Feeling stupid this a.m. Baby bump? Where? I don’t see it. Not disputing just do not see any obvious baby bumps.
Maybe it’s worrying about how to get my new 3D printer to work. It went from working fine but very difficult to get the finished pieces off the printing surface to the printed material refusing to adhere to the printing surface well enough to get the work started. {sigh} Shoulda known when the thjng worked so well 1st time I fired it up that Murphy was just setting me up.
I had totally forgotten that. Still do not see a baby bump, though. Composing this on my 11″ Kindle. Perhaps when I look at it on the PC monitor (32″ vs 11″) I’ll be able to see it.
Oops! Did “big and dumb” Bryan just say…..”Student”? That’s a big OH! SHIT!
What does Bryan teach? (rhetorical question, no need to answer)
And is there time enough for Miss Shimizu to totally disappear from off the earth, as she has just “lost face”, and dishonored her family. (not that little miss entitled has noticed yet)
To Charles Smith:
This is what I meant in my previous comic. I couldn’t come up with a legitimate
reason for having a Japanese citizen-student, and your comment kick-started
my thinking process.
Of course other nations will want trade and diplomacy!
Thanks for your comment!
Thanks also to a long-ago comment by Jochi.
I know how that is… I’m currently working on weather unusual story myself that I was debating on two different angles from which to tell it. After hemming and hawing about it for a while, I figured, ‘why not both?’ So that is precisely how I plan to tell the story. Every other chapter or so, will be told from a different perspective, including a third perspective that will weave itself into the story later.
I’ve been debating whether or not to include some of the more adult aspects that are integral to the story, but I figure ill just write in the first draft and see if its really as needed as I suspect. (Those adult elements have a significant bearing on both the psychological and social aspects of the story, so I’m of mixed feelings vs on this).
I love the Japanese people. Grew fond enough of them that I even brought one home with me as a souvenir. Japanese are very polite – to your face. Behind your back or where they think you cannot hear them they can be ungodly rude and even downright nasty. True story: I once went to a spa in Tokyo with a civilian worker living on the economy. It had steam baths and such and a series of hot tubs at different temperatures ranging from merely hot to “Damn! So this is what it feels like to be a lobster!” I was sittin the next-to-hottest tub – alone oddly enough despite the place being pretty near full – while several teenaged boys were in the next tub and their fathers were soaking in the pool on the other side of them. Now I never got terribly proficient at Japanese but I could get by in restaurants and suchlike. I definitely knew and could recognize one word – “gai-jin” – which means foreigner (actually it means anybody who wasn’t fortunate enough to be born Japanese) and in classical Japanese thinking gaijin DOESN’T quite equal human. Anyhow I wasn’t listening to what they were saying – not by nature an eavesdropper and was too busy enjoying the hot soak to expend the energy to decode what they were sayin – until the word “gaijin” made my ears prop up. THENI started actively listening. The unadulterated shit those boys were saying about gaijins in general and the one in the tub next to them especially. “Big” and “dumb” weren’t the half of the trash they were saying. And their daddies were right next to them so they could hear every word. But, hey, big dumb gaijun is too stupid to understand a real language so “no harm, no foul”, right? Anyhow I sat there a while listening to those young assholes a while before getting up to go sit in some dry heat and flagellate myself with eucalyptus. When I got out of the tub (they were sunken into the floor) I stood up to my full 1.93 meters, looked at those young miscreants and in my best formal Nihongo (Japanese for their language) carefully enunciated “Hai. Wa’tashi wa gaijin des'” (Yes, I am a gaijin.) and calmly walked away. As I walked away I could hear the shit hitting the fan because those boys had “brought shame” upon their families. Note: everything was totally copacetic right up until the “big stupid gaijin” revealed the fact that he might not be all that “stupid” after all. I do love and respect the Japanese but there was more than one time I wanted to “remind” some arrogant, xenophobic little snot that there is a reason there is a “U.S. Army garrison, Honshu” and not an “Imperial Army garrison, San Francisco” for a reason. I recon the Germans could benefit from that, too.
Onsen ,, hot spring spa is called a ‘onsen’.. normal public “bathing” room is called ‘Sento’..
i was lucky enough to know to cover my tattoos (tattoos = criminal.) when i went to the “Ginowan nature onsen.”
The place might well have been built on a natural hot spring but it was definitely not “natural”. Everything was concrete. I never thought to enquire about the mechanics of how the water was heated. I do know that there were wet and dry saunas, soaking pools (tubs approx 10 ft square) and a long room with a sort of very hot waterfall that my friend advised me to put my towel on my head as the water would literally beat you bald otherwise. I was also surprised at the towels. They were about the size of a dish towel. To dry off you had to wring the thing out multiple times. I was surprised to learn that you could a use damp (wrung out formerly dripping wet) towel to dry off with. I was always used to having regular old American bath towels. These days the wife and I use what Sam’s calls “bath sheets” which are way larger than the bath towels we had when I was growing up.
cat on chip… in this case Cat.. even preggers…
i hadn’t noticed Tabitha’s coloring was the same rare combination as Chirk’s. Interesting. Also hadn’t noticed the baby bump.
Feeling stupid this a.m. Baby bump? Where? I don’t see it. Not disputing just do not see any obvious baby bumps.
Maybe it’s worrying about how to get my new 3D printer to work. It went from working fine but very difficult to get the finished pieces off the printing surface to the printed material refusing to adhere to the printing surface well enough to get the work started. {sigh} Shoulda known when the thjng worked so well 1st time I fired it up that Murphy was just setting me up.
Miral is pregnant.. https://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-789/
How many kittens do Catians normally give birth to at a time?
Same as humans. Usually one.
I had totally forgotten that. Still do not see a baby bump, though. Composing this on my 11″ Kindle. Perhaps when I look at it on the PC monitor (32″ vs 11″) I’ll be able to see it.
it’s not super pronounced yet, and Miral is carrying high, like my wife always did. (At 4′ 7″ she didn’t have much choice.)
Oops! Did “big and dumb” Bryan just say…..”Student”? That’s a big OH! SHIT!
What does Bryan teach? (rhetorical question, no need to answer)
And is there time enough for Miss Shimizu to totally disappear from off the earth, as she has just “lost face”, and dishonored her family. (not that little miss entitled has noticed yet)
The Cat sayeth nothing.
(From RAH “SiaSL”) Patience is.
To Charles Smith:
This is what I meant in my previous comic. I couldn’t come up with a legitimate
reason for having a Japanese citizen-student, and your comment kick-started
my thinking process.
Of course other nations will want trade and diplomacy!
Thanks for your comment!
Thanks also to a long-ago comment by Jochi.
I know how that is… I’m currently working on weather unusual story myself that I was debating on two different angles from which to tell it. After hemming and hawing about it for a while, I figured, ‘why not both?’ So that is precisely how I plan to tell the story. Every other chapter or so, will be told from a different perspective, including a third perspective that will weave itself into the story later.
I’ve been debating whether or not to include some of the more adult aspects that are integral to the story, but I figure ill just write in the first draft and see if its really as needed as I suspect. (Those adult elements have a significant bearing on both the psychological and social aspects of the story, so I’m of mixed feelings vs on this).
I love the Japanese people. Grew fond enough of them that I even brought one home with me as a souvenir. Japanese are very polite – to your face. Behind your back or where they think you cannot hear them they can be ungodly rude and even downright nasty. True story: I once went to a spa in Tokyo with a civilian worker living on the economy. It had steam baths and such and a series of hot tubs at different temperatures ranging from merely hot to “Damn! So this is what it feels like to be a lobster!” I was sittin the next-to-hottest tub – alone oddly enough despite the place being pretty near full – while several teenaged boys were in the next tub and their fathers were soaking in the pool on the other side of them. Now I never got terribly proficient at Japanese but I could get by in restaurants and suchlike. I definitely knew and could recognize one word – “gai-jin” – which means foreigner (actually it means anybody who wasn’t fortunate enough to be born Japanese) and in classical Japanese thinking gaijin DOESN’T quite equal human. Anyhow I wasn’t listening to what they were saying – not by nature an eavesdropper and was too busy enjoying the hot soak to expend the energy to decode what they were sayin – until the word “gaijin” made my ears prop up. THENI started actively listening. The unadulterated shit those boys were saying about gaijins in general and the one in the tub next to them especially. “Big” and “dumb” weren’t the half of the trash they were saying. And their daddies were right next to them so they could hear every word. But, hey, big dumb gaijun is too stupid to understand a real language so “no harm, no foul”, right? Anyhow I sat there a while listening to those young assholes a while before getting up to go sit in some dry heat and flagellate myself with eucalyptus. When I got out of the tub (they were sunken into the floor) I stood up to my full 1.93 meters, looked at those young miscreants and in my best formal Nihongo (Japanese for their language) carefully enunciated “Hai. Wa’tashi wa gaijin des'” (Yes, I am a gaijin.) and calmly walked away. As I walked away I could hear the shit hitting the fan because those boys had “brought shame” upon their families. Note: everything was totally copacetic right up until the “big stupid gaijin” revealed the fact that he might not be all that “stupid” after all. I do love and respect the Japanese but there was more than one time I wanted to “remind” some arrogant, xenophobic little snot that there is a reason there is a “U.S. Army garrison, Honshu” and not an “Imperial Army garrison, San Francisco” for a reason. I recon the Germans could benefit from that, too.
Onsen ,, hot spring spa is called a ‘onsen’.. normal public “bathing” room is called ‘Sento’..
i was lucky enough to know to cover my tattoos (tattoos = criminal.) when i went to the “Ginowan nature onsen.”
The place might well have been built on a natural hot spring but it was definitely not “natural”. Everything was concrete. I never thought to enquire about the mechanics of how the water was heated. I do know that there were wet and dry saunas, soaking pools (tubs approx 10 ft square) and a long room with a sort of very hot waterfall that my friend advised me to put my towel on my head as the water would literally beat you bald otherwise. I was also surprised at the towels. They were about the size of a dish towel. To dry off you had to wring the thing out multiple times. I was surprised to learn that you could a use damp (wrung out formerly dripping wet) towel to dry off with. I was always used to having regular old American bath towels. These days the wife and I use what Sam’s calls “bath sheets” which are way larger than the bath towels we had when I was growing up.
Watching the original Star Trek:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xykqo
Heh-heh. They mirrored it to fool the copyright bots.
Didn’t work on my tablet. Oh well, one could wish for someone dreaming up something that give the bots a stomach-ache of dimensions…
Can just go to a free streaming site. I use fmovies.to myself, moviebb.net as well. Already know they have Trek TOS, have seen it listed.