S-S-S! S Animations

Scholar is an anonymous Morg, probably one of Korm's colleague's. Scourged is from an unfinished short story with a rather Christ-like character. Secret Door 2 is a variation. Shiny Little Kitchen is from the famous Childcraft volume (I had to instruct the AI how a cat stretches and that a teakettle whistles from the spout). Skeezix and Pipsisewah are from the Uncle Wiggily stories. Skullbearer. The Sly One schemes; the Smiling King never blinks or varies his expression (creepy). An old man gives Some Good Advice. And the Sorceror's Apprentice is an old, old tale.

2021 Diary: May the Fourth Be With You

5/1/2021: May the First. Woke up at 7:30 AM and finally able to poop. Have determined to take everything in moderation today. Didn’t eat anything (despite them bringing me breakfast tacos) until almost 11 PM. Threw up and felt a little better about 12:15 PM. Drank mostly water. Slept most of the day which means I’m awake late at night. Very rainy much of the day, and cool enough not to have the AC on. Played some DQ8 up until Ascantha.

 

5/2/2021: Did not go to church; spent most of the day just sleeping and listening to music and having dreams, recuperating.

Susan brought me some Sprite and bananas about noon. I was feeling not sick, but not fully well either.  Come evening I began to do stuff, like make a huge order from HEB, watch animations, eat bananas and Ritz crackers with cheese, and play DQ8. About 10:30 PM I cleaned the house, then prayed, and read 2 chapters of Mark, then the missalette for the day. It’s now 11:14 PM, so I guess I’ll play a little more DQ8 until bed.

 

5/3/2021: Up at 5 AM. Prayers and Bible. Cartoons on METV with an emphasis on Bugs this week. Started my wash at 7:30 AM. Kam and bus at 8 AM. Switched my wash at 9 AM, then got my grocery delivery. The nice woman took it around to the guest house for me; I tipped her $20 for the extra effort. It was a big order. Rosary on and off.

GGACP, then finished the wash about 10 AM. Got Kam a little after 1 PM, and I noticed I hadn’t made boiled eggs! Made cucumber salad. At 4 PM made supper (fish cakes, couscous). Heard that S&A friend [Lance?] is coming tomorrow to cut down a tree in the back yard that was falling. Washed up at 8 PM. DQ8 For many hours.

 

5/4/2021: Up at 5:30 AM. Prayers and Bible. Cartoons. The day progressed as usual, but with even more DQ8. Tree coming down surprisingly fast. Kam at 1 PM. At 2:30 PM started sausage, potatoes carrots and cabbage. Kam hung out with me and helped me. Finished at 4:30 PM. Washed up at 8 PM. Played DQ8 until 11 PM.  

 

5/4-6/2021: Things trotted along as usual, except I was distracted by the work being done. On the 5^th the truck backed up to the gate crushed a hole into the unsuspected septic system under my bathroom window. Now that must be repaired too. Luckily I can still use my terlet. During these days played much DQ8. On the 6^th Susan announced that they were hauling away the old recliner in my house at last, and I took it upon myself to wrangle it out into the yard. Man, I should have let them do it like they said they would; I was devastated afterwards! Anyway, it is gone. Felt a recurrence of upset stomach afterward. They didn’t eat until 9 PM, and then poor Andy was called away for a job, after he and Susan had spent all evening hauling. Didn’t eat my own supper, as I knew my stomach couldn’t face chili. Lay in queasy disease until about 1 AM.

 

5/7/2021: Woke up a little before 7 AM, so missed cartoons. Caught up diary.

 

Notes

The problem was, although I didn’t know it at the time, was my gall bladder. We shall soon see how that played out. I would like to get a new recliner, or at least a good used one, to replace that old one; good to have my legs propped up. Hard to see where I’d put it these days. Maybe move out the old couch? It’s greasy and sprung, and the pull-out bed doesn’t work. But it is good to stretch out on with a ‘wall’ to lean against, as it were.

I kind of miss playing DQ8, but not as much as I did. It was always good to fill in the odd hour, roaming the open countryside and amassing phantom wealth, gaining experience points, improving skills, and exploring every nook and cranny of that imaginary world.

 

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis

"Oh, dear, How very late it's getting!" To give them their titles: Raven of Truth, Reaper of the Years, Runnik, Scramasax and Caliban, Seathing, Secret Door, Sermon to the Birds, Shelled Creature, Shepherd, Shining Path. All, except Shepherd, began life as drawings by me.

Oak Tree Tea: Another Edit

Upon consideration, I decided to change "withered old" into "willowy". Though the phrase "withered old" was part of the poem since its conception and the "withered old witch" might be said to be the inception of the whole thing, pulling everything else after it, the illustrations provided from my description allowed me to see new possibilities. Changing one word is much easier than struggling to change the whole thing, and besides, it works. "That's my idea! That is an original thought!"

 

A Bit of a Mixed Bag, But Mostly R's

The last video, Schretel, is based on an old fairy tale in which a goblin haunts a bakery, driving the baker out nightly, until a traveler lends him his pet bear to stay the night. Some people think it has ties to Beowulf, with the bear taking the place of Beowulf, whose name means 'Bear,' allegedly.

A P's Mint (Sorry, I'm Reaching)

From Poltergeist to Puck, we have stuff from Studio Ghibli to James Branch Cabell to The Brothers Grimm to T. H. White to L. Frank Baum to William Shakespeare. Poor Falada freaked me out a little as a child; now I pass the trauma along to YOU!

More Plumping

Mostly A's and B's. Professor Odd is the odd man out here (yuk-yuk). The version with eye-stalks is the more original-drawing accurate, but the lizard version is not without its charms, which is why I include it. For the prompt for Alien Attendant I put gurgles in an alien language, and I got this kind of David-Cross-sounding guy and one of the worst alien languages I've ever heard. Hey-hey, my Glip-Glops!