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Yet another reason Canada outranks America on the list of decent places.

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OK, I finally -- FINALLY -- got enough sleep, by going to bed at 9pm. That's not going to become my usual, so keep your old man jokes to yourself -- I was making up for the lack of sleep Sunday and Monday nights.

Reached my first setback in the weightloss arena -- gained 1 pound back. Oh well, it's going away this week. Sneaky bastard. I'd be more upset if I hadn't already known I messed up last week.

After that spurt of writing the other day, the fount has dried up. Dammit. I'll keep plugging away and hopefully definately come up with more worthy stuff.

I've decided that painting the living room and renovating the pond are the priority projects for the summer. Mike and I already have the backyard 90% cleaned up; the grass is dead but that's more a function of those freakishly hot days than anything else. We're planning to rototill that area and replant sod, but that's probably not going to happen until next spring when we have more dollars to spend on it. Besides, it's such a tiny area (15'x5', most of the backyard is cement patio) The paint and the new filtration system/waterfall for the pond are cheaper.

Your lesson for the day:

"Bah wah grah nah weep ninny bomb" is the Universal Peace Message.

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In the course of my work, I stumbled upon Siluria, Alabama.

Siluria?

Quick! Call UNIT! Get The Doctor out here! Hell, frell The Doctor! Get Rowan!

Rowan in Alabama. Oh dear.

Explanation for the retarded non-Whovians: Silurians are a scientifically advanced prehistoric humanoid reptilian species that ruled Earth billions of years ago. When they detected The Big Asteroid coming, they went into protected hibernation underground. They didn't wake up for billions of years, and then they discovered the bloody mammals had taken over their planet. The Doctor tried to make peace, but UNIT blew up the poor sods (but not all of them!). Refer to "Doctor Who And the Silurians", the only episode to have "Doctor Who and" in the title.

My gods, I am such a dork.

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It never ceases to amaze me how I can be utterly infuriated with someone, and then a short while later feel the most amazing feelings of kinship and brotherhood with them.

I wonder which part of me that comes from? Can't be the Portugese; my Portuge family holds a grudge like you can not believe. Decades, truly. Must be either the Irish or Scottish blood. I'm going to claim Scottish. It's the ancestry I'm closest to, after all.

Dream images - as much as I remember

. . . Skimming along a wild and wooly version of the Napa River in a Search & Rescue boat seeking traces of my father; Gregory as my copilot (And a little freaked by the way I pilot a fast, agile boat. *I* had fun, he had white knuckles).

. . . My childhood home, as palatial as I remember it to be, except with a huge freaking castle visible over the next hill, topped with beautiful magickal lights straight out of a later Final Fantasy game or big-money Fantasy movie. Aaron and I moved down the steps to my old pasture and the area between houses (a large ravine), where a ren-faire that wasn't a ren-faire but a real, actual Fantasy-movie Gather/Market was taking place. I flirted outrageously with a woman played in the dream by Katherine Heigl (yummy!), whose name I never got. I heckled her, and she decided to chase me with a stick. I finally stopped and stood my ground, and she barely tapped my ass with the staff.

"Oh, woe!" said I.

"I barely touched you, sir!"

"True, you barely touched my body, my lady, but you did severely wound my heart. I fear only a kiss from your lips will salve my soul!" Corny, but it worked; she came over to me and, just before we kissed, we were interupted by my sister (played by Michelle Trachtenberg) dancing between us with her boyfriend (played by Kyle (Gregory's brother)). When they'd passed through, we leaned toward each other, music swelled (with the "viewer" part of me thinking this was a flirtation going back years), and ---

Why does the alarm always go off just before I get the big "kiss the girl" moment?

Back to you, fuckers!

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I followed a link from g31g3r's profile to the dot_cattiness community.

I love that place. Very funny.

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Using the lovely Borders giftcard I received on my birthday, I finally managed to get a copy of the final book in the Hyperion Cantos, Rise of Endymion. However, Endymion, the penultimate book, is not only out of stock but out of print, so I'll have to try Amazon and used bookstores once I get paid next week.

I also picked up the second book in the Silent Empire series, the premiere of which impressed me. Hopefully book two will be as good (though it's a prequel, and I'd like to see what happens after Dreamer. Ah well. The story of how Kendi becomes a Child of Irfan seems to be worth reading so far. It's now my "Away from home" book¹.


1 I'm reading The Blade of Tyshalle, the sequel to Heroes Die, by Matthew Stover, as my "home" book -- it's a big trade paperback. Read these books. They're not just good fantasy, they're a scary view of what our world could logically become.

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Every once in a while I get scarily social. This is one of those times.

After spending far more time than my boss would like reading the entries of artistic_chaos and perusing her interests list, I've determined that there is definate desire to meet this person. g31g3r, my droogy brother . . . set it the frell up.

Also: Hey kids! Especially lograh! Are we doing the Gate of Heavenly Peace/Tiananmen Square Documentary tonight, or what? And where? I'd prefer my place, since Mike has expressed interest but won't be likely to leave the house (but I can probably be persuaded to go elsewhere if absolutely necessary). Anyone on my Friends list is welcome. The house is even clean! Let me know, and shite! Oh, and if we do this, bring beverages for yourself; I'm too poor to libate you this week except with britta water. ;)

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There are a couple of internet and email lists I take part in that discuss matters in China and Japan with people who live there, as well as americans from there.

It is SO refreshing to be talked to like an intelligenet person who actually knows something about those nations, and to be recognised as having that knowledge, instead of dismissed out of hand, as often happens in real life.

In other news, here's what ( Scott Adams had to say about Terrorism in his last DNRC Newsletter. )

Reprinted without permission; will be deleted if Scott Adams, by some freak chance, finds it and asks me to remove it.

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File under "Fiction I'll probably never write, but I might, so don't steal this":

The two Rowans (one good, one evil, both Time Lords from alternate dimensions (for those not in the game)) are forced to work together to save their respective friends.