Light day...

[alexpgp]

As it turned out, the load for the day was just the two Forms 24. If precedent holds, that means that the rest of the radiograms intended for transmittal today will be sent over tomorrow along with all the stuff for tomorrow, resulting in twice the work load.

You can't win.

* * *A pre-LJ acquaintance of mine (LJ friend avva) mentioned yesterday's post of mine in his journal, resulting in a noticeable bump in the number of people who are now following my LJ. Welcome to all, though I don't often post in Russian (а когда пишу на русском, текст записи почти всегда двуязычный).

It turns out that about half of the posts that currently appear on my friends page are in Cyrillic. These posts provide a unique education for me by exposing me to some interesting ideas and modes of expression. I've found some posts (notably a couple by avva) have even been useful in my translations.

* * *Some follow-up thoughts to yesterday's rented Oceans Eleven DVD:

In the final scene, the bad guys are following Our Hero. This leads me to believe that, if the Head Bad Guy really believes Our Hero Did It, all he has to do is commission his henchpersons to stick like glue to Our Hero... forever. At the first sign of untoward prosperity... POW! For a modest ongoing expense of, say, $100,000 per year per "hench," the Head Bad Guy could prevent Our Hero from enjoying his $15 million or so of ill-gotten gains.

This, of course, assumes that the HBG doesn't get tired first and decide to whack OH just for the hell of it.

The second objection I have has to do with fellow LJer joelgrus's recurring theme of "X can keep a secret if (X-1) of them are dead." I mean, we're talking eleven people here, folks. Eventually, one of them is going to run afoul of the law (and I don't mean by breaking it... I mean by simply doing things with their share of the money). In turn, the law may start to ask all sorts of embarrassing questions, which may ultimately lead to such questions being asked in a small room under a bright light. Since all the perps are pretty much known to each other, the fall of one would entail the fall of all.

But then again, I have to remind myself that this was a story. Nonetheless...

* * *Tonight's entertainment, once I finally got home, was Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, which was a harmless waste of time. The formula for this film mimics that of the previous two, except that the setting on the "ridiculous" knob seems to have been set a bit higher than in previous outings. Still, it's just good to see that Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski both look healthy, at any rate.

* * *Returning home today was a copy of yesterday, with both Lee and Dwayne hard at it. They've gone now, off somewhere to discuss MUD strategy with some friends. I was left to rawrite a Linux boot image for Lee onto a floppy disk, which I did in about 30 seconds. She said something before she left that led me to believe she didn't quite understand what needed to be done. Sometimes, I wonder about the kid...

* * *Time to hit the hay. As I said at the top of the post, I think tomorrow is going to be a humdinger of a day.

Cheers...

Comments

[maslacak.livejournal.com]

first of, I love Crocodile Dundee... didn't know there was an LA, third, installment. Cool! must see.

and second, I've been following your LJ for a while and meant to ask this, if it's not too personal.

where the heck do you work?