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Since the memories feature is currently not working, I thought I'd point the people who read me for my manga essays to this one on the grid structure in Saiyuki by snowyheart. Good stuff.

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Waldenbooks just sent me email - they're having a Buy 3 Get 1 Free sale this month on summer reading, including manga. I can't quite tell from the ad if it's specific titles or all titles, but worth heading in to see.

In other news, I just tried a newish restaurant here - Nine Pan-Asian Cuisine. No clue if it's a chain or local, but the lunch special was pretty good and I actually liked the hot and sour soup for once. "Pan-Asian" apparently means they serve mostly Chinese entrees with some pho dishes and some Thai-flavored dishes, and sushi, with a couple of hibachi tables off on one side. I had lemongrass grilled beef - for some reason in restaurants it's easier to get chicken right than beef, so if I'm testing an Asian place, I order beef. If it comes out lackluster and flavorless, or - the horror - grey, I don't go back. The beef here was good - certainly worth $6.95, and wasn't tough or chewy.

If you're local and reading this, Nine is behind the Chik-Fil-A one block south of the I-30/Hulen intersection in Fort Worth.

I also seem to have a Mysterious Cable/Dish Box that operates smartly without its SIM card. I got home last night to see that all the channels were claiming that I wasn't subscribed to them. So I phoned the cable company (Ygnition serves channels from the Dish network and supplies cable Internet access) and after we established that I had not got a new SIM card, the tech got a Dish network tech on the line. After that, we discovered that not only did I not have a new Sim card, but I never had one to begin with. The slot is empty, I am the only person at home, it was working last night, and nobody's been in the apartment except the cat, who isn't talking.

After going through the menus, we discover that the box thinks it's got a SIM card, so they talked me through a hard reset, which brought all my channels back despite the lack of a card, and all three of us agreed that if it was working, we weren't going to question.

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My kitty is allergic to pork. Twice before, when I'd given her pork, she threw up a short time after eating it. Last night she managed to ferret out an old, dry piece of pork that had fallen on the floor and gotten kicked under a cabinet last week when I made the pork stew thing, and ate half of it before I could take it away from her. And this morning there was a nice pile of semidigested cat food in the middle of the carpet.

Figures. I finally find a meat the cat likes, and she's allergic to it. Woo.

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Does anyone have a recent chapter of Fullmetal Alchemist you can send this way? Doesn't matter which one, and I don't care if it's translated or raw as long as it's fairly recent and features some good views of Ed - preferably front, 3/4 and profile views of his head, and hopefully a full-body shot or two.