bored....

[The D]

This board is slow as hell lately... everyone must be busy with IRL stuff. Anything interesting happen lately?

I certainly had an interesting weekend.

Friday I went to a nearby art festival, a rather large one at that, and bought a wooden letter opener sharp enough to stab someone with, as well as two night photographs of urban areas. I also tested out a SmartCar (that tiny French car they drove in the DaVinci Code movie). As we were driving the car a siren sounded outside, and the dealer guy started freaking out and asking if it was a tornado. I told him that it was Michigan and we don't get hardly any tornados. He turns on the radio, and they were broadcasting a tornado warning, although the clouds didn't look dark enough for one. It rained heavily for a half hour though, and no twister touched down.

The SmartCar drives nice for a two seater, it has an automatic clutch and paddle shifters and accelerates well. But the muffler buzzes during acceleration, which I think is normal for something with such a tiny engine.

Friday I didn't do much besides beat Armored Core 3 and go back to the art festival to pick up one of my pieces.

Saturday morning I went to a Harry Potter fest at my university, where there was a magician/comedian, costumes, a guy in a hogwarts robe (who looked suspiciously like Percy) reading the first few chapters, and the HP movies on the school's theater (I watched Azkaban).

I then visited the opening of an Apple store nearby, where I previewed their iPhone. No it's not exactly worth it, except for the fact you can watch youtube videos on it, which is all I did there.

Sunday I went out on my mother's boyfriend's catamaran sailboat. This is a big one with a cabin big enough for a kitchenette, dining table, bathroom, and queen-sized bed. I got to sail it most of the time (it has a wooden steering wheel), and the whole time I spoke like a pirate... arr!

...oh yea, and I lost another USB drive.  At least I locked the important documents on this one.

Now that I've bored you with my life, make interesting topics dammit. 

[Bernie AKA]

Erm....well, it's going to rain again this week....Eddie is putting a shitloaf of metal band concert shirts up on eBay....we're going to a gay water balloon battle on Saturday....

It's the mid-summer lull.  Here, it's either too fucking hot to do anything or it's raining.  Can't get anything done outside - even the dogs don't want to go out.  No new movies, animes or books coming up that I'm jazzed about.   No vacation time scheduled. 

But hey, I'm going to the dentist next week! And my birthday is in 3 weeks.

[B E C K]

Just being a hop, skip, jump and three hours away from Bernie, yeah it's been rainy here, too, not that I'd be going outside anyway.  Work's been superslow, so I work one day a week until mid-August.  I saw one of my cousins yesterday for the first time in what must've been several years.  We're the same age and she said I looked "so young", and all I could think of was "yeah, well I don't have three kids" (which she does).  They were nice kids btw, but they're all boys.  Jeez louise.

[Wickedly Yours E]

Painting, Modeling, plotting. Finished watching the Seventh Season of Stargate: SG-1. Braetak's the fuckin' MAN!

[TM2 Rampage]

Well, I went to Japan for less than a week and Vietnam for 2 weeks. I took a lot of pictures, and posted a couple on the main message board I go to, but nobody seemed to care there. Should I post them here?

After that, I went to Anime Expo 2007. Haruko Momoi of the now-defunct UNDER17 was a guest there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She did a mini-concert, a panel, and a main concert. 

EDIT: Oh yeah, she also was a guest judge for the AX Idol event this year... it's kinda like American idol, except the finalists sing songs from anime/games, and also there are a separate set of finalists who compete for voice acting.

Here's a pic that she had taken of her on stage at the main concert... I was there, but all the way beyond to the right of the picture and farther back from the stage.   

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[B E C K]

That's awesome.  Beats the living tar out of my summer.    I, for one, would love to see your pictures.

[Bernie AKA]

I second that.  Bring 'em on!

[The D]

Gay water balloon fight?

The concert yesterday that was named after me went fine, but we forgot that while driving through Detroit during rush hour (or any big city), you need to take your estimated travel time, and double, if not triple it. We got into too many backups that, once we got to the end of them, there was no accident or construction or anything to show why there was a slowdown in the first place. And then when I had her get off the highway and onto side streets, she still attempted to use the written directions in front of her. "It says here we have to get off at exit 21" "O.o We're not even on the highway dammit! Forget the instructions!" And then she asked people at fast food joints how to get to the concert, and most didn't even know where the concert was. Most men pretend to know how to get there and refuse to ask for directions. I don't ask for directions because I actually KNOW how to get there.

We saw at the concert:
the Stray Cats ("Rock this town")
Pretenders ("Back on the Chain Gang", "I'll stand by you")
ZZ Top ("She's got legs", "Sharp Dressed Man" [on Guitar Hero 1], "Gimme all your loving")

My mom seems to have a thing for bands from the 70s and 80s, because I've been to see...
.38 Special ("So caught up in you (Little girl)", "Hold on Loosely" [Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s], "(The heart needs a) Second Chance")
Cheap Trick ("Surrender" [Guitar Hero II], "I want you to want me", "Dream Police")
Steve Miller Band
Alice Cooper ("Poison", "Feed my Frankenstein" [from Wayne's World]) <-- And this concert I got the tickets for free!
Bon Jovi ^_^
Ratt ("Round and Round", "Lay it down")
I also went to see some motown legend, but I can't remember who it was

I need to go to some more modern concerts. They had a Three Days Grace/Breaking Benjamin/Puddle of Mud concert at that venue a few months ago... too bad I missed it. I've also always wanted to go to Ozzfest and the Family Values tour... one of these years I have to save up money for that.

TM2: Ichigo GO! GO!

[TM2 Rampage]

D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

[TM2 Rampage]

Yeah, I've been bored, too, actually.

Japan was alright, but I didn't spend enough time there and not enough time in the right places... and I didn't really buy the stuff I wanted... But it was still worth it. I just want to go back again some time, preferably after I've gotten a good grip on the language.

Also, we went to Vietnam to visit my grandfather mostly, who supposedly had a stroke (but they can't find any blockage or bleeding) and is now lying naked in a small hospital room with 2 other patients. He can't talk, and we're not quite sure if he's aware of his surroundings... and he sleeps most of the time, or at least his eyes are closed and his breathing is labored (sometimes snoring, sometimes maybe not).
Well, I did get to meet one of my uncles and his son (who's older than me) again, and uh, I gave some gifts to two other cousins... yep.

I was hoping Transformers would be a rockin' summer movie, but it didn't meet my expectations. Spidey 3 sucked, too.

A goal I had this summer was to work on drawing and painting and stuff... but I haven't been doing that as much or as well as I've wanted... though I did work on two things last night that are turning out good.

Oh, and I spent 8 dollars to renew my Xbox 360 Live subscription for a month, and the only Live game I have is Gears of War... but I've found that I am bored of it now. 8| I guess I ought to try out some Live demos.



Well, on the bright side, I have lots of free time in these remaining weeks to uh, watch stuff that I've been meaning to... and practice art... and wait for two Momoi CDs that I ordered...

[Bernie AKA]

Gay water balloon fight?

A male couple we're friends with have an 18,000+ square foot back yard and hold a water balloon battle every summer -  Eddie & me, one other het couple and about 50 guys of all ages.  Big slip & slide, crab soccer with a giant exercise ball, food, food, food and rivers of alcohol to wash it down. This is presuming they can still hold it tomorrow with a 70% chance of rain - lots of tall lightning-drawing pine trees by the fence.    Don't think we'll have any giant cardboard box mazes this year, either.

[B E C K]

If there no rain, couldn't they just run around throwing dodge balls at each other and use the slip and side anyway?

BTW Doug, how teh hell did you lose another USB drive?

[The D]

D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

I lost that song... ;_;



I'm not sure how I lost the USB drive, but I noticed the backpack I used has some holes in the bottom of it.

[B E C K]

Dude!  Yer joking, right?

[The D]

Well, the holes aren't in the exact bottom, since that's plastic. They're in the corners in the main part of it. And they're too small for a book or a piece of paper to fall out of, but a pen (or a USB drive) can.

What do you expect, someone stole my nice backpack. I have to use this old holey one now.

[B E C K]

You could've patched the holes up with tape.  Sewn them shut.  Stapled them shut.  Gotten a pencil case and kept small items in there.

[The D]

Well I did tape the thing shut now that I noticed the hole!

Good news, the backpack I had stolen, normally $30-40, is on sale for $7.

[The D]

D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

And I Said... TM2... I LOST THAT SONG!!! @_@

[Bernie AKA]

The party happened, but we all looked like we had been mud-wrestling by the time it was over.  Still fun, though.

More rain this week.  And last night I dreamed that Rama was in my bathroom.

[TM2 Rampage]

D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

And I Said... TM2... I LOST THAT SONG!!! @_@

What? You want it or something?

[Wickedly Yours E]

You kick his ass?

[Rama]

More rain this week.  And last night I dreamed that Rama was in my bathroom.

Yes.....a dream.

:: Throws blanket over his "toliet transporter." ::

[The D]

D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

And I Said... TM2... I LOST THAT SONG!!! @_@

What? You want it or something?

That was the idea.

I can't find it on any filesharing network or anything. ;_;
Hell, just send their entire discography through rapidshare because I'm such a cheap bastard

[Bernie AKA]

:: Throws blanket over his "toliet transporter." ::

The bathroom was easily 3 times the size of the one we have now. If the deluxe model comes with a free Rama, I can hang with that. 

[The D]

He can scrub your toliet!

[B E C K]

With his facial hair.

[Faye Valentine]

Well, work is kicking my sexy ass. I was thinking about moving to Argentina but then I was like nah I'm too lazy. I haven't drank in like a month, and I'm starting to smoke again. I'm ooh so stressed

[B E C K]

What do you do again?

[Rama]

GAH! Ga-Ga-Ga-Ghost Faye! Like ZOINKS!

[B E C K]

I totally got that weird sound effect in my head for when the Scooby gang runs away.