Sickness update: Attack of the Death Butt

So apparently this flu virus is actually a stomach bug that's been going around. Thomas continued to vomit a couple of times yesterday, until his body switched tactics and attacked the other end. He's had pretty awful diarrhea since about 9pm last night and his fever spiked at 102.8 under the arm before we knocked it back with Motrin and a lukewarm bath. More worrisome is the fact that he's not taking in enough fluids to replace what he's losing, just a few reluctant sips of water. I'm going to try to take him into the doctor to have him looked over, or at least make sure it's safe to give him some Pepto Bismol. He's refusing the yogurt we bought him and has't had anything to eat since Sunday morning aside from some chicken and rice that moonshadowed persuaded him to consume yesterday.

This *can't* be for just a pachinko game

Even if that's what ksleet says.

Further thoughts on the that Yamato CGI thingie

Just thinking about some of the comments I've seen on other folks' postings of the video, about either going "SQUEE!" or their hearts catching in their throats when that big old ship climbs out of the water. I felt it to, and I'm sufficiently self-critical to wonder why

Because, let's face it, Star Blazers was an odd duck. A bowdlerized version of a Japanese cartoon, which did its damnedest to cut out onscreen deaths while warning us at the end of each episode that there were X number of days left before every person on planet Earth died horribly of radiation poisoning.

It gets even weirder when you look at the source material, a cartoon melodrama that cheerfully takes one of the greatest symbols of WWII (an event that most Japanese histories mark off as "It wasn't our fault!") and resurrects it to turn their nation's greatest defeat into a chance for a new victory. Which, regularly, celebrated the same Japanese fighting spirit that got most of its male population slaughtered from the mid-1930's to 1945. Why the hell would I feel my heart skip a beat seeing that ship rise out of the water and take off into space in glorious CGI?

Why? Because twelve-year old me knew better to worry about that crap and just enjoyed watching the cartoon. Because battleships flying in space are inherently cool.