LJ? Stop That.

[la_rainette]

What? What? I am away for 3 days, and the layout changes? I am NOT pleased, LJ. Not pleased at all. Also, terrylj , the lovely don't panic icon was gone before I had the time to copy it! Wah!

So. We've had a good week-end. A very busy week end, with scenic routes, wine tasting, prettily lit cities seen from far up, the Niagara Falls seen from deep down (Froglet: "NO! I'm not taking the boat that goes in the shower again!"), and it's been altogether grand.

Husband went to the school presentation thing (I stayed with our guests, who are mainly my friends - not that they don't like Husband, but they've known me for longer that they've known him - quite considerably so since they were the first people to babysit me ever and still fondly remind me of how they gave me a bath when I was 3 weeks old), and the good news is the teacher is to have a full-time assistant in Froglet's class.

In other good news, Froglet is unimpressed with Bobo-the-Terror anyway.

Froglet: Bobo tried to beat me today.
la rainette: WHY? WHAT HAPPENED?
Froglet: We played soccer, I was in Olivier's team, and Bobo was in the other team...
la rainette: yes?
Froglet: and Bobo's team was much bigger than ours...
la rainette: YES???
Froglet: and we won, thirteen nil. And then Bobo wanted to hit me, but I ran ROCKET FAST and he couldn't catch up...
la rainette: Oh.
Froglet *contemptuous* He can't run ROCKET FAST, he's too little. He's not 5 yet, and I am *draws herself up importantly* 5 and a half.

Unimpressed, I tell you. And it's not like she won't meet other sore losers in her life.

In other, less good news, am so tired I can't see straight. *yawns*

Comments

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Photobucket is down again...it worked wonderfully for the first four months I used it, and then it's had something like four major outages in the last couple of months. Hopefully it (and the icon) will return shortly!

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D Oh, OK, it happens. I hope it does return shortly, too (had planned on making a little photoalbum of the girls and share with friends).

Who's that toadish guy in your icon?

And how's work?...

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

That's Nero Wolfe, armchair detective and gourmet extraordinaire, star of zillions of books by Rex Stout. Excellent reading if you like your murder off-screen, your detective intelligent and obnoxious, and your narrator cheerfully sarcastic. And if you don't mind what is pretty obviously a misogynistic (sp?) mindset on the part of the author.

The icon is courtesy of copperbadge

Work is a joke...I'm getting a paycheck for drinking way too much coffee, checking LJ obsessively and organizing three years worth of digital photos. Not that it didn't need doing, but really.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that what he's supposed to look like?

Eeek.

I like the icon muchly, though, if simply because, hey, great big ugly toady guy saying EW! in elegant German! Neat! Do you think Sam would object if I borrowed it? (And would you?)

I might want to give it a try, thanks for the recommendation. Am right now halfways through a quite fabulous Victorian uh, lesbian story with a dickensian take and fabulous plot twists: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. Hugely enjoyable, as she is a wonderful story-teller with interesting characters.

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

He's supposed to weigh "a seventh of a ton"--roughly 286 lbs., if my math is in working order; and he's very rarely ever pleased with anything...so yeah, I guess that's what he's supposed to look like.

Is he really saying "Ew!" in German? I had no idea. That's cool. That's the way that Rex Stout spells it when Wolfe says it, although when Archie (the extremely American narrator) says it, it's spelled "phooey", a slang term roughly meaning, "I am not pleased about this, but it's not worth a real curse word."

I doubt Sam would mind at all; it was up in one of his weekly icon offerings a while back, and even though I always ask for confirmation before taking, I understand that unless marked otherwise, those are all up for grabs. And I certainly don't mind.

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks, I'll ask Sam and if he's OK I'll grab it.

One seventh of a ton is A LOT! It's funny, I think I know the TV show, but I've never read anything - wasn't there a TV show with Nero Wolfe? (Or am I utterly mistaken) Do you remember who played Nero Wolfe?

He does say Ew in German. :D Which is why I love that icon so much - I mean, I have a "Ew" family: Ew is tadpole's favourite word in the entiore world, and Froglet has her own personal earthworm (called mon chéri, my darling) and saves cockroaches (which is a big EW thing for me...) . I'll have a look in his icon gallery, see if I can scare it up, or else I'll just drop him a comment somewhere.

Here's wat Amazon.com says:

[gracklegirl.livejournal.com]

Nero Wolfe brought Rex Stout's eccentric private investigator and his dapper legman, Archie Goodwin, into a jaunty and irreverent detective series for cable channel A&E in the spring of 2001. ...above all the tempestuous, symbiotic, and highly entertaining relationship between Wolfe (Maury Chaykin), a corpulent recluse who grows orchids and analyzes clues from a distance, and the acerbic knight-errant, Goodwin (Timothy Hutton, also an executive producer on the series), Wolfe's underpaid eyes and ears on the world.

I liked that show.

Re: Here's wat Amazon.com says:

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

Wow, thank you, sounds like a great show... :D (Although I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it. I guess I should give it a try, or better still, read a novel :D )