Lots of Monkeys

Today, I was on time, perhaps even early for work. I place the emphasis on was for reasons I am about to reveal.

Fate, it seems, conspires against the prepared.

I went to bed early, got up early. Even had time for two cups of tea. Browsed the internet and left thirty minutes before I normally get out the door.

As I approach the bus stop, the bus leaves. There goes ten minutes but I am still early.

The next bus arrives, and I get on. Another ten minutes passes as we wait for other passengers to get on. So far, still early.

Then, the bus breaks down, and all of us get off the bus. However, the bus driver notes we can get on the law school shuttle and disembark reasonably close to campus.

I get on the law school shuttle and I notice three things:

1. It’s quiet. Almost everyone is studying.
2. People on the shuttle are older. What little conversation I overheard was about clients and work.
3. The smell of leather permeated the entire bus.

I guess someone just got a new briefcase or something, but the odor was strong, bordering on pungent.

But it was a nice change from the overcrowded, loud, main campus shuttle.

I was messing around with the theme bits on my site in Notepad (yes, I know) when I decided to look for an open source solution.

jEdit is open source, it highlights the code and indents it properly. For my purposes, it seems to work well, since all I’m doing is tweaking wordpress themes.

Makes me want to muck about on the site a bit more.

I guess that’s my way of saying that things are going to break around here.

Hey all. I’m fine! Chatted a bit with my gastroenterologist after the procedure, and I’m okay. Also found out more about my condition. So, if I’m out to dinner with any of you and I appear to be eating too quickly, please ask me to slow down.

Overall, the experience was pleasant. Terrie, Dan, Kim, and Dr. Carroll were all friendly and er, hospitable.

I was early, and I was admitted early. I got undressed, got comfortable on a bed and they started a standard IV drip. The only really uncomfortable part was the fact that I had not eaten since midnight before. Starting the IV was not bad, the only thing I felt was the presence of the cold liquid flowing through my veins. I had the risks outlined for me. Of note was this particular statistic:

Perforation, Death 1:10,000

Awesome.

Then the anesthesiologist came and assured me I’d be, “schnockered.” Just like my birthday that one time. You know what I’m talking about. At around two o’clock, I was wheeled into one of the procedure rooms and hooked up to all sorts of monitoring devices. For fun, I started meditating and tried getting my pulse down as low as possible.

I was asked to do one thing, which was turn on my side, and then I watched as the milky white liquid crawled up into the IV and then, a few deep breaths later. . .

I woke up in the recovery room, two hours later.

Many thanks to Sean and Morgan who made sure I got home.

Now I’m here at my desk, eating a paste composed of brown rice and refried beans. Pretty tasty, actually. Throat’s a bit sore, but looking forward to having dinner with you all in the next couple of weeks.

Just give me some time to recover.

Quick kudos to Fantom Comics in TenleyTown.

Knowledgeable, friendly staff that don’t feel like they’re waiting for you to steal something.

Yeah, I probably shouldn’t write their copy, but they are pretty cool. I mentioned I was going to pick up two of the back trades of Fable, guy at the register gave me four “Fantom Bucks” towards my purchase when they come in tomorrow.

Pretty cool.

So, in short, check’em out.

Right, well I guess that’s four dollars worth of promotion.

I was looking forward to a game that I couldn’t remember the title of. Now, I don’t look forward to a lot of games. This one was unique, in terms of story and presentation.

The premise is that instead of cars, robotic two legged vehicles became the norm. The game is about an amnesiac boy that owns one of these vehicles. As far as I can tell, it’s a game about him, his robot and travelling from town to town being a roadie for the “Trot Band.”

Right.

So I couldn’t find the name and I knew it was due for a localization and release here in the states sometime. Finally found the title. (Thank you interwebs!)

Ponkotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot

Which translates to

Junk Romance Great Action Bumpy Trot

Which, when released here in the states, will be shortened to

Bumpy Trot

For the life of me, I don’t know why the name was difficult to remember.

It’s so intuitive.