Voila!

Wheee, iBook's back! They replaced the logicboard, along with wiping my hard drive and reinstalling 10.3. Which, y'know, sad, but everything important was backed up--fic folder is still intact. ;) I have to replace all the freeware I had (iJournal, WireTap, XNap, etc.), and the bajillions of figure skating photos, as well as whatever was in my "Random Fandom Downloads" folder...which I hadn't even opened in probably years, so maybe I won't try to replace that.

But anyway, hooray for saintly fathers who do the drudgework of installing all the non-freeware programs and loaning out laptops while mine is getting repaired! And now I can go and make all those icons that my brain thought up while I didn't have access to Photoshop...ooooh...

Literature of a sort

Pimping bogland_lit for any Irish Lit. fans out there. *eyes rowdycamels* It's brand new, but I think it could be interesting.

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Watched Cold Mountain tonight. Decent movie, if a little slow; it's hard to believe so much of it was filmed in Romania. It looked exactly like the southern Appalachians. I could swear I was up at some of the creeks just last week. ;) I ordinarily despise Renee Zellweiger, but she was tolerable, and pretty funny, in this one. Nicole Kidman had the perfect hick accent. Too bad her character was supposed to be from Charleston. *snerk* Although I guess we don't know how anyone sounded back in the 1860s, so I suppose all the accents should get a free pass. (And when I appointed myself arbiter of decent southern accents, I have no idea...) And hey, Alison Krauss! Woot!

Don't think I'll read the book, though. The story was...not entirely interesting. It reminded me of O Brother, Where Art Thou? with almost all the funny removed. (The fact that both are loosely based on the Odyssey of course has nothing to do with this.) I mostly liked the scenery. Oooh, pretty mountains.

Speaking of which, pictures! In the next post, anyway, which may be coming tonight, or possibly tomorrow. Depends on how long it takes to resize all my pics.