Eldred and I attended our second Animazement last weekend. It moved from Durham to Raleigh this year to have more room. marionred and ramblingheritic kindly offered us crash space close to the site ( Read more... )

I finished staining the shingles last night. Yay! It seemed to go faster than before. I must be getting the hang of it. This time I tried to concentrate on keeping my shoulders relaxed, so my neck and shoulder muscles didn't get as tight. I also took the opportunity to stand in the basic tai chi posture, which helped my back and gave my thighs a ( Read more... )

Eldred and I headed to Animazement in Durham last weekend. We got a later start than planned (as usual). We stopped at Whole Foods for lunch. The food was disappointingly mediocre. I won't eat there again any time soon. Something we ate knocked us out. About half an hour up the road. Eldred was too sleepy to drive so I took over. The traffic around ( Read more... )

I finished making the kits for Animazement while we were watching Steamboy. I now have 40 kits with 8 different color combinations. And it's only Tuesday. Yay, me!

As I hoped, dragonazure liked Steamboy. We watched it in Japanese with subtitles. Then while watching one of the extras, we found that it was dubbed in English by Anna Paquin, Alfred Molina, and ( Read more... )

I decided that I should read up a bit on anime and manga before going to Animazement. I know a little because of dragonazure's interest. Manga for Dummies is checked out, so I ended up with Anime explosion! : the what? why? & wow! and Samurai from outer space : understanding Japanese animation. I'm not sure when I will have time to peruse them before Friday, ( Read more... )