Yubsie's Yammerings

QotD

Tess: stupid dragon!
Tess: whatever, I don't even have pants and I'm totally going to pwn you. eventually. after you burn me some more with fire.

Where WOULD we be without videogames?

Speaking of which, Ryan and I finally made it to 2008 and bought an Xbox 360. Along with Final Fantasy XIII, Mass Effect 1 and Bioshock. So far I've had a chance to play some FFXIII. I'm pretty sure even I'll be unable to get lost in this game! Except for the part where I sometimes can't find staircase. Why do they never oppress people in well lit cities? It would make heroing about so much easier.

Also, I think I may have set a new record for shortest time between declaring I like a character and the character dying. :p

Dear assorted stores:

It is November 8th. Step AWAY from the Christmas music.

NON-SEASONS GREETINGS,

Yubsie


I'm playing Fallout. Not the shiny Fallout 3 that looks very cool and just came out. No, no, the ORIGINAL Fallout, which will actually run on my laptop. :P My poor processor just can't handle modern games. :p I could probably get a desktop that can handle more for a decent price. But that would involve having room for a DESK, which I don't. :p (Maybe when we move to Laura's townhouse in the summer :p) But the original Fallout is fun too!

Also, Tess sent me all her hair because she binned and removed extraneous ages from it all. Except... now I'm realizing I don't have a lot of the MESHES. Oops.

I watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries today. What took me so long? Seriously, this is great stuff.

I successfully called three out of four Cylons. Mind you, I have a feeling I was supposed to suspect. Did not call the Surprise Revel Cylon from the end. :p

Does the fandom hate Roslin? I seem to recall the fandom hating Roslin. I... like Roslin. :p

I'm also fond of Lee. And Starbuck entertains me. And Gaius is interesting.

Also, I adore the crew chief more than I'm meant to, I'm pretty sure. :p

Now I think I'll install Alpha Centauri. Because... xkcd made me do it

... And Things That Go Bump in the Night by aeshna_uk

In which Luke walks in on Sarah Jane, Jack and a riding crop. :p

Also, finally rid of Facebook wedding ads. Now I get BABY ads. Because clearly I have a baby. :p

I beat Avernum today. It was exciting. After first encountering a Spiderweb game as a demo in middle school, I actually BEAT one. Take THAT Emperor Hawthorne! I killinated you! Now for Avernum 2. :p

I also bought a microwave stand and an external harddrive today. The microwave stand to create room in my kitchen. The external harddrive to create room on my computer. :p

Qotd!

admiraljello: Mine is a manly squee.

Oh Jello. :p

Yun got back from Vancouver two days ago and brought a nasty cold with her. Now half the lab has the cold, obviously including me. Heaven forbid I have an immune system. :p I'd curse her, but we haven't seen her since, so she's probably suffered enough.

Today I found out that Western does midterms on Saturday nights. I can't think of a more exciting way to spend a Saturday night. I found this out because I'm stuck invigilating midterms on two Saturdays. Yep, just how I want to spend my weekends. It's not like this complicates my plan to go see a show in Toronto with Vicki or anything.

I has Fire Emblem! I'm very excited, maybe this time I'll actually manage to play all the way through. :p

I picked up a passport application last night. And MAN what a pain that will be. There's a bunch of stuff that I need a guarantor to sign. The guarantor has to have known me for at least two years. This is problematic, seeing as everyone who has known me for at least two years is kinda NOT IN LONDON. What are you supposed to do if you need a passport within two years of moving? Well? Gah. And then I need references. At least I had to get a new birth certificate when I got my SIN, because oh yeah, the birth certificate that was issued when I was born? Is not valid proof of Canadian citizenship. I've got an idea! How about we go with I was born in Canada. So give me a freaking Canadian passport. Wouldn't that be easier?

I've always had a knack for excitement happening when I go away for a couple days. In the past, this has been limited to things blowing up on the internet. No more though. Ryan and I went to his grandmother's cottage and downtown Sackville caught fire.

I thought his mother was joking when I came to breakfast Saturday morning and she told me that "Sackville burned down last night!". Of course, I also thought Phil was joking when he told me the World Trade Center had been hit by an airplane on September 11. :p

I haven't been in to town to see the damage myself yet, but just looking at the photos on Will's blog is pretty stunning.

You don't realize how many apartments can fit overtop of a few businesses until something like this happened. Hard to believe this fire managed to take out 32, but it did and it's just awful.

On happier things, the trip to the Miramichi was a blast. We did a ridiculously evil jigsaw puzzle that I want to BURN. Ryan and I DESTROYED his mother and grandmother and Taboo. It's much easier to avoid the forbidden words when you can just make fandom comparisons left right and centre. (For Pirate "Captain Jack Sparrow!", for Stupid "Jayne is very...") They were starting to feel bad for this Jayne person who was in so many clues. :p After that we played Boggle, which was HARD because it only allowed four letter words! Then we played some crazy world travel game where it took me FOREVER to get from the Phillipines to Japan despite them being two squares apart because the weather kept screwing me over. :p We ended with Scattegories, which was really fun even if O is, like, the worst letter EVER. :p

Vicki and I watched The Incredibles today, which is very fun. No capes!

Yesterday was crazy busy. Started off bright and early going to the lab, where I found the crystals that STILL excite me greatly. I also finally got my Wild Toads t-shirt.

After that, it was off to G&G spirit day, where we discovered that we all still remember last year's spirit dance, even if we WERE too eager to start the Macarena section. :p We learned this year's spirit dance, which is to Sweet Home Alabama. It's DELIGHTFULLY silly. :p

After that, it was anime club time. We watched the FMA dub while playing boardgames. It seems to be a decent dub, though Al's voice goes up and down in quality. Still, when he's good, he's GOOD. I played Apples to Apples. Silly Vicki played "My love life" when I was judging for which card best suited the word "frightening". Needless to say, she did NOT get the card that round. :p When the gaming died down, we watched King of Bandit Jing. It's very SPECIAL. It amuses me in its absurdity. :p Then we watched Figure 17, which is SO PRETTY. We only had time for one episode because each episode is 45 minutes. So we didn't get to see anything I hadn't seen before, but it was still enjoyable. Looks like the manga only has two volumes, so I'm going to try to pick up the second volume soon. When I have half the series, I might as well get it all. :p It's 13 episodes in all, but that's spread over six volumes, so it might be a little expensive for me to buy it. At any rate, I'd like to see the other two episodes on the DVD the club owns. It really is pretty, and I like what I've seen so far.

Amusing dub casting for that, incidently. Tsubasa's voice is CHER. Umm, the Wolf's Rain character, not the scary person. :p She's also in Angel Tales, FLCL, Witch Hunter Robin and Chobits. Cher is the most amusing one though. :p Oh, and we're apparently all crazy. Because although Hikaru's dub voice sounded like Kari and we were all sure it was... it apparently isn't. :p

This morning I dragged myself out of bed to make it to church on time. Which I barely managed. :p The gathering hymn reminded me that I have a paper due. They WOULD decide to sing about "God created Earth and Heaven/God commanded light to be/Seperated... waters" when I have a Classics essay about creation stories due. :p I have said paper typed up now, at any rate. It became slightly more coherent in the process, but it still has a way to go. Oh, and I need to cut the better part of a page to get it down to the maximum. Yay for destructive editing!

Moncton is getting another comic shop

Their own Comic Hunter. You know what that means, right guys? Yep, more people to try to get to be vendors at Animaritime. :p

We were going to see A Midsummer's Night's Dream last night, but it was raining so we didn't. We picked up a new game at Hobbyton. It's Gloom and, though it makes us horrible people, it's crazy mad fun! You make your characters' lives miserable and then you KILL them. What's not to love about a game where the player who had the worst day goes first? It's a really neat design too. The cards are clear, so points from one card can show through the next if the positioning is appropriate. Then we watched Constantine, which was actually good except for the parts that weren't. :p

In honour of the last week of the House Cup, I give you...

Nicky's Gonna Murder Me

Because instead of apologizing, we sing about it. :p

It looks like hte rain is finally clearing up, so hopefully the 7:30 performance will be outside.