And this morning we booted up just fine, though I can't see that lasting... Personally I think that now Butch knows he's getting a new snazzy, dual-core-processor-fitted domicile, he's finished his temper tantrum and is (probably grudgingly) letting us tidy up the last few odds and sods of backup (though that being said there's something in one of my ten thousand personal files/docs/images/mpgs that is crashing my CD-burning software every time I try to use it. Now have to spend tonight with a RW disk in the drive and transfer each piece of info one by one. Oh joy...)
But today was... interesting. Kai had a dentist appointment at 11.30 - he was terribly nervous, remembering that last time he went the dentist warned he might need treatment for that lower front tooth (the one that was knocked out of place when his chin collided with Connor's head back at Junior School) and the thought really scares him. But I pointed out it was just a checkup, and the whole point of the dentist was so he could avoid having a mouthful of metal like me. Which immediately cheered him up. But as it was the dentist said he was absolutely fine ('perfect' was the word she used), the careful cleaning he does twice a day has really paid off. She wants to keep an eye on his mouth, because one of his adult teeth towards the front is coming through offset (there's not enough room for it to fit in the right place until his milk teeth are gone, and they seem to be resisting dropping out) and thinks he might need a brace in a year or so. Kai's perfectly fine with this - half the kids he knows have braces. We'll see: it might slot into place by itself if we're lucky.
While we were up at Broadwalk we checked out the charity shops, and to my delight I found Vols 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the
New Vampire Miyu manga at £1.49 each. Synopsis
here, though I'm not sure about the spelling of the thoroughly-bishieful servant Shinma's name: here it's Lavra, but I think it's normally spelt Larva, though I've also seen Lava. There's no 'v' in Japanese, of course, so to be sure I'll have to play a subbed Miyu anime and try to work out what it really is from that.) Very pretty, æthereal shojo artwork, with an interesting (if slightly hard to follow) storyline. I'll need to find Vol 2 to have the complete series.
There were several other manga series in the shop -
DN Angel,
Girl Got Game,
Forbidden Dance and a couple of others I didn't recognise. I was good and resisted temptation...
It's still unseasonably warm, and I'm still in T-shirts and sandals. Which I regretted today. It was pleasantly cool and misty when we left home: we were about to leave the ironmongers, having failed to get Kai's locker key copied, when it suddenly started hailing. Five minutes later there was a wonderful flash of lightning, loud roll of thunder and it absolutely
pissed down. We spent the next hour dodging the rain by diving in and out of shops, and luckily, by the time we were ready to head back, the storm had rumbled off a few miles. But it did mean we couldn't go to the park, as Kai had hoped. Eh well, another day.
In other news... Forgot to say yesterday that I painted the larger of the cabinets outside while the smaller dried in the kitchen - and when I came back in I found two little pawprints in the paint on the top, and five little white pawprints on the kitchen lino... [rolls eyes] We think it was Raptor, but she doesn't seem to be any the worse for presumably having licked the paint off her paws.
Oh, and my Scorpion King action figure arrived this morning, and it's great. It does raise a question, however: the new computer will have a flat panel screen, which means I have nowhere to perch the Matrix Twins. I think I need a shelf or display case or something (I have 21 figures now, of varying sizes, not counting Ninetails, Flareon, and the ceramic Radittsu from onna. [smirk] Interestingly they're all male with long hair and/or big weapons...)
Quick trip to town tomorrow, then I'm planning to take Kai to the cinema.
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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