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in every update post I am bewildered by the passage of time
Misc stuff in no particular order:
- My job wants to send me to a two week, out of town project management training program. I am partially excited for this, partially skeptical that there will be useful knowledge beyond what I already know, and partially dreading Networking with the other people... anyway, I emailed in my application and got no response so idk if I'm even going.
- I've clawed my Mahjong Soul sanma rank back into the top 100! ... on the English server, which is 2.05% of the total player base. So it's not as impressive as it sounds actually 😅 but I take my wins where I can! #63 babyyyyyyyy!!!! Ever since I got into the highest level room I've been fighting for my life. Last year I dropped down a rank but we are BACK and SURVIVING 😈 (The optimal method for my rank is actually to farm the people one room down, because of the exact numbers of last-place penalties between the rooms or something, but I object to this on principle. If I ever do that my opponents have the right to tear me apart like wolves.)
- M and I are watching the live action One Piece season 1 (late to the party, I know) and I had a dream where my mom (who does not care about anime) said that Luffy should "have Sanji's children" in order to avoid some kind of bad fate with the plot. I'm not sure I believe in Sanji/Luffy but I will be keeping this in mind as we continue watching. Maybe there's something there. Maybe things would be improved if Luffy was pregnant...? (As of episode 6 or so, if I ship anything it's Luffy/Zoro. But it's not like there's a whole lot of options yet.)
- We are also starting the game Chants of Senaar; it's kind of a language translation game? At the two hour mark, it's fun! I am disappointed that when you figure out the language it replaces your notes with the real words. I had one word that I noted as 'call me on the pgone' (typo preserved forever) as a placeholder, and that was overwritten with 'help' when we solved the language -_- bring me back my pgone!!
- I never made a Zeta Gundam post... short version: enjoyable, not as straightforwardly good as OG Gundam, probably because it tried to do a lot more. More factions, more people, more politics, more mobile suits in the fights and more talking between them, etc etc etc. It kind of muddled the waters. It also felt like we were getting a new and evolving sexism different from the previous series, but that's a whole other thing. I still really liked Zeta though. ZZ is on the list for after we have watched One Piece and Digimon Beatbreak and Witch Hat Atelier and maybe some other things to get past the Gundam Fatigue.
- A couple years ago now, I got an RSS reader set up only to forget what I even wanted it for. Now I have done it again and am actually subscribed to some stuff! I'm following a couple webnovels and newsletters now, and you can also put Youtube channels in there which is nice because I don't always open Youtube much on my laptop (I have my regular account on my phone and then my AMV channel separate for some reason, and separate subscriptions for each... it's too late to change it now), so this ensures I don't miss AMVs from particular people that I want to support. I feel mad with power. I can track EVERYTHING! 😈😈😈
- I've been sick TWICE in the last month+, which shouldn't be allowed. It's been three ish weeks since the last time and I still have minor symptoms -_- I am tired and behind on so many things...
- My latest bag of frozen peas is good! This is not very remarkable except that my last bag was not good. (I eat peas frozen as a snack btw.) Follow me for more exciting life tidbits like this 😅
- On the AMV front I am feeling very dull and uninspired. I opened up a couple projects today after literally doing nothing since January and poked around unproductively. The one idea I got the other day is best as a multi-character one so that's the opposite of easy. I just want something that's my usual... maybe I should go back to the vexercises and just goof around again. I also should watch more AMVs from other people...
- Apparently the new Nielsen rating thing is to WEAR A DEVICE THAT LISTENS TO THE AUDIO AROUND YOU AND DETECTS METADATA FROM SONGS AND SHOWS? We got a letter in the mail trying to entice us to do this. Absolutely not!!! I'm now wondering about whether their data will be skewed by the subset of people who are actually willing to do this. Supposedly it doesn't transmit any of the raw audio, just the info on what it's detected, but still! It's bad enough having a phone that is surely listening to you without adding this -_-
- I remembered to do my taxes last weekend and I'm getting $199 back at some point! I would prefer for this number to be 0 but somehow there's always a little extra every year. I think it's because we get salary increases in the middle of the year?
- And now, photos: some recent origami (both for coworkers; I'm sad to see the koala go), first flower in our yard, kitty cats.
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The passage of time!!!!
That first cat pic is incredible haha. All those angles!!! Magical. Magnificent.
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I hope you enjoy the rest of the OP live action, I had a lot of fun with it. It's really refreshing watching a live action adaption that fully leans into the silliness.
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Sanji icon!!! Season 1 was so good. Obviously I can't compare to the source material, but it feels like they did a really good job keeping the heart of the series.
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Yeah I've never watched the anime, I only know things through internet fandom osmosis and I think I read some of the manga when I was getting Shonen Jump magazine 10000 years ago. But it definitely feels like they're embracing the fun and passion of a wacky anime haha.