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Geek Update

This is a brief update from Japan aimed at the Tuesday Night Ballers. Today, Andrew and I visited a friend of his who lives in (I kid you not) Nishi Fuji Hashi Bashi Machi. This friend–Mark-Edmond by name–enjoys the boardgames, just like us! We played some games that I highly recommend we adopt for Basketball.

The first game is Citadels: a sneaky bluffing card game that was quite fun. The only drawback is the game pieces to represent gold coins look dead up like butterscotch candies, and thus frequently end up in Lisa’s mouth.

The second is Perfect Timing: super fun game that plays off the fundamental human desire to play with stopwatches. There are 4 possible playing entities (meaning 4 people or 4 teams).

The third game we did not get around to playing, but Andrew’s friend say we MUST PLAY, is Carcassonne. It apparently is similar to Settlers of Catan, but is different, and can take a lengthy time to play.

Mark-Edmond says “Stupid Andrew won both games”

Okay kiddies, I will be back in the States Monday night, after which I will update with detailed logs from my journey, and photos. See you kiddie winkies later!

SQUEEEEE

Woooooooooooohoo! Back in Kanazawa to get my internet fix. I have been having a WONDERFUL time.

Of course I’ll have details later, this is just a general post to check in with the world. Hi, World, how’s it going?

Back to Japan…

Mountain Trip to Japan

Well, I leave bright and early tomorrow morning for my adventure!

First stop will be Chicago, where I will spend the day hangin with D Flo, who I haven’t seen in FOREVER. It will be awesome fun.

Monday morning I start the big flight, and some hours later will land in Nagoya, Japan. I’ll be there 2 weeks, and will have all manner of adventure.

I am very excited about going to Japan, yes, but equally excited to see my friend, Andrew. I haven’t seen him for several years now, and it will be awesome to hang out and catch up and play.

So yeah, I’ll possibly update from time to time, but I’ll be back June 06. Take care, you guys. Have fun, stay safe, and wish for good traveling for me!

LOVE! Bye.

False Alarm

Okay, Centre Kids, sorry about that.

I will be coming into town on FRIDAY, because THAT’s when the reception for the art kids is, and that’s when there will be food. Delicious delicious food.

The call for the Guad still holds, though.

ATTENTION!

HEY CENTRE KIDS!!!!

I’m coming to town on Tuesday to see the senior art show. Is convenient because I have to drive to Lexington earlier that day to pick up a thingy, so i’ll roll into Danville around the 1-ish or something. The show doesn’t start till 4.

Meaning….

Will someone, ANYONE, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD EAT AT GUADIE’S WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!

You do not understand the craving, the yearning, it’s terrible. The Guad holds power over you long after you graduate. I MUST HAVE A GRILLED CHICKEN QUESADILLA!!!

Still, I have that whole “don’t want to eat there all by my lonesome self” thing, and I need to catch up with a lot of you kids anyway.

Anyone? Anyone? Pleeeeeeease?????

24-Hour Comic

Okay okay, so here it is.

Through Wheeler’s persuasion and my realization that once I start my job, I won’t be able to do this crazy junk anymore, I decided to give the 24 Hours Comic challenge a go.

I started at 3 in the morning yesterday with absolutely no preconceived ideas, and checked in hourly with Wheeler on our progress. I used a game of Once Upon a Time I’d played recently with the Tuesday Night Ballers as a starting point, and went from there.

In fact, I ran into the opposite problem that I thought I’d have: I ran out of pages before I finished my story! To Be Continued wrap-up for you, ha! Churning out the 24 pages wasn’t such a problem as cleaning them up, and around 21 hours I started GOING CRAZY trying to focus, so I called it done and scanned her in (you’ll notice a big chunk in the middle is horribly messy, I cleaned from front to middle, then from back to middle, then gave up).

Anyway… https://www.wertle.com/gallery/v/projects/24hour/

An internal dialogue

IC=Internal Clock
M=me

IC: Lisa.
M: Mmm?
IC: It’s 9:00, Lisa, you should get up.
M: …Look, Clock, I don’t know if you failed to notice, but I just did a 24 hour comic yesterday…
IC: Yes?
M: So shut up and let me sleep.
IC: Well, alright..

(an hour passes)

IC: Lisa, it’s 10:00, come on, wake up.
M: (growling) SLEEP
IC: Come on!
M: I am in a state of recovery, you leave me the hell alone!
IC: …

(another hour)

IC: Lisa.
M: Oh for the love of….
IC: It’s 11:00, Lisa
M: Look, I am going to SLEEP, if you wake me up one more time, ONE MORE TIME, I will kick your ass.
IC: ……come on, Lisa, you can’t sleep past 11….
M: THAT’S IT

(a brief, one-person wrestling match ensues wherein Lisa gets her foot tangled in a blanket and accidentally rolls out of bed and onto the floor)

IC: Well now that you’re already out of bed, you may as well get up.
M: I hate you.

(I’ll post the comic to my website later, when I am less grumpy)