Jimmy Hoffa was also under the deskSo I was sick as a DOG last week and the previous weekend, which meant the house looked like a tornado hit it by last Friday. It was sort of like those houses you hear about every now and then on the news, where federal clean-up crews have to go in wearing spacesuits to clean out all the garbage and dead animals and body parts. Well okay, there were only a couple body parts. Anyway, the nice Polish ladies came on Friday to do their bimonthly floor cleanings for me wherein the two-inch layer of Sparky's cat fur is stripped using chemicals and power saws, and so while they were working on the rest of the house I took the opportunity to work on cleaning out my "office/music studio". After (literally) about six hours I got it to the point where everything was off the floor and I washed the floor and most importantly I finally took all my HAFT stuff and put it away in various plastic boxes and then into the closet. Prior to this all my HAFT stuff was strewn all over my back room in a six inch layer (I'm not kidding about that) and I couldn't get anything done back there. In the tidying process I managed to also find two of my disability checks (!), a bag of medicine, $600 worth of my ophthalmology lenses which I'd given up on ever seeing again, three boxes of comic books (unread) and these guys: I totally forgot I had these guys. I'm so excited. I have another Halo 1 figure I've had put aside for a long time that I've planned to use for "Rhonda" but I'd forgotten about these two. WOOT. Considering this toy line has long since been discontinued, finding new toys is a big deal to me. There are still a few figures I don't have, like the Arbiter, or the yellow or brown Halo 2 Spartans, but I sort of decided I wasn't going to spend more money on eBay buying new figures unless I came up with some compelling reason to do so. I can't remember buying these guys. Maybe I got them at the Tied the Leader LAN meet two or three years ago when I got the Spectre? So weird. Anyway, now I can use my office again. Now I just have to come up with something exciting for my two Teal toys to be doing in the world of HAFT. And what to name them?! Tee hee! Halo Action Figure Theater The Steve n' Lois Chronicles presents Issue #198: Tag, You're It! (?!)  ...the Admiral really needed an iPad. Really badly.  PS: I've discovered another anime series that I'm enjoying now that I finished with "Planetes" (which I still highly recommend to anyone who is a grown-up (25-40) who likes science fiction). This new one is called "Samurai Champloo" and is geared more for a younger 18-30 audience and the concept is, I think, that there would be an undercurrent of rap/hip-hop to the whole Samurai anime idea. It has a really bizarre opening credits sequence, but is otherwise entertaining. Evidently it is by the guy who did a show called Cowboy Bebop (which I'm not familiar with), but I started watching this series after googling "good anime happy ending" and so far (I'm on episode 18 of 26) it isn't bumming me out. |
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