Pizza Pizza

Little Kat stayed home sick from school today. He told me his legs felt wobbly in the morning. As usual, I picked him up some soup when I made my run for Chinese food at lunch time. Our sink was filled with dirty dishes. So before lunch, I unloaded, and had Little Kat load up the dirty ones.

After lunch, Little Kat seems healed from his "illness". I let him watch one episode of anime on Netflix. Afterwards he watched some TV in his bedroom. Kit Kat came home on time today. Her after school activity was cancelled. She played with some gerbils and ate a snack. Then she went to take a nap.

Momoko called me from work. She said we should not let Little Kat cook since he still might be infected. So we had Kit Kat pick us up some pizza and breadsticks. They have a great deal going on at Little Caesars. Large pepperoni pizzas cost five bucks.

Kit Kat was not happy that she had to drive to get dinner. She had a headache. After picking up the goods, Momoko sent her to bed for a nice nap. Momoko also fell asleep after dinner. I figured why not join the bunch, so I took a long nap as well.

Go for Bravo

The XBox 360 has been permanently moved downstairs. My Wii is hooked back up to our main TV. Now I can watch my anime series from Netflix on the Wii. I do this every day at lunch. Good times.

Previously I had been watching Bravo, an anime series about a boy that became allergic to girls. I was on the second season of the series when the XBox 360 displaced me. Well I am back and have finished the series.

I have been searching for the next anime series for me to watch. I queued up about 10 of them on Netflix. Five of the ten seem superior. I will narrow it down to one. Each day at lunch I will watch one episode from the series. These will keep me busy as each season can be anwhere from 12 to 24 episodes.

Ice Cream Run

Momoko had us watch a movie about a princess and a curse tonight. During the movie I asked about some dessert. I had to wait until after the movie. We went out to get some ice cream.

It was late. I thought we would go to McDonald's. We tried Baskin Robbins first. It was 10:00pm. I ran up to the store and the door was opened. We hurried in and talked the employee to serve us even though they were closing.

Afterwards we watched some anime on demand from Netflix. At the end of the night, Momoko found a college nearby for Kit Kat to check out. The problem was that it costs a whopping $18k a semester. What the heck? The local state school costs $4k per semester. Kit Kat's dream school costs $15k a semester. College costs are out of control.

Convention Day

Today was the day Momoko planned for us to go to the anime convention. Somehow I ended up driving us there. There was some sort of fire next to the Interstate that delayed us. There was also some confusion when we got to the place how to get to parking. I was tired before the whole thing started.

We wandered around this huge convention hall to find the place to check in. The line was massive. It felt like forever before we checked in. I kept asking Momoko whether she wanted to leave before we even checked in. But no, she was determined to go to this thing. The line snaked around back and forth like we were going to a baseball game. Little Kat and I were forced to spy on scantily clad girls dressed in what I assume were some anime character costumes. Little Kat also say his friend from school near the end of the line.

After checking in, I was reading to take a rest. Little Kat and I muscled into a place to sit, while Kit Kat and Momoko bought some sandwiches. Our first event was the voice actors panel. This featured the people who do the English version voices of the animations we watch. Guess what? There was a line to get into the room. Dang. However once we got in, I was pleasantly surprised that the voices from some of my favorite characters were sitting in front of us. They took questions from the crowd and shared a lot of funny stories with us. The biggest bonus was that I got to sit down in the audience for a whopping hour and a half.

Foiled by Utaware

Kit Kat came downstairs for a drink of water. Then she said good night. After she went upstairs, I realized that our family did not exercise tonight. I try to ensure we exercise each and every night. Now I might be a bit off because I stayed up too late yesterday. But I think the real problem is "Utawarerumono".

Let me explain. Momoko noticed that Little Kat seemed a bit down today. So she instructed him to go through our anime DVD library. He wanted to watch one series that Kit Kat owns. However she was a bit reluctant to let Little Kat have her DVDs. Instead Momoko hooked Little Kat up with the anime Utawarerumono. I have seen that one twice before. Now Little Kat and I have started watching it.

In the series, we met a dude recovering from a serious injury. He can't remember his past or his name. He is being nursed by a family of animal-like people with furry long ears and tails. There is a goddess-tiger out in the wild eating the villagers. The main character faces the beast and almost dies again. However he identifies that the beast's armor like fur gets weak when exposed to water. He rallies the villagers to trap the beast, get it all wet, and run it through. I am excited about starting this series over again. Little Kat and I are in for a big treat.

School Supplies

Last night I started studying my programming. Then I got stuck on my Gun Sword anime. I went back to writing programs for practice. Turns out I stayed up the whole night. Momoko was surprised when she woke up in the morning and I still had not come to bed.

That's ok. This week is my stay at home learning week from work. It is cool. Momoko made me promise not to eat at Chipoltle for lunch. I brought a coupon to Jerry's Subs and Pizza instead. After work Momoko and I headed over to Chipoltle.

The Chipoltle shopping center has a Staples office supply store. This week they had some great deals on school supplies. Momoko confirmed at customer service that she can buy more than the usual customer limit on some supplies because she is a teacher. I loaded up the cart with 1 cent pencil packs (we cleaned them out). From past experience, I knew to ask the store clerks where the deals were. This led us to some 1 inch binders for $1.5o each,. That's a steal I tell you. We tested out a bunch of backpacks for Kit Kat. I kept stuffing them with binders to see what they could hold. We chose the sturdiest one that held the most binders (and did not cost massive $$$).

Gun Swordsman

Momoko and I finished watching our Angelic Layer anime series on Netflix. There were a whopping 26 episodes to see. I think this represents a whole year or season of the show.

I proposed that we watch a new anime series. Momoko though we needed a break. So I started watching a new series by myself. It is about a gun swordsman. Actually I don't understand it all just yet. The guy looks like a cowboy, but he can summon an "armor".

Today was a good eating day. For lunch we went out, and I had a steak. Then after a movie, we went out again for some appetizers. Had some stuffed mushrooms, as well as some mini burgers. We even ate some doughnuts and chocolate for dessert.

This week I stay home and lean some programming on my own. I love this idea.

Wii Streaming to the Rescue

We have a cable company that provides on demand video. The problem is that the service is flaky. It seems to not work more often than it works. Momoko and I need movies to watch. But Netflix only sends us a few disc a month.

Don't count Netflix out yet though. They have provided us with a Wii Disc. This Disc allows the Wii to connect to the wireless network. And you can stream movies down to your TV.

This is not awesome. Not all movies available on DVD from Netflix can be streamed over the network. But there are a bunch of anime series on there. Right now we are caught up watching Angelic Layer. People uses their "angels" to battle.

Down to the Creek

Today I had three choices to get to work. I could go the slow but sure way to work. Or I could take a 2-lane highway that sometimes moves fine. The third option was to take the 4-lane expressway that gets backed up a lot. I chose the third option. The traffic was very heavy. I regretted this choice until I heard the 2-lane highway was actually shut down.

When I finally got back from work, I did not see Little Kat or Kit Kat. That was strange. I got back late. Momoko informed me that she sent them down to the creek at the edge of our property. Momoko needed samples from the creek for tomorrow's science class.

I had a little light left. So what did I do? Yep. I cut the grass. You got to be responsible with your work. After that I got back on the computer and did some work from home. My reward will be to watch some animation late tonight with Momoko and Kit Kat. That animation would be The Twelve Kingdoms.

Dinner Less

This afternoon Mamma Kat had a long meeting. So it was me and the small cats at home. Little Kat was supposed to cook us some dinner. He said there was nothing to cook. I put in a call with Mamma Kat.

About an hour later, Mamma Kat called me. She told me to have Kit Kat cook us up some Frankenfurters. They are a recipe from Rachael Ray. These are hot dogs wrapper in crescent rolls. They look a little like pigs in a blanket.

Those dogs were good. Cats like to put away dogs by nature. But I guess we were all hungry by the time the food was done. We all watched some anime on cable tonight. And a few of us celebrated by eating ice cream and leftover birthday cake. Time to go shopping to fill the cupboards.