Currents of Time

Fine, LJ. You win. I'm not happy about this at all, but you win.

Switched over to S2. Because I am an idiot who assumed I wouldn't need to keep a hard copy of all the codes I used when I fiddled with the settings on this thing, I am having to refind all the colours by hand. IT IS A TREMENDOUS PAIN AND I CANNOT STAND TO DO IT ANY MORE TONIGHT.

I'm close on a few, at least. I don't think there's anything I can do about the friends page, though. I GUESS THEY JUST ASSUME THAT I WANT IT TO LOOK THE SAME AS MY JOURNAL PAGE?



I AM SO ANNOYED.



Also, I spent the evening being too cold and then randomly I was too warm. It was like when a fever breaks, only I haven't actually had a fever, so I have no idea what's going on with my body.

REVOKED


... Possibly someday he will learn that celebrating quitting smoking with a cigarette is counterproductive?

Alternately, it's Mom's fault for going away to Florida and leaving him home alone, despite his choosing not to come with us because he had no interest. Because that makes sense. (ANYTHING BUT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS OWN ACTIONS.)

Pro tip, no longer having a smoker's hack does not actually mean you should start smoking again.



(I NEED TO VENT MY BITTERNESS HERE OR I WILL SAY MEAN THINGS OKAY?)

There is a kitty on my lap and she is sleeping and snoring ADORABLE and her whiskers are twitching and I have completely lost sensation in my right leg but that is okay because KITTY. (HER LITTLE NOSE IS TUCKED UNDER HER LITTLE PAW AND HER LITTLE TAIL IS WRAPPED AROUND HER LITTLE FACE AND EEEE.) (Actually, she's kind of big - not referring to weight, just she is not small - as house cats go.)

I would like to get up an change the radio (they're talking about the oil spill - of course they are, what else do they ever talk about these days? - and listening to it kind of depresses the hell out of me), but... there is a cat in my lap. You may have picked up on that from the first paragraph, though.

Also, I didn't know NPR turned over to the BBC in the middle of the night. I guess it makes some sense, I mean, it's 4 am over there, which is morning, which I... guess is a more reasonable time to be up and broadcasting for some people? I would rather be up at midnight. What do I know.



Time is moving really... strange this week. Since Saturday! It has gone so slowly. Today was the closest it's been to normal, but it's still dragged on and on. Like, it's only midnight, but I feel like I've been off work for way longer than I apparently have.


MOSTLY I AM BORED RIGHT NOW. Hopefully my cat gets up soon so I can get to bed, but tomorrow I am not even working, and so will have nothing to dooo. Someone save me.

Maybe my brain will unlock and I will write stuff. MAYBE I WILL GO AND GET MY NOTEBOOK ARGH I JUST REMEMBERED I HAVEN'T TYPED ANY OF THAT STUFF I WROTE WHILE IN CALIFORNIA UP YET. (This is unlikely to happen tomorrow. I will probably stay here and wish I had someone to kick me in the face to write this stupid crap, instead. Or that I could find the desire to write this at all because I am just not feeling it at the moment due to STUFF. Maybe I will. Uh. Vacuum, I don't know. WHY AM I EVEN MAKING AN ENTRY. UGH JUST SHUT UP ALRE)

...Shut up, self loathing, I have a kitty in my lap and she is adorable, and you are not.


Guest list for BotCon makes me happy. (TWO WEEKS!) So do some of the potential at-con toys. SG RAVAGE?! MUST. OWN.

I had a silly entry to write up! Today was pretty good! EVEN IF THE CRAZY SUGAR-FREE PUMPKIN PIE LADY DID STRIKE AGAIN.

Aaand then I got back from work and stumbled over this. Which, uh, if you don't want to be reduced to either a frothing rage or a depressed lump, both over the state of gay rights, you probably shouldn't read. Time to leave the planet. Way to go, California. ONE MORE MARK UNDER THE "FAILURE" HEADING. Aren't you sick of that yet?


I really wish this was just someone's bad idea of a joke.

Maybe I just don't get the point, but April Fool's Day always seems kind of ... dumb to me. (On the other hand, I'm one of those people who can keep track of the date. ... If not necessarily the day of the week, as evidenced by my thinking Tuesday was Wednesday and Wednesday was Saturday.) I am always surprised when people get all up and freaked out about news announcements and stuff on this date because, uh. Hello? It's April 1. Most of it is just obnoxious.

But I think what The Allspark has done to their layout is amazing (it was the entire site for a while, but now it's just the main page and the Transformers discussion forum, where there are a bunch of time travel threads (we're back in 1985!), which amuse me greatly.

Who's Unicron?, A Transformers convention would be SO COOL, We're getting more episodes!, and discussion of information from SECRET INSIDE SOURCES are ... well, most of them, really. But I think they're funny. (Also, there's an an entirely new [fake] subforum.)


Anyway, as often as fanficrants makes me run screaming (when I can be bothered to check it...), this entry is actually pretty awesome.


I went out walking and, as you do, ended up in a GameStop. They're having some big... sale thing. But I didn't want any of the new games they had for cheap and, anyway, trying to not spend money! Buuut they had Ōkami (I still need to finish that game, arg) for the Wii! Which I've been trying to sell my mother on for, uh ... since whenever she bought the Wii. Coming up on a year, now, if we aren't there already. And I finally succeeded! So I picked it up for her. And then they were giving out promocodes for this free, browser-based online RPG, so I checked that out. Kinda fun! I made it to level 4, but now I am out of Action Points until tomorrow, which is pretty lame.


THERE ARE TRILOBITES IN FFXI AND MY BROTHER KEEPS TRYING TO GIVE ME ONE. asvdghn.ln So far I've escaped the horror because my inventory's been full. At least my keyboard-mashing and wails of despair are still amusing to / a source of amusement for others?


Oh, man, spring is coming. Allergiiiiessss, whyyyyyyy. MAYBE LAST YEAR WAS A FLUKE AND THEY WON'T COME BACK?


Edit:
Oh, right. April. I didn't sign up, but for my own future reference, the current word count (untouched today thus far) in the "official" word doc is 5,381. I don't know how much of that's actually writing and how much is just me blathering about plot details in allcaps and shorthand, but that's the number I'm going with.

Also, YouTube's got some funky stuff going on in select videos (for today, anyway). It's kinda neat. Worth a look, anyway.

Was talking to my brother last night, he was telling me about his current Knights of the Old Republic 2 files. He's playing through twice, side by side, one good and one evil file.

Today: "my evil kotor2 file got corrupted"


Well, naturally.

( Related IM convo silliness I am preserving here for my own amusement. )

Sooo. I have no idea how to conclude this post.

... part of me really wishes the tags appeared in the order I added them.

Edit:
CRAP. I just noticed that it's October. NOW I HAVE TO HURRY UP AND DECIDE IF I'M GOING TO TRY NaNo THIS YEAR. aaaaaaaaugh.

So, aside from giving me a few reminders as to why I don't like the college up the hill and am glad I don't attend there, Jon Stewart event? HILARIOUS. He went at the governor quite a lot in the beginning, which was both fun and funny. He also kept talking to the signers, which was funnier than it should have been, since they'd be translating the question he was asking rather than answering and... I dunno. IT WAS FUNNY.

Then I went back home and logged onto FFXI with the intent of doing something, I think... Actually, I think we did do something (I... Ani and Nabi and I were all in a party. BUT WHY?), but I can't remember what.

Oh! Wait, yes, okay, we did a fight for Nabi, but we didn't get the drop she wanted. Okay. Okay, got it.

( Anyway... )

I decided to catch up on Transformers comics, and I'm pretty glad I did! I had coupons for 40% off, so I got two TPBs for close to the price of one, and I'm actually enjoying them a fair amount. I know I shouldn't be surprised or convinced by the hate people've been throwing at them lately, but sometimes I forget how cracked out fandom can be. I was going to say people who's opinions usually line up with mine were hating them, but after I'd typed it, I thought about it and, no, while I generally have some amount of respect for these people, they usually don't agree with me.

Of course, the series does have a fair amount of problems (for example, the list of continuity discrepancies on the wiki is kind of horrifying and hilarious all at once), but the sheer, violent hatred I'd been seeing seems a bit out of place. Anyway, though, the art is really pretty.


Earlier today I went with my mother to a Japanese festival thing, which sounded really cool, but ended up being kind of lame. Oh, well. Got red bean paste out of it, so obviously this was not a complete loss.


...Most of yesterday, I was really grumpy (I'm chalking it up to not getting enough sleep and then being woken up multiple times that morning). Today, I still have not had enough sleep, but I was set on "ridiculously happy" until around three hours ago, when my sleepiness caught up with me. Now I'm just tired. I don't need to be up all night waiting for a monster to maybe spawn, though, so hopefully I'll get a decent amount of dead-time.

CITY LIVING, MAN. Um. It’s going well so far.

In the last week, which is apparently about how long it’s been since I made a real update of any sorts, I have:

( - made a list-form LJ post )

Now I must go into the kitchen and stare in bafflement at all of the unprepared food until I decide on what I am going to eat.

(EDIT: By the way, I am looking for delicious but easy and preferably healthy recipes, if anyone has any!)

And finish the laundry. I guess that's important, too.

Starts right after part 2 with nothing that even pretends to be an intro back into things...

( Shadow of the Colossus PART 3 YAY )

Next one should be the last.

First, I know it's tacky to leave this here instead of replying directly but adshufjigko and I'm bad at that and I can't think of anything that doesn't come out with me saying I'm sorry for being pathetic all over the place (I AM AWKWARD YAY) BUT ANYWAY, thank you for the support on my previous entry. It really did help.

Now I talk about video games.

No, I haven’t abandoned FFXII.

BUT I DID PLAY ANOTHER GAME OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. EVERYTHING OUTSIDE THE CUT IS NEWER, EVERYTHING UNDER IT IS FROM A FEW DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

CAPS CAPS CAPS

Since this is all prewritten (I did beat the game before Christmas, as it is short and straightforward), there aren't a lot of places where I close in an obvious END OF ENTRY ('fraid I don't plan that far in advance). Everything under the cut for the next few entries just directly follows everything from under the cut of the previous entry. The death count is ridiculously short. I'll just post it in the last entry.

( Shadow of the Colossus PART 1 YAY )

My exciting news is that I got a PSP! YAY! (Not remotely surprising, since it was almost the only thing on my list, BUT STILL YAY!)(THIS MEANS WHEN DISSIDIA COMES OUT HERE I CAN PLAY IT WHENEVER I WANT, not just whenever my brother is home and comes to see me - or I go see him - and he lets me borrow it. Also, now I can finish playing Crisis Core.) It's one of the bundle packs. Also, it's a silver one, not a black one. (And one of the thinner ones, so, no, Dad, there is absolutely no chance in the world of my brother and I confusing ours.) (It is not the newest model, though, which is good, because the screen looks weird on that one.) It came with a Family Guy DVD (which I promptly handed off to my brother, because I don't like that show) and Daxter, which is kind of alarmingly short.

But right now I only have Daxter, so I played that. (Did I mention Daxter is short?) SORRY TO SAY I DID NOT KEEP A LIST OF MY DEATHS (my guess would be less than Jak II LIKETHAT'SHARD um. Actually, probably not as high as any of the other games, closest to The Precursor Legacy... not because I didn't die a lot, but because it's really, really short.), BUT I'LL STILL POST THOUGHTS ABOUT IT. (I think they opened a few plot holes, sadly.) Or maybe I'll just replay. Since it's short enough. (I was downstairs and it was Christmas, and I can game and have coherent conversations, but I can't game and keep a log of everything.)

(Also my mom wanted to try, so she played through the first mission. She thinks Daxter is adorable, but does not like the PSP controls. They do take some getting used to.) (I am not there yet.)