Day 185: Cabinet Keyholes

This is really weird. Not only the fact that there are fake keyholes on all our cabinet handles, but that I hardly notice they've been there, I think, since we moved in almost 20 years ago. I mean, I'm sure I found them odd at first too, but living somewhere for years, that kind of thing just becomes normal. Anyway, I'm glad they're not real and that no one can lock up the tasty foods inside.

Day 184: Mancala

A post! Yay! Mancala is a game I haven't played in... has to be almost a decade by now. Or it feels that long. I don't know if I ever actually enjoyed playing it. Every person I ever played it with played a different variation, so I was always kinda confused and never knew which was the "original" or most widely played version or which I should practice at. But I do like the board and pieces that look like colorful deformed marbles. Yay, swirly colors!

Day 183: Giddyup!

Roary: "I AM NOT A HORSEY!"

Hooray! Day 183 means I've made a half a year of posts! *plays some inappropriately huge victory music*

Day 182: Microscopic & Mysterious

This morning, scientists discovered a new species of bacteria, most unusual due to its nucleus shaped like a lowercase "m". Much about them will remain a mystery, however, as an assistant mistook them for candy and devoured them on sight.

Day 181: DS Reflected

This is my DS reflected on the back of a Hoagiefest button/badge/pin thing my brother gave me. Why? No idea, but I like how it looks. Why did my brother give me this thing? 'Cause I'm some kind of nutcase about the apparently annual Wawa Hoagiefest. It continues to come off as hilariously ridiculous to me and no one else. They have this mascot whose name, as far as I know, is the Hoagieman, and he's some one-man cartoon homage/parody of the Beatles. (My brother's coworkers came up with the name Flaps Jackson, which I think suits him perfectly, but I have no idea why.) It's just a big advertising campaign, but the message seems to be "peace, love, and harmony through sandwiches". Being a big fan of sandwiches, Wawa's in particular, this is a sentiment I can get behind. If only it were actually promoting that instead of discounted lunch/snack items.

Um, yeah. Please excuse the tangent. And sorry to anyone now craving a sandwich.

Aaaand, now I'm craving a sandwich! Curses!

UPDATE: I have had a sandwich! It was good.

Day 180: Worms

Sour gummy worms! worm nom nom. Tasty colors!

Day 179: Flowery Florida Fund

Woo, jar o' coins. This is gonna pay for the road trip to and from my uncle's house in Florida. In theory. No one has made a very certain estimate at how much money will be in this once full.

Photos are falling behind too quickly now, so I'm leaving behind the missed days entirely. Unless I happen to take more good photos in one day that I can use. I mean, the days won't be accurate, but the number of photos to-date will be.

Day 178: Makeshift Monsters

Witness the exciting battle between the Pushermen warriors and the tribe of copper orcs led by the nefarious Quar'ter!

I don't think I'll ever be one to collect D&D miniatures. Not without a lot more money to waste, anyway. I'd love to run a battle where the players don't have to work their imaginations so hard just to keep up with the action. Using dice for trees is kind of a lot of lame. It would be awesome to pull off the kind of adventures Gabe from Penny Arcade runs. Oh, well. Someday, I hope.

Day 177: Gazebo

Gazebo is such a funny word. Gazebo, gazebo, gazebo.

I'm not sure I actually like this photo. It's a little plain. But whatever

Day 176: Leafs

Day 175: Teldrassil

World of Warcraft on an HDTV. Yesssss.

Day 174: Initials

This kinda thing makes me think. And wonder. Whose initials are they? How old were its authors? Was their relationship half as permanent as this writing? What if they broke up badly, and this statement of love is now just a bitter reminder of failure and betrayal? Or what if they stay together and grow old? Maybe I'm thinking too much. I probably wouldn't put half as much thought into it if I actually knew the couple.

Day 173: The Bombs Bursting in Air

Ahh, finally. My DSi has power again! And I have a week to catch up on. So after this post is gonna be older ones until I'm caught up.

Yay, fireworks! Our town has them a day early for some reason. None of my photos of them came out very sharp, but there's enough shape and shiny in this one to be interesting.

Day 172: Universe

This is a perfect model of the whole universe, complete with black holes. Any resemblance to a bowling ball is purely coincidental. And look, a message from aliens! I think it means someone named Einusa is mad.

Day 171: The Last Bite

(Or the last two bites, if this isn't bite-size to you.)

The last of my breakfast-for-dinner-at-breakfast-time. Erm. Yeah, my sleep's been pretty off. So I'm not even counting this as a cheat.

Them were good waffles.

Day 170: Slice of Nature

I titled this "Slice of Nature" because this was taken in a narrow section of trees wedged in between the train tracks and some apartment buildings. If I turned to the right, you'd see apartments behind fence and barbed wire. To the left (and over a little hill thing) and you have rails, busted up concrete that I think used to be parking, with litter scattered around, and more apartment buildings. It's nice to have this little break from the bricks, trash, satellite TV dishes, and paranoia.

Day 169: Crooked Clock

Why is it crooked? 'Cause it's a dirty rotten liar. This photo was taken at 7:56, not 11:20. Fortunately, no one uses this clock. I don't actually know why it's still plugged in.

Day 168: Kaleidoscopic III: Return of the Lazy

 I like nifty patterns.

Day 167: Claw

Item number NUS-005. Alien claw recovered from crater in Arizona.

The translucent green skin and electronic implants match those found on previous subjects.

Recommend hooking up to system #64 for analysis.

Day 166: Branches

Day 165: Kaleidoscopic II: Revenge of the Late Post

Day 164: DOG!

DOG!

I like this shirt. Though it's a little faded now. Designed by one Sir Grishny the Orc Mage.

Day 163: Random Napkin

My photos are weird. This is a light through a napkin. There was something about the texture I really liked. I dunno.

Day 162: Chocolate Glazed

Hmm. Makes me think. What's the subject of the photo? The donut or the hole?

I wonder what Homer Simpson would say.

Day 161: Arceus

And on the 4947th day, Arceus created the lands of Kanto and Johto.

Again.

And it was shiny.

 I haven't been playing Pokemon as much as before, but I'm still on the great Pokedex completion mission. Last I checked, I was in the 320s or so out of 493. Darn good, I think.

Anyway, this is a figurine of Arceus, The Original One. Apparently the creator of the entire Pokemon universe, which I find a little odd. If you're lucky enough, and I'm not, you were able to get Arceus for your in-game collection from some sort of Toys'R'Us promo. Which is basically like keeping God in a ball in your pocket. (Which reminds me of summon materia. But that's a completely different game.)

Ugh. I dunno. I hate that Nintendo/GameFreak puts things like this in the games and (usually) makes you attend events, miles and miles away, just to complete one of the game's major goals. And in some cases, these event pokemon don't get released outside Japan. The least they could do is release them over wi-fi, without any limit on dates available, but no, I guess they're not in the business of making paying customers happy.

Erm.

Okay, besides all that, the game is still fun. If Arceus and the other event pokemon hadn't existed in the first place, the game would essentially be exactly the same for those of us who aren't insane enough to drive for hours just for that scrap of data. I just wish they'd be a little more fair about it.

(Incidentally, if anyone reading this wants to lend me some event pokemon over wi-fi, leave a comment with an email address, and we can exchange friend codes and whatever. Even if this post is months old by the time you read it. I'll probably have something worthwhile to offer.)

Day 160: Zabra Hexx

ZABRA HEXX WANTS YOU

TO COME GET DAH VOODOO

So, I don't actually know who Zabra Hexx is, or how he fits into the Warcraft universe, but dang if this isn't a cool figurine.

Day 159: Roary DS

"Wait, how I get in here? Ooh, put Pokemon in! I wanna learn Hyperbeam! Pyew, pyew, CRASSSHHH! Rar!"

Day 158: Outside

Hmm. Well, I'm not especially happy with this, but it's better than cheating again. And, I dunno, I'm always sorta fascinated by light and shapes warped through glass. But I really gotta get out more...

Day 157: BOO!

Teehee. Silly road. I totally scared you!

Yeah, I did! I saw you flinch. Don't lie.

Day 156: Green Light

Day 155: Ball

On my walk today, there was a randomly discarded basketball sitting just off the sidewalk. I don't know why I find it so interesting. I think it evokes something in my head, but I couldn't tell you what it is. But nothin' wrong with a sudden blob of orange. It's... summer-y.

Day 154: Shades of Grey

Day 153: mmmmmmmmmm

nom nom nom nom nom nom

Day 152: Young and Golden, Grey and Olden

One from yesterday. Today's attempts didn't come out so great. Meh.

On the way home from my walk yesterday, I noticed these boards nailed to parts of this decaying fence to hold it together, and it was very striking (more so than in the photo) the difference in the amount of color between the new and old wood. It made the new stuff look a bright golden yellow, and I had to get pictures. Yes, the fence really is leaning that far in. I took this shot with the DS as level as I could possibly make it by hand.

Day 151: Sticks and Stones

We used to have like 20 more of those stones, in a circle around this tree. But you don't keep heavy stones that are fun to throw at the tree around children for very long without them being thrown at the tree and left in disarray and eventually disappearing. Though I couldn't tell you where the heck they actually went. Maybe a squirrel took 'em.

Day 150: Loopy Loop

Random randomness again. I saw this loop in a hanging wire and thought it was cute in an odd way. Curly and small and loopy. I dunno. I like it.

Day 149: Constellation

Some of the brightest stars in the night sky.
I think this constellation had something to do with two Greek gods halting their chariots for no reason. *shrug* I dunno. I don't see it.

Day 148: Spacetime

Tears in the fabric of space really kill a house's resale value. But do you know how much it costs to repair this? You may as well build a new universe. For now, it's duct tape to the rescue.

Day 147: High Contrast Nanners

Day 146: Colorful Candy

I think these are marshmallow bunnies leftover from Easter or something. I dunno. I'm not eatin' 'em. But the wrappers sure are shiny and colorful. Ooooooh.

Day 145: Coconut Birdies

And this would be the coconut souvenir from the marble post. I love how the birdies' attentions are so firmly focused on the Golden Shiny Wire of Hope*. I wonder what's so fascinating about it.

*Random Final Fantasy VII reference! Whee!

Day 144: Kaleidoscopic

The kaleidoscope "lens" on the DSi can be nifty.

(It's my 3D glasses.)

Day 143: Marble of Memories

Thoroughly uninspired today, and eventually forcing myself to look for anything half photo-worthy, I take a look around my room as if there was anything new in it. Then I looked up and saw something I often forget I have. It's a souvenir coconut thing from someone's trip to Hawaii, hanging from the hook in the corner of my ceiling. It's carved to look like a cute pair of birdies with little red beaks. I've had it so long that I'm actually not sure when I got it or who gave it to me, but it must have been hanging there for some 10-ish years straight.

So as I take it down to find a place I can give it more light, it makes a funny sound, and I realize there's a marble inside it. That had been there for 10 years. The whole thing was just dustastic. As well as nostalgic and spooky, because it reminded me of when I used to collect marbles and also triggered the memory of when I put that marble there in the first place. The day I put it there was the day I was getting rid of my marbles. I decided to keep just one and hide it up there because I knew I'd forget about it and discover it years later, like a time capsule or something. Boy, do I know me.

So I cleaned the thing off as best as I felt like and got about a dozen photos of the magic marble sitting inside the time-travelling coconut, and this one was my favorite.

Heh. After losing my marbles, I seem to have found one again.

Day 142: Marshmallows

Old photo. Way too much infrared photo. But fire rules.

Day 141: Sneaky

My sneakers tried to sneak out under cover of darkness.

I probably should have expected it.

Day 140: The Mean Magician

Pecan: "Your axe bounces off the Mean Magician's magic cloak. 'Hahaha! Your weapons are useless!'"

Fetch: "Oh no! What do we do?? I ran out of magic, and Prince Roaralon is useless without his axe!"

Roary: "Hey!"

Pecan: "The Mean Magician floats in the air and charges up a ball of lightning!"

Quackie: "Wait, it's my turn! I'm going to invoke my Power Gem of Anatidae and aim it at the Magician!"

Roary: "Whoa! I forgot you had that thing. Awesome!"

Pecan: "Okay. Roll d20 and add your Wisdom modifier."

Quackie: "Come oooooon." *rolls a natural 20* "YEAH! Critical hit! I deal 33 damage!"

Fetch and Roary: "Yay!!"

Pecan: "The Power Gem glows a brilliant gold, and a shining narrow beam of light pierces the Mean Magician, who falls to his hands and knees. 'Where did you find such power??'"

Roary: "We're not telling you, you meanie!"

Pecan: "The Mean Magician stumbles weakened toward his crimson throne and reaches for the jewelled lever next to it. 'You haven't won, Hero Team. The battle has only begun.'"

Day 139: The Tower

Addicted? Yeah, probably.

Day 138: Misfits

Being different doesn't mean you're worth less.

Unless you're Canadian.*

* Canadian penny may actually be worth more, depending on when you read this. (Also, no offense. Canadians rule.)

Day 137: Clock Humor

I doubt lolclocks will catch on. But the Internet is at least as unpredictable as the Infinite Improbability Drive. So who knows?

Day 136: Shiny Things

Wheeeee, shiny round things! (The purple one's a DVD-R.)