Mmm, Two Towers.

Around 2230, left for Centreville, got to the theater around 2245, met Nathan, bought my ticket, and we went to the Shark Club, a classy pool hall a few minutes away. (Fortunately, I'd changed into nicer clothes before heading out. :) Played a game and a half--I won the first, we decided he was closer to winning the second--had a couple pints of Guinness, he asked the server and the cashier for their numbers, was told twice, "I have a boyfriend", and back to the theater we went.

Most of the previews looked good-to-decent. The movie, well, wow. Damn fine work from one end to the other. I read the books a year ago, so I don't really remember the divergences, and thus they don't bother me. I don't care that part of book two will be in movie three; they're really a continuum of movies, much like the books were one long story. (However, Matt's synopsis of "we're running.. we're running.. we're fighting.. we're running.." has some merit. And now that I've seen it, someone needs to direct me back to that parody that's on LJ somewhere, that many people mentioned earlier.)

It got damn chilly out, we found upon leaving the theater. Also discovered that it only takes me 10 minutes to drive home with no traffic, obeying the speed limit, even.

And it's windy enough to be blowing recycling around the yard. Ah well.

LiveJournal "Analasys"

The fact that "Analysis" was misspelled in every occurrence on page and code didn't bode well for this thing, which I saw in blaisepascal's and cawfetalk's journals.

( The Analysis )

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My response:

I do indeed have an Early Adopter account. If they did a little research, they could find out when Paid accounts came into existence and not guess.

It doesn't matter whether I tell it 118 friends (people only) or 165 (people and communities), it still says "that's a lot! you can't possibly be reading all of those." In fact, I do read all of every personal journal I've listed as a friend, and most of the non-photo communities, with the exception of a bit of skimming if I'm pressed for time.

Related to the above, it doesn't differentiate between personal journals and communities, probably because the user would have to manually do some math to count for that.

An individual-friends:friends-of ratio of 1.29 isn't particularly high. I don't add people randomly--I only add after reading back a lot first--and I don't advertise my journal or expect addbacks--nor should people expect addbacks from me.

I very rarely post webquizzes, and don't post "with every moodswing".

"Comments-received per post per friend" is almost necessarily going to be low. "This may seem low to you, especially if you have lots of friends" is misleading--of course it's going to be lower the more friends you have.

No analysis of "average comments per day" to see how crazy you are about posting comments.

"The higher the ratio, the more talkative you are compared to your friends, comment-wise" is a crappy analysis.

They should really spell "analysis" right. And title the document. And provide contact information.

Tearing up floors is noisy.

The contractors are currently in the next couple rooms, tearing up first the floor edging, then the carpet (family room) and linoleum (kitchen, front hall, powder room), and then the thin wood underlayer--that last part's noisy. The table saw outside used to cut the new wood panels to fit is loud, too.

Currently, all the furniture and stuff from the aforementioned rooms is in either the new room (on the section that's already been floored) or the living room. (Note that that means no kitchen table/chairs and no TV. :P) The new room is almost finished--all that's left is finishing the floor, hooking up the heating ducts and electricity in the basement, and a few finishing touches. Looks nice. :)

LJ, work, and hardwood floors.

In nifty LiveJournal news:

Duplicate posting bug fixed!

Future possibility of watching journals w/o friending them.

In My Day news:
Not much. Worked 3-10:30, though the last 45min or so were sitting around, chatting, and waiting for Ross to tell us to clock out and go home. And apparently due to some inadvertent phone activity--a guy calling after hours accidentally got hung up on--we have an irate hick coming into the store tomorrow to call corporate to complain--he didn't want to wait for Ross to get off the other line, and he doesn't want to talk to a female manager tomorrow, because he's a bigot. But I don't work tomorrow, so it's ok.

Family room and kitchen now sport nice hardwood floors; I suppose the front hall will get done tomorrow. And I'm hungry, which is easy enough to fix, even if I don't have a kitchen table to use. Ooh.. suppose I should bring in the mail. Mom always does that.
...the toilet is still on the front porch where it was put during floor-removal earlier. Noticed that coming in, then forgot. However, I'm not motivated enough to bring it in out of the cold. Also, the sealant-rimmed hole in the floor makes interesting noises when upstairs toilets are flushed.