Weekends

Saturday, after rising late, Omaha and I made our typical list of things to do that weekend. Most of my "things" were clean-up: clean up the office, clean up the yard, clean up the car. For the yard, we finished the retaining wall, or what we can of it. We're in a bit of a bind-- the fellow we bought the retaining wall stones from has disappeared, but he's left the last 23 stones we are owed on his neighbor's property. The neighbor refuses to let us come onto his property until Omaha and I talk to the seller and have him contact them.

But the work did involve actively moving and maneuvering the last eight stones into place, and the wall is as done as it can be without those last stones.

Omaha made a fabulous fish and corn chowder for dinner. It's a Cooking Light recipe, so it's copyrighted, but you might be able to find it on their website. She modified it a bit, using flour as the thickener rather than potato flakes.

Kouryou-chan helped me make lemonade and iced tea, measuring out the sugar and the lemon juice and tearing into the tea packets. She loves doing that. Just as much as she loves shelling hard-boiled eggs for lunch. She even watched as I made a second batch of popcorn, thrilled to watch the kernels explode.

Sunday was more of the same, except that eventually I had to drive Omaha over to a workshop on polyamory. Kouryou-chan and I got home late after that and she complained of a tummy-ache most of the evening, even skipping her pizza. We played video games together.

All in all, not much to say about the weekend as a whole. It was quiet. Nice. I have chocolate hidden in the house, and dole it out carefully.

I seem to have acquired another pet psycho stalker on Usenet. She's taken to having multiple identities to avoid KILL files as she hops around from newsgroup to newsgroup, breathlessly announcing to everyone that she's discovered that "Elf Sternberg has become dangerously conservative." Monkeys at 11.

So far, her comments have gone over like a lead balloon, inspired some interesting side commentary, and generated very little agreement with her own premises. This has pissed her off sufficiently that she's taking to gross ad-hominem attacks and childish name-calling, including taunting in email (where she confessed to using the multiple identities she denied having in public).

Most disappointing moment: when someone on soc.bi said, "If I had a stalker, I'd wonder what I was doing wrong." Blaming the victim is okay, I guess, if you don't agree with the victim's politics.

( Another anime review: Chobits, ep 1. )