Finally, an entry with substance...
Sunday: Went to the Topsfield Fair with my folks: I tried posting a voice post about it, but the sound came out horribly tished-up to the point that it sounded like I'd picked up some EVPs. Looked at the decorated pumpkins, said hello to the teeny-weeny miniature horses and the rabbits, watched an *itty-bitty* quail chick skittering around with his brothers and sisters in the incubator.
Monday: Worked part of the day, and spent the afternoon/evening with my dad at the Fair. Watched their Figure-8 car race and also... Pig racing, the brain child of a mischievous fellow from Florida: To get the pigs to run, he puts an Oreo cookie in a pan of grain at the end of the little race track. I never knew pigs could run like that!! Speedy little pudgy buggers. Also watched, for the first time, a live demolition derby; one way to recycle beat-up old cars and haf a little fun while you're doing it: ram them into each other!!
Tuesday: Quiet day, aside from taking care of bank business and bringing back a DVD to the library. Finally watched "Kiki's Delivery Service" from start to finish. I first saw part of it at Boskone a couple years back, always meant to watch it, and I figured now was the best time of year to do it.
Today (Wednesday): Round three in the quest for Vol. 9 of the Evangelion manga. I'd run across a shop in Cambridge which specializes in anime and manga, and so I tossed off an email to them: They don't have it in stock, but if it's reprinted, they'll be sure to let me know. I've got one more card to play (ie. Harrison's in Salem, Mass.) and if this doesn't work, I'll either bite the bullet and get one of the absurdly priced Amazon copies as a Christmas present, or print out and hand-bind the pages from a scanlation site (though that means missing out on Carl Gustav Horn's nifty little afterword in the back).
Monday: Worked part of the day, and spent the afternoon/evening with my dad at the Fair. Watched their Figure-8 car race and also... Pig racing, the brain child of a mischievous fellow from Florida: To get the pigs to run, he puts an Oreo cookie in a pan of grain at the end of the little race track. I never knew pigs could run like that!! Speedy little pudgy buggers. Also watched, for the first time, a live demolition derby; one way to recycle beat-up old cars and haf a little fun while you're doing it: ram them into each other!!
Tuesday: Quiet day, aside from taking care of bank business and bringing back a DVD to the library. Finally watched "Kiki's Delivery Service" from start to finish. I first saw part of it at Boskone a couple years back, always meant to watch it, and I figured now was the best time of year to do it.
Today (Wednesday): Round three in the quest for Vol. 9 of the Evangelion manga. I'd run across a shop in Cambridge which specializes in anime and manga, and so I tossed off an email to them: They don't have it in stock, but if it's reprinted, they'll be sure to let me know. I've got one more card to play (ie. Harrison's in Salem, Mass.) and if this doesn't work, I'll either bite the bullet and get one of the absurdly priced Amazon copies as a Christmas present, or print out and hand-bind the pages from a scanlation site (though that means missing out on Carl Gustav Horn's nifty little afterword in the back).