In which I talk about my day...

[active_apathy]

though not in a particularly me-centric way. I doubt you really needed me to tell you that, though. Talking about my day in a non-me way is fun for me, and I think it tells you more about me than I really could*. I think the less I write about how I think I might be seen and the more I write about things the way I see them, the better I give an impression of me-ness - despite the fact that writing on the Internet is ephemeral in a way best demonstrated by signing my name upon the air in purple ink†. And that's all too many 'I's for one paragraph. They're all staring at meee.

Today was my last bit of bookshopping for a while. I've been to literally every bookshop I could find, including one having its little closing down sale. A really little closing down sale. I, personally, expect that a supermarket will have more food than my kitchen. That a bottle shop may have more alcohol than my cupboard. That a photographic store has more lenses than my camera bag. That a salt mine will have roughly as many minions as me.

There is an Expectation that a bookshop will have more books than you will. This bookshop failed that, unless their floorspace and shelves were being sold along with the stock. This all leads me to believe that the reason they were closing down was that there'd be severe stock shortages if four people wanted something to read, and severe oxygen shortages if they all looked at once.

This, however, is not the point. No, dear readers, it's just a whole paragraph of digression. I bought more books today - Smoke and Mirrors (since I reasoned that short stories are a safe way of appeasing my reading addiction without jeopardising my fiction stocks), Wyrd Sisters (since I still have Sourcery and accidentally read Mort), and A Clash of Kings (because I can't abide an unfinished series, and I haven't abided that one for about five years now).

This, however, was not the only target of my shopping. No, gentle reader, for I was in search of a secondhand Nintendo 64 console to replace the one that my thoroughly trustworthy ex-girlfriend nicked from me and sold to help finance a ticket to England. This creates problems if you have something of a notion to play Zelda; doubly so if you want to try to track down a legal copy of Majora's Mask that you don't have to try to emulate on a chronically under-spec PC.

I also want to make a Froggish Tenors icon, so emulated Ocarina of Time is still on the cards and somewhat less processor-intensive. As an aside, this is probably one of the things I loved most about Nintendo's console-based systems - they could add extra hardware support in the games themselves, before shoving it all through the console itself. I even remember the days when battery-backups and mode 7 scrolling were new, fancy bits of shiny.

Lastly, today's purchasing included things that are rapidly becoming staples - Jaffas and vanilla Coke. Not that there's a problem with that, but it seems that my consumption of sweet things is rapidly increasing. My freezer is home to chocolate ice creams. I have four different kinds of chocolate biscuit. My breakfast cereal (when I have breakfast) is chocolate-flavoured puffed-rice. I like raison toast with cinnamon on. The list runs for pages, really. This leads me to conclude one thing - I have a sweet tooth. Or rather had one, since it's evolved into an entire sweet jaw and is currently threatening to coat the rest of me in icing sugar.

And that's about all that springs to mind for the moment, I think. If there's something else, then I'll probably just spam you with a whole new entry.

*All attempts at writing that paragraph aside, mind you.
†Inasmuch as you can see it if you're watching, but afterwards it makes for a messy puddle on the ground and a sincere wish that you didn't get any on your shoes.

Comments

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

*giggles at the picture of purple ink in the air for all of two seconds and then splashing down a la Looney Tunes*

*tries to picture you coated in icing sugar and then realizes that that'd be difficult since all she knows about you is that you're tall*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I really don't want to be coated in icing sugar. It'd make my hair go all sugary-sticky. Honey, on the other hand, would be fun, and good for hair. :)

[daphyn.livejournal.com]

Honey could indeed be very fun!

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

*gets purple ink on her shoes, except is not wearing any shoes so gets purple ink on her feet* Hey! That wasn't niiiiiiice.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Sorry about your feet. Purple is rather pretty, though. At least it's not red ink.

[theshadowlurker.livejournal.com]

That's true, I suppose... it is rather itchy, though.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

An N64 console shouldn't be that hard to find, or that expensive. I got a used one a year ago for $30CAD. Try flea markets, newspaper classifieds, Cash Converters, et al.

Smoke and Mirrors is gooooooooood.

So is sugar. Yum!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

AUD30, plus another 20 for the memory expansion thingy. I thought I mentioned actually finding one, though I may have digressed a bit too far to have said so.

Smoke and Mirrors is entertaining, thus far. Thus far being the introduction, which is itself quite entertaining. I plan hope to save the rest for later.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

You had only mentioned searching for one, not actually finding one. Hrmm... AUD50 = CAD46, pretty close exchange rate right now, how odd. 50 is a pretty good deal for the system and memory pak. I am fortunate in having an N64 and both Zeldas already, so no emulation for me (though I expect my system is even more under-spec than yours. GBA emus lag on this beast).

Two of the last stories in Smoke and Mirrors are also availiable free online as professionally done radio dramas. I haven't actually listened to them, but apparently they're quite good.
http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/snowglassapples/ and http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/murder/

Gaiman has never failed to please me. I look forward to Anansi Boys.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

I have a sweet tooth. Or rather had one, since it's evolved into an entire sweet jaw and is currently threatening to coat the rest of me in icing sugar.

Don't let it turn on you! That would be terrible!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It would!

And why does everyone focus on the icing sugar?

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Cuz it's the best visual image of the post, silly.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oh. That makes sense. :)

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Coco Pops?

I'm having lunch soon, and aside from the pita bread, I'm going to have a Cherry Ripe. Mmmm.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Coco Pops indeed. They're especially good at midnight.

Oooh... a Cherry Ripe. See! That's what I meant!

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

I get like that sometimes too. I get random food cravings. Not always sweet stuff. Lately it's been apple slice from the bakery, but I did have a major love for Cadbury's Caramel Triple-Decker chocolate not long ago.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I didn't really like the triple-decker one, but then I'm more of a dark chocolate person.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

When I was younger and we were still going on family holidays every summer, I used to get one block of plain Club chocolate and make it last two weeks by eating only a couple of squares a day. There were always a lot of other treats as well -- we had icecreams and other chocolate and chips and all sorts of junk -- but the Club chocolate was special.

At the other end of the chocolate spectrum, I'm also rather fond of Nestle's Milkybars. The only chocolate I really dislike is Lindt, except for the Crunchy Caramel sort, because an ex of mine used to bring me Lindt Balls all the time and I got thoroughly sick of them.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Jaffas as in the oranges?

How long will you be away from LJ?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Jaffas as in the chocolates. They're in red orangey-flavoured shells, and are far too nice for their own good. I especially like them with a good cup of coffee.

And... I don't know. Maybe a few days, maybe a week, hopefully no more than that.