Jaseroque

My post-Covid has been improving and I have been to nearby cafes several times to chill out and do work and it's been nice!

I have had laughing gas once, before surgery when I was nine. I went from anxious but calm and in control of myself to crying hysterically and trying to fight my way off the bed. That stuff is Not My Friend.

RIGHT??!?!

"But that's clearly NOT TRUE, because that was amazing! I've never seen anything like that! In any job, I think it's possible to be exceptionally skilled!" And oh, he was so pleased. He lit right up. I felt so successful that I'd managed to tell him something I really think is so important.

I speak Japanese well, but I am not always as succinct or clear with complicated concepts as I'd like to be. But I managed, somehow to say, "you know, they say jobs like this, people who don't know anything can do it..." He gave me a cheerful nod, and I very hastily continued...

I'm a tour guide in Japan. I have watched a lot of very experienced men and women very efficiently count out large amounts of tickets for me. But one day I had this very old guy, and he just... almost ruffled through the tickets, but in such a way that he was clearly also counting them.

Yes, let us keep it that way forever.

Even then, I don't exactly see many cops around, you know? So I see a cop and I go "is that a gun?? Like, a real -- do our cops do that?? Is that allowed??" You'd think I'd remember by now, but I do not.

In Australia that is illegal. Also there are only two deadly types of spiders in Australia, same as America.

Yeah it looks amazing and I genuinely want one, but seeing "gun. also gun. bag perfect size for put gun in. gun." is a bit..... startling.

Oh my goodness she made a pocket especially for her con badge. Genius!

... also I need to send Kevin a photo of my latest fountain pen, now I think about it... I'll do it tomorrow.

.. a friend and a bottle of Aussie wine, and talked, in retrospect, A LOT. Sorry. >_<

I was in Fukushima during the Everything and got PTSD and you were really cool about not putting my wildly specific triggers in your feed. I still really appreciate that. I'm doing way better now~

... I have wondered if you still know who I am since we migrated from Twitter.

I will now tell you, so regardless, you will definitely know from now.

We met at Helsinki WorldCon because Kevin and I had a Reese's Cereal/timtam handoff to do. You invited me to your room party and I showed up with...

YOU MET DAVE GOELZ *deceased*

This is the point where I broke and started cackling.

YouTube video by schmoyoho Chicken Attack // Song Voyage // Japan // ft. Takeo Ischi

If you bring this upon me, I reserve the right to also bring this upon you. m.youtube.com/watch?v=miom...

COULD you write like that, even if you wanted to? I feel like you'd wind up parodying it in spite of yourself...

Well, at least it's very poorly done...

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Imagining you with one of those nerf machine guns

Ahh, sounds like home~

Oh really?? I liked it well enough even as it was, though I know that puts me in the minority. I should... investigate...

Ursula! I just want you to know that's a very good photo! @tkingfisher.com

@arkem.bsky.social

Or Australia. People really underestimate Australia.

Every now and again I remember that my parents have a Japanese friend who ran away from his salaryman life in Japan to become a lumberjack in America and renamed himself "Joe Smoke".

He was awesome, though.

Me: I am still recovering from Covid. I will play the nice, calming game of Pokemon Snap (N64) that I've been wanting to play for ages. Observing Pokemon... Taking photos of them... The perfect calm game.
Me, 20 minutes later: I CAN THROW APPLES AT THE POKEMON AND IT IS VERY FUNNY WHEN YOU HIT THEM

an older man in a suit and tie is wearing a hat and looking down . Alt: An old British shepard looks down and says "that'll do pig". Cut to a very cute young pig looking up at him, then back to the farmer, who repeats with a small smile, "that'll do". It is from the movie Babe, and the pig is the eponymous Babe.

My brain instantly made a funnier joke than I'm capable of keeping up with and genuinely thought you meant this Babe:

I wish everyone could have them! I wish they were so easy to get everywhere and you could just walk in and get them and also that they cost a little less, but even that last bit is not so bad.