| Saturday, March 15th, 2003 |
| 12:40 pm |
11. Where have I been? Oh, elsewhere. It doesn't help when no one comments on your bits. Current Mood:  apatheticCurrent Music: Fiona Apple - Sleep To Dream |
| Monday, March 3rd, 2003 |
| 10:11 am |
23. Forgive the 5-day absence. Work, DVDs, and... My parents have been extorting money from my sister for the last several years and extorted money out of me this past Christmas. How? By threatening to kick us out if we don't give each other Christmas and birthday presents. This year I've refused to give my sister a birthday present (her birthday was Friday, the 28th of February) and have found that, for the most part, that threat was quite empty. How can we be so easy to manipulate? We don't love each other by any definition of the term and we respect each other as little as we love each other. She still feels constant regret that I was ever born (she wanted a sister and, when I asked her what I did to her to have her not like me, she replied: "You were born.") and I'm not particularly fond of her (although I've never wanted her not born or to be a male) but for one reason I can think of (family unity) our parents have forced presents out of us for the least the last 5 years. I'm strongly considering paying her back at least $35 (the amount she and her boyfriend gave me for my birthday this year) and perhaps even more for all the presents she's given me in the past. She shouldn't have been forced to give me any presents and I don't think I should be forced to either. I'm not even going to get into how illegal it is to threaten to kick us out if we don't give each other gifts. The question: would you give a present to someone you don't love or respect, even if you were forced to? Current Music: Korn - Dead Bodies Everywhere |
| Wednesday, February 26th, 2003 |
| 10:52 pm |
28. Short and sweet has been the name of my game of late. I bought Ghost in the Shell last night after it won a mental coin flip over Road to Perdition. Trigun is $200 @ Suncoast..f00k. Current Music: Disturbed - Violence Fetish |
| Monday, February 24th, 2003 |
| 10:45 pm |
30. I bought Akira, a pint of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and a pound of Skittles tonight. I don't think I'll be sleeping until tomorrow night. Current Music: Fiona Apple - Criminal |
| Saturday, February 22nd, 2003 |
| 4:52 pm |
32. I found the sound and video of the beginning of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, a live action/cartoon that I watched a lot in my youth. It's so horrible! Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Korn - No One's There |
| Friday, February 21st, 2003 |
| 9:51 pm |
After expressing my discontent about the end of Love Hina... [21:48] <{afk}Dopefish|mIRC> [21:46] [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<arcturus`>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] After expressing my discontent about the end of Love Hina... [21:48] <{afk}Dopefish|mIRC> [21:46] <Arcturus`> Dope: Maybe they'll do Love Hina Yet Again... or Lova Hina Again... Again :) <=== Or "Wouldn't It Have Been Less Anticlamatic to Name the Last Series Something Other Than 'Love Hina Again' Because We're Doing Another Series of Love Hina Shows?" |
| 9:35 pm |
To expand upon what I said on the BeyondUnreal Forums... I got, watched, and finished the last 5 parts of Love Hina and I've come to the following conclusion: As part of the double-edged sword theory, Love Hina is a lot like Neon Genesis Evangelion. On the good hand, they are both wonderful serii (plural for series?). On the bad hand, they end on a very jilted platform. It's agonizing to watch Love Hina and see Naru beat herself up concerning Keitaro, just as it's agonizing to watch NGE not knowing how things will result. But you KNOW things will turn end somehow...and you stick around to find out. Ultimately, seeing both serii end is heartbreaking because they are wonderful despite being dragged out and ending on a flat note. How do Shinji and Asuka recover from the Third Impact? Where does Keitaro and Naru's relationship take them? Obviously it's better than some cartoons which end abruptly and they can't go on forever but...what if they could? Oh well. It's not like I can do anything about it...except dream. Current Mood: blankCurrent Music: Korn - Beat It Up Right |
| 9:18 pm |
Distributed Denial of Service attacks crippled LiveJournal for the last four days (those of you who tried to use LJ know this), so lack of updates can't be blamed on me. 33. Current Music: Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott - Hero |
| Monday, February 17th, 2003 |
| 7:21 pm |
37. Me, to Mother Nature: You and your stupid blizzard can't stop me! The white stuff (read: not jizz...nor Oreo filling...nor sour cream...snow) continues to fall in one nice long block across my part of the country and, for the first time since I started working there, it caused the store to close early (by 3 hours). Of course, it remains to be seen if the store will be closed tomorrow. Either way, it's here and it's coming down hard and fast. Current Music: Disturbed - Liberate |
| Sunday, February 16th, 2003 |
| 10:20 pm |
Forgot to add the story about buying the GameCube. November 2001 I won $1000 in Taco Bell's cross-promotion with Microsoft to p1mp the Xbox. Rather than bore you with the details on how it took me 3 months to get the $1000, I'll just say I got it, finally, in March 2002. One in a million odds of me winning. :) Nicest part is I got the Best Buy PRP with it so I've still got until March 2004 to screw it up somehow. ;) Current Music: System Of A Down - Storaged |
| 10:16 pm |
0. 38. Let's take a trip back in time, shall we? Since the SNES came out, I've sold all my previous systems and games to buy the new system. Sold my NES and games to get the SNES, sold my SNES and games to get the N64, sold my N64 and games to get...the Dreamcast? Whoops. Let's just say I sleep well at night knowing that was the biggest mistake I've made in my life thus far. Anyway, I've still not sold my Dreamcast mainly because I know the demand for a system such as that isn't too high, but also because I don't need to. I have a job, I get money. I can pay for stuff without having to sell other stuff to get it. (Not that getting the GameCube had anything to do with me having a job, story on that in a moment.) Anyway, in selling my N64 stuff one of the games I sold off was The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. I recall the hype surrounding this game and I wouldn't feel special if I couldn't say I owned the limited edition gold catridge (heh, cartridge) for the game. Strangely, I didn't sell the strategy guide with it. I had friends who had OoT so I tried giving them the guide but I couldn't get any takers. The guide is a nice bit of reading, but kind of pointless without the game it gives strategies for. Segue. So, today, I flew through OoT (on the bonus disc you get for pre-ordering The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) up through the Forest Temple with the assistance of my guide. Of course, there were a lot of parts that still stuck with me but we all need a LITTLE help now and again. ;) So, again, I have to wait 38 days for The Wind Waker which looks to be another incredible game. Oddly enough, 250,000 people had pre-ordered TWW before today (the official start to the pre-order). If that gives any indication about how big TWW will be, then so be it. Meanwhile, snow. Lots of snow. Lots of snow to add to the snow we've already gotten. This winter has been just one big snow storm. 2 weeks tops of no snow at all, and then BLAMMO. Current Music: Korn - No One's There |
| Saturday, February 15th, 2003 |
| 9:26 pm |
1. Starting today, a new timer concerning the release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker will begin... 39 days until the release of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Current Music: Rage Against the Machine - Fistful of Steel |
| Friday, February 14th, 2003 |
| 6:09 pm |
2. Another brief hiatus but I'm still here. I got another $0.25 on the salary yesterday. Current Music: Rage Against The Machine - Mic Check |
| Wednesday, February 12th, 2003 |
| 6:03 pm |
4. Brought my jersey to work and impressed people. :) Current Music: Disturbed - Down With The Sickness |
| Tuesday, February 11th, 2003 |
| 9:54 pm |
Well, today I put my new jersey through the spin-o-rama (washing machine, dryer) and it still smells as it did out of the UPS bag. Drawback: a bunch of threads are poking out. I trimmed the longer ones. :/ Oh well...if I have this jersey when I get married I'll be happy. :) Current Music: Korn - My Gift To You |
| Monday, February 10th, 2003 |
| 9:02 pm |
As reported about half an hour ago, I finally received my Pittsburgh Penguins customized road jersey. No quarrels with NHL.com's store because I did order it on Christmas Eve, but I'm certainly glad to have it anyway.   Current Music: Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank |
| 8:36 pm |
I got it! :) Current Mood: happy |
| 12:01 am |
8. Good news: my jersey comes today. Bad news: I won't get to flaunt it until 8:30. Good news: I don't have to open or close. Bad news: Um...something. Current Music: Nickelback - Hollywood |
| Sunday, February 9th, 2003 |
| 9:40 pm |
If you're as avid a 'Net person as I am (meaning, someone who checks out popular stuff), you'll notice Penny Arcade is down. Yep. For the curious DLJ reader, here is my current Winamp playlist. I own over 85% of those mp3s, something a lot of mp3ers can't say. Also, here is an entertaining page. Current Music: Rage Against the Machine - Freedom |
| 12:28 am |
And I've got to go to work on my day off! Current Mood:  disappointedCurrent Music: Disturbed - Intoxication |
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