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04/22/2003 Archived Entry: "Sundry and little bits of life strewn along the road of discontent"

Lots of things! Point form time again to get them all covered!

• Spend some good time with the kite yesterday with Jen and Miss V. The best part of my kite is that it really handles being slammed into the ground repeatedly well. There's a lot of interesting things you can do with a two line kite that are just impossible with a single-line. Things like scary the crap out of your friends by swinging the kite low above their head while it shrieks against the wind. I played for a while scraping the grass with a wingtip, and hovering at the edge of the wind. Also just spent some time trying to get the kite to make as much noise as possible.
  
• We got balcony planters! It ended up much easier and cheaper just to buy the things from Home Despot. I could have made some, but there really was no points. We got cedar, when I would only have been able to do pine. We got adjustable metal braces where I was going to have to buy and bend metal as best I could. And the pre-fab ones ended up about 2/3rds the cost.
  
• Do yourself a non-favour and look up "cosplay site:co.jp" on Google. You'll spend hours marvelling at the very bizarre world of japanese youth (mostly female) who spend all their time, money and energy dressing up like the characters from anime cartoons or japanese styled computer/console games. I'm not sure how I came across this, though during that I discovered that 'site:co.jp' (or other country TLD) trick.
  
• Tomorrow is Wing Night at the local pub...the Buck'n'Ear. I think this is going to become our occasional Wednesday night fare.
  
• I've been working to find a decent PHP/MySQL web-based calendar for use in coordinating group social activities (specifically, the geeks that inhabit our weekly RPG session). They all seem to be missing some important functionality...specifically, the ability for the people involved to go edit the data with being the administrator of the calendar. I know that this is quite feasible, since I have written PHP apps that edit the data in a MySQL db, I just can't see why people don't include this option from the start.
  
• Strange dreams last night, and the night before...at various times they have involved: llama farming, gardening, being female, being super-powered, taking care of my ancient parents (which were not my real-life parents but looked surprisingly like my fathers parents), finding coins, being on boats, and having trouble deciding what is really important in life. I've always been an 'intense dreamer'. Dreams for me are very much like movies, and although when I am on my way to waking up I can control my actions in them, they still are overwhelmingly played out by my subconscious on its own schedule.
  
• Ever considered making your own hot sauce?