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Visit to Mitsuwa

Sunday morning, after Laila's long stay in the hospital, Papa and Nana came to get her--as she says, "Papa and Nana come and get you!"--and take her away for an overnight visit, since she hasn't stayed there for a while. That left

sashagee and I with some free time, and what we eentually did with it is that we went to the Japanese grocery store Mitsuwa.

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FIC: Historian's room (Tempestuous Tours)

Most of the official documents of the Koretian government are locked away or in active use, but the outer chamber of the historian's room boasts a magnificent chart of the bloodlines of the previous rulers of Koretia. You will see that there are two main bloodlines; both were cut off by wartime casualties, although the last surviving direct descendant of the second line died surprisingly recently. See the section of this book on Valouse for more details.

The Jackal's previous bloodline is unknown, but the Koretian ruler has established a new bloodline by selecting a young kinsman as his heir. The kinsmanship is dually established through a wardship and through a blood-brotherhood of an earlier generation.

[Translator's note: With his usual reticence, the Ambassador fails to cite plainly his own connection to Koretia's royal line. That connection is mentioned often in Empty Dagger Hand.]

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Reccer's Bingo Banners

The Reccer's Bingo Challenge is now over! There will be another seasonal challenge along in a few weeks, but in the meantime, thanks to everyone who took part, and congratulations to

paranoidangel on achieving a bingo!

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The Hobbit, aka Hobbit Software Adventure (1982)

[Happy Hobbit Day! This is a revision of a review I first posted to my LJ on October 10th, 2011. It has been edited for clarity and additional information.]

Though apparently a huge success in Europe, this game is more obscure in the US, where it was released as Hobbit Software Adventure. (In the 1980s the word "software" was exciting enough to put in a name. Some early games also advertised on the box that they were "100% machine language!")

screenshot showing image of a hobbit door and a text description of same

screenshot showing image of a hobbit door and a text description of same

The manual calls it "one of the most sophisticated adventures ever designed for microcomputers," so let's don our evening attire, pour a glass of wine, and boot it up.

( SOFTWARE! Excited yet? )

You can play the DOS port of The Hobbit/Hobbit Software Adventure in your browser, for an unforgettable evening of text-based sophistication. 🍷

Saw just the sweetest little cat yesterday

Black and white and so friendly and tiny, too. Definitely not a feral!

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Well, there's good new and bad news...

We spent most of Shabbat at the hospital with Laila hooked up to an EEG, trying to see if we could find more about the increase of seizures she's been having lately.

The good news: She's...not actually having seizures? Even though

sashagee texted me at 4 a.m. that she had had a seizure, and even though the neurology nurses who came in to check up on her when

sashagee pushed the button also thought that, the review of the EEG showed none of the characteristic brain activity of a seizure.

The bad news: Now we don't know what is going on. Even the attending physician mentioned that the video seemed very similar to a seizure, though it could also be that Laila was just having night terrors (which we know she has). But that led

sashagee to ask how we tell between a seizure and a night terror, and the doctor didn't really have an answer for that.

We'll probably have to go in for a longer EEG where we start drawing down her medication and see if anything triggers an actual seizure. It's possible that none of her recent "seizures" were actually seizures and her increased medication isn't necessary, but it'll take more testing to tell that.