Cleaning up and ranting

Sorting out the computer a bit - not to the extent Megs has, but I've got rid of several programs and files - found I had duplicates of 80% of my wallpaper .psd files, and combine that with all the music videos I deleted - a good five, six gig's been cleaned up. Defragmenting now.

Stuck some more Spiderman comics up on ebay that I found in a comics bag. Smallville, aka the adoption skirmish one where baby!Clark does the adorable thing of imprinting ickle!Lex (got the hurt/comfort down at a very young age, did our Clark) - it's like 'Right, parents, check, future soulmate, check, I'm doing good and I've only been here an hour.' was pretty good, except of course the Lana bit. Poor 'woe is me and I can't act' Lana. 'Everyone sees me as a fairy princess' Lana. Er, no, Lana, the only person who still sees you as that is you, because you keep fucking reminding people! And also possibly the most idiotic jumper to conclusions I've seen. You see a pic of your mum laughing at the camera with a bloke. You automatically think they're having an affair, because of course Mommie dearest couldn't have just been having a laugh with a friend - who the hell do you think took the photo, missy? And then it comes out the photo was taken while her parents were on a break. So of course he *must* be her father. Lana, sweetie, did it ever occur to you that your parents might have been having sex on occasion while the break was on? Or that you were conceived when they got back together? Actually, here's a shocking one - your parents had brown hair and were of European descent. You, sweetie, have black hair and are clearly of Asian descent. What the hell makes you think a blond bloke's going to be your dad? Try looking at your mother's other boyfriend, the really nice half-Vietnamese guy. Did you even get Lex to check blood tests? Or check your mother's diary to further compare dates? And why the hell are the viewers supposed to fecking care? Christ, Chloe's piece about her mum abandoning her at the age of five had much more relevance to the storyline and could've been taken so much further.

Watched Sharpe - I've watched nearly the whole series now, except for the last two, which I watched when they first aired, and though I'm very satisfied with it generally, sometimes you really want to throw a few things at the screen. Yes, Jane's a bit silly, a bit spoilt, and a bit vain. But excuse me, Bernard Cornwell, she's not going to up and leave him just because of the money and a possible smear on his name. We're talking a girl who's used to her husband causing trouble and getting a bad name all over the place, not to mention that bit you so pointedly had of her during Sharpe's Siege where she was helping the surgeon cut men's legs off. She's made of slightly sterner stuff, is Jane. Oh, and not to mention she's not going to go for Rossendale that fast (hysterical watching Alexis Denisof in that role - squeals of 'ickle baby Wesley!' and 'awww, Wesley taking after his ancestor before he grew up. Innee cuuuuute?' were heard) as she's pretty devoted to Sharpe, and been burnt and learnt her lesson about flashy men with that poet. :bangs head against table:

Erm. Though I must say I like Lucille. And the line 'Pardon me, Ma'am, the door was locked.'

stuff to do today

Jogging : 31mins and 5 mins of New Hill and beyond. With a pulled muscle in the calf, plus definitely getting faster and thus covering more distance.

Things to do today - get photo taken for renewal of passport and application for driving licence :whines: don' wanna driving licence! Am being bullied into it. Parents keep shoving pictures of the new car they'll be getting to replace the Fiesta, which is disintegrating (literally) and not worth the cost of a new MOT, going "This is a good enough incentive, isn't it? Just think, you could be driving that." Me : "Actually, no more of an incentive than the Fiesta. I'm perfectly happy with public transport."

Also, post office to send comics, pay in cheque for another load of comics, possibly buy comics, and get a foot support-thingy for jogging. Right foot dislikes it immensely.

eerrgghh

I think I need to wash with bleach. And possibly pump the stuff into my veins to get rid of the taint. There's problems with being on the general fic lists - the amount of crap that comes through is untrue, but I have to be on there cos I run archives (never mind that I can't upload to one at the moment), and sometimes you click on a fic from morbid curiosity. A bloody BtVS/Manchild crossover. (the bloke ASH plays on Manchild has been posited by the writer as Giles' twin brother, who flunked out of Watcher studies which I suppose works) The girls of BtVS (Cordy, Buffy, Anya and Willow) go visit Giles in England and run into the Manchild lot. Gileswench. Stop. Writing. Now. It's Buffy/Giles, which is par for the course with her, and it's soppy Buffy/Giles. Willow's suddenly blushing at anything the ASH character says, and re-living her crush on Giles. The sap levels are rising to drowning point. The only character that comes out with dignity is Anya, because the writer focusses completely on the money side of her and thus gets it done amusingly. Oh, and did I mention all the life-affirming stuff that's happening? Pass me the bleach. It's a load of men going through a mid-life crisis and getting interested in twenty-one year olds, and it's just as cringe-inducing as you'd think, and worse than Manchild cringe.

Half time

Shearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr!
(and a lovely set-up and run by Bellamy)
1-0 against Inter Milan, 42nd minute. Hah! (oh, and an up yours to the amount of diving Inter have been doing. Wankers.)

We are the knights who say icky-icky-ptang

Feh. 2-2. Shearer again for us - they scored in the 47th, Shearer took it straight back and scored in the 49th. Several attempts by Speed, but no. :sulk and grumble:

Oh, this is *good*.

Listening to the news on radio 4 - it's not up on the BBC website yet - but have you heard? They're doling out the contracts for rebuilding Iraq after the war, and you know who's been offered the 900 million contract? American companies only. Yep, you heard that right. Hello to the PR fuck-ups and not thinking before making decisions/statements, which has been an overriding trend of this administration.