It's time to play Good Thing, Bad Thing!

[devi]

We used to do this on the Fibbers mailing list when I was in college.

Good thing: Thank you, whoever sent the virtual flower on my infopage.

Bad thing: I just discovered Death Cab For Cutie, who I love to tiny bits, are playing the Zodiac! Right here! In Oxford! The weekend after next! But I am in sodding Ireland then. Arse, arse, arse, feck. Feck. *kicks things*

Good Things and Bad Things, anyone?

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[mooism.livejournal.com]

Good thing: Work’s net connection has just started working at a sensible speed, so I can get some work done.

Bad thing: Work’s net connection has just started working at a sensible speed, so I have to work.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

D'oh!

[absinthecity.livejournal.com]

Good thing: Got lots of lovely people coming to the pub tonight.

Bad thing: I still haven't been paid. It's not so much the having no money that bothers me, as the having to raise the energy to pester them yet again about how it's late again, when I thought I'd got it all sorted out last month. And the month before. Oh the joys of freelancing.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy. I remember that from my brief freelancing period. I think I told you about the client who, when I asked him to pay me, said "Do you think I'm some sort of cash cow, missy?"

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Good thing: I’ve been paid this month.

Bad thing: I’ve been paid about £100 less than I should have been. Do I want to hope that I’ve been shunted onto emergency tax? Will this screw up my mortgage?

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Good thing: Death Cab for Cutie will play the Zodiac again, they're regulars
Bad thing: But it may not be this summer as the Zod'll be closed for a major refit

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Really? I have not much google-fu when trying to find out when bands are playing where, and I had the impression they hardly ever played outside the US...

[immoline2.livejournal.com]

good thing: its a public holiday for us tomorrow.
Bad thing: no electricity for most of tomorrow either.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

No electricity? Meep. How come?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It just started snowing here, out of a blue sky!

[kesstrel.livejournal.com]

Good thing: It's pancake day! What better excuse to eat dessert for dinner?!

Bad thing: Um... *stretches*...erm... the best I can come up with is having to work, when I'd rather be packing!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That's a promisingly unbad Bad Thing.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: I'm having dinner in my favorite pub tonight.

Bad Thing: I'm having dinner with the company lawyer.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I take that Bad Thing back: lawyer turns out to be something of a foxy babe. Bad Thing now: she's married!

[stiofan.livejournal.com]

Good thing: Finding out it's pancake day!
Bad thing: Will be out late, snow is forecast and I'm on the bike. These things do not mix well.

[ex-humanfema327.livejournal.com]

death cab played here last week and abra didnt have a ticket and didn't realise that if you wait outside a club you can invariably buy one.. i sent her round and she got one at face value (?). it's her favourite band.. are they good?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Well, I think they're great. In a very indie-boy, vaguely twee sort of way.

[triskellian]

Good thing: swimming tonight.
Bad thing: swimming tonight ;-)

(But it's snowing! Do we have to?)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Excuses, excuses!

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. I shall go for you.

My flower's gone now :(

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I can hardly ask you to throw your knickers at Ben for me, can I?

[shermarama]

Good thing: I had some really splendid sandwiches for lunch. Chunky granary bread, decent ham, tasty salad stuff, just the right amount of pickle, the works.

Bad thing: Right this second, that I can't find a chuck key small enough to fit the air drill. I have to separate these lockers, because the pair are too big to go in the space so they must be split, by drilling their rivets out and that means getting a drill inside the lockers and the only one small enough is the air drill. And no-one seems to have a small chuck key.

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn that, missing concerts sucks.
My friend recorded two videos at their show in Munich (actually I held the camera, but it's hers)
they are on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfIc2faC6PA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32HhSR0Y_cU

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Wow. My God, I love the internet.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Good thing - cjwatson
Bad thing - I'm ill.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: I just got my paycheck!
Bad Thing: I'm still $40,000 in student loan debt.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oy vey!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: Only 20 minutes until banoffee pancakes !
Bad Thing: My cat has to go back to the vet due to chewing holes in her own bum. Again.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Poor cat. But how are you feeling?

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Good Thing:



Bad Thing:

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Aaargh! (It's the spider baby!)

I can't see the top one, but my guess is it's the Addams Family's Thing?

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

• Good thing: Seeing beautiful people this evening.
  
• Bad thing: nickeyb revealing the existence of Feyd-Rautha / Piter De Vries / Beast Rabban slashfic to people yesterday evening <shudder>

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Eeeeek, my brain hurts now. Though beautiful people are always good.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Good Thing: My head is full of ideas for Stuff.

Bad Thing: inannajones is not here, and therefore I am roaming the house, not yet able to sit down and write.

I'll adjust in a couple of days, but the first few are always strange. Are you going to be here for P-Con?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Tell me when P-Con is and I might be able to answer that. :)

[cartographer.livejournal.com]

A sort of a nice one:

Bad thing: I dropped my sax. I forgot to close the zip on the case and it slithered out of my taxi onto the road. It doesn't -look- damaged, but when you look closely, a couple of the pads are bent out of shape. No more Cs or Ds for me until it's repaired. This means a visit to an overly loquacious woodwind-shop guy, lots of waiting and, Pete reckons, about 100 quid. Pete's my teacher.

Good thing: Pete pointed out the damage and explained that it could cost a lot more to repair it, and I (shyly) asked whether it would make sense to buy a new one. I'm playing a student model, you see, and I'd hate him to think I thought I was more competant than I actually am. He was very encouraging, recommended his favourite dealers, offered to ship it home for me once I'd done some browsing, was generally pro- the idea. And this bolstered my confidence enough to mention that I'd always wanted to try out a tenor sax. The tenors are bigger and sexier and I'm a little bit intimidated by their coolness. And, awesome guy that he is, he insisted I borrow his beautiful, tarnished, genuine unlaquered brass one for the week. So now I have a tenor sax sitting on my bed, waiting for it not to be too late in the evening to play. I tried it out in the school and it's just gorgeous -- really deep and mellow and incredibly loud. I'm somewhat in raptures over it.

So that's my bad thing/good thing story. The good thing wins.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Have fun. I think I know what you mean about the bigger sexier coolness - tjej let me try playing her cello once...