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mwbworldGeneral nonsense:
Very brief post now and more maybe today, tomorrow, the next day...
Technically I'm on vacation this week and next but it is still not quite feeling restive. But it often takes me a while to start to relax. The next week should hopefully be a lot more vacation like.
Part of the problem is that I've been running a lot of errands that have been put off the past chunk of weeks because there has been so many thunderstorms and heavy rain whenever I got off work. But I'm almost caught up.
Breakfast of also rans
So I'm confused.
I went out to breakfast at one of my favorite breakfast places, but they were having a meltdown. There was a problem with the kitchen - stoves down, water not flowing, cats lying down with dogs - it was a little vague. But the food took nearly an hour to get to me despite it not being that crowded (others had exactly the same problem.)
To make up for it they didn't charge anyone for breakfast so everything was free.
But when my order arrived it wasn't what I ordered and it was actually pretty bad.
So win or not?
Anime
I'm roaring through Ranma. I'll be starting season four later today. Still mostly full, but starting to have less interesting characters floating about.
Need more Shampoo and Ukyo.
I'm just saying.
I went a bit ordering crazy late last night and ordered Karin the Complete Series, The Familiar of Zero and Kenichi, the Mightest Disciple Season One, Part One - any of which I may actually enjoy a lot or regret wasting my money on.
Hulu has put up episodes of Honey and Clover and Nana. I liked the episodes of Honey and Clover more than I'm enjoying the manga nowadays, and enjoyed them enough to actually pre-order the first box set. Nana on the other hand, I didn't make through the first episode. Haichi (the annoying Nana) is way too annoying to watch in motion. In the manga, I generally skimmed by anything involving her - which sadly you can't do in the anime.
Science Fiction
Just finished the September 2009 Analog and only one story caught my eye, Evergreen by Shane Tourtellotte. It had an intriguing premise of parents freezing their children at certain ages, where they simply stop aging and stay that age all their lives. It raised some good points about age, appearance, sexuality, maturity, etc. and did it will some reasonably well done characterizations. I known I've read several of his stories in the past and enjoyed them. Long overdue for a collection of his short stories. I may pick up a bunch of his stories which are available individually on fictionwise. The rest of issue, wasn't better than the Asimov's I talked about last week.
More later....
Very brief post now and more maybe today, tomorrow, the next day...
Technically I'm on vacation this week and next but it is still not quite feeling restive. But it often takes me a while to start to relax. The next week should hopefully be a lot more vacation like.
Part of the problem is that I've been running a lot of errands that have been put off the past chunk of weeks because there has been so many thunderstorms and heavy rain whenever I got off work. But I'm almost caught up.
Breakfast of also rans
So I'm confused.
I went out to breakfast at one of my favorite breakfast places, but they were having a meltdown. There was a problem with the kitchen - stoves down, water not flowing, cats lying down with dogs - it was a little vague. But the food took nearly an hour to get to me despite it not being that crowded (others had exactly the same problem.)
To make up for it they didn't charge anyone for breakfast so everything was free.
But when my order arrived it wasn't what I ordered and it was actually pretty bad.
So win or not?
Anime
I'm roaring through Ranma. I'll be starting season four later today. Still mostly full, but starting to have less interesting characters floating about.
Need more Shampoo and Ukyo.
I'm just saying.
I went a bit ordering crazy late last night and ordered Karin the Complete Series, The Familiar of Zero and Kenichi, the Mightest Disciple Season One, Part One - any of which I may actually enjoy a lot or regret wasting my money on.
Hulu has put up episodes of Honey and Clover and Nana. I liked the episodes of Honey and Clover more than I'm enjoying the manga nowadays, and enjoyed them enough to actually pre-order the first box set. Nana on the other hand, I didn't make through the first episode. Haichi (the annoying Nana) is way too annoying to watch in motion. In the manga, I generally skimmed by anything involving her - which sadly you can't do in the anime.
Science Fiction
Just finished the September 2009 Analog and only one story caught my eye, Evergreen by Shane Tourtellotte. It had an intriguing premise of parents freezing their children at certain ages, where they simply stop aging and stay that age all their lives. It raised some good points about age, appearance, sexuality, maturity, etc. and did it will some reasonably well done characterizations. I known I've read several of his stories in the past and enjoyed them. Long overdue for a collection of his short stories. I may pick up a bunch of his stories which are available individually on fictionwise. The rest of issue, wasn't better than the Asimov's I talked about last week.
More later....