One prompt. Fifteen minutes.

They are recalling Slim Fast because of a bacterial contamination that can cause diarrhea. Hey I would get that anyway with my lactose intolerance, so I guess it's good I don't mess with that stuff.

It's kind of snowing. Very random and light snow. It's Houston that's getting all the snow fun. We don't have enough to even make a snowball.

Lunch turned out better than expected. The food still sucked but maybe it's because we are all anticipating the holiday season starting soon.

But it is freaking cold... not as cold as tameiki's 19 degrees, but still... brrrrrrr!

Supposedly by lunchtime we'll have snow. We'll see.

In the meantime I have to go to a "birthday lunch" that I really don't want to go to because... these things used to be fun "back in the day" (say 10-15 years ago) and now they are a chore. You always have the lone person who doesn't like anything no matter where you choose to go. And today because it's so blasted cold we are heading to a place nearby that used to have good food a few years ago but now their stuff is total crap. I would love to get out of this but I'm one of the "birthday people" being honored... I still pay for my meal but... *sigh*

I'll just man up and go.

I was hoping that it would be Friday... but not yet. *shakes fist at world and its many clocks* Tomorrow we are suppose to get snow. Snow. They've been predicting it all week now they are trying to decide when it will fall ... in the morning, in the afternoon? I would love to see some snow I don't think this town has any any snowfall since 2003 maybe? I hope it does happen. It would be nice.

OKAY. So, Black Friday was actually pretty anti-climactic, which was just fine with me. However, EVERY DAY AFTER IT HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF HORRIBLE OMG. People, seriously. Just. Just go away. GO AWAY. :|

Also, I wasn't able to get a lappytoppy like I had planned, which was a downer. I was bitter, not gonna like. Still, it ended up being a good thing. I mean...I really don't have that kind of money to spend.

So I bought a PSP (whaaaaaat, I said I didn't have that kind of money to spend - the kind of money a PSP requires is much lower okay!) and one little game.

( Spoilers for Cloud, Tidus, and Cecil's Odysseys, as well as general DISSIDIA gameplay )

In other news, I have been quietly freaking out over Yuletide (WHAT WAS I THINKING) and wrangling tags (ugh, wait, why did I choose a fandom where everyone only has a first name?!). LIFE IS EXCITING.

Oh, hey, fic recs.

Allure of Honey, FF: Dissidia fic by Sinnatious. Cloud winds up in an outfit he swore he would never wear again. Crossdressing. Everyone/Cloud.

This fic. THIS FIC. I lol'd A LOT. Poor Cloud. <333333


Made for Much, FFXII fic by Original-Elfkin. Balthier is tired of the Westersands. Tired of the heat, tired of the sand stuck in every place, tired of his itchy 5 o'clock shadow. But a puzzle involving Vaan presents an entertaining distraction from his troubles. Pre-slash BalthierXVaan.

Another one that made me laugh, plus I really, really like the characterizations. I guess lulz are my main source of entertainment, what can I say.

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1) Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/bands [fannish etc.] that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2) Have your f-list guess your favourite character/member from each item.
3) When someone guesses correctly, strike through the item and put the name of your favorite character next to it.

1. Final Fantasy VIII
2. Final Fantasy XII
3. Avatar: The Last Airbender
4. Psych
5. Lost
6. Phineas and Ferb
7. Slayers
8. GetBackers
9. Star Trek AOS
10. Gundam Wing
11. Pirates of the Caribbean
12. Petshop of Horrors
13. Yami no Matsuei
14. Harry Potter
15. Junjou Romantica
16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
17. Zombieland
18. Final Fantasy VII
19. Final Fantasy III
20. Scrubs

:D

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Google had a press conference a few weeks ago touting their new Chromium Operating System. Basically this system is tailor made for netbooks. You basically keep all your information in the cloud (Google docs, Gmail, etc.). It's not in beta yet but they wanted to show what this operating system would look like.

Then days later there was a copy you could download and run using vmare, or virtual box. I didn't want to bother with that. Then there was an image you could run on netbooks. I downloaded that since I have an eeePC that I bought for grins off woot.com a while ago. It sits in the living room for those moments you are too lazy to get your laptop to go check on stuff. I blew the xandros OS off of it the first day it arrived in my house and up Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. While I managed to get the ChromeOS on a flash drive I couldn't get it to boot to it. Finally my brainstem figured out last night to go into the Bios and change the order of boot up so now it boots into Chromium.

If you've every used the Google brower, then it is not difficult. Everything has a tab pretty much. The wireless didn't work immediately. I had to connect it to my router via ethernet cable and point to my wireless and put in the password to the wireless. Then I rebooted and the wireless worked after that.

Google's contention is most folks only use their computer to get on the internet so why not just do all your business there via Docs, etc.

Is this something that anyone would want for a real operating system? Not unless you are happy with your private information being in cloud management. Google's argument is if you lost your netbook there would be nothing for them to get unless they know your Gmail address and password. Also in theory if someone else had ChromeOS on their system you could log in and have your stuff handy without permanently saving it on your friend's computer. Although Google folks had to admit if you are a lawyer with sensitive papers you probably DON'T want this operating system.

Since this isn't even in beta yet, there are interesting hiccups in it. Like you can't shut it down, to do that you have to push the power button on your machine. If you do somehow manage to close all the tabs in the browser, getting the browser to reappear too me randomly pushing keys until it reappeared again. (I don't know which keys did the trick though). You have to have an internet connection to do ANYTHING on it. You can't log in. You can't look at anything because it is all on the web.

Would this ever replace Ubuntu NR on my eeePc in the future if they get the bugs fixed? I seriously doubt it. But it's fun playing with it.

It's rainy.

I'm sleepy. Really sleepy.

I'm on my 3rd cup of coffee. My coffee mug holds 2 cups of coffee so really I'm on my 6th cup. And I'm still sleepy.

It's also slow today which really makes one "perky".

I guess I shouldn't grumble about having to go to work tomorrow... We are coming towards the tail end... my work-study student workers only have two more weeks (hopefully they WON'T finish what I have put out for them because if they complete it I will have to scramble to find them work. They are dedicated folks so I suspect I will have to scramble.

Christmas is fast approaching although I am more about when our holiday starts (Dec. 22-Jan 1) than the actual holiday. My sister and I will travel to Dallas via Amtrak. I don't trust my car to drive us (because it has an engine problem which isn't a problem now but it will die at some point... I'm nursing it like a newborn and only driving when necessary), I thought about flying but I hate air travel these days ... although Southwest had nice enough prices, but via train isn't dirt cheap. It's only $62 round trip. Mind you it will take longer to get there (5 hours as opposed to 3 hours driving or 45 minutes flying), but that's okay I have my sony reader and I hope I'll be able to read. I've discovered that reading on buses gives me a headache, reading by plane doesn't bother me, so what will travel via train do?

All the holiday food is gone. YAY.

Uh oh. Rain. Feeling...sleepy...now...

*thunk*

zzzzzzz

Oh, hey, good luck to my fellow retail slaves! TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE A BLAST. I'm going to make it worse for some poor bastard because I'm going to do some shopping before I have to be at work (at 6am omg). But damn it, one of those laptops WILL BE MINE. :|

This post originally made at Dreamwidth.

Hope everyone is having a fine holiday. I know I am... even if dinner will be a touch late because I wasn't feeling in the mood to start it earlier. :)

I'm thankful to good friends (virtual and otherwise). I'm thankful that no one in my family is laid off. I'm thankful to cool weather that actually pretends to be Fall after all. And I'm thankful that I don't have to be back to work until Monday. :)

So my gift to all of you is the gift of a rather cool ova. It has many names... It's being called, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage. (This link is a description of the show). When you look at the videos (there are 4) it looks like it says Dogs: Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark which is the name of the manga it's based on. I really enjoyed it, slipped tameiki a copy during Y-con. We watched the first episode and she seemed to like it.

I present to you (direct downloads) of:
Episode One
Episode Two
Episode Three
Episode Four

Enjoy the videos.

I think one of the things I hate the most about watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is how my dad complains about the music. *G* However, I want to know why they're not singing happier songs. WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT LEAVING YOUR BOYFRIEND IN THE THANKSGIVING PARADE? :|

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! We're not doing the whole "family getting together" thing. *SHRUG* It's just going to be the three of us, which is just fine with me. XD

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!!!

I WANT TO GO

SO MUCH


I will never stop wanting to be a wizard

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