Happy New Year!

Woo! Just got back from a great party at auntiemisha’s place! Got to smooch in the new year with bugsybanana! Got to pick negativeq up in the air! Got to share my vision of what The Lord of the Rings would have been like if Tolkien had been an anime writer! Got to beat both mnemex and barking_iguana in three games of mancala! Got to chow down on lots of little liqueur-filled chocolate bottles! Got a lift home with barking_iguana! Got to get me some sleep!

End of the year (as we know it)

Other stuff from yesterday:

I’m down to one last lead in the pack of ten non-photo-blue 0.5mm mechanical pencil leads I bought in September. (That’s not including the current one and replacement sitting in my mechanical pencil.) I’ve been going through ’em pretty quick recently. I stopped off at Kinokuniya Books to stock up, and they only had one pack left! Aiieeee! I’m sure they’re ordering more, but will they get in by the time I need them (which should be, um, March or April) They had another kind, but they were 0.7mm.

bugsybanana and I had to walk about eight blocks out of our way to get around the huge cordoned-off area north of Times Square. We could have walked through if we’d been willing to wait on line and show ID. I had no intention of starting off my new year by acting like a citizen of the Soviet Union and showing fucking identification papers to the cops just to walk the public streets of my own city. Sorry, I’m just one of those cranky old guys who remembers living in a free country.