A Shattered Mind

Punkins!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:20:16 GMT

So I actually got my lazy ass around to uploading photos. Maybe one of these days I'll upload the ones from my punkinpiefromscratch extravaganza.

Pfft.

First up, werewolf:

That one was taken at dusk. The one in actual darkness turned out really well, I think, 'specially with the colours:

And then we have a spooky gargoyle-ish thing:

And for comparison, the darkness shot:

Finally, we have the lil' punkin. We were each given a very tiny pumpkin to decorate at work, hehe, for a kind of contest thing. I felt bad about cutting into mine - it was too cute! - so instead I knitted it a hat. ...And a bat, just 'cause. (It actually has little bumps on it that are placed just right to be warts - sadly, the picture's a bit fuzzy, so you can't really tell from it.)

Lots of the kids that came by - and even some of the adults - commented on how neat they were. I always get that, but it's kind of a pity that they don't try to do the same. They're really rather easy to do, after all - just a matter of finding a pattern you like.

At least I have candy.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:31:31 GMT

Feh. Stupid Halloween party was cancelled. Not that it would've been much fun anyways with Trav sick, but still - better than hanging out here all night handing out candy. I really wanted to show off my costume, too.

I hadn't been able to decide what I wanted to be - Trav was going as Indiana Jones, since he had a fedora and a bullwhip (or maybe a kangaroo whip, whatever) at hand. My first thought was along the lines of something female adventurerish, maybe Lara Croft or something, but since the party was to be outdoors, that was looking kind of... cold.

So I headed to Value Village with no real gameplan - look for anything vaguely promising, really. Maybe a valkyrie if they had any of their handy kits left, but...

Nah, they were getting to be pretty picked clean. Not quite, mind, but still.

And then I passed by a long white wig. Stopped. Hummed, pondered.
Went back through the dresses - found a silver cloak covered over with glittering spider webs. Acquired a dress, the only one in my size left (it had something of a sizeable tear down the middle of the back where a seam had come out) that was black velvet, panelled skirt, long sleeves, and decorated with a white webbing and red spiders at the waist and collar. Got a sizeable discount, too, 'cause of the tear - only took 45 mins to patch up; would've been a real snap had I a sewing machine around.
Black gloves, a cheap 'goth' necklace with a spider lurking inside a purple pendant, an ornate dagger, and three of those black grease makeup pucks later, and I had me a perfect drow priestess kit together.

The only thing I was missing was the snake whip, but that was only because I couldn't find any damn rubber snakes. Value Village didn't have any, nor did three different dollar stores, a Toys R Us, a Wal-Mart, or the local drugstore. Feh.

At least I'll have time to order a couple online for next year, since I'm not wearing the costume tonight. XD

Still, I really did want to impress the party - most of them there would've understood immediately what I was. The kids coming around for trick or treat probably wouldn't appreciate it, though - and even their perhaps-gasps are not enough to make me want to paint my whole head black. The only bad part about the costume! XD

Oh well. At least my punkins are pretty neat. I'll have to upload pics of them laterrrr.

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:01 GMT

Rrrf. Stupid media is stupid. They keep reporting about the H1N1 stuff - I think the main section of the Vancouver Sun on Monday or Tuesday had half of its articles about it - but don't actually say anything useful. It's all statistics about how everyone's dying, or 'myths' they're trying to dispel (which really the media were all responsible for in the first place), or GO GET VACCINATED YOU STUPID FUCKS, caps-lock included.

Except they never actually say anything, y'know, useful.

They give reports on how many folk in Canada have died because of this flu (it's slightly past 50, I think?), but don't report on how many die of the 'seasonal' flu a year. (Apparently between 700 and 1400 people die daily worldwide of seasonal flu, but I've not been able to find any Canada-specific stats.)

They don't say anything about how many people are getting the swine flu but are not dying terribly, or even how many are just having mild cases. This would, in all sensibilities, be most of the people who get it, like it is for most cases of any kind of flu. But hey, it breeds more fear to leave that kinda thing out which leads to more newspapers being sold, or something. I dunno.

And, really, what burns me the most is they keep saying that just about everyone who's died from it has had an underlying health condition. In BC, I think it's been eight out of nine or something like that. Except... they don't actually tell anyone what those underlying health conditions are. Do people who have high blood pressure have more to worry about? What about those with asthma? Heart disease? Cancer? And the one that I in particular care about - diabetes? Fuck! No one can know! It's just apparently everyone with underlying health conditions! That can't possibly be the case, though - there's got to be some pattern to it, but damned if anyone will tell us what that pattern is.

I can understand the families of the deceased not wanting to divulge huge heaps of information about how their folk died, but c'mon. This could be actually USEFUL to those of us who DO have chronic conditions in deciding whether or not we want the vaccine.

Fuck it. I've had a bad enough history with flu vaccines, and I'm not getting this one until something says that diabetics really have something to fear from this particular variant.

(Fun fact - I've actually been home sick the past day and a half, although it's just a mild fever and certain other symptoms that are annoying, but not particularly worrisome, and it hasn't gotten any worse since noon yesterday, only better. I have a feeling I'll be back to snuff by tomorrow if I keep up my pattern of naps.)

MEME BANDWAGON

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:46:34 GMT

Ask me either a broad question (i.e 'who is your cruelest character?', 'what is your most optimistic story?') or a specific question/request ('what world does ___ come from?', 'tell me about ___') and I will answer you. Or you can ask meta- questions like 'what was the inspiration for creating ____?'

...So basically if I'm reading it right, it all boils down to asking me a question about RP.

Any characters of mine that you know of (or continuities therein) are open!

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:38:18 GMT

How to feel really weird and underachieve-y:

"Hey! Don't talk to me like I'm your grandpa or something. I'm only 24 myself."

I'm the same age as Phoenix fucking Wright.

...First-game Nick, mind.

But still!

Ohnoes!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:40:52 GMT

Almost (but not quite) crashed the car on the drive home from work today.

Only a very thin thread around my panic reflex kept me from doing so.

I was boogeying my way up 176th, approaching the last set of lights before the hill, probably doing 100 km/h or so. This is nothing out of the ordinary. Straight drive, not-busy intersection, concrete median on side of the fast lane (where I was), dry pavement. Awesome, right?

Except for the little grey spider that had been hangin', unknown to me, on the ceiling near my head. Chose that moment to start descending rapidly from a string. In clear peripheral vision.

HOMG THERE IS A GIGANTIC (less than a centimetre long) SPIDER RIGHT THERE AND IT'S GOING TO GET ON ME AND I'M TRAVELLING VERY FAST AND THE LIGHT'S COMING AND SHIT SHIT SHIT KEEP GOING STRAIGHT.

The resulting freakout was kept under control, but only barely, and thanks be to there being stray napkins on the passenger seat for some reason.

I'm a total badass, yeah.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:05:45 GMT

HEY GUIN.

We have proof that you are indeed a robot, or at least not human.

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:39:36 GMT

Hmmm. A complete lemon meringue pie in 40 minutes.

I believe that's a new personal record!

What kind of Pokemon are you, how do you do the things you doooo~

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:14:42 GMT

POKEMEME

Squee!

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:14:51 GMT

So occasionally - very occasionally - TVTropes can indeed be the bringer of good things, rather than ruining your life.

I spent a good portion of the day yesterday browsing through it. Could've done so much else with that time. Still. I found this, linked through the cute bruisers page, I think.

It said it would be cute. I listened. I still was glad no-one was home but me and the cats, for I think the resultant squeal reached ear-damaging levels.

I mean... Dude, Chibiterasu really is the perfect name for it.

Heehee! And it's even going to be on the DS, instead of one of those damn consoles that I don't have~

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:26:23 GMT

Let it be known that on this day I cleaned a toilet SO DAMN HARD I got the toilet brush friggin' wedged into the drainpipe.

Man, had Mom not cleaned that damn thing since I was away? It was positively gross, yech.

Now, to find a way to remove the brush. This may get interesting.

Tripknitting!

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:36:27 GMT

So now that I'm all properly back and everything, I can actually detail what I did in terms of the creative bits on the trip. Whoo!

Two quick water bottle cozies I whipped up with a crochet hook. We had problems getting the bottles to stay cool, since they're aluminum - but with the cozies on, they got a whole lot better.

What you can't see is the horrendous job I did of the back of Trav's bottle - I kept getting extra stitches for some reason, and was too lazy to go back and tear it all out and fix it. Just a cozy, after all.

In between the cozy and the next project, I knitted up a dreampillow, or at least the front-piece for it. Sewed the rest of it. S'filled with lavender, smells very nice - and makes Trav sneeze like the dickens, sigh. I wasn't able to use it at all in the tent.

You can kind of see the next project in various stages of construction over at the trip gallery at Trav's website - took me a while to finish her.

I picked up the pattern for this little dragonlass at Knitty. With the different yarn and colours, she turned out looking a little different, but I like her just fine.

Good for sneaking up on unsuspecting Travs.

She hung out on top of various things during the rest of the trip home (finished her in Newfoundland), including Trav's XO, the dashboard of the truck, guarding the hats... Wherever she'd fit, really. Not that she's all that big.

I also finished most of a fancy sock, but have been fucking around with trying to bind the damn thing off for the past three days. Apparently binding off in ribbing pattern loosely escapes me.

Hrm.

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:45:36 GMT

I don't go to horror movies.

It's not because they're all terrible or devoid of plot or character (although I hear that a good majority of them are). I just can't stand gore. Sure, I can watch folk get shot onscreen, or small knife/sword wounds or slashes, or the aftereffects of fights, where they're invariably a little smeared with blood or wearing red contact lenses or what have you. That's all fine.

However, chop someone's limb or head off in front of the camera, or have blood and bone and bits of innards flying everywhere, or really closely detail exactly how this body is getting torn to shreds in minute detail - bleargh. No, thank you. Stomach can't handle it.

(I also don't watch medical dramas. Sorry, House.)

Horror movies these days tend more to go towards gore than their less-effect-laden counterparts in earlier ages; it's just rather a fact. I also understand some people love horror movies and all the gorey bits. Awesome! But because I don't like watching them, I don't go watch them, and all is well in the world.

I do like watching other kinds of movies. Action, drama, comedy, suspense, fantasy, whatever. I have favourites in all sorts of genres.

When I'm watching an action movie that has been solidly placed into a certain subset of action movie genres, I do not expect to find sudden giblets and spurts of blood and bones crunching everywhere. This makes me squeamish and sad, particularly when the movie was pretty darned good otherwise.

In other news, The Watchmen could have been a pretty darned good movie.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:40:06 GMT

Back, bitches.

I'll eventually get finished with the last tripbloggy posts over at downthelongroad... Eventually.

For now, rest. Snoogling kittens. Baking at midnight. All the important things in life, you know.

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:30:52 GMT

Thousands of zombies reported in downtown Vancouver.

Shit, guys. I leave the province and then you get a heat wave plus waves of the risen undead? Save some fun for meeee. D:

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:25:09 GMT

Raaaaah!

The trip back home is going to be nothing but boredom. Seems to be nothing in Labrador but tiny biting flies. Hard to knit when the truck's bouncing on gravel roads, hard to play on the brokened DS with the same...

And what's worse, I've got the worst itch to RP everrrrrr (I especially've been daydreaming about DexNet for some reason). But there's no point, since my access is so sporadic. Sigh. I wish I could just board a plane and go home, but then that'd leave Trav all alone and he'd be a sad panda.

:<<<<

How 'bout dat, b'y?

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:36:30 GMT

So alllll of a sudden I find myself with a bit of a) time and b) internet access in the most unlikely of places (B&B in a tiny town on the eastern edge of Newfoundland - y halo thar Greenland, you're not so far away now), so here, have some memes!

Select a character I RP or write and I will answer the following 12 questions for you.

01. What would your character die for?
02. What would they refuse to do under any circumstances?
03. What do they dream about?
04. What single object would they be most hard pressed to part with? Why?
05. What is their fondest memory?
06. What is their worst memory?
07. What or who was were their most significant influence?
08. What would be their biggest nightmare?
09. What makes them laugh?
10. If they were to die, what would be their last words?
11. Who is the most important person in their life?
12. Is your character a virgin? If not, who was their first?

Name anything you can remember me playing~ And if you don't know any of my characters and still want to make me write, give me a letter and I probably have a character from somewhen whose name begins with it.

These are the 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. Here’s the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read them for school in the first place, and a dash next to books you own but have not read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses (goddamn, isn't that the same thing as The Odyssey, 'cept Roman?)
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey*
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace (and will finish it when I get back)
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad*
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods (rah, want to read it; read short story concerning mythos)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West*
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange* (We got to choose our own book to study in English 12 off of a list. Surprisingly, this was one of them.)
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath (I was eight, my mother was re-doing her grade 12 English course, and I was bored one morning.)
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel (didn't read that one, but did read something else by the same author for school)
1984* (read it before I studied it in grade 11, actually)
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel (Handmaid's Tale was more interesting, though.)
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down*
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

By the time I'm done this trip, I'm totally going to post my very own meme - I've been everywhere, man.

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:42:31 GMT

...Fruit fly just attempted to zip its way up my nose whilst I was drinking a glass of milk.

Chaos ensued.

Bam!

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:46:33 GMT

DONE, BITCHES

Actually, done last week, but I'm lazy when it comes to finding things off of cameras. Trav (and half of the folk from the CSSS we know) did their ceremony thang the day after - so now we're all respectable Bachelors of Stuff.
Arts, in my case. But linguistics is a science, damnit!

We've also managed to find a place to hold the wedding at, while we've been back home - and consequently a date, since we didn't give a shit about any date in particular. On a related note, why do some brides seem to make such an ordeal out of finding a reception hall or what-not? I spent part of Thursday after my ceremony looking at some information online, part of Saturday out peeking over prospective places with my mother, an hour with Trav and both moms on Tuesday taking an official tour-y type thing with the catering manager - and that was that. Date secured, money put down, bam. Took about six hours, all told, to arrange something. Country club, nice place, pretty garden within, seems like they have a decent menu. Meh?
Although we totally got to laugh at one of Trav's sister's friends - she swore up and down we wouldn't be able to find anything for next June right now. Shit, what, does it take bloody two years to book J Random Date? I can understand the whole 7/7/07 thing, but... Aside from things like that...

And, finally, I managed to complete two more knitting projects, mostly while we were out on the trip.

Trav wanted a pair of gloves to keep his hands warm whilst he was on the keyboard - turns out the last place he was at was kind of cold inside. So, fingerless gloves were a go. I used Knitty's Knucks pattern, and I think they turned out pretty well, for my first stab at gloves. The right one is significantly better than the left, but it was also the second I did, so I got more practiced at it. They're just made from some cheapo indestructible acrylic stuff - Trav puts a lot of wear into all of his 'toys'.

The star, hand, and keyboard embroidered on them is the logo from a previous SFU CSSS FroshWeek, when the theme was that of the Soviet Union, hehe. Designed by Yang Zhao, who probably still doesn't know what the graphic he sent me was used for. :D

("вычислите, товарищ" theoretically translates to "compute, comrade", but as I have no working knowledge of cyrillic or Russian, I'm going to have to rely on my trusty (?) online Russian-English translator and say it's okay.)

I also thought I could use a pair of mobile gloves, because my hands are even more prone to getting chilly than Trav's. I also wanted something to practice cables with, because eventually I'm going to tackle a fairly complicated cabled sweater. Hence, Knitty's Fetching seemed pretty perfect. And they didn't turn out half bad, either.

Picked up the yarn when I was in Indiana, actually, from the Amish-y community. XD It isn't, sadly, homespun or dyed, but is a nice enough wool/alpaca/silk blend. So soft! The only hard part was making it actually work with the pattern - the yarn's a good deal thicker than the lightweight stuff that was called for.

My next couple of projects have already been all lined up for the trip - a couple of water bottle cozies, a lavender-stuffed dream pillow, a stuffed dragon... Possibly even another pair of the Knucks, this time for me. I picked up some of the tweed yarn recommended in the pattern, and it's a lovely shade of green, so~

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:21:09 GMT

Players and their friends will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey across charming, vibrant worlds full of Square Enix's and Disney's beloved characters.

will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey

MYSTERIOUS FOURTEENTH MEMBER OF ORGANIZATION XIII

Oh, fuck off, Squeenix. When did you guys become goddamn shitty Suetastic fanfic writers? :|

OH WAIT FFX RIGHT

I'd be really angry if it weren't for your After Years thing. Alas, won't get to play it 'til after the next phase of the trip.

In other words, the Penny Arcade strip for today was right on the goddamn money. That trailer is beautiful - only thing I can't figure out is exactly when in the series it happens. I mean, Adam Malkovich. It's gotta be him - any objections, Ladies? So it's somewhere when Samus was working with the Federation, and Adam's still alive and not a computer, so somewhere before Super Metroid and Fusion. But then there's a shot of Mother Brain murdering the poor not-wee baby metroid.

Colour me confused, but still squeetastic.

Muzaks

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:41:25 GMT

Reply to this post and I will make you a letter gift. Take the gifted letter to your harddrive and upload five songs. Five shalt be the number you shalt upload, and the number of the uploading shall be five. Six shalt thou not count, neither count thou four, excepting that thou then proceed to five. Seven is right out.

theguindo first gave me F and then said M, so we'll go with M, I guess!

Hoooly fuck I have too many good songs that start with M.

Maemuki Roketto Dan - Pocket Monsters: Seriously, how is this song not awesome? And I'm not even a huge Team Rocket fan. They're just so goddamn happy even when life is shitting all over them.

Matoya's Cave - The Black Mages: I'm not so fond of the rock segue in the middle of this particular version, but I've always been a fan of the song itself since I was a wee kidlet. When was the first FF released anyways? '90 apparently.

Mining Melancholy - Donkey Kong Country 2: Between this song and Stickerbrush Symphony, DKC2 pretty much had what's got to be the best sound produced on the SNES for a platformer. Atmospheric as all hell; it's lovely.

Mystic Re-Quest Part 1 and Part 2 - FF: Mystic Quest: Does no-one but me remember this game? If not, I'm sure the only reason is because of the music. This wee game did something most games on the SNES didn't - it used honest-to-god bass, and had some pretty rockin' stuff in it because of that.

My Music at Work - The Tragically Hip: I couldn't honestly not put a Hip song on here, and this is one of my favourites of theirs; makes little sense, as usual, but it sounds nice. It also reminds me, I should get their new album.

Runners-up: Magnet Man, Manoria Cathedral, My Girlfriend (Who Lives in Canada), My Best Friends

Eeeee!

Thu, 28 May 2009 02:40:41 GMT

So I was pissed at Nintendo at not having any word of releasing Metroid Prime or Prime 2 on the Wii with the whole New Play Control thing.

And then today I read that they've got a release date in August, both of them - because they're not releasing them seperately, but together, along with Prime 3, on a single disc.

Eeeeee! 3 awesome games for a price cheaper than what the two would have sold for seperately! With the awesome Wii controls! Heeheehee!

I congratulate Nintendo for a sound business decision, even if it means I'll actually have two copies of each game in the trilogy (because of course I will buy it, because I'm totally gay for Samus).

Also interesting is the WiiWare release for next week - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. This game was released episodically for cellphones in Japan a year or so back, but of course, no way we poor tech-deprived folks here in NA could get it. But now they've been nice and formatted it for the Wii to play~

Maybe those two decisions together almost makes up for no EarthBound on the VC. Maybe.

Sat, 23 May 2009 01:17:02 GMT

Mr. Gary Bettman, why do you hate Canada?

I mean, c'mon. Hating Canada is like hating puppies. Cute little labrador retriever puppies. You don't want to make the puppies cry, do you?

Or, hey, for that spin that even Californians can get around, let's say that we have this cute little adorable seal pup out on the floes off the coast of Newfoundland. Just for fun's sake, let's say his name is Hamilton. He's fluffy and adorable and oh-so-whitely coated, little Hamilton. Unfortunately, at the moment, he's all alone. All his other seal pup friends, y'see, they went to go play hockey out on the nearby ice floe rink, but alas, Hamilton has no stick, so he can't play with them.
You, Mr. Bettman, are sneaking up on this poor unsuspecting seal pup with a stick. You could give the stick to Hamilton so he could go play with his buddies, but oh no. No, instead, you're going to club poor Hamilton to death with it and sell the skin off his body so he can keep some rich European woman's hands warm.

...

Well, nevermind that even if you did give Hamilton the stick, the less-inept-than-you Newfies would still get Hamilton and all his buddies besides, and maybe magically the cod stocks would recover. That's beside the point.

There's really no goddamn reason Phoenix should even have a hockey team. I mean, they're how far away from the Mexican border, again? It doesn't get below freezing there except for when hell itself freezes over. You think you're going to convince a bunch of Phoenix-folk to willingly go into a big building where, holy shit, there's ice inside, and it's kind of cold? I mean, ice, what the hell is that shit, anyway? And that's not even counting the fact that they can't follow the puck on the ice so they have no idea what the hell's going on. They lack puck-fu.

Heck, you could even give 'em back to Winnipeg, and then let the Thrashers go to Hamilton. But that'd be making two Canadian cities happy, and we can't have those goddamn Canadians getting ahead of anybody in the good ol' US of A, could we? Nevermind that all your little expansion teams are in places where people just don't appreciate hockey. Hell, even Chicagonians didn't appreciate hockey right until their team made it to the conference finals this year (I should know; I was listening to their radio shows the day after, the jerks), and they're even kind of a northern state. You know how much more revenue those teams would be making in a place where they'd actually get good coverage and, oh, people buying tickets?

Need I remind you who the nation in 'National Hockey League' actually is? Here's a hint: there's no 'U' or even an 'S' in there.

Piss off, stop being an antagonistic prick for no bloody reason, and let the hockey go where it'll actually make you money. We'll all be lots happier.

Like a charm.

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:17:23 GMT

So I leave for a little while, travel, and... Today I get the e-mail from my dad that my computer at home seems to have died.

Funny that it always dies on him when I'm not around, eh?

Oh well. Not much I can do about it from Nevada. (Which is where I am; spent the day walking the Las Vegas strip. More updates found on http://downthelongroad.livejournal.com ~)

At least I was smrt and did a backup of the drive before I left, sigh.

TRIP BLOG YAY

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:32:06 GMT

HEY GUYS LISTEN UP

Now that I have your attention~

As many of you know, Trav and I are leaving for our road trip shortly. Like, ten hours give-or-take shortly. This road trip is going to take us in a ring across the USA and a much, much weirder shape across Canada (turns out the inhabited areas make the road-planning kind of weird), and, yeah. It's going to be long, and arduous, but full of pictures and adventures and a bunch of relaxing (hopefully).

You can read about our exploits over at downthelongroad! Feel free to friend if you wanna stay tuned as to developments, locations, or pics. I'll probably still mention a few things here and there over here, but most things trip-related will just be posted over thataway.

If you want to get in touch with me for whatever reason, drop me an e-mail at moonchaser_of_dragons@yahoo.ca. If you want to plan meetyups or anything, we can discuss through that! Or cell phone as we get closer.

FYI for people right straight south: our first real destination is California. San Fran, then LA, then San Diego, and some stuff in between. Heading through the border tomorrow, probably staying someplace in Washington for the evening, and after that, who knows. Our schedule is not particularly solid.

And now, sleep!