Keeping Busy

[kingandy]

So yesterday I went over to Bolton to lark around with Nook. Naturally the first thing we did was put his new sofas together. (Not much work required, just screwing in the feet and bolting on the headrests, which had presumably been removed to give them a nice square profile for packing.) They are nice sofas, firm seats and comfy backs, which is the right way round if you ask me. After the assembly we played the Hunter game on the GameCube, then watched four episodes of Firefly. I really must watch the rest of that at some point. The Wild West stuff does occasionally get a little too intrusive^[1], but most of the time I can accept it under the banner of charmingly rustic regression and frontier conditions. Besides, the writing and acting is consistently impressive.

During the evening I cooked sweet & sour chicken and noodles for the two of us. (I note this because stsquad seems convinced I cannot prepare any food without the aid of a menu and phone, simply because I haven't for so long. I did get the sauce out of a jar, but that's beside the point.) Later Nook cooked pie. I ate well.

Today I took Raj to the garage and, hooray, his lights are fixed! I think I will stay in Ilkley until Friday, when I have my appointment with the income support people (in offices confusingly labelled "ONE" in Leeds city centre, which I consider to be an ill-advised rebranding effort), and then I will proceed to Manchester for the forseeable future.

Tonight I plan to watch some Randall and Hopkirk and perhaps finish some drawing for the Paggazine. Wish me luck.

[1] Mostly the Little House On The Prarie kitchen galley and the guns that look like revolvers but make zappy noises. I wouldn't mind them using revolvers, since reliable low-tech equipment is a logical fallback on the frontier. I wouldn't mind zappy space guns. But why in the world would anyone design zappy space guns that looked like revolvers? I think in the end I justified internally by deciding that they are advanced revolvers that work on the same principle but have many refinements due to being manufactured in the future. Hence the little zippy noises that the bullets make.

Comments

[ubernils.livejournal.com]

If I recall correctly, The idea was that they were stuck using vintage firearms with enhancements like that because the authoritarian Sino-American Alliance government had outlawed weapons. Thus, when you see Alliance troops, they're carrying spiffy space guns. There're also a few instances where the good guys use spiffier guns.

[kingandy]

Yeah. There's just a few occasions where the (solid slug) guns make distinctly ... zappy noises.

[blue-room.livejournal.com]

Mark W: Weird I've never noticed this, normally they make normal gun bang sounds. Which episodes were you watching?
Yeah they have Lasers turn up twice, one doesn't work and the other is so insane it hurts. The seige in the whorehouse has proper gun sounds apart from the laser.

And Sarah has just agreed with me as well :p

[kingandy]

Second disc, so it would be episodes 4-8 I guess. In the one where the Doctor gets kidnapped there were some definite "Pwee-oo" noises, not much "bang" going on. More of a sort of hydraulic noise than zappy - like a PPG rather than a pulse pistol - but still not revolver-like.

[gowhonker.livejournal.com]

Also in the 'Our Mrs Reynolds', at the beginning, when they kill the bandits. Definate 'peeo-oow' noises.

We watched it on DVD. It must be true.