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Lj-tags: in today's news

It sounds like it should be a Tai-Chi move or something.

Freak spent the weekend, as he has for the last week or so, working on the
heap of clutter in his room in anticpation of inspectors & window installers
needing to be able to walk through the room. Which he's pretty much gotten
things cleared out - mostly - and I would intermittently wander up to ask
him questions & get enlisted in "helping" - one visit he asked me to look
around & pick computer screws out of the carpet. Thankfully it occured to me
after the 3rd screw that they were made out of metal & made him give me a
magnet out of his speaker magnet collection. But several large boxes of
stuff got donated, as well as a good sized box of paper & plastic bottles
got recycled, and a couple of little bags of garbage thrown out. He got
various caches of random tools sorted into his big toolbox, and parts sorted
into his random computer parts cabinet, cables into the random cable
storage... you get the idea.

I mean, his room is still a disaster area, but at least its not as bad as it
has been.

Otherwise... Alex came over to visit his cat, & ended up hanging out with me
in the kitchen for a bit. I'd installed trillian the other day, & got to
chat with a few people in IM - my sister in taiwan & gogo both said hi, and
I burned through a bunch of text messages with <lj user="misterflames"> at
one point. He needs an Amnityville Toaster. If anyone has one they want to
get rid of. I watched some of my stuff off the DVR, freeing up some hard
drive space; and watched the Yuyu Hakusho movie i'd gotten from the library.
Set up my VCR special for it. And it was odd - it was post-rescuing Yukina,
but Pre-Dark Tournament, and they didn't use the same voice actors as the tv
series, and they kept saying Kuwabara's name wrong. Admittedly it could be
they were saying it RIGHT in the movie by pronouncing it Kuwahara, but i'm
really not sure. It really was throwing me off.

Finished reading <u>Blame!</u>, which I was really liking despite it being
post-apocalyptic sci-fi, sadly the library only had through vol. 7 in its
collection. Its quite possible there ISN'T any more than that. I'd have to
look at the publisher's site to be sure.

It really feels like I didn't get anything accomplished this weekend. Sadly,
it also doesn't feel like I got a break out of my 2 days off... like I need
a day off to recover from my days off. Odd. Of course that could simply be
because I didn't really COOK this weekend, just sort of scavenged. That
could be it.