Previously, in Trip's Life...
31 January 2007 - Wednesday
Cinema: The Group Formerly Known As The Group That
Watched Twelve Kingdoms assembled to watch Wing
Chun. Well, most of the group: Ayse and Ken and their germs were
still hiding at home, and Earl had to go to Mandarin class -- okay,
some of the group! Anyway, Wing Chun is still
cute, and we determined that despite all the marrying off, it is not a
movie of Deep Feminist Shame. (The first time I saw it, maybe a decade
ago, the idea would have never crossed my mind, so apparently I am
learning. Also reading and evolving.)
Cats: So much
Marmalade-affection!
Writing: Check. Even worse than before.
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30 January 2007 - Tuesday
WWWeirdness: Sacred
Airports.
Anime: We were somewhat alarmed when the special
double-length episode of Bleach looked like it might be
allr ecap, but actually it was brief recaps with amusing commentary and
then resolution of the Soul Society arc. It looks like the next arc
(generally considered filler, alas) runs up through episode 109.
Wikipedia lists episodes through 114, but five episodes isn't much of an
arc, so presumably it will continue past that.
We've finally gotten to Melody of Oblivion that I
haven't seen before. Doom! Ghost in the Shell: doom!
Gankutsuou: DOOOOOM!
MUDding: Bryant finally remembered that TooMUSH was
one of the things running on innocence when it ate its own disk. The
search for a new machine and new admin have tentatively succeeded,
although recovering a copy of the db may not be possible.
Art: Kordel
2oo6
Cats: So orange and
cuddly!
Writing: Check.
Too by Image (Tue Jan 30 14:32:33 2007)
Will there ever be a Too again? Do you know?
Re: Too by Trip (Tue Jan 30 14:45:22 2007)
Just because I have a wizbit doesn't mean I know anything!
This suggests that the server exploded.
Re: Too by Trip (Tue Jan 30 16:07:19 2007)
More information here.
Anyone reading this want to host a very small and mostly harmless MUD?
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29 January 2007 - Monday
Cats: Marmalade
ferociously tried to capture his own tail! Round and round he went! I
don't think I've ever seen an adult cat do that before! (He was
eventually successful, probably because he has So Much Tail.)
Writing: Check. Still crappy.
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28 January 2007 - Sunday
HAPPY HAPPY EARL-DAY!!
Gaming: We did actually finish up Don't Rest Your
Head, although not in a very climactic way. Apparently my one GMing
ability is improvised description. NPCs, narrative arc, climactic
battles, not so much. Oh well.
Next fortnight: Agon, the competitive RPG of Greek heroes given
quests by the gods!
Television: Marith came over to watch an episode of
Dead Like Me. Only five episodes to go, so the slope must
be steepening!
Cats: Marmalade is a
very fresh boy cat!
Writing: Check.
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27 January 2007 - Saturday
Amazon Quartet of Justice XIIa: "Civil War! Tigris Splits in Two!"
Unable to do anything with Queen Ditte in her current state, the
Amazons turn their attention to some aspects of their great plan to save
the world that have been neglected for a few days.
Their first stop is Rati, where Fresa charms her dwarven scholar into
beginning the research process on yuan-ti tentacle grafts, and Natalya and
Marika split off to search for the murderer of Natalya's urchin. Some of the blondes
rescued from the Plane of Snakes are
also dropped off at this point.
Next is Louistown, the capital of Orleans, where the remaining
blondes are returned to their homes, and the local syndics are enlisted
in the Great Plan.
In Nööl, even Gabrielle's astounding diplomatic talents
aren't enough to overcome the bribery being applied to the neutral
councillors. Shinbo doesn't want to be seen with Amaryllis, but he does
recommend that she contact the mysterious person known only as... Joe.
Amaryllis puts out the word that she's looking for Joe, and he
obligingly appears in her quarters after she has retired. The people he
represents want to be on the winning side, but aren't sure which side that
will be. They propose a duel to the death between the Amazons and a team
from the opposition, with the support of Joe's backers going to the side
which best proves its ability. Amaryllis accepts on behalf of the Amazons,
on the unstated premise that if things seem to be going poorly, they can
forfeit the match and then overthrow Nööl's government.
Finally, back to the forest outside Tigris, where strange people
were spotted previously. It turns out that the people in the forest are
those citizens of Tigris who followed Princess Lisbet when she fled from
her older siblings who wanted to execute her for treason. Tigris teeters
on the brink of civil war!
To add fuel to the fire, agents of the Necrotheologians have been
committing murder and arson in Tigris and signing their work with
revolutionary slogans. They have also been lurking around the edges of
Lisbet's forest encampments, picking off patrols to reduce morale even
further.
This latter problem is exactly the sort that the Amazons feel they
can solve, so they use divination magic to set up a counter-ambush. When
enormous ravening wolverines attack, Our Heroines are ready! The beasts
severely wound one of Lisbet's soldiers and maul Alyra, but are then
imprisoned in a bubble of impenetrable force. Their masters exchange
spells with Amaryllis and Fresa, but are soon driven off. Unfortunately,
they return while Amaryllis and Gabrielle are finishing off the
wolverines and nearly kill Fresa with tentacles of darkness! Only the
famous dwarven luck lets her dispel the tentacles before being
crushed to death!
The villains make their escape and have taken measures against being
scryed upon, leaving the Quartet nominally victorious, but triumphant.
Something must be done!
Back in Rati, Stephan's friend hasn't uncovered much about yuan-ti
grafts, but a number of magic shops have been looted and burned to the
ground, including the one Gabrielle had hired to upgrade her bow.
Something definitely must be done!
(If you were wondering, Amaryllis's new spells are wall of
force, disintegrate, and Bigby's grasping hand.
The best theory for why boots of flying and broom of
flying are priced the way they are is that the broom has a
weight limit that might prevent a half-ogre in full plate without a bag
of holding from using it. That may have been the actual reasoning
of the designers, but it's still pretty bogus.)
Cats: They seem to have
survived my 13-hour absence without either dying or destroying the
apartment.
Writing: Check, if I get to count the words from
yesterday, which I do, because I didn't get back until after 22:00.
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26 January 2007 - Friday
Cats: Orange, orange, so
very orange!
Writing: FAILURE. Some words, but not 250. Couldn't
focus at all.
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25 January 2007 - Thursday
Browser Game: This wacky thing
(dunno what the actual name is). Remove struts without the star dipping
below the red line, move on to the next stage when you think you've done
all you can on the current one. My high score is 97, although I'm not
sure I could repeat it.
Anime: Second disc of Genshiken.
They're wackier in the manga.
Cats: Marmalade jumped
up on my shoulder and made sure I was aware of his tail!
Writing: Check. Still horrible.
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24 January 2007 - Wednesday
Gaming: Ayse is all sick, so Ken had to take care of
her, so no Dragon-Blooded for us tonight.
Anime: My Beautiful Girl Mari, which is
actually Korean (I think). Enh. Not enough bizarre fantasy world, too
much obnoxious 12-year-olds in a small town. The bizarre fantasy world
is very pretty, though!
Cats: I remembered to
turn down the heat in the living room before going to bed (instead of
remembering when I was already in bed and not caring enough to get up,
which is what I usually do), so I was covered in cats all night!
Writing: Check. Hm, those words need fixing. But
there are more than 250 of them, so that's enough for tonight.
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23 January 2007 - Tuesday
Anime: Finally we watched the Full Metal
Alchemist[1] movie, The Conqueror of Shamballa! It
was pretty good, although some bits were not as explained as they might
have been. (Plus, er, Noah's really hot.)
[1] I initially typed that as "Full Mewtal Alchemist". Now I am
afraid that Marmalade is going to turn my laptop into gooshyfood.
I think the ending of the movie is mixed, but predominately happy
because of what Al does. People who disagree with me are Just Plain
Wrong.
Cats: Miau!
Writing: Check. Managed to put off having to think
of new stuff for another 250 words.
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22 January 2007 - Monday
HAPPY HAPPY BRYANT-DAY!!
Work: Bah. Also, humbug!
Cats: So very very
orange!
Writing: Check. Ack, I seem to be getting to the
part where I have to think of more stuff. Maybe I'll switch to one of
the other things I'm working on that hasn't quite reached that point
yet.
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21 January 2007 - Sunday
Gaming: Finally we have played Ken's D&D game again!
We even sort of remembered what we were doing, and then advanced the
plot from there! Plus, Alazaïs enslaved a half-orc/half-succubus
with her breasts! Next session, we try to cleanse the catacombs of
wraiths, which should go fairly well if we prepare properly and remember
to use all our plusses.
Cats: So much
purrbucketing!
Writing: FAILURE. I came back from gaming, and there
were all these CATS! It is very difficult to write with cats!
But I did write a couple of sentences, and with the almost-double
writing from Friday, I can feel not too bad. Kinda. Wum.
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20 January 2007 - Saturday
Cinema: Last weekend we failed, but this weekend we
have triumphed! Earl and Cat and I saw Pan's Labyrinth this
afternoon, and it was pretty good. Not perfect, and definitely not for
the faint of heart, but pretty good.
Art: Following interesting pictures from Ursula
Vernon's deviantart galleryand then from those galleries and so on
has led me to some nice pictures. Nashya has lots of nice
stuff, Dustmeat and
kyoht have some, noah-kh is weird in a
vaguely Royo-esque way, Keithwormwood is
just plain weird. I like arphalia's work possibly
out of proportion to its actual merits.
Reading: Off Armageddon Reef, by David
Weber, who has apparently given up trying to make starships fight like
19th-century sailing ships and gone for actual sailing ships. Plus, the
heroine has to disguise herself as a boy to go to sea!
Anime: Finished the first disc of
DNAngel, which is definitely in the Maho Shonen genre. I
don't know if this genre existed before, or if there are any other
examples, but that is clearly what this is.
Then, since I was still conscious, I watched some King of
Bandits Jing. I really want to like Jing more than I
actually do, because it is so surreal and full of imagery, but sadly my
tastes cannot be changed by an act of will.
Cats: Marmalade appears
to bear no grudge against me for the vet visit.
Writing: Check.
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19 January 2007 - Friday
Work: This global search and replace should not
really be that hard. Plus, I could have done it manually in the time
it's taken me to not manage to automate it. Bah.
Web Games: The laser game. I got up through
16/25 without much trouble in a massive orgy of reflection, took a while
for 17, and am now stuck on 18.
I also tried Ringmania, which is like Tetris or Bejeweled but
in polar coordinates[1], but it didn't really grab me.
[1] I would like to trademark the phrase, "Tetris in the round" now.
Cats: Ayse, Jinian,
Marmalade, and I all went to the vet! The cats sang the Internationale
or some other revolutionary anthem the whole way there, but once we got
them into the examining room, Marmalade calmed down. I think he was
really just expressing solidarity with Jinian, not protesting the
outrageousness of his treatment. Jinian was outraged enough for the both
of them, though, and growled and swore and squirmed while having her
blood drawn and her teeth inspected and her chest irradiated (Dr Johnson
couldn't inspect her lungs via stethoscope because there was so much
growling!). However, except for her teeth and her temper, she is a pretty
high-quality cat.
Marmalade, of course, is a splendid cat.
Writing: Check. Almost double, in fact, but I came
to a good line to stop on, so I did.
Augh! Ayse reads Breathtaking! People
are reading my words! Augh!
(But I still don't believe Marith about getting a writing LJ. LJ
would crash from the sheer awfulness and then everyone would be sad.)
words by cat (Mon Jan 22 10:45:39 2007)
You couldn't possibly break LJ. LJ has thousands of angsty teenagers with poor spelling and grammar; your words are worlds better than that. (cough Is that damning with faint praise? Or horror that, knowing how incredibly honest i am, i've actually read enough of both to make a comparison? giggle)
Re: words by Trip (Mon Jan 22 15:12:32 2007)
Aieeee!
But okay, I have to admit that I at least acknowledge the importance of grammar and spelling, even if my execution sometimes falters.
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18 January 2007 - Thursday
Anime: I don't know if it's that I choose bad anime or
that Dani and her Sleep Rays come to sit on me, but I don't seem to be able
to watch more than about an hour of anime on my own without risking
unconsciousness. (This time it was DNAngel, which is not
particularly good, but didn't seem that bad.)
Cats: Dani and her Amazing
Sleep Rays!
Writing: check. Still horrible.
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17 January 2007 - Wednesday
Inadequacy: I will never have an idea even a tenth as
cool as these[*]. I
should probably just cut off my tentacles now so I'm not tempted to
write any more.
[*] That link leads to a friends-locked entry, so if you aren't
a friend of autopope @
LJ, you won't be able to read it. Many of the people who read this
page are, though.
The Future: Massdriver
artillery! Laser point-defense systems!
Anime: Earl's class time changed, resulting in mass
confusion, so we did not meet for Twelve and a Half Kingdoms tonight.
Sniff!
Cats: Most affectionate
Marmalade ever! I wonder if he heard me talking about the vet and is
trying to butter me up so I'll have mercy on him.
Writing: check, ish. Mostly reworking old words, so
I'm not sure what the count was, but I did write. Even though I have
never had an original idea in my entire life.
Locked Journals by Dave (Wed Jan 17 13:58:18 2007)
I think it's generally considered a faux pas to make a public link to something that isn't itself publically accessible.
Re: Locked Journals by Trip (Wed Jan 17 14:41:21 2007)
Hm, maybe. Many of the people who read this are authorized to read the garget of that link, so I think it's valid to point them to it... Do you have a better suggestion for how to do so, or a convicing argument that I shouldn't?
Re: Locked Journals by Dave (Thu Jan 18 08:37:15 2007)
Well, it's possible your web page is indexed by search engines, and people who stumble upon that link unbeknownst might become frustrated, thus causing a rise in global tension levels. In general, though, I think a note to the effect that it's restricted (as you added ;) is just fine, as that helps prevent the expectation / result mismatch.
Re: Locked Journals by Trip (Thu Jan 18 11:59:41 2007)
Once I consumed some neural matter, I just asked, and that's pretty much what autopope said, so apparently it is all good.
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16 January 2007 - Tuesday
Reading: Finished In the Company of Crows and
Ravens (John M Marzluff, Tony Angell). Even accounting for the
pro-corvid bias (would you spend years researching and writing
about something you didn't like?), crows and ravens are pretty cool.
Prime for uplift, if only we could figure out where to attach the
tentacles.
Anime: Neil had to bail due to family emergency, so
we put off the Full Metal Alchemist movie until next week,
in favor of another helping of the usual doom. Melody of
Oblivion: doom! Bleach: doom! Ghost in the
Shell: political doom! Gankutsuou: so much DOOOOM!
Cats: Yay purrbucketing!
Writing: check.
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15 January 2007 - Monday
Work: Die! Die, tickets! Die!
Anime: Watched one episode of Bottle
Fairies, moved it to the Book Buyers pile.
Cats: They probably
aren't grateful that I went out into the cold to get them food
and litter, but they should be!
Writing: check.
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14 January 2007 - Sunday
Gaming: Second session of Don't Rest Your Head. Jeremy
made a reasonable (okay, appropriate) character, but being dropped into the
middle of the insanity instead of working into gradually denied him the
chance to form a strong bond with the other PCs. Fortunately it was easy to
convert PC-vs-GM mechanics into PC-vs-PC mechanics.
The middle of the session was pretty limp, probably because I was
unable to express, "Make your plan, I'll set the pain dice accordingly"
in a way that felt like it would actually answer Earl's question about
how much to bite off in a single roll. However, once the giant frog got
involved, things picked up and stayed fairly actiontastic through the
end of the session.
When we broke, the PCs had just escaped the Smythe mansion in Piney
Valley, leaving it burning behind them. The biology grad student had the
lacquered body of his crush, the conspiracy theory grad student had a
sack full of records that might explain his dark past, the were-panther
had a belly full of human flesh, and the doctor had the lacquered body
of his dead girlfriend, with Maladicta Smythe's black heart sewn into
her chest. Among the four of them, they also have a dozen disembodied
heads of which one may belong to the typist at the Other Market
building.
If I can work up a resolution for the conspiracy theorist and the
werepanther, we can probably wrap up in one more session. I'm not sure
what we'll do then.
Anime: Big War. I have no idea why I
made Greencine bring this to me.
Cats: With a cat on my
lap, I can still type. With a cat in my arms, I can still play Spaceward
Ho!. But with a cat in my lap and another cat in my arms, I can't do
anything except snuggle them!
Writing: check. Still awful.
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13 January 2007 - Saturday
Books: Ayse and I got up early and scuttled to Book
Buyers with a huge pile of books, then scuttled back home without the
books. Later, I got a phone call informing me that BB had taken all of
my eight bags minus two individual books, in exchange for more than six
hundred dollars of credit.
I have officially Made Out Like A Bandit.
Muahahahahah.
TV: Marith came over to watch some more Dead
LIke Me. Oh, the doom!
Cats: Zen Master
Marmalade assumed Sphinx Stance atop the television, closed his eyes,
and meditated!
Writing: check.
making out like a bandit by kit (Mon Jan 15 14:28:30 2007)
Wow, you sure did. That's amazing. O.O
Re: making out like a bandit by Trip (Tue Jan 16 11:53:55 2007)
So much credit! If you ever come to visit, I will buy you many books!
And I still have another entire library full of books to prune...
Dead Like Me by Dave (Tue Jan 16 13:55:13 2007)
is that the series where the main character gets hit on by zombie chicks?
Re: Dead Like Me by Trip (Tue Jan 16 14:15:11 2007)
No, and also you are very silly, Dave.
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12 January 2007 - Friday
Work: Hey! That's a lot like working! W00t!
Books: Finished Daughter of Hounds
(Caitlín Kiernan). As a Heteronormative Tool of the Patriarchy,
all my opinions about books are wrong and evil, but I liked it anyway.
Mmm, San loss.
Anime: Mezzo Forte, which is a prequel
or sequel or AU or something to Mezzo, but much more
violent. Entertaining, but not for the faint of heart.
Cats: Double kittypile!
Oof! But so cute!
Marmalade knocked a vase off the TV so that it broke, and I had to
pause the anime and shoo the cats away and quickly assemble my vacuum
cleaner so I could make sure there were no tiny fragments waiting to
attack bare feet. My new vacuum cleaner is mighty. It pleases me.
Maybe tomorrow I will actually move everything off the floor and
vacuum it all.
Writing: check.
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11 January 2007 - Thursday
Work: I though I might have escaped the hell of
Unicode conversions, but I was quite wrong.
Chores: This evening I found a new way to get
from the train station to Lee's, picked up my comics and was home by
19:00, did laundry, packed eight bags full of comics and books I can
live without (stopped only by running out of bags) and carried them all
over to Ayse's, and remade my bed (which is more of a production than
you might think, given the number of objects that have to be carefully
removed and replaced before I get to the sheets). Yet, I do not feel
that I have justified my claims to be a self-sufficient adult.
Maybe I should unpack my vacuum cleaner and use it, but that would
mean I couldn't use the floor as storage space...
Cats: Shoulder-mounted
purrbucket!
Writing: check.
self-sufficient adult by marith (Fri Jan 12 19:04:37 2007)
Well, of course not. No cat person is ever self-sufficient. Marmalade and Dani have no idea how you ever managed to keep house without them!
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10 January 2007 - Wednesday
Work: Hey, is that working? Kinda!
Gaming: Wow, I still suck so much at role-playing. I
think I'll stay here under this rock for ever and ever.
Cats: Purrbucket!
Writing: check.
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9 January 2007 - Tuesday
HAPPY HAPPY HAROLD-DAY!!
Work: You know, I think I'm completely side-tracking
myself.
Anime: This time, I was not late to Tuesday
Night Anime!
So much doom! Doom for everyone!
I should try to schedule the Full Metal Alchemist movie
sometime. Maybe next week.
Cats: Oof, double
kittypile!
Writing: check.
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8 January 2007 - Monday
Work: Blargh. Why are you doing this, web server?
Anime: The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear,
which was not quite as sad as I feared, but still pretty sad. :(
Cats: When I tried to go
to work, Marmalade scaled me! I had a terrible time trying to
get him off, because I didn't want him to rend either my flesh or my
parasite shirt, and anyway he was being all purry and affectionate,
which I want to encourage, but finally I dislodged him and ran to my
bus. Fortunately he seems to have forgiven me.
Writing: check. Still horrible.
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7 January 2007 - Sunday
Cinema: Marith and I both got up before noon to go
see Curse of the Golden Flower with Earl and Cat. Here is
my short review:
Augh! The doom! The colors! The doom! The cast of thousands! The
doom! The breasts! The DOOOOOM!
And did I mention the doom? But it was spectacularly gorgeous and
tragic.
Anime: Professor Shino's Classes in
Seduction, which was not too bad. It at least tried to be
sex-positive, and had limited non-con. But still. I am saddened by
humans.
Gaming: Ken cancelled D&D because he has been
socialed for three days straight and has to go to work tomorrow. This is
sad, but understandable.
On the other tentacle, I levelled up Amaryllis except for one feat, two
skill points, and three spells known. Making decisions is hard!
Cats: Dani kept jumping
off my lap to go do Important Cat Stuff, but she always came back!
Writing: check. My writing is so horrible. So very
very horrible.
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6 January 2007 - Saturday
Board Games: Ayse, Dave, Ken and I went over to Neil
and Stacy's to introduce them to the wonders of the World of Warcraft
board game. This took much longer than we had expected, even after
taking into account that it would take longer than we expected, but
Stacy made us some pasta so we did not have to resort to cannibalism.
The Horde (Ken, Neil, Stacy) found the end boss and jumped him first,
but then rolled for crap and were wiped out. Since the Alliance now knew
where the end boss was lurking, we were able to run over there and mug
him before the Horde had recovered, and we did not roll poorly.
Yay us!
Neil and Stacy's larva was pretty cute. He can wave!
Anime: Angelium. Enh. I think
XXXenophile has spoiled me for visual porn.
Cats: I am covered in
the orange shedding of love!
Writing: check.
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5 January 2007 - Friday
Work: Least productive week ever.
Weekend: Marith and I went over to Ayse's to
entertain her while Ken sucked the blood out of LARPers in San
Francisco. This mostly consisted of me playing Okami while the
womenfolks discussed literature, because I am all lowbrow like that. But
it was nice to have people to listen to while waiting for the stupid
STUPID cut scene creature to finish so I could try the Konohana Shuffle
again.
VICTORY!
All that monster-hunting with circle-based techniques paid
off, because I was able to whip out vaguely circular figures within the
time limit, and eventually (with a suggestion from Ayse) get the computer
to apply them to the second through fifth targets instead of to the
background.
My, Sakuya is wearing even less now.
I had to do a lot more plot because I couldn't find a save point. The
horror.
Cats: So cuddly and
orange and furry and warm!
Writing: check.
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4 January 2007 - Thursday
Work: Okay, that's sort of functional. Ish.
Ow, my brain.
Anime: I finished watching Quiet Country
Cafe. It was pretty, and cute, and I don't demand those minutes
of my life back, but nothing happened. It was the most uneventful anime
I have ever seen.
However, I now have much more anime than I did before, including the
last discs of Gankutsuo and Ghost in the
Shell, and the Full Metal Alchemist movie.
Muahahaha!
Intarwebs: I've been reading the Planetocopia, which
is moderately entertaining. I've spotted a few scientific errors, the
author does tend to use his ideas more than once, and a lot of his sapient
species are, um, bonoboriffic, but still. Planets! With climate!
Cats: Meer!
Writing: check. Still lame.
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3 January 2007 - Wednesday
Work: Starting to become slightly less zomboidal. I
think I actually produced two lines of perl today!
Anime: Cat and Earl determined that they had seen
enough of us over the past couple of weeks and begged off Anime Sampler
Platter Night. Sniff!
I tried to watch Quiet Country Cafe so I can return it
to Carl, but it was too quiet to be watched when I was already
somnolent. I will have to continue when I am more awake.
Cats: So orange and
furry!
Writing: check. Still lame, of course.
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2 January 2007 - Tuesday
Work: I think my brain is still on vacation. My
metabolism is probably with it.
Anime: First Tuesday Night Anime of the new year! I
sucked by being late, but I did show up with all the anime that was on
the schedule, so I guess it was okay.
Ghost in the Shell: I think Marith covers it pretty
well.
Bleach: Byakhee-boy epitomizes why aristocrats are evil
and should be killed on sight. (Personally, I just think he's jealous of
Ichigo's cool new threads.)
Melody of Oblivion: Surreal! With doom! And a vaguely
interesting ethical question.
Gankutsuo: <zim>So much doooom! It impennnnds!</zim>
Cats: So orange! And
Danisnuggles!
Writing: check, for what little it matters.
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1 January 2007 - Monday
Today: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Is it the future yet? I want my full cyborg conversion.
Vacation: Despite having very many people, the
Zables' New Year Brunch wasn't too bad. Sadly, Marith was still sick,
but many other people I know were there. Also sadly, although less so, I
did not divine that purple was the spontaneous color of the party, so I
wore a blue Ursula-art shirt instead of the purple one.
Because I am lame, I failed to take Angie her present. On the other
hand, there was a food dirigible. Also, Loli-Cat! Yike!
In the afternoon, I played some more Okami, starting over from the
save point just before the Infamous Konohana Shuffle and avoiding that
cut scene like the plague that it is. Thus, I did not advance the plot
any, but I did get better at drawing circles and exploding entire gangs
of imps with cherry bombs, and also defeated all except one of the
monsters on the Moon Shrine's hit list.
Eventually Ken made such big cute eyes at Ayse and me to help try out
his new acquisition, Twilight Imperium, that we did. It had many rules,
but they were fairly consistent and we did pretty much have them all
figured out by the time fear of the impending work week forced us to
declare Ayse the winner and put the 3298572396532 fiddly bits away.
Anime: Kakurenbo, which is about kids
playing hide and seek with demons. Or something. A whole DVD for half an
hour of fairly pretty and creepy but ultimately not-terribly-pointful
doom. Bah.
Hatred: Stupid interference in MY bandwidth. Stupid
anime not being in MY hands by now when it's scheduled to be shown
tomorrow. Stupid prescriptions not automatically refilling. I am filled
with seething hatred for the entire world (except mony).
Cats: Slightly less
neglected!
Writing: FAILURE. I still suck.
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