the past two weeks or so

I haven't been online much recently due to a Self-Inflicted Vacation from the Interweb.

This is more or less what happened (mostly in chronological order,) in the interim, in full colour photograph...s. Enjoy.

I took this picture when I was in a bit of a weird mood, for a friend of mine in Australia. It turned out surprisingly okay.


I sort of randomly started playing Chrono Cross again last Thursday, much to my amusement. Pictured here is Pip. His childlike speech patters amuse the hell out of me. I also took a pic of him saying 'Fwom what I've heard, de pwace is a fiewy hell.' Unfortunately that patricular picture didn't come out.


I flipped on the television Sunday morning after retrieving some coffee, and this dude was on the first channel which materialised. He was entirely serious about everyone immediately getting their colons cleansed.


On Monday, Kingland and I went to the Alameda County Fair. It just so happened it was free admission day, which was cool because we only had to pay parking (which is sort of insane.). It was surprisingly not all that crowded.

In this picture I guess I was midstep, and was admising some plants. I managed to look nine kinds of emo. Hi kids! I feel sort of okay maybe I guess. Also my knee is totally broken. What is up with that?


We saw this extremely amusing painting done by some fourth and fifth graders of Donlon Elementary School. The man depicted in the painting is both hillarious and scary.

Here is a close up, so that you can revel in all his infinite glory.

They host a wine tasting type thing at the fair, and King and I spent some time in the Wine and Beer Garden, which is apparently housed in just this one tree. Eventually I found a relatively comfortable smattering of branches, and I only dropped my chardonnay twice.


I was trying to do a sort of sweeping view of the fair as a whole, but I somehow managed to turn the damned timer on, and so King ran down into the frame. He's doing a sort of strongman pose, which actually turned out sort of okay.


This little dude was just sort of having his own awesome adventure and running around this transformer. He was far too excellent to not photograph.


There was a building housing cases and cases of people's collections. There were lots of different things, including but not limited to piggy banks, Happy Meal Toys, random rock and roll memorobelia, and one very excellent Star Trek collection, which included an original tricorder and communicator, as well as a Klingon disruptor (from TNG). The most amusing bit was actually this small photocopied page of Trek-themed drinks, which I can transcribe into legibile type, should anyone actually want to try these. Some of them manage to sound pretty okay.


Right near the end we saw this gem. I understand that we were at a fair, yes, and that most food AT fair is subsequently skewered on a stick. But even so, I wasn't entirely certain if this was a typo, or if they were serious. I never asked, and I'm not certain that I want to know.


As some of you know, I applied for a job at Hot Topic. Long story short I didn't get it. What I DID get (Tuesday) was a letter, informing me that they had 'made the decision to persue other candidates.' It was like they were breaking up with me.


This was actually taken yesterday. I was playing Oblivion, and some bastard Highwayman decided it would be a good idea to attack my horse. Well he was wrong. Dead wrong. Especially when I stripped him down to his knickers and made him look like a cologne (or underwear) model.