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Hey! Judy Blume's on TV! I didn't know she had a physical form!

She's on a panel with Tom Selleck, Herschel Walker, Bruce Llewellyn, and the MCA president whose name I can't spell, and someone whose name I missed.

Moving Day

The move yesterday was the largest social event I've ever hosted. Everyone who said they'd come did come. And though we took many risks by leaving for the storage unit twice before others showed up, and though there was some confusion with the various security gates, nobody was left waiting outside my locked apartment for more than a few minutes.

ernunnos showed up first, the earliest. Before the cable guy, even. So we had to wait around for him before we could do anything. After the cable guy came and went, we headed to my storage bin and fished out the couch. It turned out it was almost too big to fit out the door, and in fact interfered with the door opening. The steel shutter would get caught on it as it was trying to roll up near the ceiling. In fact, I nearly got hit in the head when we jarred it loose and gave it enough slack to drop a few feet. But in the end we got it out and into the truck just in time to meet jecook at my door.

We carried up the couch, and a few minutes later, Matt showed up. Everyone else who was coming had a cell phone, so we called them and told them to meet us at the bin. That is, everyone except Carlos, who called me around that time to tell us he was running late anyway.

We got to the bin, and Kevin and vyus and cynica all showed up there. And they all had trucks or SUVs. Five trucks. Needless to say, we got the entire bin packed up and moved in one trip.

At this point I divvied up some of the things I didn't want to keep. Since my apartment had a microwave built-in, I let Matt have my old one. I let Jeremy have the Amiga, and when Carlos showed up, I let him have this Japanese magazine that I bought a while ago. Most people walked away empty-handed.

After the boxes were moved and the pizza was ordered, and the digital box hooked up to the TV, we all sat around flipping through the digital channels.

On occasion, I would open a box and find somewhere to put something, but I couldn't really think of a way to divide up the work. So I joined everyone in watching TV. But not without first letting everyone try the exotic Mentos flavors I got in the Frankfurt airport: Lemon Fresh and Manzana. Then Jeremy found my Atari 2600 cartridges, and Vyus and Cynica spent the rest of their stay looking through them, calling out names they found amusing. At that point I started looking for my Atari 7800, which I found, but couldn't install before everyone left.

The last two stragglers were Jeremy and Carlos, who got along famously, but weren't as enthused about the Atari. So we watched a video I'd found that Stephen Will Tanner had sent me a few years hence. First, Best of Karakuri Funniest English, a segment on a variety show in which an American man-on-the-street confronts Japanese citizens to see how much good those mandatory English classes have done them. That's funny enough, but Carlos had a better understanding of Japanese than I did, so he was able to figure out what the hell they were talking about when they answered in Japanese. Then, some martial arts stuff that I wish ernunnos had stayed for his insight. Then a MST3K short, and "Miyuki-chan in Wonderland", a short anime adaptation of Alice in Wonderland where everyone's a lesbian. I think at that point we decided we'd had enough, and everyone went home.

All my possessions are in my apartment, but they're still mostly boxed up.

And I'm thinking I should invite people over more often.

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I missed April Fools Day.

Any good Internet pranks?

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Brunching Shuttlecocks rerun: After the Punchline.