Sunday randoms

OK to avoid twitterrhea guess I'll post my random thoughts in the blog ...

So it is Sunday and I am off, as I will be off on every Saturday and Sunday for the foreseeable future (knock very very heavily on wood) because I actually got myself a 9 to 5, M-F job doing something I actually want to do -- editing/proofing copy! The pay doesn't suck either. I'll just say that it's NOT in the 20s ... I know, it's tres gauche to talk about what you make, but every job I've ever had paid somewhere in the 20s (with one exception of one job that actually paid $30k), so I'm pretty excited about this.

Now, what sucks is that my husband works in retail (as he has for many many years) so I'll be spending Saturdays alone (guess that's a good excuse to visit friends). He's at work today too. Hopefully he'll be able to at least get Sundays off. I'd like to see my folks next Sunday, but it's Easter and I know they'll drag me to some God & Jesus passion play so I'll have to hold off.

In other exciting news, I am watching Gene Simmons' Family Jewels on A&E. I'd never seen this until last Sunday, and I really like it. (I'd never really gotten into the Osbournes, not having cable for most of 2003). I have a particular fondness for Gene's uber-hot son Nick.

I like Gene Simmons because he LIKES being a star. That's why I didn't care much for Nirvana and the whole grunge movement, those guys hated being "rock stars." I guess that kind of music/aesthetic appealed to the whiny, disaffected youth of the '90s, but to me it was just NO FUN. I loved BRIT POP, shoegazer music and punk-pop (like Green Day/Rancid/NOFX) in the 90s (and still do). Now, one of my guilty pleasures is 80s hair "metal"(?) like Def Leppard and Enuff Z'Nuff, though that stuff isn't really metal -- it's more like Cheap Trick-style power pop. But that music is just FUN. Like rock oughta be.

Lessee, what else ... I got my *very first* virus last night on my new HP Windows Vista laptop. I should put this in my computer's baby book! My computer still works; the bug has just disabled Task Manager and keeps spitting up annoying spam faux "security warning" pop-up windows. No, I still don't want a Mac (as it was MY fault I got the virus anyway, from downloading a bad torrent). Getting rid of viruses on PCs honestly gives you good Microsoft OS training, ha ha. I've often toyed with the idea of becoming one of those "geek squad" people (though not really wanting to work at Best Buy), going to people's houses and charging fat $$$ to clean up their machines. I heard that Best Buy actually charges, like, $150 to run Spybot or Adaware. But, some lazy people are willing to pay it. So, then, so what, I guess? Good side job if you ask me.