so i think i learned something new this week: a region-free DVD will not necessarily play on my DVD player, if said DVD is a DVD-R containing something recorded off of a PAL system - you geniuses out there, did i get that right? i always thought that PAL and NTSC applied only to videotapes, not to the entire setup...however, a laptop can showcase ( Read more... )

so i spent like 5-6 hours on livejournal friday night, going to bed around 3:30, and decided i'd been on it enough for the weekend - so here's part 2 of the japan pictures if anyone's curious - there will be 4 sets of pictures altogether...sorry if the images are too bright, as they look different on this pc that i'm currently using...

( motto motto - 8 pics )

because rebl1969 asked nicely (and since photos of their cute kid just brightened up her & mehetabel's journals, i'm about to show off A-chan once again - its friday night and she's asleep so hopefully no distractions will occur...i'm also finally uploading japan pictures too, so if my exhaustive diaries made you wonder "did he really go, or did he just make this ( Read more... )

last night, standing in the checkout line of an unnamed megastore that has diapers cheap, the cashier looks at my ID and then says "you look like an actor on TV" - i ask "which one?" she says "ummm, oh, that actor...he was on...back to the future" (yeah a movie but its surely been on tv) - admitting that i don't have the sinister charm of crispin ( Read more... )

ah, that melancholy first day of november ( Read more... )

the mix is slowly starting to finish up - i've bought everything that needs to be bought, made the front cover, back cover, and liners (6 pages long in 10-point type, and you'd better read it all!) and have done all assembly - half of the packages are sealed up and ready to go and i'm just waiting on the burns for the other half - hopefully they'll ( Read more... )

so i don't think i'll have much time to write, but i do want to throw this out ( Read more... )

oh yeah...it dawned on me that one year ago today S and i departed for spain, cashing in some of those frequent-flyer miles - what a damned difference a year makes! i loved england, i loved paris (barring the food poisoning), and i loved japan (although i don't really count those as being "vacations"), but the spanish trip was just so, i don't know ( Read more... )

okay, my major month-long project at work ended yesterday afternoon, and i'm about an hour away from a big call to talk about it, so in the few moments inbetween, let's see what i can write...

( BABYSTUFF - birth details )

there were so many kind wishes on my last journal entry that i won't even try to respond to them all - thanks so much from both of us! but to comment on a few responses ( Read more... )