Doctor Who turned 46 today. Whoo-hoo!

I *FINALLY!* got a two-headed dragon egg! Whoo-hoo! I am ten types of happy right now.

Please clicky and make him/her grow big and strong?

and for yucks, I bred my tinies, and out popped

So yay.

I just walked into work yesterday, putting my stuff away in the back room. I overhear my manager (the winner) speaking to another bookseller: "What's the problem?... They're saying anti-semetic statements?... people are complaining? I'll go check it out... What is anti-semetic?" Me and the other two in the room: ::facepalm::

America, the Beautiful

I give you..

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies,
Insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountains majesty
above the asphalt plains

America, America,
man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines
with billboard signs
From sea to oily sea

Had another crap-tastic day at work, so this at least gave me some amusement today. :)

Don't know what they are doing, but the tag for the dragons are "this eggs smells like the autumn harvest"... and I got one! yay! I am awake at 1:05 am, and snagged one from the first batch. I am happy now. :)

isn't s/he cute? :)

Now I just have to snag a two-headed dragon!

I'm tired, I'm depressed, and my cognitive functions aren't working. I have 3 new dragons and no idea what to name them. Two deep sea dragons (shame I already used Poisedon's as names) and one water horse. Help me think of names?

Here they are in all their glory:

and, some new eggs to click (still no two-headed, damnit!):

Thanks!

Hopefully, they go to their proper place.

Still haven't gotten a two-headed dragon. I'm not loosing hope, just getting more and more "NEED IT!"

Not much. Between being sick and spending more time on the computer than is necessarily good for me, I have only read 4 books... and 2 of them were graphic novels. Hmph. And October isn't getting set up for a good month either... I'm starting to hate books. I really need to find a new job quickly. :(

The Guinea Pig Diaries, A J Jacobs
-Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia, Greg Rucka
-Wonder Woman: Love and Murder, Jodi Picoult
*Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card


And I read Ender's Game because that is my Yom Kippur book. Every year, during the break between services, I need something to do, and I always read that book. :)

L'Shana Tova Tikatayvu. To all my friends, family, and coworkers, I wish you all a happy and healthy New Year. I hope that you are inscribed in the book of life. I give my heartfelt apologies for all that I have done against you, and hope that for can forgive me for all my wrongdoings.

Also, I think my Rabbi is a Time Lord. He has that... weirdness about him.

Seriously, WTF??? A library without books???? Are they daft??? I want an e-book reader as much as the next person... but only because lugging 5 books everywhere I go gets tiresome. I would NEVER replace some plastic electronics that can easily break down with my real books. Why couldn't they keep the books, and just add the e-readers? Not every book the students will need will necessarily be floating around in e-space. And just wait until some computer whiz joker gets his hand on the e-readers and deletes everything. Also, why are there televisions in a library? Does that make sense to anyone?

I weep for our future.

I'm quietly waiting for a two-headed dragon head (anyone know what I should look for?) when I click on one egg to see what it was, forgetting that once I click, it's mine. So what do I do? Do it again.

and .

There's a chance I might get rid of them, depending on what they hatch to. Yeah, right.

I have 4 hatchlings, and they are so cute! and You know the drill.

Maybe someday soon I will put something on LJ that isn't about these dragons.

This is so beautiful. Sand art. Worth it.

http://videos.komando.com/2009/08/30/beautiful-sand-animation/

So I had the day off today. I got bored, which is always a bad thing.

I have four new eggs (one of them I already showed off, but here it is again):
and :)

And my 4 adults:
Ororo Storm:
Ares' Bane:
Elminster's Guard:
and Dorsal's Fin:


Why yes, I need to get out more, why do you ask? *g*

Probably will be named "Puddleglum". :)

I have now named 2 Adults. Rather un-original names, I will work on it for later dragons. Ororo Storms is my grey dragon (female) , and Ares' Bane is my firstborn, a black dragon (male). my other two hatchlings are both male, working on their names.

And yes, I know you all care. :)

I have a full grown dragon - I haven't named him yet, I doubt I can get "Fluffly". This means I'm going to have to actually think, and come up with a good name. And I still have 3 more hatchlings. Maybe I'll try to snag another egg today?

Books I have read this month ( And not all of them were graphic novels, yay! )

The last book I read this month was Robin Hood. Finished it at 9:45 last nite (I just finished my break, and was able to squeeze the ending out *g*) ( So here is where I share my 'observations' on the differences between the movies and the book. And no, I do not count 'Robin Hood: Prince of Dweebs' as one of the movies. Who would? )

Look at my baby. LOOK AT MAH BABEEE!!!! :) . {watch at everyone backs away slowly from me, saying "ooookay"} What? WHAT?????

Right. Moving on. Work story!

A brain trust walks up to me, "Do you have something, to put in the book, like a divider, when I stop reading halfway?"
Me: ::blink:: "A... bookmark?"
Him: "Is that what its called?"

Just for yuks, I decided to check on what type of dragons were in the wilderness (I seriously don't understand what this is all about, but its cute!). There's this one called a Guardian Dragon. And I wanted one. I wanted one bad. And I found an egg! So please please help me into making my Guarding Dragon a big strong guardian? Promise to lay off taking more for a while. At least 5 hours. :)

Decided to give this dragon growing thing a try. Wish me luck, and clicky the linky?



and

I'm at this used DVD store, not planning on buying anything, being very poor and all. Glancing at the Star Trek section they have, I see that they are selling season 1 of TNG. It's used, but I figure it's still going to be at least $50. I look. Its $35. For Star Trek. The Next Generation. Season 1. Hooray! $35 poorer, but oh, so happy.

This leads to a question. At work, we got into a little debate (we get bored and we work with words, okay?) - What is the level of hierarchy with these three words: dork, nerd, geek?

And: Is there a difference between a video game and a computer game?

We need to get out more at the bookstore.

First, Amazon delists any book dealing with a "gay" subject, including gay authors (and "Heather has Two Mommies), and they blame it on the french, and now this:

"Amazon's decision late last week to remove copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from its customers' Kindles sparked widespread controversy, anger among owners of the e-reader and irresistible opportunities for headline writers"
This is just one of many blogs about the same subject

I am so beyond furious with Amazon right now. Everytime I turn around, it seems they are doing something else to jerk people around. I understand that the copies of 1984 (and I know everyone here sees the similarities) were illegal, but the fact that Amazon just swooped in and deleted everyone's copy - some were in the middle of reading it! Amazon is claiming that they are "rethinking its strategy and 'in the future, it says it won't pull already downloaded material from customers' devices.'", but seriously. That's like me selling you a used copy of a book I have and Barnes and Noble coming over and taking it from you. The mere fact that they can delete the books from your kindle makes me feel like it is borrowing the book instead of buying the book.

I was never going to buy from Amazon again after the gay authors/books debacle, but this just really cinched it for me. I am done.