Had one of these tonight, as I finished dinner. Just the "all is right with the world" feeling.

Mind you, my mouth was full of eel roll covered with avocado slices, so maybe that says something about all it takes to keep me happy.

Went back to watch some Fate/Stay Night out of the box I'd picked up a while back, and... I'm kind of disappointed. Not in the show (seen it already), but in the subtitling job, or the authoring job, or both. The subs are clearly coming up late by a couple tenths, and it's more or less the same everywhere, which makes me think that it was authored on a Spruce system and the author didn't know he had to tweak the timecode by two frames to get it to line up properly (Spruce bug)... but even then the subs would have been a bit late. Combined it's seriously distracting, especially because the script's written with a lot of subs that are "longer" than they should be for the space they're in. I mean, it's not ruining the show or anything - it's got Rin, after all, how bad could it be? - but eh.

The subs weren't proofed that well either...

Driving down to Houston tomorrow, going to spend a day with the folks. Dad hit 66 last week, so he's now officially old enough to get paid for it. On the downside, he can't afford to retire - about half of his investments got wiped out in the recent mess, and the only bright side is that he had so little saved up that it won't make a whole lot of difference. Sigh... And Mom and I had been on him to get everything out of the market and into treasuries.

His job's kind of physically demanding, too - he works on heavy industrial scales, railroad-car and similar, and that means a lot of outdoors work (in bloody Houston, in the bloody summer) and carrying heavy weights around. He's still pretty fit for a man of his age, but he's been "too old for this" for some time now. Last year in February, he put a foot wrong and broke his ankle (and then stumbled on his crutches and broke his other foot's big toe, not ten seconds after I advised him not to trip on the way to bed... sigh.)

Ah well. When I hear my co-workers talk about their brats, I'm left thinking, "Man, I love my family!" So it's not like I can complain, right?

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