February 28, 2003
Yay for mobile installation...

Purchased a new CD/MP3 head unit for the Volvo yesterday, and today, dropped the car off at 12:30 (1.5 hours late for the appointment, but I kinda got the car stuck in a large snow drift trying to leave the driveway), left Best Buy at 1:30 (had to wait for Patty to return and pick me up), and stayed at campus. The car wasn't ready until 8:30 (!), but we went there, spent another few minutes while the computer decided not to like my card, and tried out the system - works nice ^^ On the way home, though, I noticed a few problems...

1) The new unit puts out a LOT of heat... either it just runs hot or it's not properly insulated from the heating vent right below it.
2) One of the lights illuminating the dashboard no longer lights, leaving half the dashboard dark at night. (Makes it harder to check gas levels.)
3) The glove compartment light no longer lights. Can't see a thing in there at night.

I'll probably call or visit the service bay tomorrow and see what they can do about these issues, but other than that, it's nice to have a working soundsystem again ^^

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February 27, 2003
DNS sucks...

[02:53] *** Resolved telekawaru.com to 209.123.85.17
[02:53] *** Resolved www.telekawaru.com to 216.65.99.198

Something's definitely wrong there -_- (The first IP is the correct one.)

A random discovery I recently made - the Volvo has cruise control! ^^; Turns out the trigger is that little button on the turn signal knob that I thought did nothing (and occasionally played with) ^^; There's no dashboard indication that it's turned on, either, and there seems to be a problem with it turning itself on at random, but at least I know how to trigger it now ^^; That would have made the trip to/from NJ a LOT easier ^^;

So basically, the only significant things that have happened this week - I've been playing a lot of Kingdom Hearts -Final Mix- and am having fun with all the new stuff (though it's infinitely harder to synthesize Ultima Weapon now - maybe I'll have to just deal with just using the One Winged Angel keyblade since I'll probably get that first)... and I need to buy .hack//Infection and Guilty Gear XX sometime. ^^; Maybe Marvel vs. Capcom 2 PS2 too, just cuz...

(Hmm... "2 PS2 too"... sounds... odd...) ^^;

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February 24, 2003
ADV owns me... again...

Yep. Got the 2nd ADV check today, which would have actually come a LOT sooner if I had actually finished that project on schedule ^^;;

Will deposit tomorrow, I suppose... another thing to add to the long list of things to do tomorrow... but today, I mellow out with more Kingdom Hearts -Final Mix- ^^;

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Nyaaa~...

[11:06] <bludstone|work> happily dead?
[11:06] <Chiya> yep
[11:06] * Chiya totemo tanoshinderu
[11:06] <bludstone|work> how do you manage that, oh jascii one?
[11:06] <Chiya> heh tanoshinderu

Well, if I don't update, it probably means there hasn't been anything worth writing about =P

The package from ducky arrived on Saturday - I am now the proud owner of Kingdom Hearts J, Kingdom Hearts -Final Mix-, and Pretear R3 ^^; Also picked up X TV Vol.3... and Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (uncut) ^^;; Bought it blind, I'll try it out later... everyone who has the disc tells me it's not 4:3 like the snapper case claims, so hopefully that's true...

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February 21, 2003
Tragic story...

Jacqueline Saburido

This is a very tragic story of what can happen if you drink and drive - if you do, it's not just your own life that can be ruined. This isn't an easy thing to look at, but I think people need to know what can happen. Aya-chan cried when she looked at this. ;_;

Link from Rebelpilot.

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February 19, 2003
Back to the routine...

Tomorrow, the campus will finally re-open after being closed down by our little freak blizzard. Although there's still over a foot of snow along the sides of the road, the roads themselves are drivable for the most part, so it makes sense to return to the normal pattern of things as soon as possible. I can't imagine how far classes are set back now...

I was up really late into the morning, so I slept into the afternoon. Watched ZoE Dolores,I DVD3, and checked out the trailers - finally, a Princess Blade trailer ^^ I planned to get more ADV work done today, but the opportunity didn't emerge. Maybe tomorrow I can make some headway into that...

As for IIDX, turns out it won't be as cheaply acquired as my contact near Osaka thought it would be - turns out it will cost about $70/controller (new) before shipping, so I don't know how much that will cost... he's being generous in allowing the payment to float a little, though... I can't thank him enough for that... I'm also going to ask him to throw in that Ishida Yoko album that's going to release soon... next month, I have to get Soul Calibur II, and then DDR MAX2 the month after...

I also just realized I forgot to call in to Suncoast and see what hours I was put on for this week ^^;;; Naturally, I assumed it would be safe not to show up for work during the blizzard, but it was possible I had to work today and I wouldn't know it... I'll have to give them a call tomorrow and find that out, I can say I got stuck out of state until last night... which is only stretching the truth by one day ^^;;;;

*yawn* Well, off to get back to work... sigh...

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February 18, 2003
Bwahaha...


I'M HOME!!!


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Katsucon does not end ^^; ...

And I still haven't made it all the way home yet - I'm at Josh's house, surrounded by gigantic snow drifts you can't see over. Not sure how to get back home from here...

Anyways, con was fun, though it lasted far longer than anyone expected it to ^^; I guess I'll just recap in sequence...

Friday morning, as usual, woke up later than usual. Did a post office run, but ended up coming a little short, so I had to send the contract and invoice to ADV via standard mail rather than Priority as planned. Jascii's singles still went out Priority, though... went home, and carpy arrived before I got a chance to pack ^^; Started packing up while carpy watched some TV (sorry about that!!), and we immediately departed for Montgomery Mall (playing some DDR GBC on the way). Took care of my business there (deposited $30 check, cashed paycheck, and exchanged CCS GN7 for one that had the Sakura card, yay!), and we headed off.

Arrived at Katsucon, did the reg line, and went to the dealers' room after I was done. (Carpy would be occupied longer since he did not pre-reg...) Bought MT GN1 and an entirely too expensive 6-page PitaTen 2003 calendar. ^^; Eventually met up with Mariela, Patrick, David, carpy, etc, and went to David's room. Eventually left, and got stuff out of carpy's car. However, since Patty was arriving late, I had nowhere to put it, so I ended up just dragging it all to the game room, where I would stay for the rest of the night ^^; We ended up using my PS2 + DDR MAX J for the tournament qualifiers station, and someone else's JPS2 + my PPP game+controllers for another station... for the rest of the night ^^; So I was in the game room for the entire night. Though Patty did eventually come eventually to pick up my stuff, and later to deliver food ^^;;

Woke up around 8:30 on Saturday morning to go to the early, early morning panels (ugh), though at least at the ADV panel I won a copy of Nuku Nuku by answering a Princess Nine trivia question ^^; Not much in particular really happened after that, more dealers' room, more game room, and some napping in the hotel room ^^; Eventually, went down and saw Dave among others ^^; Eventually, that led to me being able to enter the cosplay hall, skipping the lines and sitting in the area set aside for press ^^;; Watched Mariela and Patrick's cosplay skit... they won best in class, yay! Can't recall doing anything significant after that...

Sunday, woke up early again, but still missed some of the early panel (again)... it was starting to snow quite heavily, and it was apparently decided that we would not be checking out that night, but staying another night. Finished up with the panels, ate, etc... and people started to realize that people weren't going to be able to leave ^^; The con was now stuck, and the video rooms had shut down, so there was officially nothing to do, until they opened up the room for the Artist Alley for everything... that room officially became Katsucon 9.1 o.O Until 8am on Tuesday, every aspect of the con was re-produced in that room - David even wanted to hold an ADV panel but couldn't find anything he could get away with announcing ^^; Once again, I ended up using my PS2 and stuff in this room over Sunday night (more like Monday morning) and sleeping down there until I closed it up at 10am.

I got back up to the hotel room, but only to be told that, thanks to Maddy's father's apparent lack of concern for everyone's safety (and caring only about a CAR. A STUPID CAR.), everyone had to return, and since I was completely off the path of travel, I was stuck without a ride. Ken was leaving too, deciding they would attempt to get as close to home as possible. I ended up checking my baggage in with the hotel, where, for the most part, it remained until I left today... mostly hung around with David, Mariela, Patrick, Adam, etc that were also stuck. At one point, David went into DVD give-away mode (he put on his "What Would You Do For An Anime DVD?" badge and started carrying around 4 random ADV titles)... amusingly, many people commented on the badge, that liked the artwork and design, but didn't pick up on the fact that it was literal ^^; He ended up giving the free DVDs to us in the elevator since apparently no one else was going to give it a try... I got another free DVD, this time ZoE Dolores,I DVD3 ^^ Basically, the con continued inside that little room - we even got ahold of the Katsucon AMV contest, so we got to watch that...

An amusing moment happened when we were hanging around in the alcove under the escalator on the ballroom level... we hung around there quite often, and there was a monitor and keyboard there, and we assumed that there was a computer behind the locked cabinet of the desk ^^; One day, I actually decided to reach into the back, and first, I managed to pull out a 2-way radio, then the carrying case that went with it ^^; A little more reaching around, and we actually powered on the computer =P The workstation was running Windows 98 so we were able to get to the shell without any problems, but since we weren't logged in, we couldn't actually reach the internet outside. It was fun playing with that workstation though. =P Of course, we shut it off and put everything back when we were done... more or less ^^;

Through donations, the con was actually able to provide a full dinner free of coast using supplies purchased from the grocery ^^; We opted to do something else, though, so for dinner, David, Mariela, Patrick, Adam, b00ga (I think), and I went out in the direction of Chili's. (Gareth stayed behind, stating he would get McDonald's later.) We got there, and found that it was closed... along with the Chinese place and the Italian place nearby ^^; We ended up going to a Sports Bar and eating there... was actually probably the best meal of the weekend ^^; Hotel food got old after a while, especially after using the breakfast buffet twice, a dinner buffet once, and purchasing many $3 muffins ^^;;

Although I had made arrangements to sleep in Isa's room, I ended up going over there at around 12:30am - they were actually in the next hotel over, not in the Hyatt that the con was in... I went up to the door, but saw no light coming from it, nor was there any noise, so I assumed they were asleep, and decided not to bother them. So, I retrieved my sleeping bag from the baggage check, and prepared to sleep in the alcove under the escalator. ^^;

Was woken up at 8am, though... at the same time that the mini-con room was being broken down as well. Time to go home, apparently... everyone who hadn't left already was making preparations to do so. Naturally, I couldn't catch a ride with any of them ^^; The first thing I did that morning was to go eat at the breakfast buffet... when I left, David was there looking in. We talked for a little bit... though he went back to his hotel room later. I went to the business center to attempt to find people via IRC - turned out to be a very costly venture, at $7.50 for 15 minutes o.O Not much luck, but I got a few more phone numbers... Slept a while, and when I woke up, David was next to me, as if I had planned it that way o.O He had been going stir-crazy in his room with Mariela and Gareth gone, so he came down, saw me sleeping on a seat in the lobby, and took a position near that o.O

Patrick and Grace (who was Bandai's representative this time, and she's a lot cuter than Jerry =P) joined us, though Grace wasn't going to come down because she had been jogging ^^; She did eventually, though, and we chatted as a group for a bit, though I was randomly running off tracking down people that could potentially give me a ride home. Apparently, she's still stuck in the hotel as I type, since her flight isn't until tomorrow morning o.O She eventually left to finish her jogging, and I eventually saw David and Patrick off - both of them heading to the airport. Of course, I was still stuck, since my last resort, calling Chris and seeing if I could get picked up to go over there, was still very much stuck in his house o.O I ended up spotting a group of people that were on their way to the Metro, so I decided to accompany them. I accompanied them as far as where the Yellow line met the Red line, then we parted ways since they had to take the Red line in the other direction. I took the Red line to Twinbrook, and made it to Josh's house... and here I am ^^;

Well, so far, we've watched the entire disc of Nuku Nuku that I won... and Josh just stopped playing Zelda Octarina of Time on his Gamecube. They should have done something better with the conversion there... now, I'm gonna see about actually getting home, rather than just sitting here all day o.O

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February 13, 2003
Katsucon~...

Wow... Katsucon is tomorrow...

I'm not completely better, but I'm well enough to leave the house, at least. I actually collapsed in the shower this morning, so I ended up skipping my classes and sleeping more. Felt better after that. (By collapsed, I mean that I didn't have enough energy left to stand and just lied down on the floor of the shower for a good 10-15 minutes. I didn't fall down or anything.)

I also went to meet with an attorney for the trial coming up next month. Paid him $400 of my mom's money to have him represent me since I couldn't defend my way out of a trash can. ^^; He says that he can probably get all three tickets thrown off if we plead not guilty, since there are no witnesses, and the state trooper that wrote them didn't even see the accident. I'm probably still going to lose my auto insurance, though. Geico == teh suck.

Anyways, tomorrow, Katsucon is coming~ Going to get picked up by carpy at around noon and be taken directly to the con, so that gives me time to do some errands beforehand ^^ Patty won't arrive until probably 5-6pm, though I need to meet her when she arrives since I need to pay my part of the hotel costs. Wee~

Dunno if I'll enter the DDR tourney or not... if I'm still sick, I probably won't... not that my pathetic PA skills will get me anywhere in the first place... =P Or maybe I'll just invade Ken's hotel room to play IIDX =P

Posted at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)


Still sick...

Using tissues like there's no tomorrow, and still can't get a good night's rest -_- I spend almost the entire time half-awake...

I had better be better by tomorrow... Katsucon is in about 30 hours -_-

I've been managing to go to class for the most part, at least... don't know how I managed on Tuesday when I really felt like utter crap. Today, I have the same two classes, and after that I have to go see that attorney about what can be done about the court battle coming in a month... -_-

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February 11, 2003
Urgh...

Attempt to do timing work == sickness get worse -_-

I somehow made it to 2/3 classes today despite being sick as a dog... didn't make it to the third class because I ended up taking a long nap in the then-empty student lounge ^^;

This had better go away before Katsucon... -_- Waiting for oishii to finish stuff for PitaTen DVD Ep 15, then I set it to encode a release candidate overnight...

Posted at 11:41 PM | Comments (1)


Headache...

My head hurts. Badly. I better not be coming down with something -_-

Ended up skipping class because it would be too dangerous to drive the Volvo through the snow. Didn't help that the snow kept stopping and restarting.

Left to go to work at 5:30 (the snow had stopped, so I assumed I had no excuse), and arrived at -exactly- 6:00... not early nor late. Extremely slow day, getting only 6 transactions in total, and spending most of the time calling in reservation slips for My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

The headache started sometime during the calls. The cough started after I finished. Neither of them has gone away, hours later. -_- And I think I'm starting to get a fever now, too.

Proves how much of a joke my life really is, I guess... oh well. I'll just have to get better by Friday. =P

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February 09, 2003
If there's something I really hate...

... it's dealing with financial crap. -_-

I have a whole other shitload of things I need to get done this week but I end up calling in as many possible sources of money as possible. ADV couldn't possibly pay me until the end of the month, at the earliest, a paycheck arrives either Thursday or Friday (and if it doesn't arrive on Thursday, I'm fucked), I need to keep track of how many people have sent money for Otakon pre-reg...

If I say to talk to me about something later, by all means, TALK TO ME ABOUT IT LATER. I didn't want to have to deal with this fucking crap right now but I ended up just dropping everything to do it, and I still don't know if I'll come up even in time for the weekend... I wouldn't make a financial commitment if I wouldn't be able to give it, so don't give me fucking grief over it...

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SF tourney...

Someone left a rug in my trunk, even though I requested that he remove everything from my car BEFORE I leave. =P

Yeah... woke up when Patty called me at around 12... showered and ran out the house to go to SF, arriving around 1:30... pretty fun, just about everyone was there ^^ It was a while yet before Single Heavy started, so I played a whole bunch of SC2 conquest. I actually drained a full film canister worth of tokens, and then some, on the machine, because we decided to conquer the map. ^^ Actually did, and saw what happens when you do so for the first time. Also, I now have a -4th- character at SF (another Talim 2p costume), "Yume". ^^

My performance at the tournament was pretty much as expected. Qualified on Sobakasu against Ken, naturally, I qualified 2nd to last, but it didn't matter since that round was only for placement anyways. I was matched up with the dead last person on qualifiers, who had apparently been playing for 2 years but I've seen people who've played for 3 weeks play better than him ^^; When I wanted to modify a song reverse, he begged me not to, and I took him up on the mercy call and instead modified it flat. Didn't affect the result...

Round after that, I'm matched up against... Gay Goblin -_- Consensus was - I'm screwed. This is even more of a mismatch than the match against Javy at 8otb - this is the guy that got some 99.1% or some crap on one of the oni high scores... the margin of difference between us was at least 80 greats, so no way in hell I could have won that. Oh well...

Hey, I still have that Hello Kitty scratch-and-sniff sticker on me ^^ Ki was putting them on people at the beginning, and I'm amazed it didn't fall off while I was playing ^^;

After Single Heavy finished (turned out to be a tie between Zeus and Kevin, where they split the first prize of $30, to get only $15 each. =P), we moved on to BPM Rush... a very interesting concept where all entrants must play a predefined course of songs, with the BPM increasing or decreasing with each song. It started at 190bpm and went all the way up to whatever BPM Maxx Unlimited is... see this thread for a full description of that and other tournament details... the interesting thing to note was that there was almost no break between songs - they captured the scores via digital camera, and then immediately chose the next song - one guy had collapsed on the pad and they still moved on to the next song immediately... good thing I didn't enter, it seemed far too intense for me ^^;

After BPM rush finished, there was not enough time to do either Doubles or Freestyle, so all pre-registrants got their money back, and we basically spent the next half hour doing stupid crap like Oni Michi 2 double, since the machine was still on freeplay =P I even tried to do Naoki feat. Paula Terry double just to hear Still In My Heart remix, but failed on something stupid... oh well. I even got a 7.1% on Oni Michi single... 2 steps short of the long stream in Drop Out heavy ^^;

After being ejected from the arcade a significant amount of time after closing, we all did a mass invasion of Fuddruckers, where we must have annoyed them for staying for like 40mins past their normal closing time (my order was placed AT the time they were supposed to close)... I got a 1lb burger, and ate it all, which apparently surprised people (it shouldn't, I eat a LOT, I just metabolize it very quickly)... after that, another mass invasion, this time to Chris's house ^^;

Did the typical thing that's done at Chris's house - played IIDX (I suck... bad...), maybe took a small nap... after that, took Shiene, Kevin, and Josh back home...

Very fun day - and -finally- got to meet Moofy ^^; Saw Patty for a little bit, too bad she didn't stay with us longer ;_; They wanted me to come back on Sunday, but I probably won't unless my bro wants the comp for the day...

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February 08, 2003
Missed another day...

Well, not that much happened anyways. Stayed home since everything was closed due to the snow anyways, I shovelled snow between 3:15 and 4:30 (-really- easy since it was melting), almost went out to eat but all the water left over from our shovelling job had turned to ice and the Volvo slid off-road when we attempted to leave, so ended up just eating at home.

I vidcapped the next movie ADV wants from me while we were out shovelling, dunno how well that capture went yet. It better not have any problems... also, working a little bit on PitaTen DVD project...

Anyways, tomorrow's (well, today now) the SF tourney... will probably go sometime before Heavy competition starts... still not sure if anyone's riding down with me or not...

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February 06, 2003
Zero-traction driving is fun...

Snowing yet again... the Volvo is so not able to handle snowy conditions -_-

Actually managed to finish the coding, but nothing else, for the project this morning - actually took an impromptu nap that seemed to last around 4:30-7:40 according to IRC timestamps... the project really wasn't too hard, but I need to make a cover sheet and other documentation to go with it...

The first AnimeJungle package arrived today, containing PitaTen DVD6, my 5 Two-Mix singles, and Jascii's 3 Mizuki Nana singles ^^; Also, Jascii's PS2 memcard arrived, which I will send back to him with his singles...

I ended up visiting CP for a little bit - did some DDR but mostly SC2 ^^; I finished the day with my stats not quite as high as they were since the last time I left it (I need to figure out how to manipulate the stats better, because apparently my previous stats had an 85% victory rate against other conquest players... o.O)... she's now a Platinum Lieutenant tho...

Even though I allotted 40 minutes to get myself from CP to Suncoast, I still ended up arriving like 7 minutes late, because apparently 495 was -not- moving... at all. Taking 50 minutes to travel what ordinarily would take 8 minutes is -really- annoying.

Nothing of real importance happened at Suncoast, except that I had to clean the bathroom -_- Somehow I ended up on the bottom spot of the employee of the month evaluations again... I suspect it's simply because I'm placed in the shifts where it's impossible to really get good numbers... at around 8:15 I took a quick break to visit Waldenbooks, and bought Wish 4 (woo, finally, the end~), CCS9 (or Master of the Clow 3, whatever you wanna call it), and Chobits 4 (because Suncoast was supposed to have it but didn't). Finished reading Wish a little bit ago - wow ^^; This is why I love CLAMP so much... I've absolutely loved every CLAMP work I've read... except for Angelic Layer ^^;

I want my own Kohaku. End of story. ^^;;;

Ended up leaving work early, because during my break my mom had called worried about the road conditions o.O Jason let me go, and it was a good idea to take him up on that offer, as I would probably have never gotten home if I hadn't left when I did. Volvo + heavy snow = 360 spins. o.O Made it home, only really slid around at the mall parking lot and inside the neighborhood/driveway (where the snow accumulation hadn't been handled at all).

I read too damned fast for my own good. I should probably re-read Wish and intentionally slow myself down to take in the art more. ^^; People are astounded that I finished Wish 4 in less than 15 minutes...

Anyways, dunno what's going to happen tomorrow... it actually turns out that the project I was to hand in isn't due until Friday because of the typo he made (the sheet said it was due on Thursday the 7th, which of course isn't quite right)... so I can hand it in to him at his office until 5pm tomorrow o.O Gives me time to actually do the docs and stuff right...

I want Sugar and PitaTen R1 DVD. Bad. ^^; And holding this PitaTen R2 is bad, since it makes me want to buy the other 8 volumes ^^;;;;

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February 05, 2003
SUGAR!...

http://sugar.pioneeranimation.com/

Yes, this is a new record for most posts in one day... and I haven't even talked about the day yet ^^;

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Huh?...

http://www.the-magicbox.com/gaming.htm - Huh?

"Konami announced they are working on a new sports game called Aerobic Revolution for PlayStation 2. The gameplay is similar to Dance Dance Revolution, except you are playing the Aerobic gymnastic movies instead of dancing."

I thought this might be PPP US, but perhaps not... the game is already being discussed on DDR Freak forums here.

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100th post!...

Apparently, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a word in the English language. o.O

[16:39] <StarCreator|Class> I can't even PRONOUNCE that
[16:40] <MagicalSienar> what does it mean? =P
[16:40] <TB3> Sounds like a lung infection from silicon inhaled from a volcano.
[16:45] * jnik notes that the OED is not about "official"--it's simply a reflection of existing usage
[16:45] <LawrenceC> And it's pronounced, "new-mon-o-ultra-micro-scopic-sil-ih-co-volcano-cone-e-o-sis."
[16:45] <LawrenceC> They used it on The Simpsons once.
[16:46] <LawrenceC> "Are you sick? You're not coming down with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis or anything, are you?"
[16:47] * StarCreator|Class wonders how many takes were required

(Link from AnimeOnDVD.com.)

And yep... this is post 100 since I started this journal in early October. ^^;

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Oops, missed a day...

Yep... accidentally broke my longest streak of days posted in a row. Oh well...

Why am I still up at this hour? I don't know... my sleep schedule is still screwed up from the weekend -_- I spent the time waiting for Jascii to finish doing stuff with PitaTen so I could start the encoding while sleeping... took some 3 hours -_-

Not much else to talk about... though we did get a bill from the MD State Treasury for over $12,000 claiming that the signtruck was a total loss (wtf, I barely left a dent in the sign harness... and it didn't even touch the truck itself)... so another thing to worry about -_-

Today, I have to work on a project for CS - I misinterpreted the due date because it said "Thursday, February 7" on the sheet - of course, this Thursday (tomorrow) is the 6th, which I assume is the real due date since the class doesn't meet on Friday... great way to start the semester -_-

Now let's see how much sleep I can get between now and 10am...

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February 03, 2003
Brakus is teh winnar!...

Posted the 80 mb chunk that is my crappy vidcap of Pyramid on LJ... I'll link it here if I find better hosting. I have enough crap on vaio anyways... ^^;

For some reason, I've been listening to Gimme Gimme Gimme on 3rd mix's edit mode - turn on the BGM option and instant autolooping jukebox... I think I should change the music now tho ^^;

I kinda wish I had a current mood/music thing here like in LJ... though I suppose there probably is a module for that o.O If you find such a thing, let me know ^^;

Posted at 05:21 PM | Comments (0)


Another site move...

The site was down for pretty much all day yesterday as Eryxma migrated all their HSP accounts from Atlanta to Dallas. They promise again that the new datacenter will be a lot faster than the old one, and it seems this is the case, for now. ^^;

If you're wondering, yes, I really did write the previous entry yesterday, I just had it saved in Notepad until the site returned. ^^;;

In about half an hour here, Brakus's appearance on "Pyramid" (whatever that is) will air - I set my VCR and DirecTV box to it, since I have to be in class when it does air...

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February 02, 2003
Whew...

IT'S DONE.

I actually finished the ADV project last night (more like this morning, since it was 6am), then I started the proof encode and went to sleep. Ended up watching the last half hour of Rush Hour, then changed the channel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and fell asleep sometime after the laundry scene o.O

Now my sleep schedule is completely ruined again, but at least I am done with the first of this trilogy ADV has me working on o.O They'll take a look at the proof encode tomorrow and tell me if anything needs changing, and once I can close that project, I'll get to work on the next one ^^;

AnimeJungle has also raped my bank account ^^; (I need to have a link to them on my site, and I will have the ad banner up when I figure out where to put it on that little sidebar...) This does mean that PitaTen DVD6 is on its way to me. ^^ I also saw DVD7 listed (in A condition), but it's a little too soon for that...

Anyways, make sure you guys watch the new Princess Tutu DVD releases we'll be doing... it looks great, and fixes a lot of problems the original release had.

Well, enough talking about ADV and HnK stuff... nothing else really happened though... except another trippy ep of Alias o.O I really wish I had kept up with the story - I want season boxsets already ^^;

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February 01, 2003
Space shuttle go boom...

A moment of silence to the seven astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke up while approaching Kennedy Space Center.

Yeah, just woke up... nice news to wake up to -_- In happier news, HnK PitaTen is starting to get in full swing again ( I think Jascii's mentality this time is "let's get this over with" ^^; ) - episode 13 should be releasing today, and thanks to some financial assistance from Kp, we have DVD6 (containing eps 15-17) coming ^^

I'm about 70% done with that first project - gonna get as far into it as possible before I have to work at Suncoast...

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