Animedragon

826

Night Time

Endless debates about either sweeping them up or just leaving them to biodegrade.

This evening I finished watching The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses. While I wouldn't say that this was a bad series I don't think it was a particularly good one either, the artwork and animation were excellent, but the storyline was quite a disappointment. The titular girl who forgot her glasses was an interesting character, but the guy who liked her was completely spineless and wishy-washy. His freaking out every time she looked at him or got really close was amusing for the first couple of episodes, but became tedious and tiring after that. I also felt that there was way way too much internal dialogue which after the first few episodes became tiresome and dragged the pace of the already slow paced storyline down. Overall, as I said before, this wasn't a bad series but neither was it a good one and as far as I was concerned it didn't meet the expectations I had from the trailer.

Eternity

823

Shovels

House Moves

Distend

819

By the time I was 7 or 8 I had a fairly good suspicion that Santa didn't really exist. What confirmed my suspicion was one Christmas Day when the whole family was at my grand parent's house and my father said he had to go out somewhere* and about half an hour later Santa arrived on the doorstep. The red suit and plastic facemask didn't fool me for a moment, my two younger cousins were fooled though. * this was so obviously false, back then nothing, absolutely nothing, was open on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, so there was nowhere for my father to go.

ERK!! That's about 43C Last year we had temperatures that high for a couple of days and a Red Warning for heat was issued and people were advised to stay indoors and not make unnecessary journeys. I think some railway stations broke out their emergency supplies and were handing out free bottles of water.

Cold in the morning, pleasantly warm mid-day then cold again in the evening.

814

Heart Beat

I watched the Bang Dream Live Movie today, it made a nice ending to the three series. There isn't really a story to the movie, it's an outdoor concert where five of the bands from the series give live performances and each band performs three songs, which thankfully are subtitled. While I wouldn't say any of the songs were particularly memorable they're all quite nice songs and some have really good lyrics. Bang Dream is a massive multi-media franchise covering anime, manga, visual novels, video games and CDs Overall I found the series engaging and enjoyable to watch and rather different to the usual "high school girls get together and form a band" series, yes, it starts like that but the other bands soon enter the story and it becomes much more about the progress of each band and their interactions with each other. None of the bands are high school club bands they're all independent of the school, I suspect that the school element is only there as a link between the bands as several of the members of each band attend the same school. This is certainly a series I would be happy to watch a second time at some point.

It's bright, sunny and a warm 24C

I'm pleased this is getting a second series, I quite enjoyed the first series.

Common Room

When there's a choice of two and you can't decide which to get, buying both is a good plan because if you only buy one a bit later on you'll wish you'd got the other one, by which time it will be out of stock and no longer available.

Region coding only works in the minds of the producing studio's board members. In the real world it's irrelevant, multi-region or region free DVD and Blu-ray players are fairly easy to obtain. For computers there's that well known free media player VLC which can play any media format and has an option that allows you to change the region code of the drive you're using. I know it works for region 1 & 2 DVDs, but I've not actually tried it with Blu-ray disks because I don't have any region A disks but I've no reason to think that it wouldn't work. To use VLC to play Blu-ray disks you need to add a couple of files, but they're freely available and easy to instal.

811

Structural Examination

Nature

Physical Exercise