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| Sunday, February 25th, 2007 | | 3:53 am |
Quote of the Day
(after watching a commercial involving tiny humans forming a rug under a woman) Chris: "Hey, look, it's the people's carpet!" Me: "No...that's The Rock's wife." Current Mood:  amused | | Monday, May 8th, 2006 | | 12:12 am |
Need email addys!
I recently lost everyone's email address when my old motherboard died and corrupted my main drive. My computer's got better, brand new parts now, but I lost a lot of stuff. Please email me or leave your addy here, either way works. Thanks everyone! Current Mood:  working | | Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 | | 4:04 am |
Long time, no...write?
It was recently pointed out to me that I haven't updated my Journal in a very long time. This is sadly true, and it's something I intend to remedy. I'm going to try and sum up all the events in my life up to the current day...so, here goes: The move to Virginia went without a hitch, and the scenery was very appealing...except for in West Virginia. Lots of factories and low-end housing and general blah. Many jokes were made about WV being where all the states around it put the stuff they didn't want. *chuckles* Richmond itself wasn't all that different from Louisville...a little more sprawling, a little less downtown...but a very familiar feel. The townhouse I shared with Sarah and Chris, along with our friend Scott, was very nice. It was a shame we had to leave eventually, but financial opportunity doesn't knock often. The trip to Colorado was quite...interesting. First of all, with my car and two PT cruisers making the trip, communication often became an issue. Plus, some of the cities along the way had REALLY confusing interchanges. There was lots to see, though, and we met some cool peoples along the way. The only real painful part was Kansas. OMG that is the most boring state in creation! We all got horrible road hypnosis from the endless miles of corn, wheat, grass, and nothing. Nothing anywhere, no bends in the road, just flat and boring. We had to stop for the night, we got so tired. Denver is a very cool city. It's smaller than Louisville, but I dare say, a hell of a lot better organized. The buses run cleaner, there's real wire-runner trains that work like the trolleys from the 20's, and everyone's real health-conscious so the unique, one-of-a-kind restaurants far outnumber the chain ones. The downtown area is VERY nice, my job's going well, as are Sarah's and Chris', so I'd say we're doing just fine. We just went bowling recently, and plan to make a routine of it. X-3 and Superman will be out before too long. I hope they're good. V for Vendetta, as well as the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, were both good movies well worth the watching. My best to all of you, until next post. ^_^ Current Mood: cheerful | | Wednesday, August 24th, 2005 | | 12:30 am |
On the road again...
The date of my upcoming move approaches. On Sep 1st, I'll be on my way to Richmond VA for almost a year. I'm going to miss all my friends here, and I look forward to seeing you all again upon my return. Of course, I'll be keeping in touch via email and AIM, as well as hanging out on City of Heroes (which rocks something fierce, btw). I wonder how much everyone will have changed in a year? New jobs, maybe...new locations...perhaps more time for hanging out, gaming, movies, whatever. Maybe someone will hit the lottery. :) Well, to sum up...friends will be missed, adventures will be had, and maybe I'll come back a little wiser (and a little better off financially). Dude...where's my car? Current Mood:  hopeful | | Thursday, January 27th, 2005 | | 11:51 am |
Hah!
Current Mood: amused | | Friday, January 21st, 2005 | | 12:15 pm |
The 8th Day
I've been working on a short story lately called "The 8th Day", which I may eventually turn into a series, or possibly some other format. The concept is that there are actually 8 days in the week, but the 8th day occurs in the blink of an eye between midnight Saturday and 12:01 on Sunday. Anything that exists in the 8th day, by the same token, skips a week each time a day passes there. Effectively, this means anything stuck there would age very slowly in real world time (only 1 day for every 7 here). All the things that are no longer part of the "real world paradigm" are cast off into the 8th day, including long-extinct species, like dinosaurs. Also mythical monsters, most forms of magic, the garden of Eden, movies on BETA, mood rings, everyone lost in the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis, chocolate-flavored peanut butter, and a vast collection of single socks. Sometimes things just slip there by accident, and sometimes they're sent there on purpose. A nameless order simply represented by the infinity symbol (a sideways 8) holds the keys to the 8th day, and the story revolves around these different characters who get wrapped up in this and wind up bounced into the 8th day on more than one occasion. Current Mood:  contemplative | | Saturday, December 25th, 2004 | | 1:19 am |
| | Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004 | | 12:39 am |
Happy Holidays, everyone! Oh, and...I'M BAAA-AAACK! Mwahahahaa! *grins* Seriously, though, I had a really great vacation. It was good to get to spend some real quality time with my GF, and Viginia is a really nice place to visit...very peaceful with lots of cool stuff to see. Current Mood:  bouncy | | Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 | | 5:05 pm |
I've been taking a look at the new rules for the upcoming edition of Mind's Eye LARP, and I must say...I like them! I like them a lot! My big problems with the current system: 1) Too clunky and slow. Too many retests. 2) Oft-times horrible system incompatibility between "races". 3) Far too random. It makes it too easy for a character to fail repeatedly at any task, even something they should be good at. What makes the new system kick booty: 1) Attribute and Skill traits are added together to generate a test pool. 2) The random element involves generating a number between 1 and 10. This can be done with a deck of A-10 cards, by a "throwing" system involving both players holding up a random number of fingers between 1 and 10 with any number over that getting dropped by 10 (14 becoming 4, for example), or by carrying around a d10 in a small plastic case and just shaking it for the roll. This is then added to the test pool, resulting in your final test value. Definitely much less random. 3) As far as I know, there are no retests. Just my thoughts. :) Current Mood:  geeky | | Sunday, November 7th, 2004 | | 1:18 pm |
Grr!
Oh, I am so pissed off as of last night! Instead of going to the LARP I'd been prepping for for two weeks, I instead had to work...yay! Thanks, job! Fucking bitches... Current Mood:  pissed off | | Tuesday, October 26th, 2004 | | 12:42 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 6th, 2004 | | 9:54 am |
| | Friday, September 3rd, 2004 | | 11:53 am |
Bad day! Bad day!
My mom thought it would be nice if she gifted me with a shampoo from the health store she goes to. Now my eyes are pink, my face has blotches, and my head and ears are insanely itchy! The shampoo had not one, not two, but three kinds of coconut extract in it! Gee, thanks, way to READ A FRIKKIN' LABEL! Gah! So...itchy...must not...scratch...! *grr!* Current Mood:  crazy | | Monday, August 30th, 2004 | | 4:19 pm |
Par-tay!
Well, it's that time of the year again. Specifically, it's my birthday. ^_^ As of today, August 30th 2004, I am now 30. At least in years, anyway. Mentally I'm still stuck in my late teens. *laughs* Current Mood: calm | | Friday, August 20th, 2004 | | 3:25 am |
Survey says... [X]
1) Why are you a furry? (i.e. What about that lifestyle attracts you to it?) That's like me asking you "Why are you human?"...it's just who I am. Most "true" furries are those who tend to see the world from a non-human perspective, and typically have a strong association with a particular type of creature, either real or fictional. (Only "poser" furries actually choose to be one. The real mccoy is just that way regardless.) 2) Would you accept money to sleep with a woman who was not your S.O. if you were in a committed relationship and in need of financial support? Hooboy. You like to ask the hard ones, don't you? :) To be honest, I really don't know. I mean, it's easy to say "no, of course not" now, but I don't think that's something I could decide fairly without actually being in that situation. Now, if we're talking about a million-dollar offer or something, I have a feeling she'd be booting me into the room with the other girl and telling me to "earn my keep". *laughs* 3) What is your favorite movie monster (supernatural/alien/etc.)? I'd have to go with Godzilla. Always a classic. :) 4) What 20th century era would you prefer to have lived in? (i.e. the one you already did, the 60s/70s, the 40s/50s, the 20s/30s, or the post-turn-of-the century) I'd like to visit the 20's, just to see what it was like. Nothing on Earth could ever convince me to visit the 60's, however. :P 5) If you could create an ice cream flavor that has yet to be invented, what would it be? Well, you can add vanilla syrup to root beer to make it taste like a float, so how about root-beer-flavored vanilla ice cream? Current Mood:  sleepy | | Thursday, August 19th, 2004 | | 10:48 am |
Survey time! (from Shulammite)
1) What is the craziest/silliest thing you've ever wanted to do, or have done? Wow. That's a tough one. I've done lots of crazy/silly stuff already! But, let's see... I've often wondered what it would be like to go hang-gliding. 2) Where did you learn to dance, and thus putting us all to shame at Marco's reception? ;) *laughs* I used to go dancing a lot with my previous girlfriend from back in college (Melissa), and we self-taught ourselves a lot of cool dance moves. I suppose it was kind of a hobby for us. 3) Country you most want to visit? I want to go traipse around England and Scotland. I might, however, also enjoy a trip to Japan. 4) One thing you would wish for? To have everyone in the world be whomever or whatever they were meant to be, if their intentions are good. 5) Greatest fear, greatest ahceivement? I would define my greatest achievement as being the awareness of my real self. A lot of people go their whole lives without ever knowing who they really are. My greatest fear? I'll have to go with death. I won't be an easy catch, though, you better believe it! ;) THE RULES! 1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed. 2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions. 3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers. 4 -- You'll include this explanation. 5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed Current Mood: thoughtful | | Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004 | | 11:25 pm |
JLU Fanfiction - Art
 This is Mandrake, drawn in true JLU animation style. Since his bio won't appear in the short story writing that I'm doing, I'm jotting it in here. Name: Mandrake Real Name: Unknown/NA Father: Ozymandius the Dragon (whereabouts unknown) Mother: Arlana Strathmoor, Human Sorceress (deceased) Height: 6'4", Weight: 220 lbs, Eyes: Gold, Hair: Gold, Skin: Black Scales - Powers - Flight, Rapid Healing, Preternatural Strength, Tough Hide, Perceive Magic, Magic Resistance, Enhanced Hearing, and Nightvision - Relics - Furion's Blade: This medieval-style sword is indestructable and can project bolts of lightning from the tip. A blue gem in the sword glows faintly when it's recharged after releasing a bolt. Current Mood:  artistic | | 5:57 pm |
JLU Fanfiction - Introduction
Saturday morning. Sun's almost up. I watch the first rays of dawn break across the ocean's horizon, squinting my golden eyes slightly at the glare, the wind lightly rustling the longer part of my metallic-gold hair as I stand on the catwalk of the mountainside lighthouse. My innocuous-looking lighthouse, which leads to a small underground residence, which in turn leads to a cave containing various items and relics not meant for the world of men. I raise my hand up from the rail, looking at it with reflective detatchment, studying the jet-black coloration of my finely-scaled hide. I wish you were here, father. I wish you could see me. Would you be proud of me? My mother always told me you were so pragmatic...not really good or evil, just kind of...I don't know, introspective I guess. She loved you, though, and she knew you loved her in your own way. I detatch myself too often as well, but no more. Today, I start making a difference.Having made my peace with the ghosts in my memory, I open the glass door of the beacon room and walk in, stepping off the ledge of the spiral stairway as I float down the gap in the center, alighting upon the bottom floor. I pick up the old brown duster hanging on a hook there, the long coat of the old West, and slip it on. It drapes down over my frame, partially obscuring the greyscale camo-pants and the white t-shirt with the solid-black image of a dragon on the front that make up the rest of what I call a "costume", my tail snaking out the back of the coat. I look at myself in the mirror attached to the far wall, scrunching up my short snout a little in vague dissatisfaction. "Ugh...oh well, at least it's not tights", I comment to myself as I open the door and step out into the clear morning air, catching the scent of the ocean, the few clumps of tall grass that grow on the mountainside stirring in the morning breeze. I then leap right up into the air, streaking upward in a burst of magic-powered flight, then proceeding at a modest pace over the rolling landscape below as I look for the field where I was told to wait. I spot it after a few minutes, drifting down to the ground, my black boots depressing the grass beneath them. So, I wait...and wait...and wait. "I can't believe I actually came out here...like they're really that interested in..." a sudden flash of white light around me interrupts my words, and I find myself standing in the central area of some vast complex "...me? Uh...whoa." I look around, noticing the starfield outside a large window-port. I'm in space! Oh wow...this must be that new Watchtower I was hearing about on the news. I wonder how long it took them to... My thought never finishes as a man wearing a red cape and bearing a big "S" on his chest extends his hand with a smile and says: "Hello Mandrake. Welcome to the Justice League." Current Mood: creativeCurrent Music: Superman - The Movie | | Thursday, July 29th, 2004 | | 11:24 am |
| | Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 | | 7:09 pm |
W00t!
Hot damn the new Justice League series is gonna be the bomb! Especially the first two-parter of the series, which I'll outline here: The JL travels back first to the past to stop an as-yet-unnamed "time-travelling villian", where they cross paths with Jonah Hex and other old-west heroes. Them they go forward into the future, where they team up with the new Batman and the JLU (Barda, Warhawk, Superman, Aquagirl, etc)! Essentially, this mini-movie will combine stories from Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond into one story with the JL in the middle! *drool* Current Mood: excitedCurrent Music: Epona - Enya |
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