Oloteas

Kouryou-chan has apparently decided that Omaha and my regularly reminding her of her responsibilities constitutes "torture." I think the Geneva Conventions don't exactly apply here.

We went to Oloteas yesterday. It was Concentric Circles, so a whole bunch of people were out and about doing different rituals throughout the day; it made the community feel a bit fractured, but that wasn't too bad.

I spent two hours in the swimming pool making sure that Kouryou-chan didn't drown. She discovered the joys of a facemask and pushed herself underwater farther and farther, although when she dropped the mask to the bottom of the pool of course it became my duty to go get it. Sigh.

I saw damiana_swan and a few others I knew. At one point while talking about romance novels with a friend of mine another lovely came over and asked what we were doing. "Girl talk," I said. She giggled.

I discovered that Whole Paycheck Foods carries Raven's Brew.

Sunday at home and at rest

Today was a sad day for Kouryou-chan. The Dairy Queen, which is just down the street, officially went out of business today. When we went, she was looking forward to having a cotton-candy flavored milkshake, but they'd run out of that flavor by the time we got there. She settled for a sunday with extra chocolate.

I watched Matrix Revolutions. Here's my take: it didn't suck as badly as everyone told me it would. I took it at face value: it's a superhero flick, not a cyberpunk movie. As a superhero movie, it's pretty good, especially with the hero and villain duelling dialog at the same time they're duelling fists.

What I didn't like is the ending. Not because it didn't fit with the expectations raised within the first two movies, but because it wasn't true even to itself. ( Spoilers. )

I see that Mari-Tan is making the rounds again in the Japanese learning zeitgeist, although everyone's only got a photo of page 37 and nobody seems to know where it's from.

Well, I happen to have a copy. Mari-Tan is a cute two-comic collection of little military characters teaching English to native Japanese speakers. Their choice of English is highly entertaining, however. ( Language NSFW. No pictures. )