Annoyances

I like Firefox. I especially like the search bar.

Every time I use it, Google shows up in...

...well, I have no damn idea. "with the exact phrase" is "amb la frase exacta", and it's getting kind of annoying. Mostly because whatever language it's showing up in is lacking the News and Maps links. I think it might be Catalan, of all damn things, but I'm not exactly working with a huge sample set here.

Suggestions? Help?

EDIT: Got it, thanks.

Oh, cool.

Vajra Enterprises, creator of Fates Worse Than Death, has a new game out. Modern urban horror, a nifty-looking little thing called In Dark Alleys.

I liked FWD. The system (and worse, setting) felt way, way too crunchy, but this can be fixed; I think it'd take perhaps fifteen minutes to break the back of the numbers and fit them into WW tabletop terms. And the concepts ranged from "kind of neat" to "dear God, Colin is possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen in a future-setting game".

If IDA (which actually had what I think is the only ad on an RPG site that ever caught my attention enough to click on it) doesn't have a canon city and the population isn't split down into percentages so exactly that you get the impression you could write in and ask for the eye colours of the twelve memory rapists in the city, the crunchy setting issue could be considerably reduced. Must keep an eye out for that game.

Sunday contemplation

It was a remarkably good weekend, all things taken into account.

Angel had a nightmare last night--at any rate, she started growling in her sleep, and the hair stood up along her spine, which looked very odd given that she was curled up on her side--but calmed out of it when petted. There's only a few more doses of painkiller, but five more days of antibiotic that smells absolutely putrid. She isn't fighting as much as Toby did when he got it; I think my administering technique has improved, which is a depressing thought.

Saw Mrs. Henderson Presents Saturday night and Silent Hill this afternoon. The first was decent, but felt a touch thin or flat in places; mind you, that might have been just me.

Silent Hill was excellent. Beautiful onscreen, kept a clear distinction between the living and the dead--or the mundane and the other, which is probably a better way of putting it--without making the split a clearcut checkbox kind of thing. Dialogue felt a little flat and heavy on the expository lumps, but not enough to ruin anything. The barbed wire bit was astounding. Avoiding spoilers.

(Honestly, agentofdespair, I do not think paper bags stop people from trying to stab you. No stabbing strikes me as important. The nurse in red and white would be a better bet. Or the cop.)

Also saw the Clerks2 trailer. This may have contributed to my using the the phrase "Mr. BooBooKittyFuck of Darkness" in a serious discussion this evening.

...odd, but remarkably good.

Cursing the darkness is unproductive.

Right now, it seems like almost everyone I know is fighting off being sick, or is stressed about having/needing work. This is a fairly common thing; it just doesn't usually strike me so much, or seem quite so prevalent.

*lights a candle*

It will get better. It always gets better tomorrow, or the day after, or later than.

Just have to get there from here.