Hello again, everyone. I just wanted to do a post to thank everyone who sent me their birthday wishes during the past couple of days. I'm always thrilled by all the comments, gifts and other little surprises I usually get here on my birthday. As for how my actual birthday went, it ended up being a pretty relaxing day. Birthdays that fall on a weekday usually end up being fairly subdued in my experience. Plus I was more or less snowed in on my birthday yesterday. The day before my town ended up being hit by a sort of pseudo-blizzard that everyone had initially thought was going to be a killer snowstorm but didn't really amount to much. By the time it was actually my birthday the snow had stopped but the roads were still a real mess.
So I pretty much spent a good chunk of my birthday at home working on a chapter of an old Digimon fanfic that has of today has finally been finished. I'm glad to have that story completed, even though very few people on FanFiction.Net have been reviewing it. Anyway, I did get a few birthday gifts in the form of money. The most notable gift I had gotten though was the second volume of the Sword Art Online spinoff manga, Sword Art Online Girls' Ops. It's proving to be a really interesting series, though you have to be familiar with at least the SAO anime in order to understand what's going on in it. As for any special events that happened on my birthday, all my dad and I did was watch a couple of segments of this old HBO miniseries called From the Earth to the Moon, which for those who don't know is a historical drama about the old NASA missions to land on the moon.
On the note of those old lunar missions, I'd like to talk about something having to do with the classic manga and anime series, Sailor Moon. It's not really a big thing, but it might be something that maybe not a lot of people have thought about. So early in the saga of Sailor Moon (at least in the original manga), our heroes journey to the moon to find the ruins of the old Silver Millennium Kingdom. Now my question is, and this is really just kind of a minor hole in the story, if there were ancient ruins on the moon in the Sailor Moon universe, how come none of the NASA missions never reported seeing them? Did they just happen to not land in that area, or did the government order them to keep their mouths shut about the ruins to prevent the risk of public panic? Not only that, the astronauts took pictures of the moon from orbit, so they would've seen evidence of some kind ancient structures. I'm just saying, it seems like something that should've come up in the story at some point.
I think that pretty much does it for this post. Once again, thanks to everyone who sent their birthday wishes. Until next time, keep watching the skies.
