Previously, in Trip's Life...
31 December 2007 - Monday
Vacation Stayed in bed until after 13:00 reading
pirate books. This is not really like shifting my schedule back to
normal working hours, but oh well.
2007: Well, so much for this year. Hopefully the
coming year will have 100% fewer cat deaths in my household, and also
100% fewer tech support phone calls!
The rest of world should improve too.
Gaming: While waiting for midnight, we played SPANC. I failed early on and the
positive feedback loop ensured that I stayed that way, but that's okay.
Marith ended up winning, and she rarely wins games, so that was okay too.
Then Ayse made big cute eyes until people played King's Blood with her. She
won once and I won once, and that was also okay.
The WoW card game in raid mode was a lot more interesting than in PvP
mode, but I'm not sure about the balance. Either we were playing stupidly
or we were supposed to have good decks instead of using the premade ones or
something, though, because the monster side seemed to have a lot of
advantages after the first couple of bosses.
Food: A lot of people leave shopping for their
parties until late afternoon on the 31st. Nevertheless, I was able to
get supplies for Ken to make us chard and brussels sprouts to go with
the sausages and sauerkraut, and bread to nibble on while we waited for
the vegetables to cook.
Having failed to obtain champagne at any point, we instead had fizzy
pomegranate juice at midnight. It was peculiar, and had too much stuff
mixed with the pomegranate.
Cats:
Twelve paws! Twelve fuzzy paws, no less!
Writing: FAILURE. I didn't get home until after
1:00, and fell right over.
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30 December 2007 - Sunday
Visual Entertainments: Second disc of Sand
Punk. Enh.
Cats:
Twelve paws!
Ghirardelli seems to be wary of Marmalade, and sometimes hisses if he
gets too close. I think Aspen is wary of Ghir, although I haven't heard
her hiss at him. But there don't seem to be any territorial issues, just
ones of personal space, so I am optimistic that they will work it out.
Have I mentioned that Ghirardelli's undercattage is curly? Or
that he sits with all his paws not quite put away so that two little
black feets peek out from his chocolatey ruff?
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29 December 2007 - Saturday
Vacation: We (AKMT) went to Santa Cruz and pillaged
bookshops and sat at the Perf and ate at restaurants and generally were
layabouts.
Gaming: I picked up White Wolf's Scion, because I
heard it doesn't suck, and the powers book for Mutants & Masterminds. I
haven't read either yet, but the latter does clarify that past rank 6 in
Elongation, it's no longer instant to extend to or contract
from maximum distance. (Hi Jeremy!)
Food: Zachary's for lunch, then Mobo Sushi for
dinner! Yum! I think my stomach must be shrinking, though, since I
couldn't finish a Mike's Mess at lunch, and three rolls plus one order
of nigiri was slightly too much for dinner. This is probably for the
best.
Cats:
The cats stayed separated while I was out all day, but when I got back,
I opened Ghirardelli's room and let them eye each other suspiciously.
Twelve paws!
Writing: Check.
Elongation by Jeremy (Wed Jan 2 17:57:55 2008)
That's not a clarification, that's a change. At least we have the betrayal out in the open and established before play begins!
Re: Elongation by Trip (Thu Jan 3 20:22:29 2008)
I hardly think this is going to make your character lose, so it doesn't count as changing the rules to make Jeremy lose!
Re; Elongation by Jeremy (Sat Jan 5 10:09:33 2008)
Oh, good point. I'll continue waiting for that.
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28 December 2007 - Friday
Cats:
You know, I have TWELVE PAWS again!
Ghirardelli got out of his room for a bit to explore the house while
I changed his water and stuff. He avoided Marmalade and Aspen, but they
didn't fight or anything. Perhaps soon they will be able to
intermingle!
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27 December 2007 - Thursday
Food: Original Pancake House and Thai City
in one day! It must be a vacation!
Silly Computer Games: NPPangband until my
brain comes out.
Cats:
Marmalade and Ghirardelli interacted briefly through the ajar door! They
sniffed each other's noses peaceably enough, but then Marmalade hissed,
so I closed the door. I think he might be jealous.
In other news, I was too fresh with Aspen and she made her
displeasure known. Ow.
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26 December 2007 - Wednesday
Vacation: Check! Went to Borders to see if they had
books. They did.
Gaming: In the past few days, I've read two fairy tale
RPGs. Grimm is about
young kids from the real world sucked into a mishmash of fairy tales and
nursery rhymes gone horribly wrong. It has a fairly generic system with a
small number of character classes and a fixed set of skills, where any
difficulty at or below your skill level is pretty easy and anything above
is quite hard, and makes a big deal out of how kids are smaller than most
of their opponents.
The Zorcerer of
Zo, which I got for Christmas, is mostly a writeup of the fairy tale
campaign the designer ran a couple of years ago, set in
Oz-minus-serial-numbers. Being from Atomic Sock Monkey, it uses their
fairly free-form PDQ system, with a few tweaks for magic. PDQ's damage
system, where each point of damage reduces one quality by one rank,
annoys me because getting beaten up reduces qualities like "Book
Learning" and "Vast Fortune". However, the notion of using what each
character takes the first point of damage on in each conflict for a plot
seed for later is so clever I can't think of a better way to do it.
The setting for ZoZ is less inspirational than Grimm's, though.
Making the fairy tale land a semi-functional organized state seems to
take some of the potential for weirdness out.
It's clear what must be done!
Also read Bliss
Stage, which is much as described, only bleaker. You can tell it's a
good representation of the genre it's in because there is DOOOOOM for
everyone.
Visual Entertainments: Finished the disc of
Red Dwarf. It is very silly.
Silly Computer Games: NPPangband. No idea
what it stands for, but it seems to still be under development, unlike all
the other *bands.
Cats:
Ghirardelli showed me his undercattage! It is soft and brown and
curly!
Writing: Check.
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25 December 2007 - Tuesday
NIFTY NEWTONMAS TO ALL!
Loot: It wasn't really a loot-intensive Newtonmas this
year, but that's okay. Ayse gave me The Zorcerer of Zo
and Bliss
Stage, because she is just that cool. Also, there was food and
stuff.
Food: Ken made English bacon (which is like Canadian
bacon, not American pork-belly bacon) and eggs for breakfast. Then we
went over to Earl and Cat's and ate bread and cheese and olives and rum
balls while the feast cooked!
Then we had turkey and gravy and stuffing and leeks and mashed
potatoes and some other stuff and became very rotund. People who were
not me had Ukrainian jam-filled donut things.
Visual Entertainments: One episode out of the middle
of some Korean historical drama. There were cooking contests and
machinations and a good-hearted heroine and ridiculous hats!
Silly Computer Games: Almost none!
Cats:
Ghirardelli is
still fluffy and affectionate even though I was gone all day! Aspen and
Marmalade are still adorable and fuzzy!
Writing: FAILURE.
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24 December 2007 - Monday
Silly Computer Games: Wasted so much of today
playing squiggly sudoku. I've
moved up to hard, which is actually hard and requires taking lots of
notes.
Cats: I sat in with
Ghirardelli for a while. Once I had to fish him out from under the futon
by the scruff, but then he was affectionate and head-butted and
cheek-rubbed my hand and purred and purred and was handsome and fluffy!
Later, he came out for affection on his own! So adorable! And also
fluffy!
I swooped down upon Aspen as she lay on the bed and put my hand on
her so she would have to actually move in order to escape and petted and
petted her and rubbed under her chin! Such an oppressed kitty!
Marith pictured
the cats better! I think this one shows off Ghirardelli's
chocolateyness best.
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23 December 2007 - Sunday
Visual Entertainments: For no perceptible reason, I
watched the last disc of Najica Blitz Tactics. Enh.
Cats: Today Ellen
brought me my new cat! He is still extraordinarily fluffy and handsome!
I think I shall name him Ghirardelli. Ayse and Marith favor Theobromine,
which abbreviates well, but I don't think naming my new cat after a
toxin is thematically appropriate.
Ghirardelli is a Chantilly (aka Tiffany), so he is
brown and
black and ginormously fluffy and completely gorgeous. He is pretty
affectionate, and apparently ended up getting along okay with most of
the cats at Ellen's, but he will still live in the front library for a
week or two before meeting Marmalade and Aspen in person.
He is affectionate! He especially likes to head-butt and cheek-rub
people's hands!
Writing: Check.
cat by kit (Tue Dec 25 07:32:20 2007)
Wow, that is a seriously fluffy cat! Yay! Merry Christmas!
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22 December 2007 - Saturday
Visual Entertainments: Marith and Ken and Ayse and I
went to see the new Sweeney Todd movie! (Earl and Cat
bailed, sniff.) I've never seen the stage version, but the other three
had. I found it entertaining, although heavy on the red paint, and the
others thought it held up well to the original, given the limitations of
the medium. So, yay!
Poor Marith had to keep her eyes closed for much of the movie,
though. It really was heavy on the red paint.
Food: The movie ended a little after 19:00, so we
had to figure out what to do for dinner. "Meat pies, anyone?" "Okay, but
let's go to the second-best place." "How about Thai City for
some nur Todd?" But actually we went back home and Ken made us
salmon pasta and assorted vegetables, which was good and carried no
taint of cannibalism.
Silly Computer Games:Too much squiggly sudoku!
Cats: SO FLUFFY! Ayse and I
went to the adoption fair and the first cat I saw was a huge fluffy
chocolatey guy of extreme gorgeousness! He snuggled right in my arms and
looked around and was SO FLUFFY! This was his first visit to the fair,
because Ellen had just rescued him from the shelter where his stupid
stupid former people had dumped him because they didn't want to
take him to Hawaii. They named him Buddy, but that is clearly not his name.
He needs a chocolatey name, like Scharffenberger or Theobromine.
Ellen will bring him to my lair tomorrow evening. Now I must panic
getting the front room ready!
SO FLUFFY!
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21 December 2007 - Friday
Work: Last day! I think I got most of my tickets
into a state where someone else can take them.
There was a party for last-day-before-Xmas-break, but there was also
a cake just for me. Aww! All my cow orkers said they were sorry to see
me go. I don't believe them, but I appreciate the gesture!
Now, vacation!
Gaming: Dave is leaving, Earl doesn't game, and
Jeremy has family, so I don't know that there will be any gaming at all
over the holidays. Apparently I have destroyed gaming locally!
Food: Ayse celebrated having finished her
295623946523456 pages of literature papers by feasting at Chef Chu's.
There was a wait, because Friday night and I failed with the reservation,
but it was yummy!
Cats: Aspen showed me
her squeaky strangled little miau this morning, and also tickled my legs
with her whiskers, because I was not forthcoming enough with the
gooshyfoods!
Writing: FAILURE. After dinner, we went to Earl &
Cat's and hung around admiring new laptops and knitting and cats and
stuff, and didn't get home until late. Also, I suck.
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20 December 2007 - Thursday
Work: Penultimate day! Wum.
Silly Computer Games: So much squiggly sudoku.
Cats: Eight fluffy paws
of cuteness!
Writing: Check.
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19 December 2007 - Wednesday
Work: After staying late yesterday and breaking
things, I spent today fixing things and went home early. I don't think
it actually balances out, but I can pretend like it does.
Visual Entertainments: Finally Ayse is free of her
academic doom so we could watch more Ghost Hunt! Creepy!
Cats: Aspen and
Marmalade chased the Red Spot of Uncatchability! In fact, Marmalade
chased it so enthusiastically that he overshot and ran into my legs! At
that point he remembered that the Red Spot is beneath him and left it to
Aspen, who chased until she got tired or bored. (She's looking a little
slenderer, I think, but is still Round Kitty.)
Because we went over to Cat and Earl's, we got to visit Madeleine
Kitteh! She is still soft and pretty and oppresses Phoenix terribly! I
think not forcing her to be one of multiple cats probably is best.
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18 December 2007 - Tuesday
Work: Stayed at work too late breaking things, bah.
Visual Entertainments: Dave will be out of town the
next two Tuesdays, so this is the final Tuesday Night Anime of the year!
- SuperGALS: Poor Yuya!
- My-HiME: Poor Shizuru! Poor Yukino!
- Ergo Proxy: Ah, the surreal mind games episode! Knew
it had to be here somewhere!
Cats: As soon as I got
home from work, I had to run back out to anime, and as soon as I got
home from that, I had to bang my paws all over Marmalade's foot-massager!
And then I went to bed! Clearly I am the most neglectful
cat-dad ever!
Well, except for the part where I provided fresh water and
crunchyfoods, and let Marmalade sleep on my arm most of the night.
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17 December 2007 - Monday
Work: And so begins my last week at Google!
Visual Entertainments: Random anime smut: Maple
Colors. Apparently based on a high-school H dating sim, or
something. It was okay, but apparently incomplete: there are only two
episodes, but the plot excuse for the protagonist to
give all his female classmates the hunka hunka burnin' love was just
getting started.
Consensuality rating: ±0; the usual "her mouth says 'no', her
body says 'yes more harder don't stop now'" of the genre.
Enh. Apparently I'm not a very good bachelor.
Silly Computer Games: Oddly, medium-difficulty squiggly sudokus take longer to do
than easy ones.
Cats: Marmalade's new
favorite toy is a 60cm piece of ribbon. It is like string, but although
he bites it fiercely when he catches it, he does not chew it into pieces
or eat it! Sometimes he brings it to me so I can play with him, although
I don't think I've figured out exactly what the right way to do this
is. But he is so adorable! And orange!
(Aspen is adorable too, but much less orange.)
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16 December 2007 - Sunday
Silly Computer Games: It's a good thing it's the
weekend, because I blew most of the day playing squiggly sudoku.
Cats: I tried picking up
Aspen, but that was Not Acceptable. She didn't get violent, but she
really didn't want to be held, so I didn't push the issue. She is still
soft and cute, after all!
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15 December 2007 - Saturday
Visual Entertainments: Marith and I went to see
The Golden Compass. It didn't suck! As with any book adapted
into a movie, it was kind of rushed, but I think they had all the important
bits. The alethiometer CGI was overused (the American equivalent of a
transformation sequence?) but Iorek was not cuddly!
Later in the evening, I watched more Moon Phase. Augh,
surprise cuteness!
Cats: There was some
thought that there might adoption-fair-going, but it fell through
because Ayse has to write and write and write.
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14 December 2007 - Friday
Work: Yay Friday!
Visual Entertainments: Disc 4 of Moon
Phase, in which [SPOILER] is unexpectedly [SPOILER]!
Cats: I meant to do
laundry tonight, but just as I was remembering that I had to get started
in time to finish before the laundry room closed, Marmalade came to sleep
on me. Foiled!
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13 December 2007 - Thursday
Work: All the social people went to some kind of
company holiday party mixer[*] this afternoon, leaving the office strangely
quiet.
[*] I like having my components differentiated!
Food: It's Santa Lucia Day, which means Ayse makes
ginger cookies (it's all Chrisber's fault), and as often happens, Marith
and I went over to help. We determined how large of a batch to make by
counting how many scoops it took to empty the sugar jar and scaling the
other major ingredients by that. Then we found out that a quadruple batch
requires an entire jar of powdered ginger, which we had, but ¾ of
a jar each of cinnamon and ground cloves, which we didn't have. Oh well,
the ginger is the important part! Or maybe gooshing up the dough
manually is the important part.
Anyway, we ended up with enough dough for 16 dozen cookies, of which
we converted about half into cookies before running out of granulated
sugar to roll them in. We carried on for a little longer using brown
sugar, extra-dark brown sugar, and cocoa powder (not together!) but the
results were somewhat dubious, so we called it a night.
So many cookies!
Cats: I really need to
change my sheets more often, not just because I am a slovely bachelor who
is lazy about making the bed but because it makes Marmalade so excited. He
jumps onto the newly-made bed and chases his own tail!
I'd think the laundry machines must impregnate the sheets with catnip
when I wash them, except this time I used completely new sheets and they
had the same effect.
My cat is weird. But adorable!
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12 December 2007 - Wednesday
Work: I guess it's confirmed that I will have a
different assignment next year!
Gaming: Soon everyone will go out of town for the
holidays, and then we will resume Ken's Dragonblooded game, so tonight
was the last session of Sand Pirates. It was a pretty lame session,
because I had to cut the entire buried-treasure subplot for time, and
the PCs did their best to avoid getting into any fights. But, they were
teh winz0rs! New ship, lots of new gear, and they can even feel
good-aligned because they left the pirates with enough lumber to repair
the PCs' old ship and some spare magic items so the pirate captain can
resurrect his crazy sister.
Cats: Eight paws of
fuzziness!
Writing: Check.
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11 December 2007 - Tuesday
Visual Entertainments: Earl showed up to watch
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society:
Mars Needs Colons, so we had a fuller-than-full house!
The movie was okay, although (or perhaps because) the Major wore
pants the entire time.
My-HiME had surprising doom! Ergo Proxy had
a little explanation, but also doom! No SuperGALS this week
because we had a movie!
Food: Tonight we had red pizza with green stuff on,
and green pizza with red stuff on! It was seasonal, or something.
Cats: Marmalade really
wants the STRINGS! that dangle from the light/fan unit in the kitchen.
Any time he can get up on my shoulders in that room, he tries to get me
to move over there so he can reach them. But I cruelly thwart him!
However, he does get pettins.
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10 December 2007 - Monday
Work: Parasites don't like Mondays. (Actually, I'm
not sure anyone likes Mondays (not counting people with odd schedules
who have Monday on a different day of the week)).
Silly Computer Games: I can sometimes do a Squiggly Sudoku in under four
minutes!
My life is a waste, isn't it?
Cats: Eight paws of
adorability!
Writing: Check.
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9 December 2007 - Sunday
Food: Today was Rachel's annual
gingerbread-thing-building party, with extra Master of Military Science
and new job celebration thrown in! The ratio of people to table space
was such that by the time I arrived, no further helpers were needed, but
I hung around and annoyed people for a while.
In honor of Rachel's new degree, the theme this year was battle
scenes. We had Martian war tripods, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of
Roarke's Drift, and something I think from Les Mis
involving a farmhouse. With gummy hats!
I think this was the first time I've seen Matteo Bertani, and the
first time I've seen Tamago since the hatching. They're not dead!
There were about a dozen kids at the party, of which Teo was the only
boy. There is clearly Something in the water on St Francis. On the other
hand, in a few years Teo will be teh winz0r.
Also, raspberry M&Ms are weird. But inarguably raspberry-flavored!
(Well, maybe raspberry-flavor-flavored.)
Visual Entertainments: After a very long time,
GreenCine has finally found a copy of the next disc of Moon
Phase. It still veers oddly from romantic comedy to semi-horror
vampire-hunting action and back.
Cats: Eight paws! I
track down Aspen in her lurkenspot and pet her occasionally, but she
still twitches when I do that. Oh well.
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Military History by Jeremy (Sat Dec 15 11:11:29 2007)
Waterloo! Not Les Mis, Waterloo! Complete with serried ranks!
Raspberry M&Ms are most certainly weird, though.
Did you leave before Mike's Trojan horse took shape? We accepted it as a token of his defeated respect, and parked it next to the castle overnight, but the overlay of frosting and M&Ms was apparently too solid for the little gingerbread Achaeans to break out.
Re: Military History by marith (Sat Dec 15 11:56:10 2007)
There was a sizeable chunk of Waterloo in Les Mis, so it's understandable!
Re: Military History by Trip (Sat Dec 15 15:22:30 2007)
While I was there, people mentioned Victor Hugo, but not Napoleon!
I saw the outlines of the Trojan Horse. It did look like it was going to take a whole lot of frosting to hold it together!
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8 December 2007 - Saturday
Visual Entertainments: In the afternoon, Marith and
I went to see Beowulf. I don't know how much the 3D-ness
added to the experience -- it mostly seemed to be an excuse to have
pointy things appear to leap out of the screen at the audience's eyes --
but it was not anti-fun. The animation was otherwise fairly
standard for computer animation this year.
I don't remember the original well enough to know what they changed,
but the plot was suitably full of violence and doom and violence. And
gore. And nakedness, although the contortions they went through trying
to keep Beowulf's crotch out of visibility were ridiculous. That they
showed Angelina Jolie naked except for a thin coat of very running gold
paint just a few scenes later only makes the hypocrisy of America more
apparently. On the other hand, naked Angelina Jolie! With tentacle
hair!
It's a good thing that dragon wasn't a tool-user, though.
Later in the evening, I watched the last episode of
Negima! that was on the first disc. Enh. And, more
contortions to avoid showing nekkid bits. Bah!
I still wasn't asleep after that, so I watched Brick,
which Carl had recommended. It was, indeed, hard-boiled. The protagonist
got beat up a lot, femmes were fatale, motivations were sordid, and
honor was eventually satisfied but no one was made happier thereby.
Cats: Marmalade is not
normally a lapcat: he'll climb on my shoulders, and snuggle in my arms,
but isn't generally interested in laps. However, some combination of my
sitting in bed, being in front of the space heater, and wearing my
bathrobe, got him to come sleep in my lap this morning. (I think it was
the bathrobe, which being navy blue is ideal for an orange cat to
display himself against.) Aspen prowled around the room for a while,
until after getting closer and closer to me, she plumped down right next
to Marmalade, on my FEET!!
I tried petting her, but after a few moments she moved away again.
Still, voluntary physical contact! Perhaps Aspen will someday become my
friend-kitty! And then there will be snuggles!
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7 December 2007 - Friday
Work: So sleepy. But it is Friday. Parasites like
Fridays.
Consumerism: The package guys brought me a large box
from Powells! Yay! "Hm," I thought. "I guess I'll go straight home after
work instead of going shopping, because it would be a pain to lug this back from the store."
Then the package guys said, "Oh, sorry, this one is yours too," and
brought me an even larger and heavier box. Oog.
Tentacles so floppy and weak now. But I have so many books!
Muahahahahahahahahahaha!
Silly Computer Games: Too much squiggly sudoku. But it's
non-Euclidian!
Cats: Eight paws of
fuzziness!
Writing: Check.
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6 December 2007 - Thursday
Work: Sleeeeeeeeeeepy.
Silly Computer Games: Too much Sudoku. Possibly it was a mistake to
download the version that runs locally and eliminate the frustration of
net-based lag.
Cats: Eight paws!
Writing: Check.
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5 December 2007 - Wednesday
Work: Maybe new Taos assignment soon.
Gaming: It would be easy to remove abilities from Mutants & Masterminds.
Except for Strength (which is really a power), they're almost vestigial
anyway.
Visual Entertainments: Wednesday Night Whatever was
kind of lame with only three people, but we successfully watched
Fong Sai Yuk. Hurray for the fighting mom!
Silly Computer Games: online Sudoku can occupy the same
timeslot as sleep, but is otherwise almost entirely dissimilar.
Cats: Wow, it's
Super-Affection Beast Marma-Marma!
Writing: Check.
Fong Sai Yuk! by Chrisber (Thu Dec 6 15:55:02 2007)
I recently showed Christy the glory that is Josephine Siao, and now she knows what she wants to be when she grows up.
(And after seeing New Legend of Shaolin recently, I plan to train Teo to stand on my shoulders and do kata.)
Re: Fong Sai Yuk! by Trip (Thu Dec 6 16:37:13 2007)
Excellent!
Maybe next fortnight, Fong Sai Yuk II! Or, you know, maybe everyone on vacation.
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4 December 2007 - Tuesday
Visual Entertainments: Despite uncertainty on the
part of others, Neil did show up for Tuesday Night Anime.
My-HiME: Looks like the [SPOILER] wasn't [SPOILER] after
all. Also, Mai is such a teenager. And doomed.
SuperGALS: Ran is such a doof.
Kamichu!: That was an ending that made people go,
"Awww!"
Ergo Proxy: Confused now! BTW, everyone has been reading
Marith's wonderful detailed episode writeups
(one,
two), right?
Right?
Next week, Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex: Solid-State
Society: Mars Needs Colons.
Food: There was an amusing incident with pizza and
hamburgers, which I will not recount here.
Silly Computer Games: The
Four-Color Problem is still hard.
Cats: Not only did I pet
Aspen, I snorfled her fur! She was curled right up on the bed in a very
cozy spot, and didn't move at all when I petted her, so I took my
spectacles off and planted my face right in her fur! So soft!
I may have cackled.
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3 December 2007 - Monday
Work: Bah, customers.
Gaming: Hm. It appears that spending 10 points on
Elongation gets you 600mph of movement and a mile of
stretchiness, while spending 10 points on Flight gets you 500mph of
movement and nothing else. This seems wrong to me, but I'm not seeing
anything in the
errata or FAQ
about it, so I don't have very strong grounds for changing the rules to
make Jeremy lose.
Visual Entertainments: More Negima! (wow,
six episodes on one disc). Color-coded hair makes it easier to tell the
harem apart, but really it's just not as good as the manga. (This is also
the case with Love Hina, but for many other series as well, so
I don't think it's just Akamatsu.)
Silly Computer Games: I am very bad at The
Four-Color Problem.
Cats: Eight paws of
fuzziness!
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2 December 2007 - Sunday
Gaming: Dave and Jeremy and I gathered to try out Mutants and Masterminds.
We got as far as mostly making characters, so it doesn't matter that I
failed to make a villain. (W00t!) We're unfamiliar with the system, so
everything is harder and more confusing, but it seems like it should be
reasonably functional.
This is not to say that M&M is without its quirks. Apparently at
the default starting power level, one can fairly cheaply get the ability
to stretch out to a mile, which includes being able to move that far in
a round. That seems wrong to me, but I have not, as of this writing,
been competent enough to go into it in detail to figure out if it's the
system or the GM that's wonky.
Visual Entertainments: I picked up the first disc of
Negima! used at Rasputin and watched a couple of episodes
instead of going to bed like a sane person.
Food: Gaming munchies, argh.
Cats: I petted Aspen! I
petted Aspen!
She is quite pettable now if she is settled down in one of a few spots
(on the bed, on the window perch, in the catnest) or eating. Otherwise she
still runs away, and apparently she has still not forgotten that the middle
level of the cat tree is where I cornered her and put her in a BOX and took
her off to be TORTURED MEOW.
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1 December 2007 - Saturday
Cats: Cat brought
Madeleine Kitteh to visit! My goodness, Madeleine is a grouchy kitty
with a wide array of horrible noises to express her displeasure with
being in a new place and smelling new cats and being PICKED UP! She is
still much friendlier than Aspen and Benny were when they were brought
into the front library; she does not seem to have a problem with bipeds,
just with other cats. Or maybe with new places. She did hiss at
Marmalade when he came to investigate her in her travelling box, but
that's not unexpected in general.
Dunno! Maybe Madeleine would be happiest as uncontested queen of her
domain.
Food: Yummy Thai dinner with Marith, instead of
yummy Thai lunch by myself.
Silly Computer Games: Another implementation
of the brainless old favorite, Remove Matching Pairs From The Edges.
Gaming: Meant to try to make a villain for M&M
tomorrow, but failed due to overwhelming lameness.
Writing: Check.
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