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Ah, whut? After hearing somebody (I think it was Lucas) confirm that Rolcats.com had updated with a bit of new stuff (in typical rolcats fashion, at an approximate rate of a picture a month), I go there to check it out.

I recognise the first thing that's up there from when I was there last. I check to see when abouts that was...

The picture was posted in April.

It would seem that post-modern-soviet-kitten-humour is dead. Long live post-modern-soviet-kitten-humour.

"Another text, Health Benefits of the Bedchamber, indicates that certain times were better for intercourse than others. A person had to avoid having intercourse on quarter or full moons and on days when there were great winds, rain, fog, cold or heat, thunder, lightning, darkness over heaven and earth, solar and lunar eclipses, rainbows and earthquakes. Having intercourse at these times would harm a man's spirit and would cause women to become ill. Children conceived at these times would be mad, stupid, perverse or foolish; mute, deaf, crippled or blind; unfilial and violent."


I'd like to dissect this passage, as it seems to be riddled with ambuguity.

Firstly, regarding weather and geological phenomena, we probably shouldn't take things into consideration without due proximity. If you consider that these conditions frequently occur around the globe on a rotating roster, you'd never get any, regardless of where you lived. However, by only considering local events (say, on a national or state or community level - take your pick depending on how desperate you are), if - worst-case scenario - you live in the tropics, you'd still increase your days suitable for fornication from 'None' to 'A Couple Of Days'. That's gotta be a good thing.

And what about 'cold or heat'? That's a little unsettling. Is this relative to the average temperature of the area, or just when you feel a little chilly? Should it apply to everyone in the room (even non-participants), or the room itself? What about if any implements or tools were to be used? Would we have to obstain if a buckle was too icy? Whichever way you're willing to swing, I guess while this doesn't eliminate food entirely, it does mean that sautees are not on the menu*.

And 'darkness over heaven and earth' better not just mean 'At Night'. If it does, I'm screwed**.

And Rainbows? What?! Ones generated through natural phenomena, or should we turn off garden sprinklers just in case?

Also, I've never done it during an earthquake, but I might like to try it, despite this passage. Yeah, couldn't let that one go.


*Sorry.

**So to speak.

Online Kanji lookup tool: A great way to develop the skill of writing chinese/japanese characters purely by chance.

Warning: It'll take a while. Probably longer than learning the characters.

From a textbook that I'm reading from:

Japanese (n): The devil's own tongue designed to thwart the spread of Christianity.

edit:

When I submitted this post, Blogger came up with an ad (is that a new thing, or did I just not notice before?*). It read:

New Emerging Religion
No thanks. Any religion to emerge in the 20th century is bound to be dodgy**.

*Or do I just not post enough?

**Except Oprahism, naturally.

My new blog for all things musical. My mental meanderings of all things musical should probably be separated from my main blog (although I don't know why - there isn't at all that much else to me, is there? Watch as this blog never - literally - gets updated!).

So I've created Sound on Sound, which is where I'll dump any brain-workings. I can't promise that it'll make as much sense (however little that may be already) as I normally do, but I can promise that it'll be a painful experience if you enjoy structure in things!

Pete has started DMing for our D&D group again - which I much prefer to myself DMing, as it not only saves me the trouble of planning each session beforehand, but my sessions always seem to barely be, well...good. Even after my sessions that went well by the player's standards (and thus, my own standards), I still breathe a sigh of relief, like I've just diverted a nuclear missile from the house by inches, causing it to hit the roof of one of my neighbours and wasting their Sunday instead of the players'.

So I was glad that Pete told us that he was ready to take up the mantle again (A DM's Mantle is nothing short of impressive and I urge non-D&D players to LOOK AWAY when confronted with such an otherwordly visage as such things are not meant for your eyes) and I somehow believed him when he said things would be a lot more regular (and reliable!) than what they were when he last ran his campaign.

The first session since the hiatus came and went, all as planned. Everyone showed up, even Rhys, who quickly forgot that he Rage Quit from Pete's campaign on account of his flakeytude*. So far, so good.

Then, due to run two weeks later (which would put it on this upcoming Sunday), all things look alright until Pete informs us that due this Sunday being father's day, he won't be able to run it. Fair enough - those of us who know where our fathers live might want to prioritise family above D&D! He does give us the alternative of running on Saturday instead, which we all jump at. Problem solved.

Uh-oh. 1am this morning, Pete sends us a message to say that he can't come in on Saturday - Salesforce haven't paid him when he should have been paid. Since he's coming from the mountains, he would have to scrape together a bit more than pocket change to make it in. Darn.

I don't want to see the same thing happen, so I offer to wire some money to him, although it might be too late. Jamie, one of the other players - a newbie to Pete's campaign, actually - offers to pick him up from the mountains, even though he's not even coming from that direction.

I offer to shout Jamie lunch for going to all that trouble. Feel I should have offered more, but I guess he's stuck only with my gratutude, which he could trade in for a used bicycle tyre or a cold cup of coffee. I'm sure the rest of the D&D group is pretty much equally as happy that things will be going as planned.

Thought I'd blog about this because my circle of friends haven't really shown much committment to socialising recently and I think it's put me in a better mood today.

It's not a happy ending yet. Between now and tomorrow, Earth could be thrown out into the far reaches of space, killing us all. That'd probably force us to reschedule D&D.

*I just keep adding to the "Tedtionary", don't I?