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tj_dragonbladeBroke into my Pile of Unread Manga this last weekend. And discovered, alas, that the color pages I look forward to in the front of each Saiyuki volume are not, in fact, in color in Reload Vol 9. This is particularly T_T inducing because that gorgeous Ukoku-under-goldfish pic just doesn't have quite the same impact in B&W. WTF, TokyoPop? Business so bad you can't afford color inserts any more?
Spent a couple hours this last weekend also plugging away at the Naruto game for DS that I bought myself as a birthday present. Which was at the beginning of January, mind. I'm still mired down in the D-rank missions (the beginner level); there are three admittedly simple ones that I cannot for the life of me clear. T_T I soo didn't get the Gamer gene. Doesn't mean playing's not still fun, tho.
Have been on Volcano Watch for the past couple weeks while boss was on vacation. He's back now, which means I can turn off my phone at night again and not be checking the AVO website every couple of hours. Volcano was quiet the whole time, though, which...well, yes, it's good, but there's a certain aggravation to it as well. There's the initial flurry of 'Agh! Activity! Eruption imminent!' when things start rumbling underground, but that was a good month ago. They still predict that eruption is more likely than not, but cannot of course say when. It's The Volcano That Cried Wolf. It's making such a fuss with no follow-through that by the time it does finally blow, we won't take it seriously until it's almost too late. *headdesk*
And yes, Bobby Jindal, there are volcanoes (and other geological phenomena) in America that need to be monitored, and spending money to purchase and/or upgrade equipment and facilities for doing so is a viable point of economic stimulus. In my opinion. Which may be admittedly biased by locale. Somehow, though, I suspect that Bobby Jindal (and his speech writers, editors, etc) knew that. Just like Sarah Palin (and her writers) must have had some notion that whatever research was being done on fruit flies held significant value of one sort or another even if they hadn't researched the specifics. I find it unlikely that people in such positions could be that stupid. More likely, they assume (and rightly so, unfortunately) that the general public is in fact that stupid, or uninformed, and craft/deliver their speeches to play to that element for the benefit of their own agenda. Not unlike the element that gathers frightened citizens into determined mobs. I fear that I'm not making my point coherently, but I'd almost rather that it were option A, that politicians really are that dumb. Option B is somehow more frightening. And politics in general piss me off, so I'm not sure quite how I got knowed up and opinionated on this particular set of circumstances, but it's served to remind me why I tend to avoid the whole political beast whenever I can. Gah.
And also: I shed a manly tear, for Mother's Cookies has gone under. They made a lot of my childhood favorites, particularly the pink-and-white frosted animal crackers; it's a love I was passing to the next generation. Alas. A moment of silence, please. T_T
Elsewise. I have volunteered, in honor of Goujun Appreciation Month, to actually move on a project I've been idly back-burnering for awhile - an archive of sorts, nothing fancy, just a compilation of links to fic/art/what-have-you featuring Goujun. Undecided on precisely how and where I'm going to make this happen, but I've committed to at least getting something started within the month based on the fairly sizeable collection of links etc currently tracked and semi-labeled in my email. Ebi is gathering links as well, and others are offering up their collections, so there's plenty of help to be had. So. Hopefully I will not be looking back at this entry in a matter of weeks and classifying it as yet another example of my unfortunate proficiency at Epic Fail no Jutsu. *fist of determination*
Now to finish off that meme-project I've been working on so I can properly start on the GAM project. ^_^
Spent a couple hours this last weekend also plugging away at the Naruto game for DS that I bought myself as a birthday present. Which was at the beginning of January, mind. I'm still mired down in the D-rank missions (the beginner level); there are three admittedly simple ones that I cannot for the life of me clear. T_T I soo didn't get the Gamer gene. Doesn't mean playing's not still fun, tho.
Have been on Volcano Watch for the past couple weeks while boss was on vacation. He's back now, which means I can turn off my phone at night again and not be checking the AVO website every couple of hours. Volcano was quiet the whole time, though, which...well, yes, it's good, but there's a certain aggravation to it as well. There's the initial flurry of 'Agh! Activity! Eruption imminent!' when things start rumbling underground, but that was a good month ago. They still predict that eruption is more likely than not, but cannot of course say when. It's The Volcano That Cried Wolf. It's making such a fuss with no follow-through that by the time it does finally blow, we won't take it seriously until it's almost too late. *headdesk*
And yes, Bobby Jindal, there are volcanoes (and other geological phenomena) in America that need to be monitored, and spending money to purchase and/or upgrade equipment and facilities for doing so is a viable point of economic stimulus. In my opinion. Which may be admittedly biased by locale. Somehow, though, I suspect that Bobby Jindal (and his speech writers, editors, etc) knew that. Just like Sarah Palin (and her writers) must have had some notion that whatever research was being done on fruit flies held significant value of one sort or another even if they hadn't researched the specifics. I find it unlikely that people in such positions could be that stupid. More likely, they assume (and rightly so, unfortunately) that the general public is in fact that stupid, or uninformed, and craft/deliver their speeches to play to that element for the benefit of their own agenda. Not unlike the element that gathers frightened citizens into determined mobs. I fear that I'm not making my point coherently, but I'd almost rather that it were option A, that politicians really are that dumb. Option B is somehow more frightening. And politics in general piss me off, so I'm not sure quite how I got knowed up and opinionated on this particular set of circumstances, but it's served to remind me why I tend to avoid the whole political beast whenever I can. Gah.
And also: I shed a manly tear, for Mother's Cookies has gone under. They made a lot of my childhood favorites, particularly the pink-and-white frosted animal crackers; it's a love I was passing to the next generation. Alas. A moment of silence, please. T_T
Elsewise. I have volunteered, in honor of Goujun Appreciation Month, to actually move on a project I've been idly back-burnering for awhile - an archive of sorts, nothing fancy, just a compilation of links to fic/art/what-have-you featuring Goujun. Undecided on precisely how and where I'm going to make this happen, but I've committed to at least getting something started within the month based on the fairly sizeable collection of links etc currently tracked and semi-labeled in my email. Ebi is gathering links as well, and others are offering up their collections, so there's plenty of help to be had. So. Hopefully I will not be looking back at this entry in a matter of weeks and classifying it as yet another example of my unfortunate proficiency at Epic Fail no Jutsu. *fist of determination*
Now to finish off that meme-project I've been working on so I can properly start on the GAM project. ^_^
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Date: 2009-03-06 03:32 am (UTC)Blurb quoted from the AVO site:
"Heavily ice-mantled Redoubt volcano is located on the western side of Cook Inlet, 170 km (106 mi) southwest of Anchorage and 82 km (51 mi) west of Kenai, within Lake Clark National Park. Redoubt is a stratovolcano which rises to 10,197 feet above sea level. Recent eruptions occurred in 1902, 1966-68, and 1989-90."
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Date: 2009-03-10 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-16 11:01 pm (UTC)