But first, something to go to bed laughing over

Okay, really, good night already!

I consider any day

in which I wear a white skirt and white eyelet-lace jacket and don't get any of the following on either to be a good day:

• any food at all, including the chilpotle black bean burger with all the trimmings this afternoon and the kung pao tofu sauce I had tonight
• the gasoline I put in the car
• the quart of oil I put in the car after checking it

Today after work I:

• Returned two books to the library
• Worked for two hours in the library tinkering with my résumé in preparation for a job application
• Picked up food from Jin Jin for three of us
• Watched a couple of new 'The Awesomes' episodes (a Hulu original series which is really great) with a friend--I think the second season may be even better than the first, at the rate they're going
• Let him show me various other things online, including an episode of an (I kid you not) alien surfer chick series, 'Lightning Point', from Australia--yes, it's on Netflix

Now I'm home, and I really should work more on the cover letter, but I'm tired and ready for bed. I did check a few books out, including the one I was using as a guide to the résumé-building. I may look that over some once I go on into the bedroom. Okay, time for more ice water. I'm parched. Then it's time to take my contacts out and get into my sleep shirt. Good night.

Despite the fact that the doctor was running an hour behind

and I had to get a friend to another appointment right after (we were about 15 minutes late for that), my followup to my surgery went really well. The tech took out the staples and put steri-strips on my incisions, which will just stay on until they come off. The surgeon was pleased with my recovery and told me to do some exercises with some ankle weights to strengthen the leg, but otherwise just come back if something else is needed. They gave me a CD with pictures of the surgery, and he showed me the difference between the shredded and cleaned up meniscus, as well as the smoothing he did on the femur head (I think that's the chondroplasty part). I am a little sore now simply because of taking the staples out and because I've been walking fairly fast (for me) and without a limp most of the day, so I took some acetaminophen and that's taken care of it. Even at the end of the day, normally, it already feels better than after the injury, and I'm having less pain walking and driving. It's not even hurting much getting out of the car, which was the worst part for the first few days. So all in all, I think things went pretty well.

This is an absolutely wonderful parody of

the Gotye song and video 'Someone That I Used to Know'. Pure genius....

But first...

this was an amusing picture shared on Facebook by George Takei:

I didn't quite sleep the night away

although I must have eaten something that didn't agree with me, because I have a bit of a stomach ache. I've done a little towards my goals, but mostly just went into a quiet room and rested/slept a bit. I didn't even listen to any music--I just wanted some quiet time.

Tomorrow I:

• Need to remember to call someone at 11 am regarding suggestions for speakers for a mobile tech talk at a meeting in October
• Want to get some things done around the library, like shelving and straightening
• Do my normal work things
• Have my followup appointment with my surgeon and presumably get my staples taken out of my knee
• Take a friend to an appointment after that

So it'll be a pretty full day. Okay, back off the computer for awhile. Have a good night.

It is nice to be home

Saturday I:
• Took one friend to get his hair cut
• Took my friends' bill over to the company, which apparently many people decided to do at the same time; thankfully they opened a 'payments only' window, so I lucked out
• Took another friend to an appointment
• Went to pick up food for all of us at a time when Long John Silvers' was packed due to some sort of promotion
• Took the one friend grocery shopping
• Came home and slept for a bit, then got up to do things and couldn't sleep or concentrate, so I listened to music and tossed and turned in bed

Sunday I:
• Got up very early in the morning to work on the game notes
• Cleaned my friends' house (with some help)
• Did four super-large loads of laundry
• Went to get some food from the the grocery for me and for having at the game
• Gamed for about six hours
• Had A help me get things to the car, but had to wrangle a purse, laptop bag, two grocery bags of food, two carts and a bag containing the laundry from the car to the apartment with some difficulty
• Put a couple of pillowcases and a couple of blankets on the bed but didn't really make it, got into my sleep shirt, took my meds, and went to bed

So now I'm home, I've eaten, and I need to:

• Work on a couple of job applications/cover letters
• Work out the finances for the month
• Maybe get started early on the notes
• Relax a bit

I'm going to start with the last bit, even though I might just fall asleep and waste my evening. I hope not. But I am really needing some quiet time with my feet up, although in general my knee is now doing better than when it was injured, as long as I don't overdo it. So rest and relaxation is actually the most important thing on the list. I do need to get one of the cover letters in by Friday, but otherwise things can be put off a couple of days.

Exactly what I've been saying!

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I pretty much crashed yesterday

I came home a little early and napped for about an hour and a half, then got up and ate and did some stuff on the computer (but not the notes or the job-hunting related stuff I planned to do last night). Then I spoke with YKWIA for awhile on the phone and decided afterwards to get away from the computer for a bit, listened to Loreena McKennitt, and promptly fell asleep. That was about 8 pm. I got up about 10:30 and took my nightly medications and set the alarms for 5 am, in the hopes of working on them before I had to do anything else today. But that didn't work. I wound up finally waking up at 8:40 am and getting up about 8:55, took a shower, got dressed, ate a little cheese, did a couple of things I needed to, and then by ten I was over at my friends' house to do some errands and get him up for an appointment. We are now at said appointment and I've loaded the game recording onto the computer, but really haven't gotten much further, and there's only about a half-hour left before we go. I'm getting really hungry; that cheese wasn't enough to stay with me apparently, and anyway that was almost five hours ago.

I'm not sure what else we're doing today, other than doing a grocery run, but I'll try to get home fairly early to work on the notes. I think I'll use the time left at the appointment to work on cover letters for two jobs I'm applying for, although my computer is getting low on battery. I may have to cross the room to a less comfortable seat and plug into the outlet there.

I'm surprised there wasn't bloodshed

'Guardians of the Galaxy' Fans Reportedly Surprised by Wrong Movie

Regal Cinemas, a theater chain cited in some tweets, did not immediately respond to ABC News' requests for an explanation or other comment confirming or denying the tweeters' version of events.

In case you didn't know, "Guardians of the Galaxy," the comic book-inspired summer blockbuster hitting U.S. theaters today, is not the same as "Rise of the Guardians," a 2012 Dreamworks animated film in which Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny team up to fight the Boogeyman, according to IMDB.com.

It might have happened in more than one location, and in at least one, they tried to show the right film no less than three times, with complete failure.