Well, despite the taboo that goes with it, I like playing with dolls...

Ok, so I like The Sims, not normal dollhouses, and most people wouldn't think of it that way (especially the male players of the game,) that's basically what The Sims is, a big dollhouse. And I've been an aficionado of The Sims since it's original release. I purchased the original game back in 2000 just after it came out and have played it off and on now for the past 4 years. At first the premise of a reasonable self sufficient AI drew me in, then it was becoming the master of a particular profession, then I moved through the male specific pastime of discovering and exploiting ways of killing my sims, from swimming pool accidents, to trapping the maid in a room with no doors or food. Then I got into architecture. That's where I've been at for a while now. rosebud (The money cheat code) has lead me down the path of trying to find house layouts that allow the little sims to go about their daily business without their rather idiotic navigation AIs getting them killed (Traffic jams at doors almost never resolve and people will crash in doorways after enough time and eventually starve.) I would spend hours building a house for 8 (I only made minimalistic designs, I wanted to keep cost down if I could.) Then I would fill it up with sims and let them get to their business, and if no one got jammed up in a doorway, hallway, staircase (although there was a nifty bug that could render the stairs a non object), or sidewalk, I would declare it a victory. The best one I came up with was a prision, (Think 8 very small crappy houses stuck together.) I never did buy any of the XPaks though, I just didn't feel like sinking $30 into my doll house. But that's not why I'm writing.

EA Games will release later this year (hopefully) The Sims 2. This version takes advantage of new graphics and better AI (presumably only now available because of memory and processor requirements.) It adds some WAY cool additions like true 3D camera movement, aging (A feature that was sorely missed in the original), hereditary traits, better AI, weather, and a much better sim customization method. Also your sims can get fat, so now your clothes don't make you so... (An interesting feature of the original was that your sims would get fat or skinny based on what they where wearing...) I just want to see what I can do with the customization engine as well as how the hereditary traits work. They say that there are dominant and recessive genes in the game and that each "child" follows in the footsteps of their genetic memory. Babies grow into toddlers, into children, teens, adults and finally into old age and death. I am just giddy over the idea of being able to support multiple generations of victims, uh, I mean, little computer people, (Which is, BTW, a great game for the C64 that is just like the sims on a much smaller scale.)

In any case, I can't wait for it to come out. We'll just have to wait and see what happens. But you can see some of the promo videos on EA's The Sims 2 home page. Check out the videos. Looks absolutely frame-lag-a-licious! But good... I promise. ;)

Look at all the happy flaming people...

Mood: Overjoyed, and apparently sadistic... I need the weekend to hurry up...

Well... Now that I have a few moments where I'm not doing homework, chores, or waiting for a bus... :)

I've been trying to get up to the present in "College Roomies from Hell!!!". It's an awesome comic about three guys who get stuck together in the same dorm room, the three girls who are in the dorm next door, a hooker, a psychotic mother, and an obsessive teenager. It's REALLY funny. And the best thing is: It's published every day! That means that I get all the CRFH every day, not just on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Schewa!!!

As far as school goes, I finally have a chance to sit down and talk about it. First things first: I swear, never, ever again will I take 4 killer classes in the same semester I plan to work 20 hours a week. Because of this idiocy, I now have something on the order of 15 hours of homework that I have to do on sunday every week, plus 4 hours every Monday through Wednsday. The problem is that with 12 hours a day allocated to school and work, 4 hours of homework, and 8 hours of sleep (If I plan to be at all effective at work and school), I now have 24 hours of stuff packed into 24 hours. But wait! There's a problem! I need something like 4 consecutive hours of fun time if I have any intent of not going insane!!! Now, I have all of Friday off, so that helps, but unfortunately, that means by the end of Thursday I have 4 days of insanity built up. And let me tell you, I am a very unstable person. 4 days of my normal insanity is kind of like a month of solitary confinement to the average mortal. This means that by the end of the week, I'm trying to make sunny side up eggs with a sledge hammer. It's not a pretty sight. At this rate I can pretty much assume that I will have pulled all of my hair out by the end of the semester. But the good news is that I'll never have to take this particular set of classes ever again.

However...

From what I can tell, there is no change in the difficaulty of my classes between now and when I graduate. After this semester, I'll have only two GE's left to pad my schedule: Principals of Microeconomics and an upper division philosophy class. That means it's going to be specialty classes from here on out, and I don't see any of those classes getting any easier. *SIGH*

Ah well, I guess I'll figure out something before now and when I graduate. Or I won't and it won't matter because the guys with the white coats will come and take me to a place where they don't care what your educational level and experience are... Hopefully no mortians will be involved, but we'll see...

...yzarc ginog ylwols ma I .dnekeew eht llit yad erom eno ylnO

Mood: Disturbed... Very Disturbed...

AAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!!

I havn't had but like 30 minutes to have fun in the past 3 days!!! I'll post again when I get a chance...

I Hate Homework!!!!

Mood: isagoyflielkufgisay7tg!!!!

3 Hours....

What could you do in 3 hours? Well, you could:

• Play Final Fantasy XI
• Write a program to simulate the harmonic motion of springs
• Design and build your own crystal radio
• Play a full game of baseball, football, basketball, hockey, or soccer
• Watch 7 episodes of anime on DVD
• Finish studying for a 3 credit hour class
• Watch 6 episodes of american cartoons, complete with commercials

What did I do with the first three hours of my day? I dropped off my brother at school and drove 11 miles to work.

Seriously! I got up at 6:00 AM, got ready for work and school, left the house at 6:30 AM. Then I dropped off my brother at 7:00 AM, and at 7:30 AM got on the highway. By 8:30 AM I had made it 20 blocks. I finally arrived at work at 9:30 AM, which left me only 2 hours till I had to leave for school! I was horiffic. Normally, when I know I'm going to be in the car for 3 hours, I bring some CDs and other stuff to keep me busy. But it normally takes me between 15 minutes and an hour to get to work. And it only takes an hour on the worst of days... But not today... Nope, no siree... Icy roads = 3 hour drive to work...

Gawd!

But I had a good weekend. Right up until I went to do my homework and it took me a full day... That kind of sucked, but I did get to watch all of Blue Seed. And let me tell you, that show is strange! Not the strangest show I've ever watched, but definately up there... And it had blue sparklies too! The ending only made kind of sence and basically boild down to FUIM. BUt that's neither here nor there... In any case, it was fun to watch.

Geez, I where's a truck stop when you need one... I need to stretch...

Mood: Stiff

Oh and I took this morality test thingy... Check out my Morality! 62% liberal, 38% conservative.

but the test is highly overgeneralizing... For example: One of the questions on the test is "Do you believe abortion is Right/Wrong?" and you can answer along a gradient... Well, after pondering the question for a long time prior to taking the test, I decided that because I am a male and will never be faced with that kind of decision, it's really not fair of me to attempt to qualify right and wrong.

I mean, most people would never think themselves qualified to discuss the ethics of commenting in code and the nature of software development. As such, I don't find myself qualified (For anatomical reasons, not educational, but the point remains the same...) to make ethics judgments about abortion.

Another question asked me about the legalization of Marijuana. The choices where a gradations of yes to no. I answered yes, definitely. But the reason I answered that doesn't come from morality. Drugs are bad. They're an overall drain on society, and serve no value to the community (the way most people use them.) Thus drug usage is wrong... But Marijuana should be legalized. The reason comes from the societal drain that drug law enforcement, and black market peddling brings. With thousands spent on misdemeanors offenses, a drug with similar effects to alcohol, and a VIOLENT black market, there's really no reason to continue to encourage people to deal the stuff in back alleys and lace it with stiffer drugs like cocaine. Legalization means subjugation by the FDA, sin taxes (Taxes on things like gas, beer, and cigarettes), and enough competition by big companies (The organized crime rings... lol...) to drive the back alley peddlers out of business. I'll be it, the companies are just as bad for the number of crimes committed, but they ruin lives with lawyers, not bullets. Some say that's a worse fate than death, but at least you're alive to consider it.

So take what you see with a grain of salt... Not that most things shouldn't, but that's a topic for a different time.

Ah... But who cares about morality when money's involved...

Mood: Still Eh...

2 class sessions down, only 118 left to go.

The first day went smoothly thanks to a little bit of planning. The campus I go to is rather large and it can take me quite a bit of time to move between buildings. So if I'm not careful I can end up with classes that are too far apart from each other and too close to each other time wise that I cannot actually make it to class on time. So I put many hours into making my schedule (in 15 minute chunks... I'm lazy remember?) and try to come up with the optimal schedule. Every semester, however, I seem to end up being forced to take one class where the timing is tight. This time it's my two math classes. The classes are 10 minutes apart, and 2 blocks apart. Worried, I spent all the time necessary to find my classes up front and found them before they where supposed to start. Then I timed how long it took me to get there. When I found out that it only took me 3.5 minutes to make the trip, I finally relaxed and sat down to read "The New Tenchi Muyo" volume 3. Dark Washu is cool... I also got around to drawing again (A pastime I save for boring classes...) and drew a back to school picture of Jim and another unnamed girl (I'll post it soon.) I'll continue trying to draw more than one person in the same scene this semester. Also more interaction between them (This one has the placed disociatively apart.)

At home I played generals and waxed yet another easy AI that had a prebuilt base (I should turn it up, but laying the smackdown is fun!) Didn't even bother to log on to FFXI... I'm never gonna get to lvl 25 if I don't play now will I? But then again the game is loosing it's allure (like galaxies and EQ did). Stupid GADD (Game Attention Deficit Disorder). Oh well...

Well, we'll see how tonight goes.

Mmmmm... Raspberry Blackberry flavored soda water...

Mood: Eh...

In response to imp's post on homosexuality (which is in response to another post somewhere else...)

It is difficult to use genetic diversity in plants as an argument for homosexual intercourse. The plants do not have homosexual intercourse and the farmer's lack of genetic diversity came from heterosexual exchange of genetic material. Homosexuality does not enforce genetic diversity on any level, as it cannot result in a new genetic consequence. Even if by choice, homosexuals must at some time, by some means engage in a crossgender exchange of genetic material in order to provide genetic diversity and strength against the rigors of a natural system. This means that the diversity that is found in homosexuality is a cultural diversity, not a genetic diversity.

However...

Cultural diversity is an important point as well in the process of the "Human Experience". Without said diversity, given social and cultural groups stagnate. The feudal system was only removed because of an injection of external ideas from there cultural viewpoints. As such homosexuality may be nessicary in society to provide progress. How it teaches us, however, may not necessarily be by positive or negative example, but instead by the development of cultural tolerance or acceptance and the path leading to it.

Oh... And BTW...

If "Seems to me that if the only way we were designed to go together was man inside woman, there wouldn't be any need for such sensitive areas in such convenient places." holds true than any argument that is pleasure with no practical ends, such as homosexual sex (which leads to nothing but pleasure, and has no practical ends,) and drug use (the only reason for getting high that I am aware of is personal pleasure,) can all be justified (and for any level of drugs, from marijuana all the way to heroine). However, you're right on the "Just because it leads to child birth it's healthy doesn't fly" point. A lot of things that are natural are wrong and could lead to larger problems (Like overpopulation.)

Lessons Learned

Mood: Ponderous

Well, school starts tomorrow. And you know what? This semester is seriously gonna suck! Mixing Calc III, Diff EQ, Physics II, and Circuits I. All of them are high load classes. Add 4-6 hours of work before classes and 12 hour days, it's just gonna be rough. Well, it's late and I need to get my stuff together, so I'm gonna keep this short and call it a night.

*Shudder*

Mood: Sleepy

Let's consider a thought for a moment. Envision you have a child. This child is about one and a half years old. He Cannot speak to you but is capable of motoring around by themselves. Now, envision that you have a front yard. You like to let your child play in the front yard. But your front yard has no fence, and the neighbors are butt heads and will complain if your child is on their lawn. So you purchase a lightweight tazer (Not a self defense one, think more along the lines of playing with the pizeoelectric sparker on a BBQ lighter, which BTW, hurts a lot, but won't take you to your knees like a combat tazer will.) You mount it to the throat of your child, along with a beeper and a radio receiver, and then place a proximity transmitter loop in the boundary to your lawn. Set it up so that the beeper goes off at say 3 feet and the tazer goes off at 1 foot from the radio loop. You then lead your child around the yard. When your child goes close enough to the loop to cause the device to beep, you pull him back away from the loop. Then once or twice you let him wander close enough to set off the tazer. And rather than let him cry you briskly sweep him away from the loop. Then when you let him out into the yard, you make sure you have this device on your child.

Now, if I saw you do this to your child I'd call social services. I mean, that's cruel and unusual, and there's no way that the poor kid could know why. But this happens every day with only one modification: the one and a half year old is replaced with an equally naive dog. Now, the thought patterns of a dog and a one and a half year old are about on par, so the chances of knowing why this is all happening is poor. I mean, if the dog could be told why you need an invisible fence, you could just tell him that streets are dangerous and the neighbors don't like it being on the lawn. But they can't, so rather than being a good "parent" and not letting our "child" play on the front lawn instead of the back lawn, we've resorted to shock therapy. Now, does this really make sense? I mean come on!

(Bzzztttt!) "Yipe!"

Mood: disgusted

I saw this absolutely AWESOME stick figure guy combat (Almost no blood, yea) animation on another blog. So I have to post you the link. See it now! I also DLed the file, so if the link ever gets broken, I can post that...

Gardening. Well, Kilara has spent the last two days watching the grass grow. Literally. Every moment I've been home Kilara has been logged in and watching her grain and vegitable seeds grow. Sad, I know. But that's because I've been working on another project: The Crystal Cataclysm. It's a Radically streamlined vessel in the shape of a 8 faced crystal (2 tetrahedrons connected on their bases) that is the carrier of a Mega Particle Beam Cannon. Well, that and 7 Rainbow Gatling Lasers for shooting down close range foes, a 3G engine, and a full plane space jump drive. Weighing in at 200 KLbs (or about 100 tons) the Crystal Cataclysm is a $22 Million Ship that can penetrate all but the toughest force screen. With luxorious accomidations for 1 and room for 10 in a pinch, It has all you need for long term space flight. Think of it as a bedroom with a steering wheel. And don't forget Lithos, the self sentient complexity 6 robotic brain of the ship. Capable of being your friend, copilot, navigator or gunner, Lithos is sure to please. 500 mile realspace sensors and consume convienence's best value choice in plane space sensors mean you will never be left in the dark when traveling in the great void.

Not bad huh...

Now I just need to design a character who can afford it... :)

Bang! pow! Shwoosh!

Mood: Awestruck

Been a while since I blogged (Well, for me anyway...) But in any case, Things have been going fair. Kilara broke her favorite taru taru rod and now uses a clothes pole to fish. Unfortunately, I need a small fish rod to catch anything with the sibiki rig I was using before. So I'm just gonna have to go get another taru taru rod so I can do my Fish till dawn maneuver (insect balls are expensive as compared to using the sibiki rig which costs nothing.)

Spoony! and I did manage to defeat a hard AI in C&C Generals yesterday. It was one heck of an achievement all things considered. He played as the GLA Stealth general and I played as the Chinese Infantry general (My Favorite one.) Because of his stealth the AI left him alone, but he kept smacking on me. So I played the role of cannon fodder, holding the AI's attention while Spoony! amassed his invasion force. Then I used my air strike and carpet bombing to down the AI's power (and thus his defensive structures,) and since he had all of his forces trying to run me over, his base was basically unprotected once the power was down. We then struck at his remaining power, then laid to waste the remainder of his base. As an interesting point, he lost more units than I did, an amazing feat considering that he kept fuel air bombing my infantry defenses. Eh, but if you win, who cares?

School starts up pretty quick here, but since there's no classes on Monday, that means I'll have worked 2 weeks and 2 days at full time this month. That means that just the first half of this month should pay off most of the money I took out of my account for school. W007! And since I then work 20 hours a week for the next several months, instead of 16 like last semester, the hope is that I'll actually get back up to my desired amount before the end of the semester, leaving my summer money to the task of buying anime and computer upgrades.

Life on a ship in a bottle.

Mood: Moderate (but feeling a bit ill)

Looking around at different stuff on the how stuff works website and ran across a link to this article: The radioactive boy scout: when a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor. Now I've tried quite hard to link this with it's supossed source on Harper's Magazine and havn't been able to tie it. But that's not why I'm writing.

Over the years I've studied quite a bit of chemistry, atomic theory, etc, and come to know quite a few things. And based on what they talk about in the article, I can't see any reason why the described method wouldn't work. I mean, a radium paint radiation source, acting upon the thorium and uranium targets though a neutron converter would definately create bigger isotopes. And I've known about the radioactive isotopes in smoke detectors for ages now. I mean, how better to build a smoke detector than to use ionizing radiation in conjunction with an electron source. Heck, I've even developed schematics for a geiger counter based on the reverse smoke detector effect (i.e. trapping smoke in a chamber, placing two plates in the chamber, electrifying the plates, and then measuring the current flow through the smoke junction.

What bothers me though, is that the article inadvertantly contains enough technical information to build your own makeshift breeder reactor. I'm lazy, and don't have the attention span required to build a crystal radio, but someone with a bit more motivation could easily use the instructions to build their own reactor. The boy in the article really only needed three things to get started, the radium paint, the thorium from the lantern covers, and the lithium from the batteries. The remaining components are freely availible (Beakers, bunsen burners, aluminum foil) from places like Hobby Lobby and Safeway. All of the other stuff he used where "the things that didn't work." A person who would want to irradiate a place could take the direct route to his final result and bypass all of the steps that he took in the middle and go straight to a breeder reactor. Which is a wonderfull way of killing and maiming hundreds. Just invision making several of these devices (Which at the start are only mildly radioactive), and then placing them about a neighborhood. As the breeder converted more and more of the thorium into U-233, the amount of radiation in the area would grow enourmously.

But heck, am I any better? I provided a link to the directions, and then suggested a way to use it as a weapon of terror... It's actually kind of concerning to even consider the ramifications of this kind of thing.

Oh look Timmy! That thing there glows. Let's take it home with us.

Mood: Happy (Information is cool no matter the ramifications.)

Pots, pots, Linarou has pots. Brass pots, clay pots, all in different shades...

Okay, okay, so she only has 2, and they're both brass... But the point remains the same: My Gardening char now can actually go about the process of gardening. And yesterday I pulled a bunch of Taru Tartu Rice, Blue Peas, and Light crystals from my plants. The first two aren't worth anything... But the Light crystals are worth a fortune. I pulled 10 of them, and if I sell them one at a time, then I can turn the 10 of them into about 3K. Awesome.

On the personal level, I figure I might be able to get my cash flow back to stabilized this semester. My reserves have been slowly draining since last semester, and now I think that my total cash flow should have a positive value. Always a good thing.

Nothing like stealth... Nothing.

Mood: Happy

Did some system administration on Motoko. More tightening down on the security. And I sent an e-mail to all the guys about their e-mail accounts. Apparently, some of them had tried to give people their email address with the wrong capitolization. On a unix server you can't do that, you must get the right caps. Well, for the username at least, but the point remains the same. Also locked down FTP better so that nobody can escape their home directories unless I let them. And I won't. MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Uh, *cough*, ya...

Anyway, the hope is that as time passes my user base will grow, or at least all of my users will take an active part in the process that is the web server. Mostly, what I want from them is to make sure that they keep active in our little community. Now most of them do by means of the friday night gathering. But people like Kayman and NightDrako sometime just can't. So the hope is that they'll make good use of the e-mail, forum, and web page services and stay active. However, some people fail to so. Omega Bum has been absentee now for some time on fridays and the forums. Now I know he got his name for just those reasons, but it worries me when we don't hear from him for long periods.

With FFXI out, many of us do communicate (via the NQIG link shell,) and a lot of that just doesn't show up in a permanent record anywhere. So I guess that that really counts as well, but still. Many of us can't be on at the same time (Again, like Omega Bum and myself) so things like e-mail and the like really help bridge the differences in schedules.

Ah, who knows... Anyway, one of these days I'm so gonna get a T1, some coustemers and a T1 router with a set of channel modems so I can run an ISP and give low cost access to my friends. I tried to do that before with our second telephone line and my DSL for one guy, but the ol' man said no. Oh well.

CHEDDER IS BETTER!!!!!

Mood: Self Satisfied

This was a little something I came up with a while back about what happens when feminisim goes too far. Unfortunately, there aren't many men out there who could fit this role, as the amount of gender bias, although way down from previous years, is still unbelievably high. But there are an increasing number of women who fit the bill, and it's a point which conserns me.

The Truth About Equal Rights

Cast:

Man - Woman's husband and equal opportunist
Woman - Man's wife and extremist feminist

Man: Could you help me by mopping the floors? I'll begin dusting the furniture.
Woman: Help you mop the floors?! Why should I mop the floors? Is it because I'm a woman? Am I expected because of gender alone to enjoy cleaning?
Man: (Dusting) No, I just want...
Woman: I don't care what you want! I have wants and needs too! I have rights!
Man: Well, so do I but I have to...
Woman: Sure, you have the right to watch football and go out drinking with your buddies while I'm stuck at home mopping because I'm a woman.
Man: Actually I don't drink, we both agreed to that.
Woman: It's irrelevant. You always demand that I do the cooking and cleaning. Well, men don't deserve the treatment that you get from us women.
Man: I agree with the "deserve the treatment" but not the way you ment it when you said it.
Woman: What? You think you deserve more?
Man: Yes and no.
Woman: Well, what more do you want? We cook for you and clean for you and do your clothes for you. What? Want us to put your slippers on for you?
Man: (stops dusting and folds arms) If that where the case, then we wouldn't be having this argument.
Woman: What?! If I put your slippers?
Man: No if you cleaned. Now could you please get the mop?
Woman: I've never seen such insensitivity
Man: yah, ya, men are evil.
Woman: Men deserve the rights of pig dogs.
Man: And women deserve the same rights as men?
Woman: Yes!
Man: (Begins dusting again) Then let us all be pig dogs together and get the house cleaned up. Then it will be clean for your ladies club meeting. Which I might remind you, caused my civil libraties lobby meeting to be canceled and relocated.
Woman: Ugh! (Storms out for a mop)

Nothing like a mop to bring out the best in someone.

Mood: Neutral

W007!!!!!

Man visits Mars by proxy once more!

Despite the failure of the Beagle 2 probe, the American made probe Spirit has landed and is transmitting pictures of the martian landscape. Schwea!

As for Kilara and Linarau, Linarau is having trouble coming up with money for pots, and Kilara has taken up fishing. So now I garden and fish, both for cash. The hope is that I'll find some good fishing in town, and be able to fish without endangering my beautiful plants. Ok, so they're really not all that beautiful, but you get the idea.

And as trivial as it may seem, it feels kind of weird being mentioned in the paragraph immediately following a discussion of a man's first guy-guy kiss. It doesn't actually mean anything obviously, as the writing was in a log about someone's week, and he came to my house the day after new years, so it makes logical sense from a chronological sequencing point of view But it's something new and different. But then again, even being mentioned by someone else in a place other than my own site or on the forums is new too. Typically, (by design I might add,) I try and keep to myself. Years of issues in school taught me the value of anonmitity as a form of defense for my absolutely atrotious social skills. Eh, so things are.

But then again, maybe it's all a matter of peers. Most of my lot, as adept as they are with computers, tends to be lazy as all hell. And just don't seem to like doing anything that involves effort, like maintaining a web site, or keeping a blog. And it's not like they don't know how. 70% of them know HTML, 30% know UNIX management, and the rest know who to ask. But right now the only people who I've spent any time with that have a staning web site (that is actually maintained on an interval more frequent than once a month) are Icy and OniAkki. One or two more actually have some kind blog as their only presence on the web, and I was able to coax Spoony, Hobbit, and Cyan into making a website. But most of those go unaffected for months at a time. *Sigh* But I guess that's the way things go when a sloth would call your friends lazy.

I think that's enough rantage for one day, so

See Ya!

Mood: Happy, Confused, and Disappointed...

And now, back to our normal schedule of basic rants and daily updates!

For those of you who don't know me, I'm an obsessive freak. Now as an interesting point, I obsess a lot, but about a lot of different things. And it changes, frequently. For example, there was the CDRR (Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers) period, then Love Hina, and that evolved into my obsession with Nadesico. All of my obsessions are never forgotten, they just become less important with me. As such, I will finish my CDRR story... It's just taking me a while to work out how to end the story... :)

However, my personal life has continued unabated down my path to ultimate happiness, I have a new video game. :) Command and Conquer: Generals with the Zero-Hour expansion. It is a bad A** game! Like all the other C&C's but with schewa grapics and the coolest group ever, the GLA. In games where all you wannt to do is be really annoying and make your friend paraniod, there's no one like the GLA to keep your opponent on his toes. I'll be it, this is because they are the Global Liberation Army, a group of terrorists... But fun is fun no matter what the name they apply to the sprites. :)

Oh, and now I have 6 books of manga that I'm going to have to get to when school starts back up. Thinking of which, they should be sending me a bill pretty quick for the classes I signed up for. Another $2000 of perfectly good upgrades and DVD thrown down the black hole of education. Ah, but the hope stands that I'll make enough after school to pay it all off. Not that I'm going to school for the money mind you... I picked my major purely out of interest in the subject; the fact that it may lead to employment and better saleries later is purely coincedental. I just wanted to be able to do circuit design without melting twenty-five bucks worth of components because I have no idea what I am doing. :)

To the bank Alfred, and step on it!

Mood: Eh, so so with a little bit of happy.

To start with I read this great quote,

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever - Anonymous

And I got to thinking about that. You know, normally quotes are tidbits of wisdom congealed into a couple of words. But something struck me; did this bit of wisdom help the author? I mean look at it! A quote about quotes making your name live forever, written by an anonymous author! Either someone tampered with the quote, invalidating it anyway, or they didn't believe in their own quote or want their name to live forever. Not exactly the best source of advice I can think of. :)

But besides that, Life has been good. Kilara now is level 24 and has blizzard (Yea!), and I've started another character named Linarau (Pronounced Lee-na-reow, with a bit of a purr in the last syllable) for the purposes of gardening. She's short some pots (Ok, she doesn't have any pots at all yet, But it's taken me this long just to get the 10 Kilara has.) But she has progressed nicely as a monk. The reason I'm doing this is so that I can get her to a point where I can kill Walking Sapling after Walking Sapling and get seeds and crystals readily for her. But she may continue leveling afterwards, just as something else to do. :)

Oh, and I was looking at purchasing a new Motherboard, CPU, and RAM for MuggleEater. The P4 HT (Hyperthreading) processors have really come down in price, and the jump to dual channel 333 or 400 MHz RAM would really up my speed. Owch!!! $500... I don't have that kind of cash... Well, at the moment anyway...

*Sigh*

Mood: Disappointed