Weakened IV
Jan. 26th, 2004 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauSitting here eating my sandwich early and I want to tell you what I did before I came here to sit and eat my sandwich.
Saturday I minded Aki for a while and we watched a tape of Godzilla 2000 I had found for him. He loves Godzilla movies and has most of the ones available in English, except for certain ones like Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster which have proven impossible to get (but which I would really like to see again, can't forget that weird sequence featuring "the Go-Go of One Million" with the dancing skeletons). Later we played the Settlers of Catan Card Game which we have really been enjoying lately, then I finally got to work on that article on the development of the Canadian Army. I got a good start and by Sunday night I was up to 1756. This may not seem like much to you, but it is the first time I have worked on a major article in four years. Getting hurt did not dampen my creativity, but it certainly affected the energy I had available.
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.
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scuttle told me that Einsturzende Neubauten is coming to Vancouver on Tuesday May 4! This is the first time they have been in Vancouver in a long time, I think. I'm there, I'm there... hoo boy. I have seen them only once, in October 1989 when I was in Berlin. They played at a place called the Latin Quartier and it was like the well-attended demolition of a bus station. I had a horrible cold and fever that broke in the middle of the concert, so after half time I was standing next to the speakers watching Blixa Bargeld while the sweat poured off me. Fine times.
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.
And now my sandwich is eaten, my fruitcake too (did you realize that most of the "candied fruit" in such a cake is actually sugared and coloured rutabaga?).
Saturday I minded Aki for a while and we watched a tape of Godzilla 2000 I had found for him. He loves Godzilla movies and has most of the ones available in English, except for certain ones like Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster which have proven impossible to get (but which I would really like to see again, can't forget that weird sequence featuring "the Go-Go of One Million" with the dancing skeletons). Later we played the Settlers of Catan Card Game which we have really been enjoying lately, then I finally got to work on that article on the development of the Canadian Army. I got a good start and by Sunday night I was up to 1756. This may not seem like much to you, but it is the first time I have worked on a major article in four years. Getting hurt did not dampen my creativity, but it certainly affected the energy I had available.
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.
OH!
scuttle told me that 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.
And now my sandwich is eaten, my fruitcake too (did you realize that most of the "candied fruit" in such a cake is actually sugared and coloured rutabaga?).
