Nothing really to talk about today. Foul mooded arcade guy was...quiet to the customers and seemed to make people think he was irate. So yes, a completely normal day at work. Tomorrow will likely be full of more of the same, except I'll be working a lot since the like...big person will be there.

I don't know why I should care. He doesn't really even look at my arcade. Just...walks up front, and then goes next door to the music store and writes lists of things they're doing wrong. I guess I should take that as a compliment, but it makes me feel like work is sort of a wasted effort when he can't pause enough to take more than a glance at the store.

If you're not going to look, I'mnot going to bother, you know?

Anyway, that's weak. I have to go in tomorrow morning, so I guess I should do some work on the Legion Letter and then try to go to sleep early.

Yeah right, is what you're thinking.

Is Otakon really only ten days away?!

~Don

Welcome back to the nightmare.

You would think with something as sweet as Sonic Adventure 2 that this week would have gone easily and perhaps even approach the status of a good week. And in some respects, it has. For example, Matt and I shot under par in the ever old Peter Jacobsen's Golden Tee '97 on Pine Creek, the course from golf game hell. Just today, I managed a purchase of the final volume of Cowboy Bebop, though I haven't had time to watch it yet. And apparently my Tenkuu no Escaflowne tarot cards arrived, but I need to go to my mother's to get them.

And just now, I finally caught up to date on Megatokyo strips, which means that of the three comics I read on a regular basis, the only other one I need to read archives for is RPGWorld( coincidentally, the third is Okashina Okashi). Even better, Piro and Largo will be at Otakon, where Vince, Chucko, and I will proceed to drool over their greatness for several hours, until Shirt Guy Dom attacks us with that vibrating sheep thing...or we are fragged. Unlikely that we will 'respawn.'

At this point, I should be working on roleplaying stuff, but thus far I have found things to keep me from that. Blogging being one of them, and deleting porn mail being the other. I am beginning to wonder what it is that causes me to receive so much of it, and whether or not I am the only one to have to delete an amount well into double digits a day. Cursed Internet; if I want your porn, I will find it on my own!

And I will.

That notwithstanding, I have not felt very good this week. In fact, I've been almost cruel at points to people (not unusual), particularly on the Internet ( unusual ) and I'm not really sure what the source of my discontent is. I even have White Reflection from Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz added to my slow-growing list of Anime MP3's.

Which reminds me...I need more music from anime that is good. And I need Ayashi no Ceres to be released, so that I may curl up on my couch and watch my life get sucked away once again by the creations of Watase Yuu. Now that I think about it, the last I heard....it was to be released on the 31st.

And that's that. I wanted to rant more, but I desperately need to get to work on my roleplaying stuff. Perhaps I shall listen to Sonic Adventure II music.

~Don

Haven't posted in awhile. And it might be a bit longer before I do a good one. I made a purchase.

And now I'm going back to it.

Go buy Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast. It's kew.

~Don

Azure Dreams seems to hate me, but I'm too stupid to give up.

You know, I've been studying human psychology for a long time (but only in front of my computer or Playstation, strangely) and found that that seems to be a trait pretty much everyone possesses. The urge to defy logic and be completely and utterly stupid without thought. For example, if you spend two hours on a game and then die, toss your controller, and storm off in frustration. Then you come back and do it again and the same exact thing happens, but perhaps at a different point in the game.

Logic says "Hey. If this pisses you off so bad, how about not doing it anymore? Obviously it's not good for you." But how many people actually listen to that?

I sure as hell don't. Which sort of 'segs' back to the title of the blog.

Thinking really is a waste of time, as clearly logic means nothing.

Busy couple of days coming up, so it looks like I'm taking some time away from Azure Dreams, which is probably a good thing anyway. Work to do here and there, online stuff, possibly pay-per-view to prepare for, people visiting the house. I did get lucky in having Monday off next week (I wasn't anticipating another day off until Thursday), but I do have to work today and tomorrow. Blah. I really should just stop working, because working always makes me really tired. Logically speaking, working makes me feel bad, so I shouldn't do it.

But logic means nothing, as I already said. And I'm becoming accustomed to the feeling. So it's nothing new, one supposes.

~Don

Status ailments piss me off.

So I was having one hell of a run with Azure Dreams, up until about the..twenty-first floor of the monster tower. Still had my best familiar in the bag, because I figured that if I waited a bit to summon it, it would probably last a lot longer, which in turn, would help me to last a lot longer and get further in the Tower.

Mm. So one stupid monster was coming after me, no big deal, except as I was moving to get in position to deal with it, I get nailed with a Slow Trap, halving my speed. No big thing, as I figure I can still handle this thing and not summon my ultra-cool Kewne.

Miscalc.(ulation, but I often use just miscalc) Ok, it wasn't at first. The stupid thing starts casting LoBlind on me repeatedly (because my agility is halved, this guy gets to whacks before I get one) and then I worsen the pain by finding another random trap and getting poisoned. Ok. HP is still up there, so I figure I can handle it.

Even after his LoBlind spell, no problem. The poison stops after some of my HP has been depleted, and a few whacks, and I've got this guy. Miscalc number two.

I'm down to six HP at this point, and my options are: whack this thing one more time, since it's my turn (Hell, I've hit it three times already, and it should be just about dead, so if I hit it once more...), or I could summon Kewne...wasting my turn to put the familiar out as a target (But what if the thing doesn't go after Kewne?), or I can use a Wind Crystal and bail on the tower several levels earlier than I want to.

I think we all agree what the logical reply to that is. Whack it again, that should be that. Except that I forgot about the OTHER status ailment; my lowered attack power (due to an earlier encounter) which made the number of whacks I would have needed go from four to five.

Then it just...killed me.

Bastard.

AOL really licks sometimes.

Yes, I typed a rather large section of that Legion Letter only to get kicked off. So I retyped the large section again offline...only to be WAOLed again...even though I wasn't online. So it merely didn't get done, and that's that. I regret it, because the Letter really sucked muchly, in my opinion, but then...I suppose I don't care all that much, either. Though technically it would be my fault for not starting earlier, but I really thought I had a chance to leave at 5:30.

Which didn't happen.

So I had to squeeze it into the two hours or so of time I'll have to work on stuff tonight, and that'll be that. At least, tomorrow...after work, I won't have to go back the next day. Work licks too.

Someone tell me when I'll hear from my lovely friend Cori? Hrm. I'm starting to remind myself of 'stina with her 'Rob lines.' But it's ok, I'm not hardcore sad or anything like that, but...I do miss having her around. I always do. And I worry, because worrying is something I do really well! Alright, not well so much as...often.

In any case, I'm going to use the remaining time I have before bed to relax. I need it. Work was really hard today, and I'm flipping exhausted. I really am.

Now go read webcomics. There's a new MegaTokyo up, and I enjoyed it quite muchly. Quite muchly.

Relax, they understand j00.

~Don

Sleep brings about remarkable change. It really does. I think today was far easier than I had originally anticipated; though had you asked me that early this morning I would likely have skipped formality and knocked you over.

Writing long emails is really tedious. I suppose, in a sense, so is blogging, but at least with this I actually find it easy to write. Legion Letters for online roleplaying, though?

Check, please.

I cannot think of anything, to write for this, so if anyone who gets my character's Legion Letter this week, be it known that it will lack...substance. I have no idea how long I'll be working tomorrow, so it's not like I'm going to have much time to finish it ( originally, I'm scheduled to work...twelve flipping hours, but...I may be able to get out of some of them, I hope. ). Beyond that, what I really want to do is get off the damned Information Superhighway and play some Azure Dreams.

At least I have this orchestral Evangelion CD to tide me over, and hopefully a new OOto read in the meantime.

That's enough for now. Kisha is only wearing a long shirt right now, and that's all you need to know.

~Don

Piss off, candyman.

That's the overriding theme of today, a day that started off surprisingly easily and only went downhill from there. As previously mentioned, sleep was something I did not find myself getting much of last night, and now my brain is riding one of those floaty clouds while I'm trying to concentrate on stuff.

One very irritating feeling. Yawn, eyes water, head lowers on desk. Eyes close, just for a few seconds, and then you snap back up again and realize you were doing something and that if you go to bed now, it will only mean disaster. And I don't want disaster.

I'm not particularly thrilled about anything right now, particularly being alive. Actually, were it not so early, I would throw in the towel and crawl into bed. But then I'd end up probably waking up at five in the morning or something and REALLY throwing myself out of whack.

I tried to read webcomics today, but my eyes hurt. That's weak. I suppose I burned my retinas playing Azure Dreams (Hey, I had to try to do something, yanno.) Current plans for the rest of the night consist of me...sitting at this computer, but not looking at it.

Where's the sense in that? My point exactly.

Piss off, candyman.

~Don

Working early in the morning sucks, when you're used to not working very early. Case in point-- I've been off all this past week for a paid vacation and have today as a day off, so obviously I've been sleeping in each day. In a cruel, horrible twist of fate our boss is going on vacation this week, and so that she can get out of work early tomorrow, she needs my help.

So normally I would open the store at 9. Tomorrow, I need to be there at 7, meaning I need to be up by 6. That's simply evil, particularly when I've been going to bed at 2 or 3 AM in the morning each night this week and getting up at 11.

Needless to say, I am not looking forward to work tomorrow--with the exception of the fact that I should be out of there fairly early in the day, possibly before 12. And I'll be tired tomorrow night, so going to bed early tomorrow shouldn't really be a problem, you know?

Tonight however...we're closing in on midnight and I still feel pretty darn awake. Already, I'll be going to work with six hours of sleep if I go to bed now. Couple that with my raging insomnia and the fact that I wasn't out of bed until fairly late this morning, and I have a feeling I'm flirting with disaster.

It's just one day, though. Truth be told, I'm worried they may have changed the schedule without telling me, or they're going to make me work longer and not tell me (Thus leaving me at work without my usual uniform, as I would typically work this in normal clothes.)

It also means there's a good chance that I'll have to work one 12 hour day this week, and...I'm not thrilled about that either. They, if you've never had one, are terrible.

I'm actually looking forward to moving, so I can have an excuse to change jobs. I'm tired of the horrible, horrible life of an Arcade 'Manager.'

In any case, off to do other things. Less than thirty minutes before I should go to bed. Hopefully I'll fall asleep soon! You should too. Later.

~Don

Welcome to my nightmare! Thinking really can be a waste of time, no? I mean, think about it, how often have you really had to think about something?

Probably too often.

The fact of the matter is this: I think too much, thus the need for this Blog thing. In fact, since I'm always posting...something...I may as well have a little public place to rant on my own. It certainly is hurting anything to talk/type to no one, you know?

So at this point, I've got very little to say. I just wanted to get everything started. Welcome to "Thinking Is A Waste Of Time." Take your shoes off at the door and enjoy the contents.

While you're waiting for something to actually happen, go read some comics. I just started really getting into comics like RPGWorld, MegaTokyo, and Sense of Sanity (the latter hasn't been updated in FOREVER though. HINT, HINT.) Actually, there was another comic that I was reading last night that I may try to catch up on today. I can't think of it's name, but I know I got the link from MegaTokyo.

I have nothing else to do tonight and have to work early tomorrow, so I bet I'll be online all night long. There's a tip for donations at the door.

-Don