Pointless In Point

That seems redundant but I am finally back in Point. Took awhile to get internet up and the toilet is giving troubles (they fixed it this morning and now it doesn't work again). Anyhow I am back although off-campus now in the Village. Have a cell phone now too so theoretically I shouldn't be too out of touch. That's all for now tho.

SALT (Part 1)

Ok here are my first thoughts on SALT. First of all, please check out the official blog for Earl Creps who was the primary speaker at SALT. Also see the eightstar collective for Brent's initial take on things. Finally so I don't forget, not SALT related barring me finding out about it there is Lars' new prayer blog. Hopefully it'll be a little more active then his first run! Everyone go and support him. Yes that means pray for him. Hence prayer blog.

Ok, if I had been able to blog real-time whilst I was there this would have been an interesting see-saw of reactions. While I was there I was overwhelmed. I mean massively overwhelmed. They didn't pull punches or play with kid gloves and so the stuff they said was deep, give me a point where God is involved that isn't, powerful, and well over-whelming. There are times that I just wanted to pull away and think. If anything that's kind of the one thing, for me, that SALT lacked. The message was great tho. If anything it really puts into perspective that you're never done growing in Christ. I remember getting hit by this kind of feeling right after I joined up with Chi Alpha, kind of a point where suddenly the placid idleness is shattered into realization that you've still got a ways to go. Now I hope I wasn't in a state of placid idleness prior to SALT but I do think I had settled into something of a lull. I was, and still am, striving to become a better Christian it's just that I got a little direction and lots to think about.

It gave me lots of things to ask Lars (and Brent and Seth and who knows who else). It got me motivated to push a little harder. I hope that lasts for awhile. Much as I may hate to admit it this feeling of confusion usually turns out to feel good because as I try to sort out the answers and comprehend God. When I get that drive to learn more it re-invigorates me.

Anyhow, you're probably wondering if there's a conclusion or anything like that. My conclusion is: I think it was a good weekend. But we'll see what really results from all this.

More later I think...

Abyssal Suicide Bomber

Before the FBI swarms in, this title is related to Exalted. The title however is a perfect description. Please pull out your Exalted: The Abyssals class and turn to page 227-8. Please note the Labyrinth Circle Spell: Spiteful Passing. Now although it takes a turn of concentration (ie turn delay before the spell happens) it deals possibly the most bang for the buck for a very dedicated Deathlord. Consider, Abyssal shards are re-usable. When one Deathknight dies the Deathlord gets its core essence back. It may be draining and take considerable effort for the Deathlord to create a new Deathknight but think of the advantages. A Circle of Solars has just romped through the Deathlord's plans and are coming his way with a way to kill him. Along they way the capture his last wayword Abyssal servant. The guy has decent permanent Essence but no traning whatsoever. He is nowhere near capable to fighting the harderened Solars. They decide to question him however to learn what the Deathlord has planned to stop them. During this moment surrounded by the enemies of his lord the Abyssal concentrates, his Essence pool is at or near full so assuming an Essence 5 Abyssal he can give upwards of 70L damage (soakable only by natural soak) to everyone around him. How many beings can soak that? Not many, it's instant death. Now think about this, one death for 5, a dozen, more? The trick is high Stamina, high Essence Abyssal and that's about it.

Now I need to get ready to go out and hang with Jon so that's all for now. Just fun thing to think about if you are ever in an Exalted game I run :D But wait, Solars don't know about that spell! Hehehe, evil grin.

One local complaint: how the heck can our local schools get 3 days off already this year for weather? That's akin to the total we had in high school and fast approaching the high school/middle school total. What kinda wusses are they?

Future's Past

So today was the last day at the 'Ko. Possibly forever depending on if I can find an internship this summer (which in truth is unlikely but who knows). Regardless it is going to be the last time I work at the 'Ko here. Next time will be in Point and hopefully it's not so bad there. It's been 3 and a half years since I started working there. Nearly every one of my peers is gone. I think just Mary remains otherwise none of the part timers (and she's prolly a full-timer now come to think of it) remain. I've lost track of most of them unsurprisingly, granting I only tried to keep in touch with a few. Most of the lifer's are still there but many have been driven away. Some of my favorite managers have gone their ways as well. It's a different 'Ko now and not really a better one to tell truth.

For those (-1) readers from the London group if you were in Fred's class your papers should be showing up soon. With all my thinking of the past I thought back some on London too (it helped that I was talking about it with Mary too) and realized I'm gonna really really miss walking in Regent's Park. I think more then anything that was home and some of my best memories were there. It was my escape and I shall miss it.

You Windows slobs need to go check out Apple. We'll see how this venture works out I guess.

Burnout was something of a dissapointment. Guess the PS2 version I'd played was Burnout 2 (since 3 just came out I believe). I have a racing game now tho more serious then Mario Kart. Not knocking Mario Kart tho, it is the best racing game ever. But maybe I will enjoy it more when I am less dissapointed.

To anyone who's e-mailed me in the past week or so, I'll try and get to replying today before I crash but if not sometime before I leave for SALT. I am pretty excited about SALT, lot's of Chi Alpha people will be there, a much bigger reunion then when I was at Chi Alpha before finals (owing to Tuesday nights being tough schedule time I guess). Can't wait! Yay for seeing friends!

Pointless Moves Back

Well not completely yet but starting to move into the apartment and pretty excited about it. Another big move on Tuesday plus gonna travel back to Port Edwards and get some Twism stuff as well. Then I get to work (and stay awake after that to re-adjust the schedule). Tuesday will be long but worth it to have most of the big stuff moved in. Barring the electronics but maybe I can fit that into my CRV and do a run or certainly next week. After SALT. Much excitement this week anyhow.

Good day today anyhow. Felt like I achieved a lot and got an outside assesment by Dad that the apartment was very nice. Plus I finally got all my grades in and I got all As or A-s, I think that might be the first time ever. I'll go check now and add in whether it was later. Basically it ends a good semester. I am hoping people'll get together again or at least we'll run into each other at times. Guess that's silly since we almost all go the same bloody place.

Well let's say a boo to the Jets for beating those Chargers. Guess I am switching to the Steelers for my Superbowl win. With maybe the stumble into the playoffs Vikings playing them because that'd be a story to tell ya know?

Ok just checked, this is by far my best semester, next closest I had one B and a P (which I suppose is an A but not sure how it's recorded really) but that semester was only 3 As, and 1 A-, plus the B and P. Of course 8 credits were A compared to only 7 A credits this semester. But those A-s weigh in a lot too. Anyhow I am happy even if I bored ya about my grades.

I think I'll call this the end now, got a lot of stuff to do tomorrow to pack and such.

Sleep Wanted

I should probably not be posting when I haven't slept in over a day but this could kill some time and keep me awake (as long as I keep getting IMs in the background maybe it will). Anyhow it is kinda depressing lately and not just cause I am messed up because of lack of sleep. For one thing we are taking down our Christmas stuff. That's really no fun at all, Christmas lights and trees and such are just fun to have up. Obviously the season is about much more then that but I gotta say I enjoy the trappings quite a bit and am sad to see them go. Things are just blander and darker til spring rolls around.

Also depressing is the fact that break is mostly over and I have seen really no one (barring my jaunt apartment shopping in Point which was about a month ago) at all. All the people who I am friends with in La Crosse (maybe acquaintances is a better word since it's been prolly half a year minimum since I've seen any of them) are as usual way to busy with hanging out with each other, work, sig others, and whatever as usual. So whilst they can apparently juggle their schedules enough for most people I get dropped out. It steams me somewhat because whenever they are bored they pop online and IM me and complain that they're bored as if I exist to allieviate that. Grr...maybe I am a little more worked up about this right now then usual but hey I try and arrange/offer to hang out with people and visit them and whatnot and sometimes I just wish it'd be reciprocrated. Or that people would just tell me I'm no bloody fun to be around and that they'd like me to bugger the heck off. I realize that when I read this on the flipside it's gonna look like one paragraph hock full of pathetic self-pity. Oh well.

Shopko of course helps to kick morale into high gear. Lesse, I've worked/will work (barring another cancelation) a grand total of 7 days over this nearly 2 month break of which approx. 1 month I've been available to work. Yes, the place which desperately needs to hire more overnight personnel can't give the current ones, I'm not unique in this case, no sir, more then a day or two a week. How the hell can they even call that competent management when they don't give the fulltimers full time hours? We must have dunces in control who make Dilbert's boss look like the shining light of genius. Furthermore the second best manager (that's saying a bloody awful that too) I've ever had at the 'Ko quit. Yea, the higher ups, particularily our gifted "yes man" store manager who seems to be dilbert's boss on good days drove the guy to quit it seems. Isn't that just spiffy? Sheesh nice to know they can keep the talent working there.

N-E-WHO...I think this rant has gone on long enough, time to put it up and show what a total fruit I am. Or total nut. You decide. If ya want I'll key in sometime too (leaning towards fruit at the moment, possibily bannanas to be specific). I do feel a little better now, not much but a little.

Good news: SALT in one week.

RPG News

Ok. Check out White Wolf for news on the next Exalted release: Book of Bone and Ebony. While not my personal favorite to actually play I could use it to throw some "fun" things at my PC's in the theoretical game I am gonna run. Speaking of that: is anyone actually interested in PLAYING? Guess I will find out come the start of school.

Other news: Guardians of the Order (I know I should put their blog up on here at some point) is massively discounting their stuff to get it out. It seems Canadian companies are suffering with the downfall of the US dollar. Even when our economy sucks we can hurt people, scary thought ain't it? Anyhow if you are a Silver Age Sentinels or BESM fan (or anything else GoO) you might want to check out their store which has some massive discounts. Most of it is for bundles of stuff (60 percent off their entire in-print product run, $500 instead of $1200) but also some deals for BESM and Silver Age stuff. Full in print collections of both of these for $100 or less. I am not sure I am gonna get anything, I haven't really played BESM myself although I own the corebook and frankly I don't have that much money to toss around but it's a good deal if you want to get a lot of books all at once.

That's all for now, driving in to work should be interesting tonight.

The 0230 Crunch (Full Circle)

Yes I am still up even tho I am sick. Why, you may ask (or why do I care). Well see I am continuing in my project of the week of updating the parents computer. Tonight's task: downloading 110mb of updates. This took 7 hours. Started at 1900 and ended at 0200. Now the irony is after this I have to probably download something else, install 10.3 and then spend another night doing the same thing (as we are now at 10.3.7 which I just updated my computer this afternoon). Don't forget peripheral updates. Then I have to get their favorite places working and so on and so forth. I'll be here all weeks folks, probably even into the weekend.

Some random commentary: finished The Unifying Force which is the last book in the New Jedi Order series. It's strange now that it's done. I read it so piecemeal as it came out I never got a strong sense of things. Just brief memories which sort of interconnect things when they were mentioned. However the concept was good just not my reading pattern. This book actually took me over half a year to read because I started reading it the day I left for England but was halfway through it so I left it here (rather then finish it on the plane and have extra deadweight). Ok, let's see where the galaxy is: Chewie's dead, Anakin (Solo) is dead. Jacen's prolly baddest-ass of all the Jedi. Luke and Mara have a kidlet. The Jedi are going a completely new path then ever before. At minimum a half dozen well known worlds (Ithor, Coruscant, and Yavin 4) have been destroyed or radically altered. New Republic gone. Galatic Alliance in. Imperials = good guys. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. A fair amount of the legends showed up here. A couple died (I forgot Ackbar but he died a non-combat death, ie old age). The galaxy will never be the same as it's been so thoroughly shook up.

Relating to that I have finished watching the Star Wars DVDs with commentary. I can't believe Han Solo killed Ben Burtt! What was he thinking with the movie half done? They're lucky the got sound for the last half of Return of the Jedi!

Twism's in the apartment now. He nicked the master bedroom (with it's own walk-in closet and bathroom). I am a whee bit irked because I did go to the effort of finding the place I guess I think I should get the choice of bedrooms. However I am telling myself it's a minor thing and all that. We have a place and that is good. Exciting times anyhow. I am going to hunt for an office chair tomorrow because I realized I won't have anything to sit on to use my computer. For the moment my computer desk will be a card table but I am expecting my sister to surrender her old unwanted computer desk at some point.

Finals thoughts: Dad finished the bookshelf! Yay I have a place to store my RPG books and the rest of my library now! It is sad, pathetic, and nerdy that I am soooo excited about getting a bookshelf? Oh well, it looks darn cool if I do say so myself.

Anyhow time to say good night. To those who are sick like myself (but no unlike certain people named Leah I didn't get them sick) hope you all feel better soon!

Updating

Yea not in the sense of this ol' blog but rather my parents old iMac. I've been putting on OS X and wow it's a lot of work. Their OS 9 was out of date so OS X couldn't find Classic. When I updated Classic it created a new OS rather then overlapping the old (guess 9.0.4 and 9.2 are further apart then I realized). Can't update to OS 10.3 because firmware needs to be updated. Can't put Safari on cause the OS isn't high enough. Blaargh! Looks like I've got a project all week. My list of things to do is actually kind of large but nothing seems all that pressing at the moment. I should probably write it all down lest I never get any of it done cause it's all stuff where at random times I think "I should do this" and then forget again.

My beloved Miami Dolphins are not the worse team this season! Yes! Anyhow I think the AFC has got Superbowl in the clutch. It's hardly debatable that they have fielded the best teams this year. Look at what we are sending: the Packers and the Vikings and the West will send St. Louis or Seatle or right who cares?

Newtypes

Was shocked to see this maganize at the 'Ko but picked it up as it is the premire anime magazine. I had thought it was just Japanese only but they have an American version for us non-Japanese speaking Yanks. Guess we have taken to anime enough to make it worth their while. Decent magazine, there is a ton more anime then I can even imagine. A lot of it does not even slightly interest me but a couple shows peaked my interest. Not sure if I will ever see them cause you need to spend money to get the DVDs...

Slowly working to unlock the last levels that I have a chance in hell to unlock in Time Splitter's. Of course I fall about 4 hands (yes hands) short of unlocking Chasm. Gonna leave lots of this talented unlocking stuff to Twism who is a master at this, just like about everything he attempts.

Some well wishes to people who are about to travel or other such things. Primarily that'd be Krystal, Leah, and Jessie. Some are Ireland bound and one is going to Utah. Hope both journies are safe. Happy birthday to Colleen who is 21 in two days. Yea to Ryan for being un-single again. Hope it lasts old man :D

I haven't anything else to randomly mention so I'll just end this now. Fun that.

Ditto to that...

Overheard by one of the (nighttime) radio DJs, said mildy in jest. "I'm like a gas station trash can, girls don't want be anywhere near me unless they absolutely have too. And then just for bare minimum of time." I know this feeling quite well sometimes.
Spent the night hanging out with John and Ben. Yes, the Madden computer is superior to most humans, just admit it. John gave me 50 episodes of Naruto and 10 of Bleach so lots of viewing to do. Can probably get some more Naruto so might have him burning a lot of CDs for me!
Got my hair shortened today. Back to the normal everyday (for what the past 15 years?) look. I don't think I change very much physically.
Well must get to work, need to sort out a CD for Jessie and one for John. Maybe find a snack. E-mail some folks. I work tomorrow night, blah!

Fin-ished

So the little saga of too easy Madden has wrapped. The Dolphins went undefeated for the season. After the romp in the AFC championships I kinda figured the Superbowl would be a little milder. Well 84-0 later I am not quite sure. I got a TD less but I shut out the opposing offense for the first time. Peyton Manning threw 6 Ints (his QB rating at the end was a whopping 11.2). More amazing considering I let the defense play itself just pick formations. Set a few Superbowl records. It doesn't really matter tho, we'll see if I can do any good at All-Pro. Since my complete dominance is unlikely (I imagine the opposing D will get better at making picks from my lousy passes) those of you who dislike Madden will be relieved of that annoyance from this blogsphere.

I reformatted the iPod in a last ditch attempt to fix its battery, short of sending it in. I'd rather not spend money on it. So far it looks like it's doin' a little better but I will have to see. I still think it's on it's last ropes but if I can make it survive a little longer will that's money not spent ya know?

Found out that River City Hobbies appears to be discotinuing most of its RPG book collection which it's only had a for a year or two as far as I know. Picked up the Blue Planet (v2) Player's Guide. I am pretty sure Uncle Hugo's has the Moderator's Guide so I could run the game now in theory. I had the v1 Core book but all the expansions are for v2 only and they are completely different! You are probably asking how I can spend money so freely on RPG books and I am not quite sure. I like reading and I like RPGs. If anything it's my guilty pleasure. I should be better once I go back to Point, reduced to just getting Exalted books. Thankfully none of those come out til mid-February or so. I am thinking I might try and run a Blue Planet if I can get some interest. More importantly I need to get the ball rolling on this theoretical Exalted game I am running in the spring. I have started writing up some stuff but I need to find out who's all playing. Incidentally if you are reading this and interested in being that game drop me an e-mail (prefferably at my Gmail addy, I keep forgetting to check my UWSP mail and it's caused problems of various minor sorts lately). I am not sure if it will run Wednesday nights (at GASP) or some other night. Kinda depends on schedules so let me know what your schedule is if/when you e-mail me.

So now I am poking thru the BioHazard Games homepage some since I had to find the link for Blue Planet. Seems like they might actually be recovering from the doldrums. Not sure if they will do ok. I have heard the RPGs have been hitting a slump lately. Granted it's more D20 system related. Probably as WotC tightens up their grip on the OGL stuff. Anyhow I generally have enjoyed the premise of the story (hence wanting to run a game) so I hope they continue to put out more material. Come on, who hasn't wanted to ever play a dolphin or an orca? I have since Startide Rising. Always a fun read. I really do enjoy reading RPG books. I probably should just sit down and re-read the stuff I've got but what fun is that?

So this whole having an apartment thing is fairly intensive when thinking about all the stuff you need to get, ie basic amentities. Chairs, tables, silverware, cookware, etc. At least I can get furniture from sister (who is getting a new house and wants decent stuff now, w00t! I get the rejects) and parents/grandparents. The other stuff well I got some for Christmas but the rest needs to be bought. A lot needs to be thought of first. I should really have a list cause I always think of it at some point when I can't write it down or do anything about it.

Right, another long entry. Whee, enjoy.

Old Friends

So one of my old friends from way back in elementary school stopped by this evening. Lately it seems like I've been hearing from people I haven't in awhile. I really like keeping in touch with people. Granted some I try harder with some more then others and lately it seems like I haven't been really succeeding. Somehow I lose touch or people drift away. This is probably a natural tendency in the world I guess. It frustrates me. Then again I suppose there are people I want to not keep in touch with so I should assume there are people who want to do the same with me. I wonder why sometimes although in a lot of cases I figure it's cause I creeped them out or something along those lines. Blah to my lack of social skills. But ok enough self pity! I am really happy that I got to see my friend and that a couple friends I haven't talked to in awhile I've gotten to talk to (some of them don't reply to e-mails so I wonder sometimes but even I am lousy with e-mails these days). Here's hoping I can keep in better touch with them. And also people from this fall. Here's hoping!

"Could it be you're what they call a hunter?"
"Probably."

I love this quote from Witch Hunter Robin. Just thought I'd use that to seperate thoughts. Anyhow...a word of note for Madden 2005 users. Difficulty setting of "Pro" is not very hard. I've plugged through a season in franchise with it and gone undefeated. All I have left is the Superbowl. Score of the AFC Championship game: 91-6. Yes that's right I set records (personal ones mind you, best game all season) for passing yards, offensive yards, total tds in a game, passing tds in a game. Think that is all of them. Rather shocked I did it then but well turns out the Raider backfield couldn't cover very well beyond 30 yards from scrimmage so I started burning them deep with Ward, my custom WR, Chambers, James, Kleinsasser, Gonzalez, and Shockey. Yea I got TDs will all of them plus Vick on the ground. After the Superbowl I'm gonna erase the franchise and start over on higher difficulty. I wish in madden I didn't need to deal with resigning players and salaries and all that crap. I just wanna create my team and play is that too much to ask? I was hoping I could turn everything off but that, no such luck!

Think I've got really bad breath. Maybe that explains my problems from the first paragraph, eh? Have to pick up some breath mints or something.

So let's see. What a strange entry thus far. Can I capitolize on it? I'll drift briefly to RPG books. I now own 72 of them from 10 seperate games (9 playable). Finished watching the Star Wars trilogy on DVD. They modified two thing: in Empire Strikes Back the Emperor hologram is more Emp. like and the Emp's dialogue is modified. This is ok, it feels weird tho because I am so familiar with the old dialogue. In Return of the Jedi the end has Naboo in the celebration scene (why?) and a younger Anakin who looks well evil and doesn't fit in. Keep the old Anakin! Wonder why George Lucas can't leave these alone. Guess those are the ones we'll all know. VCR's are dissapearing. Still worth the money and the documentary is good too (rather long tho).

So now this is a very long entry. I should stop because I've heard people hate long entries. And self-pity. I have flawlessly combined them so they should hate this entry! Perfection? :D

Tis the Season To Do Modifications

Hokay...
So we added some new blogs of people I know, etc. They are in the usual place. Moved a couple down to the "Quiet Blogs" section do to inactivity. Still easy to find. Yes if you are wondering some of the quiet blogs do update once in awhile. Laura's just did not long ago. Other notes: I finally switched the time back to the ol' Yankee standard CST. So now it makes sense when I am posting. Or does it? It's not like my schedule is normal anyhow. Theoretically later today or this week I will try and post some interesting read-I am feeling introspective this week so prolly along those lines- so check back if you need to fall asleep quickly or just want to say "duh! You didn't know that all along?" to me the next time we talk.

Merry Christmas

Yay it's a white one too! Wherever you be (and everyone of course is scattered everywhere) please have a safe and joyful one! Merry Christmas!

As Advertised

So gonna try for a more substantial entry for once. Probably the first since I got back. Or not. Who knows. Work has not been that bad somehow. Basically things haven't changed. This can be seen as a good and a bad thing. They haven't gotten worse but nothing has really improved. We do have a kick-ass overnight manager. He does work. Yea, that's a first. I guess the GO doesn't want the managers to do much work (another genius decision by them, let's pay 6-7 people to not work help out on the floor) but those who do are generally well liked, boosting morale and all that. Of course the GO is oblivious to such things. They would probably be unaware to the floor burning out from under them. Then again I think Shopko is losing a lot of ground lately (got nothing to prove that, should check FT.com or something or an equivalent and see what they say) against their competitors and the stuff they do just makes it worse. I wish that'd turn around, don't want the world run by Wal-Mart!
I haven't switched the time back yet. Sue me. Maybe after this. Too lazy to save this as a draft and do it. Perhaps afterwards. Random curiosity: why aren't my grades up yet? It's not like I can hurry them along but most of my classes have been done for over half a month! Guess IP doesn't submit them til late (and yes I am sure they route thru IP).
Ok. I am tired of trying to multi-task therefore I'm gonna stop trying to blog at the moment. Maybe I will get a better entry later. Or not.

Snow and Splitters

Yay. Time Splitter's 2 has arrived! And it snowed! :D What a blissful day. Ok so it's somewhat material but finally the house looks right with the snow and Christmas lights and all. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Gotta work now. I see that I still have this set to GMT so at somepoint I'll have to switch that back over. I'll add it to the really long list of stuff to do...

Splendiferousness

Well as of late I am greatly contributing to the economy. Using early Christmas money I have gotten a Gamecube with MarioKart (of course!) and Time Splitters 2 is on the way. Alas Eric is gone most of the week so I can't pass on the good news. The bigger news is however that I have purchased a new car. Much excitement here although my poor savings are gonna feel even more hollow and empty (include now that I need to cover insurance and tomorrow I am officially signing on an apartment too). Happily my car has a tape deck so I can use my iPod (via cassette adaptor) in it and it has a 115v plug so I can charge it as I go especially since the charge is down to an hour and it retains that for less then a day. Really need to send that it but it's another expense. Maybe I shoulda spent my Christmas money on that (alas too late to think of that now).
Work wasn't too bad Wed. morning. I work again tonight and tomorrow night. This'll mean a long day of which I will probably be sleeping alot whilst Dad drives me to Point and back. Alas no time to visit people I missed the previous trip last week. I still feel bad cause I showed up Allison for lunch last Friday. I hate it when people miss things and then I go and do it myself. Really feel like whacking myself with a pole-arm several times over. Blah. :(
I have just noticed this is still on Brit time +1 (daylight savings time threw that off). Should really change that. Don't need to be reminded that I am far away. I think most of the group is back now. I've seen a few online. Strange I won't see them for a bit. Depressing I won't see Tricia for, well, a long time most likely.
Anyhow, this spring I challenge a bunch of people to Mario Kart with two seperate Gamecubes! We should have room at the apartment to set up that and still have seating for 8 people. We can kick Steiner's ass for sure if there are 7 of us ruthlessly gunning for him! Plus Twism can kill those damn ducks (some people might actually know what I am talking about from freshman year) again.

Oops, almost forgot. Our family has the (strange, ridiculous, cool, fascinating?) habit of naming our vehicles. I need a good guy's name that starts with A. If anyone of the 1 readers care to partcipate.

Stream of Thoughtless

Let's see. Was really busy earlier so didn't get this off til now. What is busy you ask? Well talking to Leah, Ryan, and e-mailing Tricia. So talking to important people! Anyhow...
I am now attempting to re-adjust to routine here. I start overnights again (oh joy) Tuesday. In the meantime I have been relaxing. This involves reading a lot of RPG books, I have Aspect Book: Air, House of the Bull God, and Exalted: Fair Folk all to read. Incidentally I have a ton of non-fiction reading to do. I wondered why I thought battle of Moscow was a turning point in and I got home and sicking on my bookshelf is an unread book: The Battle of Moscow. Hmm. Anyhow I have a ton of books to read. I will be doing that til summer. Yipes.
Relating to anime: I have now missed Wolf's Rain and Gundam SEED since August. Plus Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Full Metal Alchemist. Now FMA I didn't care much about but having seen it, it's decent caliber if not a purchase later. However the other three are so I will have to wait til they are fully out on DVD so I can buy them as sets. At this rate story's will be confusing but I can figure out most of them I think. Fun stuff. Whilst I am doing that I have been playing Total Annihilation (spl?). So in a sense I am busy returning to a normal life.
Last notes: go buy Hero and watch it. Then watch Dodgeball. I have updated the links. Mainly I added Ryan's blog and Jen's journal. Enjoy. I am going back to decorating the basement. I love Christmas.

I need to write Abby and Kleiner. Oh boy. Soooo much to do. I am overwhelmed!

Live From Point

Well I'm back. It might be noticed the time is still Greenwich Mean, I will fix that later. Apartment shopping here goes slowly. Hopefully more luck tomorrow but who knows. This is coming live from the Lars residence. (He's not dead just busy and Jaybez hasn't mastered typing...yet.) Not much to report. Feeling a little out of place to some extent tho, I've found that people have changed. Maybe it's me but the way some people are now is just different then when I left them. It seems to me their values have shifted. I don't know. I guess I feel a little left out, which granting where I've been, I have. You can't expect to be a major part of people's lives and live 4000 miles away at the same time. It doesn't work. So I am dealing with that.
I could really use a good walk thru Regent's Park but that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

I also need a shave but my razor is back home. So I am gonna be very fuzzy when I get back Friday. Not like I need to worry about anyone kissing me. I think the one chance I had is now far away London and she won't be coming home to the US. :(

That's life. This was your first post-Europe entry. Enjoy.