Well that's two good things accomplished anyway

Wow, that's an old icon.

Y'all. Today. Y'all. (well okay technically yesterday, but shush.) Not even all of it; the beginning bit started out well enough but then there was having to leave work early to catch the CDH lab before it closed and then once I got there it was super crowded and I ended up waiting there for 45 minutes under meat-locker strength air conditioning so by the time I got called all my veins (which are tiny and squirrelly to start with) had all fled deep into my arms and hands. I got stuck twice, nothing. So... I have to go back later on this week to repeat this process. Yay. Also ow. My left hand's been aching all evening since.

But on the good side, not only do I again have proper headmeds again, I witnessed an adorable pair of bros waiting at the lab. I saw adorable only because one had some serious needle fear and was Freaking Out, and his friend kept putting his hand on his friend's back being all like "Yo. Man, I'll be right here. It's all gon' be okay, man." D'aww.

Of course just when the day was starting to look back up a bit I opened up Squeeeee to do some web work downstairs and to my horror saw the screen had been reduced to a small network of spider thin cracks through which that black goop in LCD screens was leaking. Y'all... I might have howled in anguish. Yes, it's a cheap secondhand netbook that was already a little broken and dodgy on one side from a long ago instance of being jumped on by Lil'Beast, but... but it's my netbook! My faithful traveling companion these two years, though admittedly not so much since the recent wave of iThings. I might have been "Worst day ever" inconsolable after that but after poking about on the web I found a replacement display for a lot less than replacing the whole netbook, so next paycheck I'ma see about getting one of those ordered. Because WAH.

It's much cooler tonight than it has been so I spent a good part of the evening tinkering with my website, and a little while ago realized you know what? it ain't perfect at all, but it's perfectly launchable. So I did. Weird having a working website again.... www.anagramofbrat.net, if you're curious. Again, not perfect, and I'll be continuing to tweak and poke at it for a while yet, but aside from that, I'm pretty pleased with it.

And now... bed.

Things learned today (a bullet list)

• It is possible to give yourself a raging headache from going in and out of environments with vastly different temperatures/humidities. Today post 4:45 ranged from meatlocker, to sticky to SAUNA back to sticky to stuffy to sticky to chilly to sticky to ANTARCTIC and back to sticky. Am currently in the upstairs of our house because my nails are still blue. :(
  
  
• Four people around a table make for highly entertaining discussions about science fiction movies.
  
  
• Apparently my, er, our doctor's office is now noting down number, type and names of pets in medical charts. Okay.
  
  
• I apparently spend a good chunk of the day after doing anything major with my website camping my visitor stats. They often reveal surprising information, like how many of you are actually still checking your LJ friends lists even though you haven't posted in four years. Also that there are still a few folks actively checking my LJ even though they don't have accounts themselves. (and due to IP tracking I have a pretty good idea of who you are, too.) Wellp. Um, hi everyone!
  
  
• I don't miss the PVTA. That said, the trip home from Northampton on it passes significantly faster now that I have an internet-anywhere device in my pocket.
  
  
• apparently this is what my email metadata between now and 2009 looks like.
  
  
  
  This is the result of an MIT project called Immersion. (immersion.media.mit.edu) All the varying size dots are someone I've emailed. Obviously, the bigger the dot, the more emails there are. Since it also tracks things like reply-alls and CCs, it can pick out relationships between your dots and make little clusters out of the ones that seem to be interconnected. I'm rather fascinated by my clusters... you can probably figure out the big blue dot and from there the orange, blue and green clusters; the red one off to the side is kind of a wildcard group, but an interesting one.
  
  
• People get FROGGY with you when you gently point out that Channing Tatum may be of Sontaran descent.
  
  
  
  Clearly at least one person out in the greater internet agrees with me, cause I didn't make that graphic.

Note to self - sometime soon I need to post a ramble about beading, belly dance, appropriation, and liking problematic things. Not tonight tho.


ETA: I apparently learned something else - I need to make some apple touch icons, apparently.