The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

Let It Snow

Or let it melt, actually. Bloody snow.

Hasn't snowed here in like, 4 years or something to that effect. A little bit last year, but other than that...

Trying to figure out at what point I became hostile to snow, too. I mean, it's snow. You frolic in it and play and throw it at people. Fun times, right?

Well, at some point, D&D became much more important. Don't ask me how, maybe I grew up (wince) or something, but there it is. As snow prevented me from going to the weekly D&D game yesterday, I am...displeased. I'll be even more displeased if it prevents me from going out tomorrow, too. *grumble*

I might not be going anywhere besides that, actually. After in theory getting better finally, I felt pretty horrible yesterday, and today not only was my throat dry, I got this rather intense feeling, as if Godzilla had kicked my in the crotch, then put his foot on my stomach and stomped really hard. Ugh.

On a more positive note, the whole 9 hour Shogun miniseries rocks. We haven't finished it yet, but that's ok. It's still sweet. It excises some things, changes others (reminded of LotR yet?), but overall it's a pretty viable rendition of the book. I'd prefer if they put in some subtitles for the rather copious Japanese, instead of the occasional English voiceover, but that's ok. I'll watch it subtitled next time. The way they've done it this time pretty well puts you in Blackthorne's shoes - you don't understand anything, but after a while, you begin picking up the language right along with him. That's cool and well done, I think. Plus it's made me rethink some of the scenes in the book in a way I haven't done for a long, long time. That's cool.

Urgh. I might blog some history next time. I sort of want to talk about Shogun in that context, as well as toss out a quote from a book I'm reading. We'll see. I need to go off and ache some more now.

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So I spent half the day reading a bunch of Penny Arcade. Because, well, people like Cole and Brian are always telling me how badass it is, and I'm looking at it and never quite get it, and it's just not working.

Well, I get it now. It's in the news posts. Of course if I was a hardcore vid gamer with no life, I'd get all the jokes anyway, but oh well. There's a strip with a killer rabbit on it. Killer rabbits are garunteed good times, I tell ya.

But I think I'll stick with Megatokyo. Because I'm, yknow, that other kind of gamer with no life. The PnP kind.

And on the same note, I got the rabbit email, Regina. I was appropriately amused. One of these days, I will live somewhere that will allow pets. Yes. But then I'll get a cat, because I'm, well, odd like that.

"Purrrrrrr... Pathetic mortal human. Do my bidding. Get me cat food."

"Yes master."

Anyway. I think bed is in my immediate future. Just thought you all should know all this, being how it is vital to national security, the discovery of life on Mars, and whatever it is Whir wants on ICQ now. Hi Whir.

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[/more edit] Movable Type, do my bidding. I have a stick. [/me]

Posted by Dwip at December 30, 2003 9:40 PM