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Sep. 24th, 2011 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxrated(Somehow, I've just noticed now that Kagami's smile in today's userpic is slightly more noticeable on the laptop than on our regular computer.)
Before we left home yesterday, Dad was watching the news, and he told Mom that they announced the final episode of All My Children, that soap opera I used to watch six years ago. Not gonna go into some rant on how wallbangerific that show (as well as soap operas in general) tends to be. Worth noting, though, is that Mom claims to have started watching it, along with some other soaps such as General Hospital, when she was nine. Yep, it's been going on since the sixties, way before I was born, and seemed like it was bound to go on forever and ever.
Dad also told Mom that he once read that the reason we haven't been able to find a Bob's Big Boy (which used to be a favorite breakfast restaurant of his) in more than a decade was because people preferred McDonald's. However, he speculates that McDonald's, as a much more powerful corporation, made some kind of deal with the turnpike owner to have yet more restaurants built on the side of the road, and BBB just kinda got pushed aside.
While we were driving to Virginia, Dad was on the lookout for some kind of breakfast restaurant that wasn't IHOP. We spotted several Waffle Houses along the way, but he was looking for an egg-and-bacon place. We eventually found a generic diner, at which I ordered three pancakes (only two of which I actually ate up) and some bacon.
Soon as we got to Grandma Barbara's house, we were greeted first by Grandma and her last remaining dog Taz. Mabel started hissing at Taz while I tried to take her harness off. Mom had me and Dad bring the rest of our stuff in from the car, and then we all sat down with Sid Vicious, one of Grandma's cats, in Grandma's lap. Aunt Marie had also joined us, and I got up to go find Mabel. Looked throughout the house, noticed that Aunt Marie and Uncle Ray now have an Xbox 360, met Uncle Ray inside what used to be Cousin David's room, and then he came over to greet the rest of us. After I finally found Mabel inside the bathroom near the living room, Sid became curious about the presence of such a new cat as her inside the house, but Mabel just growled and hissed at him continually.
Grandma told me that she also has two other cats, named Scrappy (mostly white and some dark, unidentifiable color, w/ some brown spots) and Scooter (orange with a leg missing). I had noticed the latter on Grandma's bed, but we would see the former later on. Smokey has been dead for years now; she doesn't know how long, though.
Laid on Grandma's bed to play Pokemon White. While I was playing the game, I heard Brian greet Dad in the next room, but wondered whether it was actually him or someone else, before he and Kelly came to greet me. His presence here at Grandma's house was a bit of a surprise, but as it turns out, he's actually been here with Kelly for the previous couple of days.
The three of us came into the living room to chat with everyone else. Shortly afterwards, Brian and Kelly went with Aunt Marie into her kitchen to make dinner. I hung around and chatted with Brian, after he brought up that equation that I had him program for me. We talked about all the technical stuff behind Parasitic Trio, and I offered to show him the outline I've got going for the ficseries so far after he asked, and I pulled it up on my laptop.
At some point after we ate dinner, Cousin David came with his dog Marble to visit us all while we were having some apple crumble that Aunt Marie made. I asked him if he knew about this blog, and he never did. Also asked him if he remembered that week we spent in Connecticut back in 1995, but somehow, he doesn't remember any of it, even though I did remember visiting certain places like the submarine and that place with the orca show. (The latter is what Mom was referring to when we brought it up after coming home from Doug's house a few months ago. I also remember us having to get our hands stamped there.) I was surprised that he couldn't remember something like that, since it wasn't every day that we had such a family get-together, and especially that we go anywhere well away from home, but Dad told me that I just have a better memory than most people. Should note, though, that this was before I kept track of exact dates, and I tend to gauge anything that happened before 6th grade based on what grade I was in at the time (in this case, 3rd). Probably has mainly with me being autistic, but maybe the fact that I spend the majority of my time playing video games contributes to me remembering other stuff better as well.
In any case, he suggested that I email him the links to both this blog and the entry where it was first brought up. I'll probably do that today with my mostly-unused gmail account, since I can only access my regular email account at home. (I've already told Chelle and Cameron to PM anything they need to say to me through this site until I come home on Monday, and I'm also not gonna bother switching DeviantArt accounts on my laptop this time like at the lakehouse.)
So anyway, I told Brian that the following morning might be a better time to show him the outline, but he then asked me to show it to him right then. I brought my laptop out, and he took a few minutes to show Kelly the girls on my wallpaper. While he was busy with that, I mentioned that even though the girls are designed to look ten-ish, they're actually supposed to be in high school. Ironically, they actually did come across as teenagers to Brian, even though Dad (like many others unfamiliar w/ Lucky Star) mistook them for ten-year-olds when he noticed at the lakehouse.
So anyway, he then started reading the actual document. Most of the stuff in the beginning is mostly technical stuff, and before he got to any actual story content, he started to scroll down, realized that it's probably even longer than Chronicles of 7th Grade, and decided to create a .pdf version of it all, which came out to be 57 pages long in that format. He even suggested that I might as well get started with it right now, but I told him that I actually intend to complete Pokemon Diamond and play through Pokemon Battle Revolution, HeartGold, and Platinum before I get started, but given the already absurd length of the outline so far, the fact that I intend to get PBR for Christmas (which is still three whole months away), and how desperately I wanna see how the Pal Park and the Battle Frontiers pan out, I think I might just settle for finishing things with Diamond and then get started with it all.
Anyway, happy birthday Grandma Barbara, even though it was already yesterday.
Before we left home yesterday, Dad was watching the news, and he told Mom that they announced the final episode of All My Children, that soap opera I used to watch six years ago. Not gonna go into some rant on how wallbangerific that show (as well as soap operas in general) tends to be. Worth noting, though, is that Mom claims to have started watching it, along with some other soaps such as General Hospital, when she was nine. Yep, it's been going on since the sixties, way before I was born, and seemed like it was bound to go on forever and ever.
Dad also told Mom that he once read that the reason we haven't been able to find a Bob's Big Boy (which used to be a favorite breakfast restaurant of his) in more than a decade was because people preferred McDonald's. However, he speculates that McDonald's, as a much more powerful corporation, made some kind of deal with the turnpike owner to have yet more restaurants built on the side of the road, and BBB just kinda got pushed aside.
While we were driving to Virginia, Dad was on the lookout for some kind of breakfast restaurant that wasn't IHOP. We spotted several Waffle Houses along the way, but he was looking for an egg-and-bacon place. We eventually found a generic diner, at which I ordered three pancakes (only two of which I actually ate up) and some bacon.
Soon as we got to Grandma Barbara's house, we were greeted first by Grandma and her last remaining dog Taz. Mabel started hissing at Taz while I tried to take her harness off. Mom had me and Dad bring the rest of our stuff in from the car, and then we all sat down with Sid Vicious, one of Grandma's cats, in Grandma's lap. Aunt Marie had also joined us, and I got up to go find Mabel. Looked throughout the house, noticed that Aunt Marie and Uncle Ray now have an Xbox 360, met Uncle Ray inside what used to be Cousin David's room, and then he came over to greet the rest of us. After I finally found Mabel inside the bathroom near the living room, Sid became curious about the presence of such a new cat as her inside the house, but Mabel just growled and hissed at him continually.
Grandma told me that she also has two other cats, named Scrappy (mostly white and some dark, unidentifiable color, w/ some brown spots) and Scooter (orange with a leg missing). I had noticed the latter on Grandma's bed, but we would see the former later on. Smokey has been dead for years now; she doesn't know how long, though.
Laid on Grandma's bed to play Pokemon White. While I was playing the game, I heard Brian greet Dad in the next room, but wondered whether it was actually him or someone else, before he and Kelly came to greet me. His presence here at Grandma's house was a bit of a surprise, but as it turns out, he's actually been here with Kelly for the previous couple of days.
The three of us came into the living room to chat with everyone else. Shortly afterwards, Brian and Kelly went with Aunt Marie into her kitchen to make dinner. I hung around and chatted with Brian, after he brought up that equation that I had him program for me. We talked about all the technical stuff behind Parasitic Trio, and I offered to show him the outline I've got going for the ficseries so far after he asked, and I pulled it up on my laptop.
At some point after we ate dinner, Cousin David came with his dog Marble to visit us all while we were having some apple crumble that Aunt Marie made. I asked him if he knew about this blog, and he never did. Also asked him if he remembered that week we spent in Connecticut back in 1995, but somehow, he doesn't remember any of it, even though I did remember visiting certain places like the submarine and that place with the orca show. (The latter is what Mom was referring to when we brought it up after coming home from Doug's house a few months ago. I also remember us having to get our hands stamped there.) I was surprised that he couldn't remember something like that, since it wasn't every day that we had such a family get-together, and especially that we go anywhere well away from home, but Dad told me that I just have a better memory than most people. Should note, though, that this was before I kept track of exact dates, and I tend to gauge anything that happened before 6th grade based on what grade I was in at the time (in this case, 3rd). Probably has mainly with me being autistic, but maybe the fact that I spend the majority of my time playing video games contributes to me remembering other stuff better as well.
In any case, he suggested that I email him the links to both this blog and the entry where it was first brought up. I'll probably do that today with my mostly-unused gmail account, since I can only access my regular email account at home. (I've already told Chelle and Cameron to PM anything they need to say to me through this site until I come home on Monday, and I'm also not gonna bother switching DeviantArt accounts on my laptop this time like at the lakehouse.)
So anyway, I told Brian that the following morning might be a better time to show him the outline, but he then asked me to show it to him right then. I brought my laptop out, and he took a few minutes to show Kelly the girls on my wallpaper. While he was busy with that, I mentioned that even though the girls are designed to look ten-ish, they're actually supposed to be in high school. Ironically, they actually did come across as teenagers to Brian, even though Dad (like many others unfamiliar w/ Lucky Star) mistook them for ten-year-olds when he noticed at the lakehouse.
So anyway, he then started reading the actual document. Most of the stuff in the beginning is mostly technical stuff, and before he got to any actual story content, he started to scroll down, realized that it's probably even longer than Chronicles of 7th Grade, and decided to create a .pdf version of it all, which came out to be 57 pages long in that format. He even suggested that I might as well get started with it right now, but I told him that I actually intend to complete Pokemon Diamond and play through Pokemon Battle Revolution, HeartGold, and Platinum before I get started, but given the already absurd length of the outline so far, the fact that I intend to get PBR for Christmas (which is still three whole months away), and how desperately I wanna see how the Pal Park and the Battle Frontiers pan out, I think I might just settle for finishing things with Diamond and then get started with it all.
Anyway, happy birthday Grandma Barbara, even though it was already yesterday.