The Rosetta Stone

12:34am: You will listen to this, and you will enjoy it.
( Cut )

10:05am: This is gonna be interesting.
In the "may you live in interesting times" sort of way.

Yesterday, Mom took off down to various parts of the lower 48 to visit with friends and family for the month, leaving dad and I to fend for ourselves when it comes to cooking, dishes, laundry, and a few other things.

Anyone who has seen either of us attempt to do any of these might realize just how screwed the two of us truly are.

AAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaaaaaa.....crap.

11:35pm: I still have to question my choice in villain names here.
( Longpost is looooong. )

9:26pm: Damn but this makes me feel old.
Teen mindblown by Sony Walkman

The real brainsmack here, though, is that it took him 3 days to figure out that he could flip the cassette over and get more songs.

Good. Freaking. Grief. This kid makes my soul hurt. ;_;

12:48pm: Geez Louise....
Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and now Billy Mays.

Sheesh. This is just not a good week to be famous.

(Sorry if this post seems a bit cold...my sympathies go out to all their families, but I honestly just don't feel... anything over all this.)

12:20am: Heh, -whoops-.
( The following has been rated PB )

10:48pm: And now we shall read from the Books of Matthew, Mark, Luke...
...and DUCK!

10:59pm: BLUGH.
Had a lot of stuff to take to the local landfill today, including some months-rotted/molded wood from a disabled neighbor's house.

The stuff we had to take stunk, the landfill royally stunk, and I was already on the verge of throwing up this morning as it was....so yeah, load of fun.

The real kicker, though...well, let me ask you this: You have to drive a quarter of a mile into a huge muddy cesspool of God Knows What to dump a lot of stuff off. What's the worst thing you can do?

If you guessed "lock the keys in the truck," congrats, you nailed it. I bring this up, of course, because that's exactly what Dad and I did (still can't agree on who did it). Having to trudge and sludge all the way back up through that stuff just to call Mom and get the spare keys was....yeah.

BLUGH.

Not doing that again any time soon, thank you.


(oddly enough, though, I did manage to keep from puking, so I guess that's a small plus.)

10:46am: Finally.
After today, those stupid "digital TV antenna conversion" commercials will finally go away.

I hope.

Things were beginning to annoy me. :[

7:23pm: A gamer's opinion of President Obama.
This is more of a joke than anything, but...( well, you'll see my point. )

9:46am: Memes these days...I swear.
Tagged off of dmscv
01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

( Results under cut )

12:16pm: The one thing I dislike about picking up a new webcomic to follow.
When I get done reading through the archives and hit that dead-end where I have to wait for the next episode. Almost as bad as reaching the end, really. :[

In this case, that gut-thumping "D'oh!" hit after getting to the latest installment in "Red String", which I have no shame in admitting is a textbook-definitive shoujo manga.

12:17am: Funny what the right equipment can do.
( longpost is loooooooong, and MMO related )

1:14am: Greed, stupidity, both, or something worse?
( Cut for some bitching at the start. Gets more pleasant at the end. )

10:24pm: This looks like fun.
We Didn't Play Test This At All...and yet somehow it still works.

3:39pm: This is officially...
...the coolest thing I have ever seen.

(2nd and 4th items on the list are 256% DO WANT.)

2:34pm: Sheesh.
Gamecube controller went kaput the other day. (Mad Katz one, so I'm kinda surprised it lasted the 4 years I had it.)

First, checked out AC, the local "we got everything" store. Closest thing they had was a children's sports video game thing that was made to look very similar to the Nintendo Wii...you know, basically some cheap knock-off for the parents to buy their 6-year-old to shut him up for a few days around Christmas time until he realizes that the video game he spent 6 months of allowance on doesn't fit into what only -looked- like a CD slot. XP

Okay, so no Gamecube controllers in Nome (no other place in town sells video game stuff). Not surprised at all. So, I went home and checked out Wal-Mart.com to try and find a replacement...no dice. Then, when Dad went to Anchorage for the weekend to pick a few things up, I asked him to pick one up. Wal-Mart, Target, even Gamestop...nada.

At this point, I'm getting a bit frustrated.

Spent all day today checking various sites to try and find one...finally found one on Amazon. Ordered, put in the address...

"Sorry, we can't ship to PO boxes."

...Okay, stay cool, no problem, just put in my street address instead. We get mail through that just fine....

"Sorry, that street name appears to be invalid."

....Calm down, calm down Will, after all, that's perfectly understandable, considering the street name is "Round the Clock" (no St, Rd, Ave, Cir, Pkwy, Blvd, or anything like that...just "Round the Clock". Which, for the record, is intersected by Fore & Aft and Around the Bend....Yeah, Nome has weird street names.)...

Still, how freakin' hard can it be to find a controller!? :[

10:16pm: This is why I am a Mac rather than a PC.
A few months ago I bought a nice, inexpensive PC for playing Windows-based games (primarily dating sims) on. Not using it for anything 'Net related....in fact, this computer is not, and unless absolutely necessary never WILL be, connected to the Internet.

For about 10 minutes now, it's been showing me the following warning message over and over and over again:

"SecurityCenter is not able to check for updates because ther eis no Internet connection. You must connect to the Internet to download the latest security updates and protect your computer."

But...if I don't have it connected to the Internet, doesn't that mean there's nothing to protect it from?

*sigh* PC-kun no baka....

12:54pm: WHISKEY. TANGO. FOXTROT.
( Cut for video embedding and severely foul language. )

7:57pm: Get well soon, Mom.
Just to explain the subject line: Earlier today, she goofed her knee up something fierce. The hospital gave her some ibuprofen to help with the pain, and said to come back on Monday if it still hurts for an X-Ray.

If it turns out to be something more serious, she'll have to be flown down to Anchorage for proper care..I'm just hoping it's nothing major and that she gets back on her feet soon.

6:52pm: Gaming nostalgia: Phantasy Star Online
Last night I was going through my Gamecube games, and saw PSO Ep 1&2 fall out of its sleeve. Picked it up, started to put it back, then decided that since I didn't really have much to do at the time, it might be fun to do a quick run-through on Easy Mode with one of my characters (all of whom were at Lv 200, hence the quickness.)

After that, I figured, what the heck? Start fresh on it again. So I took "Bleu", a Lv 9 HUmar who I'd made specifically for nothing more than getting one of my characters (a FOmarl) a Mag she couldn't get on her own, and kicked him to the curb, replacing him with a FOmar incarnation of Wilren.

It kinda spooks me that the game got the look for him I had in mind better than I could on paper, but hey, I'm not gonna complain. :]

So anyway, as of right now he's up to Lv 18 w/ a Lv 50 'Ila' Mag (which is pretty sweet looking), and currently down to the first floor of the Mines (for those who forgot, this means the Forest, the Dragon, the Caves, and that @#)%&)@#%&ing De Rol Le are all out of the way).

And on that note, time to get back at it! :]

9:52pm: All in all, a good day.
We've finally started putting in the drywall in the new house. By this time next year, God willing, we might very well be moving in.

TSA contacted me earlier to inform me that the final hiring pool for the full- and part-time screener positions at the airport has been filled, and that I'm in it. Further candidate screening will resume on Thursday, but I'm feeling rather hopeful as I have two distinct advantages over other candidates: Prior military experience (who knew all that watch standing would actually come in handy one day?) and the fact that I already have a place to live here.

Got in touch with Kaplan University to look at continuing on with my Bachelor's, opting to go for a general IT degree. After working out the details of how the GI Bill would cover things, I found out I'd be looking at not only not paying anything, but pocketing about $250 a month just by taking 2 courses a quarter. Cha-cha-cha-CHING!

Mom made spaghetti for supper, using slightly-burnt sausage instead of ground beef. The slight burning actually made it taste quite awesome, which is saying something compared to her usual spaghetti cooking, which is already quite delicious.

Yep. All in all, definitely a good day. ^_^




On a seperate note: Is drinking more than a litre (screw off, I prefer the British spelling) of iced tea (no lemon, no sweeteners) a day a bad thing? *looks at 3rd serving of the stuff in his half-litre thermos* ...No reason, just curious. :b

1:54am: THAT'S IT!! THAT'S IT!!
( Nostalgia trip. )

11:28pm: Huh.
Flipping through some Yahoo news articles, and came across one that momentarily blew my mind: The Sega Dreamcast is apparently starting to make a comeback.

My overall reaction to this is a 50/50 "WTF?" and "WOOHOO!".

...*goes back to watching a movie*

1:15pm: All the news about pirates, pandemics, and politics...
...and my interest gets hooked on IBM throwing down the gauntlet to Alex Trebek.

*shrugs* I guess I just get sick of hearing about the negatives and overblown fear-mongering.