Persistence of Memory

Rick came home today with a Wii. He's been playing "sports" games ever since, and he's even breaking a sweat (playing boxing for the moment). Ah, no, he's moved on to baseball and has been complaining about the lack of legs to run on for the little Wiible people. (And he absolutely sucks at the table tennis game.) I made sure when he made his Mii that the little dude had that cocky smirk on his face. Just had to have it.

On the plus side, he found out that the Wii will play Gamecube titles, so long as you get a controller (and card), so I now own a copy of Chibi-Robo. :) He's so freakin' adorable it hurts. No, I haven't played it yet.... Hopefully a little later this evening, when I may be feeling human (I hope). Rick told me he felt like he was buying gay porn bringing Chibi-Robo up for purchase, which I thought was hilarious. Even the dude at the store said it was a fun game.

I am still in pain, pain bad enough to bring me to tears, and it takes a lot to do that—I've cried more in the past week and a half due to pain than I have in the last ten years. I cried so hard earlier I ended up tossing my cookies (could have been coincidence, though, I guess). I am so sick and tired of being in pain.

I have an appointment tomorrow to have a mole removed, and I'm gonna ask Dr Person if there's some kind of muscle relaxant or something he can prescribe, because a lot of the time Doan's just doesn't cut it. I've been experimenting with gentle stretches, very recently, in the hopes that maybe the reason the muscles are going into spasms left, right, and sideways is just from lack of real movement. I dunno. The Mineral Ice is an interesting distraction, but I can't say that it's really helping in any meaningful way, which sucks. At least it's waaaaay easier to apply than Icy Hot.

Still, I'm taking the generic Claritin... still seeing a decided lack of "normal" headaches, which is still incredibly and exceptionally welcome in my life. I am cautiously optimistic that this will continue. I continue to feel stuffy, but you know...? Stuffy + lack of headache = win.

I figure, I've been in a shitty way for the past 1.5-2 weeks, so what better choice than to pour woe and angst all over my journal.

( Woe and Angst )

I admit, I've been sitting here listening to/watching Rick play Half Life 2, Episode 2, and giggling like a school girl over the bit about how Aperture Science might have "rushed" things a bit. That, and giggling over listening to Rick rant about this one scientist dude (Magnuson?) and how pissed he is that an endless supply of bullets to the dude's skull fails to drop him. Personally, I agree. Captain Obvious needs to die a gruesome death.

Then, of course, I had to go look up the "Black Mesa Microwave Casserole" incident, not that I've watched the video I found for it yet. I didn't remember it and neither did he, but I'll know soon enough, I suppose.

It's a good thing the apartment to our right is the complex office, and therefore isn't being bombarded with all this noise through the wall, and that the one behind us is their utility room, so hopefully there's enough distance with that and the hallway such that the bedrooms on the far side aren't being interrupted with the mass shooting, alarms, and other assorted noises of a strider attack.

For those that pay attention, I've moved the HP/Twilight fics from Misc. Slash to their own page, here. I've also added two new stories to that, both Harry/Edward.

... that I am really amused and liking the final track from Portal, Still Alive. It's so chirpily sadistic. I never imagined a game like Portal would produce a track I'd be so fond of, but it did.

Added the story Abused to Harry/Lucius Recs, and Haunted By Dreams Deferred to the Final Fantasy XII section of Misc. Game-Related Recs.

On the way back from Orlando I happened to notice a couple of signs which made me laugh.

Catholic Church
All you can eat seafood

I don't know why that struck me as funny, it just did.

→ Landfill
→ Senior Center

All I could think here was something like "Aw shit, Ethel kicked it. Joe! Pop her on a handcart and hit the landfill across the street. We get a discount."

( Sea World (one image included) )

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Please be aware that a new oneshot has been added under Final Fantasy.

Title: Worth

Pairing: Balthier/Vaan

Summary: They don't see his worth, it's clear, so he leaves. Someone comes to regret such haste.

A story, Surprising, has been added to the Final Fantasy VII section under Cloud/Sephiroth for Misc. Game Related.

Added a story to Misc. Slash. This one is actually an amusing crossover of Harry Potter/Twilight, weighing in at 61 chapters and 145k words.

( Domain of Heroes )

( Persona 4 )

Anyone on my flist play Domain of Heroes (that isn't a certain someone who knows who they are, that is)?

It's that time of year. The time when I have multiple heart attack scares because all god's little chilluns is outside setting off fireworks in a grand tradition of making things 'go boom'.

Aside from that, this time of year reminds me of that day we spent it at my parents' house, and one of the dogs managed to steal some meat, and then barfed up all over the place from having taken too much in his fervor for thievery and gluttony. Or something like that.

Yay, 4th!

Meanwhile, while watching a video LP of Chibi-Robo (gosh darn it but that little bugger is sooooooo cute!!! I wants one!!!), my machine keeps flipping out and BSODing. Fine, we'll just download the videos with our handy extension and watch them non-streamed, which may or may not help the least bit.

Rrrrrrr.

RCT3 keeps silently crashing to desktop after a while (I'm working on Career Mode scenarios), and Sim City 4 caused a BSOD yesterday, scaring the crap out of me in the process. Rrrrrr. Jurassic Park, on the other hand, seems to behave, but that last mission utterly escaped me (stupid friggin' carnivores refusing to pose properly for me while I take pictures, and jebus but I don't wanna have to out-drive a T-Rex again). But, now that I think of it, Evil Genius has a tendency to occasionally CTD as well.

Speaking of Evil Genius, I did manage to complete all ten main objectives and unleash unholy mayhem and terror upon the world. I'm considering having another go at it. It's kind of like the Sims or Dungeon Keeper—there's this potential obsession with design. Is there a perfect base entrance? Is it possible to waylay those pesky agents of the Forces of Good for so long with pointless doors and confusion traps that they leave without ever getting into the really interesting part of the base? I should find out. Because really, the first go-through was me flailing madly in an attempt to seem competent. And besides, there are three different Doomsday weapons you can make. (Granted, I sniffed around and found a video of the Gravity one, whereas I picked the Earthquake one.)

LoZ finally got its friggin' act together on potions, so Nimby was able to respec and nab the entire Body tree (with the coveted Warrior), plus keep all the looting skills (losing the haggling skills), and buff up a bit on magical MPT. It's making this whole adventure at +5 thing much easier overall. I'd only been sitting on those four coconuts for a couple of weeks now from when I managed to beat them out of those Gambit offers.

In other news, Justus has gained a cool million in interest (give or take a few thou) two days running. This is good.

I found out earlier that Mr Shadow likes cobwebs. What I can't decide is if he just likes the way they feel against his whiskers, or if he likes eating them. Such a strange cat.

And, I've come to the conclusion that VMS must be a complete flop, since I've yet to hear anything from anyone about it. Oh well. I still had loads of fun working on it.

So, it was recommended to us that Zack and Miri Make a Porno was a fun film to watch.

And it is, though one has to be aware ahead of time of the preponderance of swear words. Then again, this is a Kevin Smith film, so that's to be expected. It is funny, the humor being a bit crude (again, expected), and it has more than a few moments where I kind of gaped at what I was seeing. Randal (Jeff Anderson) and Jay (Jason Mewes) from Clerks is in it, but even before he appears, anyone familiar with Jay and Silent Bob would know this is a Smith creation.

Sensitive people and those who take offense easily should avoid.

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It's that time of the year again, and though I managed to have nothing last year, the tradition continues this year. Thus, an offering.

Title: Vanquishing Mary Sue

Characters: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Mary Sue, Nimby
Warnings: Idiocy

Summary: A potentially amusing little fanfiction story masquerading as interactive fiction. Voldemort has been vanquished, but yet . . . Mary Sue remains.

Please see the details page for how to play.

I'm a little stunned. First, they implemented clans earlier than I expected, but that's not the part that has me weirded out. Nimby had two emails today.

1. Someone inviting me to join the clan they started.
2. An auto-email showing that same someone having kicked my ass in the arena again (they do it a lot, actually, which is fine).

Eh? I guess I'm sitting here looking a bit wild-eyed because I have no idea why this person would invite me. I don't know them except as a name, and Nimby isn't particularly distinguished or anything.

And then another invitation pops up. Huh.

Anyway, I started my own clan: Metempsychosis.

And now Justus has Nimby's Frostham Bearded Axe.

I can think of one other person I'd invite, because I know them, assuming they're still playing. *eyes the weather reporter*

My first Infinity card today. Scythes. I'm not entirely shocked it was that one, since Scythes did have a way of popping up frequently for Nimby.

I also managed to save up to get the highest weapon, which left me with a mere 320 zorkmids. But, a quick jaunt through the arena and some hunting and I'm back over 100k (without having sold my prior weapon -- still waiting on clans to see if Justus can be given that).

I have broken the 1 million zorkmid barrier. Now I just need about five more, then bunches more for skills. Yay.

If I'm extremely lucky I can have that katana by the end of the week, but somehow... I doubt it. Maybe early next week?