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skid steering

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Last night, after wandering aimlessly through the local Borders store near closing time, i was surprised to find a CD that I swear i’ve looked for there before - Imperative Reaction’s latest disk “Redemption”. More industrial synthpop to feed my silly angst. (speaking of IR, if you check out the lyrics to “diminish me” off of the “Ruined” disk, you’d swear that the song was written for a certain character of mine :)

As usual, i also meandered through the manga section. I picked up Genshiken volume 1. I love Genshiken, if only for the reason it is exactly the kind of Manga that Kimiko would give Shimoku Kio a serious verbal lashing about :P That and for Ohno-chan. :P The nice thing about Manga is you can read it fairly quickly, so it’s easier to find cracks in your time to read chunks of them. Anime is a bit more of a pain… Cortana is trying to get me hooked on Gokujo Seitokai… damn them. It’s bad enough he taunts me with other things . No, i don’t want one for my desk. Really.

I spent most of the day yesterday turning over dirt and cultivating this garden area in the backyard. I tell you, i have a lot of respect for people who’ve made their living digging ditches throughout history, for farmers who who in ages past used to have to do this stuff by hand, and for hydraulic power equipment. I always joke with Seraphim that i want to get a skid steer loader… I think i know what i’d do with it now :)

I make that link in jest, because about six months ago i had made a link to the Caterpillar front page (CAT makes, like, most of the world’s heavy machinery) in a rant as part of a joke about how i felt like the week had run me down with a front end loader. A week later i got an email from someone at CAT wondering where the hell all the traffic was coming from :) After a few emails explaining things, he said that it’s too bad that the traffic wasn’t getting there via paid advertising – i probably could have bought one of their base skid-steer loaders for all the click-thrus.

Damn. now he tells me :)

- pirotunes: Silent Records – Ambient Temple Of Imagination – Thee All Importance Of Imaginat -

Posted by fredrin on May 29th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging

black flowers

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One of the problems with the Fruits Basket manga is how long it take to get to any of the really interesting stuff. I could care less about Yuki and Kyo and the rest of the boys and thier lame problems – i wanna know about Hana-chan, and Rin. I’ve had enough Tohru to last me a lifetime now. :)

That said, yay for volume 9! :) It shouldn’t be THAT big of a deal for me – after all, i did steal all of Dom’s japanese Fruits Baskets volumes, so i have all of it already -but it is nice to be able to just read through it in english. I love Hana-chan’s backstory, and it’s nice that Takaya-san spent the time on it that she did. Yeah, yeah, Hana-chan is my fave FB character. So shoot me.

I have a stellar idea for a side story for Hana-chan. Too bad i have enough trouble finishing my own ideas. Kind of like i have some really oddball ideas for a Mahoraba side story too… i guess you can always tell your faves, and stories that you enjoy by the fact that they inspire you to do something more with them.

Last year i gave a drawing i did of Hana-chan to Daichi-san (the director of the Fruits Basket anime). Yknow, i wonder what happens to those when you give them to people. I have a large stack of drawings, sketches, paintings and other artwork that people have given me over the years, and to this date i still haven’t got around to going through it all and scanning, posting and organizing them the way i should.

At least i take better care of them than i do my own drawings. :)

I should get busy on my MT rant. I still have some kind of major reluctance to write them. i still don’t understand why… Kinda sucks being afraid of your own website, isn’t it?

- pirotunes: Solitaire – Fearless -

Posted by fredrin on May 27th, 2005 :: Filed under Daily Blogging