Monday 26 August 2002

• OK, I'm back a little earlier and a little less tired than I expected, so I thought I'd do a quick recap of my weekend before starting my six day work week tomorrow.

  
  

  The camping trip was fun and too short.  Driving was six hours one way, so between getting there Saturday and getting home today, scratch one of our two days just for traveling.  It was cool, moist, and secluded.  Oh how I could have used some more time up there.  It was great getting to run at the higher elevation.  I've needed a real workout like that for some time.  I just wish the parental units weren't such a hamper on physical activity.  Between her asthma and his trick knee, they didn't do much hiking.  None of their friends ever showed up, so it was just the three of us.  Maybe someday our scheduals will allow us to do that again.

  
  

  While on the long ride, I was reading my September 2002 Asimov's Science Fiction.  I really loved the first tale, The Potter of Bones by Eleanor Arnason.  The protagonist is a woman whose love of knowledge leaves her at odds and socially isolated from her more practical clanmates.  I would really get into the world the author was portraying, when suddenly I was slapped back into reality with her anti-male, pro-lesbian stance.  Everytime I'd get back into the story she's slap me with it again.  It's really a great tale, I just wish she'd have been less blatent with her agenda.  If it wasn't the fact that true love was between those of the same gender and procreation love between male and female to be abhored, it was making the only fleshed out male turn out to be an evil bastard.  If it wasn't making fun of penises and describing vaginas in romantic metaphor, it was claiming that males were unintellectual, violence prone simpltons while only females could think, plan, and be intellectual.  I had no problem with a matrarchical society, nor with Goddess worship.  That's why I was surprised and taken aback everytime I was slapped with this woman's agenda.  It's too bad.  But the story is so well written that I'd read it again.  Scarey, isn't it. 

  
  

  So I'm reading other people's journals from the weekend as I type this and I wonder.  People sure have been busy creating mystery around themselves this past weekend! 

  
  

  I also noticed that my last post here didn't save, and I don't really remember what it was about.  I think I had had a dream I wanted to remember, or some such thing.  I'm fairly certain I also talked about the possible change of our Doctor Who night from Thursdays to Wednesdays.  Oh well.  I was unlucky enough to save it when Xanga was down making space for some new thing they're going to unveil soon.  My non-Xanga Weblog list wasn't updated either from that same night.  Maybe I should just type these in notepad and then paste them over when I'm done.  I dunno. 

  
  

  I partially saw a television commercial the other day for something I think was called House of the Mouse Villian's Takeover which was some new video with Disney villains.  I didn't really see much more than the tail end, and heard none of the audio of the commercial, but I did see Chernabog!  And it was the real one, not the cartoony, less scarey one of recent years.  I just might have to look for that the next time Suncoast has their Triple Point Days. 

  
  

  Well, if I want to be awake for work and the MSHAG game afterwards, I ought to sign off now.  TTFN.

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