Cats: Fun for all the family

Japanese researchers discover new ways to entertain yourself with a cat.  Play-at-home fun!  Your pet will love you for it.

Weekend in review

Friday I successfully picked up my Amazon package from the two nice men who now live in our old house.  It was odd going back - I'm not sure what I expected, but they'd redecorated the front hall, putting down a decent carpet and painting the walls and putting up nice light fittings, and basically making the place look livable.  Then I went home to Stretford, with the intention of going on to the SoS weekend.  Thanks to the Levenshulme detour, however, by the time I got there and checked my mail it was half past eight (see Friday's entry), and I decided to stay in and watch TV and Freakazoid.  And it was good.

So Saturday I made it over to SoS ( Read more... )

Woke up on Sunday and went back to the site by about half eleven, for to pick up our kit (and Alex's car) and do our required cleaning duty.  Following this minor inconvenience (a blow which was softened by the many, many hugs from people that I love in a very real and physical way), zheers drove the entire household (us two men and tractorb) to see Alien Versus Predator.

(See summarized review here! I agree with most of Sam's points. More longwindedness follows.)

( AVP )

Following AVP we went home and watched the first episode of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars on Special Advance Preview (wink-wink).  ( sho' nuff. )

And now you know ... the rest of the show.

ETA: Oh, and before zheers left we watched most of Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip, which was enjoyable as always.

CHILD MANDARK: "No! I always wanted the core!"
ADULT MANDARK: "No! I stole the core!"
MATURE MANDARK: "No! The core is mine!"
FUTURE MANDARK: "No! Just because I'm bitter and jealous!"

Angelus, cont.

Hmm. White jeans arrived, and more or less fit. (Not bad at all for £3. Yay eBay!) This means the Hopkirk-style angel is now within grasp... all I need are white shoes and a long white coat. Anyone have one or the other that I could maybe borrow? (Shoe size: 9. Coat size: Fucked if I know.)

A constructive evening's activity

Okay, let's try this auto-pic-posting feature out then.

Demon attack! When Demons Attack: This largely self-explanatory strip is based on an encounter from the last SoS weekend. Some liberties have been taken. The strip was originally conceived in a horizontal form, either as a single panel or perhaps divided into panels ... upon drawing it I decided it didn't look so bad in the vertical format. I'm still undecided whether it looks better like this or without the dividing bar (splitting it into 2x2 instead of the 1x2 as it was drawn). Part of me says it's neat and hip and all the cool kids are doing it, but part of me worries that it makes the strip confused and unreadable. I will mull it over.

This will be posted on andysdrawings.co.uk as soon as I remember how to connect to the box there. This involves being at work, which is the only PC that currently has the connection settings saved on it.