Back Again

[crabby_lioness]

My internet connection is working again; there was a loose wire on the power pole outside my house.  Actually it was fixed earlier today, but I observed the lj strike.  Personally I don't think it'll do much good, because anyone stupid enough not to realize that free accounts are the "gateway" that draws people into buying paid accounts isn't going to be convinced by a minor usage drop.  But I did it anyway.

I'll get around to answering all the comments y'all have left in the past two weeks after I finish my review for Adrift.  I've only got one or two paragraphs left to go.  Then there's the Fragments review and the Nikki Bevan plot bunny that's nibbling away in my hind brain, and after that I may even have time to work on Training before the finale.  Good night, sleep tight, and pleasant dreams of Torchwood.

Comments

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you internet is working again :D

'...after I finish my review for Adrift.' Can't wait.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[antelope-writes.livejournal.com]

I'm really looking forward to your review on Adrift and even more to your little discussion on Ianto as the stepmother (which was especially apropos in Adrift).

Thanks and welcome back.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Adrift gave me plenty of fresh fodder.

[antelope-writes.livejournal.com]

If you want, I have a breakdown of Janto body language from Meat up until Adrift, with the main focus being from Day in the Death on up. If you see anything in there you can use, feel free.

http://antelope-writes.livejournal.com/2008/03/22/ and scroll about 2/3 of the way down.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I will. Mind if I use it in the stepmother piece?

[antelope-writes.livejournal.com]

Feel free.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's in my notes.

[geekrock.livejournal.com]

Glad to have you back! Look forward to the reviews.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[contrarywise]

Hooray, and welcome back! I always look forward to your episode reviews, and yay! More "Training"! *happy anticipation*

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

I also doubt it; these are the type of minds that believe as an article of faith that the for-profit model should be applied to everything. Sneeze *robber barons*.

Bunnies & the Lioness (rubs hands in glee). & more Training series (few steps of the Happy Dance). Sometimes life is just so beautiful...

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

They don't understand that a certain amount of charity actually increases their profits. There's a woman teaching a class at the store where we're holding jewelry-making classes. Most of her pupils are getting in for free for various reasons, but she wants the storeowner's husband to pay for his class. She is so not going to understand why she won't be invited back.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure you're right about the jewelry lady; I remember when I was studying accounting many years ago learning not only how to record deductions for "Good Will", but how to determine the *value* of Good Will to a business. I suspect contemporary businesspeople would regard the concept of Good Will with either amusement or contempt. (Social Darwinism, anyone?)

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Probably another thing they don't teach anymore. I just learned that Figure Drawing and Shading and Crosshatching are no longer taught at any of the local colleges' art depatments. Yet they are supposed to be turned out "trained" artists.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

...Say what? Aren't those basic skills?

I'm afraid. I'm very afraid.

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

You haven't been reading my other blog. We're homeschoolers and dh teaches at the local high school. I frequently post about high school students who graduate never having been taught the parts of speach and whose History class begins in 1879.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't, & I should probably start, I suspect I could pick up some useful hints. Historical studies that *begin* in 1879?! What bakery of fruitcakes decided *that* was adequate?

[veejean45.livejournal.com]

You're continuing with Training?!! Yesyesyesyes...(jumps around the room with glee).

[crabby-lioness.livejournal.com]

Yep, slowly but surely. If I can just get past Part 5, it gets easier.