The happiest time of the year...
Well, last days were hectic (yes, once again xD) as I wrote final essays to some classes and also took an exam. I read Macbeth, Othello and the notes I'd made for the Shakespeare's Tragedies exam, but even then I found the exam to be quite hard. In the first part we had to analyze two excerpts from both plays (Lady Macbeth's introduction scene and how she plans to kill Duncan in Macbeth, and Iago and Roderigo talking about crushing their enemy in Othello). In the second part we had to choose two questions out of six (one question from each play) and answer. I chose "The role of witchcraft and the use of imagery in Macbeth" and "Iago - is he admirable or not, and explain why you think so". In total I wrote about eight pages worth of text, and I still felt I could've written more even though I argued a lot and gave many examples. The questions from both parts I and II weren't so limited in range and thus one could analyze them on and on (and we only had less than three hours to get the exam done). I hope I'll get a good enough grade from this exam so that I don't have to retake it, because I can't bother reading all the texts again.
I also worked hard on my Swedish essay about the book Brothers Lionheart. It was quite a sad novel, and once again I was surprised to see how much Jonatan resembled Refan in certain scenes. My book review was about six pages long, and it was quite hard to write something as complex as that in Swedish, because it's been a while since I've last written anything in Swedish. It took me a lot of time to get that essay done, and occasionally I had to write it at night, because I was busy with other stuff during the day. Needless to say, I was quite exhausted when I'd finally taken the Shakespeare exam and given the Swedish essay to my teacher.
However, I hadn't completed my task yet. I still had to help dad and mom clean our house, and that took freaking forever. Not to mention we also decorated our house with A LOT of Christmas stuff, so I spent the whole Friday doing stuff even though I would've wanted to rest after a rough week I had had in school. Well, we finally got everything ready for Christmas on Friday, and then sis arrived. We talked quite a bit, and then I helped mom bake some gingerbread cookies. And it seems I'm not as rusty in baking those than I thought, because they turned out to be excellent (at least that's what everyone told me, and I enjoyed the taste, so yeah xD).
I woke up on Saturday morning to watch the traditional The Snowman cartoon (a very good animated short). After that I decided to finally get through the Amazon campaign in Settlers 3 and so I played through the two final missions. I thought the penultimate mission was hard enough with all those crazy forest fires and huge armies, but the final battle was truly one heck of a battle royale with thousands of soldiers. In the final missions the Amazons (my forces) have finally reached the enemy stronghold and have created a circle around the enemies (three factions: Romans, Asians and Egyptians who are each other's allies in this mission) who have been trapped at the centre of this huge circular island. I had lots of soldiers at the beginning of the mission, and I positioned all of them around three narrow places which the enemy would use to attack me. I crushed most of my watch towers and concentrated my defenses on the three narrow gaps. I had three colonies, and unfortunately they weren't connected, because huge rivers separated them from one another. Each colony had a shortage of some resource (be it wood, food and various metals and coal), and I had to try to balace them out and figure out how to connect my colonies to each other. The only way to do that was to invade enemy territory to create paths to other colonies, but the three enemies had huge armies (each consisting of at least 1000 soldiers, thus making it 3000 soldiers, and that was just the beginning xP) which prevented me from capturing their towers. So, I started to get my economies going in my three separate colonies and started my god worshipping to upgrade my soldiers. I got all the food stuff going on to feed my workers, I built lots of large residences to get more settlers, built many mines to get necessary ore for weapons, and finally I started to produce lots of weapons once everything else was settled.
The enemies made desperate attemtps to capture my towers to force me into a stalemate, but my Mannerheim Line of dozens of towers and hundreds of soldiers held them back (and thus bought me more time to upgrade my soldiers to the highest rank and recruit a lot of soldiers and produce gold to double my fighting strength outside of my borders). Eventually I had an army which consisted of about 2000 soldiers. Two colonies had 700 soldiers and one had 600. First I attacked the Romans (in my opinion they are the toughest because their priests can convert my units, which usually results in a catastrophe on my part), and as suspected they defended themselves quite well and converted a lot of my spear-wielding units, sword-wielding units and archers. I sent a lot of thieves to the Romans' region to steal their gold so that they would lose their fighting strength, and eventually it worked, and I pressed forward. I captured five towers and one of their big castles and positioned my troops there. Then I held back a lot of attacks and waited for the Egyptians and Asians to help the Romans, which they did. When the Romans' allies came to the castle I had captured, I immediately sent my remaining forces (700+600) to attack both Asian and Egyptian watch towers and castles simultaneously. This caught the Egyptians off-guard and I captured a lot of their buildings. The Asians, however, resisted and had 1000 soldiers in reserve and attacked me. I had a hard time defending myself, but I managed to capture one of their castles and held my ground long enough so that I could send my newly recruited units to aid them. Meanwhile I kept pressing the Romans back and captured more of their buildings. Soon I reached the centre of the map and captured the Romans' gold mines, which resulted in their morale dropping drastically. I quickly attacked all the temples and crushed them with my war gongs (a special Amazon weapon) and killed all the remaining Roman priests so that they couldn't convert my units.
I pressed forward, capturing Egyptian gem mines (which dropped their morale) and pressed forward. The Egyptians are known for their powerul defensive units, and I was forced to stop when their strongly defended line held me back. I quickly built more towers near the border and positioned quite a lot of bow-units nearby to kill anyone who dared to attack from a distance. I recruited more and more people and tried to make sure that my economy wouldn't suffer. Thankfully dozens of my weapon smiths, alchemists and iron smelters were ready to get the necessary iron which would be used to forge weapons. I sent more and more soldiers to fight the Romans, and eventually I annihilated all their forces. I proceeded to capture their remaining towers and made sure that the Egyptians and the Asians wouldn't try to retaliate while I was dealing with the Romans. I met no resistance, though, and thus I erased the Romans from the map. I managed to connect my southern and nothern outpost once I had proceeded deeper into the Asian territory (losses were many on both sides, but because my soldiers had the attack power of 100% and were of the highest rank, they managed to press forward). Now I managed to get my two armies together and form one big army to counter the Asian threat while I tried to keep the Egyptians at bay with my remaining bowwomen and spearwomen. I attacked the Asians relentlessly, and eventually I managed to proceed deeper into their territory. I split up my soldiers into three groups and attacked their various fortifications at the same time. This tactic was useful when my foe didn't know where to concentrate his forces. I crushed his southern area and captured the towers there. I withdrew my soldiers who attacked the northern part and made them move to the southern area to hold it. I kept pressing forward with the third group, however, which forced the Asians to keep defending. Then I sent my two battalions and a bunch of war gongs to the enemy's rear, and this caught them off guard. I annihilated their temples and crushed their houses, thus preventing them from recruiting any more soldiers. I sent thieves to steal whatever gold they could find, which made my enemies weaker. I eventually pinched the remaining Asians between my three battalions and kept them at bay.
Meanwhile the Egyptians made a brave attempt and attacked my forces with their 1000 soldiers. They had somehow managed to mine more gold and gems, which made them stronger, and they also used their priests to teleport my forces to another location. I cursed in my mind when I noticed my wily enemy using this dirty tactic and immediately sent 3/4 of my forces to counter the Egyptian threat. Suddenly the Asians attacked when they noticed how my forces diminished, and I realized these two enemies would try to pinch me between their forces and capture one of my settlements. This would not do, and I immediately sent a bunch of priests to freeze the enemy forces. The freeze spell didn't last long, but it gave me enough time to kick the Asians' butt and crush their remaining towers. Now that the Asians had finally been defeated, I sent all my forces against the Egyptians. I was aware of their nasty spells, however, and thus I split my armies into five battalions, attacking them from all sides simultaneously. They managed to teleport two of my battalions away, but my three remaining battalions succeeded in capturing many Egyptian mines and castles, and I forced the Egyptians to retreat. Just when I thought things would finally be going well, a bunch of Romans arrived from one of their outposts. I had forgotten to check every place on the map and thus I hadn't noticed those pesky Romans who had gathered enough soldiers to strike back. While I defended against the Romans and tried to press forward into the Egyptian territory, I sent a few patrols down south and west to make sure that there weren't any Asians left there. I did find one of the Asians' settlements there, and I immediately sent a squad there to take care of them once and for all.
Now that the Asians were finally out of the way, I attacked the Romans with half of my forces and forced them to retreat after a long and bloody battle. Luckily they hadn't managed to build any temples yet so they didn't have any priests to convert my units. I pressed forward and finally crushed the Romans' remaining stronghold in a nearby archipelago. There was one guard tower to capture, but I didn't get enough time to capture it when the Egyptians sent a final attack force to my direction. I combined all my forces and held them back in an epic battle. Hundreds of men and women died, and it seemed like the Egyptians had an ifinite supply of soldiers. I sent my new recruited soldiers to attack the Egyptians' rear, and they managed to capture many Egyptian castles and guard towers. This forced the Egyptians to send some of their forces to capture the towers back, and I pressed on with my huge army. Eventually the Egyptians had to withdraw, and I kept moving deeper into their territory. I also kept a close eye on the remaining Romans on the archipelago so that they wouldn't try to do anything foolish. I circled around the remaining Egyptian forces like a wolf on its prey, and then I attacked with all my might. The Egyptians held off surprisingly long, but after some 10 minutes of fighting I finally crushed their remaining outpost. I didn't let the Amazons cheer yet, though, and I sent them to crush the weakened Romans once and for all. After a 5-minute battle I crushed the final enemy tower, and the battle was over at last. Then I sat back and enjoyed the ending video and sighed. This final mission had taken approximately five hours, and now I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore. I had completed the Amazon campaign, and now there were only some additional campaigns left.
Once I had played through the Amazon campaign, I went to eat with the rest of my family. We had a very good dinner, and after that we watched some TV and talked about lots of stuff. After an hour had passed, we packed our presents and drove to our cousins' place where we spent Christmas Eve. I talked to a lot of people there, including my cousins' sons, but it was kinda sad that this was the first Christmas I didn't see Kati. Still, the evening was nice, and everyone was having a good time (yes, our whole family had gathered there). We managed to watch From All of Us to All of You, and I saw the Chicken Little bit in it. I wasn't impressed by the animation and the bit Disney showed, but I guess this will be the new trend of Disney animation. Gosh, it's sad that we might never see tradional animation in movie threatres. Then Santa came and made a lot of cool jokes. He had to leave early, though, because other children were waiting for him, and Rudolph (his reindeer) was getting nervous outside. =P Then we opened up our Christmas presents and talked a bit more. Then, after a few hours had passed, we drove back to our homes with our presents and opened the rest of the presents. Dad, sis and I went to the graveyard to put some candles on the graves of our relatives (great grandpa and grandma, grandma and grandpa, uncle etc) and after spending a moment there we headed back home.
So, here's what I got:
- A 19" LCD screen (yay!). The pic is of bad quality but should serve its purpose. =P
- A digibox (whee, I can finally see Subtv and a bunch of other channels!).
- "Kupla tai tuutti, 1000 questions about Donald Duck and Duckburg" book (if you know the right answers to 500 questions out of 1000, you can consider yourself a Disney guru).
- "Lentävät ratsumiehet: lohikäärmeiden sota" (The War of the Dragons). A fantasy adventure which has three fantasy stories about Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Scrooge and various others. The biggest story is "The War of the Dragons" which is over 100 pages long and resembles the Dragonlords storyline.
- An accordion.
- Return of the King Extended Edition DVD (great, now I have to find the other two EE DVDs to get a complete collection xP).
- A few DVDs, one featuring Andy Garcia. Can't remember their names at the moment, but they looked cool, so yeah.
- A briefcase and a few folders.
- A cool jacket.
- A pair of warm mittens. =D
- A nice necklace (anti-terrorism theme).
- Lots of socks and a bunch of other clothes.
- An interesting puzzle book.
- A book about Viljam Pylkäs who was the inspiration for the character of Antero Rokka in The Unknown Soldier.
- Lots of chocolate. =)
- 200 euros worth of money.
I think I've missed something, but I can't remember what it might be. Oh well.
Anyway, most of Sunday went by without much happening. I watched some bits of RotK EE and tried to get the LCD screen and digibox working. Then bro and his friend came here and played the accordion and stuff. Later on I drove them to the city centre so that they could continue drinking there. It was surprising to see how many people were going to pubs and such even though it was Christmas Day. I kinda thought that people wouldn't drink much this time of year, but apparently I was wrong. I didn't have time to watch Dances with Wolves, unfortunately, but dad apparently taped it, so I might watch it later (when I have more time, because it takes a lot of hours to watch the long director's cut).
Today I've been at my older sister's place where we ate some delicious food (fish and stuff, you know), and I tried to fix their old computer which was infested with viruses and spyware. Still, things got pretty well, and we watched some music videos and stuff while we were there. After that we got home, and I came online to write this entry. It was quite funny that when I entered #eoff, the first thing I noticed was people talking about penis lengths. I didn't even know you were allowed to discuss such things at #eoff, but such is life, I guess. xD I've been posting at EoFF and hopefully I'll be able to contribute something to FG and Aiyon too at some point.
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw new posts by Lynx and Nic in the RP. It seems like we'll see some flashback stuff, which is fine, and we're also getting close to Maar Sul. It'll be interesting to see how Bleys's mission will turn out and how the heck we're going to hide our ships so that the Yamatians won't notice us miles away. xD I've been thinking of a nifty idea involving Nergal and Dusk, but I'll make it happen later when the time is more appropriate. Divine interventions aren't good this early in the story, you know. =P I'll try to think of something to post at tGA, but that shouldn't stop you from posting, because it might take a while for me to get a post done.
I'd also like to say one thing. I've talked to a few people who won't be RPing at tGA anymore. Thus I'm left to wonder what to do with their inactive characters. I could kill them all off at some point, but I'd like to give the inactive people a chance. So, if you (I refer to the people who won't be RPing anymore) want to write your character out of the story, let me know. You don't have to do this in the RP, but at least let me know what you want to happen to your character so I can edit the Quick Character Listing thread accordingly. If you don't reply, however, I'll assume you don't care what happens to your character, and in that case your character will most likely get killed. So, if you want to write an appropriate ending for your character, let me know. Also, if you've changed your mind and are still interested in participating in the RP, let me know, and we'll try to get you back into the right track.
I should've mentioned something about the French DVD covers for Disney classics, but I think I'll write about those later. So, I hope all of you had a merry Christmas and that you had a good time. =)
Yours,
Mikko
I also worked hard on my Swedish essay about the book Brothers Lionheart. It was quite a sad novel, and once again I was surprised to see how much Jonatan resembled Refan in certain scenes. My book review was about six pages long, and it was quite hard to write something as complex as that in Swedish, because it's been a while since I've last written anything in Swedish. It took me a lot of time to get that essay done, and occasionally I had to write it at night, because I was busy with other stuff during the day. Needless to say, I was quite exhausted when I'd finally taken the Shakespeare exam and given the Swedish essay to my teacher.
However, I hadn't completed my task yet. I still had to help dad and mom clean our house, and that took freaking forever. Not to mention we also decorated our house with A LOT of Christmas stuff, so I spent the whole Friday doing stuff even though I would've wanted to rest after a rough week I had had in school. Well, we finally got everything ready for Christmas on Friday, and then sis arrived. We talked quite a bit, and then I helped mom bake some gingerbread cookies. And it seems I'm not as rusty in baking those than I thought, because they turned out to be excellent (at least that's what everyone told me, and I enjoyed the taste, so yeah xD).
I woke up on Saturday morning to watch the traditional The Snowman cartoon (a very good animated short). After that I decided to finally get through the Amazon campaign in Settlers 3 and so I played through the two final missions. I thought the penultimate mission was hard enough with all those crazy forest fires and huge armies, but the final battle was truly one heck of a battle royale with thousands of soldiers. In the final missions the Amazons (my forces) have finally reached the enemy stronghold and have created a circle around the enemies (three factions: Romans, Asians and Egyptians who are each other's allies in this mission) who have been trapped at the centre of this huge circular island. I had lots of soldiers at the beginning of the mission, and I positioned all of them around three narrow places which the enemy would use to attack me. I crushed most of my watch towers and concentrated my defenses on the three narrow gaps. I had three colonies, and unfortunately they weren't connected, because huge rivers separated them from one another. Each colony had a shortage of some resource (be it wood, food and various metals and coal), and I had to try to balace them out and figure out how to connect my colonies to each other. The only way to do that was to invade enemy territory to create paths to other colonies, but the three enemies had huge armies (each consisting of at least 1000 soldiers, thus making it 3000 soldiers, and that was just the beginning xP) which prevented me from capturing their towers. So, I started to get my economies going in my three separate colonies and started my god worshipping to upgrade my soldiers. I got all the food stuff going on to feed my workers, I built lots of large residences to get more settlers, built many mines to get necessary ore for weapons, and finally I started to produce lots of weapons once everything else was settled.
The enemies made desperate attemtps to capture my towers to force me into a stalemate, but my Mannerheim Line of dozens of towers and hundreds of soldiers held them back (and thus bought me more time to upgrade my soldiers to the highest rank and recruit a lot of soldiers and produce gold to double my fighting strength outside of my borders). Eventually I had an army which consisted of about 2000 soldiers. Two colonies had 700 soldiers and one had 600. First I attacked the Romans (in my opinion they are the toughest because their priests can convert my units, which usually results in a catastrophe on my part), and as suspected they defended themselves quite well and converted a lot of my spear-wielding units, sword-wielding units and archers. I sent a lot of thieves to the Romans' region to steal their gold so that they would lose their fighting strength, and eventually it worked, and I pressed forward. I captured five towers and one of their big castles and positioned my troops there. Then I held back a lot of attacks and waited for the Egyptians and Asians to help the Romans, which they did. When the Romans' allies came to the castle I had captured, I immediately sent my remaining forces (700+600) to attack both Asian and Egyptian watch towers and castles simultaneously. This caught the Egyptians off-guard and I captured a lot of their buildings. The Asians, however, resisted and had 1000 soldiers in reserve and attacked me. I had a hard time defending myself, but I managed to capture one of their castles and held my ground long enough so that I could send my newly recruited units to aid them. Meanwhile I kept pressing the Romans back and captured more of their buildings. Soon I reached the centre of the map and captured the Romans' gold mines, which resulted in their morale dropping drastically. I quickly attacked all the temples and crushed them with my war gongs (a special Amazon weapon) and killed all the remaining Roman priests so that they couldn't convert my units.
I pressed forward, capturing Egyptian gem mines (which dropped their morale) and pressed forward. The Egyptians are known for their powerul defensive units, and I was forced to stop when their strongly defended line held me back. I quickly built more towers near the border and positioned quite a lot of bow-units nearby to kill anyone who dared to attack from a distance. I recruited more and more people and tried to make sure that my economy wouldn't suffer. Thankfully dozens of my weapon smiths, alchemists and iron smelters were ready to get the necessary iron which would be used to forge weapons. I sent more and more soldiers to fight the Romans, and eventually I annihilated all their forces. I proceeded to capture their remaining towers and made sure that the Egyptians and the Asians wouldn't try to retaliate while I was dealing with the Romans. I met no resistance, though, and thus I erased the Romans from the map. I managed to connect my southern and nothern outpost once I had proceeded deeper into the Asian territory (losses were many on both sides, but because my soldiers had the attack power of 100% and were of the highest rank, they managed to press forward). Now I managed to get my two armies together and form one big army to counter the Asian threat while I tried to keep the Egyptians at bay with my remaining bowwomen and spearwomen. I attacked the Asians relentlessly, and eventually I managed to proceed deeper into their territory. I split up my soldiers into three groups and attacked their various fortifications at the same time. This tactic was useful when my foe didn't know where to concentrate his forces. I crushed his southern area and captured the towers there. I withdrew my soldiers who attacked the northern part and made them move to the southern area to hold it. I kept pressing forward with the third group, however, which forced the Asians to keep defending. Then I sent my two battalions and a bunch of war gongs to the enemy's rear, and this caught them off guard. I annihilated their temples and crushed their houses, thus preventing them from recruiting any more soldiers. I sent thieves to steal whatever gold they could find, which made my enemies weaker. I eventually pinched the remaining Asians between my three battalions and kept them at bay.
Meanwhile the Egyptians made a brave attempt and attacked my forces with their 1000 soldiers. They had somehow managed to mine more gold and gems, which made them stronger, and they also used their priests to teleport my forces to another location. I cursed in my mind when I noticed my wily enemy using this dirty tactic and immediately sent 3/4 of my forces to counter the Egyptian threat. Suddenly the Asians attacked when they noticed how my forces diminished, and I realized these two enemies would try to pinch me between their forces and capture one of my settlements. This would not do, and I immediately sent a bunch of priests to freeze the enemy forces. The freeze spell didn't last long, but it gave me enough time to kick the Asians' butt and crush their remaining towers. Now that the Asians had finally been defeated, I sent all my forces against the Egyptians. I was aware of their nasty spells, however, and thus I split my armies into five battalions, attacking them from all sides simultaneously. They managed to teleport two of my battalions away, but my three remaining battalions succeeded in capturing many Egyptian mines and castles, and I forced the Egyptians to retreat. Just when I thought things would finally be going well, a bunch of Romans arrived from one of their outposts. I had forgotten to check every place on the map and thus I hadn't noticed those pesky Romans who had gathered enough soldiers to strike back. While I defended against the Romans and tried to press forward into the Egyptian territory, I sent a few patrols down south and west to make sure that there weren't any Asians left there. I did find one of the Asians' settlements there, and I immediately sent a squad there to take care of them once and for all.
Now that the Asians were finally out of the way, I attacked the Romans with half of my forces and forced them to retreat after a long and bloody battle. Luckily they hadn't managed to build any temples yet so they didn't have any priests to convert my units. I pressed forward and finally crushed the Romans' remaining stronghold in a nearby archipelago. There was one guard tower to capture, but I didn't get enough time to capture it when the Egyptians sent a final attack force to my direction. I combined all my forces and held them back in an epic battle. Hundreds of men and women died, and it seemed like the Egyptians had an ifinite supply of soldiers. I sent my new recruited soldiers to attack the Egyptians' rear, and they managed to capture many Egyptian castles and guard towers. This forced the Egyptians to send some of their forces to capture the towers back, and I pressed on with my huge army. Eventually the Egyptians had to withdraw, and I kept moving deeper into their territory. I also kept a close eye on the remaining Romans on the archipelago so that they wouldn't try to do anything foolish. I circled around the remaining Egyptian forces like a wolf on its prey, and then I attacked with all my might. The Egyptians held off surprisingly long, but after some 10 minutes of fighting I finally crushed their remaining outpost. I didn't let the Amazons cheer yet, though, and I sent them to crush the weakened Romans once and for all. After a 5-minute battle I crushed the final enemy tower, and the battle was over at last. Then I sat back and enjoyed the ending video and sighed. This final mission had taken approximately five hours, and now I wouldn't have to worry about it anymore. I had completed the Amazon campaign, and now there were only some additional campaigns left.
Once I had played through the Amazon campaign, I went to eat with the rest of my family. We had a very good dinner, and after that we watched some TV and talked about lots of stuff. After an hour had passed, we packed our presents and drove to our cousins' place where we spent Christmas Eve. I talked to a lot of people there, including my cousins' sons, but it was kinda sad that this was the first Christmas I didn't see Kati. Still, the evening was nice, and everyone was having a good time (yes, our whole family had gathered there). We managed to watch From All of Us to All of You, and I saw the Chicken Little bit in it. I wasn't impressed by the animation and the bit Disney showed, but I guess this will be the new trend of Disney animation. Gosh, it's sad that we might never see tradional animation in movie threatres. Then Santa came and made a lot of cool jokes. He had to leave early, though, because other children were waiting for him, and Rudolph (his reindeer) was getting nervous outside. =P Then we opened up our Christmas presents and talked a bit more. Then, after a few hours had passed, we drove back to our homes with our presents and opened the rest of the presents. Dad, sis and I went to the graveyard to put some candles on the graves of our relatives (great grandpa and grandma, grandma and grandpa, uncle etc) and after spending a moment there we headed back home.
So, here's what I got:
- A 19" LCD screen (yay!). The pic is of bad quality but should serve its purpose. =P
- A digibox (whee, I can finally see Subtv and a bunch of other channels!).
- "Kupla tai tuutti, 1000 questions about Donald Duck and Duckburg" book (if you know the right answers to 500 questions out of 1000, you can consider yourself a Disney guru).
- "Lentävät ratsumiehet: lohikäärmeiden sota" (The War of the Dragons). A fantasy adventure which has three fantasy stories about Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Scrooge and various others. The biggest story is "The War of the Dragons" which is over 100 pages long and resembles the Dragonlords storyline.
- An accordion.
- Return of the King Extended Edition DVD (great, now I have to find the other two EE DVDs to get a complete collection xP).
- A few DVDs, one featuring Andy Garcia. Can't remember their names at the moment, but they looked cool, so yeah.
- A briefcase and a few folders.
- A cool jacket.
- A pair of warm mittens. =D
- A nice necklace (anti-terrorism theme).
- Lots of socks and a bunch of other clothes.
- An interesting puzzle book.
- A book about Viljam Pylkäs who was the inspiration for the character of Antero Rokka in The Unknown Soldier.
- Lots of chocolate. =)
- 200 euros worth of money.
I think I've missed something, but I can't remember what it might be. Oh well.
Anyway, most of Sunday went by without much happening. I watched some bits of RotK EE and tried to get the LCD screen and digibox working. Then bro and his friend came here and played the accordion and stuff. Later on I drove them to the city centre so that they could continue drinking there. It was surprising to see how many people were going to pubs and such even though it was Christmas Day. I kinda thought that people wouldn't drink much this time of year, but apparently I was wrong. I didn't have time to watch Dances with Wolves, unfortunately, but dad apparently taped it, so I might watch it later (when I have more time, because it takes a lot of hours to watch the long director's cut).
Today I've been at my older sister's place where we ate some delicious food (fish and stuff, you know), and I tried to fix their old computer which was infested with viruses and spyware. Still, things got pretty well, and we watched some music videos and stuff while we were there. After that we got home, and I came online to write this entry. It was quite funny that when I entered #eoff, the first thing I noticed was people talking about penis lengths. I didn't even know you were allowed to discuss such things at #eoff, but such is life, I guess. xD I've been posting at EoFF and hopefully I'll be able to contribute something to FG and Aiyon too at some point.
I was pleasantly surprised when I saw new posts by Lynx and Nic in the RP. It seems like we'll see some flashback stuff, which is fine, and we're also getting close to Maar Sul. It'll be interesting to see how Bleys's mission will turn out and how the heck we're going to hide our ships so that the Yamatians won't notice us miles away. xD I've been thinking of a nifty idea involving Nergal and Dusk, but I'll make it happen later when the time is more appropriate. Divine interventions aren't good this early in the story, you know. =P I'll try to think of something to post at tGA, but that shouldn't stop you from posting, because it might take a while for me to get a post done.
I'd also like to say one thing. I've talked to a few people who won't be RPing at tGA anymore. Thus I'm left to wonder what to do with their inactive characters. I could kill them all off at some point, but I'd like to give the inactive people a chance. So, if you (I refer to the people who won't be RPing anymore) want to write your character out of the story, let me know. You don't have to do this in the RP, but at least let me know what you want to happen to your character so I can edit the Quick Character Listing thread accordingly. If you don't reply, however, I'll assume you don't care what happens to your character, and in that case your character will most likely get killed. So, if you want to write an appropriate ending for your character, let me know. Also, if you've changed your mind and are still interested in participating in the RP, let me know, and we'll try to get you back into the right track.
I should've mentioned something about the French DVD covers for Disney classics, but I think I'll write about those later. So, I hope all of you had a merry Christmas and that you had a good time. =)
Yours,
Mikko