03.02.02 :: 00:37

Augh, another busy, brains to the wall day for me. The crap has hit the fan at work and I’m doing my best to dodge where it lands ^^; The upcoming weeks will be interesting...

Man, I feel so stupid... I *know* I did a lot today I just can’t recall it. My brain’s protecting my sanity by blocking it out already ;) When I got home (after 10pm tonight) I started working on Yggy. She’s still acting up =/ I’m hoping that the repairs I did will stick, else I’ll probably have to do the system format that I’m trying to avoid. It takes so long to get everything tweaked after one of those ^^; I hate doing them.

It dawned on me today that hitomi did the theme song to Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I never realized this before, even though I’ve heard the song and am quite familiar with Persona 2’s music ^^; It just pleased me for some reason.

I’m gathering song together to make another J-Rock CD. So far I’ve got “Can you keep a Secret?”, “Automatic”, “Raven”, “Kimi no Tonari”, “Never Gonna Come Back Down”, “Toki ni Ai wa...”, “Twiggy vs. James Bond”, and track 4 from Love Hina OST 1 on the possibilities list. Just need a few more songs and to figure out a good order to put them in. I know that the Love Hina song and Twiggy should go together. They flow together nicely. I might use “Sakura Saku” as well. That’s sitting in the background as a pet project anyways.

I found a Live365 station that plays Persona music. Wai ^^ (Of course it's playing creepy music when I log in, that's the way it goes ^^; )

03.03.02 :: 00:56

Blech, that’s what I have to say about today. It’s not even that today was a *bad* day. It was a pretty good one, in fact, but I just feel blah for some reason. I got the mix CD made. It’s titled “J-Rock 5: r0x0r j0r b0x0r”. After I did that I decided that it was too nice of day to stay home and went to visit the guys in Kfalls.

I always feel a bit down when I go to visit there. Bah, sometimes I think that if I ever became a ghost, I’d go haunt the admin building on campus ‘cause of all the shit they put me through. It’s hard to visit the campus and not be sad. So many bad memories mingle with the good.

I visited Austin first and gave him a copy of the J-Rock 5 CD, lent him a game, picked up some CDs and returned games. Then we went up to the campus to visit with the guys. It was good seeing everyone up there. I like visiting them. They always greet me so warmly. If it weren’t for them, I’d never bother going back. Timmy gave me some new anime CDs to watch ^^v I’ve been wanting to see Read or Die.

I asked a favor of Elf: to see if he could translate the paragraph of character description in the Ultimania guide for Xu. He worked on it for about 3 hours ^^; I feel bad for eating up so much of his time with a pet project of mine. I really do appreciate his effort. (He said he liked the challenge a non-school book offered, so it’s all good. I won’t abuse his generosity). He’d gotten most of it translated by the time I left. It confirmed much of what I’d been going off of ^^; Alright, it may have been a waste of time, but it made me happy to have my curiosity sated. He’s going to run his translation by one of his Japanese pen pals to see how close he was, then give me a final copy.

While Elf worked, many people gathered in his room to talk and play cards while we waited for 6pm to go to dinner. Ten of us invaded a Chinese restaurant and had a pretty nice dinner :) After that, everyone went to Austin’s to watch a movie and talk some more. I left after a bit because I have to work today.

During the drive back, I had some fanfic ideas, but I just can’t seem to get myself to write them down. Just want to sit here and listen to the CD I made. I’ll have to force myself into the state of mind for writing if I want to get it done before I go to bed.

1. Angelic Layer - The Starry Sky
2. Initial D - Rage Your Dream
3. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment - Change Your Way
4. Do As Infinity - Raven
5. Ayumi Hamasaki - Trauma
6. Hikaru Utada - Automatic (Johnny Viscous Remix)
7. Ayumi Hamasaki - Evolution
8. Pizzicato 5 - Twiggy vs. James Bond
9. Love Hina - OST 1, Track 4
10. Hellsing - Shine (Mr. Big)
11. Love Hina - Sakura Saku
12. BT - Never Gonna Come Back Down
13. Hikaru Utada - Can you Keep a Secret?
14. Revolutionary Girl Utena - Toki ni Ai wa...
15. Persona 2: Innocent Sin - Kimi no Tonari (hitomi)

03.03.02 :: 20:55

Oi, I forgot to write down my Girl Scout story from Friday. It’s cookie time of year again. I went the market during lunch and on the way out I was tackled by a pair of them on either side of me o.O; I handed them $3 bucks, took a box of mint thins and fled. Well, when I got to work, I embellished the encounter a bit to make it more interesting ^_- I told Hollie that the Girl Scouts chased after me, I dropped $3, and they threw a box of cookies after me. (Heck, that’s what it *feels* like sometimes ^^; ) Hollie believed me that the Girl Scouts beat me up and took my money ^o^ I told her I was joking, of course, but the look on her face was hilarious.

I had to work today, blech. It wasn’t busy (it rarely is on a Sunday) so that wasn’t bad. Except for one old man who kept calling back. He needed to have his computer set back up for the net, so I led him through it. And (per habit) I looked up his log in info and found that he’d given it to me wrong. He kept inversing the first two letters (like doing cl instead of lc). I corrected him. He tried logging in with it as lc. That generated two more calls to me and I kept telling him it was cl instead of lc, and it just wouldn’t sink in.

On call #3 he asked me if I was getting flustered. I admitted that I was a bit because this was the third time he called me about him reversing the two letters. He went to try it again, then called back. His computer was acting funny now (a reboot would fix it). I tell him to reboot. He asks me my age, my full name, how long I’ve been doing computers, and a series of other fairly personal questions. I “professionally” brush him off ^^; He got under my skin long before he asked my age and that did it for me.

He then said I had a nice voice. I thanked him. He said he’d have to tell my boss that. I thanked him. He said he’d like to come to the office and meet me. I “...”-ed. He assured me that he wasn’t a perverted old man or anything. I pulled a Squall ^^; (more ...) I finished up with his trouble ticket and tried to get him off the phone. He said he was glad to talk to a tech who actually answered his questions... (I’m thinking he’s rather lonely at this point). If he shows up at the office tomorrow morning I’m going to hide at my desk and refuse to come up front --; I can fake extroversion only for so long before I lose my patience and have to flee. Not that fleeing in this case wouldn’t be a good idea to begin with...

I’ve also got the ball rolling for the annual 4x berfday dinner at Shoji’s at the end of the month. Pinned all the berfday people down to the 30th as the day to do it. Now we’re going around inviting people ^_^ So far our count is up to 9. I’m sure it’ll be more than that before we’re over. I just need a nose count so that I can make reservations =)

03.04.02 :: 17:32

I was a stupid bean. I stayed up ‘til 3am writing last night. On the bright side, I wrote about 8 pages last night o.O I didn’t usually cough up that much in a single setting. I can see myself spending the next week editing it to not be crap... ^^;

Mom woke me up bright and early (9am) ‘cause her printer broke and she wanted me to go down to the shop to do something about it. Oi... I sleepily washed up, pulled on some clothes, and dragged myself down there. To actually fix the printer will require taking it apart and replacing a gear, but she did have another printer sitting around just in case something like this happened. I set her machine up with it and then she asked me to go up to her apartment, get dad’s laptop, and set it up for the backup printer. I’d already spoken with my boss to see if it was okay for me to be a couple minutes late to work. He was cool with it, so I got the laptop, configured it, and then took myself off to work.

Most of the calls today were email related problems, and every one has been different. You wouldn’t think there’d be that much variety in errors. I think it’s just been a weird day. One of the calls was funny. The woman had her email address wrong. I clarified what it should be. She argued that, “It’s always worked that way!” I had to bite my tongue not to reply, “If it’s always worked, why are you calling me?” ^^;

The old guy didn’t show up to meet me. Yay ^^;

03.06.02 :: 00:20

Today was a productive, non-productive day. I did a lot, but nothing that was world-changing important ^^; I invited more people to the berfday dinner =) Paid some bills. Made some CDs. Just little tasks like that.

Mom finally figured out what I've been doing to her for months ^^; Whenever I went over to her house I would take back a clean container that had leftovers in it that she'd given me. Well, tonight I took back two clean containers and as she was putting leftovers in them she looked up and said, "Wait, you just brought these back and now I'm giving them to you with food in them!" My dad just shook his head and laughed. He knew what I was doing. Mom hadn't caught on to how I was mooching until tonight =P (I'm making up for the years I was in college and couldn't mooch then ;)

I drove by the signs warning of a Pedestrian trap several times today. They'd be obvious to a blind man (who would probably trip over them since they're right in the middle of the sidewalk on both sides of the street). I'll have to remember to go down there tomorrow. I haven't heard back from the Chief of Police regarding my complaint yet. Oh well.

I'm taking my car in to be fixed tomorrow. Dad had forbidden me from leaving the valley until he repaired the bearings in my frontend. He's going to get that done (I hope ^^; )

I got a catalogue from The Right Stuf today. That surprised me since I don't recall ever ordering from them. I know I didn't pay the $4.00 list price on the spine. I do have their catalogue from last year. Austin had ended up with two and gave one to me. At least it's a catalogue I might use, unlike the ones I get from Harry & David's and Dell.

03.06.02 :: 18:12

My suspicions about the Post Office really being Hell were confirmed this afternoon when I went to the main branch to send off a package. The heater had to be cranked up to at least 80F o.O;

I missed out on watching the cops hand out tickets like candy, but my mom didn’t =D She told me that the cops had the drivers’ so paranoid that they were stopping at the nearby light and letting pedestrians across even if it was green! ^o^ It made me glad when she told me the door was swinging both ways. While she watched the cops stopped 3 people for j walking and ticketed them as well. I won’t have the final count until tomorrow, but I’m guessing it’s going to be high ^^;

When I spoke to dad at lunch he’d done some of the work on my car already =) He replaced the bearings (and showed me what a bearing for a car looks like ^^ ), changed the oil, and epoxied my distributor back together o.O; “I’ll just finish gluing your car back together and you’ll be set to go!” he says. Sometimes it’s better to not know what they do in the shop, me thinks... ^^;

03.06.02 :: 23:47

Take the "How immature are you?" Test
created by sami

This is accurate, IMO. I'm a stick up my butt prude and y'know what? I like me that way =]

I got my car back, wai ^^ The cops ticketed 23 people today. Fewer than I thought. Congrats go to Corvus for finishing Valkyrie Profile, Elf for finishing his Tech Report, Pisces6 for surviving her evil mid-term, and Jeffy for getting his first fanmail. Way to go guys!

I owe Chaos an apology. He made me *promise* him that I would waste tonight away playing video games. I haven't touched my consoles yet. I've been too busy with other projects ^^; I'll do it tomorrow, or this weekend (more likely). Sorry!

03.07.02 :: 20:53

Today turned out different than what I expected. This morning... augh... I hate when I feel the way I did this morning. When I can’t stand being with myself, much less anyone else. I seriously thought about calling in dead to work today, better than then suffer all day. Then I got washed up and went to work anyways.

The next 4 hours were spent kicking myself. Another game my mind likes to play with me. Alternating trains of thought, going between “No one here needs me” and “If I leave, there will be no one here to cover me”. You might question how those two opposites can war with each other, but they do. The fact was, we were short staffed today and I was needed ‘cause twice during the day I was the only person around for an hour.

So I play a game with myself. I tell myself, “Oh, you can hold out for the 2 hours until the next tech shift starts, then go home”. Then when the next shift starts I tell myself “Oh, it’s only 2 hours until lunch. Maybe some lunch will make you feel better?” Lunch comes and goes and for the next 2 hours I tell myself “Oh, just make it until the first tech shift leaves, you can go with them”. And for the last 2 hours, it’s “You’re almost there!” It’s stupid, but it’s the pattern my brain runs in often times. It could be that I’m bored at work, so something else...

That was the bad part of the day. I thought I was going to be feeling down all day, but I did cheer up some. I went to the travel agency and book my flight for Anime North. It took the woman the full hour of my lunch to get it done (her computer kept acting up), but it’s done. I also bought train tickets for visiting Ottawa while I’m up there. I’ve never been on a train before. Heck, I’ve only briefly visited Washington DC, I’ll get to see even more of Canada’s then I have of the US’s ^o^

Getting those ducks in a row encouraged me. Talking to my friends throughout the day kept me from going nuts. Gyah, I sometimes wonder if my boss even realizes how much my friends do to keep my happy at work ^^; Work doesn’t keep me happy, a bit of joshing with them keeps me sane. Thanks guys :)

Okay, today’s foolish customer wasn’t a call, but an email. He wanted us to create a new mail account for him and included all the information we might need... Including his social security number. He was so free with his SSN that it was in his signature block at the bottom of his email and within the body of the email itself. I created the account, and then wrote him a polite note suggesting that he not give his SSN out to just anyone. Everyone in our tech staff now had that information. I’m sure any sane person on the street wouldn’t just hand out business cards with their address, phone, and SSN on it. Why do people on the net do the equivalent?

03.08.02 :: 22:34

Blech, I think I caught a touch of the stomach flu mom’s pressman had. My stomach’s been real upset lately, making all sorts of growling noises at me, and generally making it difficult to sleep. I got about 2 hours of restless sleep in last night. I’m surprisingly not tired despite that. Maybe it’s because I haven’t been doing anything exciting lately to tucker me out. Work’s been pretty dull.

I spoke with Chaos for a bit this evening. The man is like a muse to me, I swear. After just a few ICQs and I already had ideas rolling around on how to improve the parts of Sowing that I’m working on. I may not get those written tonight. I’d like to go kiss my pillow for a while instead.

Nightbreak has just pointed out to me that I was misinformed by the travel agent who did my airline tickets --; She told me that the weekend of June 1st was Memorial Day weekend, when it’s actually the weekend before that --; (I don’t usually keep track of national holidays because I work them regardless ^^; ) She was fighting with her computer when helping me. It took her an hour to generate my route. She had no problems getting me departing tickets (during Memorial Day weekend), but had a terrible time finding a return fair. Well, dammit, that’s one less day I could have spent up in Toronto --; [Will remember this for next year]. Oh well, can’t plan a trip like this and not have a few snags, ne?

03.09.02 :: 22:53

It was a non-productive day ^^; Pepper and I spent a lot of time sleeping when we weren't occupied by more pressing tasks, like eating. In other words, I didn't even start the cleaning I wanted to get done. Instead I made a lot of CDs, did some writing, and watched TV.

I rented Run Lola Run and Supercop 2. I've already watched Run Lola Run. I would recommend seeing it at least once. I'm not sure it's good for repeated viewings, though. I might watch Supercop 2 after Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

03.10.02 :: 09:38

I had a dream last night. I dreamt that humans were, for the first time, sending a manned (by a female, no less) scout vessel out into the depths of space to see if there was any life out there. The craft launched and didn’t get all that far before she found what she was looking for. An alien spacecraft destroyed her vessel before she was beyond Mars.

The aliens landed on the Earth and we were extremely curious. They offered to help advance our technology so that we could easily reach the stars as well. Gratefully we accepted and they taught us a lot.

... Too much, in fact.

They so filled our brains with knowledge that we longed for the days when life was simpler. Conveniently enough, they could help us with that as well. It started with simple things. They gradually simplified our languages. Taught us how to make quicker meals. We turned our back on learning cultural things like Shakespeare.

After about 800 years we were pretty content in our embraced ignorance. Our language lacked the quirks and accents that make it so much fun to write. We had no concept of who were once were, and we didn’t care. Our foods were bland pastes that were squeezed out of a tube.

I was there when the first spacecraft launched. I watched with dismay as humans allowed themselves to be led by sheep and were now shackled by their stupidity. I was not content with what I had, I longed for what we lost. I was like a shadow in the background that didn’t step forward until after the deed was done.

Somehow I’d wormed my way into being someone who had access to the alien leader on a day-by-day basis. He liked to test new ‘innovations’ on my colleagues and myself (foods and whatnot) to see if we liked them. While my companion chomped through the latest paste I pushed it around my plate. He asked me what was wrong. With a smile I told him that I longed for a taco. [^^; Y’know this is one of my dreams. It *had* to be a taco...] My companion asked me what a taco was. I explained that it was a dish from 800 years ago. The alien leader was not pleased. I went on to rattle off a list of other things I missed, all the while his face contorted between surprise, disbelief, and anger.

The alien leader and I fought. [Ah, another trademark in my dreams ^^; ] And, as expected, I bloodily killed him with my bare hands ^^; With their leader dead the aliens left out planet and I was stuck with a bunch of stupid people. [heh, nightmare time ^^; ]

Human development resumed at an accelerated rate. We went through the 70’s again --; When I woke up, we were back where we started, about to send a scout out into space. We were delayed by about 1000 years, but man did recover.

03.11.02 :: 20:02

Oiiiii.. Today was *definitely* a Monday. My sleep had been restless last night (probably to make up for all the nice rest I got on Sunday :P ) I woke up at 5am and watched some of the WTC memorials that were on TV, then slept for a bit longer before getting up and going to work.

When I got to work I discovered 2 things. The first was that one of the techs was out today (his daughter is sick). The other was that the power supply in my computer had gone kaput over the weekend. Luckily, we have a couple in spare parts and I was able to quickly repair my machine. I checked up on a machine I’d left working over the weekend (doing a virus scan)... It’d gone through the scan 19 times and still hadn’t cleaned everything out. At this point, I’m not holding much hope on content of the hard drive’s survival of this virus.

I slouched at my desk and sipped on 7-Up between calls. The evening tech came in and asked if he could go home ‘cause he had the stomach flu o.O; Er... Yeah... He could go home after the lunch rush, but I quickly ran out of techs. The last one... the *only* one who isn’t dealing with an illness got off at 4pm. Oi... Time for the beanie bomb to step up, yo. I covered the night tech’s shift (in addition to my own). Frankly, I’m beat. I hope that the others recover faster than I have been.

Since it’s my blog, I’m going to spend the rest of this paragraph venting. Skip to the next one if you don’t want to read it ;) To the lady who called here this afternoon to bitch *us* out for her ISP being down, I’d like to offer a polite “Fuck you”. I’m not responsible for them being down, so why call us? And no, I won’t call them and bitch on your behalf either. To the woman who only had snide things to say while I tried to help, I’ll answer your questions here. You’re right, your username wasn’t that difficult to figure out (since it was your first name), so why didn’t *you* know it in the first place so I didn’t have to go look it up? I’m sorry that 2 minutes was too fucking long for you to be on hold. I politely invite you to go to one of our competitors, which has a *policy* of putting a customer on hold for at least 5 minutes before helping them. Think I’m lying? I’m not. The techs in this town know each other pretty well. That company’s policy is common knowledge among us. I didn’t need either of y’alls shit today. So kindly piss off, ‘kay?

Anyhow, I got my paws on the Xenosaga OST. I don’t have an opinion of it (I’ve only listened to a couple tracks so far). It makes me want to go back and give Xenogears another try. Bah, I never got very far in that game. I’ve been told that I *must* play through it because of the story line (especially the religion aspect of it). But, since I suck at jumping dungeons, I’ve been stuck for months, had Adam get me past it, and have now forgotten what the story was up to that point. I suck ^^;

03.12.02 :: 23:44

A lot of weird things are happening at work right now, but I can’t really discuss ‘em. It’s eating up a lot of my brain power (what little of it there is ;) Hopefully it’ll all be worth it in the end.

I’ve scored a lot of new music lately (not pun intended ;) I listened to the FFX Piano collection today. And just like every other FF Piano collection I’ve heard, I didn’t care for it ^^; Really, I *like* piano music, but I just can’t get into the FF versions. I usually only like one or two tracks from a CD and that’s it. Like, in FF8’s I liked “Shuffle or Boogie” and “Slide Show Part II” (which wasn’t much of a stretch to convert it into a piano piece, it already was :P ) With FF9’s I liked “Vamo’ alla flamenco” and “Melodies of Life” (it turned out surprisingly well). The only tracks in the FFX piano collection that caught my attention were “To Zanarkand” (another ‘already a piano piece’) and “Ending Theme”. “Attack” may grow on me if I listen to it more. [shurgs]

I also listened to FF Potion 2, which is a collection of tracks from other FF CDs. Since I already have nearly every FF CD out there, there wasn’t anything on Potion 2 that I didn’t have on another CD ^^; As a collection it’s nice enough, though I’ve already come up with my favorites and have created my own mix CDs.

The CD that’s surprised me the most is Kikuko Inoue – Anime Toonz Presents. If you didn’t know, Inoue is the Japanese voice actress of such sweet-tempered characters as Belldandy and Kasumi. The CD consists of techno remixes of anime openings that she’s covered. It’s a great idea, IMO. The only problem is, well, *her* ^^; Her voice is so light and sweet that it doesn’t fit well with the techno. Some of the series she covers include Sailor Moon, Ah! My Goddess, Rayearth, Eva, and Card Captor Sakura. So far, my favorite one is the Rayearth mix because it makes my sub woofer thumpity thump =D

03.14.02 :: 21:23

Um... Yeah... I’m alive, tired, but hanging in there. I’ve had a stomach flu for the last week and it finally got the better of me. I’ve spent the last two days sleeping, which makes for pretty dull blogger entries when I sit down to write about my day.

I did have some kind of interesting dreams, but I’m not sure I can cobble them together into something coherent to post here. Um... In one that I kept having a variation of I was a dorms RA. The first dream was about me becoming an RA. The second was my ‘job’ besides being an RA: working for a professor. In one of the dreams she had me working at Freddy’s as a cashier. I was technically a research assistant. I had, like, 4 rooms on campus: my room in the dorms, a room that I maintained in the library, and two in the basement of the admin building where I did research. In another dream I was commenting to my friends in the car I was riding in that I needed to get back to the dorms ‘cause I hadn’t checked in on my charges in a few days. The driver of the car then took it on the guardrails of a bridge and we nearly fell off. [blinks] It was a weird series of dreams.

I watched the last two episodes of Love Hina today. Yeah, it’s cheese, but darn it, it’s a cute series. After watching Gasaraki, I needed something that could rot my brain with its sweetness and Love Hina filled the role nicely. Not sure what I’ll watch next. I’m thinking about Noir.

03.16.02 :: 05:16

Yesterday was busy. I was so tired when I got home that I didn’t bother to blog (obviously ^^; ) I checked my email and then went to bed. Work was kind of blah. I hid at my desk most of the day, avoiding the LAN party that was being hosted there. Don’t like first person shooters. Don’t like gamer’s funk (which is worse than con otaku funk, IMO).

After work I went to see Ice Age with mom, dad, Jeff and a couple of his friends. Personally, I dug Ice Age more than many of the movies I’ve seen lately (including Lord of the Rings). After that, we went to Sherri’s for dinner. My mother just *had* to embarrass me with stories of when I was a baby after I grumbled that she was still holding the pain of birth against me :P Bah. I was 2lbs, 11oz at birth and could fit the palm of my father’s hand. Yeah, there were a lot of laughs to go around.

I made it home around 10pm or so. By 11pm I was sawing Z’s. I have to get my sleep in, I’ve gotta work today. I’m not really looking forward to that. I hope, hope, hope that it’s a quiet shift, though Saturdays usually have a couple hours of madness during them ^^; I have a computer sitting there waiting for me that I really don’t want to do. I kind of had it dumped on me and I’m still resisting. (Transferring data from an old system to a new one is such a pain in the rear --; ) I’ve been psyching myself up to do some mad data transferring so that I can get it *done* and out of my hair!

I finished the latest part of Sowing that I was working on. I’ll definitely have to do some revisions, but the base story is there. Depending on how quickly I cover the last couple points in my outline I’ll be done in one or two more parts. Wai! I’ll be finished soon and get to take a break from this self-inflicted fanfic endurance run ^^;

03.16.02 :: 21:13

I think I attract weirdos or something o.O; I went to the haircut place after work ‘cause I was tired of how long my hair was (again) and was going to get it hacked off this time. I sat down in the chair and next to me was a shaggy looking guy who was likewise there to have several inches removed. He wanted the barber to save him a couple locks. He then turned to me and asked if he could have some of my hair too o.O;; My stylist said that I wasn’t going to have my hair cut that short (even though I just told her I wanted it cut that short) and then just trimmed it up some... [blinks] Er... I paid and fled as fast as I could ‘cause the guy kept asking for my hair. I think I’ll wait ‘til Vera gets here to get her opinion. If nothing else, she can put weirdos in their place better than I can ^^;

I went into work early and got the computer I’d been avoiding done. It took about an hour or so of real work and another five of downloading updates and waiting for programs to install. I was busy for a couple hours with calls. The rest of the time I puttered about and watched the first two parts of Read Or Die. I’m going to watch the last part tonight.

03.17.02 :: 22:26

I woke up early enough to catch the NASCAR race this morning. I called dad to see if he’d come over to the house to watch it with me -- quality bonding time and all. He wanted me to go over to mom’s to watch it there with him. I don’t like going over to mom’s --; I need to scold him about being complacent with the current living arrangements. Things were only supposed to be like they are now for a few months. They’ve been this way for a half-year. It’s time for me to deliver a solid prod to the butt. It’s friggin’ backwards for me to be living alone in a 4-bedroom house while my parents live in a small 1-bedroom apartment.

*ahem* Enough ranting on that. Heh, sometimes I really do question the wisdom of both my dad and I having cell phones. This morning we were calling each other when accidents and whatnot happened in the race ^^; I need to teach him how to use ICQ. [shakes head] Heh, sure, that’ll happen ^^; My bro had given my dad a gift certificate to Amazon.com a half-year ago and dad still doesn’t know what to do with it. I deposited it in my account so that he could use it when he wanted. Tonight he told me to just spend it ‘cause he doesn’t understand online ordering at all ^^;

I worked more on the FFX summary I’m doing for Yun. I’m half way through the Mi’ihan Highroad, which is about 7 hours into the game. I haven’t done any Sowing writing since I finished part 18. I’m giving my brain a bit of a break from that, just outlining some in the meantime. I want to finish the story as strongly as I began.

Right now Chaos and Jeffy are both sitting pretty high on my “wuv you” list. Chaos because he found a box of long lost Final Fantasy CDs in Havoc’s closet that I’d left up in Toronto. He’s going to mail them to me, I’m so jazzed =D Jeffy because next time he’s in town he’s going to help me find a better place to get my hair cut. I admit, I need to have my hand held, and Jeffy’s a stylish guy. I trust him to lead me true.

I think I’m finally getting the upper hand on this stomach flu. I’ve felt lethargic all weekend, but tonight I’m actually feeling motivated to do things again. I did go to mom’s tonight to have dinner with her and dad (chicken and dumplings. I haven’t had it in over 5 years..). Coming home from that, I’m feeling pretty good. I hope it stays that way and I stop sleeping 12 hours a night =P

I finished Read or Die last night and saw the first part of FLCL (so much for Noir ^^; I'll get to it soon enough). I really liked Read or Die. Too bad it's an OAV. I'd like to see more. FLCL, well, that was hurting my brain. I think I need to be in a better state of mind before trying that one again ^^;

03.18.02 :: 12:51

I had a rough time sleeping last night. Sometimes I wonder if I have a work anxiety or something. I sleep fine on the weekends, but Sunday nights are always the worst =/ I was up ‘til around 3:30am before I finally fell asleep. When I did, I had an odd dream.

I dreamt that Vera and Mike arrived at my house *today* instead of just Vera in a couple weeks. I was freaked because I hadn’t done any house cleaning and I wasn’t ready to play hostess. Vera was like “Bad chu for not cleaning. Ah well, I’ll help you.” She helped me get the guest rooms made up before I went to work. Mike just puttered around the house and didn’t do anything ^^;

When I woke up I found myself in the strangest position. I had my legs crossed Indian style, laying sideways with them up against the wall (as if I was sitting on the wall). My head was on the edge of my bed, and (thankfully) not falling off. (I only have a twin, it’s not big enough to be sleeping sideways on ^^; ) Pepper had literally taken over half of the bed. I rolled my head to the side to look at her and was like “Wuh?”

03.18.02 :: 22:48

It’s been a nutty day at work. That’s been occupying most of my thought / time. That and my new schedule isn’t the best, but I’ll live. It’s 40 hours of work in the office and then 30 hours on call after hours. Fortunately, I only have to do this every couple few weeks. I’ll have the week ‘off’ of the berfday dinner I’ve been planning =)

I’ve decided that remotely accessing a computer is the neatest thing since sliced bread. As if I didn’t have enough time during the workday to screw with my workstation, I can continue to create havoc after hours. Woot!

I came home from work late tonight and had a pile of messages on the answering machine. The amazing part was that a few of them were actually for me ^^v One was Blockbuster wanting to know where Run Lola Run and Supercop 2 were. Bah! I returned them a week ago. I drove down there after I fed Pepper and they were like, “Oops, our bad. The computer didn’t check ‘em in so we did it by hand.” Joan’s been trying to call me and I haven’t been able to return her call yet =( It’s too late to call someone on the east coast by the time I get home at night. I may try calling her during my lunch break.

[sigh] I’m tired and I have to get up early tomorrow. I’ll go to bed now. Hopefully I won’t find myself with my legs against the wall in the morning...

03.19.02 :: 21:02

Wuh, it was another long day for me. The phone company says it’s going to take 2 – 3 days to add forwarding service to the company’s phone lines. In the mean time, instead of being on call with a cell phone, I have to sit in the office and bore the night away. Pepper probably hates my guts by now for not being around to play with her ^^; I talked dad into going by the house tonight to let her out and feed her. It’s Tuesday and I’m already pooped, oi ^^;

There was a funny thing that happened this morning. We’re starting to cross train each other, so I was going to teach Hollie (reception) how to do some basic server stuff.

It was so out of the blue it was hilarious.

Gyah, I think I’ll go home and go to bed, skip eating dinner tonight. It’s stupid, what I do isn’t hard physically, but I’m still tired. I’ve been at work since 7:30am and it’s nearly 9pm now. I guess that makes sense in a way...

03.21.02 :: 00:08

I guess I’m in kind of a sentimental mood. Tonight I learned that the berfday dinner is going to have 22 people at it now ^^; It’s grown a lot larger than I thought it would, but it’s all good. I know Adam realizes this, but this is kind of like a big last hurrah for us. Adam lives in Seattle now. Austin’s moving to Vegas in the summer. Elf’s graduating and who knows where he’ll go, except that it won’t be here (no opportunities). I’m here, but if I have my way, I’ll be in Toronto.

It makes me sad in a way. These three guys have meant so much to me over the last five years. It’s like I’m feeling the separation “pain” that comes with high school graduation (which I didn’t feel at the time ‘cause I had few friends in high school and didn’t care). But it’s like... I remember when Adam took care of me when I was sick and how we would get into fights at least once a month. Talking with Elf about deep topics while on long drives (I never seem to go on short trips with him ^^; ) Laughing as I wrote down what Austin was yelling at the TV while he played video games. These memories and more are very dear to me. I love these guys and I’m going to miss them.

Ah... Anyhow, I went to work a couple hours late today (with permission). I only worked 10 hours today :P [shakes head] The phone system isn’t fixed yet. I hope they get to that soon, I really do. It didn’t dawn on me until Nightbreak asked, but my next day off isn’t until the 30th; the berfday party. It’s the 20th now. Y’know... That kinda sucks ¬.¬;;

After work tonight I went to a late dinner with Austin, Ian, and Justin. (It’s Austin’s berfday). They’d already eaten by the time I got there. Fortunately, they’d ordered for me, so the waitress just brought mine out as soon as she spotted me. Thanks guys ^^ After that we went to see Ice Age. Ian hadn’t seen it yet, but the rest of us had. That probably wasn’t the smartest thing I could have done considering my work schedule, but what the hell? Scrat’s still cute the second time around =]

03.21.02 :: 23:52

Augh! Pepper, you drive me nuts sometimes, absolutely bonkers! I know this week’s shift has been tough on the both of us.

Pepper has yet to make it a day without crapping on the carpet --; I spoke with the neighbor this morning (the one who watches everyone’s houses) and asked her to keep an eye on Pepper today. She’s pretty nice about letting Pepper out every couple few hours and feeding her if I’m gone. I thought that would be a workable solution until life returns to 'normal'. Bah! Pepper crapped on the carpet again tonight --;

She ran away again tonight as well. It took about 20 minutes to find her. When she showed up she’d obviously been up to no good. She was all wet and had grass stuck to her fur. Yeah, I know where she’s been rolling --; So, nearly 11:30pm, I should be in bed already, and instead I’m tossing the mutt into the tub. It’s frustrating since she’s going to the groomer’s on Saturday anyways. Couldn’t she have kept out of trouble? With my luck, she’ll go rolling in something as soon as I bring her home :P

I’m seriously considering buying a 25ft lead and putting her out on that during the summer when I’m at work. (It’s still a bit too cold out for me to do it yet). It’d probably make her happy, though I see nightly baths becoming the routine ^^;

03.22.02 :: 18:39

I’ve been asked my opinion on the dog mauling murder case in San Francisco, so I thought I’d share with everyone. (Man, who on earth would want my opinion to begin with ^^; ) First, I don’t give a flying cow that the victim was a lesbian. Second, I don’t give a flying cow that the owners were involved in a dog breeding setup and allegedly did interesting things with animals. What it comes down to is this: taking responsibility for your pet. When taking a dog for a walk, you’re expecting to pick up its droppings. Likewise, if your dog attacked another animal or was responsible for property damage, the owner would expect you to pay the bills. That’s how the system works. It’s horrible that we have to apply it to something this extreme, but that’s how it goes. Their dog committed a crime, they’re the owners, and they have to take responsibility for it.

There was an accident at the intersection by my workplace today. Hollie saw it happen. Nick heard it. I was in the bathroom ^^; The people involved asked us to call the police (no one was injured, but you’re supposed to report these things). Hollie dialed up 911 and then handed me the phone ‘cause she was afraid to talk to them ^^; I gave the dispatcher all the info she wanted and then we waited. 45 minutes later no officers had arrived yet. (The office is literally 3 blocks away from the police station. They could have *walked* down...) Hollie called the police again using the regular line and the woman (a different one, I’d assume) had an officer there in under 3 minutes. I’m losing faith in the system ^^;

All week I’d been suspecting that someone was hacking into my work machine. I’d go from having 6 gigs of free disk space to 2 the next morning and then back up to 6 by the afternoon. I installed a firewall this afternoon and within 5 minutes it caught someone trying to access my machine. I’ve already fired a complaint off to their ISP. I doubt they’ll do much about it, but I can always hope that they’ll hammer the bugger.

I still haven’t located my wristwatch, which I lost a few days ago somewhere in the office. That kind of has me bummed out. I feel naked without my watch ^^; Plus it has sentimental value. My father had “borrowed” it from my brother. I then “borrowed” it from my father before I left on one of my cross-country jaunts (I think I was going to Florida). I’ve had to watch ever since. It doesn’t fit me at all. It slides pretty far up my arm, even when I have the band as tight as it will go (what else would you expect for a woman wearing a men’s watch? ^^; ) It reminds me of my brother, so I hope I find it soon. Else I’ll have to visit him and steal another one... ;)

03.24.02 :: 00:24

I pulled out a CD I haven’t listened to for a while tonight; Newsboys “Take Me To Your Leader”. I used to love this disc. I wrote most of Distant while listening to it. As time has passed and I’ve gotten other CDs, it’s progressed further down the stack of regular listens. There’s wisdom in the music that I’ve forgotten. It’s good to be reminded.

Today was the first chance in a week I’ve had to do anything but work and sleep. I took Pepper to the groomer’s. She looks respectable now. I’m undoubtedly on some spider’s shit list right now because I knocked down a lot of cobwebs while cleaning. It’s going to take me a few more days before I have everything done that I want to do, but I got a good start on it today. At least the bathroom’s finished =]

I telecommuted to work today. Ha, well, that didn’t go as smoothly as it could have ^^; (What has this week?) But this time I wasn’t the one who got screwed. There will be angry people to placate Monday, but... I really don’t care right now. I shouldn’t say that, but that’s how I feel ^^; I’ve just gotten to the point where I’m tired and I don’t care about e-mail, FTP, log files, or if someone can get on the net or not.

03.24.02 :: 22:06

I puttered around a lot today. Spent a good chunk of the afternoon playing Sonic Adventure 2. I lost my save file, so I had to start over --; Do you realize how much I suck at jumping games? Surprisingly, I managed to get to level 6 in the Dark story before giving up.

I spent a fair amount of time in Chao World abusing my two chaos. One I’ve managed to turn pitch black. He’s a lazy SOB who hates water and spends most of his time sleeping (heh, he sounds like me ;) The other one is blue still, likewise hates water, and has a very bad attitude. I can’t imagine why. Maybe it was because I was running full tilt and then bouncing him off the wall to see how far he’s fly? Or it could have been because I was punting him like a football into the pond beneath the waterfall.

Bah. Don’t know why I’m bent on being viscous tonight ^^; I was considering installing Black & White so that I could terrorize some villagers. (“Who’s your kami?”) But I’m too lazy to do that. I’ve been thinking about buying Grand Theft Auto III so that I could run around and carjack people. Bah, I don’t need a new game. I can go around in Dynasty Warriors III and kill a few hundred Chinese soldiers if I want blood that bad.

03.25.02 :: 21:32

I’ve chosen a new wallpaper to honor my current chao raising efforts. Heh. That and a lot of people were asking what a chao was, so here’s a picture. I’m stuck on level 8 currently. Somehow I’m supposed to complete it in less than 5 minutes. I hate time limits even more than I hate jumping ^^; This’ll take a while. If I can’t get past level 8, I’m going to ask Vera to do it for me when she gets here :P

I’m getting excited about this weekend (not that I wasn’t already ^^ ) Mom invited her pressman to the berfday dinner ‘cause his berfday is soon also. Whoa, 5 berfdays at one celebration. That’s a new record for us ^^; I ordered a large cake with all of our names on it.

I’m making slow, but steady progress in Goblet of Fire. I’m, like, in the chapter where they actually pull out the Goblet and the Weasley twins are plotting. ‘Fraid to say, it’s still boring the crap outta me, but it gives me something to do when I don’t have anything else to occupy my time ^^;

03.26.02 :: 00:11

Okay, I amend my opinion of Goblet of Fire. Now that I've gotten to chapter 18, it's starting to grab my interest. Man, that took a while ^^;

03.26.02 :: 22:02

I’d like to offer a shout out Happy Berfday! to my lil bro (who is bigger than me), Nanki. Yes, we’re both well into our twenties now, but we won’t allow such minor details to distract us from our usual bickering ;)

I called him during lunch to wish him a happy birthday. He told me about his plans to go to the San Diego Zoo with 9 friends. Unfortunately, all of them had cancelled on him. --; Personally, I’d kick all their asses, but that’s just me ^^; He had plans to mope around his apartment and watch movies. Poor Nanki. At least he really liked the packages of gifts we sent to him. I don’t know what happened, but we managed to pick all good gifts this year. Woot! ^^; (Nanki is the white sheep in a family of black, striped, and polka-dotted sheep. It’s hard to find gifts for him ‘cause he’s, blech, *normal*!)

Sean sent me this link this afternoon. It’s written in legalese, but if you can wade through it, it’s great =D I laughed long and hard at it ^_^

I’m to, um, chapter 24 or so of Goblet of Fire. Though, I do have a few comments on what I’ve read so far. 1) If Ron / Harry / Hermonine get into any more fights I’m going to rip my hair out. Their childishness at times drives me nuts! 2) I want Harry to have Cho darn it! I know it won’t happen, but I can’t help it. Cho’s one of those underdeveloped minor characters I fall for ;_; Noin ;_; Celena ;_; Xu! ;_;

03.27.02 :: 21:00

‘Tis the season for the contractors who work out of their garages to start papering my front door with flyers advertising their services. I get them for everything from reproofing the house (it was reroofed 2 years ago), to taming the lawn (I wouldn’t wish that job on anyone), to paving the dirt flag lot that leads back to the house. All these flyers have one thing in common: they make a terrible mangled mess of the English language. Today’s example was from a man who ended his letter by stating that he was 40 years old and looked forward to paving my drive. As always, I’m tempted to take a red pen to the flyer and correct the errors before mailing it back to the person. I’m saving it for when Vera gets up here. I’m sure she’d catch even more errors than I would ^^

I was a complete goober last night. I’d taken a nap after work. At 7pm my cell phone started to ring. For some reason my brain said it was my alarm clock even though I could see the cell phone light blinking on the shelf. I fished under my bed and hit the alarm clock a few times in a vain attempt to stop the noise. When that didn’t work my brain locked onto the blinking noisy thing on the shelf and I crawled out of bed to answer it. Go me ^^;

I was even more of a goober by forgetting to turn on the heater last night. I’d curled up in my comforter and then thrown a quilt on top of that. (Pepper wouldn’t move her fanny when I pulled out the quilt, so she was covered in that as well). When I woke up this morning it was 60F in the house and it was very hard to get myself out of my nest / bed.

Pepper tried to go to work with me this morning. She hopped into my car and was bound and determined that I was going to take her somewhere. I finally dragged her out and put her back into the house. Then I wondered how much trouble it would really cause if I *did* take her to work with me. Honestly, I don’t think my co-workers or bosses would mind, just so long as I kept her on a lead in attached to my desk. I could take her into the back alley to do her business and clean it up. Maybe I’ll consider the idea further... ^^;

03.31.02 :: 23:59

Oi, what a weekend! Let the story telling begin! =]

Good Friday... We got off early that day (didn’t know it until the day was half over already). I’d made arrangements to meet Mike and Vera at my workplace, so I couldn’t leave for long. I went down to my mom’s shop and worked for a couple hours while I waited (there was nothing going on at my workplace). Around 3pm I went back and left a note on the door telling them to knock when they arrived. I then curled up on the floor with the blanket I keep under my desk and took a nap until their knocking woke me up ^^

Vera gave me my Christmas present; a yellow Santa hat with a mouse from Chu Chu Rocket on it. It’s very cool! We went back to my place and puttered around some. Vera got me past the level I was stuck on in Sonic Adventure 2 (and then completed a few more levels on top of that ^^; ) Vera gave me my berfday present: Hikaru Utada’s “traveling” DVD. She thought it was region 2. Fortunately it was region free because I only have my PS2 as a DVD player right now ^^; It was a weird music video. I like it ^_^

After that we worked on cleaning the kitchen while Mike picked up a few things at the market we needed for dinner. (Yes, Yun, she helped me willingly and naggingly :P ) We made chicken curry together. Vera kept a careful eye on Mike and me as we prepared the chicken and rice. Heh, I wouldn’t trust us to not poison ourselves either knowing how I cook ^^;

After that we began round 1 of Vera’s goal of getting me “shit faced” drunk. It didn’t happen ^^; When I drink, I tend to sip and then fall asleep. I consider this a good thing, btw – that I’ll fall asleep before I get too intoxicated ^^; I didn’t drink enough to fall asleep though. We started by watching Hand Maid May DVD 2, but by episode 7 we were well on our way to not caring about the show. It was time to break out Dance Dance Revolution. We took plenty of pictures of each other doing our best to dance ^^;

I woke up entirely too early the next morning when Vera got up, Pepper noticed her, jumped all over me, and then ran off to greet Vera. (Pepper didn’t notice Mike, who’d gotten up first). We played more Sonic, had lunch, and ran some errands before starting the party activities. I hadn’t wrapped Austin, Adam, or Elf’s berfday gifts (I dislike wrapping ^^; ) We picked up “evil” wrapping paper at Toy’s R Us. Y’know the stuff: Barbie, Disney Princesses, and Power Puff Girls. Our wrapping timing was excellent. We’d just finished wrapping Adam and Elf’s gifts when they walked through the door. I wasn’t expecting them until later, but they came early =)

Mike, Vera, Adam, Elf, and I met my folks at the theatre to go see Resident Evil. Oi... I’m still not sure what I think of that movie ^^; I’ve never played the games before, so I can’t tell you how faithful it is. As a stand-alone movie, it struck me as being as pointless as most other thriller / horror flicks, but I’m not a fan of the genre. I guess it was okay. I had my eyes covered for many scenes ^^; Weak stomach for gore...

My parents once again scolded me for picking a bad movie (why do they keep trusting me to choose the flicks? ^^; ) During the movie Austin and Jack came in. When we got out they told us that Jeff and Tim had gone to see a different movie and would catch up with us when it got out. We went back to my house and found Devin sitting there waiting. (Bah, I’d told him to let himself in, but he was too polite ^^; )

Austin popped in Grand Theft Auto III (he brought it with him) to amuse us while we waited for 7pm to roll around. I called people who weren’t there already to remind them of dinner. When I called Brian, he told me he was cleaning his gun and that he’d meet us at the restaurant o.O; ^^; Military grunts [shakes head] It was a good thing I called Justin b’cause he’d forgotten about it completely ^^;

I’ve decided that I need to get my paws on my own copy of GTA3. Austin showed us a lot of things that were amusing. Like how to play sniper on the rooftop and get them to call the national guard on you ^^; We spent at least an hour listening to the Chatterbox radio station while he drove around the city. It was so funny ^_^

Before dinner Vera and I went to the store to pick up the cake I’d ordered. We also went to the liquor store so that she could pick up with round 2 of trying to get me drunk. Next were white Russians since plum wine and hard lemonade hadn’t done the trick the previous night. We’d only picked up pint bottles since Vera and I were the only two planning on drinking in the evening. Devin had asked early in the week to spend Saturday night at my place, so I was planning on 3 overnight houseguests and myself.

Anyhow, dinner at Shoji’s was great. They didn’t put us in the banquet room I’d asked for, but that’s all right. We took over two tables and had enough room left for a couple more people at one of the tables, so they stuck a couple with us. I feel sorry for them, we weren’t what they were expecting, I’m sure. But it was all good. The woman’s berfday had been the previous day, so we lumped hers in with ours and celebrated 6 berfdays ^_^

Oi... Sometimes I want to reach over and just slap my dad upside the head. Actually, I did whap him a few times for picking on the chef. He was being more of a brat than usual. Of course, having Austin and Justin there didn’t help matters at all ^^; My dad insisted that Vera have a hari kari (it’s one of their specialty drinks that has a bit of everything in it. It’s so strong that they cut you off at two because too many people were being dragged out of there afterwards ^^; ) Yeah, so by the end of dinner, Vera was the one who was shitfaced ^^;;

They brought the cake out and Brian volunteered to serve it. He pulled out his pocketknife to slice it and I whapped him too and then handed him the cutting knife they’d brought out with the cake. My dad insisted that he get a center piece, so Brian obliged by taking dad’s piece out first... Without removing any of the pieces surrounding it. I’m surprised that the cake stayed skewed on the knife as well as it did, actually ^^; After that stunt I kicked Brian aside and took over the serving :P

I invited everyone back to my house to watch a movie (Bring It On). It was a lot of fun to tear it apart ^^ Vera made me a white Russian and giggled madly as she waited for me to get as tipsy as she was. It didn’t happen ^^; A bit sleepy, but nothing I couldn’t shake off.

After the movie Elf asked if he could spend the night. I said sure. Then Austin asked if he could spend the night. I said sure. Then Adam asked to spend the night. I said sure (but he’d be getting the floor at this point...) It was getting to be a full house all of a sudden. Then Austin invited Nathan to spend the night (that’s how the dinner party got to be so large in the first place ^^; ) Nathan said sure and I was like “Um, well, you have to figure out where to sleep ‘cause I’m out of beds ^^;” But that was a minor problem that would figure itself out later, there way alcohol to be consumed!

I didn’t drink any more after that one white Russian. Adam and Elf don’t drink. That left Devin, Austin, Nathan and Vera to empty the bottled ^^; What about Mike? It was odd... He wasn’t very happy and spent a lot of the night sulking or gone. We played more DDR. It started with Vera, Nathan and me doing all the playing. Then Elf gave it a whirl. After a few screwdrivers Austin finally tried it as well. (And I took plenty of pictures, no worries ;)

By 2am they’d consumed all the alcohol I’d bought for the evening. I had one bottle of berfday plum wine left, but Nathan wouldn’t touch it ‘cause it was mine (even though I offered it to him). I then remembered that I had a liquor cabinet ^^; (Yes, I go into it *that* often :P ) and said he could drink anything that he found in there. That kept them going ^^;

I went to bed around 3am. ‘Twas tired and I just couldn’t stay up any longer. Elf went to bed not long after that (he was sleeping in my room). I do remember around 4am sleepily stumbling into the living room and telling them to keep it down before going back to bed. It wasn’t until the morning that I found out what they were doing.

Devin was awake and watching the news when I got up. He told me that they’d started playing Soul Calibur after I went to bed. It was going pretty well until Nathan started ‘take a shot if you win a round’. Soon that became ‘take a shot if you lose a round’ and then it was ‘take a shot for any reason you want’ ^^; Devin had cleaned up all the bottles and glasses from the living room before I woke up. When I went out to the kitchen I was amazed at what I found. Apparently there was more in that liquor cabinet then I thought ^^; They’d emptied 4 bottles of liquor that I didn’t even know were in there ^^;

I continued my rounds of the house to assess the damage. Elf was fine, as was Adam (smart of them to not drink). Mike was still feeling moody =/ I ventured back to the master bedroom where I found Austin, Vera, and Nathan on the bed asleep ^^; (It’s the next size larger than a King. Laying either way, my dad can sleep on it without his feet hanging off, and he’s 6’5”). I poked them to see if they were still alive. They asked for water and aspirin ^^;

We spent all of the morning and part of the afternoon back there talking. People kept wandering in and out of the room. Like, Devin would come back and sit on the bed and talk for a half hour before going back to the living room to play more Virtua Fighter 4. The only people who *weren’t* moving were Austin, Vera, and Nathan. All three of them were suffering from varying degrees of hang over ^^; Nathan, the experienced lush of our social group, recovered first and was coaching Austin and Vera on what would help them feel better (it was Austin’s first time of serious drinking and Vera had gone further than she ever had before ^^; )

The rest of us wanted to go to the mall and get something to eat. (They weren’t interested in food, and for good reason ^^; ) It wasn’t until around 2pm that we managed to prod them out of the bed and into the shower. And after all that effort Mike came in and informed us that the mall was closed today ‘cause of Easter ^^; Easter may have closed the mall, but it didn’t close Jack in the Box. We picked up some burgers and went back to the house to eat.

A lot of the afternoon was spent talking, playing games, and whatnot. Austin and Vera remained comatose on a couch ^^; Elf did his laundry. I discovered that Outlook is being stupid and stopped working. I spent some time trying to fix it, and still don’t have it going =/

The guys returned to the school and it was back down to Mike, Vera, and myself. Mike and I went on a quest to find Grand Theft Auto III while Vera napped. We were gone for well over an hour (probably closer to 2) before we found a copy to rent. I was trying to find a copy to buy, but all the stores that would have it were either closed or sold out ^^; It was about 7:30pm now and I poked Vera again to see if she was alive. She was doing better now than she had been earlier in the afternoon. She was hungry and wanted dinner.

Yesterday she’d asked me to make tuna casserole for dinner tonight, so I asked her if she still wanted that. She said yeah and I went off to make it. It’s so gratifying when someone asks you to make them a dish ‘cause they like it ^^ [warm fuzzy feeling] Mike played GTA3 and Vera slinked out to the couch to mellow while dinner cooked. After dinner we watched the last 2 parts of the Ah! My Goddess OVA before calling it a night.

And that was my adventurous weekend =)

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