Tag Centralia

OK. I owe FH and Janey, although not in that order. And here's the thing. I'm a big, big believer in pain sharing. Well, not that is exactly pain (Robin said, chuckling)...but I feel the need to reach out to some people that I don't believe have been hit up lately (and a few, not at all, I'm guessing, not in the traditional meme hitting-up sense anyway...)

My tags go to: Sparky, ril, Wonderwood, BT, Phoenix, and paca. If even two of them do this, I'll...well, I'll be in shock.

Anyway - here's the easy and straightforward '6 Random Things About Me' meme of FH's:

1. I wear wool socks in the house all twelve months of the year. I hate it when my feet are cold, and I hate it when my feet touch bare wood or carpet. So I avoid potentially being cold or hating the feel of stuff on my toes by wearing my trusty SmartWools year-round in the house. I have them in three colors. Sexy, huh? Yeah.

2. I have a stepper in my study. When I work out, I lock the door and step my ass off and pretend stuff that I'm not ever telling any of you lot about. It's fun stuff, baby, in so many ways. And no, I'm not wearing wool socks during this part.

3. I took a Bulgarian guy on my spring break trip when I was in high school. I'd never met a European guy before, so, although this guy had a body you wouldn't fucking believe, I was embarrassed out the ass when he wore his little Euro-version-of-Speedos. In Daytona Beach. In the 1970s. Yeah. Lord.

4. Some chick, on the same trip, came wandering over to us when we were laying out, drunk, in the sand, and tried to tell all me about the Lord and save me. (Probably she had spied those daywear pussboy panties on the Bulgarian, lying there all spraddled out next to me.) I looked up over my cranberry juice and vodka in a plastic cup dealie, and said something about being a Catholic. That did it. She went away. No more trouble. Best thing that ever happened to me from having been screwed by being born into a Catholic household.

5. Same trip - I wore a white halter top to the bars at night, because every bar worth its salt had black lights, so my top glowed in the dark. I wore it every night to different bars. The Bulgarian was with me, but thank God, he didn't have his little navy blue panties on. I made him wear jeans. Dork. Gorgeous dork, daddy was a doctor dork, but still, Dork Boy.

6. One time...no, never mind about that one. Ummmm. OK. Here's one:
I love men in corduroy pants. God, I really do.

Coming next, in a few minutes, Janey's meme dealie. Then, no more meming Robin for a while, unless you wanna read stuff you shouldn't really wanna be reading about a friend. Heh.

OH- and you memed guys, and phoenix. Just pick one of these two memes and have at it. BT, I figure you owe me, son, as you first memed me long, long ago, back in the spring. Back when I was...wait for it...blogless.

NEXT....

Janey's Tag Dealie:

1. What do you do before bedtime? Every other night...well,you can figure it out.
The other nights, I read or I write until I'm about to pass out.

2. What are your favorite sounds?
My husband or one of my kids, when they're jazzed about something and they're telling me all about it...A song I'd forgotten I loved, turned up full bore in the car...my cat purring when she's in bed with me at night and the only other sounds in the world, it seems, are the night sounds outside.

3. What were your childhood fears?
I was certain Dracula lived under my bed, and I had this elaborate way I had to sleep, and if I laid this certain way, somehow for some reason, Dracula couldn't get me. I was certain the Wolf Man could see through my bedroom window screens at night. I was certain someone was in my closet and ready to come out at night and get me. I was terrified of my basement.

4. What place have you visited that you can't forget and want to go back?
Ireland.

5. What has made you unhappy these days?
I'm sick to death of election coverage and the divisiveness it causes. Also, the financial non-well-being of my country, and the wave of problems it's caused all over hell's half acre, and feeling powerless because of it.

6. What websites do you visit daily?
You guys that have a blog (do they count as websites?) Hope so. And, don't laugh...
The Wall Street Journal Online. And the Post. Washington.

7. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
Both of them are sweeties and I wish we could hang out together on weekends.

8. What’s the last song that got stuck in your head?
Layla.

9. What’s your favorite item of clothing?
The aformentioned wool socks. And I have one favorite pair of thong undies. Heathered blue. No kidding.

10. What is your dream for the future?
I want to see my book published.

Virus - be careful if you have Windows

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3220887.stm


Links to the various versions of the patch (provided by “Patch Watch” from Microsoft Secrets):

• Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 patch download
• Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3 patch download
• Windows XP 64-bit Edition patch download
• Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or 2 patch download
• Windows Server 2003 64-bit Edition patch download
• Windows Vista with or without Service Pack 1 patch download
• Windows Vista 64-bit Edition with or without Service Pack 1 patch download
• Windows Server 2008 32-bit Edition patch download
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit Edition patch download

More information: Please read security bulletin MS08-067. For an excellent technical explanation of the vulnerability and possible mitigations, read TechNet's Oct. 23 description.

I don't know how to do the link thing on the patch download - if anyone does, let me know, and I'll email it to you to help me fix this.

Whirl's Tag Thing

This one's a quickie, so to speak, so I can do it. I haven't forgotten Janey's - but I want to do it the right way, so it will need to be a little while.

Whirl's quickie is this - go to page 56 of the novel you're reading, and share a few lines...

I'm reading World Enough And Time, by Robert Penn Warren, for EE's book chat.

Here are a few lines from page 56:

"No," Wilkie said, slowly, "no."

"Well, why are you so moved and disordered?"

Wilkie stared at him, "staring in wonderment as though he had never seen me and as though he could not believe what he saw." So Jeremiah described the moment, and his own sense of embarrassment and emptiness in the face of the incredulous stare."

What are you all reading? Hopefully at least some of you are reading this book. I'm hosting this chat of EE's, and I'm really looking looking forward to it.

Anyone care to be tagged with this one? Let us know in the comments if you'd like to share.

We interrupt this program...

...or lack thereof, to say that it will most likely be a week or so before I can post anything new.

I owe Janey a tag dealie, and I'll do it as soon as I can, and I'm looking forward to it. Her answers to having been tagged are a hoot. If you haven't seen them, they're fun, right on down to her jammies!

I'm in a good place with the work on my novel right now, and I need to keep the momentum going.

If anyone wants to guest post, have at it.

Meanwhile, see you in several days.

Here's mine...

Hi you all,

I just went and listened to EE's. It's wonderful, not that this is a huge surprise, so I'm apologizing ahead of time for mine being too fast to do this excerpt from Dennis Lehane's novel, Mystic River, justice.

I'm reading the last page from the end of one of the middle chapters. Sean is a cop in the novel, and his wife has left him. She works as a road manager, and she calls him from places and just listens to him talk to her on the phone, that's all. She never speaks. But this time, Sean just can't make himself do things the way they've been doing them, with him talking and her breathing and listening. He's had it. He has his own good reasons.

Can't wait to hear the rest of you all! I'm in the office, so it will be later today before I can really sit and listen. Bye for now.

Reading

Hi,

Whenever you all are ready tomorrow, please post a note here letting us know yours is up, OK?

Thought I'd get an early start for the Britons among us.

I'm looking forward to hearing you!

How about October 9th for author reading?

Okay. How does that sound?

Thursday, October 9th. Is that a good date for you all to post a reading from a scene in one of your favorite novels?

I think Whirl and Kiersten had said that would be all right.

Hope that's a good date for you all, too! Any takers?