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After some suprising financial reckonings of old debts, and making a few new ones, I'm staring down the barrel of a Land Raider Crusader, and the rare earth magnets I'll be using to swap between the LRC config and a standard land raider when needed.

But that isn't the part that scares me. That's just doing carving, crafting, converting - I'm not fantastic at it, but I'm learning, and when it comes to making the rare earth magnets work instead of locking something down, Alex and I have been getting rather good at it.

What scares me is that I'm seriously contemplating a full set of Dark Angels iconography and land raider hatches/doors from Forge World.

Landon? I think I'll need your sage advice before I leap down that hole.

Hell, I don't even know if the painting techniques I've learned and figured out will translate right to resin. But I also know I'm interested in finding out.

Other news: Had a Saturday pretty much to myself for the first time in awhile. Really didn't know what to do with it. Woke up rested, excited, energetic, as seen earlier. Ended up playing a lot of CoH and doing a good bit of reading.

Not bad - but not something I'm really used to. I'm really not used to waking up on a Saturday morning and not being, on one level or another, tired.

Our Beautiful Disaster Porn

"We've (Americans) never had a major city totally wiped out before" - Phil.

Now, this isn't entirely true. The British certain did a number on D.C. in 1814, and earthquakes have reduced San Francisco to flinders at least twice since it was settled. Now, that we've not had a major city wiped out in this era of modern communications? Yes, I'll agree to that.

And as a culture, we're certainly milking it for all it's worth as hurricane Katrina inexorably makes her way towards New Orleans.

I came downstairs to take a break from MUSHing, PC, etx.

I turn on the TV - not surprisingly turned to CNN.

Katrina.

Headline news? Katrina.

ESPN? Katrina. (Apparently the Saints just rented SJSU's fields to practice on, while the superdome is now the world's largest hurricane shelter.)

Travel Channel? Katrina.

Fox news? Katrina.

TBS? Blade II, but with a Katrina bar occasionally going off.

WGN? Katrina.

Food network? Ice Cream. Thank god.

ABC? Katrina.

MSN/Money? Katrina.

Animal Planet? Katrina - they're putting the New Orleans Aquarium dolphins into pools at a Holiday Inn because they're deeper than the NOA tanks and farther inland.

We're fascinated by it. I'm personally quite concerned, because I'd really like to vacation in New Orleans someday, and touring some of the historical sites and architecture was one of the things I wanted to do. This is rather difficult if they're reduced to flinders.

And yet, it's something I want to watch. We've studded the city with cameras, 24x7 progress reports are in the offing, and I can get real time stormtracks and projections just by flipping channels. We're all waiting to see this incredible thing. Could, against all logic, the city somehow survive this intact? Will we finally see a disaster At Home to equal some of the destruction we've seen in Asia over the past few years? Will this be our Tsunami? Our Kobe? Or will it be horribly destructive, but not quite the the meteorlogical orgasm that we've been anticipiating?

We will see, soon. The entire country seems to be watching. Such a beautiful disaster we've found in the making.