So much to talk about.
So little time. *sigh*
I want to encourage everyone able to attend BrickFest '07. Yes, there are the usual reasons, but I've got one bit of news that will be utterly mind-blowing:
*dramatic pause*
*extended dramatic pause*
I'm bringing a MOC.
Not just any MOC, though. My first MOC in about 16 years.
It will combine elements from sets 8556, 8729, 8920, 8929, 8930, and 8935, and will have a green/black family theme.
I was struck with inspiration
As I left the apartment to come to work this morning, I was approached by the husband of the elderly couple that lives in A303, two doors down from my apartment.
We both have our differences with the tenant between us, namely the late night entertaining she does, and the chihuahua-esque dog(s?) she's keeping there. However, he's more upset, as his front room is the only room between his bedroom and her apartment, whereas my bed is tucked further away.
Over the course of conversation (admitte
Today is a happy day in the world of KIE.
I have my office back, after a new paint job. Not only am I back in it, I had the plan racks that were left in my old office near the front installed in my current office.
(The plan racks are nothing more than a ripped (cut lengthwise) 2×4, with holes drilled and 6 dowels sticking out.) I'm starting to get more feedback about BrickFest 2007.
AND I start waiting on pins & needles for the mailman, because today is the day Kex finally mails the old
No, this entry has nothing to do with my Haloween 2006 entry.
Image screencaptured from the Epilogue of Outlaw Star episode 26, "Return to Space"
I should mention I finished watching Outlaw Star last Friday, but I got so tied up with the model, and now that Huntwyck is back (Did it ever really go away?), I haven't had time to say as much.
Out of 26 episodes, only episode 19 "Law & Lawlessness" can be omitted from the storyline.
Which means episode 23 "Hot Springs Planet Tenrei"
A disturbing, if not expected, trend is developping. I am losing the time to blog, as the sewer model is bogging down.
In other words, I need to spend less time blogging/reading blogs, and more time working on what I'm paid to do.
I really expected a bigger BrickFest response, but alas: the stage appears to be too big for some.
FYI: Unless you are registered for, and attending, BrickFest PDX 2007 in your own right, you must contact either me or Omi if you want to display a MOC: you can't
Gosh, I just love borrowing images from Wikipedia
Nah, this entry's got nothing to do with Super Bowl XLI. Last year, Super Bowl XL coincided with the 25 year anniversary of the US Embassy storming in Tehran: I half-expected some terror news to come in the same day.
I'm just going to hang out with my brother, his wife, her friend and someone else, really.
Now, what's the question you see above?
Anyone that noticed an entry in December might've seen where I talked about Paranoia Agent. We
And so the BrickFest 2007 MOC rush begins!
*cricket chirping*
...okay, I figured it'd be a little bigger than it is right now, but hey.
In any case, I have found some tasty packing material.
I doubt I'll be able to bring mayhaw jelly this year, because mayhaws aren't ripe yet, so the jelly is very expensive right now ($6.50 for a 16 oz jar, instead of $4.00).
(Why is it expensive? Simple: it hasn't been successfully cultivated yet. What mayhaws there are, they are grown wild. Thus, it
A few random things going on that pull from the number 5: King Cakes: I am 5-for-5 this season in getting babies from king cakes. Tradition would dictate that I will father a child soon. Too bad I'm not married, engaged, or even have a steady girlfriend for that to transpire. Red Alert 2: Team #5 tends to get assigned semi-often in the "Tiger Squadron" scenarios of last night and tonight. Texas DMZ was anti-climactic; we were promised a Soviet fortress over the Mexican border, and instead got a
Tonight, ZeAdmiral (my RA2 online persona) and Melleaux (my little brother, pronounced "mellow") took on the colors of LSU (Gold & Purple, respectively, even though they're usually rattled off as purple & gold) and started pushing the commies across the Sabine and over the Rio Grande.
We got 4 maps in before he had to shut it down: he has to fly to Houston in the morning.
It appears that the co-operative campaigns fill in the holes that the single player missions do not (like how t
Image screencaptured from the textless opening
From left: Aiesha Clanclan, Jim Hawking, Gene Starwind, Melfina, and "Twilight" Tsuzuka
The third and final thing of note I picked up last weekend was something sorely coveted through the Christmas season.
The Outlaw Star perfect collection box set. All 26 episodes. Character galleries. Textless openings and endings.
11 hours of Outlaw Star goodness.
$60 well spent, even if I don't have a DVD player (except on the computer here at work).
Traku, you should be all over this entry.
Yet another picture borrowed from Wikipedia
I had bought this game back in 2002, after enjoying Command & Conquer: Red Alert so thoroughly. I even brought it with me to Akron when I went to graduate school.
But, as luck would have it, I had to do a factory reset of my computer to uninstall the Cisco software that let me log in to the UofA network, losing a few custom maps in the process. Then, upon my return home (May 2003), I was instructe
204½ lb., 24.0% body fat
Where were you five years ago today?
I remember where I was.
Five years ago today, it was not Wednesday. It was Saturday.
It was Saturday and I had a whistle.
I was a basketball referee for the Upward basketball league at the church I attended, First Baptist Church of Moss Bluff. I wasn't that good, and I'm still not that good at it. (I'm prone to getting caught up watching the game instead of, y'know, actually refereeing it.)
Anyway, the games lasted fr
Image borrowed from Wikipedia.
Dune III it is not.
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn was the game that all but made the RTS genre. Released by Westwood Studios and [the now defunct] Virgin Interactive in 1995 as just "Command & Conquer", it had every element of turn-based strategy, but without the turns. Pitting a military arm of the U.N. called the Global Defense Initiative against the quasi-religious terrorist group the Brotherhood of Nod, this game packed a lot of effort into su
39-14.
MAN, that stung.
Let me get one thing straight, Chicago fan:
It's not that no one said you could win that game. It's that no one wanted you to win that game.
There's a difference.
Still, we get the feeling that there's a new attitude about the Saints. It feels like that this season wasn't a fluke, and that we're capable of not-being-laughingstocks, barring apocalyptic injuries.
First thing on the April shopping list: a new cornerback. Fred Thomas, it's been wonderful, but it's t
206¼ lb., 25.2% body fat
And it's only going to get worse...
The bandwagon is open.
You heard right, folks. The Saints bandwagon is officially open to all.
Unlike the private tortures Red Sox nation or White Sox nation set themselves under, refusing to allow the casual observer or passerby to join in their revelry after decades of heartache and untimely losses wrought by their favorite teams, Black and Gold nation, who has suffered through 40 years of futility, requires no such emotional
So I finally got around to going grocery shopping yesterday. Even though I live right across the street from Rouses' supermarket (a local chain grocery store... like Market Basket, or maybe HEB. Not nationwide like Albertson's or Winn Dixie or Kroger's.), I try to get my shopping done at Wal*Mart.
I know, I know, this makes me a contributor to the evil corporate giant, the progenitor of the oligopoly and destructor of the small-town general store. I'm thereby evil myself and should repent of
I spent 10½ of the 12 hours from 7 PM to 7 AM asleep.
If I still have a sleep debt today, it's not because I hadn't tried.
Announcement
Open call for MOCs for BrickFest
I want to bring the best of the Gulf Coast's BIONICLE MOC artists to BrickFest (March 30 - April 1, 2007) this year.
If you live in Louisiana, Mississippi south of Jackson, or coastal Alabama, I would like to bring your MOC.
Send me a PM and we will arrange an address for you to send your MOC, or with parental/guard
For those of you thinking the title was reverse psychology, and that this was me posting a MOC, well, haha: I wasn't joking. This is not a MOC posting.
Seriously, did you see "digital camera" in the list of gifts I got?
Anyway, I'm not a MOCist. I lack a creativity gene, it would appear.
I can't create anything truly original.
I can certainly modify, or improve (in my mind) something already built. Little here, little there. But I can't pull from nothing but my mind.
The same goes w
Billy Miller is my hero.
Seriously, though. This game was exhausting.
This day was exhausting.
I'm hoarse.
My alarm went off an hour earlier than I wanted: Amanda's parents got off at the wrong exit, and it became a little tricky at the end for them to get to their hotel, where I would meet them last night and again for breakfast.
There was still entertainment: a JP (Jefferson Parish) sheriff's deputy was chewing out a couple of girls who decided to crank-call 911.
Such things nev
Yeah, so the schedule I proposed two days ago has been scrapped. Two days ago, Amanda's parents (Saints fans in their own right) won tickets to the game from a radio station in Monroe, so they will be coming down instead of Marcie and her daughter (Amanda's 10-years-older adoptive sister and niece).
Amendedments to schedule: Saturday 9:45 AM: Breakfast at the Peppermill Restaurant 11 AM: Saints Hall of Fame in Kenner 1:30 PM: Arrive at tailgate
Sunday 9 AM: Departure for Monroe Her dad is
204¾ lb., 24.0% body fat (yay!)
I wanted to open up with §401(k) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Really, really I did.
But try as I might, I couldn't find a copy of it online for me to cut & paste. Rest assured that it exists written down somewhere, else I'd have misplaced about $2600 in what should have been a retirement account.
My office is switching 401(k) plan providers today. Er...30 days from today, actually. Dropping MetLife for the CPA firm that already does the
Nifty, Swert.
Okay, an itinerary of sorts for the weekend. This is as much for my reference benefit as it is sheer gloating: I'm going to an NFL playoff game in the Superdome and the rest of you aren't. Friday 6 PM: Amanda gets off work
Saturday 12 AM: Amanda, her sister and niece's estimated arrival at hotel, not my apartment (This is why I'm "off the hook.") 9 AM: Breakfast somewhere, probably IHOP 11 AM: final shopping at Black & Gold 1:30 PM:Parking at St. Joseph's cathedral in the
For record-keeping purposes only.
Poinsettia
Texas Christian (-11½) over Northern Illinois
TCU 37, NIU 7
Las Vegas
Brigham Young (-4½) over Oregon
BYU 38, Oregon 8
New Orleans
Troy (+7½) over Rice
Troy 41, Rice 17
Mobile..er, papajohns.com
South Florida (-3½) over East Carolina
USF 24, ECU 7
New Mexico
San Jose State (+3½) over New Mexico
SJSU 20, UNM 12
Armed Forces
Tulsa (+2½) over Utah
Utah 25, Tulsa 13
Aloha, er, Hawaii
Hawai'i (-7½) over Arizona State
UHI
With apologies to the Eagles fans that frequent my blog (I know of a couple off-BZP.), I have great news:
The Saints are going to beat the teal pants off the Not-as-dirty birds Saturday night.
Why does this obvious point warrant a blog entry?
BECAUSE KIE JUST SCORED PLAYOFF TICKETS!
*Ally McBeal dancing baby dance, but with clothes on*
DEII is going to get me a ticket, and Amanda (closest person I have to a girlfriend) her own ticket at face value! ($85)
Only requirement is my atte
Okay, drums with cymbals.
I have washed more dishes than I care to admit, today. Most of it was preliminary washing, before putting them up. I have no more cabinet space; please no more cookware.
I did successfully wash a dozen knives without lopping off any fingertips, so that's good. (See my Toa Nuparu review to see how clumsy I am.)
Went to Academy & bought some new shoes: Nike Impax Interine, in Anthracite/Harbor Blue-Natural Grey. Man, they get fancy with color names nowadays.
