I'm alive!

[thistlechaser]

I don't remember the last time I posted. Saturday night, I guess? Being on vacation makes me lose track of the days. (It's the 31st, right?)

I've been doing... stuff. Yesterday I did something and today I did more things. Let's see, yesterday it was car stuff (smog inspection, oil change, tire rotation), then lunch and general wandering. Today it was mucho shopping, lunch, then more shopping. Usually I dislike going shopping, but since most productive people are at work right now, it's somewhat better. There was a pack of under 5 year old boys at lunch, and half of them were crying/screaming the whole time, which was annoying. I considered throwing a fork at them, but I figured that might make them cry more.

On that note, I'm strongly pondering going to see PoA sometime this weekend. Maybe I won't mind the crowd so much, since it'll likely be other fans. Donno when or if for sure, but I really want to see it.

LJ flist was at skip=650 today. That's too much for too few days! It's "only" at 400 back now, and I have an hour until I need to get back online, so I should be able to knock another 200 out.

I really want to read all of mctabby's Summary Suckathon stories (the few I read were great!), but not tonight. I got 'em bookmarked for later though.

I watched FMA... uh, 33? (this week's) today, as well as the (old) PoT chibi ep. While the chibi ep was really funny at first, I wish they had used a different idea for the second half of the ep. Even without knowing what they were saying, the idea got old for me by the second half. I haven't caught up on the other stuff yet (all this season's series eps), and I realized that the only storylines I really care about are FMA and Naruto. Odd. I think I'll stop downloading stuff, since it's just sitting around.

Oh, I guess I should mention FFXI. Playing it muchly. Got leathercraft up to 12. (Oh my god, I'm so poor! I used to laugh at people who begged and danced for a gil or two, now I want to do it!) I'm just reaching things which are profitable to make, so yay! Seriously, I must have spent nearly 200,000 getting here though... The pain, the pain! The second I make money from cooking, it goes right into buying stuff for leatherwork.

(I have good screenshots to post! I'll get them up someday, I promise! I even have one I can blackmail loneguardian with! Heh heh heh.)

Back to flist reading!

PS: I hate this no-carb fad even more now than I did before. Idiot Atkins is running a new set of ads: Do Atkins and you'll get a girlfriend! Give up carbs and you'll get a cute dog! Eat only meat and you'll move into a much better house! Not to mention, every damned idiot store and their brother is now selling no-carb crap. Oh well, I guess the stores aren't the idiots, they're just taking advantage of people who think they can eat low carb candy and still lose weight. Stupid people. Stupid herd humans. This fad won't be over soon enough for me. (Heh, the next one might be worse. Eat only toenail clippings and lose weight! The New 2004 Catfood Diet! The Egg-Licking Diet!)

I'm not really grumpy, honest! :)

Comments

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Sadness. I've downloaded FMA 33 from two seperate sources, but I can't get it to run without either crashing my viewer (any of the 5 I try), or my computer. Now, I'm no stranger to the old 'I just downloaded an anime, let me go wrangle some obscure codec' dance, but no one else seems to have had this trouble, and it's just an .avi. So I will just be sad.

Mmm, egg licking.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Huh. I have a friend who is having that same problem with FMA, so he has to get it from some other fansubbing group. When you said "two sources", did you mean two fansubbing groups or two download sites?

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Two different sites, which led me to believe it was the file and not the torrent. The only version I've been able to get a hold of is the Sonchou...I'm not as fond of their sub, but it's better than nothing...

[tersa.livejournal.com]

cyranocyrano and I just bought tickets for the 10:45am showing of Prisoner of Azkaban at the Mercado for this Friday, June 4th. If you want to go, you should come with us. :)

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I so so so so want to see PoA on Friday, but I can't abide the behavior of most small children at theaters (just saw Shrek 2, so the shrieking, running around, seat-rocking and other revolting antics are still fresh in my mind), so I'm strategizing when I can see it where there'll be the fewest of the little urchins there. Couldn't they just do a "Quiet Adults and My Rapt-and-Silent 9-Year-Old Only" screening?

[alchemia.livejournal.com]

Me too about the atkin's diet. People will believe anything if it tells them they can eat a bacon-double-cheeseburger and loose weight. I feel more sorry though for all the poor cows and chickens out there than for the idiots following a diet that can cause more harm than good without the nutritional background to know what they are doing or a *good* nutritionalist to guide them.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

AM or PM? I'm guessing the AM isn't a typo, with your new schedule? If it's PM, I may be there! If it's really AM, then no. I don't think I could stand all the kids -- they'd probably cry and stuff during the movie.

Let me know if that was a typo or not! It'd be fun seeing you two there!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That'd be great! I know there are a few kidless theaters in the country, but I don't think any are around here. (I don't mind kids, so long as they *behave*... but most parents don't care, so the kids act like animals. Bah!)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Exactly! My doctor gets mad at the very mention of that diet! Bah. Stupid people...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Agreed. They're the best of what's left... There are a couple of small groups who picked it up, maybe one of those would work? Good luck! (I get mine from here, and have seen a couple of other groups' there: http://anime.mircx.com/ )

[tersa.livejournal.com]

No, it wasn't a typo. :) The hope is that it's early enough that not a lot of people will be there, and that some or most of the sprogs in the area are still in school.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hm, that's a thought. I'm not sure if kids will still be in school now, but maybe it'd be too early for them. Hmmm.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll be there! While I'm betting kids will be there, I really don't want to mess up my sleep schedule so close to going back to work.

Did you see that there are two showings at 10:45, and that one is sold out already?

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

[cackles] I'm going tomorrow in the morning, simply because only the smaller children will be there with their parents. The older (MORE ANNOYING) things will be in school. >}

Eighteen hours...! SQUEE. You heard nothing. ;) No fangirling from me at all.

In other news, the latest Reader's Digest had an article about Atkins (which is an effing joke, don't get me started on that ignorant asshole) as well, if you can catch it. I don't think you're grumpy, just more intelligent than the rest of the sheep that think Atkins is a cure-all.

[tersa.livejournal.com]

I saw what looked like two showings and that one looked sold out, but that also didn't look right from what I know Mercado does. I'm crossing my fingers they didn't screw something up. :/

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Also, forgot to mention:

C-- and I are going there early, like around 9-9:30 or so in order to get in line. We're taking books. So. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Eek! I wonder what time the theater will start letting people in? I bet not before 10:30 or so? You guys will probably get there before me, if so can you save me a seat by you? (I'm guessing they'll permit that? It's not like they match tickets to seats.)

Let me know! Eee!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

That's when I'm ending up going, too! 10:45 tomorrow morning! Eeee!

I hope we both love it!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Yep, we'll save you a seat! :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay! Can't wait to see you two! If I get there before the place opens, I'll look for you on line. Or if I get there first, I'll watch for you two to walk up. (As of now, I'm not planning on getting there before 9-930-ish, but I'm all hyper already, so who knows!)

[mark356.livejournal.com]

The problem with the egg-licking diet and the toenaildiets is that they're so specific. In order to follow the egg-licking diet or the toenail-only diet properly, you have to eat only a very few certain foods, and restrict yourself according to a specific formula. Although that's the same with the no-carb fad, low-carb sounds like a principle rather than a formula, so people assume that by following it they are tapping into a secret back door to weight loss, a heretofore unappreciated aspect of human nutrition, in a way much more profound than anything as specific as the grapefruit diet, the egg-licking diet, or the red and square diet.

Did that make sense?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

so people assume that by following it they are tapping into a secret back door to weight loss

Everyone wants the easy way, some trick to make it painless, a way to eat as much as they want (be it burgers, grapefruit, or toenails) and still lose weight. It's like dealing with a bunch of children: Few adults will accept that it takes hard work and time to lose weight, they just want it NOW NOW NOW.

Mmm, toenails.