Hollywoodland

I’m feeling the urge to hit iTunes and buy a bunch of ’80s tunes…. like the above-mentioned song from Blondie.

All the steampunk talk is making me want to redecorate my bedroom/office/sitting room (yes, I cram a lot of use into one room) in a more Victorian style. Some of my furniture would work fine, I think. My bed and TV cabinet, for instance. My desk and most of my bookcases, way too streamlined. Need to frou-frou them up….

There is absolutely nothing on tonight. No new Eureka, no new Psych. Nada. Zip. Zilch. The downside of holiday weekends. But, hey, I’ll be able to catch up with recorded shows, right? Right!

Read through and tweaked eight pages last night. Some of it’s quite good, I think. Some other parts… not so much.

Reading: Not quite finished with Decked yet. Should finish it up tonight and move on to the next book in the series.

You all know I’ve become fascinated by the idea of steampunk. But I’m a total amateur compared to others. Some people try to live a steampunk life.

Electro Iconograph (it’s actually a case for a digital camera)

A media room that looks like Captain Nemo’s Nautilus

A portable difference engine (I’m not going to tell you what this one is, you have to see it for yourself. And I want one!!!)

Fun Leverage last night. Favorite line (Sophie giving advice to Parker): “Say nothing and trust the diamond.” Which makes very little sense out of context, I know, but it was really funny in the show.

Tonight, the only thing on is Special Ops Mission.

Read through and tweaked about seven pages last night.

Reading: Last night I read Indigo Dying by Susan Wittig Albert. Another good installment in the China Bayles series. And then I started reading Decked by Carol Higgins Clark. I’ve read it before but it’s been awhile. And now I have my very own personal copy! The first four books in the Regan Reilly series were released last year with special pricing. I only discovered this recently, however, and snapped them up.

I saw the above phrase in a newsletter I get from Mother Nature Network. I was a bit startled, to say the least. Butterflies dangerous? Huh? But it turns out The Dangerous World of Butterflies is the title of a new book.

Well, we got the legs attached to my desktop (which previously sat atop two file cabinets) yesterday. The downside, it’s now all kind of wobbly. Not sure how we’re going to solve that problem. Now to work on actually rearranging the furniture….

I don’t want to go into details in case some of you haven’t seen it yet, but I found last night’s W13 kind of disturbing. And not in a good way.

But tonight it’s Wipeout, Ghost Hunters and Leverage.

Read through and tweaked seven pages last night.

Reading: Finished up Medusa and started, barely, The Ghost and the Femme Fatale by Alice Kimberly. Bookstore owner Penelope McClure is once again solving a murder with the help of ghostly P.I. Jack Shepard.