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There’s a really fascinating, enthralling article in The New York Times Magazine about the science of coincidence and conspiracy theories. Amazing reading, and written in a great page-turner style.
I WAS A STRANGE CHILD
there are no words to describe you.
except maybe: strange. unique. different.
what kind of child were you?
I cannot find the Monastery of Heaped Fragrance,
Miles up now into the clouds of the summit.
There is no footpath through the ancient woods.
Where did the bell sound,
Deep in the forest, deep in the mountain?
The voice of the torrent gulps over jagged stones;
Sunlight hardly warms the bluish pines.
As dusk deepens in these unfathomable mazes,
I practice meditation
To subdue the dragon of desire.– Wang Wei (701-761)
Bear teeth… Maybe I’ll get a nice fossil, and make it into a necklace. 🙂
Time for beddy-bye. Until tomorrow, dear journal!
The ACC Expo this thanksgiving weekend is going to be better than that trek happening by far.
Did I hear you ask “Why?” dear journal? I’ll tell you.
- It’s only four blocks from my house.
- The War Memorial is a huge venue.
- They’re going to have wacky cosplay folks dressed in Anime costumes.
- There’s going to be a Heroclix tournament.
- There’s Bound to be a big honking dealer’s room of all sorts of good stuff! (43 of the 85 booth spaces are already sold)
For starters.
$7 to get in is very reasonable, too.
Seeing that horrid website reminded me that I need to put some time in on mine today… commencing now.
Well, Kev’s sis will be in ICU for a few more days, but she seems to be doing well. I’m making up a goodie bag for her now, so Kev can take it to her tomorrow.
Let’s see. A Few Tick Comic Books…Copy of the Dangerous lives of altar boys, and Nightmare of Ecstasy… (Ed wood Bio.) I think that’ll keep her happy for a little while.
No foodie-goodies for her… on an IV, and only allowed shaved ice to suck on. When she gets out, we’ll have to get her a tasty can or three of Hawaiian punch.
Looks like a colostomy bag for a few months, but it’s better than having it for life. I don’t imagine she’s taking it too well… she’s pretty sensitive. I really can’t visit until she’s out of ICU.
In other news… Apartment cleaned, and I have groceries for the week. Brother has asthma pretty bad, so he’s chilling out today.
Ok, I’m officially a dork.
Newt and Yours Truly as heroclix – only the stats, no figures
Congratulations 
Nomi on Today’s wedding!
May you both live happily ever after. 🙂
Speaking of spider webs…
Mike lent me a copy of Uzumaki, on VCD and it had some interesting themes…I think if I can get it back, I’ll burn a copy.
Hmm… interesting to me, especially since my drug of choice these days is caffeine. eek!
No dice on the recorder.. and my nearby comic shop is price-gouging for single figures… The other place was $1 yelow, $2 blue, $3 red… PPF had the same stuff for $2 yellow, $3.50 blue, $5 red.
fark that noise… I’ll just have danny pick some up for me at the cheaper zone.
juliabee put me on to a nifty idea, too… making custom ones! I’ve got more army men than I know what to do with…the click bases don’t look too difficult to replicate.
Another fun thing.. I was in Eckerd’s, and back to school sales are going.. protractors, index cards… all sorts of cool school supplies. They still make trapper keepers! I remember waaaay back in the halcyon days of my youth when they were introduced. Before them…. oh, the humanity… a stack of duo-tang folders, a different color for each class, each course written on the cover neatly in black felt tip. If they didn’t have internal pockets, you were hosed, and possibly doomed to lose information.
I couldn’t resist. I bought a Duo-tang folder. Orange. With internal pockets. It cost me $0.23…I think it’ll be my new Recorder music book… 🙂 Now, I just have to pick up that recorder.
Talked to my sweetie… she’s going to work on her newest hobby for a few, so I’m going to go out and mill around some more. I may buy a new recorder while I’m out…and maybe a little pack of heroclix for a few buddies of mine… hee hee hee… got to spread the addiction.
We bugged out of the trek happening, quick like a bunny. It sucked pretty badly… there were a couple of stinkies there, but none really photo worthy, and the dealer room was poopy.
As a consolation prize, we went to a comic shop, and bought the Marvel Heroclix miniature combat game, then went to Dave & busters to play race car & pod racer, have lunch, and suss out the heroclix rules.
Very easy game, and quite a bit of fun. We got 8 random heroes in the box, and I bought a nice one for both me (Wasp) and Danny (Juggernaut), for about a buck apiece.
The ones that came in the box were Spider-man, Cyclops, Ultron, A skrull warrior, A hydra guy, Sabretooth, Bullseye, and the puppet Master.
I’d like to pick up the hulk, dr strange, captain america, scarlet witch (hee… her and wasp remind me of my sweetie), Jean Grey. and Prof X… I’m looking for the fantastic four, too.
They Need DC ones… I want the Doom Patrol, Batman, Green Lantern, Misc JSA and Batgirl to add to my collection, also!
Okie dokie… morning chores are done, with an hour to spare. That gives me time to put camera batteries in the charger, and play with Newtie!
Cool T-shirt seen today – “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.”
Capper image will be 700 wide, and no more than 300 tall.
Toybox – shared white board, chat area, bbs?
Protected:
back form the day o’ doom!
Phew… I had barely a moment to myself today… Kevin and Dale were both out, so I was putting out fires all day long. I got everything done without having to stay late, however, so it’s good for me. It was nuts… like someone kicked over an ants-nest.. everyone runnning around, nattering and stressing. bah! feh! But it’s all over, now.
thirty-six minutes until hidden video… I hope it’s better than last week’s, all the others batted 1000. 🙂