.:reflections of twilight:.

Why yes, I am in fact, posting early today. We all got off about two hours earlier today, so as soon as the clock hit 3:00, I lit out. It feels nice, actually. *bliss*

My bookmarks were a hit, to which I'm glad. I still have to figure out how to fiddle with my printer so I can actually print stuff off of it from PrintMaster...

My plans for tomorrow are, aside from vacuuming the floors, to do as little as possible. I got all my Christmas gifts wrapped and under the tree and all my cards sent out, so there's not much I need to do, really. Mom needs to borrow my car to do "errands" of her own. *snickers* Maybe I can watch my anime backlog...

Oh, and toriru4ever, whenever we hash out a time to meet, I'll have something for you. I hope you like! ^____^

To pathseeker, I apologize for how things went down yesterday. Maybe we both need to take a bit of a breather for awhile. I do hope you find what you're looking for. I truly believe there is someone out there for you, just keep hanging in there. Just remember, I'll still be here in case you need anything. I still hope we can be friends...

And, in case I don't hear from any of you anytime soon, Merry Christmas!!

Trivia of the day: The poem commonly known as The Night Before Christmas was originally titled "A Visit From Saint Nicholas". This poem was written by Clement Moore for his children and some guests, one of whom anonymously sent the poem to a New York newspaper for publication.

Apparently my Photo Shop-fu was working overtime yesterday and I cranked out three lovelies. Wanna see? Oh, OK. You don't have to twist my arm...


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I made those in response to my post a couple of days ago. I kinda get a kick out of 'em.

Those two I did yesterday. However, I will put up one I made a couple of months ago and feel like showing off:



One of Jacen and Tenel Ka. I think it turned out pretty good.

And... the coup de gras:



*gigglesnort*

I like the way this came out, actually. I had to blur a lot of the background due to the fact there were other elements on it. But, it created a cool effect, so I was pretty good.


I was watching 'Revenge of the Sith' earlier and something struck me. If Qui-Gon showed Yoda the Force Spirit technique, and he in turn showed it to Obi-Wan, who showed Anakin? I mean, at the end of 'Return of the Jedi' there he is, all Force Spirity. At the time Yoda was showing Obi-Wan, Anakin was completing his transformation as Darth Vader. Curious. I've never seen it explained anywhere.

Today we have a spaghetti dinner to go to in order to support the youth at our church's annual CIY trip. Of course, I think mom makes the best spaghetti, but I may be a bit a biased.

We're planning on going to my aunt's for Father's Day on Sunday. I need to send Dad an e-mail with my best wishes. Other than that, I have no idea what the weekend holds. I guess we'll have to see.

Trivia of the day: Twentieth Century-Fox studio cut all scenes showing physical contact between America's curly-haired darling Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in "The Little Colonel" in 1934 to avoid social offense and to assure wide U.S. distribution. Pre-release showings of the film, particularly in the southern U.S., shocked audiences when the two actors touched fingers during their famous staircase dance sequence.

I. RULE!! I was finally able to figure out what was wrong with the .torrents I downloaded. It seems the player I had (Windows Media Player) would play them after I uploaded them from the client (or however it works). I would only her the sound, not the picture. So after I vented some, I went to take a closer look at the player, thinking I needed to adjust something. As it so happens, I discovered the problem on the website. WMP doesn't have the codec to play .avi files. It even said you could hear the audio and not see the video. So, after my "Ah-ha" moment, I did some searching and found a player that had the proper codec. I downloaded it, installed it and started to play. At first I was a bit worried, since I still didn't see any video, then after a few minutes, it came up. I nearly did handsprings. So, I settled in and watched the episode of 'Veronica Mars' that I missed. The quality was really good, too. It was HDTV! And no commercials. The audio/video was sometimes out of synch, but it wasn't too bad and it got cleared up eventually.


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Well, today might be my last day of 'freedom' so I'm going to enjoy it while I can. We have dinner tonight (after we take a look at the duplex) and tomorrow there's a company picnic for where mom works being held at the zoo and she wants to go to that. Me, I'm "ehhh" about it. Plus, sometime, we're going to stop in at Old Navy so I can get some shorts. I only have about three pair I can wear. And here, in the summer, they're a necessity.

I hope everyone has a good weekend!!

Trivia of the day: President William Howard Taft was a seventh cousin twice removed of Richard M. Nixon, and was a distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson.