TV ate my life

I love Traders more every episode I see.

( I wouldn't bother clicking here )

I am so tired I have no idea what I have just written! I should really stop watching episodes in the middle of the night and then writing about them when I know I'm not even going to make sense to myself. Sorry! Maybe I will make sense in the morning. Myabe I should watch an episode in the morning...

I've been very good. I only watched three of the Atlantis episodes on the DVD. Rising (1+2, but they're joined together) and Hide and Seek. And Hide and Seek I watched in German. Which was pretty bizarre, because Sheppard and Beckett's voices are just wrong. McKay, Weir, Teyla and Ford (though he didn't have many lines so I didn't really notice) all seemed to sound the same. Well, except that the were speaking German, obviously. But Sheppard and Beckett's voices seemed too deep. I guess if I hadn't heard it in English I wouldn't notice, but it really bugged me! Oh well, not like I was planning on doing a lot of watching it in German anyway!
I'd forgotten how good Rising was. Or maybe I never realised in the first place. I rarely enjoy first episodes because I don't know the characters yet. Anyway, either way, I enjoyed it this time! Not many extras on the disk though, unfortunately. But there is a ten minute behind the scenes type thing that is pretty hilarious!

Those watched, I then wrote perian's latest Traders ep onto a disk and watched that. (I said I'd do something constructive. That counts, right? Making a VCD?) A very DH light ep, but pretty cool anyway. I'm not going to ramble about it tonight though, because to be honest I was half asleep when I watched it, I'm half asleep now, and I doubt I'd make any sense! Tomorrow though, expect some rambling! (fair warning?)

One thing though. Jack moved in with Grant and Donald. Now, midway through the first season, I was seeing some slash potential between Jack and Donald, (like maybe in the ep Rumours?) but I ignored it because I was too busy watching Grant. I don't know for how long, but now we've got all three of them living together, I wonder if... No. Better not.

I've been picking away at this story changing a few words here and there for the last few days, but I don't think it's really making any difference. This is as good at it's gonna get. So here it is. Tell me what you think. Even if you think it's awful.

TITLE: Even Numbers
AUTHOR: prepare4trouble
CATEGORY: Traders. Romance(ish), Preslash
SPOILERS: Everything up to 'The Big Picture', really. But mostly just 'Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth' and 'The Big Picture'
PAIRING: Grant Jansky/Donald D'Arby
RATING: PG-13 (I think. I don't quite get the US ratings!)
WARNINGS: Preslash
SUMMARY: Grant and Donald sort out their feelings about each other and Magda
DISCLAIMER: Obviously, I don't own Traders. It would be very cool if I did though!
NOTES: Starts at the end of 'The Big Picture' where Grant is on the computer talking to Magda

( Even Numbers )

Okay, i feel the need to ramble on about Traders. Again. I've just seen the first ep of series 3 (thank you perian!) and since I don't know anyone remotely interested in hearing me go on and on, here's the best place for it.

( If you do want to read it... )

Okay, I've lost track of what I'm doing now. I'm exhausted and about to fall asleep, so I guess I'd best go to bed before I do. I will probably ramble more tomorrow about the things I forgot.

Oh, something I thought was pretty funny. I was looking at the Traders DVD on Amazon, and you know that thing they do where it says "Customers who bought this also bought..." two of the three things there are Nothing and Treed Murray! I guess all the David Hewlett fans have been buying everything he has ever been in. Cool. Maybe if they keep at it, enough Traders DVDs will be sold to justify them bringing out the second season. Probably not though, but you never know.

Well, it seems that the maximum number of episodes of Due South I can watch in a day while my sister is in the house is 7. Pathetic. I've watched more than that during the evening when she's out. Well, next time I get the house to myself for a few days, I'm going to watch random TV all day. Well, no. I probably won't. Whenever I get the house to myself I usually spend all my time online...

So, watched the last ep of season 2 of Traders, thanks to perian! It was so good! Well, okay I was completely lost at first. But I had a vague idea or what was going on because I read the episode guide. I picked up the story fast enough though, but I'm sure there was plenty of stuff I didn't really understand. I'll be watching it a lot more times though, so hopefully I'll pick it all up eventually. There was the funniest thing though that Grant said. He was talking about a computer program that he hates. He says something about it being too easy, you just click the buttons, if you do something wrong it puts it right... It made me laugh though, because I was saying almost exactly the same thing the other day about those programs to help you build websites.

They just really annoy me. Frontpage and all those, I mean. I like to build my websites in html. Okay sometimes I get javascript code from other sites, but apart from that I do it myself. These pagebuilder sites, all you do is point and click, drag and drop, and there you've got a website that looks as good as one you built yourself. Only you didn't, you just planned it and suddenly it was made. This means that any eight year old who doesn't even know what html *is* can build a website that looks better than one of mine. Or at least as good as. And yeah, I know I'm not that good at it. All I've done it picked up a few basics off the internet and tried them out in different ways. And I've been told by my brother that I have no idea of style or what colours go with what (although that effect was actually what I was going for) but I have done it myself. When something goes wrong, I go through and check what I forgot, or what tag I didn't close or whatever, and fix it.
I have used these drag and drop programs. I used the one on Geocities back when I made my first site. And then I looked at the html and it was a complete mess! There was stuff all over the place that wasn't supposed to be there. It looked awful. And all the mess was making the pages load weirdly too. So I went through most of it and redid it myself. Which was a lot more fun than drag and drop anyway!

Sorry, totally didn't mean to rant!
I should go to bed...

So, I walk into the room last night where my mum is on the computer, and I say "My knee's swollen up," which it had, not much, but enough to be painful.
She doesn't turn around, she doesn't even stop typing and goes, "You're not getting out of that job," as if she thinks I'm lying or something. Am I being over sensitive, or was she being a complete git? Anyway, if I wanted to get out of the job, I'd just say I'm not doing it, and if I mad excuses to anyone, it wouldn't be her.

On a less angry note, I got a program to make animations, so now I can make moving avatars. I'm probably going to be playing with it for weeks now! Only made two so far though, both from Traders.


Fun! Unfortunately, they're too big to use on Livejournal, and when I make them smaller by using fewer frames, the affect is really crappy. Like this

Which I might end up using anyway, but I'm glad I can use the better ones on other sites.

I have watched 6 episodes of Due South today. Fun!

Tomorrow, I might have another Traders day. I need to get my head around the way some of the characters speak. My fic may be read only by myself, but I don't want it to suck too badly if I can help it.

Talking of Traders (and Due South) I noticed Patrick McKenna (Marty Stevens from Traders) in one of the DS eps. This pleased me immensely because even when it's someone fairly easy to recognise, it's always nice that I can do it occasionally!
Then, out of interest, I looked him up on the IMDb and found that he was in 2 eps of SG-1 (already knew that), two eps of Forever Knight, and one of BWoC. I can almost imagine him in BWoc, actually. Not seen that show in a few years, I might have to fish out my tapes.
Oh, by the way, this is NOT the start of another obsession. I just found it interesting that he's been in most of my recent favourite shows!

Messing around in Photosuite last night, I realised it's not quite as rubbish as I thought. You can do a few things with it, and once you get the hang of it a bit, they look okay. And I figured out how to add text, so I don't need to keep saving and opening in Paint quite so often any more. So maybe I can have a bit of fun making stuff now. I still want my dad to get paintshop pro though, then I can nick it and install it on my computer (photosuite came with their computer, and doesn't have a disk to install it on another computer). But he won't, because it costs £100. Which is a ridiculous amount! Matthew said "You've got broadband, you don't need to pay for software." He says you can download it. Seems a bit real bad to me, but if they will ask for extortionate amounts...

There's no point considering it though, not while my mum is supreme god of the computer. I managed to get a few programs past her, but her spybot program will seek out and destroy Kazaa, and probably anything else I could use to dl. I don't think you can get it in the same way you get episodes.

Anyway, I was playing around in photosuite, and I made a desktop wallpaper. It goes in the middle of the screen, doesn't fill the whole thing. I was quite proud of it, so I made it our wallpaper. I got up the next morning, and Jennie had got rid of it. I asked why, and she said it was "Blury and rubbish". Charming. I had made it blury intentionally. I thought it made it look like a painting. So it seems my wallpaper was so bad, Jennie would rather have nothing at all than have to look at it. I put it back though. And I acted all hurt that she said that. Which wasn't hard, because I was.

Anyone have an opinion on it?

I feel really depressed today, and I have no idea why.

Anyway, I'm going to go do some French. I doubt that'll cheer me up, but maybe I'll watch Traders again later. That'll do it.

Saturdays are really boring. Not that I do anything the rest of the week, but I can't do the same nothing on Saturdays or Sundays, or whenever else someone's around, because I get moaned at. Or questioned. Example, I want to do some more Traders screencaps, but if I do, my sister is going to come in and ask what I'm doing. I haven't told her, or anyone else, that I bought the DVDs because I'll get mocked for being obsessed. I'm tired of being mocked for my obsessions!
So I made a new icon, and for lack of anything better to do, I'm going to make more. Then maybe I'll go to my room and watch telly.

246 hours to the next Atlantis...