I should disclaim, that I am a Picard fan. I don't know if I like him best out of all captains ever, but in the whole "Kirk vs. Picard" debate I tend to fall on the Picard side. This is partially because I respect real diplomacy more than "cowboy diplomacy," partially because I find Patrick Stewart to simply be a better actor (although I do give much kudos to Shatner for Denny Crane), and, admittedly, partially for the simple reason that The Next Generation was my generation of Star Trek.

That's all a disclaimer for the conclusion that I reached on the way home from work this evening. I'm not sure why I was thinking about Kirk, Picard, or Star Trek in general--4e D&D has been my nerd-thing of choice the last month or so, and I don't often find myself thinking about Trek unless it's been brought up externally, or Sara and I are watching Voyager, which we've been doing lately for some reason. (Prompted a name for a drink! Which, honestly, although not amazing, is somewhat less grotesque than I thought it might be.)

Anyway, I keep beating around the bush. Here is my realization:

Kirk would have beaten the Nausicaans.

I have combined about an ounce of vodka with about an ounce of jager to produce:

Voyager.

Sara and I are in Seattle! 6/23-6/29.

We spent way too much money shopping today. We got Orca passes for the bus system, but somehow mine ended up with no dollars on it. The receipt is funny; it says I gave them 20 in cash and they gave 20 in change, and no dollars were spent--which isn't what happened. Hopefully they'll clean that up before tomorrow when I will actually need to use the bus.

Edit: Nope, they won't fix it, at least not by email. "Go back to the office where you bought it." Yeah... by bus....

If you are someone on my flist who lives here, let me know at gaisensei at gmail dot com if you wanna do stuff. Sara has some plans on a few of the days, but not all of them... I'll probably check the email more often than I can see the other stuff online. (Hotel internet is kinda spotty)

I'd like to get some figures to use for a D&D game I'm thinking of starting IRL, but I'm not really heavily into the minis thing; I just want cheap stuff, not like $5/unit stuff. Basically like, the quality of the figures included in games like Hero Quest and stuff, would be cool. My mat is full of 1"x1" squares.

Does anyone have any idea how to obtain such things cheaply? My only idea so far is to look on ebay for people selling collections and stuff--I've tried looking a little but nothing has jumped out at me yet.

Or--does anyone have any old games of hero quest or similar, that they want to sell parts of? :)

I haven't looked back at these in a long time. Heheh.

Hey, what are people's Dreamwidth usernames so I can add some people? :)

Also if anyone who doesn't have an account over there is interested, I've still got a couple invite codes.

Having watched House and Scrubs for a while may actually help me in a potential upcoming task at work.

I think "god" is a bad translation of "kami." It's been the standard for a while now so I don't expect it to change or anything, but I think a while back whenever English-speakers first became familiar with shinto, they should've just gone with "spirit."

You know, I'm increasingly of the mind that I should just set a once-a-week thing for myself to post all the days-of-new-things for that week. Not sure what day I actually want to put the effort forth for that, though--but clearly making the effort every day isn't working for me!

Thurs: Saw Star Trek
Fri: Made character for first time using PHB2 rules (okay this is pretty weak, but one a day, come on)
Sat: Played in new D&D campaign (this one is better than the above albeit tied to it)
Sun: Ate Kettle Spicy Thai chips
Mon: Ate at Cannoli Joe's

I didn't post yesterday! Which I guess is okay because honestly you guys probably don't want to read every single boring (even if new) thing I do as it happens, I mean, I'm just not that interesting. Also: why I don't tweet. The fact that I hate typing on cell phones could also contribute to that.

Yesterday I started reading World War Z, which is pretty good. I think the bit about Paul Redeker is my favorite chapter.

Today I 100% image sampled a box. That is incredibly boring and I probably can't describe it without violating some kind of pointless NDA, so I won't!