Worst Day of the Year

Everyone is posting that today, January 24, is the worst day of the year. It's early yet, so I don't know which way today will go, but last year's Worst Day wasn't so bad:

"Sunday Mxo went off to make mochi for the Japanese school and Aki and I stayed in again. We played some horse-and-musket miniatures using some very simple rules I found written for 2mm Napoleonics. Interesting but need tweaking. We played two games, then we played more Settlers and a quick match of Creature That Ate Sheboygan, his other favourite game right now. I played a jumping radioactive spider that shot lightning out its arse and laid waste to the city as it capered through the streets! Then more work on the article but it was so damn cold in that room, unfortunately it's the only place I have to spread out my books where I have any peace and quiet - she was watching hours and hours of that wretched J-Pop jabbering and puerile comedy on tape - "nande daro, nande daro, nande daro, nande daro, nande daro" until I wanted to put my boot through the screen. Really underlines for me that TV, at least in Japan, is meant to prevent thought, not provoke it.

Just before bed Aki and I made some Artist Trading Cards, at his suggestion. I brought out an old sheet of Letraset, all kinds of little stars. Aki had never seen Letraset before and immediately made a bunch of really clever little pictures incorporating star designs! Can anyone tell me what Letraset actually is - is it some kind of carbon or plastic material? What makes it stick to the paper?

Finally, on Sunday night before going to sleep I read a Theodore Sturgeon short story. Sturgeon is one of my favourite SF writers, he has written some of the most memorable and poignant stories I have ever read. And last night, for the first time, I read his story "Hurricane Trio". It encapsulated brilliantly the essence of my current Situation, and provided a solution to the problem. Unfortunately, the solution involved being cut in half by the landing gear of a UFO and being put back together again with certain improvements by aliens."

Grade 12 Meme

Yoinked from [Bad username or site: rainbow goddess @ livejournal.com]. As you might be able to guess, I hated high school.

What were your three favorite bands? Devo, Kraftwerk, and the Residents

What was your favorite outfit? Black jeans, T-shirt in solid colour

What was up with your hair? Short, Army-style

Who were your best friends? Gary, Eric, Mike and Andreas

What did you do after school? Went home and fiddled with games

Where did you work? Bay Street Armoury - I was in the Militia.

Did you take the bus? yes

Who did you have a crush on? can't remember.

Did you fight with your parents? No. I wanted to annoy them by being a living reproach to their smoking, drinking, car-driving ways, so I was a quiet, straight-arrow, well-behaved boy. I don't think they ever even noticed.

Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on? no one. Never have.

Did you smoke cigarettes? No.

Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker? No.

Did you have a 'clique'? Hung around with the "science kids".

Did you have a regular place to hang out with your friends? No.

Admit it, were you popular? No way!

Who did you want to be just like? Didn't know.

What did you want to be when you grew up? In the Foreign Service.

Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now? Dead.

MDG Ludography

Just for future reference, here is the complete ludography for Microgame Design Group, the DTP game company with which I was associated for 8 years.

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Graphic Advisory

It's time for me to buy time from my ISP that houses my webpage (http://www.islandnet.com/~citizenx) and webmail, and I find that I am way over my 5 MB storage limit. Consequently I have had to delete a lot of space-hogging graphics files, so many of the picture links you may encounter when looking back through my LJ will be broken.

Sorry, but there it is. I'll fill it up again later with more dross.

Some good news, though: my Burning Man tickets arrived today! Yaaaaay!