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I went and visited my grandmother yesterday. She was looking really good; possibly the best I've seen her in the last year or two. She might have to use a walker now, but on her good days, she still does just fine, by golly. She was clearing out the back pantry and gave me this hand-crank slicer thingy -- sort of like a manual cuisinart. I'm hoping it works well, because that'd be cool and retro.

I've been playing a lot of Dynasty Tactics II, which is a notch or two up from the original in gameplay and UI. I like it because it's as much a puzzle game as anything. Today I managed to get a 10-level combo in one battle, and in another I maxed out the damage at 99,999.

We went and saw Mirrormask last night at the ~~Cheez Artist~~ Chez Artiste all the way down in freakin' Englewood. It was really good; far more coherent than I expected based on some of the reviews I read. It's a lovely fairy tale. All about the surreal (and quite nifty) imagery, of course. I recommend it to everyone. There was a young girl in a wheelchair there with her family, and for reasons that I can't really articulate, it made me happy to see her there.

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In so many ways, the handicapped in our culture continue to be invisible, it good for them to be visible and participating in any forum.

I had a friend in college who was paralyzed beneath the waist. She played wheelchair tennis, which is infinitely more challenging than regular tennis.

I have been looking forward to that for months and we haven't gotten to go yet with Ron's cold and all. I really like Neil Gaiman's work. Do you follow his blog? He seems like a genuinely nice, interesting person.

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How come you didn't like it? Not what you expected? Overhyped?

Ah, see, I think I got the sense from reviews I read that the story was basically a simple fairytale, so I guess I wasn't really expecting any plot complexity or character depth at all. And so it worked for me in that frame of mind.

Be careful. Cuisinarts are cool in part because the number of people who hurt themselves on them is small. [But food mills, which I don't think is what she gave you, are spiff. I wish I had one.]

The slicer thing reminds me of a Salad Shooter, with a hand crank instead of a motor.

That's weird...ok. [Do y'all have a cuisinart?]

Dr T. has the mini-prep style one, but that's all we got.