What to do when one's printer is being ornery. Again.
I always feel like I ought to be doing something productive, but at the moment the productive things I have to do involve my printer.
So then! Instead I will do things like sign up for the We Love Badfinger community. I am so impressed by its existance! Do you know how hard it is to find someone (under the age of 40 at least) who even knows who Badfinger IS let alone loves them? Just Jen and I. And the people in the We Love Badfinger community are FANATICS. It's amazing. I am so pleased by them.
I signed up for a Beatles community too-- there were a lot of those to choose from, but I liked this one because the person who had last posted had a picture of Kate Hudson and pictures of Kate Hudson make me think of Almost Famous and that makes me happy. I think I might have had other reasons too, but I forget them. There's a whole community devoted to Dhani Harrison. I am very amused by this and shall have to tell my sister, who spent the entire Concert for George shouting "He is SO CUTE!!!" even though I kept looking at her going "HOW are you getting past 'He looks JUST LIKE GEORGE!" Poor Dhani. It's bad enough having to look exactly like your Dad, but to have your Dad also have been the lead guitarist for the greatest rock band in the history of the world, it must be very odd to talk to people unless through some miracle of self-control they can get past who you look like. If I were him I'd wear a button around that says "I'm not George!" just so people would leave me alone about it already.
Come to think of it, we should ALL wear buttons that say "I'm not George!" just for the principle of the thing. Unless you really are George. On the other hand, that may be even a better reason to wear an "I'm not George!" button. Just to confuse people.
Anyway, I'm very fond of Dhani Harrison because I know he must have been one of the very few childhood friends Billy ever had, if Billy actually existed, and I am grateful to him for that, for Billy's sake. Also, and more realistically, because I keep randomly dreaming that he is my best friend. Dhani I mean. (I keep dreaming that I AM Billy. It's the flying dreams that do it). In one dream I accompanied him to the filming of a documentary about the Beatles' kids and found out that Ringo's sons had formed AC/DC. Really I did. And no, if you were worried, I do not honestly believe that Ringo's sons formed AC/DC. I hope you don't, either. Anyway, so my point is, I like Dhani too much as an imaginary friend to join a community that treats him as a celebrity; it might hurt his feelings. Imaginarily. But in that case... um, so why did I join a Beatles community? They're my imaginary friends too....
Okay then, so what was I talking about originally? Oh yes, the diversity of communities. So far I've only been exploring the music related ones, but that's pretty diverse enough. And so far I also haven't actually told any of my real friends who have livejournals that I have a livejournal. Mostly because theoretically I don't have time to update it (or, more appropriately, I'm having to squeeze computer time off Jason, since my computer is in the hospital)and don't want to disappoint anybody. But today I'm having fun, and Jason is playing the Playstation downstairs instead, and my printer has decided it wants to be nice again, so I am being productive at the moment after all! Horray for production!
So then! Instead I will do things like sign up for the We Love Badfinger community. I am so impressed by its existance! Do you know how hard it is to find someone (under the age of 40 at least) who even knows who Badfinger IS let alone loves them? Just Jen and I. And the people in the We Love Badfinger community are FANATICS. It's amazing. I am so pleased by them.
I signed up for a Beatles community too-- there were a lot of those to choose from, but I liked this one because the person who had last posted had a picture of Kate Hudson and pictures of Kate Hudson make me think of Almost Famous and that makes me happy. I think I might have had other reasons too, but I forget them. There's a whole community devoted to Dhani Harrison. I am very amused by this and shall have to tell my sister, who spent the entire Concert for George shouting "He is SO CUTE!!!" even though I kept looking at her going "HOW are you getting past 'He looks JUST LIKE GEORGE!" Poor Dhani. It's bad enough having to look exactly like your Dad, but to have your Dad also have been the lead guitarist for the greatest rock band in the history of the world, it must be very odd to talk to people unless through some miracle of self-control they can get past who you look like. If I were him I'd wear a button around that says "I'm not George!" just so people would leave me alone about it already.
Come to think of it, we should ALL wear buttons that say "I'm not George!" just for the principle of the thing. Unless you really are George. On the other hand, that may be even a better reason to wear an "I'm not George!" button. Just to confuse people.
Anyway, I'm very fond of Dhani Harrison because I know he must have been one of the very few childhood friends Billy ever had, if Billy actually existed, and I am grateful to him for that, for Billy's sake. Also, and more realistically, because I keep randomly dreaming that he is my best friend. Dhani I mean. (I keep dreaming that I AM Billy. It's the flying dreams that do it). In one dream I accompanied him to the filming of a documentary about the Beatles' kids and found out that Ringo's sons had formed AC/DC. Really I did. And no, if you were worried, I do not honestly believe that Ringo's sons formed AC/DC. I hope you don't, either. Anyway, so my point is, I like Dhani too much as an imaginary friend to join a community that treats him as a celebrity; it might hurt his feelings. Imaginarily. But in that case... um, so why did I join a Beatles community? They're my imaginary friends too....
Okay then, so what was I talking about originally? Oh yes, the diversity of communities. So far I've only been exploring the music related ones, but that's pretty diverse enough. And so far I also haven't actually told any of my real friends who have livejournals that I have a livejournal. Mostly because theoretically I don't have time to update it (or, more appropriately, I'm having to squeeze computer time off Jason, since my computer is in the hospital)and don't want to disappoint anybody. But today I'm having fun, and Jason is playing the Playstation downstairs instead, and my printer has decided it wants to be nice again, so I am being productive at the moment after all! Horray for production!