• Volunteer to do some data entry this weekend. I'm already busy at work anyway, so I could do with some time off. But I felt sorry for someone (bad move!) cos they're so desperate. I am going to get the same number of hours off that I work, though, that was the only condition I would do it under
• Put your oven glove in the chicken grease remnants. For it is greasy.
• Put rice milk in hot chocolate. It makes the hot chocolate taste of rice milk.

On the plus side, I pimped WP to Sel who found a LJ cross-poster that works better than the one I've currently got, and works with WP 2.0. So I will be upgrading at some point.

I currently have four short nails for guitar playing purposes. I still can't play but now I can't type either. And the nails on the fingers of my left hand look all horrid and short

Dad's set up a test blog for WordPress 2.0 and it looks really good. If someone just sorts out Live+Press I'd switch like a shot. Which leads nicely to the subject of Atlantis...

I'm not going to spoil any episodes past Sky. I was going to give the name of the episodes, but anyone who's been at a con with me knows what I'm like with episode names). I came to the conclusion during Epiphany (the one with the beard) that I actually ship Sheppard/everyone, not just the three in my icon. So to test this theory I read a John/Ronon fic, liked it, could totally see that. But, I thought to myself, I couldn't do Sheppard/Ford. Except I read one and I totally can.

All is fine until tonight's episode where I saw:
Caldwell/Weir, McKay/Weir, McKay/Sheppard, John/Teyla, Carson/Rodney(!), Teyla/Ronon, John/Ronon, Weir/Lorne (now I know who he is!)
Er, yeah. I don't like Teyla/Ford (even though I've written it, but it was in an AU, so doesn't count), although I'm quite like the idea of Teyla/Ronon. And Elizabeth/Ronon as well.

So all in all it was a good episode if you ship anything in particular, and a bad episode if you ship anything in particular, depending on how good you are at interpreting/explaining. I found it a really fun episode just spotting the ships and being all gleeful about all of them. It's so much more fun!

This is possibly something of a reaction against some of the stuff I've been reading where people are complaining about particular ones. I had enough of that in Stargate and I can't be doing with it. I'm not caring too much about people talking about episodes as well. I'm just happy to go 'that was fun' or 'that was crap'.

I got all excited when I came to post yesterday, as I discovered a new version of WordPress is out, and some of the new features look really useful. Except then I found that Live+Press doesn't work with it, and since that's the plugin I use to automatically post my posts to Livejournal, it's a bit useless without it. Although having said that, it does keep thinking I want to post with my Atlantis OTP icon, rather than my default, and yesterday it decided not to post at all, which I'm hoping is just a hiccup.

I've just decided what train I'm going to get home. I'm so looking forward to going back to a cold, dark and noisy house and going to work tomorrow.

On the plus side, the 2005 Shelly Award results are up, so now I have lots of Farscape music videos to download.

For how much LJ has just annoyed me. I was going to post about work for the delight (?) of everyone on my friends list but it didn't like the current time and refused to let me post. At which point I said bollux to it - I'm just posting from WP in the future.

Although I see I have been stupid - I can friends-lock posts from here.

I looked something up on my website the other day and realised how out of date the episode guides were. I also had a load of fic and video recs hanging around, so it's now all updated.

I'm also down to just under 200 entries left to categorise and title. So I'm halfway there.

I spoke about childhood reads a while back. Since then I've found a few and read them, so I thought I'd write what I thought about them.

Sweet Valley High
This is actually just like I remember it. It's the OC, children only and a lot more vapid. I think that's the right word. It's amazing how little happens. I got through the whole book in an hour, which is fair enough because it's not that long. I also sat there for a whole hour reading it, so it can't have been that bad.

I'm still working on Sweet Valley University and I'm not planning on going back to Sweet Valley Twins. In the meantime I discovered there is Sweet Valley Senior Year. In High they're 16, in Senior Year they're 17. I wasn't keen on Senior Year though because they focused on a whole load of new characters. I don't care about new characters, only about Jessica and Elizabeth.

Cheerleaders
I managed to get hold of copies of both sets of cheerleaders - there's one group for about twenty books and another set, the following year, for the other twenty or so. It was weird, reading these, how much of what was in other books came back to me. Although that could have been because the books are apt to remind you. I preferred the first set although I think that's because I read more of those the first time round, so I remember them better.

Sadlers Wells
These turned out to be set in the 50s and written in first person, which I wasn't expecting. I absolutely loved them though. Each book introduces you to a new character but (so far) they're always someone who has been in a previous book, if not in a big way. They're quite old-fashioned in their thinking but it was still nice to read about english people, in contrast to the American Sweet Valley and Cheerleaders.

Gemma
This was okay and I really liked Gemma. I'm not so convinced about the rest of the Robinson family though, they are just so perfect. I can accept that they're all musical but not that they're all geniuses at what they do. Or just so nice, it grates after a while. And generally being happy and contented with their (small) lot.

The Demon Headmaster
I don't know how I didn't remember what it was about the Headmaster because I knew all the way through - although that's from remembering not bad writing. If you don't know then it's quite a good book, otherwise there's not much new in there. Being as it's about a girl who goes from a childrens home to be fostered I was expecting more about her settling in but then this is a childrens book and it is mainly about what happens in school, so I suppose it's not that unreasonable that it focuses on that.

After Sel's post on the Chalet School books I thought I'd try those as they seem to be popular and I've never tried any. I've only read a few chapters of the first one but I'm enjoying it so far.

This morning I got an adaptor for my keyboard at work. I was expecting one that allowed me to plug two PS/2 devices into one USB one and this just changed PS/2 to USB. But I thought I'd try it anyway. It doesn't work.

So, having established this, I proceeded to plug my old computer back in. At which point my keyboard stopped working. I'd had a bit of trouble plugging it back in and when I took it out I discovered I'd forgotten that forcing it doesn't work for computers. I'd bent one of the pins.

So now I'm using the keyboard and mouse I could have had a week ago and have a new keyboard on order. Computers, don't you just love 'em?

I've also spent a couple of hours this evening playing with my WordPress template. It now has a middle and a left-hand side. For the default view. It probably wouldn't have taken me so long except that I would change little bits, upload it, hit refresh and couldn't work out why it wasn't changing, even when I reached the stage of changing something really obvious that couldn't possibly fail to show up. The solution? I was uploading into the wrong folder. I did it twice as well.

After deciding to definitely stick with Blogger I found their forum, and people saying why they switched to WordPress. Dad had a testing one I could play with, so then I spent the day playing with my own.

It's so unfinished it's not funny. It's great if you have no idea what you're doing and there are 250 or so templates to choose from with all sorts of bits that it's far easier to customise than Blogger or LJ. However, I want it to look like my site, which is easier said than done, especially as my site predates my knowledge of CSS, hence not having any.

The best thing about WordPress is that there's a plugin that allows you to post to LJ at the same time as posting to WP without having to copy and paste it into LJ. It even does LJ cuts (or would if I could remember the code). Which makes it really useful. And also the only plugin I currently have working...