I think I mentioned here and there that I’d lost my hat last month, and bought a new one. What I did not mention is that I have upgraded it with a home-made bit of flair.
Said flair is extremely powerful. It has made people stop their cars in the street, park without paying the meter, and get out to pay homage to my beauty. I am not making this up, that actually happened yesterday while I was waiting for a bus. Admittedly I was also wearing my awesome coat with skin-tight stuff beneath it, with one leg propped up on the side of the bus shelter so I could use it as a table for my computer. But still!
It is also dirt cheap; I think I spent like $5 on the components and have enough to make another one. The eye comes from a pair of comedy “always awake” glasses with holographic eyes on them; it’s hot-glued to a glossy piece of black cardboard, and the feathers and a pin are glued to the back of that.
So in summation: I have Hat Powers again, and I think this is like a +3 hat as opposed to my old hat, which was probably like a +1.
Also last night I stepped on the scale and it read 173 for a brief moment. Which was high enough that this morning I was all fuck it, time to do something: I’ve put exercise into my calendar on a thrice-weekly basis. Hopefully this will make it happen where more ambient reminders couldn’t. Sitting on my ass playing a lot of XBox definitely had something to do with this weight increase, and I’m kinda glad I did it, because that pushed me out of the “ugh I should get some regular exercise, aikido ain’t quite doing that but I don’t want to go find something else to add on or replace it” zone into the “fuck you miss fatty-pants* you are going to fucking exercise, bitch” zone.
* The only fat-shaming intended to be going on here is my own personal shame, if you weigh more than that and are happy and healthy then that’s awesome. I know where I’m happy and it’s around 155.