“Life In The So-Called Space Age”
Friday is KLS’s birthday, and once again we’re turning it into an event by attending New York Comic Con.
This year we upgraded to VIP tickets. No lines for us! We walk the path of kings!
Expect all the usual nonsense here on this blog as I experience the madness of NYCC. I’ll do my best to get shots of the wildest, wackiest, otakuest and maybe even prettiest 😉
I wonder if we’ll see any cosplay better than this:
Oh yes! I have prepared a costume… watch for it on Saturday 🙂
This post is a bit delayed… but a couple of weeks ago we upgraded our TV, and mode of sitting to watch it!
Here’s the old recliner, that most of you have at some point sat in:
This guy kept us comfortable for over ten years, but had gotten a bit long in the tooth and the mechanism had broken in at least one place. We probably should have replaced it long ago but… it was still comfortable.
At any rate we finally got around to replacing it with…
…an updated newer model! The biggest change is no leather. Word of advice: if you live where it gets cold in winter, avoid leather couches!
The new guy is stupid comfy and reclines even better and we love it to death. Which is good since we have a good reason to sit on it, a new TV!
Here’s the old guy:
It’s almost 8 years old now and still very good but lacking certain features (such as 1080p) that are standard today. At 39″ it was also a bit small, even though it was massive when we bought it.
So we replaced it with this:
It’s a 55″ smart TV with 3D as well. It’s gorgeous, and we’re already spoiled with the picture. Now this we definitely should have done sooner!
Incidentally that dude on the screen is Jensen Ackles playing Dean in Supernatural. We’ve been marathoning all the seasons recently since KLS acquired the Blu-Ray box set. We watch 2-4 episodes a night, and are about 120 down, 40 or 50 to go 🙂
Operation ‘First Fleet’ is confirmed.
Operatives ‘Slim Dusty’ and ‘Banjo Patterson’ will disembark at Mascot in 81 days. Though their transports will be different, they have synchronized their schedules to arrive near simultaneously. While their identities are a closely kept secret, here are artists sketches (SD on the left):
Shortly after arrival they will rendezvous with their local contact, ‘Henry Lawson’, who will provide a safe house from which the operation will be carried out. Lawson’s current appearance is uncomfirmed, but he is believed to have not changed much since this photograph was taken:
The operation will last for roughly three weeks, and the principle mission objectives are:
– Interact with locals, especially those working as vendors in fast-food restaurants
– Determine via personal experimentation the sugar content of local sweets and toroidal baked cakes
– Carry out rigorous experiments to estimate payout percentages of local lottery tickets and gambling machines
– While not performing the above, activate ‘profligate wastrel’ disguises to keep mission objectives secret
Operatives will regularly report on progress via this or a similar channel. Stay tuned…