Animedragon

In a similar vein. Here's one of my more weird Photoshop creations.

Anime. Watch the Sunrise or the Sunset?

I've got hordes of fonts on my main computer as well. During the last couple of years at work there were often times when there was little or no work to do, it was a very customer driven job, and having free unrestricted Internet access I used to trawl the free font sites to see what I could find. Some of the fonts I downloaded I've only used once, and there's probably a few that I've never used because they didn't look as good in actual use as I thought they would.

I've now finished watching The Aquatope on White Sand. This is a slice of life series about a couple of high school girls who work in an aquarium. The series is really split into two parts. In the first part the two girls are working part time trying to save a small, slowly failing, aquarium during their school summer holidays. In the second part they have graduated and are now working full time at a much larger new aquarium. As with most SoL series the story revolves around the lives of the main characters and their friends and work colleagues, the love that they have for the sea and the creatures that inhabit it comes over very well. The artwork and animation quality is very good and the various aquatic creatures are beautifully drawn. I enjoyed watching this series and will definitely add it to my rewatch list.

Extraterrestrial

A nice cup of tea. The first cup of the day is always the best one.

Retrograde

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Excellent! It's always nice when you learn a new technique with graphics package.

It's Dull, Damp and Dreary. Looks like a Good Day to stay indoors and do Indoor Things.

BR class 7 locomotive no.70000 Britannia approaching Herne Hill station with a mainline rail tour. Britannia at London Victoria station after arriving with the rail tour.

Congratulations to India on successfully landing their craft near the south pole of the Moon. It'll be interesting to see what pictures and data it's rover vehicle sends back.

I don't have any ideas about which series it is, but I don't think it's Maison Ikoku because the main female character has just lost her husband and is not interested in starting up a new relationship.

While I still re-watch series my re-watching has decreased recently, mainly due to having both Crunchyroll and Hidive subscriptions and finding there's so much new stuff that I want to watch on both platforms and some of those series are marked down to be re-watched! . I do a lot of re-watching when I'm on holiday because my Internet access is severely limited, my Pay-As-You-Go broadband dongle thingy for the laptop works OK for e-mail and basic web access but struggles a bit on anything else, so I take a stock of DVDs away with me.

Bright, sunny, warm and dry.

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That's hot! It's only 26C (79F) here and even that feels very hot to me.

Welcome aboard. Pull up a cushion, or a chair if sitting on the floor isn't your thing, and make yourself at home.

Is there such a thing as too much anime merch?

An excellent series. I've watched it several times, there's a lot of things I've never quite understood about the story, but then I decided that there probably weren't any answers. Ive reached the halfway point in The Aquatope on White Sand. Episodes 11 and 12 were particularly good, but I really wasn't expecting the ending of episode 12. However, thinking about it it was a very believable ending and probably the only one that would make sense.

Reactor

I agree. Hotels and such like just don't have single rooms, or if they do they cost more than a double. I'm single because no one wanted me, but I'm quite happy with that and sometimes I think I'm better off single. Sadly only one of my friends is into anime, and he lives a long way away, so we don't get together too often to watch anime. My grandmother was the driving force behind our family gatherings, she was a bit of a matriarch, and whatever grandma said everyone did, or else! I go out to Sunday lunch once a month with friends from my church, nearly all of us are single for various reasons but we all have a great time. Without that I could easily become a sort of recluse. As a single person being a railway enthusiast and photographer are great hobbies as they can easily be done on your own.

When people get married they seem to develop this idea that everyone who is single and lives alone is automatically a lonely person. This may be true for some singles, but it's not true of all single people. The thing that most annoys me is that when I thank them for their kind invite and politely decline they want to know why, I don't understand why they won't accept a 'no thank you' and leave it at that. Fortunately none of my friends make sexist or racist comments or nasty comments about people's lifestyle choices. What I do find is that two or three will start discussing football or cricket in great detail and as I have no interest in either I, along with everyone else, get very bored very quickly we do try to talk among ourselves about something else, but it it doesn't always work. Then there's games, some people think that we must play games, and everyone must join in, no one is allowed to sit out. I'm not really a fan of games especially Trivial Pursuit type games.

Welcome aboard. Pull up a cushion, or a chair if sitting on the floor isn't your thing, and make yourself at home.

I use elevators, or lifts as we call them in the UK , whenever they are offered as an alternative to climbing stairs especially long flights of stairs! At railway stations using the lift can be safer than going up the stairs as there's always the risk of being knocked over by someone coming down in a great rush so as not to miss their train. People who press the buttons repeatedly are usually stressed out or impatient, or both. I never try to squeeze into a crowed lift, I'll wait for another one. One of the buildings I worked in had weird lifts, there were no buttons inside the lift car, there was a panel on the lift landing and you entered the number of the floor you wanted and then waited for a lift with your number on it to arrive. Sometimes it was a bit noisy and it was hard to hear the announcement of which lift was yours. My local hospital had a Paternoster Lift which scared the daylights out of me so I never used it when I visited. For those who don't know what a Paternoster lift is, it's a continuous belt of lift cars that never stops moving, there's no doors so you jump into the lift as it passes your floor and jump out again when you reach the floor you want. Timing your jump is everything. When the lift car boxes reach the top, or bottom floor they go over a loop and carry on in the opposite direction. It's apparently perfectly safe to stay on and go over the loop but it's discouraged. The thing is still in the hospital but it's sealed off as Paternoster lifts were deemed too dangerous.