Currents of Time

I just endured the most amazingly passive-aggressive blame-denying apology from my father. I should've kept a tally of how many times he admitted it was all my fault. That has to be some kind of new record.


ANYWAY, FLIST, HI. Hello. I have two minor and unrelated questions for you!

The first is related to Transformers! I keep meaning to go catch up on all of the Prime episodes, but, uh. Iiii have no idea where to do this. Now, admittedly, I've not yet dug anywhere close to as far as I could. I am lazy. Does anyone know of anywhere (like a youtube user, or something? I know My Little Pony poooniiiiiieeees! has an individual or two who get fairly high quality vids of episodes up within a few hours...) where I could watch the increasingly-massive backlog of episodes I've accumulated? I am sure someone must have an idea, yes? Surely you do not all get the Hub...? (Friggin' station. NO ONE within our budget carries it!)


The second is related to VIDEO GAMES whoooo! And it is less easy and possibly more technical and I have tried finding answers for this one on and off over the years. SO LIKE. My television (which is not nearby so I cannot begin to tell you what it is which is kind of embarrassing right it is not like I have had it for uh eight or more years now) always - has always - cuts off the edges of the screen when I am playing video games on my PS2 on it. It is really irritating! It is not massive amounts lost, but it is enough to be noticeable. And apparently this happens with other televisions, too, it is not just mine (nor it is exclusively my PS2, because the one we tested tonight was a Toshiba MW24FM3 and we used my brother's PS2). We have tried adjusting the screen, itself, but that's gone nowhere helpful. Sooo... any of you game-players, have you ever noticed this? and if not what is your television and where can i buy one


Now to make up for that, here is a horrible story about BIRDS. Or, rather, a bird. A female goldfinch!

And the birdfeeder. Oh, the poor thing, oh, oh, it was awful.

( poor little bird! )

... so, yay for birds!

I've just returned from a Grand Adventure up into Canada. MONTREAL! Why, you ask? .... because that is where the closest IMAX theater is and I am hopeless.

I'd wanted to see the first Transformers film on the IMAX screen (there were a couple extra scenes! But mostly because GIANT ROBOTS ON MASSIVE SCREEN WHEE) but life didn't allow for it. This time, though... I got lucky! So we purchased our tickets online, then got on the road (an hour later than intended...) and, well. Drove in a mostly-northern direction.

And, for the first time in my life, we were hassled at the border to cross into Canada. Only a little, but still! Was truly strange. Metro'd into the city itself and marched to the theater, got great seats, had the best time ever. GIANT ROBOTS. MASSIVE SCREEN. Amazing sound and video quality! And then we basically turned around and drove home again, and got hassled at the border coming back in (but, of course, that one is to be expected, and it wasn't as bad as it's been before), stopped and had dinner at a cute little diner which served delicious food, and... now I am back! And it was awesome and both my parents agree that it was pretty awesome (my mother had seen it before, but my father had not), and basically it was a lot of fun! I keep meaning to write a proper entry about my thoughts on the movie. It'll probably never happen.


In other news, my brother had decided he’d come down with H1N1 (they really couldn’t have come up with a better name? And they wonder why people still use “swine”?), but then found out strep is also going around, so maybe he’s only contracted that, instead. Either sucks. Ugh, I hate strep (I might hate H1N1, too, but having never had it, it’s hard to say). (And, of course, it's entirely possible he just has a cold or it's allergies or something. WHO KNOWS.)


And, meanwhile, outside, there is a cat wandering around whose meowing sounds startlingly like someone calling “Hello?” Like a kid, and just repeating it over and over. It's been out there since yesterday, aside from during (most of) the thunderstorm we had.

I had plans! But then I spent the evening watching my brother play through the entirety of Portal instead, because who can resist GLaDOS? We have cake downstairs. We ate cake after he played. Because we could.

I'm fairly certain I haven't mentioned it before (didn't talk about Portal much, did I? I don't have a tag for it, so I must not have), but - for those of you who've played both Portal and Silent Hill - I can't be the only one seeing a resemblance. You know. Rusty, broken down... massive fans... no one around, but lots of signs that there had been people there, once... Doom... It's creepy, okay, even my brother thinks so.

I bought him a copy of Hellgate: London the other day because he asked me to. Also, I picked up a used and extremely cheap copy of Drakengard because I have a vague recollection of someone saying something favorable about it, but I can't remember who or what. 5$, I wasn't going to argue.


I'm exhausted. I woke up freakishly early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so then I went downstairs and tried dyeing fabric with tea. It wasn't dark enough, so I tried again later in the afternoon, after it had dried out, and then it was too dark to tell (since the lighting in my house is horrible) properly by the time the fabric had dried out again.

And I either hallucinated a conversation with Aniko or she completely forgot it, honestly not sure which at this point. Tired.


Suspect something else is wrong with dog again, will talk to mother about it if she calls.

Animals. Saw a young robin dead in the grass by a tree this morning. I was very sad. When I walked back after checking the tomatoes and artichoke plants, it had moved, so it apparently wasn't dead, it just did a good job of faking. Then it was hopping around a bit. I took its picture but don't have any uploaded yet, too tired to do it now.

Got my DRK to 30. So happy. Now RDM to 25 and NIN to 37, and then maybe WAR, too, and ugh that list is too long and full of jobs I don't like. I actually enjoyed DRK, and I like WAR, but DRK's as high as I need and I don't need WAR, either, and ergh. Though RDM's not necessary, either, I just decided to, and I can take THF to 67 before I have to actually worry about nin again, and 67's probably not ever happening, ha, so, um. God, I hate leveling ninja. Hisi thf says stabby. Me sleep? Sleep good. I don't remember why I started this entry but I'm going to post it anyway, because if I'm suffering, you have to suffer, too. G'night.

You know.

Full of amphibians in your carpeting.


I woke up and staggered blearily into the bathroom to wash the grit from my eyes, and I noticed something on the carpeting by the sink. What is it? My initial thought was that one of my parents dragged in some mud-and-grass, or something, since they were both out working in the yard and garden and with the hose and... everything all day. Except, you know. It twitched. And piles of grass do not twitch.

So I peered closer and noticed, my god. There is dog hair everywhere in this house. Now I remember why I do not look at the carpets much ever.

But, disregarding the piles of pet hair (we have enough about the house for a whole extra dog, I think)... It's a tree toad! Awwww. Cute little thing.

What on Earth it was doing one story up in my house at 9 in the morning is... a little beyond me, but, okay.

I took it outside and dumped it into the pine trees along the back edge of our yard. It seemed happy to go.


THEN I WENT TO WORK. AGAIN. A lot of my stories end that way, don't they?

Lack of feathers scattered about implies this is because successful flight has been achieved, rather than a successful hunt by the feline, or some other bird-eating creature. Am quite relieved.


So, I only meant to get through the first few scenes... and now I'm in Haven. Nearly finished the first visit to HAVEN. I hate Haven.

On the upside, it's almost time to go back to Spargus. On the downside... well, down isn't right. I'm just a bit bemused to find myself playing the entirety.

Actually, maybe I'll stop after finishing the next round of Spargus missions. Or... maybe the one after that. BUT NO FARTHER. Stay out of the catacombs and ruins. BECAUSE NO AND I AM LAME. And never go back to Haven ever. Because, ugh. I forget how much I dislike Haven until I'm back in Haven again and then, oh, right. This is a miserable city! Even without the Baron! Torn, not even your awesome can save it. I'm sorry.

And then I'm going to go play something else, because I've got too many new (at least to me) games to play to keep revisiting games I've beaten before. My brother has FFXII, but there's other stuff. And I need to find time to get my mother to watch Supernatural, though maybe she ought to finish Life on Mars first. She's only four episodes away.


I think I need to break down and buy a paid account. And then find lots of fandom icons. Seriously, too many bad Ecco and Transformers and FFXI things and nothing interesting or pretty, and I'm feeling a bit in need of a serious revamp of, I dunno. Lots of things. I'd change around my layout if I had any idea what I wanted it to look like...

I was considering a haircut, but my hair is thick, and so too short, it'll poof all over and annoy me, and I like it long... I don't knoooow. Bleh. So evidently a LiveJournal revamp is a reasonable substitute? Whatever, self. Maybe I'll rearrange my room, too.


... I CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM. The weather is certainly very angry these days.

I have not expelled bouts of emo! I will now reward myself with chocolate.

I held a baby starling in my hand and put it back up in a tree.

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Now I must flee to work.


Edit:
There was a small error that I didn't notice, but now all the images are showing up. ...yay!