In good news,I've found somewhere that I can slance Internet and power from while I wait for my home Internet to be set up.

Bad news is that said Internet connection hates dreamwidth and livejournal so the only updates forthcoming will be text only ones.

Because HMV had a foreign films sale, I managed to get Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance for £7.99 ($13.55/ 14.41 AusD). Which is totally for the win because 1 - I <3 Park Chan-wook's directing and 2) Lady Vengeance is his best film. I would recommend it thorough, with the caveat of read the warnings.

On top of that, while I was on Amazon looking to buy 'Rewind The Film' and 'Futurology', I spotted Rome, seasons 1 & 2, on sale for £17 ($29/ 31 AusD), so I snapped that up, because that's been £60 within the last two years and therefore totally counts as a bargain.

That was about it as far as successful shopping missions go. It turns out I didn't need a new phone, I'd just accidentally blocked my Mum's phone (which I will hear the end of some time after doomsday), Next hadn't shipped the dress I wanted to try on to all their shops yet and I still can't fit into a size 14. Actually, it's possible that my waist can but my thighs definitely can't so I am left with the fencer's problem of trying to find nice belts because our waists and thighs are out of proportion. That or menswear and I suspect New Look are having a sale ...

Windows 8 continues to be unusable though.

And it's going to take time for me to get used to the new keyboard. Is it just me or are modern keyboards much flatter than old ones?

So my laptop has basically died on me ('master table data file is corrupted' is never a good sign) so I won't be around for a bit.

I've finally been able to find out which page on my website caused such grievous offence. Basically, I'd been told my ban was for explicit content.

So was it any amount of PWPs I'd put up there? Was it some of my more explicit smut fics? Did someone take offence to a given sex scene?

No, the page causing the bother was my 50 Kinky Ways index page which basically looks like this -http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/305309.html

So yeah, of all the pages that could have caused upset, that was not the one I was expecting.

So Tripod have, for the time being, kicked me off their website for suspicious content, despite me having disclaimered everything up the wazoo. So suggestions for other website hosting places are gratefully received.

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Let's not get into the building management company still not getting back to me 4 days after I asked them something. There shall be phone calls on Monday.

My beloved work computer is working again after having a hard drive failure. Never leave me again my darling.

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Revenge, quite sensibly didn't try to beat the Seven Devils sequence from last year's finale. ( Not that it didn't do things again )

Damn it, managed to accidentally wipe my Dr. Who tag while trying to change it's name.

I see LJ have changed the graphic you see if someone makes an LJ cut. I think I like it even if I don't understand why they've done it.

Shakespeare Meme - Day #13: Your favorite romantic scene

I shall have to go with the obvious, which is the bit in Act 1, Scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet where it's all

Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.

Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

Romeo: Then move not while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg'd.

Kisses her.

Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
Give me my sin again.

And so on, it's the most ridiculously over-the-top thing ever, and perfectly fitting the characters. Teenagers, never change.

I've gone with this because I've been told promising to kill your best friend is not a romantic gesture (also, it reflects badly on Benedick that Claudio is his best friend), and most of Viola's pronouncements don't work written down. The bit at the end of Hamlet, Act five scene 2, from 'I am dead, Horatio' to 'And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest', breaks me every time, but how romantic it is varies with version. Macbeth's act five, scene five soliloquy is heartbreaking, and Lady Macbeth's death is the point where Macbeth dies, the rest of it is just his body catching up with him. I might not like chunks of the rest of it, but the Peter Hall/ Ian McKellen Macbeth is my favourite version of this scene.

( Other Days )

This makes me very happy, because I have missed you all. I enjoy things more when I talk to my friends about them.

I think that's one of the reasons I won't be jumping ship, you are all here, and I'm in this journaling malarky to interact with you. Blogging always makes me think I'm shouting into the void, and I think you all know why I don't do Dreamwidth. None of this means, by the by, that if you (plural you) switch, I won't still follow you, but I could do with a link.

Now, to double check that LJ have kept the Russian political blogs that were the targets and to give them some money if they have.