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Stardate: 20230314.1925
Location: Kitchen table
Input Device: Gemini PDA
Audio: Rain
Visual: Bowl of fried rice w/ blackeyed peas, lentils, spam, egg.
Emotional: sick, drained.
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Sometimes I run myself ragged until the wheels fall off and I am
forced into downtime procedures. I am currently experiencing one of
those instances. Too much work and giving of my time and energy has
brought me here. I need to take better care of myself. I was
supposed to be on a vacation now but instead, I am resting at home,
not on vacation, using vacation time for sick time. The older I get,
the more I encounter this. And sometimes I beat myself up a bit
about it, but not this time since there is awareness of the pattern
and I took contrary action.
Since I have had some downtime, I decided to reinstall minecraft and
log onto SDF's minecraft server. It has been quite some time since
I was on and was happy to see that my base was still intact. There
were a few people on and I tried to catch up.
Lulzcraft, mcornick, goolse, gravity_assist, and the community has
done a whole buncha stuff since I been gone. You guys rawk! Spawn
has become a city and there are so many new structures to visit!
So many new automation as well! I'd love to be able to build some
of the farms and grinders that are out there. Unfortunately, my
build skillz are pretty static and are usually just sculptures that
I build and take up space.
The rail system seems to be very complex and far-reaching! There are
subways and elevated train tracks. I was able to connect my base to
the rail system and make a creeper head train station.
Even though I started playing minecraft with my kids when they were
younger, I still keep going back to this game and playing without
them. They have gotten older and moved onto other things that teens
and young adults are interested in. I still have fun with the box
of virtual LEGOS, especially since it is part of the SDF community
and it satiates my inner child. It is also fun to experience while
listening to aNONradio programming and hanging out in the COM[MODE]
with the dambgudcyberchatterz in a seperate terminal window!
If you have not logged onto SDF's minecraft server in awhile be sure
to check it out, especially if you've never been! Maybe I might get
to meet some of you there!
Since I am in forced downtime, I have been re-acquaiting myself with
a film series that I loved watching growing up but wasn't supposed to.
It is called, "Lone Wolf and Cub," or "Shogun Assassin," in the States.
It was shown on cable late night in the 80's. I found them on one of
the streaming services recently.
It is about the journey of samurai dude pushing this cart with his
kid on their path to hell. Total 70's chopsocky bushido samurai fun
with porno theme music fight scenes, to boot! Boom-chicka-bow-wow!
Much enjoyment was had revisiting after all these years! The effects
are really bad and the blood, dismemberment and decapitations are
comedic! I think Tarantino was influenced by these films for his
effects in his Kill Bill series. There are more breasts than I
remember...topless sword fighting onna no hito with yakuza tattoos
at the beginning of the 3rd film, SO HAWT!!!
I recall having discussions with childhood friends about who would
win in a fight, ninja dude (Sho Kusugi} or samurai dude with kid in
cart? For me it would always be samurai dude with kid. He just so
bad ass! Throw Bruce Lee in there? Tough call.
They should make a fighting game like that...ninja dude vs samurai
dude w/ kid in cart vs. Bruce Lee vs. Chuck Norris vs. Shogun
ShoNuff vs. Bruce Leroy vs. BloodsportVanDamn vs. MuricanNinja dude
vs. Drunken Master Jackie Chan vs. Grasshopper Carradine vs. 7 Samurai
dudes vs. Black Mamba vs. Hattori Hanzo vs...you get the picture.
I know that I'd have my rolls of quarters warmed up for that game!
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