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Well, THAT'S fucking lovely. The water main that feeds into my and the surrounding apartment complexes broke and the city has given a tentative repair time of "before tomorrow morning". So no toilet beyond the first flush, no shower and no dishwasher or laundry that would use water off the main rather than from my water heater.

Fucking lovely.

::fume::

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On a note totally unrelated to the previous post, today was finally cold enough that I had my first cup of hot tea for the season. A green tea with spearmint blend from Mighty Leaf Teas, unarguably my favorite tea company.

I'm also have some frozen chicken tenderloins in the fridge thawing and I'm going to cook them up either tomorrow evening, Friday or Saturday, depending on when they thaw out completely.

Thinking of food and drink, what are some of your favorite make-em-yourself meals? I'd like to hear about anything from as simple as a sandwich and soda to a home-cooked 7 course meal (though I'm likely to be quite intimidated in the later case).

Beowulf: The Abominationing

So these ads for Beowulf...

Do they scream "horrible flop of a tragedy" to anyone else or is it just me?

When they're advertising it as "the latest evolution of 3D" instead of, you know, anything of real value? I consider that a bad sign. Especially since, with all that supposedly spectacular new technology, the CGI effects in the ads are still so godawful bad compared to the true cutting edge stuff that my eyes are stuck in a permanent spin cycle.

A single example: bubbles are not perfectly spherical, nor are they the size of marbles and just as unyielding.

Or, to put it another way, based solely on their ads (since I haven't seen either), the SciFi Channel made-for-tv-movie Grendel looked better.

Yeah.