...That the days are never long enough? Well, it's true.

I'm working on another update (or, in this case, rather cosmetic surgery <g>) of my homepage, and that's taking up far more time than I anticipated. God, I simply can't stand any more html-editing!!! <groans>

And I've fallen hard for another fandom, and above all, that's "Magnificent Seven". Where I haven't seen more than the pilot and, after watching that, had decided that this series wasn't worth an hour of my Saturday mornings. Well, again, I'd have better kept silent instead of uttering a convinced "Never!" because right now, I've. Got. It. Bad.

It can all be traced back to "Houston Knights". Really.
An author there got me hooked by her series, "Partners, Friends and Lovers" <waves at Katherine>, and with the last update of Starwinder's page, there was also a mention of Katherine's new series, an Ezra/Vin novel in the Mag7 fandom. And boy -- it started out good. To make a long story short, I wasn't totally satisfied with the emotional dynamics in the Ezra/Vin pairing and started looking for my own OTP. And found it. In Chris/Ezra. Heh.

Clichéd -- perhaps.
Tall, mysterious, taciturn gunslinger who lost his family to murder and is always dressed in black
= Chris Larabee.
Apparently unreliable, always wearing a genial mask, but emotionally vulnerable gambler
= Ezra P. Standish.
Opposites attract, right? <g>
But who cares for clichés when the chemistry is perfect? No one. Exactly. And if you're lucky enough to find stories like Lumina~'s "Yearning", "Watershed" and "Offering" (which can all be found at her page), you'll be converted in the blink of an eye, too.

But--but... there's not very much more out there in the supposedly endless realms of the 'net. No long, dramatic novels. Nothing to keep you occupied for weeks. Damn. Picked another underdog pairing. <eg> Didn't even know until last weekend that Chris is played by Michael Biehn, he of 'Terminator'...

Oh well, seems like I'm babbling again.
Spent the last two days on a computer course, this time for a program that's supposed to simplify customs declarations for industry and commerce. So far, only the import sector part of it is working, and that after more than four years of development, and billions of German Marks. Frustrating. I'm still of the opinion (and I'm not the only one) that it'll be long out of date once it does, in fact, work properly. And options that'd be important for our office, like various search parameters, allegedly can't be programmed. Great.
Yeah, let's reduce customs' manpower and increase computerized data transmissions, jippee! Because, of course, arms, drugs and cigarettes will be openly listed in those declarations, and actual inspections of the goods will be redundant. Great. The 21st century's coming!

On the upside, though, there's the looong Easter Weekend. I'll go see some friends, get a visit from mabiana and will attend "Jesus Christ Superstar" with her on Monday. Heh. :-)