Nattering While I Have A Man In
Oct. 13th, 2006 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadnanWorking at home as I currently have a Man putting a water meter in. He seems a bit gormless but sufficiently competent.
To be honest I've been working at home a lot this week, largely because almost every morning I have woken up at 8.45 at the earliest feeling vaguely crappy. Presumably some kind of low-level virus. Unfortunately the risk of working at home is that although my library still lives in my office there nevertheless isn't a great deal of competition between, on the one hand, trying to construe an appallingly complicated clause in an A&M Settlement, and on the other livejournal, various boards, the interwebtype thing in general, and Buffy season 4. Yes, I know season 4, the Riley season, is generally not very good, but there is the saving grace of Spike to keep me going through that. Besides, I'm watching my way through the entire box set in order, it would be cheating to skip.
As loads of people have commented, ljchat has finally gone live, though since the beta has been happily working for ages this doesn't seem particularly special to me. The slightly odd thing is the little green buttons giving the option to IM or call which show up on the profile page when you are logged in to ljtalk. Seems to be a slight lack of thought on that one: first of all when I hit either of those buttons I get an error message because my system doesn't recognise the "gizmoljtalk protocol", unsurprisingly so since no one has ever told it about any such thing (how would I tell ubuntu/gnome/epiphany about it, anyone?). Secondly, despite what it says there is no point whatsoever in trying to call me through this, even though I am logged in and can be IMed, because I am logged in on Gaim which doesn't as yet have voice capability, and the client they are pushing doesn't appear to be available for linux yet: they need to change it so it doesn't assume that if you can be IMed you can be called. I suppose Ekiga would work but frankly I can't be arsed to try.
Ho hum. The Meter Man appears to have disappeared. I hope he hasn't been clamped. Oh, here he is. Hooray, I have a water meter. How long before I start putting bricks in the loo cistern I wonder.
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Date: 2006-10-14 08:26 am (UTC)I liked Season 4. OK, so not as much Faith (who is excellent and whose reappearance I'm eagerly awaiting), but I found the Initiative fascinating, and didn't have a problem with Riley. Why do so many Buffy fans have such antipathy towards Buffy's all-American beefcake boy? Sure, he's a bit earnest and cheesy, but in her earlier incarnation as teen queen cheerleader, he'd have been just the sort of guy you'd expect her to date.
Me, I found Season 5 much weaker. I'd take Riley over the irritating, ghastly Glory any day. With you on Spike, though. Heh. Something about him has always vaguely reminded me of
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Date: 2006-10-14 06:17 pm (UTC)Glory, I'm finding, I rather like. But I'm always sorta drawn to evil people. Plus she's got good shoes, and I'm vapid enough to find that interesting.
On the Spike/Liadnan note - I suspect that's just the idea of the accent (albeit entirely the wrong one). Although I'd put down good money to see him in the haircut.
Spike/Liadnan
Date: 2006-10-15 01:27 am (UTC)Re: Spike/Liadnan
Date: 2006-10-15 03:59 am (UTC)Re: Spike/Liadnan
Date: 2006-10-18 10:41 pm (UTC)Re: Spike/Liadnan
Date: 2006-10-18 10:58 pm (UTC)I'm officially broken-hearted that I'm up to a point where Giles has left ... I'm now deeeeeeeep into Season Six. And racing to finish the thing, 'cause I'm dying to know what happens. It annoys me that things like "work" keep getting in my way.