So while I was originally only looking forward to green-dyed beer, corned beef and cabbage today on this most illustrious of drinking holidays, the otaku in me is also ridiculously pleased.  Not only did Heise's artbooks arrive today (scans to follow so we can all drool over the delicious bishonen), I was also surprised to find that the boxed sets ( Read more... )

Ichi: KISHIMOTO 386 ZOMGWTFBBQSPF!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING?  I'm going to reserve absolute judgement until the scanlated chapter is actually released, but I'm watching you, mister.

Ni:  For 
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So I spent a bunch of time yesterday cleaning out my computer area and discovered my deceptively intelligent brother left me a little present - the Wacom Graphire4 tablet I thought I had given him.

Let me explain.  No, there is so time - let me sum up.

Last July I bought myself this thing b/c I wanted one hardcore.  I loved it and used it for about a ( Read more... )

So I did just about nothing productive this weekend, which was nice.

I did manage to finish all three books of Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner series and really enjoyed them (obviously, since I couldn't put them down!!).  As my usual habits, the first reading was a bit rushed - the second pass through will be more thorough, with margin notes and the ( Read more... )

OK, so I was so bored at work this morning that I pulled together (coughcougheditedcoughcough) a new layout.  I was feeling slightly girly and wanted to show off this awesome photo I took and shooped up a bit for fun.  I like that its easier to read IMO...

Layout coding done by
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...a very tasty spicy chicken sandwich from Wendy's (yumm), and I pick up my drink....

...and I see this:


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My Christmas vacation just took a little longer than expected.  And was slightly less 'vacation'-y than I would have liked, but the world works in mysterious ways...  More on that later, I think.

First things first:  I survived five days with my crazy insane awesome family - including my Crazy Grandma.  Everybody has one, mine just happens to have a ( Read more... )

The most unfortunate thing happened this evening...

As I was preparing for another PS marathon to doink around with wallpapers and icons and macros and such, my fantastic desk chair - which has survived five years of hard service and at least three cross-US moves - bit the dust.

Problem was, I was sitting in it at the time.  I didn't crack my ( Read more... )

Randomness first:

I was wandering around the Penny Arcade forums this afternoon, looking for a sweet new wallpaper for my monitor @ work and I randomly ran across this...


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Ah, the first snowfall of the season.  There's about four inches of the stuff on the ground right now, and it's simply lovely.  So beautiful, so pristine, so...irritating.

Well, not the snow itself, so much - but the sheer idiocy of those driving in it.  It pains me to see people in their large and expensive import SUV's either creeping along at a ( Read more... )