Nocky's Journal

Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:50:36 GMT

Has anyone read Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and Queen of the Damned books? If so, what did you think of it?

I have a 3-in-1 so I've been reading. I read Interview with the Vampire and I liked it. I don't know if it's because I loved the movie or whatnot but I kept recalling scenes from the movie as I read the book.

The Vampire Lestat was 'okay'. All the brooding was driving me up the wall.

I'm on the last book and I'm slowly trudging through. I read 5 pages before I get bored and do something else. I'm constantly skimming paragraphs because I'm so bored of the twins, Queen and King/Mother and Father stuff...

Tomatoes are pretty much thriving...

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:01:57 GMT

The vegetable garden is pretty much out. The spaghetti squash were the first to bite it as I predicted. The zucchini is no longer happy, it's dying off. The yellow squash isn't doing good and on its way out.

The cucumbers are still growing but the vegetables are all distorted but they're still being eaten.

Which leaves the tomatoes. All the various tomato plants are still thriving and producing.

Even though it's been raining a lot, it doesn't help when the sun comes out and everything wilts as fast as it can.

Wisdom

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:30:49 GMT

"You can't get to the little man behind the curtain unless you walk the yellow brick road."

You are so wise... *snickers*

Michael Jackson died.

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:19:32 GMT

Wow.. I'm so surprised to hear the news. MTV is doing a big tribute right now for him. Dang... What unexpected news.

The Sims 3

Fri, 08 May 2009 04:48:33 GMT

The Sims 3? The Sims 3?? They're coming out with The Sims 3 already???

Wow. Imagine my shock when I found out they're releasing The Sims 3 on June 2nd. I played The Sims & all expansion packs as well as The Sims 2 and the first two expansion packs before I lost interest. I looked at the information for The Sims 3 but it doesn't seem that much different than The Sims 2. From what I understand, in The Sims 3, all families will be living their lives and having babies while you're playing one family at the moment.

I don't plan on asking for The Sims 3 but it's just weird to see they're already coming out with it in less than a month. Huh!

Upside Down Tomato Plant

Mon, 04 May 2009 19:51:34 GMT

My upside down tomato plant has a tiny tomato so far! It's still growing as a U-turn and the tomato plant is now taller than the pot's rim.

Swine Flu

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:40:07 GMT

Anyone else creeped out by the whole Swine Flu situation? Every time I check, it's getting worse. I feel like there should be some "Day 6" or something like that appearing around here. I'd hate to see "Day 100".

Spiderwort Bloom

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:16:48 GMT

Writer's Block: Celebrating Friendships

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:17:06 GMT

Over the past ten years, many friendships have started and/or been renewed on LiveJournal. Of your current LJ friends, who have you known the longest?

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That would have to be ilea. vermifugethered hasn't been around in years. :\

Wisteria

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:06:19 GMT

The smell of Wisteria is overwhelming. I tried to take a picture of the wisteria that was still in the sun this late evening!

Here's some close-ups of the blooms.

Hummingbirds are back...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:30:43 GMT

Wow, I don't believe it. There's hummingbirds coming to the feeder that I put up just a few days ago. I thought it was way too early but I guess it's never early enough.

It's just surprising because tonight is supposed to be freezing. I didn't bother moving the plants back into the greenhouse though. I'll let them weather it out there. It shouldn't be that bad. It's just a pain in the butt when you lug everything out with lows in the 50s for a few weeks and then here comes this final frost out of the blue that may impede on the flowers. :\

Yellow Haze

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:46:51 GMT

I tried taking a picture to show how the air is just all yellow. It's a smog of pollen. It didn't turn out so well. The air is just so thick with all this yellow.

I made the mistake of stepping out to plant some seeds. I walked down the porch steps and paused to wave away the dust... only to find out that it's everywhere. YELLOW SMOG! I quickly came back in but I think the damage was already done. I feel a headache coming on and I'm starting to get tired. Ugh.

I guess I could head back out and just get the seeds planted. I planted some cucumber and zucchini seeds yesterday. I dug out a flowerbox that I thought would be neat for 3 or 4 Tiny Tim tomato plants. It all depends on how much soil there's left to work with. The bag is 3/4 empty. Hmm...

I am still planning on doing my vegetable garden where I wrap the soaker hose around in the big pots so that I can quickly turn the water on and hurry back in during the intense heat of summer. Last time I did my vegetable garden, I had to pour 3 watering cans of water per pot every early morning. I often had to water them again in the afternoon which was even worse. I can't complain. There were tons of cucumbers and yellow squash that summer. Zucchini didn't produce a single one though.

That reminds me. I need to write 'yellow squash seeds' on the list.

Upside Down Tomato

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:55:12 GMT

I refuse to take part in your
silly upside down-ish humor!

Gah! My tomato plant is curving his way up towards the sun - which I knew was going to happen but it was quite a surprise to step out in the rain and spot this U-turn! hehe. Should I... stake it? I imagine the weight of the tomatoes might straighten it out but I don't know how much growing it'll do while it's curving its way up. I'm also not sure how this thing can be staked upside down?

Easter Egg and Hanging Tomato! :o

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:00:39 GMT

I finished the egg. Woohoo! It'll go out in the front lawn with that ugly rabbit for Easter.

Instead of the bag-craze, I received this Upsy Downsy from Lowe's. A lot of wincing and cringing and "Please don't let this kill the plant when I squeeze the rootball through..." later... Got a hanging tomato plant! ;)

I haven't watered it though. The soil came from a bag that was pretty wet and we're expecting rain in a day or two. If this plant dies, at least I have seeds. I don't know. I think this tomato plant should do okay though.

After looking at how this planter worked, I looked around the yard and spotted *THREE* more planters that were made in the same fashion except the hole in the middle had a grill pattern. I could cut out the grill pattern and try more. Maybe even one with a Tiny Tim and see how much I could get out of it!

Upside Down Tomato Bags

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:47:38 GMT

Anyone seen the commercials for those hanging tomato baskets? They're everywhere! I actually went to the plant nursery near here so that I could get my hands on a tomato plant so that I can try it myself.

Unfortunately, all the stores selling those upside down tomato baskets said they were all sold out when they put them on the shelves yesterday! Dang. I have to wait for the next shipment to come because I wouldn't mind trying one.

This plant is called "Better Boy" and looking it up online, I'm wondering if this tomato plant is the wrong type to use. Wouldn't it damage the planter when the plant got big enough? Hmm...

This is my last attempt and growing tomatoes. If this fails, I'm done with the normal variety. I have bad luck with them. However, the Tiny Tim did extremely well. I have some leftover seeds and am definitely planting some of those in pots.

Crown of Thorns; Easter Egg Painting

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:07:25 GMT

I'm painting me a big easter egg.

I should've taken a picture of what it looked like before. It was dark blue, dark green, and red. My mother toted it over to me and said, "I hate the colors. Repaint it to bright pastel colors." Of course, I said 'okay'. Even though I seem to have develop a hatred for painting, I figure the egg isn't too detailed so I should be able to repaint it to bright colors. The smell of paint brought back memories of painting but ... eh... I just know if a pattern is too detailed, I will lose interest fast! There's a Gingerbread Train Station *still* waiting for me to prime and paint it but the idea of painting that station just... makes me flee while screaming in horror.

I feel sick to my stomack right now. It's the pollen. I went out to inspect my plants and see how they were doing. We had massive rains yesterday and this morning. I checked the jade plants to see if any rotted (some seem soft and dead from being frozen in the greenhouse during some really cold days - The heater didn't get turned on due to um... forgetfulness!). The jade plants are still sitting around but none of them are growing new leaves to indicate that they're still even functioning to some degree!

Both of my potted Crown of Thorns were quick to send out flowers before any leaves came out. That's pretty neat. It won't be long before those fast-moving black ants invade them again.

IE8 is not safer...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:02:40 GMT

I use IE6 heavily until I re-installed IE8 a couple days ago. I don't think it's safe. Already, some weird program has installed itself and gives me random pop-ups to places like eHarmony and luxury cars. I ran Ad-Aware and it found nothing.

I'm trying Spybot next to see what's going on. The pop-ups don't stop coming even when the browser is closed.

EDIT: Well, spybot found a few things but nothing helped. I'm now getting a yofolufe.dll error every time I boot up and pop-ups are still happening. AVG free hasn't found anything either.

This is the second time in a row that IE8 has turned out to be a crappy idea. Guess I'll be formatting yet again and heading back to IE6.

Heavy White Tiger Blanket

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:33:13 GMT

It's pretty neat looking. Very heavy though. I'm not sure how well it'd work since it never gets cold here. *remembers the snowfalls* Well, what I should say is that it doesn't stay cold long enough at all. The blanket, if very hot, would only be taken out 3 or 4 times a winter. Hmmm...

It is pretty neat looking though.

Flurries!

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:04:01 GMT

I don't believe it. Flurries. It's supposed to drop to 19 tonight and it is currently 30 degrees right now. Wow. A bit of shame, really... A lot of plants started growing over the warm period and now another shocker is coming to kill them down. I believe plant-life will be struggling this year. Hopefully the bugs will be cut down too. They were getting plenty active the past week or so.

Writer's Block: AKA

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:36:20 GMT

What's the story behind your username?

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I wanted something to describe me instead of "Owl" or "Vampire". So I took 'Nocky' from 'Nocturnal'. It became a name of a dragon after awhile but it melted back into a username again.

The Evil Magican?

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:37:45 GMT

I was looking around to see if there's anything on google about this 'Magician' error. It's right there on the first page of "A Spell For Chameleon" by Piers Anthony.

:o

Sam's Choice Purified Drinking Water with Flavor Enhancing Minerals

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:39:32 GMT

Anyone ever tried this?

I think the water is making me incredibly sick. For a tad more than a week now, I've been taking phenergan before bed because I've been feeling rotten by the time night comes around.

Last night was horrible. I took phenergan and then I woke up two hours into my sleep with the overwhelming need to throw up. I panted my way through it with a bunch of meditating attempts such as "black, brown, black, brown" lines on my comforter. Ugh...

While panting my way through the nausea attack, I was trying to think of what it is that could've possibly changed in my diet to make me sick this past week. Then it occurred to me... The water.

There was a little window when I felt better and that was because I had my usual bottled water - "spring!". When I went back onto this Sam's Choice water, I plunged back into being sick. I brought this theory up and asked for a fresh crate of bottled water.

I feel a bit sick right now. I hate how my hands are all sweaty and my stomach is just... ugh.

Firefox vs IE7

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:07:52 GMT

I formatted yesterday because for 2 weeks, my computer has been slowing to a crawl and I can't find anything that's causing it. I decided to upgrade to IE7 and it feels like I'm using some rejected version of Netscape or something.

If IE7 has been around for years with these weird errors, this explains why Firefox has such a huge following now. I want to roll back to IE6 but the last time I did that, my computer went haywire and I had to reformat.

At least I found a fix to force the menubar to appear at the top instead of the middle. I'm not sure I want to keep using IE7 though. There's weird little glitches on certain pages. I guess I'll just use it awhile longer and see if I get used to it.

71 Degrees

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:33:32 GMT

I can't believe it's 71 right now. I opened the back door to throw out some trash and instead of being bombarded with cold air.. I met with hot muggy air! :O That warm temperature came right out of the blue!

I hate when this happens because it'll fool dormant plants into growing before they get killed by a frost down the road. Hmm...

Snow came.

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:41:02 GMT

Hehe. :D

My father walked down the street and stood near the highway. He said he could see two accidents down either way. :o