wherein Liz anticipates the Super Bowl

Random note of randomness: so, the smoke shop is open 365 days a year (366 this year!), because the people want their morning newspapers. But on major holidays we close early, because there is no point paying somebody to stand at the register when there are no customers.

We also, if and when PM remembers, and particularly when there's a New York team involved, close early on Super Bowl Sunday.

:-D

I remember the 2008 Super Bowl, also Giants vs. Patriots. I watched that game sitting on a washing machine at a laundromat. Yes, really. And it was worth every goddamn minute.

...I kind of want to find a better method this year, though. Sports bars are out -- by the time I get off work, they will all be full, and a lot of them host reserved parties that evening anyway. I have no television. So what's the best place to watch the game live via the internet, preferably without paying an arm and a leg?

general life frustrations

What I did today: slept a lot. I also tried to reorder checks, but ran into two problems. First, my bank removed an extraneous zero from every account number last year, so the number that deluxe.com has on record for me is not actually my account number anymore, and I'm not sure how long my bank will continue supporting the old numbering system. Second, deluxe.com only has my old address on file, and I would need to call a special phone line to change that information. (As a security measure, you cannot change things like that online, which is both comforting and extremely annoying.)

In other news, I wrote about 500 words of "Intervention," the Red Cross-and-space-pirates Star Trek: AOS fic I started a bit over two years ago and stalled out on, bringing the rough draft to 13,500 words. I have now written every scene up to the actual space battle, which I am leery of writing (hence the stalling out). But I do have an outline, and maybe I can get that done sometime before the next movie is released. *sigh*

It's hard to write while in a blue funk. It's even more like pulling teeth than normal. But writing also helps make me feel less empty, so. *deeper sigh*

I should try working on my Narnia Big Bang, but I don't know, I just am not feeling either of those stories right now. Maybe I can make some progress on something else instead.