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Music:

Yesterday's music: Grieg's Peer Gynt, that I just got back from jeffreycornish and geojlc and also Bruckner's 9th symphony.

Today's music: Bruckner's 3rd symphony, Bruckner's 4th symphony, Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on Greensleeves and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Thomas Tallis Spem In Alium (which happens to be the theme that Vaughan Williams used), and Alan Hovhaness, Symphony 2 Mystical Mountain and And God Created Great Whales.

Movies:
Kung Fu Panda on Saturday was a blast. Only miertam and I went to see it. typographer joined us for dinner, and jeffreycornish and geojlc showed up later (and gave me my cd back, as mentioned above ^_^ )

Over the last week I watched at home Laura Croft: Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider 2: The Cradle of Life. They are, as you probably already know, beyond mindless, but for stupid action films neither is all that bad -- the action is decent, and as some reviewers have pointed out, watching Angelina Jolie makes up for some of the stupid. Well, for me it does anyway. ^_^ They are pretty and filled with action, and that's about it, but I liked both of them well enough.

Tea:

Last fall I visited the English shop in Redmond to do some Christmas shopping for my brother-in-law (which I tend to do... oh, about once a year, amazingly enough). When I'm there I tend to pick up a few packages of tea, since the English teas they have aren't readily available elsewhere. My usual modus operandi is to buy flavored black teas, but last fall I also picked up a sampler box of fruit-based herbal teas from London Fruit & Herb company.

At work I've been making a thermos of tea every morning, and I've learned not to make a second thermos of black tea because that winds up being far too much caffeine for me. Most days I don't feel like a second thermos anyway (one thermos is just about 2 cups of tea), but on the days when I'm in the mood, I make herbal tea. I also have some "no sugar added" hot chocolate mix, and occasionally I have sugarless spiced cider mix.

I'm not a huge fan of herbal teas... it depends on the tea, but a lot of them just don't appeal to me. Normally you get things like mint tea, apple and cinnamon, lemon, cammomile -- most of which seem weak or not full-flavored to me, or the wrong kind of flavor for a tea. I usually keep red (Roobis) tea handy, which I like much better.

The London Fruit and Herb teas were incredibly good -- fruit-based teas like blueberry, peach, raspberry, strawberry that were really flavorful. When I ran out I decided I needed to get some more.

I checked online. One place in particular seemed to have most of their stuff in stock -- Mark T. Wendell Tea Company (tea importer). However I decided to just drive up to the British Pantry instead, which I did after work about two weeks ago.

That didn't go so well. They didn't have any of the London Fruit and Herb teas in the shop, nor did they know when, or even if, they would have them in again. My guess is it was a special thing they got in for the holiday season. Even checking back on the internet, I realized that, aside from the above company, most sites that even claimed to sell this brand of tea didn't actually have much of it in stock, or didn't offer the flavors I wanted.

Anyway, the following week I went ahead and ordered from Mark T. Wendell, and my tea arrived on Saturday. One box of blueberry, one of peach, one of raspberry, and two samplers for gifts because I like it so much. Yay!

Now I feel like I need to hoard it, since it was not so easy to come by. ^_^ Imagine being a fan of this kind of thing in the days before the internet...

Best name I've seen all week:

It's been 3 weeks since issue 12 went live for City of Heroes/Villains, allowing people with a level 50 villain to create an "epic AT" Arachnos Soldier or Widow.

Based on the naming scheme commonly found with the npc Arachnos soldiers, there have been a ton of "Operative Sonso" characters, and also a handful of "Agent Sonso" characters as well. For example as I type this I can do a search and find 18 villains with the word "Operative" in their name... Operative L, Operative Cook, Operative Boone, Operative Faulk, Operative Gillian, Operative Lennon, Operative Killgrave, Operative Ohms, Operative Rangoon, just to name a few of them. I even grouped last night with Operative Spam.

Two days ago I grouped wit Post-Operative Paco. That wins my name of the week. ^_^ (And yes, it was a female character whose bio said she used to be a man.)

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( Today's Song: Honeycomb by Frank Black )