I want to go on a mountain-top
with a radio and good batteries
and play a joyous tune
and free the human race from suffering
I'm no fucking Buddhist
but this is enlightenment
the less room you give me
the more space I've got
I'm having a danm good birthday in case anybody was wondering. Well actually tomorrow (which the clock tells me begun forty minutes ago) is my birthday and today (which became yesterday forty minutes ago) was my birthday-observed.
I started the day with a good long lie-in. Mind you, I did not say I slept in, but in the interest of not sacrificing my PG rating, we'll just skip past the zugzug and move on to breakfast.
I had my traditional birthday breakfast of eggs-benedict, coffee and orange juice. It's a tradition I've kept since I was maybe five or six and ever since then I have not been shot, struck by lightning, sucked up by a tornado or eaten by wild dogs. Therefore I believe it to be an important ritual and dare not break it.
My parents visited and brought a present. Let me preface this by saying that our family no longer believes in "traditional" gifts. That is to say we've moved beyond the consumerist capitalist dogma of buying fancy presents... okay.. we're flat-broke, but that's beside the point. My mom made for me a jar filled with bird-seed and two dozen tiny common household items such as a screw, a watch battery, a wooden bead, a safety pin and a plastic gem. The object is to find all the items without taking the lid off the jar. So far I've found six. I am considering making a similar jar and filling it with tiny Reaper products such as familiars, weapons from weapon-packs, and of course, orc-heads. (I actually have three spares)
Well..anyhoo, after that, Steve took me to Pappadeaux for dinner. If you've never heard of it, they serve seafood and cajun fare. Steve had fried shrimp and dirty rice. I had fried oysters. I'm so full I could pop, which is a shame. All they say about oysters IS true.
After that, we went to Borders and he bought for me the 25th anniversary edition of Mary Poppins. Yeah..I am a lover of musicals too. The "in the land of chalk-drawings" bit has always been one of my favourite moments in cinema.
So..that's yesterday..and I have today ahead of me to look forward to.
Dan and Ben are coming over to paint minis and help me consume two dozen chocolate cupcakes.
BTW if you missed it, Dan's birthday was monday and I made for him a special 28mm card >> part 1 and part 2
So..I'm off to bed. I got a helluva day ahead of me. :)
this is an alarm-call
so wake-up wake-up now
today has never happened
and it doesn't frighten me
and play a joyous tune
and free the human race from suffering
I'm no fucking Buddhist
but this is enlightenment
the less room you give me
the more space I've got
I'm having a danm good birthday in case anybody was wondering. Well actually tomorrow (which the clock tells me begun forty minutes ago) is my birthday and today (which became yesterday forty minutes ago) was my birthday-observed.
I started the day with a good long lie-in. Mind you, I did not say I slept in, but in the interest of not sacrificing my PG rating, we'll just skip past the zugzug and move on to breakfast.
I had my traditional birthday breakfast of eggs-benedict, coffee and orange juice. It's a tradition I've kept since I was maybe five or six and ever since then I have not been shot, struck by lightning, sucked up by a tornado or eaten by wild dogs. Therefore I believe it to be an important ritual and dare not break it.
My parents visited and brought a present. Let me preface this by saying that our family no longer believes in "traditional" gifts. That is to say we've moved beyond the consumerist capitalist dogma of buying fancy presents... okay.. we're flat-broke, but that's beside the point. My mom made for me a jar filled with bird-seed and two dozen tiny common household items such as a screw, a watch battery, a wooden bead, a safety pin and a plastic gem. The object is to find all the items without taking the lid off the jar. So far I've found six. I am considering making a similar jar and filling it with tiny Reaper products such as familiars, weapons from weapon-packs, and of course, orc-heads. (I actually have three spares)
Well..anyhoo, after that, Steve took me to Pappadeaux for dinner. If you've never heard of it, they serve seafood and cajun fare. Steve had fried shrimp and dirty rice. I had fried oysters. I'm so full I could pop, which is a shame. All they say about oysters IS true.
After that, we went to Borders and he bought for me the 25th anniversary edition of Mary Poppins. Yeah..I am a lover of musicals too. The "in the land of chalk-drawings" bit has always been one of my favourite moments in cinema.
So..that's yesterday..and I have today ahead of me to look forward to.
Dan and Ben are coming over to paint minis and help me consume two dozen chocolate cupcakes.
BTW if you missed it, Dan's birthday was monday and I made for him a special 28mm card >> part 1 and part 2
So..I'm off to bed. I got a helluva day ahead of me. :)
this is an alarm-call
so wake-up wake-up now
today has never happened
and it doesn't frighten me