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dmxratedDrew had to work for most of yesterday, but me, Mom, and Marie had a walk around the neighborhood yesterday morning, and then another one downtown after arriving back at Marie's house.
During that second walk, we passed by Creekside where we had gotten pizza four years ago, and stopped at this place called Comforts, which houses both a deli and a bakery. Marie offered each of us one bakery item and coffee, and also picked up a takeout box of Chinese chicken salad (an actual salad, not a sandwich spread) for lunch back at her house. I ordered a thick cookie with chocolate chips, walnuts, and macadamia nuts, and a mocha, and we sat down at a nearby picnic table to eat our snacks. (Should've asked for an iced mocha specifically, but it was still fine.)
We also stopped at another grocery store along the way, Good Earth Natural Foods, to pick up a pint of whole milk for coffee and tea alongside some other things. We each got a drink there to have while walking, and I picked out a bottle of lavender lemonade.
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A while after we arrived back at the house, I managed to trap Mac inside the bedroom (their bed isn't elevated) and catch her, before laying down to snuggle with her. Seemingly managed to calm her down by scratching under her ear; at least, she didn't struggle to get away from me. Called Marie in to show her, but she asked me to move my arms out from around her, and she leapt away, indicating her discomfort to her.
(This is her in the bottom pic, by the way, from before Marie and Drew got Ruby. Such a waste not to be able to squeeze that big, puffy belly up against my face, but Marie is pretty serious about how I treat her cats, and Mac would have likely meowed and alerted her.)
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A few minutes later, I joined Marie and Mom while they were watching Antiques Roadshow, just in time to see someone present a copy of Earthbound and its player's guide, the game itself in some kind of plastic case, which got valued at $800-1,200.
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Half an hour before the episode would've ended, all four of us drove to Creekside, where we ordered a cheese and pepperoni pie each. I had four pepperoni slices (the place only serves brick-oven, which is half the size of a large pie), and there were only three cheese slices left when we stopped eating.
While we ate, I asked if this was actually the same location from four years ago, having failed to recognize the surroundings. Upon leaving, it turns out that the park we ate in before is now separated from the street by a wooden fence, leaving only a specific entrance in, and the nearby creamery was actually on the opposite corner from Creekside (I mis-remembered it to be right next thereto).
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Mom and Marie had baked an apple crumble for dessert, but some of us were too full for any when we arrived back at the house. (Today, incidentally, happens to be National Pie Day, according to my laptop's search bar.)
Mid-morning, I had already presented Marie and Drew with my planned Christmas gift to them, a copy of something I emailed out to friends and family on Christmas night of 2016 (second-to-last paragraph), which I have retroactively titled Before Even Pokemon: 4th Grade. They decided at that time to read it in the evening, when the roofers would have supposedly left us in quiet, but they were still working even at dusk, and would even ask Drew soon for a leafblower that would contribute to the noise.
We decided just to let Marie start reading to us as soon as we were settled down. She read the introduction and the first few sections thereafter to us (only the intro was particularly long), and we discussed a few points along the way.
We then introduced Drew to K-ON! (I put that on the table alongside Sugar), and then had some After Eight, before Marie drove me and Mom back to the airBNB.
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Since Mom asked about the title the other day when I had her print everything up where she works, and also to contextualize a recent change in my starting plans for YouTube (going to redirect a certain hyperlink on Google Sheets when I de-privatize this), I am going to copy some stuff from a script I recently started for the opening part of an expanded YouTube adaptation that I will be hosting alongside my official Earthbound walkthrough (hyperlinks added here):
The reason I’m hosting this goes back to October 2025. My sister-in-law broke her wrist at a skate park, and I decided a few days later to show her an entry in something I wrote much earlier in life, of my life in 7th grade, when I had broken my own wrist upon falling from a short ledge in our driveway while wandering about. She soon went on to suggest I host what I have since retitled 7th Grade: Nostalgia 64 here on my channel, and after some consideration, I felt such a thing to revisit would tie in nicely to two of my already planned inaugural games, but Earthbound would still come first as the basis for my main project in life, a Lucky Star fangame with the planned title Lucky Star: Day of the Beehive, known currently as Starbound for short after my original attempt at a fanfic instead.
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Before we dive in, this originally wasn’t titled beyond a simple filename. To put the new title into context, early in 7th grade, late in 1998, was when Pokemon as a franchise would first get localized here. It was actually a year later when I got into it personally, but until then, its anime adaptation was the only anime I would see or hear anything about, save for two things involving Dragon Ball Z (both unmentioned, since I never memorized them) and one boy at summer camp wearing a Sailor Moon shirt. Before that whole year, Sailor Moon was the only anime franchise I would ever hear of, limited to an action figure commercial. (One of my pogs, which I probably still have somewhere, does depict DBZ, but that one just seemed like some random illustration until I happened to dig them back up years later.)
To think that 99% of my entertainment diet today consists of anime and anime-style video games (RPGs in particular), that’s not what I even came across much of as a preteen. Not only would my parents have banned half of it, but Fox Kids, Kids WB, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon were not importing much yet for editing and syndication, and VHS was not nearly as conducive a format as DVD to release entire series on, domestic or otherwise. That, however, is probably why anime as a general art style slowly began to appeal to me in the first place late in ‘99, when such networks started picking up such shows as Digimon, Monster Rancher, Dinozaurs, Cardcaptors, and Yu-Gi-Oh! much more actively than before.
Hence, the title refers to what we did consume back in the day, mostly on Nick, the last of those four to tap into anime as far as I could tell.
During that second walk, we passed by Creekside where we had gotten pizza four years ago, and stopped at this place called Comforts, which houses both a deli and a bakery. Marie offered each of us one bakery item and coffee, and also picked up a takeout box of Chinese chicken salad (an actual salad, not a sandwich spread) for lunch back at her house. I ordered a thick cookie with chocolate chips, walnuts, and macadamia nuts, and a mocha, and we sat down at a nearby picnic table to eat our snacks. (Should've asked for an iced mocha specifically, but it was still fine.)
We also stopped at another grocery store along the way, Good Earth Natural Foods, to pick up a pint of whole milk for coffee and tea alongside some other things. We each got a drink there to have while walking, and I picked out a bottle of lavender lemonade.
-----
A while after we arrived back at the house, I managed to trap Mac inside the bedroom (their bed isn't elevated) and catch her, before laying down to snuggle with her. Seemingly managed to calm her down by scratching under her ear; at least, she didn't struggle to get away from me. Called Marie in to show her, but she asked me to move my arms out from around her, and she leapt away, indicating her discomfort to her.
(This is her in the bottom pic, by the way, from before Marie and Drew got Ruby. Such a waste not to be able to squeeze that big, puffy belly up against my face, but Marie is pretty serious about how I treat her cats, and Mac would have likely meowed and alerted her.)
-
A few minutes later, I joined Marie and Mom while they were watching Antiques Roadshow, just in time to see someone present a copy of Earthbound and its player's guide, the game itself in some kind of plastic case, which got valued at $800-1,200.
-
Half an hour before the episode would've ended, all four of us drove to Creekside, where we ordered a cheese and pepperoni pie each. I had four pepperoni slices (the place only serves brick-oven, which is half the size of a large pie), and there were only three cheese slices left when we stopped eating.
While we ate, I asked if this was actually the same location from four years ago, having failed to recognize the surroundings. Upon leaving, it turns out that the park we ate in before is now separated from the street by a wooden fence, leaving only a specific entrance in, and the nearby creamery was actually on the opposite corner from Creekside (I mis-remembered it to be right next thereto).
-----
Mom and Marie had baked an apple crumble for dessert, but some of us were too full for any when we arrived back at the house. (Today, incidentally, happens to be National Pie Day, according to my laptop's search bar.)
Mid-morning, I had already presented Marie and Drew with my planned Christmas gift to them, a copy of something I emailed out to friends and family on Christmas night of 2016 (second-to-last paragraph), which I have retroactively titled Before Even Pokemon: 4th Grade. They decided at that time to read it in the evening, when the roofers would have supposedly left us in quiet, but they were still working even at dusk, and would even ask Drew soon for a leafblower that would contribute to the noise.
We decided just to let Marie start reading to us as soon as we were settled down. She read the introduction and the first few sections thereafter to us (only the intro was particularly long), and we discussed a few points along the way.
We then introduced Drew to K-ON! (I put that on the table alongside Sugar), and then had some After Eight, before Marie drove me and Mom back to the airBNB.
-----
Since Mom asked about the title the other day when I had her print everything up where she works, and also to contextualize a recent change in my starting plans for YouTube (going to redirect a certain hyperlink on Google Sheets when I de-privatize this), I am going to copy some stuff from a script I recently started for the opening part of an expanded YouTube adaptation that I will be hosting alongside my official Earthbound walkthrough (hyperlinks added here):
The reason I’m hosting this goes back to October 2025. My sister-in-law broke her wrist at a skate park, and I decided a few days later to show her an entry in something I wrote much earlier in life, of my life in 7th grade, when I had broken my own wrist upon falling from a short ledge in our driveway while wandering about. She soon went on to suggest I host what I have since retitled 7th Grade: Nostalgia 64 here on my channel, and after some consideration, I felt such a thing to revisit would tie in nicely to two of my already planned inaugural games, but Earthbound would still come first as the basis for my main project in life, a Lucky Star fangame with the planned title Lucky Star: Day of the Beehive, known currently as Starbound for short after my original attempt at a fanfic instead.
-----
Before we dive in, this originally wasn’t titled beyond a simple filename. To put the new title into context, early in 7th grade, late in 1998, was when Pokemon as a franchise would first get localized here. It was actually a year later when I got into it personally, but until then, its anime adaptation was the only anime I would see or hear anything about, save for two things involving Dragon Ball Z (both unmentioned, since I never memorized them) and one boy at summer camp wearing a Sailor Moon shirt. Before that whole year, Sailor Moon was the only anime franchise I would ever hear of, limited to an action figure commercial. (One of my pogs, which I probably still have somewhere, does depict DBZ, but that one just seemed like some random illustration until I happened to dig them back up years later.)
To think that 99% of my entertainment diet today consists of anime and anime-style video games (RPGs in particular), that’s not what I even came across much of as a preteen. Not only would my parents have banned half of it, but Fox Kids, Kids WB, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon were not importing much yet for editing and syndication, and VHS was not nearly as conducive a format as DVD to release entire series on, domestic or otherwise. That, however, is probably why anime as a general art style slowly began to appeal to me in the first place late in ‘99, when such networks started picking up such shows as Digimon, Monster Rancher, Dinozaurs, Cardcaptors, and Yu-Gi-Oh! much more actively than before.
Hence, the title refers to what we did consume back in the day, mostly on Nick, the last of those four to tap into anime as far as I could tell.