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Friday, November 25, 2005
Welp. Hope everybody had a Happy Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving was really no better and no worse than I had been expecting. Of course, most holidays suck ass if you're a young adult with no small kids. And even more if you're an old person with no grandchildren. (My own grandchildren-less parents have, since their collective retirements, long since given up on holidays. Instead of putting any sort of energy into a celebration, they now prefer to sit around the house all day watching TV while listening to Death slowly chip away at their vital essences. I was surprised myself how short a time it took for Mom to go from "whipping up an elaborate home-cooked feast and serving it to the entire family on a table carefully set with Grandma's antique china and the silverware we keep in a box" to "putting a Hungry Man turkey TV dinner into the oven and muttering an apathetic Grace over its half-charred, half-frozen contents." Is the same thing going to happen to me if/when I reach their age? God, I hope not.) I LIKE holidays, man. I need to get my OWN family. There needs to be, like, a Rent-a-Husband/Cute, Apple-Cheeked Children service for the holidays. For those of us who were too busy and/or self-absorbed to put any effort into having normal, healthy relationships during our prime child-bearing years. (I mean, just because I'm an paranoid misanthrope incapable of intimacy, that shouldn't mean I can't have in on the Holiday Fun! Geez...)

I revamped my Guide to Casting Tutorial today to reflect some of my more recent experiments with mind-numbingly dangerous and hard to work with chemicals. I also added a couple more chapters to Kevin's Xenogears Thumbnail Theater. I hope you like.