Nov. 5th, 2005

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Or so I'm told. I was watching Flims of Fury last week on SpikeTV and they were showing Dragons Forever, which I dig just for starring the triple-threat of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao. It was subtitled, which is always nice, and the subtitles included translations of the lyrics during the love theme. Included in that parade of nonsense was the gem: "Love is a conveyer belt of warmth." I'll tell ya, if that translation is wrong, then I don't wanna be right.

Last weekend was a'aight, even without strangely lyric'd Hong Kong love ballads. I ended up pulling an all-nighter at the casino on Saturday, and then spending Sunday in a haze just trying to stay awake. It was in this time of madness that I thought it would be a good idea to haul out Wind Waker and start playing it again. It's fun, of course, but now I can't stop playing it, and I really should be doing other things. Regardless, though, I managed to at least stay up until a decent hour and get up early on Monday (which was the point of the all-nighter), so I could accompany Momz to her first invitational poker tourney. She played the tourney, I cleaned up at cash games, we spent a festive Halloween at the casino, and we went home. I was unbelievably tired that day...I forget how I can't really deal well with the all-nighters any more. :)

Our domestic territory down here is being invaded by the cats from next door, which drives our dog absolutely crazy. One kitten in particular is ridiculously bold, having no sense of boundaries. It explores and chills on our porch, regardless of the human activity, and one time it even jumped in our car when I had the door open. The insolence! I guess it's no big deal for the time being, but I doubt Momz will take much more of their crapping in the flower garden.

I see LJ has joined the Portal Side with this MyLJ business. I'm...averse. I mean, I guess I have nothing specific against portals, per se, but having spent my glory days as a programmer at a portal company, I sort of developed a distaste for the whole business. I may come around someday, but for the time being, I'm content that my blogging activities really don't require that much in the way of organization.

Reading this "This Day In History" stuff is really heightening my sense of the passage of time. Recently it was the ten-year anniversary of Prime Minister Rabin of Israel getting assassinated. I can actually remember that day pretty well, for bizarre reasons. Some college-mates of mine and I were out at our favorite all-night hangout, Eat 'n Park, in the wee hours of the morning. It was definitely after an all-nighter, but I can't remember why...it's sort of equal chances that it was either a programming project or a night of playing Magic: the Gathering (or Cosmic Encounter, actually). In any case, we were sitting around with our coffee and pancakes (and, quite likely, giant cookies with smiley faces on them), when suddenly we found ourselves pinned down in our booth by a reporter and camera crew, asking us about our reactions to "the assassination." Well, my college years weren't exactly a time of my being on top of current events, even at the best of times, and on top of that I was sleep deprived and had either been spending the last many sleepless hours either coding linked lists or summonong Kird Apes, so I had no idea what the hell was going on. I briefly considered making something up to try and sound informed, but really I just babbled out some statement of ignorance. The reporter moved to each of us in turn, slowly revealing that none of us had any idea of what was going on in the world. I remember the look on her face, like we were the biggest idiots to ever inhabit a booth at the all-night diner. With a gesture to the cameraman, the spotlight was shut off and they scampered away, no doubt to find some better-informed interviewees. It's just the sort of incident you remember, I guess. Anyway, ten years have passed since that night...that's a pretty long time. Then again, I also find it hard to believe that it was only a month ago that I was livin' la vida Vegas, so...time is just weird that way.

Anyway, I guess not a lot extra has been happening around here, including, I'm sad to say, there has been no writing. I keep thinking about NaNoWriMo, but I find I'm not actually doing anything about it. I want to play more poker this weekend, so I was thinking maybe I'll try to devote a lot of time to writing next week. I've also been tossing around a visit to New York, possibly next weekend, but I think I'll just have to see what's going on. All in all, I'd say that things are pretty chill...perhaps too chill, as I haven't been getting anything accomplished. C'est la vie.

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