A quiet day so far...
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elfsIt has been a quiet day for us. Yamaarashi-chan arrived early this morning, and was in a miserable, sleepy mood when she got here. She also complained of being hungry, so we fed her some of Omaha's home-made breakfast muffins and a bowl of mini-wheat cereal. She curled up in my arm for most of the morning, then fell asleep around 11 and slept until almost 1pm. We had to awaken her for eyedrops and codiene and lunch, which she also made disappear. She wasn't allowed any food before surgery and she didn't want any after, so other than some soup last night this is the first solid food she's wanted.
Someone said they weren't sure for what Yamaarashi-chan was in surgery. She had (hopefully, past tense) strabismus; her eyes did not line up properly, resulting in a "lazy eye" appearance. The surgery involves moving the outer orbit eye muscles back a bit and re-attaching them to the eye; once healed, she'll re-learn how to use them and, with therapy, gain stereo vision.
After she woke up, she wanted some television and, against my better judgement, I let her watch her usual favorite shows even with Kouryou-chan in the house; definitely don't want Kouryou-chan getting hooked on the mental candy that is Pokemon. She also chowed down the hotdog we made her for lunch. I also bathed her and washed her hair and made her change her clothes, so she no longer smells like pancake syrup and mildew.
I'm really glad I didn't have to give her the anti-nausea medicine. The stick-figure "how to" illustration shows a man sitting on an arrow-- that should say it all. (If I could get the damned Windows box working properly, I'd scan it in and show it to you.)
Well, it looks like it could be up to six months before I have a working laptop. We simply don't have the money right now to afford a fix for Lain. Guess the Journal Entries are going to be on hold for a while. This just sucks.
Watched some anime while the kids were out: Daphne In The Brilliant Blue and Uninhabited Planet Survive. Since I'm not that familiar with anime conventions, maybe I missing something, but as ordinary television shows, they're interesting.
Daphne is pure fanservice-- out heroine, Maia, is top of her class to enter government service, but somehow fails to qualify. We never learn why. Out of money, with no job prospects and about to lose her home, through a series of adventures she winds up working for a private detective/bodyguards/dirty deeds done dirt cheap sort of organization. It's run by two women who spend most of the show in unremittingly sexy outfits, except when combat begins-- then they strip down even more! This show airs at 2 am in Japan.
The first two episodes were good. I enjoyed them as fanservice; lots of gratuitous rear shots, shower scenes, heaving bosoms. Oddly, though, all this gratuity doesn't overshadow showing how miserable Maia is at not having gotten her dream job, and losing her home in the process. It also has some pretty good humor and the action scenes are well choreographed.
Survive is a different kind of show altogether, made for a younger audience. The set-up is predictable: a crowd of students ages 12 to 15 are stranded, a sort of Lord Of The Flies arrangement, on an uninhabited planet, where they learn to live together or else. The first two episodes are all set-up, where we meet the characters-- the plucky heroine Luna, her stupid robot cat, her tragic friend Sharra, the class bully Howard and his victim/lackey Bill, a nerd, a tough girl, a quiet but resourceful guy.
I actually liked Survive a lot, more than I expected to. Yes, it's typical in its set-up, and the art has some of anime's more surreal conventions about facial expressions and body language when characters are getting angry or embarrassed (in humorous moments; in real conflict, the art tends towards more stronger realism), but in general the art is well-done, the SFnal elements adequately realized, and Luna's character is compelling. That cat just has to die, though. And so far it looks safe to watch around kids.
Someone said they weren't sure for what Yamaarashi-chan was in surgery. She had (hopefully, past tense) strabismus; her eyes did not line up properly, resulting in a "lazy eye" appearance. The surgery involves moving the outer orbit eye muscles back a bit and re-attaching them to the eye; once healed, she'll re-learn how to use them and, with therapy, gain stereo vision.
After she woke up, she wanted some television and, against my better judgement, I let her watch her usual favorite shows even with Kouryou-chan in the house; definitely don't want Kouryou-chan getting hooked on the mental candy that is Pokemon. She also chowed down the hotdog we made her for lunch. I also bathed her and washed her hair and made her change her clothes, so she no longer smells like pancake syrup and mildew.
I'm really glad I didn't have to give her the anti-nausea medicine. The stick-figure "how to" illustration shows a man sitting on an arrow-- that should say it all. (If I could get the damned Windows box working properly, I'd scan it in and show it to you.)
Well, it looks like it could be up to six months before I have a working laptop. We simply don't have the money right now to afford a fix for Lain. Guess the Journal Entries are going to be on hold for a while. This just sucks.
Watched some anime while the kids were out: Daphne In The Brilliant Blue and Uninhabited Planet Survive. Since I'm not that familiar with anime conventions, maybe I missing something, but as ordinary television shows, they're interesting.
Daphne is pure fanservice-- out heroine, Maia, is top of her class to enter government service, but somehow fails to qualify. We never learn why. Out of money, with no job prospects and about to lose her home, through a series of adventures she winds up working for a private detective/bodyguards/dirty deeds done dirt cheap sort of organization. It's run by two women who spend most of the show in unremittingly sexy outfits, except when combat begins-- then they strip down even more! This show airs at 2 am in Japan.
The first two episodes were good. I enjoyed them as fanservice; lots of gratuitous rear shots, shower scenes, heaving bosoms. Oddly, though, all this gratuity doesn't overshadow showing how miserable Maia is at not having gotten her dream job, and losing her home in the process. It also has some pretty good humor and the action scenes are well choreographed.
Survive is a different kind of show altogether, made for a younger audience. The set-up is predictable: a crowd of students ages 12 to 15 are stranded, a sort of Lord Of The Flies arrangement, on an uninhabited planet, where they learn to live together or else. The first two episodes are all set-up, where we meet the characters-- the plucky heroine Luna, her stupid robot cat, her tragic friend Sharra, the class bully Howard and his victim/lackey Bill, a nerd, a tough girl, a quiet but resourceful guy.
I actually liked Survive a lot, more than I expected to. Yes, it's typical in its set-up, and the art has some of anime's more surreal conventions about facial expressions and body language when characters are getting angry or embarrassed (in humorous moments; in real conflict, the art tends towards more stronger realism), but in general the art is well-done, the SFnal elements adequately realized, and Luna's character is compelling. That cat just has to die, though. And so far it looks safe to watch around kids.
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Date: 2004-03-12 11:14 pm (UTC)actually...
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Date: 2004-03-13 11:28 am (UTC)surgery
Date: 2004-03-13 01:16 am (UTC)Hope things go as well for your little one.
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