{"id":907,"date":"2008-08-13T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T21:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2008-08-19T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:52:08","slug":"dracula-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Dracula&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not feeling a whole lotta happy these days, as you might can imagine. I miss the girls, I miss Mads. I feel somewhat hopeless and depressed. As time ticktocks on.<\/p>\n<p>It helped to get out a little today though. Went to my brother&#8217;s apartment to fix up his TV. After the legendary channel frequency change. Seems like his TV signal isn&#8217;t strong enough though, couldn&#8217;t pick up all the channels on their new frequencies. Might have to get a VCR or a tuner or something. I&#8217;ll talk to him about that. He wasn&#8217;t home when I was there.<\/p>\n<p>After doing that I went to the playground. Sat down with the three remaining friends.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5233\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080813_magnethe_th.jpg\" ALT=\"magnethe\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5231\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080813_vanilje_th.jpg\" ALT=\"vanilje\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5232\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080813_thor_th.jpg\" ALT=\"thor\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnethe, Vanilje and Thor. In that order. They are sweethearts, it&#8217;s just hard to get used to the relative peace. No little ones running around like crazy. I miss picking them up. There&#8217;s no way I&#8217;d be able to lift one of the adults onto my lap, hah. I&#8217;d be crushed. Vanilje jumped up on the bench and stood next to me there a couple of times, though. That was nice. She&#8217;s still like a little kid sometimes, most obvious when she used to run around with Lakrids and Choko. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>It started raining as I sat there on the bench. Enjoyably cool. Although the goats did not agree.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/plume.dk\/pics\/displayimage.php?pos=-5234\"><img WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 SRC=\"..\/pictures\/thumbs\/2008\/080813_vaniljethormagnethe_th.jpg\" ALT=\"goats\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They quickly ran to the other side of the pen and stood under the trees. You&#8217;ll never catch goats singing in the rain, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>And so the day went. Other things that I have been spending time on:<\/p>\n<p>Reading &#8220;The Road&#8221; by Cormac McCarthy. A quite excellent and heartbreaking book. I much recommend it. Don&#8217;t take my word for it though, it won a pulitzer and Oprah put it in her book club. I was a little wary when I picked it up at the library and saw the Oprah stamp of approval on the cover.  I have been raised to believe that Oprah is the devil, so it almost turned me off from reading it. But maybe she&#8217;s not so bad after all. Maybe it&#8217;s just exaggeration through myth. Maybe she&#8217;s just a real person, not a demon. You never know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still convinced that Dr Phil is behind the mask of Darth Vader, though.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got to watch the new Indiana Jones movie. I&#8217;m not sure what to feel about it. It kinda sucks. But at the same time, it&#8217;s Indiana Jones. Which is awesome. Just hearing the theme, it makes me giddy like a schoolboy. So while I won&#8217;t proclaim to be a piece of fine art, I will say I loved it. Didn&#8217;t even mind the sci-fi stuff. And I loved that Indy was old. That Harrison Ford refused to dye his hair. &#8220;What are you, like eighty?&#8221;. Hah yes. They don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to, but at least they try.<\/p>\n<p>On the computer I have been playing Ultima. Found a DVD collection. One-click installs. Even Pagan worked right out of the box. Man I love that series. Ultima 7 is still my favourite game of all time. Going back to that world is always a joy. Ultima 6 was my first computer RPG ever. On the Amiga. And U7 Part 2, Serpent Isle, was the game that made me buy a PC for the first time. They don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to, and unfortunately they have stopped trying. May you rot in MMMORPG hell, EA.<\/p>\n<p>Compliments to the 2 people in the world who know what I&#8217;m talking about. The rest of you can just talk amongst yourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Life goes on, I guess. No man is an island. I feel like an ocean, in a post-apocalyptic world. Alone and vast and neverending, even if I try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not feeling a whole lotta happy these days, as you might can imagine. I miss the girls, I miss Mads. I feel somewhat hopeless and depressed. As time ticktocks on. It helped to get out a little today though. Went to my brother&#8217;s apartment to fix up his TV. 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