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May 22nd, 2012
04:20 am
In a move that should surprise no one, I'm playing Xenoblade Chronicles! It's like someone ripped the gigantic Christianity bludgeon out of MonolithSoft's hands and told them, "No! Bad! Enough! Make a normal jRPG now!" and, bless their hearts, they tried.
So far, uh, it's good and I like it? Blah blah kickass worldbuilding blah adorable British voice actors blah blah fun combat system blah.
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April 2nd, 2012
04:26 am
Yesterday afternoon Alfador got so excited over his new Da Bird toy that he bit the ever-living fuck out of my finger when I tried to stop him from tearing it apart. Despite washing my hands a lot and using liberal amounts of hydrogen peroxide, twelve hours later I had a swollen, infected finger that necessitated a trip to the emergency room at two in the morning! Always fun.
I used to joke that it was Stiltzkin who would kill me some day. Shows you what I know.
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March 18th, 2012
03:24 pm
Aaaaand off to the Apple store my computer goes for another three- or four-day visit, thanks to (what we are pretty sure is) a dead video port. Blagh.
I will have sporadic access to email, but little else. Hopefully my computer will come home on Thursday or Friday.
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March 15th, 2012
12:55 pm
Last night I wrapped up my Skyrim playthrough: two hundred and thirty-some-odd hours of sneaky khajiit shenanigans. Astonishing. While I've spent nearly that much time playing, say, Persona 3, in Persona 3 that would be two entire playthroughs plus the goony additional post-game chapter thing. In Skyrim that's one playthrough, period.
And then of course I turned right around and rolled up a Breton mage, because I wanted to try being magical. I may have a problem.
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March 5th, 2012
01:17 am
Well, after over a week of no hot water and no heat, the plumbing company gave in, ripped the malfunctioning water heater out, and replaced it with a brand-new one. Eternal swore that their myriad issues had been resolved, and so far, they seem to be right--the new heater works wonderfully. Of course, I could just be saying that because I'm so relieved to be able to take showers again.
In other news, my sweet-ass American Tourister train case arrived and I love it. I took a terrible overexposed camera phone picture of it and stuck it over on my tumblr. Once I wiped it down I put all my jewelry stuff in, happy as a lark... "You know," I said to myself, "this is really the perfect size and shape for all my camera stuff, too!"
So... yeah, I've got another one coming. The new one is a pretty marbled tan case that's missing its makeup tray (which is actually fine for my camera stuff). It's hard-sided and padded on the inside, and even has three little elastic straps to hold assorted lenses... safe to say, I may have a problem. But it's an organized problem.
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February 24th, 2012
03:33 pm
Late Wednesday night I noticed in passing that the water coming out of the kitchen faucet was not warming up as I'd expected it to. My first thought was "Fuck, not again."
Our expensive fancy gadgeteer's-wet-dream of a brand-new water heater was installed in August and has thrown some kind of wobbly once a month ever since. The plumber who's been jollying it along under warranty mentioned that they've been having so many problems with these water heaters that they've now stopped installing them until the company fixes their shit, to which my response was basically WELL THAT'S GREAT NEWS. He agrees with me, though, and if this latest fix does not fix it for good they intend to rip that sucker out and replace it entirely.
So for the time being we have no hot water, and we will not have it until Monday, when the parts arrive. Because it is currently February and the temperatures are in the mid-forties to low thirties, this making showering an experience somewhere between 'very uncomfortable' and 'actively painful'. I have resorted to boiling large pots of water on the stove and then mixing them with cold water in the tub so that I can have a decent bath. It works well enough.
In theory the bigger problem is this: our house's heating system is radiant, which means that we need hot water to go to the radiators in order to heat the house. You'd probably assume that this is a larger problem, and theoretically you'd be right, but by turning on the halogen lights and running the oven I can actually make the upstairs of our house pleasantly warm. Downstairs is a nightmare of mid-forties temperatures, mind you, which is why I am typing this on my laptop at the kitchen table and getting up every fifteen minutes to open the oven door and release another blast of hot air into the room. Add a few layers, a cup of tea, and my electric blanket, and it's all... well, not good, but good enough.
I am aggravated, though. When the plumber told me that this particular water heater had a twenty-year warranty on it, I did not expect to need it this much!
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February 17th, 2012
11:37 pm
Today I thought, "I should buy a toolbox or something to hold my jewelry-making supplies. Something with little compartments to hold stones and a big bottom compartment for bigger things."
I asked Amazon for toolboxes. It showed me some. I thought, "Those are okay, but they don't do quite what I wanted. What I really want--what I'm picturing in my head--is one of those old Caboodles makeup cases from the 1980s, the ones that unlatch and unfold as they open."
I asked Google for Caboodles. It sent me to the official Caboodles site. I thought, "Wow, the new Caboodles cases are ugly and cheap-looking."
I asked eBay for vintage Caboodles. It showed me a bunch. I thought, "Hey, I used to have one just like that--these are exactly what I wanted! Kind of embarrassingly 80s, though. I like this white, black, and red one. Let's see what else this lady has in her shop, just in case... whoooooa."
In conclusion, it seems that I will be keeping my jewelry stuff in a sweet-ass vintage 1960s American Tourister Tiara hard-sided green leather train case. Because I'm just super classy like that.
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January 24th, 2012
09:38 pm
Today ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) chaobell called my attention to the fact that someone has made a K.K. Slider version of Portal 2's 'Want You Gone'. It is the perfect K.K. Slider song!
While I was roaming YouTube looking for it, though, I discovered that not only is there a whole host of K.K. Slider covers out there, but at some point someone made an Animal Crossing anime movie? ... I'm probably the last one to know this, aren't I?
Anyway, here's the first ten minutes of that! That dude has put up the rest of the movie, too, so if you like the first bit you can watch the rest.
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January 5th, 2012
02:10 am - irony tastes like dragon blood
To kick off the new year in proper style, I pillaged, nuked, and deleted my accounts on the stupid time-suck browser-based videogames that have been eating my head for FAR TOO LONG. Seriously, that shit has got to stop. I've only got so much time and I need to spend it doing... real things.
Like playing Skyrim! Hell yeah!
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November 23rd, 2011
01:08 pm
WELP I'VE GOT CANCER AGAIN
... okay, 'again' isn't the right word. 'Still' is closer to the mark. In any case, I've popped yet another throat tumor, this one a 1.5cm mass nestled snugly up against my esophagus. Biopsy confirms it's malignant.
I was offered a chance to try a new treatment that involves injecting the tumor with alcohol to kill it, but, as drunkenly entertaining as that sounds, there are multiple reasons why surgery is a better option for me. So I go back under the knife, probably around February. Because that's how I enjoy spending my Februaries: festooned with surgical staples like a low-rent Cenobite.
What a bother. What a useless motherfuckin' annoyance. Oh yeah, and HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYBODY
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