One of the *happy* consequences of my picking an outside source instead of the lbirary for my next story idea is that it will probably give me an opportunity to bring a few books down Mexico way with me, giving me an alternative to taking whatever is on the Tube down there.

Good thing I called off my meeting with SpecialK tommorow, as I'll be starting in the wee hours. At first, it was supposed to be today, but the new person in charge of the development side net-wise is a grade-A moron. I can't believe no one else in the hierarchy has remarked upon the fact. For exemple, 

* An implementation a couple of weeks was cancelled because the guy didn't think to plan it.

* Instead of going to meetings to set up the priorities, he asks his developers to send e-mails to my boss and boss' bosses telling them that some things are ready to be tested and why isn't there any one working on this.

* He does't read his e-mails, so he can ask multiple times for a status on some thing that was released a few weeks back.

One good thing came out of yesterday. It seems I'm on a real Indian tear these days as I found a new Tandoori-flavoured Doritos. While the fusion of Indian cuisine and Nachos is a bit alien for me, I have to admit I liked it. It's got lots of heat and yet you can taste the difference brought by the spices.

My first MtG Tarot pick at the office with my alternate site is WIZARD'S SCHOOL. Interesting.

Not much to say on this Friday but:

* Works is so-so, will probably even more iffy next week.

* I provided my good friend SpecialK with what I called the ultimate hall pass to help her get out of work early. It's not illegal, much. Hell, I may even add this to my projects when it becomes declassified.

* And now my weekly pool report.

Not really in the mood for a WTC-post, although the memories are still lingering me, fanned no doubt by the media tidal wave to "celebrate" the 5^th anniversary of the attacks...

Instead, I have begun reading a lot about the Jon Benet Ramsey case. With the comedy of errors linked to Karr's involvement (was it that hard to do a DNA testing at the beginning to dismiss it? ), my (morbid) curiosity was aroused to look into it.

The recent circumstances leading me to become such a scandal-worthy news whore has led me to draw interest to a juicy story such as this. While I to just "copy-paste" the story in my ongoing project, one has to admit that the latest chapter to this a very interesting twist that I will add to my growing array of anecdotes, news clippings and other old wives' tales.

In other news, my day off Friday at least went without a hitch. Thank goodness for small favours...

MtG-tarot-wise, I've drawn WEATHERSEED FAERIES, which, aside from a mention of protection against the Red energies, has little or no siginificant meaning for me at this time...

It finally arrived!!! Yesterday, in my e-mail, I just got my invite to open an account on Vox, the new "shiny" blog portal part of SixApart. You can find the link in the appropriate section.

Contrary to my other forays and endeavours in the blog world, I really want to commit myself to maintain this new blog as it's part of the same "family" as Livejournal.

Of course, this would imply some changes in my posting habits. For simplicity's sake, I will outline them here.

It all starts Friday.

In other news, I finally managed to schedule a day off even with all the upcoming vacations of my colleagues depleting the department. I chose August 14th, which will be perfect for me, because this will be my first post after my new story selection. 

MtG-wise, I lucked out and managed yet again to pass the firewalls and draw RIMEWIND CRYOMANCER. 
Considering the current weather and the imagery of a "fire"wall, I find entirely appropriate.

gentlesatyr

MtG-wise, something unexpected this way comes... The Fates (in the form of BigMediaCo's IT department) has declared the site which I used to draw my card to be verboten. There are some ways I can get around this, but expect more oddball selections from now on.

With all the violent thunderstorms the region has experienced in the past few days, I found a silver lining to help me go through it.

Since I wasn't interested in getting soaking wet just so I could (maybe) find something of interest in my data gatherings and since I didn't find anything of interest on the web (websites about Volunteering???, not my cup of tea), I decided instead to visit the Long-Eye library, where I could get the data equivalent of fast-food. That is bland, but filling fare.

Imagine my surprise when I found a D&D book I haven't read yet. Sure, it's a couple of years old but, as luck would have it, I never got to pick anything from the Forgotten Realms' Faith & Pantheons when it was released.

It might fill like a case of "too little, too late" since I have decided to move to my mundane sources but still I could not pass the occasion, rare as it is, to pick up a "new" book. After reading it last night, I already have an idea for what would constitute my penultimte pantheon (patterned from the main gods of Faérun) (Baine, Chauntea, Elistraee (after all, I already have info from her from other sources), Gond, Ilmater, Kelemvar, Kossuth, Lathandre, Lolth, Malar, Mystra, Oghmar, Shar, Shaundakul, Sylvanus, Talor, Tempus, Tyr, Umberlie).

This is not a definitive list and aside from one or two which I have already decided to add, there are no certainties I will retain all of these. Besides, if I remain with "Jack Meower", I don't think cats are polytheistic, anyway.

As for my MtG card-of-the-day, I have taken SKYWING AVEN. Not a good mix with god-worshipping cats...

Sometimes, you come across something from the past and you help but keep thinking back to it.

Lately, this has come because I have seen the video for "You Got Me" on TV (which I haven't seen in a long while). Seeing the video again with his "recently deceased person seeing everyone else dead" POV and the lyrics (see below) which spoke of giving in to trusting your loved ones, no matter the odds, had been a favourite (if currently neglected) song of mine. 

While I remembered Erykah Badu, I had forgotten that Eve also lended her voice to the song. 

This is only the second time I have a song coming up on my Yahoo! station that is also on my current mp3 playlist, so I feel that I should include the lyrics if only to spark the memories of those who would come to read them...

As for my card of the day, CHRONATOG, I guess it's the "chron" aspect and not the atog that I should concentrate, especially with this post