The Grand Schemes of Kensie Connor

…and I want to fit in a trip this year before it’s a) too hot and b) too wet. It’s supposed to be a much better year weather-wise but I’m thinking Murphy’s Law – if I don’t go something will happen, if I do go, it’ll be ok. Anyway, I’m hoping to get a bit of a group going, although I know that’ll probably be tough on short notice.

Edit [again, had to switch dates for a conflict]- since we’re flying on points, we’ve set a date already. We’ll be in NOLA from Wednesday July 5th – Monday July 10th. Any and all hangers on are welcome!

At times like these, when I’m cleaning up the spill from my husband’s cup that he knocked over (apparently I’d been asked to take it to the kitchen earlier) I can’t help but wish he’d leave me for his secretary. Then I realize that’s me. *sigh*

Alright, so most people’s kids have heard them swearing, so when the little ones drop oh say, the “f-bomb” at home, you don’t freak out too much, especially if you know they don’t do it around other people. Well, Gwen, our 5-year-old for those of you unfamiliar, was getting very frustrated when Battlefront II wasn’t working on the kids’ profile. It would seem to load, but the sounds weren’t playing, and if you tried to enter the training, it would just exit the program. After a few rounds of this, she started:

“Holy fuck-a-moly!”

The first time I snickered quietly and decided to ignore it, seeing how she never swears. The second time I had to ask if she’d heard it somewhere or made it up herself, she is quite creative after all. At first her answer was that she made it up, but then after a little while (and another use of it) she remembered where she heard it.

“Actually, I heard it on Berenstein Bears.”

…

“No, honey, you heard holy guacamole on Berenstein Bears.”

“Oh.”

Ahh, little ears!

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Note to those concerned about my daughter’s sailor mouth – after one or two more variations she received the admonishment in the title and switched to crud.

Leave it to Mike’s cat to be the one that walks across the keyboard producing results that no one else seems to be able to. This happened once before with oWirc. I even went to the oWirc help channel and described the view changes, no one knew what the hell happened.

This time she is hacking Firefox. I don’t think this is a known issue, but either way I can’t report it because, well frankly, my steps to reproduce are:

1. Buy a cat.
2. Wait for it to walk across the keyboard.

I’ve tried bashing the keys she was definitely on, I’ve tried bashing all the keys (although she never triggered find as you type, so that limits what she was touching a great deal). I’ve tried holding downs specific keys alone and in combination. I just cannot produce the dialog seen here.

I took the screenshot, clicked cancel and there was another IDENTICAL dialog underneath. I’m fairly certain they’re Firefox related and not windows related because they were both underneath the carat browsing dialog that can be seen when you hit F7. I’m sure I clicked no, but carat browsing was on after I dismissed everything.

Anyone have any ideas?

Having been born under the sign of Aquarius, I’m fairly open to believing anything is possible until it’s proven impossible. This would of course include astrology. I hang out regularly at the Blochworld forums – Bloch being a manufacturer of dance products – and today someone was bored and posted a link to an astrological page she came across. It’s a very good site and has the most comprehensive personality analysis I’ve seen anywhere yet. I was going to just paste parts that I thought especially applied to me, but it is very long, and it all applies. Even the parts that are typically Aquarian that don’t apply to me, they mention the atypical behaviour that suits me to a tee – I’ll let you figure out which of those cases apply, and which don’t, for yourself.

Whether you believe in astrology or not, if you want to know anything about me, look no further than here: http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/library/names/zodiac/acquarius.htm#_Toc6672050

This week my brother had been visiting to go to soccer camp with Gryphon as they’re only 2.5 years apart. We took him home today and found ourselves stuck in traffic, so we rolled down the windows and cranked the radio. Big Sugar was the CD playing and Mike turned around and asked Rowan if he liked the blues. Gryphon responded before Rowan could:

“Yeah, but the blues were eliminated and the yellows won.”

So today the Mikes had a Toronto meeting, the Mikes being mconnor, shaver and beltzner. I tagged along to do some shopping and drinking with the boys (although there was a lot less drinking going on than I was led to believe!) and sat in on some of it. At some point the discussion turned to embarrassing/funny pictures and I mentioned a great one of mconnor that we used to have on our old old old webspace. Mike didn’t believe me that our stuff was still up there so I gave him a url to something that I knew would work. Unfortunately I completely forgot which pictures were which. Suffice it to say everyone got to see an old pic I made with a best friend as an April Fool’s joke where we’re in pseudo S+M gear (think goth club wear) and I have her by a leash. Mconnor had just been thinking to himself “I wonder if either of the other guys typed in that url” when shaver let out a nice loud “whoa, what’s this?” and promptly turned his screen to beltzner.

Top THAT Mountain View 😉

P.S. If I know you I’ll show you the picture.

I don’t know if anyone reads this, let alone has tried to comment, but it was recently discovered that the comment function was broken. I have no idea for how long, but it’s fixed now!