White Lovers and Pterodactyl Porn

So to prevent me from procrastinating too long, I'll limit these descriptions to just a few sentences each. I've been spending too much time blogging and not enough living. Tonight I shall exact vengeance upon my belongings that have so smugly been sitting there, un-put-away, mocking me from the safety of their cardboard boxes for the past month. I am going to take action and bring this to an end.
This I vow: there will be carpet visible this night!

T3A for today:

#1 - Gorgeous sunrise!

Today was a rainy day, but when I woke up, it hadn't started yet... a blanket of thick, heavy gray thunderclouds hung overhead, and yet a band of sky near the horizon was still clear. The morning sun peered over the edge of Ikoma Mountain with sleek, dark, variously-shaped clouds scudding past it. The atmosphere was full of energy, and if I hadn't been so sleepy from photoshopping that Star Wars picture last night, I might have even gone for my camera!

#2 - Pterodactyl porn!

Yes, you read that right. I love this guy's blog post about it, where he presents it as irrefutable evidence of Intelligent Design. He's got a screen capture from it there, too (no naughty bits visible, but you can tell what's going on). Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately...) the link from there to the video itself seems to be down. I think the site that hosts the video got bombarded with too many requests.

If any of you get your hands on this video, though... let me know. ;)

#3 - Valentine's Day

So today was that least-favorite holiday of mine, Valentine's Day. As I mentioned a day or two ago, Valentine's Day in Japan is typified by a one-way exchange of chocolate from women to me. In response to the numerous queries I have already received regarding the number of chocolates I've been given this year, I offer my standard response of, "enough to make me happy, but not enough to make me fat."

Anyway, in terms of interestingly-named chocolates, the prize has to go to this treasure from Hokkaido: the Japanese writing on it reads "Shiroi Koibito", which means "White Lover". Why they chose that name I have no idea, but I find it hilarious!





-- UPDATE, 1:21 am --

Mission accomplished! More or less... My carpet is clear and my kitchen is improving greatly. I had to put some stuff back in boxes, but that's sort of inevitable for the moment I think. For now, though... I think this place is almost livable. Once I carry out the five bags of trash and piles of cardboard boxes by my door. Who would have thought that I'd have so much stuff left to throw out after moving?

I also came up with a new profile photo for my blog. A couple people have been weirded out by my old freaky picture. Here's the new one. I took it with my phone and applied a fresco effect in photoshop. I'm pretty happy with how it came out, although the fresco effect looks a little strange at some sizes - kinda just makes it look like my face is dirty or something. :P