For the past few days there has been a storm. Hard winds rattled our windows and challenged the plants so that only the strong survived. Pocket of Bolts says that they were small pieces of tornado come here from Iowa. That may be. Today was sunny but cold, really cold, especially in our house. I have been doing pretty much nothing but writing and more writing, with tiny bits of wedding planning on the side. I have a conference presentation NEXT WEEK. It is horrifying. Tomorrow is going to be an extra big push.
Today we rode bikes down to the Division corridor to pick up our thank-you notes from Paper Doll. We also hung out in Letizia's Natural Bakery and worked for a lot of the afternoon. We split a raspberry cupcake. It was amazing.
This evening, because we had both been working ALL day, I kicked back a little. Pocket of Bolts worked on a project he has been thinking about for a very long time. Namely: when we got the Playstation, it was with the understanding that I would be able to play Vib-ribbon on it. Well, that turns out to be especially hard since Vib-ribbon is a PS1 game that was released only in Japan. It's a music-game where there are different jumps depending on the characteristics of the music; also you can use your own CDs, which is too cool. However, the modded PS2 we got wouldn't play it. I had kind of given up on it (I mean, we ascertained that it wouldn't work back in January), but Pocket of Bolts hadn't. Enter a lot of used and sketchy electronics, months of slow accumulation, and also Pocket of Bolts teaching himself how to solder. Also a lot of cursing. But the results... IT WORKED.
"What is clear," said I to Pocket of Bolts, "is that you are a man who keeps his promises." He said his chest was all filled with pride.
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