I went for another walk yesterday (Thursday) afternoon in-between working on the Fashion Show handouts. I walked about eight blocks north, then one block west, then about eight more blocks north, then two blocks east, and then basically straight home from there.
This week has been awefully pleasant as far as weather is concerned. On Tuesday it was actually warm enough so that the house's heating system didn't have to turn on during the day. Yesterday it did rain around noontime, but only for a little bit (just enough to make the ground moist). I like the word "moist."
Carrie had a split-shift and we made pizzas for dinner. In the evening I worked some more. I'll be done with these fashion show handouts on Saturday, so maybe I'll have more interesting stuff to write about then? Probably not...
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Friday, March 31, 2006
Walkies
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
I Love More than Just Egg
Apparently the creators of the intarweb phenom known as the "I Love Egg Song" are more prolific than you might have thought. This site has a list of other songs written by the same people, a company known as Barunson. They're all in Korean (including the "I Love Egg Song"), but maybe someday some enterprising soul will translate them just as the I Love Egg song was translated.
The World can only hold its breath and hope for that day.
The World can only hold its breath and hope for that day.
posted by Christopher at 9:28 PM
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Dude, Run!
Yesterday (Wednesday) Carrie only worked at work for about three hours in the morning before coming home to work on handouts some more with me. Arount 3:00 she went down to Ever After to pick up her jewelry checks, and I got a mild headache, so I took a Tylenol and tried to find something to watch on the TV. I found a couple of episodes of a Golgo 13 cartoon, and watched maybe ten mintues of each.
For din-dins I made myself a big chicken breast that had been marinating in soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, and pepper for over a day. I made some egg noodles with carrots to go with it. It was really good, but it was a lot. I have more to eat today.
Carrie drove herself back to the store to teach class on account of I wasn't gonna be needing the car at all. I worked on handouts and watched a new episode of Ghost Hunters.
I slept a little better last night than the night before. I woke up in the middle of the night with a really bad headache at one point, though. After Carrie got me some Tylenol and I fell back asleep I had a really long "complicated building" dream about Pixar. There was a book/DVD store in there, and both Conan O'Brien and Mark McKinney worked at Pixar in my dream.
For din-dins I made myself a big chicken breast that had been marinating in soy sauce, rice vinegar, sugar, and pepper for over a day. I made some egg noodles with carrots to go with it. It was really good, but it was a lot. I have more to eat today.
Carrie drove herself back to the store to teach class on account of I wasn't gonna be needing the car at all. I worked on handouts and watched a new episode of Ghost Hunters.
I slept a little better last night than the night before. I woke up in the middle of the night with a really bad headache at one point, though. After Carrie got me some Tylenol and I fell back asleep I had a really long "complicated building" dream about Pixar. There was a book/DVD store in there, and both Conan O'Brien and Mark McKinney worked at Pixar in my dream.
posted by Christopher at 9:29 AM
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Never Mind!
Link of the Month:
Bubblegum Fink
Well, it would seem that Bubblegum Fink decided to start up his website again after a massive outpouring of disappointment over closing it down. So now it's my link of the month again. For the last couple of days of the month. Sigh.
Bubblegum FinkWell, it would seem that Bubblegum Fink decided to start up his website again after a massive outpouring of disappointment over closing it down. So now it's my link of the month again. For the last couple of days of the month. Sigh.
posted by Christopher at 8:12 PM
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Micro-wave Bye Bye
I forgot to update once again this morning. Thankfully yesterday (Tuesday) was mostly uneventful, so there is not much to forget.
I took Carrie to work in the morning, where she stayed for only a short time before I picked her up and took her to Linnea's so she could care for her there. She came back home in the early afternoon.
For lunch we discovered that the microwave I'd bought on Monday was randomly cutting in and out. And by "cutting in and out" I mean "losing power completely so that not even the clock is lit up and then regaining power without explanation." I tried other things in the outlet to make sure it wasn't the outlet's fault, and I even plugged other things into the outlet at the same time (via an extension cord) to make sure that the outlet wasn't being somehow overloaded. It wasn't. The microwave were bus-tehd!
So later in the afternoon I took it back to Target and exchanged it for one that was about seven dollars more expensive, but of a much higher quality. It is actually working. Weird.
I made Yoshida Salmon for din-dins again with a side of mixed vegetables (heavy on the green beans). Carrie also made me some parmesan toast on account of I couldn't eat very many of the vegetables.
I did not sleep well at night. I kept on having stressful dreams. Many of them were about the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest of all things. I guess my dream people got tired of waiting for it to come out and decided to write their own version.
I also felt a mathematical hallucination coming on. I hate those. Damned fractions.
I took Carrie to work in the morning, where she stayed for only a short time before I picked her up and took her to Linnea's so she could care for her there. She came back home in the early afternoon.
For lunch we discovered that the microwave I'd bought on Monday was randomly cutting in and out. And by "cutting in and out" I mean "losing power completely so that not even the clock is lit up and then regaining power without explanation." I tried other things in the outlet to make sure it wasn't the outlet's fault, and I even plugged other things into the outlet at the same time (via an extension cord) to make sure that the outlet wasn't being somehow overloaded. It wasn't. The microwave were bus-tehd!
So later in the afternoon I took it back to Target and exchanged it for one that was about seven dollars more expensive, but of a much higher quality. It is actually working. Weird.
I made Yoshida Salmon for din-dins again with a side of mixed vegetables (heavy on the green beans). Carrie also made me some parmesan toast on account of I couldn't eat very many of the vegetables.
I did not sleep well at night. I kept on having stressful dreams. Many of them were about the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest of all things. I guess my dream people got tired of waiting for it to come out and decided to write their own version.
I also felt a mathematical hallucination coming on. I hate those. Damned fractions.
posted by Christopher at 8:01 PM
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
whack pam sock vronk kapow rakkk ooooff zap boff splatt splatt zlonk
Finally, someone has catalogued all of the onomatopoeias from Batman, the original 60s series. They even have pages that say what ones were used in what episodes.posted by Christopher at 2:14 PM
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An Evening with Malena
When yesterday (Monday) began, it was a day like any other day [ominous music]. Took Carrie to work, bought her coffee; had sushi for breakfast; worked on Fashion Show instructions; the usual.
Carrie didn't come home for lunch, though. Instead she went out with Nyki to The Rosewood Café. She did call me around 3:00 to come pick her up, as her plan was to work from home on those selfsame Fashion Show instructions with me.
What ended up happening, though, was she went and picked up Lena due to Jay having ruinated one of his ankles and Linnea being thoroughly sick with flu-like symptoms. So Carrie & I took their daughter off their hands from about 3:30 'til almost 11:00 at night, so they could both go to the doctor and get checked out.
We're pretty good at entertaining young kids. Carrie even went so far as to dress Lena up as a princess:
Carrie made really fantastic chicken-noodle soup for dinner, and in the evening Melissa stopped by to help us a little bit.
Then tragedy struck: our microwave died. After a quick examination I pronounced it beyond my expertise to fix, so around 8:30 I drove up to Target and bought their least expensive model microwave as a replacement, and took the old one down into the basement.
Even though we had a three-year-old running around for the entire evening I still managed to work for a couple more hours, and between us Carrie & I got got a tonne of dishes washed.
We were glad we could be there for that family; they're good people. We like them.
Carrie didn't come home for lunch, though. Instead she went out with Nyki to The Rosewood Café. She did call me around 3:00 to come pick her up, as her plan was to work from home on those selfsame Fashion Show instructions with me.
What ended up happening, though, was she went and picked up Lena due to Jay having ruinated one of his ankles and Linnea being thoroughly sick with flu-like symptoms. So Carrie & I took their daughter off their hands from about 3:30 'til almost 11:00 at night, so they could both go to the doctor and get checked out.
We're pretty good at entertaining young kids. Carrie even went so far as to dress Lena up as a princess:
Carrie made really fantastic chicken-noodle soup for dinner, and in the evening Melissa stopped by to help us a little bit.
Then tragedy struck: our microwave died. After a quick examination I pronounced it beyond my expertise to fix, so around 8:30 I drove up to Target and bought their least expensive model microwave as a replacement, and took the old one down into the basement.
Even though we had a three-year-old running around for the entire evening I still managed to work for a couple more hours, and between us Carrie & I got got a tonne of dishes washed.
We were glad we could be there for that family; they're good people. We like them.
posted by Christopher at 8:58 AM
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Monday, March 27, 2006
Zoo Without You
Sunday morning Linnea dropped off Lena, and Carrie took her to the zoo for a couple of hours whilst I stayed home and did some cleaning and caught up on my intarweb stuffs. The two o' them came back and Lena hung out at the house for a little bit before Linnea swung by and picked her up again.
Shortly thereafter practice happened.
In the evening... um... what did happen? I remember making breaded cod for dinner, with a side of roasted potatoes for me (carrie made a stir-fried vegetable side for herself). I don't remember much else. That's what I get for not writing stuff down early in the morning of the next day.
Shortly thereafter practice happened.
In the evening... um... what did happen? I remember making breaded cod for dinner, with a side of roasted potatoes for me (carrie made a stir-fried vegetable side for herself). I don't remember much else. That's what I get for not writing stuff down early in the morning of the next day.
posted by Christopher at 9:36 PM
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I'm Gonna Punch You Out
Courtesy of Japan: Live Action Mike Tyson's Punchout
posted by Christopher at 7:26 PM
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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Secretion Sauce
Yesterday (Saturday) Carrie & I were going to go out for breakfast, as is our weekend habit nowadays. So we went over to the Milwaukee Café, but it was absolutely packed and the staff wasn't very friendly, so we ended up heading on home.
On the way we ran into Kris Brannon. He asked what the format for Fools Play was going to be, and for the life of me I couldn't remember!
Anyway, Carrie & I made ourselves breakfast. I made a turkey and mushroom omelette, and Carrie made a veggie scramble. Both were teh delixious!
I had a grumpy time about money when I discovered I didn't have enough in my checking account to cover the checks I'd written earlier in the week. I had to get some money out of Carrie's account (and the ATM at Fred Meyer's what busted so I had to go all the way over to the other bonk). It's kinda frustrating that no matter how much money we make we always seem to run out.
Carrie was going with Sophia to see a Bye Bye Birdie (choreographed by Steph) in the evening, so she needed the car. Thankfully, the Geoffs was able to pick me up after picking up Jason, and the three of us headed on down to Olympia.
Yesterday was also Sakura-Con 2007. Most of our audience is made up of geeks, and geeks like the animé. Most of our audience had said they were going to the convention, so we Fools figured that we were going to have one tiny audience. Not so. It was one of the biggest audiences we'd had outside of a special even show (like FPRL or something of that magnitude). Not only that, but almost everybody who went to the convention also ended up coming down to Olympia and seeing our show anyway!
It was a crazy funny show (Fools Play Miniseries, about atomic scientists—I played the Atomic Cop who made sure that nothing violated the laws of physics, and Dr. Motion, who wanted to become the bigwig of the town), and there were a lot of new people in the audience. There were two girls off to the left of the audience who were new and were laughing their heads off. Hopefully all the new people will come back (although those two girls might have been there with a parent, and we did end the night with a scene involving horribly inappropriate sexual humor, so they might not be allowed to come back).
Afterwards three full table-loads of people went to the Rib Eye for good times. Sandy and Mathias were really sleepy (especially Sandy), but thankfully Leia was driving them around.
On the way back home Geoff, Jason, and I played the "Man Man" game. The two men I can remember are "Mirror Man" and "Secretion Man." Secretion Man happened because when Jason said, "Secretion," I blurted out, "Sauce!"
On the way we ran into Kris Brannon. He asked what the format for Fools Play was going to be, and for the life of me I couldn't remember!
Anyway, Carrie & I made ourselves breakfast. I made a turkey and mushroom omelette, and Carrie made a veggie scramble. Both were teh delixious!
I had a grumpy time about money when I discovered I didn't have enough in my checking account to cover the checks I'd written earlier in the week. I had to get some money out of Carrie's account (and the ATM at Fred Meyer's what busted so I had to go all the way over to the other bonk). It's kinda frustrating that no matter how much money we make we always seem to run out.
Carrie was going with Sophia to see a Bye Bye Birdie (choreographed by Steph) in the evening, so she needed the car. Thankfully, the Geoffs was able to pick me up after picking up Jason, and the three of us headed on down to Olympia.
Yesterday was also Sakura-Con 2007. Most of our audience is made up of geeks, and geeks like the animé. Most of our audience had said they were going to the convention, so we Fools figured that we were going to have one tiny audience. Not so. It was one of the biggest audiences we'd had outside of a special even show (like FPRL or something of that magnitude). Not only that, but almost everybody who went to the convention also ended up coming down to Olympia and seeing our show anyway!
It was a crazy funny show (Fools Play Miniseries, about atomic scientists—I played the Atomic Cop who made sure that nothing violated the laws of physics, and Dr. Motion, who wanted to become the bigwig of the town), and there were a lot of new people in the audience. There were two girls off to the left of the audience who were new and were laughing their heads off. Hopefully all the new people will come back (although those two girls might have been there with a parent, and we did end the night with a scene involving horribly inappropriate sexual humor, so they might not be allowed to come back).
Afterwards three full table-loads of people went to the Rib Eye for good times. Sandy and Mathias were really sleepy (especially Sandy), but thankfully Leia was driving them around.
On the way back home Geoff, Jason, and I played the "Man Man" game. The two men I can remember are "Mirror Man" and "Secretion Man." Secretion Man happened because when Jason said, "Secretion," I blurted out, "Sauce!"
posted by Christopher at 10:12 PM
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Saturday, March 25, 2006
Concrete Thoughts & Ideas
Yesterday (Friday) after work I made my patented (not really, but might as well be) salmon patty sammitches for dinner, with my patented (see above) lemon-garlic sauce and havarti cheese. They're shockingly delicious considering that I made them. I think they might be one of my "three foods."
"Three foods?" you ask. Well, Robert Rodriguez recommends that you find three meals that you love and get so that you can make them really excellently on a consistent basis, and then try to keep all the ingredients for these meals on hand at all time. I know one of my meals is obviously homemade macaroni & cheese, because I kick ass at that (especially when I make a big batch). I think these salmon sammitches might be another. I'm not sure what my third one would be... yet.
After din-dins Carrie & I went to Pier One Imports, Cost Plus World Market, and Michael's so that I could get ideas for my upcoming submission to TideFest. I ended up totally changing gears, and it threw up a tonne of mental dust that only now is beginning to coalesce into concrete thoughts & ideas. I think it's going to be really cool, though. More specifics later.
We came home and I dinked around on teh intarweb to distract me from the mental dust storm, while Carrie watched a whole bunch of TV that I hate. At 10:00 she made cinnamon bananas flambé over ice cream and we watched The Soup on the E! channel. I then watched a horrible show where they send celebrities on adventures all around the world. Problem is that there are seven celebrities and it's a half-hour show, so each celebrity gets maybe three minutes of airtime. I watched it because Alysson Hannigan was on it, but it turned out that Michael Rappaport was the funniest due to his constant freaking-out over any wild animal that he saw.
"Oh my god! What is that! I don't wanna get near that!"
"Three foods?" you ask. Well, Robert Rodriguez recommends that you find three meals that you love and get so that you can make them really excellently on a consistent basis, and then try to keep all the ingredients for these meals on hand at all time. I know one of my meals is obviously homemade macaroni & cheese, because I kick ass at that (especially when I make a big batch). I think these salmon sammitches might be another. I'm not sure what my third one would be... yet.
After din-dins Carrie & I went to Pier One Imports, Cost Plus World Market, and Michael's so that I could get ideas for my upcoming submission to TideFest. I ended up totally changing gears, and it threw up a tonne of mental dust that only now is beginning to coalesce into concrete thoughts & ideas. I think it's going to be really cool, though. More specifics later.
We came home and I dinked around on teh intarweb to distract me from the mental dust storm, while Carrie watched a whole bunch of TV that I hate. At 10:00 she made cinnamon bananas flambé over ice cream and we watched The Soup on the E! channel. I then watched a horrible show where they send celebrities on adventures all around the world. Problem is that there are seven celebrities and it's a half-hour show, so each celebrity gets maybe three minutes of airtime. I watched it because Alysson Hannigan was on it, but it turned out that Michael Rappaport was the funniest due to his constant freaking-out over any wild animal that he saw.
"Oh my god! What is that! I don't wanna get near that!"
posted by Christopher at 9:32 AM
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Friday, March 24, 2006
Ghost Town
Yesterday (Thursday) after I picked Carrie up for her split-shift I decided to go for a walk in order to hopefully wake up a little bit more. I ended up walking around 40 blocks total. It was really cool. The weather was great—it was almost room temperature out, but it was still pretty overcast so I didn't have to squint (the sun equals my enemy sometimes). I walked through an area I hadn't really explored before. It was pretty nice.
But one of the coolest things about it was that it was almost completely deserted. It was as if I were walking through a ghost town. There were no other people out walking, and I saw maybe three cars driving around the whole time. I guess everybody was at work like normal people. But there were a lot of cats wandering around. And a couple of sleeping dogs.
I ended up next to this small but very deep ravine in which a three-story house was built so that only the top story was even with the street level. It was very strange. I don't think I'd like to live somewhere like that. The house across the street was for sale, though, for only $450,000! Yikes! Houses are so expensive in Tacoma right now...
Anyway, when I got back home Carrie was asleep. So I worked for about an hour before she woke up. She then walked up to the Mandolin Café to hang out with Mary before she (probably) goes to Guam in a few days' time.
After I took her back to the store to teach her class I got a call from Brandy in New York and we talked about, oh, jeez, lots of stuff for about an hour. "Twas good to hear from her, 'twas. She comes home in like a month and a half! That's rather exciting.
I made pot stickers and fried carrots for din-dins. It made the house smell really, really nice. I watched some of Ang Lee's Hulk while I did two loads of dishes. I hold to my original opinion of the film: It's got four-star direction but only a two-star script. Man, that film has some of the best scene transitions evar!
Carrie came home and we ate Girl Scout cookies and watched Once More, With Feeling. Carrie had a hard time falling asleep but I had a hard time staying awake, even with Conan being hilarious with a Mr. T cameo and everything. I joked that I stole Carrie's sleep.
But one of the coolest things about it was that it was almost completely deserted. It was as if I were walking through a ghost town. There were no other people out walking, and I saw maybe three cars driving around the whole time. I guess everybody was at work like normal people. But there were a lot of cats wandering around. And a couple of sleeping dogs.
I ended up next to this small but very deep ravine in which a three-story house was built so that only the top story was even with the street level. It was very strange. I don't think I'd like to live somewhere like that. The house across the street was for sale, though, for only $450,000! Yikes! Houses are so expensive in Tacoma right now...
Anyway, when I got back home Carrie was asleep. So I worked for about an hour before she woke up. She then walked up to the Mandolin Café to hang out with Mary before she (probably) goes to Guam in a few days' time.
After I took her back to the store to teach her class I got a call from Brandy in New York and we talked about, oh, jeez, lots of stuff for about an hour. "Twas good to hear from her, 'twas. She comes home in like a month and a half! That's rather exciting.
I made pot stickers and fried carrots for din-dins. It made the house smell really, really nice. I watched some of Ang Lee's Hulk while I did two loads of dishes. I hold to my original opinion of the film: It's got four-star direction but only a two-star script. Man, that film has some of the best scene transitions evar!
Carrie came home and we ate Girl Scout cookies and watched Once More, With Feeling. Carrie had a hard time falling asleep but I had a hard time staying awake, even with Conan being hilarious with a Mr. T cameo and everything. I joked that I stole Carrie's sleep.
posted by Christopher at 9:38 AM
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Thursday, March 23, 2006
The Bangles
Yesterday (Wednesday) Carrie did not have a split-shift, but it was almost as though she did, because she came home around 1:00. See, she worked from home, just like me! We were both working on the upcoming fashion show handouts for the whole afternoon.
In the evening we went back to the store and took Mark's Bezel-Set Stone Bangle class. Christine and Lawrence showed up, too! It was like a lil party. But working with molten metal is a bitch. Getting those bangle cups to solder to the right spots was really hard. I only screwed up my first one, and then I got the hang of it. We left it in the tumbler overnight, and I got a look at it this morning—it looks pretty good! Carrie is gonna actually set the stones in it soon.
After class the four of us went over to the Parkway and hung out for an hour or so, which was also a lot of fun. We all got to explore our various levels of geekiness. I think Lawrence might have me beat a little bit in most areas, but I definitely have him beat in the toy arena.
In the evening we went back to the store and took Mark's Bezel-Set Stone Bangle class. Christine and Lawrence showed up, too! It was like a lil party. But working with molten metal is a bitch. Getting those bangle cups to solder to the right spots was really hard. I only screwed up my first one, and then I got the hang of it. We left it in the tumbler overnight, and I got a look at it this morning—it looks pretty good! Carrie is gonna actually set the stones in it soon.
After class the four of us went over to the Parkway and hung out for an hour or so, which was also a lot of fun. We all got to explore our various levels of geekiness. I think Lawrence might have me beat a little bit in most areas, but I definitely have him beat in the toy arena.
posted by Christopher at 9:47 AM
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Nap!
Yesterday (Tuesday) was terribly uneventful for me. It made me sleepy. When Carrie got home for her split-shift we ended up taking a nap for a couple of hours. Then I went to the Fred Meyer bank and bought several and various things like marmalade and tinfoil.
In the afternoon I werked some more, and then took Carrie off to teach her class. While she was doing that, I watched an episode of Good Eats (where Alton talked all about pickles) and did this quick drawing of a redhead watching TV for the Redhead Thread on the Drawing Board:
I spent the rest of the evening washing dishes and reading about the crazy history of the Marvel universe and some of its characters over at uncannyxmen.net
In the afternoon I werked some more, and then took Carrie off to teach her class. While she was doing that, I watched an episode of Good Eats (where Alton talked all about pickles) and did this quick drawing of a redhead watching TV for the Redhead Thread on the Drawing Board:
I spent the rest of the evening washing dishes and reading about the crazy history of the Marvel universe and some of its characters over at uncannyxmen.net
posted by Christopher at 10:18 AM
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Yes, There Really Is a Mr. Yoshida
Yesterday (monday) morning after dropping Carrie off at work and bringing her coffe, I helped an elderly (well, upper-middle-aged) couple who had gotten stranded at Starbucks. I bought them some gasoline. Hope it helped.
I kind of played catch-up for the rest of the day without much success. After work Carrie went with Missa to Costco 'cause Missa needed some stuff. Carrie also picked up some cheese and lunch meat and much-needed garbage bags. But the most important thing she bought was a Costco-sized new bottle of Mr. Yoshida's Sauce. For din-dins I made Yoshida Salmon, which is really, really tasty. I made green beans with bacon for my side, and Carrie made a big huge mixed vegetable thing for her side.
I then retreated to the office for the rest of the evening because Mondays now are Carrie's TV days. She watches Friends, Related, and The Apprentice, none of which I'm particularly keen on watching. I came in here and read about the Battle of Britain, due to the fact that I only had very sketch knowledge about what it entailed—I knew it consisted of a series of German air rads over England. Well, it turns out that that is the basic gist of it. But I learned all about the strategies and the horrible state of German military intelligence and all that stuff. I'm curious to see one of the movies based on it. Perhaps I could write a better one?
At 10:00 we went down to the Hob Nob and hung out with Mary & Jimbo for an hour before being overcome with extreme sleepiness. We started Season 6 of Buffy and went to bed.
I kind of played catch-up for the rest of the day without much success. After work Carrie went with Missa to Costco 'cause Missa needed some stuff. Carrie also picked up some cheese and lunch meat and much-needed garbage bags. But the most important thing she bought was a Costco-sized new bottle of Mr. Yoshida's Sauce. For din-dins I made Yoshida Salmon, which is really, really tasty. I made green beans with bacon for my side, and Carrie made a big huge mixed vegetable thing for her side.
I then retreated to the office for the rest of the evening because Mondays now are Carrie's TV days. She watches Friends, Related, and The Apprentice, none of which I'm particularly keen on watching. I came in here and read about the Battle of Britain, due to the fact that I only had very sketch knowledge about what it entailed—I knew it consisted of a series of German air rads over England. Well, it turns out that that is the basic gist of it. But I learned all about the strategies and the horrible state of German military intelligence and all that stuff. I'm curious to see one of the movies based on it. Perhaps I could write a better one?
At 10:00 we went down to the Hob Nob and hung out with Mary & Jimbo for an hour before being overcome with extreme sleepiness. We started Season 6 of Buffy and went to bed.
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Helping Hevver
Yesterday (Sunday) Carrie & I did not sleep in nearly so much as we did on Saturday. By 10:00 we were over at Chris & Heather's helping them move, along with Chris Gouker (the three Chrisses all in one place!). The most fun part for me was loading up the truck with the stuff, because I'm really good at packing. It's like a big puzzle. Or kinda like Tetris without the time limit.
My least favorite part was having to carry stuff down the rickety, narrow stairs from the apartment. Yikes! Also the fact that they didn't really have anything at all packed for the move. When Carrie & I moved from our apartment, we put everything into boxes before we had people over to help, so it was just a matter of hefting a handful of boxes rather than hefting a tonne of miscellaneous stuff.
Carrie brought me home around noon, and then got burgers for the moving party and took them back over there. I did not accompany her due to the fact that Fools Play practice happened.
Carrie was exhaused from all the moving exercise when she got home, so I made us some spaghetti for din-dins. In the evening I caught up on a whole bunch of my intarweb stuff that I hadn't had time to do yet during the weekend. Then at 11:00 I watched Boondocks for the first time. It had a good bit of funny stuff in it.
My least favorite part was having to carry stuff down the rickety, narrow stairs from the apartment. Yikes! Also the fact that they didn't really have anything at all packed for the move. When Carrie & I moved from our apartment, we put everything into boxes before we had people over to help, so it was just a matter of hefting a handful of boxes rather than hefting a tonne of miscellaneous stuff.
Carrie brought me home around noon, and then got burgers for the moving party and took them back over there. I did not accompany her due to the fact that Fools Play practice happened.
Carrie was exhaused from all the moving exercise when she got home, so I made us some spaghetti for din-dins. In the evening I caught up on a whole bunch of my intarweb stuff that I hadn't had time to do yet during the weekend. Then at 11:00 I watched Boondocks for the first time. It had a good bit of funny stuff in it.
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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Open Source Windows
I just found this fantastic guide to Free, Open-Source software for Windows. I think I might download some of this stuff... after I free up some hard drive space.
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Saturdadventure
Yesterday (Saturday) Carrie & I slept in, which was a nice (and rare) occurance. We decided to skip breakfast, even though it is the most important meal of the day, and instead to have an adventure of sorts.
We drove all the way down to Chehalis for lunch at Spiffy's, which was actually a rather charming (if slightly generic) place. I had the "Norwegian Delight" sammitch, which had roast beef, ham, and corned beef in it. They make their own bread on the premises, which sounds like a good idea, but it is so fresh and soft that it actually doesn't hold together well enough to securely hold the sammitch fixin's. It probably didn't help that my sammitch was huge. We also got bread pudding for dessert.
We drove back north and stopped at the outlet mall area of Centralia, where I bought two Mega Man toys, Protoman and Gutsman:
(Image courtesy of Inside Pulse)
Carrie & I each also bought a new pair of shoes. As much as I hate to admit it, I bought a pair of Lugz. They're super comfortable black high-tops, and they were $40 off, so that's my excuse for supporting a company that over the years has played countless horrible commercials during wrestling shows.
We got home and cleaned for a little bit before Carrie went for a walky and I had to shower and leave for Fools Play. It was Fools Play Gallery, and there was a decently-sized audience in attendence. They were much more alert for the show than they were last week.
Afterwards enough people went out to the Rib Eye that we more than filled up three entire booths. Mike, Jake & I had to sit at our own table (though later in the evening Leia and Kedar left, so I scooted to that table for a while). I had a tonne of leftovers at home, so rather than buying food I just got a peanut butter milkshake. They have some pretty amazing milkshakes at that place.
I actually would have gotten home by midnight were it not for the fact that there was some sorta accident on I-5 north that created a huge pileup across all three lanes. It used up so much time (that plus the fact that I had to stop to get gas) that I didn't get home until just after 12:30.
We drove all the way down to Chehalis for lunch at Spiffy's, which was actually a rather charming (if slightly generic) place. I had the "Norwegian Delight" sammitch, which had roast beef, ham, and corned beef in it. They make their own bread on the premises, which sounds like a good idea, but it is so fresh and soft that it actually doesn't hold together well enough to securely hold the sammitch fixin's. It probably didn't help that my sammitch was huge. We also got bread pudding for dessert.
We drove back north and stopped at the outlet mall area of Centralia, where I bought two Mega Man toys, Protoman and Gutsman:
(Image courtesy of Inside Pulse)Carrie & I each also bought a new pair of shoes. As much as I hate to admit it, I bought a pair of Lugz. They're super comfortable black high-tops, and they were $40 off, so that's my excuse for supporting a company that over the years has played countless horrible commercials during wrestling shows.
We got home and cleaned for a little bit before Carrie went for a walky and I had to shower and leave for Fools Play. It was Fools Play Gallery, and there was a decently-sized audience in attendence. They were much more alert for the show than they were last week.
Afterwards enough people went out to the Rib Eye that we more than filled up three entire booths. Mike, Jake & I had to sit at our own table (though later in the evening Leia and Kedar left, so I scooted to that table for a while). I had a tonne of leftovers at home, so rather than buying food I just got a peanut butter milkshake. They have some pretty amazing milkshakes at that place.
I actually would have gotten home by midnight were it not for the fact that there was some sorta accident on I-5 north that created a huge pileup across all three lanes. It used up so much time (that plus the fact that I had to stop to get gas) that I didn't get home until just after 12:30.
posted by Christopher at 9:13 AM
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
The Day of Patrick, Saint
Yesterday (Friday) I took Carrie to work and then went to Trader Joe's, where I bought such odds & ends as yogurt, sourdough bread, and 100% unfiltered cranberry juice.
I didn't get a good start on the day until after I picked took Carrie back to work after lunch.
Then when I picked her up from work we went to Bartell's, where I bought some much-needed hair ties and some stuff for my belly scars. Carrie got those weird womenfolk stuff what they use to wash their faces with. And hair dye.
For dinner I went down to Katie Downs and picked up a couple of pizzas. The funny thing is that when I ordered, I ordered the "Sicilian" for me and the "Great White" for Carrie, which usually comes with chicken. I specifically said, "no chicken." The woman who took my order repeated it correctly. When I went down and picked up the pizza, she put the two boxes down in front of me and said, "One Sicilian, and one Great White with no chicken."
When I got the boxes home Carrie discovered a lot of chicken on her pizza. Sigh.
Oh, well, she ate it anyway.
Then around 8:30 I drove Carrie to Steph & Katie's place to pick them up. I drove them all out to that Casino on S. Tacoma Way so they couldst dance the night away to The Boinkers, while I went home and cleaned (more on that below). Being that it was St. Patrick's Day, the place was unusually crowded (so, by the way, was Katie Downs. It was packed), so it wasn't quite as much fun as usual, but still a good time was had by the three lovelies.
Upon returning home I washed a load of dishes and tried to watch some of that new Dr. Who series they're running on Sci-Fi Channel. Being that it was Dr. Who, I promptly fell asleep. I somehow managed to wake up about four minutes before Carrie called me to come pick them up.
So I drove back down to the casino, where they were not yet outside. So I circled once and parked, then flashed my brake lights at them as they emerged from the building. On the way back to their apartment I stopped at Jack in the Box so everyone could get food. Then I dropped the ladies off at the apartment and took my wife home, where I ate my burger while she ate her jalepeno poppers.
Being that it was St. Patrick's day, I wore a green shirt most of the day. The only really green shirt that I own, though, is an old, oversized shirt from the defunct WWF New York bar in Times Square. Hi-larious.
I didn't get a good start on the day until after I picked took Carrie back to work after lunch.
Then when I picked her up from work we went to Bartell's, where I bought some much-needed hair ties and some stuff for my belly scars. Carrie got those weird womenfolk stuff what they use to wash their faces with. And hair dye.
For dinner I went down to Katie Downs and picked up a couple of pizzas. The funny thing is that when I ordered, I ordered the "Sicilian" for me and the "Great White" for Carrie, which usually comes with chicken. I specifically said, "no chicken." The woman who took my order repeated it correctly. When I went down and picked up the pizza, she put the two boxes down in front of me and said, "One Sicilian, and one Great White with no chicken."
When I got the boxes home Carrie discovered a lot of chicken on her pizza. Sigh.
Oh, well, she ate it anyway.
Then around 8:30 I drove Carrie to Steph & Katie's place to pick them up. I drove them all out to that Casino on S. Tacoma Way so they couldst dance the night away to The Boinkers, while I went home and cleaned (more on that below). Being that it was St. Patrick's Day, the place was unusually crowded (so, by the way, was Katie Downs. It was packed), so it wasn't quite as much fun as usual, but still a good time was had by the three lovelies.
Upon returning home I washed a load of dishes and tried to watch some of that new Dr. Who series they're running on Sci-Fi Channel. Being that it was Dr. Who, I promptly fell asleep. I somehow managed to wake up about four minutes before Carrie called me to come pick them up.
So I drove back down to the casino, where they were not yet outside. So I circled once and parked, then flashed my brake lights at them as they emerged from the building. On the way back to their apartment I stopped at Jack in the Box so everyone could get food. Then I dropped the ladies off at the apartment and took my wife home, where I ate my burger while she ate her jalepeno poppers.
Being that it was St. Patrick's day, I wore a green shirt most of the day. The only really green shirt that I own, though, is an old, oversized shirt from the defunct WWF New York bar in Times Square. Hi-larious.
posted by Christopher at 5:55 PM
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Friday, March 17, 2006
Gundam vs Great Mazinger
Thanks to Mike T for showing the way to this amazing footage of two remote-control robots fighting on a Japanese show. Look at how one of the robots is controlled by a kid's body motions!
posted by Christopher at 4:23 PM
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Ta-da-dump!
Yesterday (Thursday) morning while I was eating my bowl of cereal, Jay stopped by with his friend Jack, and we all loaded up Jay's truck with as much of my garbage as it could carry. We then drove it to the dump and threw it down a hole, then swung by Home Depot on the way back to pick up some lumber.
It was a very unusual morning for me.
Carrie completed work at 2:00 and spent the rest of the afternoon running errands while I worked.
We made dinner (breaded cod with lemon-garlic sauce and stir-fried vegetables with a sour cream sauce) around 7:00, and then in the evening I wrote my movie reviwew of Ultraviolet. Go ahead and read it... if'n you darest!
It was a very unusual morning for me.
Carrie completed work at 2:00 and spent the rest of the afternoon running errands while I worked.
We made dinner (breaded cod with lemon-garlic sauce and stir-fried vegetables with a sour cream sauce) around 7:00, and then in the evening I wrote my movie reviwew of Ultraviolet. Go ahead and read it... if'n you darest!
posted by Christopher at 12:53 PM
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
90%
Yesterday (Wednesday) I felt about 90% over my li'l cold that I'd caught. So I was able to do much more fun stuff, like clean off the back deck and wrangle garbage.
In the early afternoon I sat down to work on the pictures for the new Bead Factory workshop schedule. I put the CD they'd provided into my computer. I quickly discovered that it was blank.
So I drove down to the store and tested it on Missa's computer, only to find that it was still blank. So while she went to burn me a new one, I went to talk to Carrie.
It turned out she was just about to call me to come pick her up. See, she was going to have to go back in the evening to teach a class, even though she wasn't scheduled to. And she thought she was done with classes for the week! So she came home and basically slept until it was time for her to eat din-dins and then go back and teach.
In the evening I watched an all-new Ghost Hunters, and then watched about half of an all-new Mythbusters before Geoff picked me up. We went down to Lakewood and saw Ultraviolet. Believe you me, this is one film that I am definitely going to review. And soon.
In the early afternoon I sat down to work on the pictures for the new Bead Factory workshop schedule. I put the CD they'd provided into my computer. I quickly discovered that it was blank.
So I drove down to the store and tested it on Missa's computer, only to find that it was still blank. So while she went to burn me a new one, I went to talk to Carrie.
It turned out she was just about to call me to come pick her up. See, she was going to have to go back in the evening to teach a class, even though she wasn't scheduled to. And she thought she was done with classes for the week! So she came home and basically slept until it was time for her to eat din-dins and then go back and teach.
In the evening I watched an all-new Ghost Hunters, and then watched about half of an all-new Mythbusters before Geoff picked me up. We went down to Lakewood and saw Ultraviolet. Believe you me, this is one film that I am definitely going to review. And soon.
posted by Christopher at 9:30 AM
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Replacement Link of the Month
March 2006 Link of the Month Part 2:
_tangentbot
The website I originally chose to be my link of the month for March decided to close down halfway through the month! So I had to replace that sonofabitch. I made a random number generator to choose another site from my links page, and it came back with Tangentbot's site. So go visit Tangentbot and download his "song a week" creations and enjoy the electronic/IDM fun! And say, "Boo to that bear!" to the Bubblegum Fink for shutting its ass down.
_tangentbot The website I originally chose to be my link of the month for March decided to close down halfway through the month! So I had to replace that sonofabitch. I made a random number generator to choose another site from my links page, and it came back with Tangentbot's site. So go visit Tangentbot and download his "song a week" creations and enjoy the electronic/IDM fun! And say, "Boo to that bear!" to the Bubblegum Fink for shutting its ass down.
posted by Christopher at 8:38 PM
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isolatr beta
Thanks go out to Wil for pointing the way to this absolutely killer app: isolatr beta
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Yesterday I was sick so I did nothing. Seriously! I pretty much stayed on the couch and did nothing.
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Body: The Betrayer
Yesterday (Sunday) morning I woke up around 8:00 and went to the bathroom, and then couldn't fall back asleep on account of the fact that if I tried to turn my head to the right (or to look up), I got a searing, sharp pain. Yee-ouch! I came in the office here, and Carrie wandered in a while later, having been awoken by the fact that I'd never returned from the bathroom.
We'd decided to go out for breakfast a couple of days earlier, so we both took showers (it was hard to wash my hair without looking up), and I went and got the Entertianment Book from the car. It wasn't in the car, of course, but under the chair by the front door. Carrie decided on Harbor Kitchen in Gig Harbor, because we had a two-for-one coupon in that book. Plus, we think it's probably a good idea to enjoy Gig Harbor as much as possible before the new bridge is completed and we have to pay a toll to get across the water.
As we crossed the Narrows, I remarked how this new bridge would be the third major bridge to span the gap. The first being, of course, the famous Galloping Gertie.
Harbor Kitchen turned out to be more of a Coffee Shop than an actual Café. You ordered at the counter and then sat down wherever you could, and they brought the food out to you. I ordered biscuits and gravy. Carrie got the quiche of the day with fresh fruit. The food turned out to be quite tasty; the gravy seemed to be real, and had a tonne of pepper in it, which was good for me as I like pepper. The place itself was pretty cute, and was right on the harbor. It had big open windows through which the sun streamed, and a back deck that we would have gone out on had it been warmer.
We got home and I wrapped the present for the wedding shower to which Carrie was going in the afternoon. My neck was really killing me at this time, so I took some Tylenol. I straightened up the living room while Carrie got ready to go, and then I set Roomba loose on the floor while we drove to Cat's house (Cat's mom was driving the both of them up to Seattle for the shower). I drove back by myself, which probably wasn't the safest of activities considering I couldn't turn my head to the right.
Roomba was still running around when I got back. It is so unbelievably awexome to have an actual robot in my house.
Fools Play practice consisted only of me and my brother. All we did really was come up with a better way to classify our formats, and then went through the Format Forest on Fools Play Island and figured out the classifications for all the formats we've done.
After practice was over we watched a tape of TV Carnage, which was really funny but also very draining because it just goes on and on. We think there might be a Fools Play scene to be drawn from it somehow. Carrie came home from Seattle during this time, and changed into her pajamas (Linnea's baby shower was a pajama party).
A while after Michael left, Carrie was picked up by Linnea herself and they went up to Viki's to have the Bead Factory Baby Shower. I stayed home and did some dishes and watched Once Upon a Time in Mexico. See, on Saturday a package had arrived (while Sandy, Mathias, and Mike were over) that contained the Robert Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
. I didn't have any of these on DVD yet. Why not? Because I had been waiting for the trilogy to come out in a box set like this. Be warned, though: if you already own these movies on DVD, this set offers you NOTHING new; it's just the three DVDs packaged together in one box, really. But it only cost me $10 because I had a $15 gift certificate from Amazon
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While I was watching the movie and washing dishes and what-not, I discovered to my chagrin that I was rapidly becoming sick with a cold. And my neck really hurt. By the time Carrie came home well after 10:00, I had that full-blown feeling in my face that I only get when I have a cold.
In fact, the first thing I said when I woke up this morning was, "I have sick face!"
Rowr! My body has betrayed me and injured my neck and allowed me to become sick. But considering that everyone around me has been sick pretty much constantly for the past two months, I did pretty well. Doesn't make it suck any less, though.
We'd decided to go out for breakfast a couple of days earlier, so we both took showers (it was hard to wash my hair without looking up), and I went and got the Entertianment Book from the car. It wasn't in the car, of course, but under the chair by the front door. Carrie decided on Harbor Kitchen in Gig Harbor, because we had a two-for-one coupon in that book. Plus, we think it's probably a good idea to enjoy Gig Harbor as much as possible before the new bridge is completed and we have to pay a toll to get across the water.
As we crossed the Narrows, I remarked how this new bridge would be the third major bridge to span the gap. The first being, of course, the famous Galloping Gertie.
Harbor Kitchen turned out to be more of a Coffee Shop than an actual Café. You ordered at the counter and then sat down wherever you could, and they brought the food out to you. I ordered biscuits and gravy. Carrie got the quiche of the day with fresh fruit. The food turned out to be quite tasty; the gravy seemed to be real, and had a tonne of pepper in it, which was good for me as I like pepper. The place itself was pretty cute, and was right on the harbor. It had big open windows through which the sun streamed, and a back deck that we would have gone out on had it been warmer.
We got home and I wrapped the present for the wedding shower to which Carrie was going in the afternoon. My neck was really killing me at this time, so I took some Tylenol. I straightened up the living room while Carrie got ready to go, and then I set Roomba loose on the floor while we drove to Cat's house (Cat's mom was driving the both of them up to Seattle for the shower). I drove back by myself, which probably wasn't the safest of activities considering I couldn't turn my head to the right.
Roomba was still running around when I got back. It is so unbelievably awexome to have an actual robot in my house.
Fools Play practice consisted only of me and my brother. All we did really was come up with a better way to classify our formats, and then went through the Format Forest on Fools Play Island and figured out the classifications for all the formats we've done.
After practice was over we watched a tape of TV Carnage, which was really funny but also very draining because it just goes on and on. We think there might be a Fools Play scene to be drawn from it somehow. Carrie came home from Seattle during this time, and changed into her pajamas (Linnea's baby shower was a pajama party).
A while after Michael left, Carrie was picked up by Linnea herself and they went up to Viki's to have the Bead Factory Baby Shower. I stayed home and did some dishes and watched Once Upon a Time in Mexico. See, on Saturday a package had arrived (while Sandy, Mathias, and Mike were over) that contained the Robert Rodriguez Mexico Trilogy (El Mariachi / Desperado / Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
. I didn't have any of these on DVD yet. Why not? Because I had been waiting for the trilogy to come out in a box set like this. Be warned, though: if you already own these movies on DVD, this set offers you NOTHING new; it's just the three DVDs packaged together in one box, really. But it only cost me $10 because I had a $15 gift certificate from Amazon. While I was watching the movie and washing dishes and what-not, I discovered to my chagrin that I was rapidly becoming sick with a cold. And my neck really hurt. By the time Carrie came home well after 10:00, I had that full-blown feeling in my face that I only get when I have a cold.
In fact, the first thing I said when I woke up this morning was, "I have sick face!"
Rowr! My body has betrayed me and injured my neck and allowed me to become sick. But considering that everyone around me has been sick pretty much constantly for the past two months, I did pretty well. Doesn't make it suck any less, though.
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THIS IS FUN TO MAKE A BLOG ON THE COMPUTER WEBSITE
This website made me laugh very hard when I saw it. Good Lord. Great stuff.
posted by Christopher at 4:22 PM
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Surprising Saturday
Saturday morning Carrie & I decided to get up early and go to Trader Joe's so that we might actually have some food in the house. It did seem like a good idea at the time. And, indeed, it turned out to be a good idea for reals, because eating is usually better than starving in my humble opinion laugh out loud.
We came home and unpacked the grocery bags (packing the contents into various shelves and compartments and behind doors in the kitchen) and relaxed for a little bit. Carrie was picked up by Viki at 11:00 so the two of them could go to a jewelry show up in Fife. The moment she left I started cooking some potstickers, on account of the tasty.
Well, no sooner had I started the 'stickers than there was a knock on the door. I thought that Carrie might have forgotten something, because it was seriously like a minute or so since she'd left. But to my surprise I saw mine own brother on my front porch, accompanied by Sandy and Mathias!
They had just gone to the Southern Kitchen for breakfast (look for a review of it soon), which is only about half a kilometer from my house, so they decided to pop by. I ate my potstickers and then the four of us piled in Sandy's newly-fixed car and drove out to the Star-Lite Swap Meet at the Star Lite Drive-In.
I'd never been to this one before, but it was pretty cool. It seemed like almost everyone was selling SNES games. I'd have liked to have gotten some, but I don't have a SNES (although I probably could have gotten one there as well). Mathias bought five games, though, including the awexomely awexome Cybernator.
I remember borrowing this game from Ryan back around 1994 or so. It was incredibly kickass, with surprisingly good animation and a lot of variety in gameplay. Mathias also picked up StarFox, Populous, Smart Ball, and one other that I have forgotten. All good, and all for five bucks or less.
I did not leave empty-handed as well. For quite a bargain I picked up the GameCube Namco Museum, which is one of the only places you can actually find the rare Pac-Man Arrangement game.
Michael didn't leave empty-handed either, though much to his chagrin. Sandy bought him this little gem of a wall plaque. We can't figure out exactly what it is, but it looks like some mice playing with a drainpipe and a bathtub:
Loaded up thusly with goodies, we drove south on S. Tacoma Way to an Asian bakery that Sandy really likes. I don't remember the name of it at this time, though. I did buy a "sausage bread," which was basically a hot dog rolled in pastry dough, then sliced up and twisted into an attractive pattern before being baked. It was a tasty li'l lunch.
An exciting event on the way back to my house: there was a pickup truck completely engulfed in flames on S. Tacoma Way. Nobody was in it, but it was really burning like crazy. And it wasn't like it was on the side of the road or anything; it was in the second lane from the curb.
We all came back to my house, where Carrie already was home from the jewelry show. We put my new vid gom into the GameCube and played all the way through Pac Man Arrangement (it isn't very long; only about 20 levels), which was a good deal of fun. The last boss is excellently designed. Mike & I also tried to play through Dig Dug Arrangement, but we found that it didn't hold our attention nearly so well. I played some of Galaga Arrangement, which was actually surprisingly cool.
Later on I made more potstickers, and Sandy helped me eat a few. We ended up all hanging out at my house for the entire afternoon until it was time to leave for Fools Play. Sandy & Mathias went down to Olympia to have dinner; I drove my brother and I down to Olympia to get the show setup and everything.
It was the debut of the newly-revamped Stunt Show format, which we played off much more like an episode of professional wrestling. We even had color and play-by-play announcers for the in-between bits. The "stunt" was that the two of us (we were the only two Fools performing, since Taisha is back across the mountains and Geoff is taking a vacation this weekend) would do a longform scene without ever once interacting with each other.
It was a pretty fun night, but the audience was just dead. They seemed to kind of enjoy it, but it was more like they were watching TV than a live stage show four feet in front of their faces.
The scene that went over the best was probably the Mix Tape scene, with me singing a variety of songs while Mike tried to do a menial task. Highlights included a song in which I sang how I was gonna beat the girl to whom I was singing. With a hammer. And also I was going to beat her in a race. And also in the space race. Then I began belting out "Space Race!" repeatedly at the top of my lungs. There was also a song about a trumpet growing out of my brain, a woman who was made of vegetables, and a hot toddy of a woman I was going to drink with my "ears and nose and throat."
Mathias lost his shit during this scene. He was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe and almost had to use his inhaler. Good times.
The show ran kind of long, and we didn't get out of there until late. We went to Rib Eye aftewrards and I had a roast beef sammitch with gravy and mashed potatoes with gravy, and it came with clam chowder with no gravy. It was extraordinarily filling. I got home well after midnight, and didn't notice until then that there was a phone message from Brandy. Whoops! Sorry!
It was a surprising and fun day, although once again I didn't get anything done. I didn't even write a blog entry (it wasn't until this morning that I wrote the one for what happened on Friday; I edited the date/time).
I think I have an idea for what my next article is going to be about now...
We came home and unpacked the grocery bags (packing the contents into various shelves and compartments and behind doors in the kitchen) and relaxed for a little bit. Carrie was picked up by Viki at 11:00 so the two of them could go to a jewelry show up in Fife. The moment she left I started cooking some potstickers, on account of the tasty.
Well, no sooner had I started the 'stickers than there was a knock on the door. I thought that Carrie might have forgotten something, because it was seriously like a minute or so since she'd left. But to my surprise I saw mine own brother on my front porch, accompanied by Sandy and Mathias!
They had just gone to the Southern Kitchen for breakfast (look for a review of it soon), which is only about half a kilometer from my house, so they decided to pop by. I ate my potstickers and then the four of us piled in Sandy's newly-fixed car and drove out to the Star-Lite Swap Meet at the Star Lite Drive-In.
I'd never been to this one before, but it was pretty cool. It seemed like almost everyone was selling SNES games. I'd have liked to have gotten some, but I don't have a SNES (although I probably could have gotten one there as well). Mathias bought five games, though, including the awexomely awexome Cybernator.
I remember borrowing this game from Ryan back around 1994 or so. It was incredibly kickass, with surprisingly good animation and a lot of variety in gameplay. Mathias also picked up StarFox, Populous, Smart Ball, and one other that I have forgotten. All good, and all for five bucks or less.
I did not leave empty-handed as well. For quite a bargain I picked up the GameCube Namco Museum, which is one of the only places you can actually find the rare Pac-Man Arrangement game.
Michael didn't leave empty-handed either, though much to his chagrin. Sandy bought him this little gem of a wall plaque. We can't figure out exactly what it is, but it looks like some mice playing with a drainpipe and a bathtub:
Loaded up thusly with goodies, we drove south on S. Tacoma Way to an Asian bakery that Sandy really likes. I don't remember the name of it at this time, though. I did buy a "sausage bread," which was basically a hot dog rolled in pastry dough, then sliced up and twisted into an attractive pattern before being baked. It was a tasty li'l lunch.
An exciting event on the way back to my house: there was a pickup truck completely engulfed in flames on S. Tacoma Way. Nobody was in it, but it was really burning like crazy. And it wasn't like it was on the side of the road or anything; it was in the second lane from the curb.
We all came back to my house, where Carrie already was home from the jewelry show. We put my new vid gom into the GameCube and played all the way through Pac Man Arrangement (it isn't very long; only about 20 levels), which was a good deal of fun. The last boss is excellently designed. Mike & I also tried to play through Dig Dug Arrangement, but we found that it didn't hold our attention nearly so well. I played some of Galaga Arrangement, which was actually surprisingly cool.
Later on I made more potstickers, and Sandy helped me eat a few. We ended up all hanging out at my house for the entire afternoon until it was time to leave for Fools Play. Sandy & Mathias went down to Olympia to have dinner; I drove my brother and I down to Olympia to get the show setup and everything.
It was the debut of the newly-revamped Stunt Show format, which we played off much more like an episode of professional wrestling. We even had color and play-by-play announcers for the in-between bits. The "stunt" was that the two of us (we were the only two Fools performing, since Taisha is back across the mountains and Geoff is taking a vacation this weekend) would do a longform scene without ever once interacting with each other.
It was a pretty fun night, but the audience was just dead. They seemed to kind of enjoy it, but it was more like they were watching TV than a live stage show four feet in front of their faces.
The scene that went over the best was probably the Mix Tape scene, with me singing a variety of songs while Mike tried to do a menial task. Highlights included a song in which I sang how I was gonna beat the girl to whom I was singing. With a hammer. And also I was going to beat her in a race. And also in the space race. Then I began belting out "Space Race!" repeatedly at the top of my lungs. There was also a song about a trumpet growing out of my brain, a woman who was made of vegetables, and a hot toddy of a woman I was going to drink with my "ears and nose and throat."
Mathias lost his shit during this scene. He was laughing so hard he couldn't breathe and almost had to use his inhaler. Good times.
The show ran kind of long, and we didn't get out of there until late. We went to Rib Eye aftewrards and I had a roast beef sammitch with gravy and mashed potatoes with gravy, and it came with clam chowder with no gravy. It was extraordinarily filling. I got home well after midnight, and didn't notice until then that there was a phone message from Brandy. Whoops! Sorry!
It was a surprising and fun day, although once again I didn't get anything done. I didn't even write a blog entry (it wasn't until this morning that I wrote the one for what happened on Friday; I edited the date/time).
I think I have an idea for what my next article is going to be about now...
posted by Christopher at 6:46 PM
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
Friday Night Distractions.
Friday was PSBF class sign-up day. What that means is that Carrie had to be at work at 7:30 in the AM instead of her usual time of about 8:30 in the AM. For some reason the hour difference made me completely forget about getting her morning coffee for her; I just drove straight home after dropping her off.
Anyway, I had the classes all uploaded at running by 8:00 so that people could sign up. And sign up they did. Problem was that they at the store couldn't log onto the secure server thingy where people's credit card info was stored for their orders. So Heather had to read me the names of the customers and then I (who was able to log into that server) read their card numbers back to her. Eventually Carrie rebooted her computer and somehow that made her able to log in just fine.
Windows suxorz!
After work Carrie went straight out to buy Linnea another baby gift for another shower (one that is happening on Sunday) before coming home. She got cute stuff.
PSBF class sign-up day is always rather stressful for the BF staff. So to distract from the stress, some time after 7:00 we went and picked up Missa from her house and the three of us went to The Parkway. We were shortly joined by Christine, and the four of us had much good times. A while later Lawrence came and met us, and the five of us had much good times. A much while later Nicole and Paige came and met us, and the seven of us had much good times until after 1:00 in the AM. Then I drove a very wobbly Missa and an only-slightly-less-wobbly Carrie back home.
It was muchly fun to do the hanging out with people, even though I was the designated driver. But I didn't get anything done Friday night.
Anyway, I had the classes all uploaded at running by 8:00 so that people could sign up. And sign up they did. Problem was that they at the store couldn't log onto the secure server thingy where people's credit card info was stored for their orders. So Heather had to read me the names of the customers and then I (who was able to log into that server) read their card numbers back to her. Eventually Carrie rebooted her computer and somehow that made her able to log in just fine.
Windows suxorz!
After work Carrie went straight out to buy Linnea another baby gift for another shower (one that is happening on Sunday) before coming home. She got cute stuff.
PSBF class sign-up day is always rather stressful for the BF staff. So to distract from the stress, some time after 7:00 we went and picked up Missa from her house and the three of us went to The Parkway. We were shortly joined by Christine, and the four of us had much good times. A while later Lawrence came and met us, and the five of us had much good times. A much while later Nicole and Paige came and met us, and the seven of us had much good times until after 1:00 in the AM. Then I drove a very wobbly Missa and an only-slightly-less-wobbly Carrie back home.
It was muchly fun to do the hanging out with people, even though I was the designated driver. But I didn't get anything done Friday night.
posted by Christopher at 10:57 AM
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Wot a Weird Day
Yesterday (Thursday) started out kinda weird, what with the unexpected gigantic snowfall that melted away within a matter of minutes. It kinda sustained its weirdness for most of the rest of the day, and not really in a good way.
Carrie was called by Devon at work. He let her know that one of their mutual friends had passed away. She was old and sick, so it wasn't like it was a surprise, but that don't make it suck any less.
In the afternoon (during split-shift break) we went to get our taxes done. I made considerably less money in 2005 than I did in 2004, but we are only getting about 10% of the tax refund. 'Tupid taxes! So that was weird. I should write about our tax guy. He's enormous. He's like one of those immobible blob-like character out of a science fiction movie behind his high-tech desk.
There was just a general air of strangeness over the whole day. Plus Carrie & I never fell like we truly woke up; we were both kinda zombie-ing through the day. Carrie in fact slept for a couple of hours after we got back from taxes. Neither one of us actually ate lunch.
When it was time for Carrie to go teach class, it started snowing again. Huge flakes bigger than quarters. It snowed for approximately 15 minutes (just enough to coat the ground pretty evenly in white), then stopped and the snow almost immediately disappeared from the ground.
While Carrie taught class I zombied around the house and did some dishes. There was nothing on the television, so I mostly would watch 5-10 minutes of a show, get bored, and turn to something else for 5-10 minutes. Repeat for a couple of hours. I did watch a good deal of the Wild Wild West movie, which is simply horrible. It's not horribly written. I put the blame squarely on Barry Sonnenfeld's head. In truth, the script does seem more suited to animation than to live action. Allow me to explain: there are many, many simply embarrasing moments in the film that arise due to the unbelievability of the reactions of characters who are viewing the events. In good (and usually stylized) animation it is much easier to suspend disbelief about things like that. But when you've got a room full of foreign dignitaries who just sit and impassively watch while Will Smith dressed in drag dances around for Kenneth Branagh... also, the editing could be called choppy and disorienting at best, and characters change attitudes and emotions seemingly arbitrarily, and often act completely different from one edit to the next.
BOO!
Anyway, Carrie came home and we had chocolates and red wine, and it was much better because the day was over.
Carrie was called by Devon at work. He let her know that one of their mutual friends had passed away. She was old and sick, so it wasn't like it was a surprise, but that don't make it suck any less.
In the afternoon (during split-shift break) we went to get our taxes done. I made considerably less money in 2005 than I did in 2004, but we are only getting about 10% of the tax refund. 'Tupid taxes! So that was weird. I should write about our tax guy. He's enormous. He's like one of those immobible blob-like character out of a science fiction movie behind his high-tech desk.
There was just a general air of strangeness over the whole day. Plus Carrie & I never fell like we truly woke up; we were both kinda zombie-ing through the day. Carrie in fact slept for a couple of hours after we got back from taxes. Neither one of us actually ate lunch.
When it was time for Carrie to go teach class, it started snowing again. Huge flakes bigger than quarters. It snowed for approximately 15 minutes (just enough to coat the ground pretty evenly in white), then stopped and the snow almost immediately disappeared from the ground.
While Carrie taught class I zombied around the house and did some dishes. There was nothing on the television, so I mostly would watch 5-10 minutes of a show, get bored, and turn to something else for 5-10 minutes. Repeat for a couple of hours. I did watch a good deal of the Wild Wild West movie, which is simply horrible. It's not horribly written. I put the blame squarely on Barry Sonnenfeld's head. In truth, the script does seem more suited to animation than to live action. Allow me to explain: there are many, many simply embarrasing moments in the film that arise due to the unbelievability of the reactions of characters who are viewing the events. In good (and usually stylized) animation it is much easier to suspend disbelief about things like that. But when you've got a room full of foreign dignitaries who just sit and impassively watch while Will Smith dressed in drag dances around for Kenneth Branagh... also, the editing could be called choppy and disorienting at best, and characters change attitudes and emotions seemingly arbitrarily, and often act completely different from one edit to the next.
BOO!
Anyway, Carrie came home and we had chocolates and red wine, and it was much better because the day was over.
posted by Christopher at 9:29 AM
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
Shopping Blind
Yesterday (Wednesday) morning I wrote a quick follow-up Article to see if my Oscar "predictions" had come true.
Oscar Follow-up: How'd I Do?
I also worked up enough ANGRY BEEF sightings to get me through until next Wednesday, so that's good. I kinda been slacking on that.
When I drove Carrie to work in the morning, the car's external thermometer said it was 46 degrees F (about 7 degrees C) outside. When I went to pick her up for lunch it was 42 degrees F (5.5 degrees C). It was actually getting colder as the day was wearing on. Also, it was raining. Also, there was some snow mixed in with the rain.
Carrie drove herself back to work after lunch on account of I didn't need the car. After she came home she asked me if I wanted to go shopping with her.
"Sure," I said. "What are we shopping for?"
"I'm not sure," she said.
We were shopping blind!
In truth we were shopping for gifts for (1) a baby shower and (2) a wedding shower, both of which are happening this Sunday. Carrie wasn't exactly sure what she wanted to get for either event, so we went to the mall and walked the entire distance of it. I saw some extraordinarily fabulous dinnerware at Macy's. We need more dinnerware like a hole in the head.
We did the whole mall and I got some mint iced tea at the li'l Nordstrom's cafe place therein, while Carrie got an iced mocha.
We stopped by Target on the way back. The wind was really whipping, and the flags in the parking lot were going crazy-go-nuts.
That evening Carrie watched The Apprentice while I was on the 'puter. Then I watched Mythbuster while she went on the 'puter. It worked out well.
She had trouble sleeping at night due to the mocha. I fell asleep WAY before she did.
When we woke up this morning there was a (very) light dusting of snow on the ground, and the white stuff was falling from the sky. It wasn't very remarkable in any respect except for the fact that the individual snowflakes were enormous. Some of them were getting over an inch in diameter.
None of the news reports said that it was going to last long, so I snapped this photo for proof of the event:
As you can see, it wasn't even sticking to the road, and indeed as I'm writing this it is about 95% gone.
posted by Christopher at 9:48 AM
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Booty Don't Stop
The mysteries of the "Booty Tape" have finally been revealed!
posted by Christopher at 9:43 AM
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
私は私のフィルムのすべてを見た
Yesterday (Tuesday) Carrie was feeling better, although her allergies have gone loco this season. So she went to work (split-shift style).
For lunch I made gnocci and broccoli in a bleu-cheese cream sauce. In the afternoon I went to the bank and deposited a couple of website payment cheques. Carrie went over to her da's place and picked up a cheque and some of her jewelry stuff she'd left there a while back.
After I took Carrie back to teach her class I made a pizza, then her mom stopped by to drop off a repair job. After that I settled back and watched Shaun of the Dead
. I believe I have now (finally) watched all of the DVDs that I received for Christmas. It only took me two-and-a-half months! Yee-haw!
Congratumaphone... it's for me!
For lunch I made gnocci and broccoli in a bleu-cheese cream sauce. In the afternoon I went to the bank and deposited a couple of website payment cheques. Carrie went over to her da's place and picked up a cheque and some of her jewelry stuff she'd left there a while back.
After I took Carrie back to teach her class I made a pizza, then her mom stopped by to drop off a repair job. After that I settled back and watched Shaun of the Dead
. I believe I have now (finally) watched all of the DVDs that I received for Christmas. It only took me two-and-a-half months! Yee-haw! Congratumaphone... it's for me!
posted by Christopher at 9:41 AM
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Back Together Again... Sorta
Even though Conan is only writing/producing, I'm still super-excited for the upcoming sitcom Andy Barker, P.I. You can read why in this article: Conan teams up with his old sidekick
posted by Christopher at 8:55 AM
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Off
Yesterday (Monday) Carrie took the day off on account of basically working all weekend, what with the shower and the store meeting and stuffis like that. She was also feeling just a little bit sicky, so she basically stayed in bed all day. So for me it was almost like she was at work, except that periodically I would make food for her.
posted by Christopher at 9:04 AM
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Monday, March 06, 2006
Linnea Actually Had a Baby Shower
Yesterday (Sunday) other than forgetting to write an entry to this website, I got up early with Carrie. I cleaned the house while she prepped for Linnea's Baby Shower. Then around noon we drove down to Kickstand and got it all set up. She sent me home for pens at one point so that everybody could play the baby gift bingo game.
While she was throwing a shower, I had practice at my house. Mike, Geoff, and I tinkered with Saturday Town a little bit more and then worked on Fools Play Musical.
The backstory behind Fools Play Musical:
While she was throwing a shower, I had practice at my house. Mike, Geoff, and I tinkered with Saturday Town a little bit more and then worked on Fools Play Musical.
The backstory behind Fools Play Musical:
In February, Fools Play Island had a special going: Whichever recurring character was voted as the audience's favorite would be performed sometime in March; whichever Fools was voted as the audience's favorite would go to Red Robin with the audience after a show and pretend it was his birthday; whichever format was voted as the audience's favorite would be performed sometime in March.
The format that won was Fools Play Musical. And apparently it won hands-down.
There is no format called Fools Play Musical.
So we basically made it up yesterday.
I picked Carrie up after practice and after the shower, and we put away all of the unopened candy. And we ate a tonne of the leftover food for din-dins. Carrie said that Linnea really enjoyed the shower (that, in fact, everybody had really enjoyed it). I'm glad, because last time Linnea popped out a baby, the baby was born on the day that she was supposed to have the shower, so this was actually the first baby shower she'd ever had.
Then I took Carrie to Ricardo's where the Bead Factory was having a meeting and celebrating the birthdays of everybody born in March (four total I believe). I came home and whipped out a quick drawing for The Drawing Board's "Redheaded Thread" drawing jam.
Carrie was dropped off and a while later we went to bed with the college-aged remake of Cyrano, Whatever It Takes
posted by Christopher at 11:59 AM
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Good Night, and Good Luck got Shafted
So, yeah, yesterday was the Oscars. And you know what? I didn't watch 'em. This is probably the first time in, oh, fifteen years that I haven't watched the Oscars. But as you're probably aware, I only saw one film that was in any contention for anything big this year.
And you know what? I'm glad I didn't watch, because Good Night, and Good Luck got completely shafted.
It didn't win a single award, and it was nominated in ALL of the big categories: Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, and of course Best Picture. George Cluny was up for three Oscars for Good Night, and he only won one... Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. I have a feeling that his win for Syriana was really an acknowledgement of Good Night.
And you know what? I'm glad I didn't watch, because Good Night, and Good Luck got completely shafted.
It didn't win a single award, and it was nominated in ALL of the big categories: Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, and of course Best Picture. George Cluny was up for three Oscars for Good Night, and he only won one... Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. I have a feeling that his win for Syriana was really an acknowledgement of Good Night.
posted by Christopher at 11:54 AM
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Saturday, March 04, 2006
False Alarm. Time to Defend the Frontier Against Zur and the Kodan Armada
Yesterday (Friday) there was some fun drama! Sometime between 10:00 and 11:00, as I was finishing up my morning stuff and deciding what I wanted to eat for breakfast, Carrie called and asked me if I could pick her up from work and drive her to Linnea's.
"Sure," I said. "What's up with Linnea?"
"Well," Carrie said, "she thinks her water might have broken."
So I picked up Carrie, took her to Linnea's where she watched Lena while I took Linnea to the doctor and waited for her in the waiting room. Turned out it was just a false alarm, which made Linnea happy ('cause due date is about six weeks away I think, and also she had her 1st baby on the day she was s'posed to have her baby shower and she didn't want to miss another one).
I took a releived Linnea back home and Carrie & I hung out there for a while. Lena and I were playing in her closet, and I saw a Strawberry Shortcake bag in there.
"What's in the bag?" I asked.
"A dress." Lena said. Then added, "Boys don't wear dresses... usually."
I explained to her that in Scotland men wore dresses. They're called kilts.
"Kilts," Lena repeated. Then after a pause, "I don't like kilts."
The garbage truck honked because they coudln't get around my car in the alley, so I moved it. A while later we left and I took Carrie back to work.
Not very much later I drove down to Tacoma General and picked up my mom, who was visiting a friend there. We swung by the store and picked up Carrie and then went to Gateway to India for their lunch buffet, which is always very tasty. After lunch I dropped Carrie off at the store and took my mom back to l'hopital.
I picked Carrie up from work and we went straight to Costco so she could buy stuff for Linnea's baby shower. We ate dinner there—a huge slice of pizza, a foot-long polish sausage and a 20oz soda (with unlimited refills) cost less than four dollars. That's a good deal.
In the evening I tried to print out the favor cards for the shower, but the paper I bought was just slightly too thick and made my printer freak out like an idiot. So that was a bust. Carrie stayed up very late making jewelry and being creative. I stayed up late as well, but mostly dinkin' aroung on teh intarweb and not being creative. I looked up They Might Be Giants on iTunes to see if there was anything there that I couldn't get anywhere else (there is one iTunes exclusive song, a reject from Here Come the ABCs).
Then thanks to Fark I found something. Something wonderful. I'll give you a hint:
"Sure," I said. "What's up with Linnea?"
"Well," Carrie said, "she thinks her water might have broken."
So I picked up Carrie, took her to Linnea's where she watched Lena while I took Linnea to the doctor and waited for her in the waiting room. Turned out it was just a false alarm, which made Linnea happy ('cause due date is about six weeks away I think, and also she had her 1st baby on the day she was s'posed to have her baby shower and she didn't want to miss another one).
I took a releived Linnea back home and Carrie & I hung out there for a while. Lena and I were playing in her closet, and I saw a Strawberry Shortcake bag in there.
"What's in the bag?" I asked.
"A dress." Lena said. Then added, "Boys don't wear dresses... usually."
I explained to her that in Scotland men wore dresses. They're called kilts.
"Kilts," Lena repeated. Then after a pause, "I don't like kilts."
The garbage truck honked because they coudln't get around my car in the alley, so I moved it. A while later we left and I took Carrie back to work.
Not very much later I drove down to Tacoma General and picked up my mom, who was visiting a friend there. We swung by the store and picked up Carrie and then went to Gateway to India for their lunch buffet, which is always very tasty. After lunch I dropped Carrie off at the store and took my mom back to l'hopital.
I picked Carrie up from work and we went straight to Costco so she could buy stuff for Linnea's baby shower. We ate dinner there—a huge slice of pizza, a foot-long polish sausage and a 20oz soda (with unlimited refills) cost less than four dollars. That's a good deal.
In the evening I tried to print out the favor cards for the shower, but the paper I bought was just slightly too thick and made my printer freak out like an idiot. So that was a bust. Carrie stayed up very late making jewelry and being creative. I stayed up late as well, but mostly dinkin' aroung on teh intarweb and not being creative. I looked up They Might Be Giants on iTunes to see if there was anything there that I couldn't get anywhere else (there is one iTunes exclusive song, a reject from Here Come the ABCs).
Then thanks to Fark I found something. Something wonderful. I'll give you a hint:
"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Zur and the Kodan Armada."
Click here and re-live the year 1984, and wonder why Wil Wheaton's scenes were deleted...
posted by Christopher at 4:28 PM
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Friday, March 03, 2006
Gets Your Juices Flowing
Well, ny creative juices seem to be flowing much better now than they were during the first half of the week. Last night after I took Carrie back to the store to teach her class, I sat down at 'puter here and made another Robot & Bird illustration:
I'll probably tweak with the colors some, to make them pop more, before it's officially finalized. But I really like it a whole lots.
To celebrate drawing a kickass robot, I whipped out a sketch of a cute redhead:
Then last night I had a dream wherein Melissa & Travis got married, but then started divorce proceedings because Melissa got a teaching job in Paris and Travis got transferred to Tokyo. Also, Carrie & I lived in a swamp that was next to the house in which I grew up.
In case you haven't yet seen it in my blogroll, John Kricfalusi has a blog you should visit when you git the chance.
I'll probably tweak with the colors some, to make them pop more, before it's officially finalized. But I really like it a whole lots.
To celebrate drawing a kickass robot, I whipped out a sketch of a cute redhead:
Then last night I had a dream wherein Melissa & Travis got married, but then started divorce proceedings because Melissa got a teaching job in Paris and Travis got transferred to Tokyo. Also, Carrie & I lived in a swamp that was next to the house in which I grew up.
In case you haven't yet seen it in my blogroll, John Kricfalusi has a blog you should visit when you git the chance.
posted by Christopher at 10:16 AM
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
Creative Spurt
Yesterday (Wednesday) after bringing Carrie home and finishing up my work, I was feeling horribly edgy. So then I grabbed a stack of printer paper, a thin, loose-leaf folder, and a blue pencil, and rapid-fire sketched out four or five drawings of robots. I felt much better after that. A couple of them even came out really well, and I plan on working them up into finished pieces later. I'll show you those when I got 'em (though who knows when that'll be).
Neither of us were feeling particularly hungry at dinnertime. And since we don't have to answer to anybody else, we didn't eat dinner until 8:00 that night. We went to El Toro and both had cheese enchiladas. That place is mighty tasty. Mighty.
I washed a load of dishes when I got home, during the commercial breaks in For Your Eyes Only. Carrie did laundry while watching My So-Called Life.
Neither of us were feeling particularly hungry at dinnertime. And since we don't have to answer to anybody else, we didn't eat dinner until 8:00 that night. We went to El Toro and both had cheese enchiladas. That place is mighty tasty. Mighty.
I washed a load of dishes when I got home, during the commercial breaks in For Your Eyes Only. Carrie did laundry while watching My So-Called Life.
posted by Christopher at 10:29 AM
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The Best Video Game Evar!
Watch this Spore Gameplay Video (watch out, though, it's a half-hour long).
posted by Christopher at 10:09 AM
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Efficiency Quotient
Last night (Tuesday) I once again felt kinda jittery and un-focused. Like there was something creative I should be doing, but I didn't have enough focus to figure out what.
For the first half of the day I nursed a really bad headache. I still managed to get a whole bunch of work done, but it weren't too pleasant. In the later afternoon Carrie (who was home for a split-shift) went to run errands, and I put on Lost Skeleton and fell asleep on the couch. That seemed to help some.
In the evening I tried to work on another drawing of a robot, this one holding two birds. I looked at Michel Gagne's site to get some inspiration on how to draw the clouds, but I don't think I'll end up going with that look—too ominous for what I want.
But that got me started combing through his stuff, and the evening kinda slipped away while I dinked around on teh intarweb and washed dishes. I need to figure out what it is that I'm supposed to be doing right now, 'cause this lack of focus thing is killing me.
"Happiness is an organism doing its designed function efficiently."
(One of) my designed function(s) is "creator." I can still make things, but my efficiency quotient is way down. I wonder how to get that back up?
What's my other designed function? I ain't telling (at least not right now). A guy's gotta have some mystery!
For the first half of the day I nursed a really bad headache. I still managed to get a whole bunch of work done, but it weren't too pleasant. In the later afternoon Carrie (who was home for a split-shift) went to run errands, and I put on Lost Skeleton and fell asleep on the couch. That seemed to help some.
In the evening I tried to work on another drawing of a robot, this one holding two birds. I looked at Michel Gagne's site to get some inspiration on how to draw the clouds, but I don't think I'll end up going with that look—too ominous for what I want.
But that got me started combing through his stuff, and the evening kinda slipped away while I dinked around on teh intarweb and washed dishes. I need to figure out what it is that I'm supposed to be doing right now, 'cause this lack of focus thing is killing me.
"Happiness is an organism doing its designed function efficiently."
(One of) my designed function(s) is "creator." I can still make things, but my efficiency quotient is way down. I wonder how to get that back up?
What's my other designed function? I ain't telling (at least not right now). A guy's gotta have some mystery!
posted by Christopher at 9:30 AM
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Of the Month: March '06
Link of the Month:
Bubblegum Fink
A fascinating blog chronicling all things related to bubblegum pop music. The guy's knowledge is unbelievable, and some of the stuff he finds is absolutely incredible.
DVD of the Month:
Freaks and Geeks - The Complete Series
I know this set came out quite a while ago, but I didn't get it until this last Christmas, so it's new to me. Obviously a great show. And one of the only shows I've ver seen that has a positive portrayal of Dungeons & Dragons.
Game of the Month:
Kirby Canvas Curse
This is the game that that Yoshi game should have been. This is a side-scrolling platformer that is controlled entirely with the DS stylus. It's really the first DS game I've played that takes full advantage of the touch-screen system. Plus, it's a really fun Kirby game. Can't beat that!
Bubblegum FinkA fascinating blog chronicling all things related to bubblegum pop music. The guy's knowledge is unbelievable, and some of the stuff he finds is absolutely incredible.
DVD of the Month:
Freaks and Geeks - The Complete SeriesI know this set came out quite a while ago, but I didn't get it until this last Christmas, so it's new to me. Obviously a great show. And one of the only shows I've ver seen that has a positive portrayal of Dungeons & Dragons.
Game of the Month:
Kirby Canvas CurseThis is the game that that Yoshi game should have been. This is a side-scrolling platformer that is controlled entirely with the DS stylus. It's really the first DS game I've played that takes full advantage of the touch-screen system. Plus, it's a really fun Kirby game. Can't beat that!
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