Quest Completed!

It's done. It's all done.

It took a whole damn month to sort out some things on their end but it's all cleared now.

BANG

OH NOES

The final bullet... and now I'm having some technical difficulties with the site. The bullet's ready to go, I've got it chambered, finger is on the trigger! And it just won't fire.
 

Battlestation Components (4)

The vicissitudes pull me to and fro. \(´д｀\) (/´д｀)/

Hugs!

I've forgotten almost all of the dream I had last night. The only thing I do recall is giving D-girl a hug.
\(%____)/

Stick A Fork In Me

I'm getting a nice oven-baked tan on my extremities on account of all the time I'm spending in the sun. One of my co-workers looks sorta like this now:

His skin tone I mean.

Also, my feet are developing an interesting spotted pattern because of the shoes I wear.
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I tried to find a picture of the product online but apparently no one sells it anymore. Plus, I've never seen a pair like it.

SPECIAL. 

I'll post pics of the shoes and feet in a later post. In the meantime, speaking of tanning:

Swimming

I love swimming. It's the closest thing the human body can get to flying. Sky diving, BASE jumping, etc., all of that is literally falling with style. Your trajectory is inexorably downward.
Hang gliding is a close second. You are almost soaring through the air by yourself. But the big wing contraption is still there and you have to keep moving forward to stay aloft. When you're swimming, there's just you and the water. Up, down, those directions only limit you to the extent you can hold your breath.

There's some kind of irony in there about flying but having no air. Meh.

I use it as a wallpaper.

デタラメ・マザコン・チェリーボーイ 〜for the movie〜

OH SNAP GUYS

So there's this fictional band called the 金玉ガールズ (Kintama Girls), right? They exist in the world of Detroit Metal City. It's a cool series I highly recommend checking out if you have a sense of humour.

Anyway, the (fictional) band released a single cd and I managed to pick it up a few months ago. But, a terrible, terrible twist of fate befell me. The track titles on the files had become corrupted.

Three tracks. I already knew the name of the first track (title of this post) so that wasn't a problem. The third track was an instrumental version of the first, again no problem. But Track 2. The file name was just a jumble of nonsensical wingding symbols. How the hell do I find its name? This is pretty obscure material to begin with. "Hey internet, what's the name of the second track on a hard-to-find single from this fictional band?"

I filed the quest away for a while but today, I found it. At long last. A website that sells imported cds decided to post the tracklist.

2. クダらねぇ社会

Heh

Hope that anger I released hasn't flayed the skin from your faces. Here's some lighthearted happy happy joy joy for you

Ok, so maybe only one apiece of happy and joy.

Title Text

Speaking of images on this blog, I've started adding title text them. It's that stuff that pops up when you hold your cursor over an image. Like on xkcd. Before you go wasting your time, I'll help you out and just tell you that I only started on Monday's post. Before then all the images were both plain and invisible on the blog feeds. (= =___) How lame, right?

Anyhoo, from now on you can have an extra helping of my humour and wit.

Your reaction.

Once Around the Solar System

I always take the car. That car has class.

So then. It's been exactly one year since I've started blogging. I haven't managed to post once everyday for the year, 'tis true. But I've made one post per day for a year. And that's good enough for me.
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My Disorder

I have trouble with doors. The kind that are either Push or Pull but not both. It's really a 50% chance type of thing, right? But somehow I frequently manage to pick the wrong option the first time.

O HAY

So I was reading my Profile Description and I noticed that I've talked about movies and games and dreams but not really much about food and life quests. So let's hear about that stuff!

AT THE SAME TIME.

Since I was a wee lad I'd had a dream. A noble dream, truly. I had always wanted to eat a swiss roll all by myself. You know what I'm talking about?

Thirty Days in Sept-... What Was It Again?

So I used to have trouble remembering which months had how many days and such. And that rhyme didn't help me when I couldn't remember the rhyme itself.

Thirty days in September, April, June, and November.

Well, I found another way, more intuitive, I feel.

It's Been A Day or Two

Oh, the twinge in my heart!

Back in the day, I would see D-girl on a daily basis, did you know this? But now meeting is somewhat of a rarity. Yeah, yeah, I remember I said this just as well as you do. Well, everything ended in a rush this past weekend and while I'm sure it makes for an interesting shared experience I barely had time for hugs.

The Only Ship We Need

So yesterday I missed the bus and was about to end up in an inconvenient situation when a bud offered to drive me over to catch it at its next stop. We raced down the freeway and just managed to make it with about 2 minutes to spare.

The trip looked something like this.

Everything ended well. Plus, I got to spend a little bit more time with my pals.

By the way, that ship is friendship. lololol

The Oxford Comma: This, That,(. ._)? and the Other

Before seeing this image I never used the Oxford comma. After seeing it I always use it.

It's vs. Its

I've never had a problem using these two properly. NEVER. It's one of the things that makes me special.

FYI: North Carolina

Being a guy who's generally apathetic about politics (yes, it's true) I didn't even hear about this until the same time I heard about Obama's declaration.

N. Carolina's state legislature voted to amend their state constitution, banning gay marriage. Here's are some layouts of the precinct voting totals.

So, what do the precincts that stood against bigotry have in common?

Yep, that's right. Those are all places where institutions of higher learning are located. Fancy that correlation!

And I'm sure all the rednecks are thinking, "Daggum liberal yuppies. All dat fancy learnin's twisted dey heads with all kinds'a foolish, high-falootin' nonsense like logic and science til' they don't know what's what."

"All these years, momma was right. School is the devil!"

Annoyance #4: Cheap Tumblr Gifs

You know what really grinds my gears? Those cheaply made animated gifs I find on Tumblr. You know which ones I'm talking about? I'm talking about the ones that just have text overlaying someone saying the line. Usually it's a line from a movie or something. It's lazy.
Worse, it lacks any comedic timing whatsoever. The punchline sits there the entire time.