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[camwyn]

Umph. I had something I wanted to talk about here, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was. Possibles:

- the likely upcoming transit strike here in NYC. I can deal with this; get up half an hour early, take the PATH (which isn't MTA workers), walk from 33rd to my office. Assuming they don't picket the PATH, of course, which would suck 'cos my family is very big on the No Crossing Picket Lines.
- a continuity of business test I have to run us through on the 20th, which I am not looking forward to at all.
- HP Lovecraft's stuff that I've read so far. Really quite lovely, but even more likely to leave me looking out the train window and going 'you poor poor bastards' than anything Hellblazer ever printed. This is only partly 'cos of the way it leaves a nasty grey lens between me and the world. A lot of the rest is because it leaves me wondering how people who live their whole lives with mundane outlooks manage not to go nuts from lack of mental room to roam. Yeah, I know, the whole point of Lovecraft's stuff tended to be 'the world beyond our own is utterly alien and will destroy all your certainties', but there's more to his dreamlands than that, and honestly, one wonders about lack of imagination and the prospects of the human race.
- How fast I can knit. I have two scarves I've got to do for family members and I don't think I can get them both done by Christmas, even on my Turbos. Buggrit, etc.
- The fact that my copy of Clone Wars is waiting for me at the Suncoast Video at the mall. I reserved that a while ago. It came in last week. I haven't had the chance to go get it but I am so looking forward to it. DAMN those animators knew their work.
- Stuff at milliways_bar.
--- I've been considering giving up number_ten_ox to someone who can play him more and better; I've got other characters to deal with.
--- red_mare had a terribly entertaining meeting with thatseemright2u last night, but then Jah-lila is always terribly entertaining. A midwife and magicker, she's a unicorn from a society that discovered fire all of three years ago. Put her up against anybody more advanced than... oh, gosh... anything, and you get culture clash out the yin-yang.
--- Gimli (fire_of_mahal) is similarly entertaining, although he's much quicker to adapt. Dwarves are the tinkerers of Middle-earth, after all, and while he's quite conservative in some ways (he's not keen on the shapechanged opting to stay shapechanged) he's more than happy to adapt in others (Mal Reynolds commissioned him to make mithril bullets, although that required him to explain guns and how they work).
--- 4letterfather only debuted recently and is pretty much a plot character, because God knows I don't need to encourage him in my head.
--- running_gates may come in handy as an antidote to him, 'cos Billy boy is- how do I put this? Pure crack. He's not really sure what Milliways is other than a fabulous networking opportunity, and he thinks Windows 95 (the girl version from Troubled Windows) is an android built by Sony, and he's met Scrooge McDuck, for pity's sake. But he's cool with that- he's the version of Bill from the DaVinci's Notebook song "The Gates", and he's more than a little cartoony by nature.
--- And then there's gone_byebye. Ray's hit an interesting patch. After a recent battle in Andrew Wells' world- which was based on the last episode or two of the TV series Angel, as far as I know- he came back to milliways_bar in relatively decent shape. Which is good, 'cos he's been oldschooljedi's padawan ever since he successfully built a lightsabre sometime back in July, and Master Qui-Gon informed him that he considered the battle Ray's Jedi Trial. So... yeah, he sort of squee'd so enthusiastically that I like to think Ghostbusters in other universes heard him. Sort of the opposite of the sound of ultimate suffering. On the other hand, he's become quite convinced that _romana_, who he'd been dating and had fallen for hard, has either decided that he was a mistake- or has regenerated somewhere and forgotten he ever existed. Not that he wants either option to be true, but nitro_is_ace told him about the Time War, which just has him sick to his stomach...

Anyway. It was one of those. If I remember, there'll be more.

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[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Which is good, 'cos he's been [info]oldschooljedi's padawan ever since he successfully built a lightsabre sometime back in July, and Master Qui-Gon informed him that he considered the battle Ray's Jedi Trial.

Ray Stanz and Qui-Gon in the same *room*? Were you *trying* to destroy the universe by accident or something?

[camwyn]

Hee! No, no. Quite aside from the fact that Milliways exists at the End of the Universe so the destruction thereof is already built into the equation, any actual trying-to-destroy-the-universe would have grown out of the scene early on in my playing of Ray.

The one where Barry Allen introduced Ray to post-ROTJ Anakin Skywalker.

And they worked on Ray's proton pack together.

[mephron]

And no one died immediately.

[camwyn]

Or signed up with the Galactic Limbs Club for Men, for that matter.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

I agree about no crossing the picket lines up to a point. If the picketeers are lined up in front of some place that has something I need, or some place I need to go, I cross the picket line.

In short, if they're picketing the PATH, cross the line. It sucks, but what can you do?

[camwyn]

It'd be different if it were summertime and I could go NY Waterway. Oh well. Will deal.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Poor Ray. (It seems like a bad case of AWOL Mun Syndrome from outside here ... ?)

I loved the mutual technobabble-fest with Bruce Banner, by the way.

[camwyn]

It's pretty much the mun thing, but I understand OOC. The mun, so far as I know, has hit something of a writer's-blockish patch that's lasted longer than expected. These things happen, you know?

And thanks. I'm gonna need gallons of preparation H for that, given that I pull Ray's tech out of my butt.

[mephron]

Anakin's already a member.

....and the joke inherent in that phrase burns me.

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

...what about mithril guns? Imagine a Desert Eagle that weighs less than half a pound...

Lovecraft - I find the Dreamlands stories much more palatable than his horror stuff. You might also want to check out Brian Lumley's continuations thereof -- the "Hero of Dreams" novels, sword-and-sorcery with a strong Fritz Leiber influence.

[camwyn]

Gimli's been reading up on gunsmithing for quite some time. I don't know about mithril guns, but somewhere in the back of his head he's got the image of a firearm that can drop a mumak of Harad with two good shots between the eyes.

[midnightlurker.livejournal.com]

And so we see the birth of the Dwarven Demolition Team from Warcraft III... :)

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

still... Qui-Gon and Ray are both unintentionally destructive, usually in cosmic ways. The two of them together are probably apocalyptic.