Linka-dinka-doo!

FF A+ -- A very funny (old school) FF flash movie. Amazingly, it was done by a high school student! The flash/animation rocks my socks, and his Japanese is (as far as I can tell) wonderful. (It was for his Japanese final exam.) Very funny, check it out!

Slept like a dead thing most of last night, but I'm still tired today. Five hours of sleep, even when good sleep, aren't enough to make up for a night of nearly no sleep (and none of it good).

FFXI foo: Why do I feel guilty when I don't do leveling up? Bah. Well, I leveled in cooking and fishing! I'm 9 in cooking and 16 (I think? or 15) in fishing. When I hit 18 I need to go back to Windy for the fishing test -- I have the fish for it already, it'll be getting there that's the real test! If those 'free ride on a chocobo' tickets worked for people who didn't have a license, it'd be easy. Oh well, it'll be a while before I need to go. (Fishing takes longer to level than cooking, it seems.) Edit: Oh heck, there's a cooking test, too. I bet it's level 8 as well! And I think the guild is in Windy? Bah. Need to look that up as soon as I post this. Edit: Bah, test at 8, yes. Okay, tonight's plan is to get to Windy. Edit again! Or maybe I'll stop cooking and just go to Windy when my fishing test is ready...

Since my stuff at the AH just won't sell, I had to find another way to make money. Surprisingly, I can make a couple thousand (3-4K) in a couple hours with no risk at all: Killing things in the newbie zone! While I get zero XP for it, I can sell the drops to various NPCs. It's sort of fun, too. (However, I started doing it to try to get crystals, and I never get any. I don't know if crystal drops have to do with level difference, or if I've just been highly unlucky the past couple nights.)

Maybe I'll poke about and look for a random party tonight... though I don't really like the idea of working with strangers. That's the only thing I really dislike about FFXI: It *forces* you to work with others; you cannot get far alone (especially if you're a white mage!). Or maybe I'll fish/cook... or maybe I'll finish leveling my black mage (which I can do alone for another couple of levels).

Linka-dinka-doo!

FF A+ -- A very funny (old school) FF flash movie. Amazingly, it was done by a high school student! The flash/animation rocks my socks, and his Japanese is (as far as I can tell) wonderful. (It was for his Japanese final exam.) Very funny, check it out!

Slept like a dead thing most of last night, but I'm still tired today. Five hours of sleep, even when good sleep, aren't enough to make up for a night of nearly no sleep (and none of it good).

FFXI foo: Why do I feel guilty when I don't do leveling up? Bah. Well, I leveled in cooking and fishing! I'm 9 in cooking and 16 (I think? or 15) in fishing. When I hit 18 I need to go back to Windy for the fishing test -- I have the fish for it already, it'll be getting there that's the real test! If those 'free ride on a chocobo' tickets worked for people who didn't have a license, it'd be easy. Oh well, it'll be a while before I need to go. (Fishing takes longer to level than cooking, it seems.) Edit: Oh heck, there's a cooking test, too. I bet it's level 8 as well! And I think the guild is in Windy? Bah. Need to look that up as soon as I post this. Edit: Bah, test at 8, yes. Okay, tonight's plan is to get to Windy. Edit again! Or maybe I'll stop cooking and just go to Windy when my fishing test is ready...

Since my stuff at the AH just won't sell, I had to find another way to make money. Surprisingly, I can make a couple thousand (3-4K) in a couple hours with no risk at all: Killing things in the newbie zone! While I get zero XP for it, I can sell the drops to various NPCs. It's sort of fun, too. (However, I started doing it to try to get crystals, and I never get any. I don't know if crystal drops have to do with level difference, or if I've just been highly unlucky the past couple nights.)

Maybe I'll poke about and look for a random party tonight... though I don't really like the idea of working with strangers. That's the only thing I really dislike about FFXI: It *forces* you to work with others; you cannot get far alone (especially if you're a white mage!). Or maybe I'll fish/cook... or maybe I'll finish leveling my black mage (which I can do alone for another couple of levels).

FMA, friends, kitty

FMA #29: (No spoilers.) Wow. Just wow. Every time I think the series can't get better, it does. What an amazing, creepy, interesting ep!

Friends: I noticed the LJ user info pages are now different, and "friends" is broken down into 'friends', 'communities', and 'syndication'. This is way cool, as now I have more people friending me than I have friends! Woo! (Yes, I know I shouldn't care about such things, but "all the cool people" are friended more than they have friends.)

I hope my kitty cat isn't getting sick. While she's not the most energetic creature in the world, she usually comes and greets me at the door and then follows me around the apartment. Yesterday and today she hasn't been getting up to come to the door, and doesn't even come to me when I'm eating! (She's a big beggar.) The weather changed to very hot, but the apartment is cool (and I keep the AC on when I'm home). She is drinking, but she's not been eating as much as usual for a couple days now. Poor girl, I hope she's okay.

FMA, friends, kitty

FMA #29: (No spoilers.) Wow. Just wow. Every time I think the series can't get better, it does. What an amazing, creepy, interesting ep!

Friends: I noticed the LJ user info pages are now different, and "friends" is broken down into 'friends', 'communities', and 'syndication'. This is way cool, as now I have more people friending me than I have friends! Woo! (Yes, I know I shouldn't care about such things, but "all the cool people" are friended more than they have friends.)

I hope my kitty cat isn't getting sick. While she's not the most energetic creature in the world, she usually comes and greets me at the door and then follows me around the apartment. Yesterday and today she hasn't been getting up to come to the door, and doesn't even come to me when I'm eating! (She's a big beggar.) The weather changed to very hot, but the apartment is cool (and I keep the AC on when I'm home). She is drinking, but she's not been eating as much as usual for a couple days now. Poor girl, I hope she's okay.

And look how much power he has today...

I'm very tired of being sick at the actions of people. I need to make an effort to find some *good* things. (No, I don't go looking for bad stuff, it's just everywhere and hard to avoid.)

Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader and Republican, lied, probably broke laws, and killed cats on a regular basis. Quote:

"Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process."

I love what is said in his defense:

"One Frist supporter said the senator's opponents are fueling the interest in the issue.

"What is happening here is that people are doing profiles of the senator, and they are desperate to find something wrong with him and to come up with something bad in his past," he pointed out. "

Forget that this asshole admitted he did it, no! Boo hoo hoo! It's all his opponents' fault!

My heart and my head hurt. How can this "person" be permitted to walk around free, let alone be in a position of power? How the hell can people do such things? Why does someone who quite obviously not care about other living things have the power to make decisions? What the hell is wrong with this place?

Bah.

And look how much power he has today...

I'm very tired of being sick at the actions of people. I need to make an effort to find some *good* things. (No, I don't go looking for bad stuff, it's just everywhere and hard to avoid.)

Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader and Republican, lied, probably broke laws, and killed cats on a regular basis. Quote:

"Frist acknowledged in a 1989 book that he routinely killed cats while an ambitious medical student at Harvard Medical School in the 1970s. His office said it had no record on how many cats died. Frist disclosed that he went to animal shelters and pretended to adopt the cats, telling shelter personnel he intended to keep them as pets. Instead he used them to sharpen his surgical skills, killing them in the process."

I love what is said in his defense:

"One Frist supporter said the senator's opponents are fueling the interest in the issue.

"What is happening here is that people are doing profiles of the senator, and they are desperate to find something wrong with him and to come up with something bad in his past," he pointed out. "

Forget that this asshole admitted he did it, no! Boo hoo hoo! It's all his opponents' fault!

My heart and my head hurt. How can this "person" be permitted to walk around free, let alone be in a position of power? How the hell can people do such things? Why does someone who quite obviously not care about other living things have the power to make decisions? What the hell is wrong with this place?

Bah.