Currents of Time

So I was just on Yahoo checking the weather for tomorrow, and I see this:





... Apparently Vermont migrated to a polar circle or something. I wish people would tell me these things.

When I moved into town, I signed up for the local e-mail thing. Mostly it's people trying to get rid of things or figure out where their stolen bikes have gone, but today's had something that made me laugh.

( 'FREE TOASTER.' )

Meanwhile, in less amusing events, after a relatively arachnoid-free autumn, spiders are popping up all over the place again. SORRY, GUYS. BACK OUTSIDE WITH YOU. It's not like it's actually cold out, yet, anyway. Seriously, get out of my kitchen.

And my living room.


And my bedroom.

Again, Aniko's Watchmen figures. Not Sally diving off the DVD case, though. Actually, she hasn't fallen off once since Reno started threatening her! It is amazing. She did stumble once, but, hey! No falling!

No, now we are looking at the three she keeps in her room. Or, well, one of them. Rorschach has caused a few ... puzzles already. When no one is watching, he will, on occasion, catapult across the room. We can't figure out how this happens. (It really is not a trick. On on occasion, she was at work and I suddenly heard a clatter-thunk from her room, went to investigate and... WHY ARE YOU OVER HERE GET BACK ON YOUR STAND. How does he clear the chair? How?) Also, one time he got worked into an impossible tangle in the cables behind her desk. Trying to climb down? Or trying to climb back up? We don't know, but it shouldn't have been possible for gravity alone to do it.

He doesn't seem to have much regard for gravity, anyway, though.

Aniko's still watching Supernatural (about halfway through season 2). Rorschach is apparently curious.

( Three images )

Aniko and I agree he does not entirely approve of Sam or Dean, but he could be a fan of John (which is kinda funny, when you consider...).

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.

I rarely visit the Allakhazam forums these days, but some days I drop in and find the members there have gone and done something lunatic again, and I wonder why I spend so little time there.

Pankration: gotta catch 'em all! The simplest thread in existence, and yet I am reduced to helpless giggling. It's not even as if there's been a lack of Pokémon jokes in regards to Pankration. This isn't something new. I think it might be the "fixed that for you" quoting where they strike out everything the original reply says and replace it with the next line of the song that's setting me off... Or that this starts with the very first reply.


Or it may be that my job has finally murdered me. I did sit in the car for three full minutes wondering what I was supposed to do next before I remembered I needed to get my keys out of my pocket to start the engine...


Yeah.

This has been a fun week so far.


Edit:
I should have known better than to hit Post before reading the rest of the interestingly titled threads. Bifrons! From another, "What's up with lolbifrons?" post, which contains many other delightful links. ...There's clearly something wrong with all of us.

I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS A (HOWEVER MINOR) RIBFIR/FIBRIR (only with blue and purple) IN THIS COMMUNITY.

Bizarre happenings in the neighbourhood.

Yesterday, I ventured downstairs to find the nice people across the street had a tropical bird problem. Their front lawn was infested with flamingos. This was very strange.

It only became stranger when we learned that all twenty-plus plastic brine shrimp-eaters had appeared quite rapidly between 8 and 8:30 that morning without anyone seeing it happen. The first is when a man who lives down the street walked past, the second is when my mother left for church.


This morning, they were gone again.


Most perplexing.




... What strikes me the most about this is that, years ago, the boy who used to live across the street and I would walk home from school. There's a bit of a speeding problem on the road my house is on, so sometimes, after an especially lead-footed moron would fly past, we would discuss ways to trick that sort into slowing down some. One idea was to obtain many plastic pink flamingos and plant them along the entire length of the road.

Amusement has followed me today. First, my brother introduced me to this song. I do not play Half-Life, or really any games of that type, and as such generally do not listen to their music much! This song (from Portal), however, is ridiculous and reduced me to hysterics on initial listening. Lyrics include this:

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!

HILARITY. Hear and watch it here.

I will play this game.


Second. Today's (well, technically yesterday's, now) addition of The Insecticomics. All so sadly, sadly and painfully true, but funny in there.

That comic led to an extended discussion between Aniko and I about Dinobot, wherein we pretended to be serious but were actually laughing so hard we were having troubles breathing. Good thing that doesn't convey over text unless you say as much. I am resisting the urge to copy some of that conversation down here.


Those are not the most important thing, though. The most important thing is that a picture of the new Dancer job's AF (special armor that can only be worn by people playing that job class with nice stat bonuses and the like. It looks neat, or at least tries to) on a male character turned up (we've only seen it on females so far). Now, the armor design is generally about the same, just minor tweaking here and there, but, uh. This is Dancer. The outfit (their AF!) is silly.

( Image! )

It is unusual for them to put someone in Not Windurst. I'm not complaining - I like San d'Oria (or, er, at least I like the Western entrance to South San d'Oria, since that's outisde town but whatever) better than Bastok (as perhaps evidenced by all three of my characters being from San d'Oria).

Anyway, that image is glorious and hilarious. Hey, internet! What I would love to do is visit the Alla forums and see what other people are saying about it! How about you let me? Hee, he has a little flower on his headband.


And they changed work hours so we close at 7 again. All in all, not a bad day! Which is amazing, considering we just entered Daylight Savings and I hate that.

MY ANKLE IS STILL CLICKING.

And swollen. The unfortunate thing about having had the thing sprained so many times is that I no longer care and so don't treat it quite right. I should be putting ice on it and resting at least once or twice a day and maybe taking Advil. Instead, I put an Ace bandage on to walk around and try to ignore the odd sound effects. If I end up putting myself on crutches again, I will be annoyed with myself an awful lot, but I will also get out of work, so, er. Hmm.



This thread will never not be funny. (A few of the hates are fandom-related jokes, but I think I can explain most all of them if anyone is interested enough to read that.)

Also this one. (Though it'll make no sense to anyone not familiar with Furman/isms. Read this for a crash course.)

(Those are both Transformers related, by the way. I just want to keep track of them and my Bookmarks are a bit out of control at the moment.)

I'll probably stop these posts when the novelty wears off. For now, AMUSEMENTS.

( So then /he/ said that... )

That is all for the highlights of this week.