Wednesday
I don’t know what my body does while my mind is in The Dreaming, but whatever I did last night hurt. I woke up this morning – and not for the first time – with a painful knot in my upper back. tried massaging it out, but she said that it feels like one of my vertebrae is slightly out of alignment. Joy. She said that I have a VERY tight muscle cluster near my right scapula and that it might be nudging things out of their proper alignment.

Other than that, the day was good. And it included coffee and a bite to eat at Jitterbug (that’s 1855 S 700 E, for those of you in the SLC Metro area) with Nyx. She, and I headed to Trolley Square to check out a game store. It’s a pretty decent place. And they had Heroclix® singles. I picked up a Booster Gold (“Thank you, Green Lantern…!”) figure along with a Checkmate medic.

And tonight was Game Night. The game was a bit disjointed, so there wasn’t a lot of progress. Hopefully, our next session will prove more fulfilling. After the game finally broke up, Chris and I got into discussions about what’s gone wonky with the Star Wars series (George Lucas + crack = bad), comic book-based movies, gaming and a few other topics of geekdom. We also gave Nyx a crash course in a couple of comics-related topics. And her head didn’t go all ‘splodey. At least, it didn’t while we were there.

News
Morning Edition: Sing Sing Seeks Temporary Guests
Morning Edition: The Hidden Costs of Rooting for the Yankees
Talk of the Nation: Beginnings of the Calendar
Day to Day: Tabla Master Aloke Dutta

USA Today: Wreck costs three Tennessee salt trucks

The Ledger: Washington Judge Nixes Pregnant Woman’s Divorce

Stray Toasters

  • I had planned on recording tonight’s season premiere of Alias. But, I got so engaged in a couple of things that I wound up spacing it off. To be honest, I’m not sure that was such a bad thing. I’ve missed the last season and a half of the show. Maybe I should catch up with what’s going on in Sydney’s World (Party time! Excellent!) before trying to jump in at this point. *shrug* Then again, I might just try to play “Guess WTF’s happened while you weren’t watching.”
  • “What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?”
  • : I have a 6/12 Amp battery charger, if that would help. Let me know if you could use it.
  • : legionnaires.com
    Not all of the year links (top of the page) work, but the ones on the left side of the screen do.

  • “Okay, I think I’m drunk enough now… –
  • In today’s “Resistance is futile…” news: It seems as though LiveJournal has acquired by Six Apart. People have been archiving their journals as though the Seventh Seal1 has just been broken. Here’s a novel idea: Rather than quiver with fear, why not wait until the dust has settled and then decide whether or not LiveJournal is still for you.
  • For …

  • From National Geographic Magazine: Caffeine
  • “nucular Toonami”
  • Comic Book Goddess: The World of Comics, Through the Eyes of a Girl – A new column from Broken Frontier

Quote of the Day
Two quotes, two sources.

Quote #1:

Once upon a time, history was made on the battlefield.

Heroes chose to fight for justice… for honor…

…for glory and for faith…

…for survival. And, in time…

…all the fighting was done.

With the help of interstellar alliances, the Earth entered a millennium of utopian peace.

Now, at the dawn of the 31st century, all we, our parents, and their parents have ever known is security, stability and order.

We’re so sick of it, we could scream.
   – Introduction from Legion of Super-Heroes #1 (v6)

Quote #2

Life is a diamond you turn into dust.
Some people can’t deal with the world-as-it-is, or themselves-as-they-are, and feel powerless to change things — so they get all crazy. They waste away their lives in delusion, aimless rage, and neuroses, and in the process they often make those around them miserable too. Strained friendships, broken couples, warped children. I think they should all just stop it. That is called wishful thinking.
   – Neil Peart from Rush’ Roll The Bones tour program

Namaste.

1 – Those of you familiar with The Book of Revelation will be one-up on the kids who skipped school that day.