Reading: issues of Amazing from the 70s
Music: Todd Rundgren's Liar
TV/Movie: Fushigi Yuugi Disk One
Link o' the Day: Final Fantasy VII-2: Advent Children

We had a fairly exercise-intensive weekend. Friday, after various hassles of the UPS kind (I hate UPS), we got the Gazelle Pretty Maggie ordered. For those who don’t know, a Gazelle is a type of exercise machine, sort of like a ski-machine on wires. After much sweating and swearing, I got it put together, and it works fine. The two of us were getting on and off it all weekend trying it out, and expect to be developing a regular exercise regimen.

Saturay we took an impromptou trip to Boston. Pretty Maggie decided to drive north, and after a while, it was decided that we’d go to boston. She’d never been, and I hadn’t been since Boskone. (Actually, Pretty Maggie felt she had to trick me into going--little was she aware that I’m always up for a trip to Boston so long as I don’t have to drive.)

And speaking of driving, I think it was in her head that we’d just drive around the city. Nope.

If you drive around the city of Boston, you won’t see very much because you’re spending all your time looking out for the deadly Boston drivers. Besides, I don’t do cars in Boston, so I had no idea how to get around. But put me on a subway, and I can go hither and yon with the greatest of ease. (Plus, Bostonites are very good about giving directions when asked.)

We found parking near Government Center, then hopped a T to Cambridge to hang around harvard, have lunch, and browse. I found a CD of image music from Fushigi Yuugi at Tokyo Kid, and learned that my all-time favorite Cambridge store, Sasuga Japanese Bookstore, was no longer in operation as a storefront. (Solely wholesale now--even their Brookline location is closed.)

We, of course, had to check out the Harvard Coop. I traveled floors 1-3, Pretty Maggie did the basement.

Big place. Very big.

By the time we left, our dogs were barking. Weary and sore from Gazelling and traveling the windy bumpy Boston roads, we went home. The next day was a bit less busy, although I spent plenty of time on my feet for one reason or another.

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Attended Henry Higgins’s memorial serice yesterday. I was pleased to see so many people there. A packed house. Always the best sort of funeral. I’ve been to a few with only a handful of people and those are just odd and awkward.

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Today I’m sitting in my new office. It’s not bad. It needs a little fine tuning here and there, but I kind of like it. It’s definitely a change from the spare, utilitarian setup of my old office on the production floor. The place is still chock full of equipment, but the new office furniture, window, carpeting, and so forth give it a different feel.

Aside from my department being shifted fromthe auspices of Production to Sales, my only real gripe is that the office is a little too big and I have to walk farther to answer the phone or pick up typesetting jobs. That, and I now have to go up and down two flights of stairs and around some hallways just to get in a quick smoke.

But I won’t complain much about stuff like that. I could use the exercise.

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Today’s link is for final Fantasy fans, it goes to the official site for Final Fantasy VII-2: Advent Children, an interactive DVD game based on the 7th Final Fantasy game, but with the computer-generated detail of the Final Fantasy movie (actually, far superior).

Enjoy!