Well, I took the advice of Imp on the Social Stigma forums, and added a comment tool. I'm not sure if it works (I'll be commenting on this post when I finish,) but if it does, you should be able to make direct responses to my blog. I'm using BlogSpeak to provide this service, but I don't think I'll keep it there forever (At which time all comments will be lost X-|,) because I don't want to be a drain on their servers. But that means I'd have to write my own PHP app and keep the DB on my server, but it's not really beyond my skill to do. We'll see...

Christmas had an interesting twist. By trading and exchanging the different gift cards I got with my parents and my bro, and actually got what I wanted on my Christmas list. When all of the smoke cleared, I got #3 of the Chobits DVD's, books 6,7, and 8 of the Chobits mangas, the Bruce Almighty DVD (A great movie I might add, two thumbs up!), Call of Duty, Neverwinter Nights Gold edition (I have NWN original, but it's the ORIGINAL, the installer is actually broken and crashes on every XP system I've tried it on), a 256 Meg USB Flash drive, a weight set (Yes, a fat lazy bum like me presses weights), some CDRs, new headphones, and $50 to the college book store. A pretty good haul.

As for the rest of my life, I've had trouble substantiating the pattern for gardening in FFXI. My last test crop, a 5 plant test, driven with grain seeds and earth crystals (Always examined at the same time, feed the crystals at the same time, harvested at the same time) yielded TaruTaru Rice and Lightning crystals. I think I need to reexamine my patterns. Also, I think I might take Spoony's advice and play in the Freetrader campaign with a multimillionaire char who owns his own freighter, or maybe a criminal with a stolen ship, or an entrepreneur with a business loan. We'll see.

And that's how the cookie crumbles.

Mood: Excited