The weather has been so weird here lately. Right before Halloween we got a foot and a half of snow in a single day--I got a day and a half off of work, which was nice, but it was absolutely insane. Snowed in. In October.

This week, meanwhile, it got back up into the 70s. I guess I'm not complaining, but it's still weird as heck.

Otherwise, it's been quiet. Work isn't trying to murder me anymore, so I've been trying to catch up on games (especially now that I have a TV that my Xbox can connect to again.) I've been totally sapped of any urge to do creative writing lately, but I'm hoping that'll come back soon.

In the meantime: Remilia's Homecoming! Monday! I am stupidly excited to have Remi get to do something again. Got a small crowd together for it (though we'll see how well that pans out), so hopefully it'll be fun~

First off, something sylvri2k found: One of the catchiest Touhou videos I've seen in a while. With tons of beautifully done folks from Remi's game all the way up to Tenshi. It's gorgeous, and I can't stop watching it.

Speaking of Remilia!

Remilia's been in a plot in the Grand Line for nearly 2 months now. It was a lot of fun, but I tend to be a very narrow-minded RPer. While I finished up some old, unfinished scenes, I otherwise tried to be available for plot-related RP more or less exclusively. That's a problem! I've barely chatted with anyone else on Gate for ages.

In the last few weeks, the plot's petered out without finishing. Which is really too bad--there wasn't much left to do, but a combination of unfortunate real life/online events kind of made the bottom drop out. It's not a big deal, it's just disappointing.

So now, while I'm glad to bring Remi back home (and free to RP with everyone/everything again), her Huge Dramatic Homecoming doesn't really have the same punch when Tenshi and I had to construct an elaborate way to cop out of ever talking about how the plot ended. c.c;

Anyway~ Hopefully I can get Remi back in to the swing of things.

Sometimes you just wake up knowing that you're going to have a bad day.

When your cat jumps on you at 4 in the morning and throws up on you, it is one of those days.

SNOW DAY

IN OCTOBER

Jesus, it's not even Halloween yet! And yet 5 friggin inches have fallen since I got in to work. And now I get to drive home. Yes, hurray, going home early is nice, except it's probably going to take me FOREVER to get home, and it's slick and nasty and auggghghhghg

I HATE SNOW

Friggin' nostalgia!

It's really just a vicious circle. I remember something fondly from years past, I go dig it up, and I'm horrified by what I find. Last night was pretty classic: Yesterday Geocities closed down. I have a few copies of old websites I worked on, so I dug 'em up. Old sites I had as a high schooler, mostly--Lots of weird stuff, some RPing things, the original XenoMUCK.

And oh horror of horrors, it was pretty horrible. Not the web design or anything--I don't care about that--I care about the CONTENT. The things I thought were amusing. The things I wrote. My excessive and unnecessary use of emoticons ^o^ in the middle of sentences! ^.^ When they're not needed! \^o^/

And because I'm a masochist, I read some old webpages, and ended up reading some old logs, and augggggghh

aughhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So yeah. Whenever I go down merry old memory lane, I end up wishing I could pretend I never existed before 2006. Why was everything I wrote and did and enjoyed so dumb? c.c

Oh dear, I've been MIA and quiet and vaguely antisocial lately! I'm sorry, everyone!

I've had just about the worst two weeks ever at work--Not because anything bad is going on, just crazy. Crazy crazy. Batshit crazy. I'm on the most stressful, high paced project I've been on since I got here, and while it's not going badly, it's definitely driving me insane.

So! I'll be, like, quiet and missing and not too social until like... Next week? Around Tuesday or Wednesday? Maybe then this particular project will stop TRYING TO MURDER ME.

Man, my TV's been in the shop for, oh... About a week and a half now? The person I took it to was a certified Samsung repairman who's apparently crazy popular. He wasn't even able to look at my TV until now.

He looked at it today, and apparently it has a fried circuit board. He called it "normal wear and tear," which is really just horrifying. The thing is one year, one month old. It shouldn't have "wear and tear" enough to STOP WORKING.

I'm really just incredibly peeved. A brand new TV shouldn't break so easily. I guess there might have been a power surge or something? But the TV has always been plugged into a really hardcore powerstrip, and I thought that'd more or less protect it.

Oh well. I suppose I just won't buy another Samsung. z.z Hopefully it won't break again in another year.

But yay, I'll be able to play my Xbox again!

Well, damn. It's snowing. I have a ton of errands to do today, which a meager half-inch of snow should not keep me from. But snow makes me grumpy. Maybe I'll wait until tomorrow. z.z

In the meantime! I work in an office full of writers and editors, so people forward along dorky word-related announcements all the time. And now you get to join in the dorky editor-joy, too!

Save the Words! A ton of words that are dying out from lack of use. The site will drive you right out of your mind if you don't immediately turn the sound off, but you can otherwise sign up to save your favorite words.

I haven't adopted anything, because I'm a lazy bum and hate registering for sites, but just looking through all the words is fun~

So, um. I've had my car two years now. And so I get a happy email from the place that has been servicing my shiny, beautiful car.

This email is addressed to my car.

It... it's weird.

Here, just look at it:

( S-should I... should I print this out and let my car see it? )

CREEPY

I think they want me to go on a date with my car.

Oh, right. I have some compulsive need to make log archives. I used to mooch free Web space off of people to dump my logs on, but alas, I have no such thing now. (And really, all things considered, am not interested anymore, anyway.)

And since Gate has an LJ-based log archive, I figured I'd swipe the idea and make a personal one. This way, at least, if I ever RP anything interesting, and/or grow a backbone and can bear to have the general public look upon my scenes, I'll already have stuff formatted. Ah ha ha.

Oh well. Remilia logs here: frillyvampire

They're friends locked, because I fear judgment. Also, they are retarded. My powerful love of incredibly insane and dumb scenes corrupts even the mightiest of little vampires.