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Halloween is pretty awesome! Except when you can't really do it properly. Hopefully I can fix this unfortunate circumstance whenever they let me into the apartments.

I figured out the source of the floating heads of sillyness in Oblivion! It seems that the TNR NNC merged mod wasn't behaving right and tried to clothe a ton of NPCs with clothes that didn't exist. So I got rid of that and replaced it with NPC New Clothes v2.6 and TNR All Races Final. Now everything's shiny! And I can get all the new clothing too, though that requires messing around with all the additional mods OR just killing the people who wear what I want, lol. Dunno if I want any of it that much yet..

College is continuing to be a pain in the arse, and I have 3 exams within a week. (Still have Calc on Tuesday) CompSci's was pretty easy stuff, except I probably got two or three wrong because I didn't bother looking at vocabulary, haha. Physics pissed me off though, since I basically lost 25% on it because 1 question was so freaking weird I didn't even know where to start. Blarg, I hope I did all the rest right so I at least get a C. >___>;

This week's topic was "People as Places as People". I think Rei told me all of these assignments are song titles. She must listen to some really weird stuff. Of course I'm one to talk, with like 6 remixes of 'Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer!' on my MP3 player, haha.


I finally got to go to the RenFaire on the last day! Sort of... I overslept, so I started driving there around 1:10ish, and didn't actually walk into the Faire until after 3:30. Holy crap, there were too many cars. Anyway, got to hang out with Cat a bunch and bother Rei, and saw the Hypnotist show that I hadn't stopped in for before. It was quite funny, since one of the hypnotees were flopping around on the ground alot. I looked at some shops, but nothing in particular caught my eye. That was probably half because I'm poor and half because I couldn't even get at several of the shops. Holy crap people.

Saturday I did an informal photo shoot for Nerd to the Third. Was kinda fun and silly, although I had to balance a camera and mirror in addition to my poses of justice, since I wasn't able to get any lighting equipment. I think they turned out fairly well, other than a couple focus problems and "Holy crap the room is yellow". Afterward I got to run around with Cat's video camera trying to film their podcast when they were all sitting in completely different spots in the house, fun times! Especially when they kept going back and forth and I had no idea who I should have the camera on and inevitably end up spinning in circles. I think the answer to that though is Caramelldansen, because that's the answer to everything.

If you haven't started watching DBZ Abridged, then you're seriously missing out on one of life's finer pleasures. Nappavoice is far more fun than it should be, especially when paired with a Vegeta.

Finally, watch this video. EVERYONE. Even if you don't like Touhou, it's far too awesome not to watch.

Nyanya~nya nya~

Our Physics teacher literally said that about turning in late assignments. I thought it was pretty funny.

I'm not really going to type alot today, because I stubbed my right pinky jump/falling out of my bed earlier, and while it's not swollen or anything, it still hurts like hell. Even though you don't use them alot, it's amazing how much you depend on your pinky and ring fingers without realizing it.

Lesse, biked a half hour at the gym, and surprisingly wasn't sweaty or tired at all when I got back to my dorm. Looks like all the walking I'm doing helped warm up my legs enough not to be destroyed like after Capture the flag last week, haha.

STILL no Higurashi Rei 5 subs. Want moar Hirukowashi-hen NAO! T_T

And to all none of you who dare to wonder wtf is up with the end of the flash, I present to you, Neko Miko Reimu. I will not be held accountable for any sanity or narwals you lose during viewing said video.

As my summer draws to a close...

So yeah, my summer's almost over, just another week until move-in to UMBC. Of course, it'll still technically be summer, we've still got another month until Shizuha and Minoriko show up. Doesn't look like I can get to a water park after all, guess I'll just settle for another thorough watergun blasting. Next summer though. Next summer I'm going to Water Country USA if I have to do it by myself. =P

The Umineko anime has been...kinda rushed recently. Not quality-wise (though one of Beatrice's faces in Episode 7 would beg to differ), but the pacing has been at breakneck speed, apparant even if one hasn't read the visual novels. I'm not really sure why they're rushing things so fast, they've still got 16-18 episodes to tell 2.5 chapters, not like how they tried to fit 6 games into the first season of Higurashi. It seemed to be getting better toward the end of the episode, so maybe they're getting things back on track. Or maybe they just want to spend lots of time on Ange in the fourth part. I'm totally down for that then, haha.

Speaking of Umineko, the full version of the OP, Katayoku no Tori has been released, and I love it.

The ending theme should be out next month.

New videos for FFXIV came out with Gamescon. One show scaled-back Alpha version gameplay, so while it's pretty (and it's very pretty), it's not a good feel for how the game's going to end up yet. The guy who's controlling the character looks like he has no idea what he's doing either, lol. The other one is high-definition emotes for all the races, and they're quite a step up from what FFXI fans are used to, haha.


I didn't see any actual new info on FFXIV though, just a bunch of rehashed stuff. What's the next big press conference, Tokyo Game Show? Dunno, but should get more info periodically, if nothing else than through Famitsu.

Healthy eating omgwtfbbq? Yup, ...right after this Ben&Jerry's! =D

RPS EXTRRREEEMMMEEE

Jeebus, the midget even invaded my room on three separate occasions while I was trying to make this flash. It's fortunate I'm a genius and managed to make her curious about the kangaroos that live in the Sahara Desert.

Umineko is making 0 sense right now, I get that the last episode is a flashback and all (Though the lack of Tsurupettan was unfortunate), but there's this whole thing where 4 people *might* still be alive? Or are they dead now? Or did they reach the Golden Land and every one else revived? Or what the poop happened? I decided 20ish minutes a week was too slow, so I managed to find a group that had translated all 4 episodes of the Umineko game/sound novel so far. I figured I'd run through it a bit and at least catch up to the anime, and probably go further on. Little did I realize just how much they have to cut out of these games to fit them into an anime. For reference, I've been going through for hours and hours and hours, and I'm a bit over halfway through Episode 1 I think? Or equivalently, near the beginning of the third anime episode. There's tons of stuff they left out, so far the most notable bits are the very beginning of the story was completely cut, including Battler's airplane fright, and Rosa's very character didn't make it into the anime. All we saw of her was freaking out and slapping Maria for going 'Uuuuu' all the time in the rose garden, but most of the time she's a very reserved and kind person, easily the least venomous of the four siblings. Anyway, I'll probably work my way through this and the other three chapters over August, maybe finishing by school move-in. Episode 5 is slated to be released at Comiket in a week though, so I'll have to keep my eyes peeled this fall to see if an English patch comes out for that.

Obviously with all this Umineko stuff, naturally I would backtrack and see if I couldn't find a translation for the Higurashi games, since I've gotten nowhere near enough Higurashi in my life. And I did, though unfortunately only for Onikakusi-hen. Ironically it was translated by a pair of RL going by the monikers of Mion and Shion, haha. Anyway, the patch is actually down at the moment (though I could probably find it if I tried), but they seem to plan to put it up sometime soonish. In addition, I found that the Higurashi games had been licensed for an English release by a company called MangaGamer. They seem to be European-based, and intend to release the Question Arcs (Onikakushi, Watanagashi, Tatarigoroshi, Himatsubushi) in October and the Answer Arcs (Meakashi, Tsumihoroboshi, Minagoroshi, Matsuribayashi) in December. They even seem to have hired a diehard Higurashi fan who's a skilled English/Japanese bilinguist, so it looks like it'll turn out good. Assuming the price isn't too exorbant, I'll try to get them as soon as I possibly can, haha. The only downside I see is there doesn't seem to be any current intentions for the localization of some of the other chapters from Higurashi Rei, Matsuri(PS2) or Kizuna(DS). Ah well, one step at a time, eh?

Going back to the real world a bit, I finally got my college accomadations in the mail. I'll be living in Susquehanna Hall North, Third floor, Room 358. Move-in's on the 28th, and I believe classes start the following Tuesday? I don't remember. Anyway, I'm mostly ready, just need to do a little bit of shopping and pick up my book packages from the school bookstore. I've got both my English books now, but no world on any details of my Calculus class yet, which is getting a bit annoying. The biggest problem though, is my roommates. I haven't met them yet, so I don't know what they're like, but there's two of them. Yeah, UMBC crammed me in a triple. *superpapercutstab* I don't think Susquehanna has common rooms, so that makes it all the more tricky, especially if they opt to only give us two closets. (Closests aren't built-in in SUS, so I think they can be moved about. I might be wrong.) Well, I've got some ideas on how to beat the system, but it's certainly going to be an interesting bout of Room Tetris.

The official article with more info on FFXIV came out, and with it, significantly better quality character scans. All pictures here are shamelessly stolen from RPGamer, lol. If it bitches for hotlinking, just hit enter in the address bar again or wait a minute and it'll automagically reload anyway:
Hyuran Male | 2 | Female | 2
Elezen Male | 2 | Female | 2
Lalafell Male | 2 | Female | 2
Roegadyn 1 | 2
Miqo'te 1 | 2

Some of the highlights from the article include multiple clans in both the Miqo'te and the Hyuran, not sure if there'll be discernable differences yet. Racial stats will be less varied than they were in FFXI, but there will now be slight differences between males and females as well. Customization is supposed to really be kicked up a notch, and you shouldn't be running into your twin every 20 feet (lol). Missions and quests seem like they will take a larger role this time, and many will take 30min or less to complete, something highly valued by solo and casual players. Armor tweaking and weapon skills have somehow taken the place of experience points and whatnot, but it's unclear how this will be executed. Unlike FFXI though, armor seems to have the ability to deteriorate with use. Finally, there are 3 large towns confirmed. A desert town of Ul'dah, Gridania in the forest, and a lawless port town named Limsa Lominsa. I'm totally going for Limsa, haha.

Finally, here are some of what are almost certainly ingame screenshots. The quality's a bit low, but that's obviously the computer/photo capture they used, not the game engine:
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And for no reason in particular, here's Tsurupettan!

Boing~

So yeah, I didn't feel like actually thinking of something, so I made Mika bounce around. Drag and release to toss her, and use arrow keys to resize and rotate. Fun fun XD

OH GAWD MIND FUCK! I have *no* idea what the crap is going on in Umineko right now. Is everyone dead? Did they revive? Is this heaven, an illusion, or the inside of a delicious chocolate cake? I have absolutely no clue anymore, and while I love it, the week-long wait is painful for something like this. XD

Dead Fantasy 5 debuted on Tuesday, so check it out if you've been too lazy to get it yourself!


The link to GameTrailers.

Lots of 'Holy crap Tifa!' to be had here, haha. Not sure where he's taking this, or what's become of the other 5 girls, but we'll see that eventually I guess? Like I said before, this is the last of this set for Dead Fantasy, so don't expect Part VI until some time next year.

I've actually been spending way too much time watching videos and reading stuff about Dissidia: Final Fantasy over the past couple days (coincidentally part of the reason I didn't make a comic, lol), and I'm pretty stoked for it. I haven't heard any terrible English voice actors, which is a breath of relief, though we don't have all the characters yet. I've no clue who's going to be replacing Hayashibara Megumi for Shantotto, but they'd better do a damn good job, as Megumi's the main reason I didn't nerd-rage over the fact that they dropped Prishe (The original rep from FFXI) in favor of Shantotto. Prishe better be in Dissidia 2 though, I wanna Dropkick me some gods. XD

It's also National Ice Cream month!

There are like holidays pratically every day of the year. This calls for a celebration! Today's National Junk Food Day! I had some Pizza Rolls earlier, so I think that counts, right?

Anyway, following up from last week, Dead Fantasy 4 is out now. More action, more explosions, though it's over alot quicker than the last one. Certainly worth a look though.


The link to GameTrailers.

Cloud's totally a woman, lol. Part 5 (the last for now) should be out next Monday, and maybe wrap up this mini-arc? No telling until then I guess. XD

Anyway, somehow, someway I managed to eke out 6 more clears in Shoot the Bullet, bringing me to the coveted 66 and unlocking EX mode! Where I was promptly discombobulated by everyone, oh yay! Haha, it's not earth-shattering difficult, although there are 3 I wasn't able to get more than a single photo on. Surprisingly, I already managed to beat one of Flandre's spellcards, "Taboo 'Forbidden Games'". Aya's quote she made after the win is probably one of the best I've seen in the game thus far too. "I was fairly sure vampires were weak to the cross symbol, but it doesn't seem like it. She just came out and played with it..." Hahaha. Also, this morning I managed my first true victory in Touhou Normal Mode, beating Phantasmagoria of Flower View with Aya of all people. Probably so used to her due to my overplaying of Shoot the Bullet, haha. After countless times of Shikieiki kicking my arse right at the end with Unlimited Bullet Works, when I finally beat her I hadn't even been hit once in the round, talk about luck. XD

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, I'm unable to present the photo assignment for today yet. I'm hoping to get everything worked out tonight so I can throw up the photo tomorrow morning though. If you see this Rei, you can go ahead and come up with this week's assignment if you like.

Saw The Spirit last night, which was surprisingly good, despite not being about stallions. Needed more Red Tie though, that think had the potential to be almost as cool as Shinobi's scarf, lol. I'm unfamiliar with the source material, so based on the movie itself I'd give it an 8. Quite good, but seemed awkward or rushed here and there.

Watched the first two episodes of Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and it more or less keeps the same disjointed style from the other seasons, so I guess I can just kick back and enjoy the next 11 episodes as they come out. Maybe we'll actually get plot and discover this mysterious dark side of Kafuka, haha.

And a minor update on Touhoumon LUNATIC. Holy shit is this game grindy. I'm trying to work up to ~Lv70 just to do the Rocket Base in Celadon City, something you could normally easily sweep through at 30. At least the Bridge of Hell Trainers mostly stayed and can be VS. Seeker'd, as the highest wild Touhou I've seen is Lv20. >_>;

Blarg

Summer is pretty boring tbh. And hot. A water park sounds good about now, but that requires both people and effort, and blarg. Maybe in August sometime? I'unno. Maybe this time I won't get heat stroke and die, haha.

First up (and it's about time, haha), Dead Fantasy III has *finally* been released!


The link to GameTrailers.

Not only that, but is seems Dead Fantasy 4 and 5 are finished (or just about) as well, and should be out withing the next few weeks. DF6 is still a long way off though. XD There's a bunch of footage of the next two floating around already since Monty Oum presented all three incomplete at a few cons up until now, so be wary about clicking related video links if you don't want spoilers. :3

Also it seems I lied about taking an extended break from Shoot the Bullet, as I've instead been playing quite a lot of it lately. As a result, I've now cleared 60 stages, putting me a mere 6 away from getting my face completely obliterated in EXTRA mode, haha. I'm not sure how much more I can force out right now, since I've done every one I can get close to completion on, and Youmu is a bitch. Seriously.

And WOW, I can't believe it took me this long to realize, though I blame the fact I haven't watched Slayers in years aside from Revolution/Evolution-R and Xelloss didn't have a very large part at all there. But anyway, Xerxes Break in Pandora Hearts is voiced by Ishida Akira, in his lovable creepishly eccentric character who knows far more than he should about what's going on. Basically, Xelloss/Shinkohyo/whoever is in Pandora Hearts as the Mad Hatter, and it's probably my favorite character of that group, although Shinkohyo is quite close.

Saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the other day. The movie...wasn't that great. It spent way too much time with the teen drama stuff, and not nearly enough time with the meat of the plot, despite alot of it being Harry's inner thoughts. Ironically, it *didn't* include the infamous Harry/Ginny scene after the Quiddich match near the end of the book, but whatever. As Erik pointed out to me, it's quite a letdown of a movie, especially since they made us wait for such an extra length of time for it. Well, maybe they'll get the last one right? *flips a coin*

It's here!

Poor Kogasa, she finally ended up surprising some people! Although it looks like she'll end up with a cold at that rate, guess she didn't think that far through.

Umineko episode 1 is out, and it is glorious! I'm actually quite impressed with Studio Deen, they seem to be even better then when they started working on Higurashi Rei. Umineko's going to be an interesting ride for me, since I've been expecting the anime since '07, I've tried my hardest to avoid the literal landfill of spoilers (and it's worked...mostly XD) And now my brain gets to explode, hooray! I'll actually be reading the manga too, what little there is translated. Unfortunately by the looks of the number of chapters, the anime will be past that point in 2 weeks tops, and I'll just have to sit on my arse and wait for whatever group wants to work on it to release more. Of course, I know I shouldn't get my hopes up too high, the Watanagashi-hen manga is still only at 8/12 chapters translated. >_>;

While I'll avoid spoilers for now, I was dead on when I assumed Battler and Maria would be my favorite characters starting off. George and Kanon are a bit different than my perception of them, but good different. No comment on the adults yet, though other than our crazy geezer, I don't think many of them will have a large role.

The opening theme was amazing, and I was in love with it within the first five notes, haha. It's called 'Katayoku no Tori' or 'One Winged Bird' sung by Shikata Akiko, the same singer behind the amazing opening for the Umineko games I posted a couple weeks ago. Katayoku no Tori isn't quite as good as the Umineko game OP, but it's still damn good, and it can only get better in a month and a half when the single comes out in a month and a half.



Now brace yourself for the Ending theme. :3



I'll be honest, I absolutely hated when I heard it at the end of the episode, not the music or the mood, those were excellent. I just couldn't stomach the singer. It took me a few listens, but I actually like it quite a bit now, it's just so much different than what I'm used to that I was taken aback. After all, it's not supposed to be a calm, or a cutesy song, it's meant to show Kinzo's, aka the crazy old guy, madness as he opens forth whatever the hell is gonna come in the next however many episodes this will be. In terms of 'When They Cry' ED's, I rank this 2nd only to the awesome that is Why or Why Not from the first season of Higurashi. It's titled 'La Divina Tragedia: Makyoku' or 'The Divine Tragedy: Demonic Song', sung by Jimang, and the single is set to come out a month after Katayoku no Tori.

In other news, it seems no one with the Idolm@ster U.N.Owen was her? video has the ability to both upload a good quality video and not get their account banned. (I've favorited like 3 that have been banned now, wtf) So I'll put a link to the NicoNico original here and in the original post. If anyone needs help setting up a NicoNico account to browse their extensive awesome, lemme know. :3

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm7126531

Excitement!

Dreams do funny things huh? In an interesting note, my roommates genderswapped after the rumble through the airport shopping center/security checkpoint, but they didn't really do anything after then so I didn't draw them. But yeah, the whole campus was decked out in Cardboard Victorian, it was pretty intense. I also went ahead and threw up Rei's profile, since she's inevitably going to be showing up more.

Anyway, Super Scription of Data finally came out today! That's the Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei opening, which is sung by Shimamiya Eiko and created from awesome, as are almost all of her songs. No sign of subs for Higurashi Rei Ep 4 yet, but today was the actual release for Episode 4 I think, so hopefully they won't be too much longer. >_> The ending theme, Manazashi, also hasn't shown up on Youtube that I've seen, though it was also supposed to come out today.



Nothing else really that I can think of, other than this awesome U.N. Owen was her? mix vid using Idolm@ster. :3

7/3: So apparantly no one on Youtube with this can keep in up in good quality without getting their account banned, so here's the link to the original Nico Nico Douga version.

Take That!

You can listen to the nonexistent bells that Saffy obviously set up here. Sheesh, she's such a problematic child (though quite a marvelous toy ;D)

Phoenix Wright is pretty dang fun, it's been like 6 months since I started Trials and Tribulations, so I kinda eventually forgot. XD Picked it up again a couple days ago and explosively got my way through the rest of the trials over two days. I liked T&T alot, which is good, because Justice for All was kinda lacking for a Phoenix Wright game. Also, the final case of T&T is probably my favorite case of the GBA games, pretty neat stuff in there. It wasn't quite as good as the fifth case of the first game, but that one was too awesome to surpass. But who knows? I've got Apollo Justice plugged into my DS already, maybe something in this game will push the limits of legal awesome. Also, apparently the fifth Ace Attorney game is supposed to be out by the end of the year, and starring everyone's favorite Edgey. Can't wait to see how that one ends up too. :3

Anywho, I finished up Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There on Tuesday, and I do say that I liked the stories. They were simple, childish, and quite dream-like in quality. Although, I'll admit my own dreams are a good deal less coherant, but that's because my brain likes to play tricks on me, like sentences will be completely different every time I read them. Alice is lucky in that regard, she was able to remember the poem about the Jabberwocky. But yes, a great deal of silliness and tomfoolery abounds in both Wonderland and the Looking-Glass world. I'd love to visit myself, where things are both so literal and obscure that it's certainly a wonder anything gets thought at all! There is one part of the books that bothers me though. Alice's forehead. In the illustrations, they really should have given her bangs. >_>

I've actually been watching/reading an anime/manga recently that draws heavily on the characteristics of Carroll's books, that being Pandora Hearts. Interestingly enough, while their Alice seems to be similarly innocent as Alice herself, the character Oz Vessalius acts very much more like Alice. After all, neither really get too alarmed in their current situations, ending up just accepting the extraordinary as reality. Of course, if anyone in the anime's to use the term 'Curiouser and curiouser', I'd imagine it'd be Break, but that's because he's the show's Mad Hatter, and also Hisoka without the pedo part, haha.

One last note, the best line of the books was at the very end of Chapter IX of Through the Looking-Glass. Alice says "'I'll shake you into a kitten, that I will!'" And she does. That right there is just awesome.

I got a haircut! Wow! Not really a cut, more a trim to take out the 30,000 dead and split ends and whatnot, but wow! Normally, one wouldn't make a note of this, but I get a haircut like every 2 years, so... XD

Episode 4 of Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei is out, huzzah! Unfortunately it's not been subbed yet, and Episode 5 is still 2 months off... but Ep4 is out huzzah! :D

Also, a preview for the Umineko no Naku Koro Ni anime next month has come out :3



It's still being done by Studio Deen, but they've improved quite a bit since they first started Higurashi back in 2006. I dunno about any of you, but I'm looking forward to this tons and tons more than even the rest of Season 2 of Suzumiya Haruhi. =DDD For those of you unfamiliar with Umineko, here's a little taste, heehee.



Welcome to Rokkenjima.

Catgirl Madness!

No flashblog today, I was much too busy not doing anything to come up with something of wit. Instead, I give you the luminous gift of dance!

So yeah, I ended up not paying attention to the image size of the first Rin Dance, and it ended up being kinda big, so I think the host took it down or it hit a bandwidth cap or something. XD I'll try reuploading it and only linking to it this time, hopefully that will keep it up, yes? XD

It's Orin! Nyar!

I didn't draw that myself obviously, that would take both talent and work. I got them from this video. The video itself is kinda off, but I'm not one to question the groove of the Rin. That's actually how I spent most of the afternoon, going from vid to vid on Youtube looking for neat stuff. Most of it's crap, but every so often I get something quite awesome. For example.



This one I made! Can you tell? :3 Orin again, stepdancing! I hadn't actually planned on devising two separate Orin dancing flashes, but then I stumbled across this version of 'Corpse Voyage ~ Be of Good Cheer!', and after spending the next hour in a deadlock between Subterranian Animism music and Irish stepdancing, how could I not make this? XD



In less interesting news, I finally got around to reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (I've only had the book sitting around for a month or so, haha) It was actually quite interesting despite the short length. I'll probably go ahead and read Through the Looking-Glass tomorrow sometime and then talk about them both together in my next entry.

To close off, I'll give you one more video, that's just puréed defenestrated awesome. =3

Eorzea

Anyway, so as it's obvious, Square unveiled FFXIV at E3, a new MMO slated for next year. No real connection to FFXI other than the races (which are going to be a bit different too). Anyway, most of it was prerendered stuff, but there was a few scenes using the Crystal Tools ingame engine. The pic of the shield magic on the boat is ingame stuff. No idea what the actual gameplay is going to look or even be like, Square likes being tight-lipped about everything. But yeah, I just beat/quit FFXI like 3 weeks ago too. This isn't fair! T_T



As for the rest of E3, it was pretty good. Nintendo's show was kinda lame, although some of the new games (Zelda Wii next year!) and more focus on the Wii Motion Plus makes me excited for what's to come. Sony had an AMAZING freaking show and I need a PS3 and PSP like yesterday. Seriously. I might get PSP by the end of the year, though not the PSPGo, I think I'd prefer to have physical media. PS3's too expensive without any kind of income though >_> I'll have to wait until at the absolute least next summer, probably later. Also, Square's got a new action game called Nier coming soon. It looks intense. Check it out.



Something I've been noticing recently while I sit down to work on these things...mice suck. Alot. Like I try to draw a one inch horizontal line and end up with something that looks like a violent struggle took place across a hundred years of the barren wastes of Bradwen's forehead. Yeesh. I'd like to get a tablet, but there's that money thing again, such a pain. Maybe I'll see if I can get one as my Christmas present this year or something.

Sidenote: trying to regulate sleeping habits is pain in the arse.