Thankfully that's now three years ago. I guess the main this I was trying to say is that I had no idea what the upper end of the pain scale was like and now, for better or worse, I know. I have an understanding of the reasons someone could black out from pain.

My former-youth group leader/former-family friend is finally going to jail. Bad news is that it's for the possession of child pornography charges, and the molestation charges are being dropped/not pursued, it seems. DIAF asshole.

This morning, as soon as I got to sunlight, I realised my top didn't match my shoes. So I went back inside (already late) and changed all my outerwear but my shoes. The purple+silver plaid shirt matches it quite decently, I think [link] Later on today I realised all my underwear matches my shoes as well [link]

Ha! Also, cute.

I love that Christopher Reeve punked his Scientology auditor with a bogus past life story when he was considering joining the "church": [link]

I've worn these purple shoes way more often than a number of my black ones. Good call, self!

I'm trying to work out if the phrase "like fanfic" means anything. If the Dresden Files read like fanfic, or if a TV show is like fanfic, is there meaning left to "like fanfic"?

Since I maintain it means "not officially part of the property" I am trying to get people to say they mean "sucks" and then ask them why not "like bad fanfic?" What's the real quality they're trying to identify?

So, I do not have CBS on my Time Warner cable because of a TW/CBS dispute. I am so pissed off and Beau is not happy because NFL pre-season starts in a week.

So on my list of to dos is to call Direct TV tomorrow and see when we can get tv.

Oooh, that sucks. But DirecTV is good for NFL games, that's for sure.

I know I've temporarily not had a few stations on occasion because of disputes, but CBS? That's hardcore.

Time Warner has been talking shit about them for weeks now, leading up to this. I don't think I watch anything on there in the summer--::searches for Under The Dome:: ::shrugs::

Does this sound right: my electric company has an issue with actually reading my meter, so they over/under charge me regularly, and have to keep adjusting my bills whenever they do actually read my meter. After one winter, I didn't have to pay my electric bill for almost five months with the credit I'd accrued.

This time I got a letter from some other company saying they'd absconded with my overcharge and that I had to write back to them to lay claim to my overcharge or else it would be given to the state.

This sounds like a scam, but I'm afraid it's legit. If it's legit, now I have to wait to get hundreds of dollars back, meanwhile, electric company keeps overestimating me and demanding high payments. Payback to me is long time coming, payout to electric company is needed immediately so my lights don't get turned off. And I don't have the kind of finances that can handle both!