Hacking your own router, 101

Last Sunday, our router decided it hated life, the universe, and everything in it, and attempted to commit suicide. Obviously, this took out the entire computer network here. My brother hacked into it (yes, we had to hack our own router) and managed to get it working again, but it was unreliable and flaky for several days.

He was originally worried that someone else had hacked into it and locked it. They hadn't, but he closed it so now you have to have your computer registered with it via MAC address.

But now I have internet again! Yay.

Really, I suppose it was just as well, because I had quite a depressive slump and I'd been doing so well, too. ugh. God, I suck and I have no idea what's wrong with me so I'm going to shut up now a few days ago (IT'S GOING AWAY NOW, I SWEAR), and this spared everyone else having to see any of that.

((Edit:
And I apparently missed LJ's fandom users going up on arms over excessive journal suspensions/deletions/whatever. Er. Man, reality, I was joking about the online world trying to end while I was stuck away from it.))

( In which I go on a tangent about summer plans. )

So. I need fanfiction, stat. (Did you know "stat" comes from an abbreviation of the Latin word "statim," which means "immediately" or "instantly" and the like? I miss Latin class so much it hurts sometimes. No lie.) Now the question is just, which fandom? Check for new Transformers stuff? Brave the Final Fantasy sections (ha, that's unlikely)? Maybe I will see if the Jak fandom has anything interesting to offer, now that I have been murdered by beaten the, er, first three. (I can't say I will ever attempt Jak X, since it appears to consist of racing racing and more racing and no thanks. Perhaps I am wrong on that, though. I haven't looked very much into it.)

Edit II:
RIGHT YES. The Adventurer Appreciation Campaign in Final Fantasy XI was finally a complete success for me, in that Hisime finally got herself an Adventuring Certificate! It's now hanging over her bed! See, she is very happy about it. /hurray

And SquareEnix launched the link-to-able Wings of the Goddess site! Just a video up for now. I get chills at about the time the text reads, "Are the echoes of history all that remain of the past?" Though the song playing through the opening scenes usually gets me, too. I love that track (Memoro de la Śtono) so much.

Edita:
I wore my Giant Heartless Logo shirt today, but no one commented on it. WHAT IS WRONG WITH SOCIETY? HAS NO ONE IN THIS STATE PLAYED KINGDOM HEARTS?

I think I saved his instructions...

... !

LOTS OF "!!!"

OKAY SO. ALL CAPS. My brother, he and I, we used to (I still do, but that's not the point here) collect lots of Transformers. Beast Wars and then Beast Machines, more like. Exactly like. WHATEVER! MY GOSH.

So, he's been wanting to clear things out of his room, get rid of some stuff, you know, et cetera. Clean. Yes. I, mostly jokingly (certainly serious, but I didn't think he'd go for it), said, "Well, you know, I'd be willing to take your Transformers off your hands."

AND, ER. SURPRISE!

So now I own the Predacon team! (I collected the Maximals, he collected the Predacons.) The only things missing (we lost exactly two items through all the years and play and travel) are Terrorsaur's gun (this one makes me sad) and his Transmetal Cheetor's tail (mine still has his, so, eh).

THE ENTIRE TEAM OF SHOW-PREDACONS. And Beast Machines Rattrap, Thrust, and Jetstorm!

And a bunch of non-show characters and a few repaints, and Starscream and Soundwave from the Machines Wars line, and a few of the really lame McDonald's toys, and they've, of course, all got their bio cards (and a few have their instructions - the ones neither of us knew, of course, heh) and I just.

I AM FLAILING. FROM GLEE, I MEAN. OHMIGOOOOOSH.

Nothing from me for like five days - though that wasn't really my "fault" - and then I post twice in like two hours. In lots of caps. I am, perhaps, insane tonight.

TODAY WAS A REALLY GOOD DAY FOR TRANSFORMERS. SO HAPPY.

Squee aside, STILL NEED FIC. ARG. *attacks internet*