Currents of Time

There was a guy sitting on the street holding a piece of cardboard with the above written on it.

...I always think of things to tack onto these entries for above and below the cut while I am at / walking to/from work, and then I always forget them all as soon as I get the door open. Ridiculous.

30 Days of Video Games

( Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn't like, but ended up loving )

Tomorrow is the last day!

Also, pills make me feel tired. ugh. Naptime? Oh! BUT! I have officially dry swallowed a pill now! It only took me 25 years! Maybe this means someday I will stop gagging on Advil?

(Server merges soon! I will get to meet the other half of my linkshell in-game! Excitinggg.)


Hey, look! You can stalk my progress in FFXIV! Blog will obviously have nothing, but Character Profile and History both have stuff. (And, let me tell you, I was not happy to see that getting from level 10 to level 11 would take TWENTY THOUSAND EXPERIENCE POINTS. SE, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.)

I spent forty minutes around 5 o'clock this morning (well, Tuesday morning) in bed weeping in pain and unable to even think from the agony, while I waited for the painkillers to kick in. BUT THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MY ANKLE, OH, NO, I GUESS THIS IS TOTALLY NORMAL. (It's still not sprained, either! YES, THANK YOU, MEDICAL WORLD, I'D NEVER HAVE FIGURED THAT ONE OUT ON MY OWN.)

Anyway, it's been a couple days, and I'm just brain-dumping a little more about 358/2 Days. (Because I am kind of embarrassed by the NOTHING that goes on in the ramble, I guess? Or something.)

( Cut for spoilers! )

Now for some slightly less depressing stuff? I GOT MY GLACEON! Yay, Ayarei! And my Leafeon(s! The female is Rana, the male was named Kodama at my brother's suggestion). I also finally managed to track down a Scyther. I've been stalking that damn bug-catching contest for like a week now, and never finding one, and eventually getting sick of restarting and just settling with a Pinsir or whatever. BUT NO MORE! Yaaaay. ALSO I've taken my Pokéwalker with me to work enough now that even when it has nothing in it, I still grab it. Except! Apparently if there's no Pokémon in it, one will join you?! I DID NOT KNOW THAT but there's a Furret in there now and there wasn't earlier, and, awwww ♥ it totally made my day yesterday. Which, uh, was kind of weird! I did not expect to be so touched by that, but I kept finding myself being all happy about it. So, um, whatever?

AND. THE BEST THING EVER! I FINALLY BEAT MAAT. AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHA THAT ONLY TOOK FOR EVER.

… @_@;


Now for some videos that made me laugh but which probably none of you will understand. The Greatest Boss in Gaming History! Not shown: the hundreds of times it kills you by pinning you against the wall. (PING PING PING PING PING PING PING PINGPINGPINGPINGPING) (And, for a strange twist, I actually appreciate most of the comments on these videos. XD) And the hardest video game jump ever. Thankfully not included: the godawful TINK sound that comes from striking into a wall. OH GOD THAT SOUND. And also I don't quite know what he means about the last three being easier / on a keyboard? Speed is not the biggest problem, the biggest problem is getting exactly the right angles at exactly the right time. By the way, you play that level twice. (The worst part of the jumping one is that I dicovered years later that there is a fucking shortcut? That I was just never able to find? Oh, god, did I scream when I found out about it. Actually, I'm not sure I'm over it yet.) (The first one is funnier. The second one is still a little too AAAAUGH for me.) (DO THOSE VIDEOS EXPLAIN A LOT ABOUT ME, especially re: my THING with dolphins? THEY SHOULD.)

I need to find a million icons, 'cause I got a paid account for my birthday (whoo). You all care about this. Yes, you do. Don't deny it.

So my birthday was Monday, but nothing worth noting happened aside from the fact that I worked a 9 hour day (hey guess what I'm only supposed to be scheduled up to 8.5 hours so I don't know what the heck happened there), and then I'd worked a full day Sunday and I worked another full day Tuesday (which was also MEDIA SWARM DAY, when the mayor and all the news stations and all descended on our poor store and MADNESS ENSUED, see previous note somewhere re: my coworker and bagging). And then I had some friends over Tuesday night to watch a movie (we saw Red, it was fun!). So I was very, very tired Wednesday, but my mother called at 10 am (I was still asleeeeep) to confirm our dinner plans for the night (DELICIOUS SUSHI oh my gosh it was amazing) and then I was awake. So I spent the day doing laundry. BUT THEN TODAY! Today - well, okay, today Mom called at 10 am again, but I was exhausted enough that, after she turned up at 11 to drop off some stuff, I was able to crawl back into bed, where I then slept four more hours.

But after I was finally kicked out of bed by the cat dancing on my head and demanding food, I decided, I will be productive! So first I thought, maybe I will clean off my desk, it is getting out of control and also I've lost a paycheck. But then I found the paycheck while looking for my stamps, so my motivation disappeared. And then I thought, I will log into FFXI and get a DRG testimony and BEAT MAAT! And then I logged in and got depressed because no one I know in real life plays anymore and I'm all aloooone so instead of dual-boxing mine and my brother's account (I can't solo the monsters that drop the testimony, and he's left his account active, at least, so I borrow it sometimes. MY HOPE IS NOT DEAD YET), I went out and tested the experience points update, and it's actually really awesome. YAY! But then I was bored, so I sat around and played DS all day. PRODUCTIVITY!

... I'm really not joking. All day. I played for maybe an hour yesterday and all of the rest of this is from today.

( Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 225 through 352 )

Next entry will probably be the last, and I'll probably be distressed, if today's gameathon was any indication. I'll also be working every day between now and next Thursday (and then I'm going to New York with my mother) so the Final Fantasy VII playthrough's not gonna start for at least another week and a half. (There is still time to decide to replay it alongside me!)


... WHAT IS THIS SONG ON THE RADIO WHAT THE HECK I just actually listened to it. What. WHAT. (Not safe for work or if you're in the general vicinity of other people.) I am torn between laughing and just... I don't even know. XD; WHY IS THIS ON THE RADIO? (Also, why is my radio station playing it.)

So I guess an IMB computer won Jeopardy. I'd meant to watch, but then I forgot completely, so I got the story from my brother, who apparently did watch? My father was excited about it, because there's a reasonably decent chance some of his work is in that thing. (He doesn't know where everything he designs / builds goes, but he's very good at what he does and I guess not a lot of people do what he does, so...?) Anyway, that's exciting, and maybe a little alarming. XD

(And also, this weirdly reminds me, but apparently one of my coworkers - and I mean, not just in the store, but in my department - she works two departments - won the national bagging competition, which... apparently exists! Good for her! And then the newspaper people were in the store yesterday interviewing people about her, but I managed to escape their notice 'cause we had someone working the cake window. Ha!)


So I tricked my roommate into buying me Final Fantasy XIII figures instead of paying me back directly (I say tricked, but it cut something like 10 dollars off what she'd have owed me otherwise, so really we both won). And they arrived... at some point in the last few days! So now I have Fang and Vanille and I went and bought Lightning, 'cause I found her for a little cheaper than the usual price, but she's still wandering the postal service or something. But! Okay, I have heard some bad things about some of the FFXIII play arts figures, but these two look so awesome. *_* Their faces are not super weird or anything. My only real complaint is that, unlike previous play arts lines, they didn't really bother with heights, so they are the same (actually, and it might just be how and where I have them standing, but it looks like Vanille is actually a hair taller than Fang). BUT WHATEVER I CAN DEAL WITH IT. (The shininess of Fang's hair actually bothers me more, I think. It is REALLY, REALLY SHINY.)


TODAY WAS MY DAY OFF AND I spent half of it asleep, that was kind of depressing. BUT I did finish my taxes! And run a few errands around town! And even got a little more Kingdom Hearts in. Not as much as I wanted, but, eh. Win some, lose some.

( AND NOW MORE 358/2 DAYS 94 through 122 )

( And then some Pokémon MOSTLY THE NAMING THEREOF )

At the beginning of next month, Mom and I are driving over to New York to visit my brother (again!). Though this time, hey! It's in March! Instead of in February. We've pretty much done everything to do in Rochester at this point, though, so maybe we'll all go exploring. (Canada was suggested, but Mom's getting her passport renewed right now, so that's a no-go.) But I am still excited to be doing something. I get some kind of wanderlust or something, I just get so antsy if I don't go anywhere for too long - and okay part of it's just WINTER AUGH, since it does get worse this time of year, but still. And visiting California relatives apparently doesn't do anything for it (though, uh, since that wasn't even 48 hours on the ground, I guess I can't say I'm surprised). BUT YEAH. ROCHESTER. OR MAYBE THE AREA AROUND IT. WHOO. Only two more weekssssss.

So, in case any of you were unaware (since some of you probably are, since you do not all live on this half of the planet), something like half of North America has been getting lots and lots of snow recently! And here is no exception! And sometimes they even get the sidewalks cleared before more is dumped down upon us!

But not always.

But that is not the point! The point is that the snowbanks on the sides of the roads are getting out of control - a surprising number of them are as tall as me, and all of them are over half my height - so we're talking at least 3 feet of snow. EVERYWHERE. Or at least everywhere near a road. (Or so it was on Thursday. I did not go outside today due to LAZY AND IN PAIN FROM ANKLE so maybe it's settled a bit more!) So, Tuesday night is the night before recycling is picked up, and it was my week for it, but I got home and said, SCREW THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH SNOW AND NOWHERE TO PUT THIS STUFF. So I informed my roommate the recycling was just going to wait, there were only like 5 things in the bin, anyway, okay.

Well! Wednesday morning, the recycling wasn't picked up. Maybe they're late? Wednesday afternoon, same story. Wednesday evening, IT IS STILL THERE.

Thursday morning there was a, "screw this there is too much snow we can't get to your stuff BRING IT BACK INSIDE" message! Of course, everyone who put their stuff out has neglected this message, so things are getting blown out of the bins and all over the place AWESOME, GUYS. REAL AWESOME. But, ha, the one week I decide it's not worth the effort is the week they decide the same thing.


And then today I can't really claim credit for but shhhh. So I didn't have work! But my manager didn't have next week's hours up yesterday like she was supposed to! So I called to find out my Sunday hours aaand the coworker who answered the phone told me a story! The other coworker on that night had BROKEN A WATER PIPE. So my whole department is basically underwater. BUT I WON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT 'cause I didn't work today and I don't work tomorrow! YAAAY! Seriously. Though I am kind of curious as to how she managed to pull it off, and how flooded things are. But not curious enough to go investigate.


Speaking of abrupt subject changes...

( More KH 358/2 Days 23 to 72 )

It's been cold again, by the way, but I have finally adapted to it and no longer find the sub-freezing temperatures to be THE MOST EVILEST OF EVILS. I still don't like them and know better than to walk to work when it's too cold, but, eh.


...Also, I am ridiculously thirsty today. DRINKING SO MUCH. I am turning into some sort of strange, tea-drinking arctic camel, maybe!

Reason I have the best microcomputer applications class in the history of ever: in this week's class, we elected Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as president and vice. (The professor was showing us one of the problems with computer-based voting! We had two elections - each "ballot" was the same, but in the results for the second tally, he wrote a program to miscount votes.)

Awesome award. ...Boom.

(Why does "awesome" prompt a boom? Very simple reason, actually. Michael Bay is an explosions lunatic. That article is hilarious.)


ANYWAY. Over at the anonymous meme, someone (I do not know who! Because it is anonymous!) commented that sie wished we had more in common! And I thought about that a bit and it occurred to me, I am not really sure I actually have that much in common with anyone on my friends list!

So I am going to list all of my major fandoms! And maybe why I like them in some cases, and whether or not I actually lurk the fanbase. And then people should feel free to leave comments telling me fandoms they think I should get into! Because I really love getting into new fandoms!

And this an open invitation to everyone! Not whoever left the comment! Because, as I said, it's not as if I'll know, anyway.

( In no particular order, then... )

....Aaaand now nothing else is coming to mind. Am I missing any important fandoms or categories? PROBABLY. But, yes. Do we share more fandoms than we thought? Or do I have any fandoms you are interested in? Or do you have any fandoms I should be interested in?