life on the side

I'm thinking about a visit to BBQJr as a present to self for my birthday. Check out their new digs, you know, get an eye for how much we can take out of storage… hey, the storage people are driving me nuts! It's like my grandparents decide they're bored with the garden, so they decide to open up a little side business, but the last piece of technology they had direct interaction with was that really cool 3-speed blender. "Has it gone through yet, Mother?" Mother sighs, eyeing the monitor like it's a recalcitrant daughter-in-law. "Not yet, Daddy." (yes, that's right, they call each other Mom and Dad *shiver*) But that's another story. So, I'm looking at cheaptickets.com (yeah, right), and find that I can't fly from Monterey to San Diego without a 'brief' stop-over at Phoenix. Arizona. Immediately I'm thinking, 'What the f-word! I have to fly out of state to get from Monterey to San Diego?' I mean, I'm willing to do a stopover (with only a bit of terrified whining), but Phoenix isn't even on the way to San Diego. It's like... way over there! And then way back! *hmph*

Yes, strange-but-true; apparently, to save a hour driving to San Jose, it's gonna take over 300 dollars and over five hours to fly a few hundred miles. Crapdoodles, baby. Six hours to drive it... about five hours to fly. Stupid, stupid, stupid. So, I'll drive an hour (if the traffic is reasonably sane) to San Jose to fly to San Diego. The flight will be less than 2 hours and just short of $200. Is this crazy? Just to spend a weekend—that they both probably have to work? That, plus, well—I'm petrified to fly. It must be love, if just to see them and get a hug I'd be willing to fly. In an airplane! Oh god.

no fic for you!

Well, not here anyway.

Oddly, or perhaps not so, no fic reccs this time around. Funny story. This page started as a Favorites With Extras menu for Ally 'cause it got virtually impossible to find a story we wanted to reread based on a few characters or story title on a drop down list of literally hundreds of links. We had submenus of submenus of submenus and they still tried to crawl off the screen. Weirdly, once it was up. you guys started popping by—probably because of the navigation link from the transcripts page.

The transcripts page started as a expansion on the 'scripts available at Shrifts strictly as a 'cheat' for the people entertaining us with Chainmale Trivia (it's all about the BBQ don'tcha know). Anyway, somehow Ally became a dedicated public servant, providing, through her own obsessions, stuff that other people also wanted. Neato. However, due to present conditions we hope you're not too disappointed that so much of our time is being eaten by that rabid monster, 'ambition', and we have so little time to read for pleasure. *pout* Luckily, our limited time does not impact the outpouring of actual Farscape Fan Fiction. Hurrah, the Authors!

So. Speaking of fic recs. Heh. Isn't it time someone else did this? Man, I'd love to be able to go to one website and read fics that are complete and someone simply loved, just by clicking on one link. *pout* You guys know that around here is gonna be kinda weird for the foreseeable future due to the whole work/school 14 hour workday, right? Hey, we love coming here too, but even we get tired of seeing that same damn post every day. heh

This is what happens to you when you learn HTML. It's like one of those desert sinkholes in Thunderdome. Fair warning. *g*

FARSCAPE:

Nope. Haven't taken time to read any 'scape fics, although I did note a lot of nice short ones over at Leviathan that we'll be taking a peek at over the weekend, studying be damned. What's going on over at Kansas? No clue. Sorry. Check out the neato links over there on the left for non-comatose fans. *g*

SMALLVILLE:

Links to stories we've read and don't want to lose track of will be posted directly to Ally's Smallville Pics page. So, if you're interested, you can pop by there; be warned however, we may occasionally drool over Michael Rosenbaum on this page, but, you know. Major Hottie^TM.

We've also been reading Anne Rice's, Memnoch the Devil, a page at a time it seems. We love 'scape fic, but, hey, we admit it. We read other stuff. *ducks*

posted by Ally 3/13/2003 05:55:08 PM