefered by some): "Yes, yes, I watched live as the end of Lost went to air back in 2010. Oh yes, I was programmed with the J.J.Abrams virus, too. Another iPopper, anyone?"

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And then there're pills. I still have a full box of Prozac yum-yums, and haven't decided whether to start taking them or not.

It's not a little decision, like taking asperin for a headache. And I don't want to make a mistake and turn into some sort of ravening beast ... or conversely hide my head under a rock for the next few years.

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The writing is going well. There, I've said it. No more excuses. It's true that what I'm writing might end up being twaddle, but at least it's being written, and! I'm getting a buzz everytime I fire up the computer and begin.

And that, as they say, is that.

Will I watch Lost? Will I pop pills? Stay tuned for further waffle and possible updates. And if you fancy having a goog laugh then click HERE and read Jason's latest bloggy missive.

Cheers, y'all!

Camy icon_rabbit.gif]]> Sun, 23 May 2010 18:11:00 -0700 <![CDATA[wuz'appening.]]> Waffley truth
Now I know I haven't - or perhaps that should be 'think' rather than 'know' - I'm marginally happier. Not that I haven't been happy ... just a tad depressed.

I went to the doctor last week and told her - I had a choice of a her or a him, and I think if you're going to spill your emotions to a doctor it's probably best to do it with a her. After all, hers are supposed to be nurturing and caring, whereas a him would just tell me to buck my ideas up and be a man.

Anyway, I told said her that I was depressed, and swifter than the fastest swallow (unladen with coconut) I had a prescriptiion for Fluoxetine - which is another name for Prozac. Yum, I thought, cantering out of the surgery. Okay, actually I had no idea what Fluoxetine was until I read the leaflet and enquired of our Oh Lord Wikipedia what doest thou say?

And then ...

#shudder#

... I read the side effects.

I'm still a tad depressed, but I'm not going to be joining that band wagon, thank you very much. I wouldn't mind a therapist to talk to, but as the bottom line is 'know yourself,' what on earth would I say? It'd end up being a very expensive hour of silence.

Yours, most felicitously,

Camy



]]> Mon, 17 May 2010 16:14:00 -0700 Interviewed by The Dude! Music
I was as nervous as a very nervous thing, Mick was Mick, and The Dude put us both at our ease. It was the first interview we've done and though I'm only too aware I should have been more ... umm, something, and probably less something else. Anyway, all in all we're ecstatic!

If you want to know what on earth I'm waffling on about then go to Awesome Dude Radio and listen to the 25th weekend show. Go on, you know you want to!

Cheers!]]> Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:50:00 -0700 AaaaChoooo-oink. Waffley truth
I'm hallucinating and proud - which is, according to the doctor and over the phone, because I have flu (I opened the window and influenza). He said that the best thing for flu is to take two paracetamol every four hours and go to bed. 'Anti Virals?' murmur I, 'Not very efficacious' he says, 'though if you want ...?' I do want. I really do want, but then he's the doctor and who am I to query his judgement.

Anyway, as I'm ill I thought you should all know in case wake planning is a hobby amongst any of our membership. icon_rabbit.gif

Cheers,

Camy]]> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:34:00 -0700 Back online Bits and Bobs that sorted, and a deal longer to get ADSL up and running. Now, I'm back online and it feels ... mmmmmmmm yummy scrumptious!

We're a five minute walk from the beach. Sadly it isn't sand, but it does have water which is quite an important pre-requisite for a beach. The cats like it, too. A boon, 'cause having sad cats ain't where it's at, at all. AND the garden is small which make mowing the lawn a doddle. I like doddles.

Ave.

Camy]]> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:56:00 -0700 Bloody typical! Claptrapish
Much like the public information films about nuclear war that suggested we should loiter behind a door, under a pile of earth filled bin bags, the U.K. government's response to swine flu suggests that: The best way to protect yourself and stop the spread of flu viruses is by using and disposing of tissues and washing your hands.

They have also come up with a very catchy phrase: CATCH IT, BIN IT, KILL IT. Obviously Hummers, camouflage outfits and AK47s are of no use whatsoever. Not that I have a Hummer or an AK47, though I do have a rather natty pair of desert camouflage pants.

Still, I'm going to be most miffed if I sneeze myself off this mortal coil before I've written a stonking good novel. Hmm, best get started I suppose.]]> Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:46:00 -0700 Debt Truth
Sadly, I voted for the inept cretins - though (in my defence) at the time the prime minister wasn't a man with despotic megalomania, and the Chancellor didn't have Caterpillars for eybrows and an Adams' family hairdo.

Never again!

I intend to declare independence. The Royalesque Bank of Emu will be opening its doors shortly. Investors most welcome.]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:13:00 -0700 Muse vs WoW Claptrapish
I have three alliance characters that I'm levelling (don't ask me what it means, 'cause I don't really know). One, a Human Paladin is at level 8 (whoopdeedoo) and is presently dead. My Night Elf Druid (level 5) is also, presently dead, and my weency Gnome Warrior is alive and kicking at level 5.

Credit where credit is due: WoW is great fun, but the hours and hours I spend playing makes me feel oh so bleedin' guilty. I mean to say ... I want to have a legacy of at least a couple of dozen novels ... and an album or two, and I'd quite like to knock up an audio play as well. And yet. And yet ....

What I really need to learn is WoW speak. The forums are ... well, interesting, to say the least. The problem is they seem to speak a language I don't understand. Here's an example:
QUOTE (snip from WoW forum)
I always find that late 30's a bind, generally even after determined avoidance of stv I end up there and by 38 all quests are done saving the red elite ones. As for the 40-50 i tend to get to 45 pretty fast and then just go grind timbermaws at 46 until I am at the rep level i want or hit level 50 when its time for the next alt in the rotation.

The grinding rep thing came when I discovered (as you can see from the armoury page for this char and my hunter) trying to grind timbermaw rep at 70 is painful, or at least it was until i found grinding cultists in silithus is even worse (1/4 rep pt per kill :) hard work if you are a recipe collector like my self

If anyone can translate I'd be overjoyed. Okay, so maybe overjoyed is a slight exageration. But interested, at least.

I just have to 'say no'.

"No more WoW! No more!" he said, sweating as Tealshy, the Night Elf, batted his eyes seductively with his 'come hither' look. "I have to write, don't you understand?" Tealshy pouted.

Tum te tum te tum.

Anyway, I'm in the middle of 'The First Term' which is a direct continuation of 'The First Day.' I'm not sure when it's going to be finished, but, WoW permitting, soon.

Ave.

Camy icon_rabbit.gif]]> Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:53:00 -0700