It's almost summer...
Jun. 18th, 2005 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dwgmVarious points, in no particular order...
1. The Annual Secret Pals Revealed Breakfast and The Retirement Dinner, both of which are my responsibility to coordinate (although I am not sure it's in my job description...) are now over and done, and very successfully, I might add. *breathes a deep sigh of relief*
2. Daughter,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
weemonkey6 went to see the new Batman movie last night (she liked it), and said she saw this, the trailer for 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Now, I ask you: does that man appear to have any relation to Captain Jack Sparrow? The movie looks weird and very entertaining. How I adore Tim Burton's strange visions. And all the varied and wonderful iterations of Johnny Depp.
3. Speaking of Tim Burton, FINALLY watched 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', and it was far better than I had been led to believe or had hoped. Oh, the cleverness!
4. Yes, there were several earthquakes this week (or over the last couple) that made the national news. I felt only one of them, and that because I was sitting very very still at my desk, working on the computer. Only one other person, out of the twenty or so in the office, felt it, besides me. Which is usually the case, with earthquakes -- we have dozens, maybe hundreds every week, but only rarely are they strong enough to notice.
*knocks on wood*
5. After seeing all the posts mentioning 'tags' and hearing from bothdressagespirit and hereswith that their LJ themes had randomly disappeared or had been altered, I started fooling with S2 themes and came up with (I think) rather a pretty one, utilizing oiseaurobyn's beautiful picture of the coast down by San Diego (near Scripps) at sunset. Hope she doesn't mind me using it. *turns inquiring eye on oiseaurobyn*
6. Have been trying, without success, to write a drabble on this week's theme at Black Pearl Sails: 'Drink(s)'. However, in googling about for inspiring information to nudge the plot bunnies into action, I came across this interesting site on Pusser's Rum, which was the official rum issued to members of the Royal Navy until "Black Tot Day", July 31, 1970. Here are the traditional naval toasts-of-the-day (given by the youngest midshipman after a salute to the reigning monarch):
Monday: Our ships at sea.
Tuesday: Our men.
Wednesday: Ourselves.
Thursday: A bloody war and quick promotion.
Friday: A willing soul and sea room.
Saturday: Sweethearts and wives, may they never meet.
Sunday: Absent friends and those at sea.
And now, I believe I'll go 'splice the mainbrace', while I have a swim.
1. The Annual Secret Pals Revealed Breakfast and The Retirement Dinner, both of which are my responsibility to coordinate (although I am not sure it's in my job description...) are now over and done, and very successfully, I might add. *breathes a deep sigh of relief*
2. Daughter,
weemonkey6 went to see the new Batman movie last night (she liked it), and said she saw this, the trailer for 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Now, I ask you: does that man appear to have any relation to Captain Jack Sparrow? The movie looks weird and very entertaining. How I adore Tim Burton's strange visions. And all the varied and wonderful iterations of Johnny Depp.3. Speaking of Tim Burton, FINALLY watched 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', and it was far better than I had been led to believe or had hoped. Oh, the cleverness!
4. Yes, there were several earthquakes this week (or over the last couple) that made the national news. I felt only one of them, and that because I was sitting very very still at my desk, working on the computer. Only one other person, out of the twenty or so in the office, felt it, besides me. Which is usually the case, with earthquakes -- we have dozens, maybe hundreds every week, but only rarely are they strong enough to notice.
*knocks on wood*
5. After seeing all the posts mentioning 'tags' and hearing from both
dressagespirit and hereswith that their LJ themes had randomly disappeared or had been altered, I started fooling with S2 themes and came up with (I think) rather a pretty one, utilizing oiseaurobyn's beautiful picture of the coast down by San Diego (near Scripps) at sunset. Hope she doesn't mind me using it. *turns inquiring eye on oiseaurobyn* 6. Have been trying, without success, to write a drabble on this week's theme at Black Pearl Sails: 'Drink(s)'. However, in googling about for inspiring information to nudge the plot bunnies into action, I came across this interesting site on Pusser's Rum, which was the official rum issued to members of the Royal Navy until "Black Tot Day", July 31, 1970. Here are the traditional naval toasts-of-the-day (given by the youngest midshipman after a salute to the reigning monarch):
Tuesday: Our men.
Wednesday: Ourselves.
Thursday: A bloody war and quick promotion.
Friday: A willing soul and sea room.
Saturday: Sweethearts and wives, may they never meet.
Sunday: Absent friends and those at sea.
And now, I believe I'll go 'splice the mainbrace', while I have a swim.
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Date: 2005-06-19 01:45 am (UTC)Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is looking scarier and scarier. o_O I'm looking forward to it very much. Tim Burton is completely in tune with Roald Dahl's mind - I loved his James and the Giant Peach - and Depp and Burton is always a brilliant combination. If there are echoes of any other of Depp's characters in Willy Wonka, it's probably Ed Wood and Sands...
You Californians' stoicism in the face of earthquakes amazes me. We had a 4.8 one a few years ago and people panicked!
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Date: 2005-06-19 07:04 am (UTC)Note to self: See James and the Giant Peach.
Re: earthquakes -- A 4.8 is nothing to sneeze at, if it's right near you. Doesn't do much damage, but it's very startling, to say the least. And some people do panic here -- if it had been any stronger last Wednesday, we would have had terrified parents calling the school. We were all particularly on edge for a couple of years after the '94 quake, which was really scary, and did a lot of damage.