The Smell of Burning Eyes!

Remember that scene in Fire In The Sky where the aliens tie the guy down to the table, then a machine pries his eyelids open and they stick a needle in his pupil? Well, turns out they were perfoming LASIK on him. I capitalized LASIK 'cos it's an acronym for Laser ASsisted In-situ Keratomileusis. Anyways, they used some tongs to hold my eyelids open, then a little device sliced off the front of my eye. Then a laser burned away some flesh. It remeasures where it's supposed to be 1,000 times a second. All I saw was a blurry red light. Emily was watching and said that smoke was billowing up from my face. It was so incredibly badass. I kept imagining some kind of comic book mishap where a power surge causes the laser to overload, and then I end up with x-ray vision or something. Of course, as comic books go, I would be cast out from society, yet ironically use my super power to save it. But alas, no. Everything went precisely as planned. So now I am typing, unable to see the computer screen (the vision needs a few hours to clear up). Please forgive any typographical errors. And... just in case I do end up with x-ray vision... maybe you should all wear lead underwear for the next couple days.

Furthermore!

Furthermore, Luke was supposedly raised on a quiet backwater planet (whatever the hell backwater means), he even went so far to say, "If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from." I assume that to be figurative. But Episode I would have you think that Tatooine is a virtual Coruscant, only sandier. Whatever.

Furthermore, I am tearing out the floor tiling in the bathroom too. I've noticed that on the spectrum of sparks, those flying off this tile are more red in color, and less flashy. My next step in this experiment - get a bigger hammer. Yeh!

Furthermore, I am still working on reviving the old save yerself, as you can see. I am going through each old post, editing slightly for out-of-date content (like links and stuff), and then inserting into the site, using the original date and time for the post. I probably have roughly over a hundred more posts to go, so this will take a while!

This Obi-Wan Kenobi jibberish!

If you are trying to hide an evil jedi's twin children from him, there may be more prudent ways. Setting one up as the princess of an important planet isn't the best idea. While the royal family's undoubted ability to defend itself (except, perhaps, from superlasers) is a plus, the high profile is a huge liability. But placing the son in the care of his half-uncle on the same planet the father grew up on, and even keeping his last name, is probably a foolish move.

Golden Sparks of Justice!

Holy crap. Today I found perhaps the greatest pastime ever. Taking a hammer and destroying a tiled shower. Some water has gotten under the old tile, so it was time to go. And so that meant the violent destruction of the tile and drywall. I am not kidding you: sparks were flying off the hammer as I rained down mighty blows upon the ceramic tile. Holy god it was awesome.