The Girl and I spent the evening working on campaign setting and rules for teh shineh rpg. :D I have managed to successfully spam my own flist. (I'll probably take the IC comm off my watch list since it'll be watched on character journals.)

IT HAS MAPS MADE OF HEXAGONS.

newhope_rpg and newhope_ooc are the homes to the new crack. All the campaign setting stuff is in the OOC community.

We haven't gotten apps and posting format hammered out yet (posting will probably be like what we had back in RV just 'cause it's easy to use). no1detective and gogglesdozip's complete profiles are probably the direction we're going to go in as far as character information. It's a bit more general than before, but that helps let the app become the roleplaying test and saves us some space. Also not 100% sure how we're going to do fandoms. I'm tempted to just say "anything that fits the campaign setting" and see what people want to play.

0:3

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I made mac and cheese. Delicious homemade mac and cheese. FROM SCRATCH.

And since I have a shit-ton of it, I shall now spend a good time in a food coma. At least I won't have to worry about feeding myself if I can get around to packing the kitchen today.

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OMG I LOVE LJLOGIN!

It's got cross-platform support that includes DW! I can easily and lazily switch between main and rping accounts on both sites now! :D

In other news, my apartment looks like a bomb made of boxes went off and I'm still about halfway done with packing. (I need to get the junk in the closets and the kitchen.) OMG OMG OMG

I also made an RP account for Uran after going through a million Youtube videos because I can't get screengrab for free from the DVD player. XD Can't wait to chuck her at people. (At this rate I'll end up tweaking things since I haven't completely finished the 2003 series she's drawn from and I know I'll probably want to screw around with icons. The Girl and I have a pact to watch Astro Boy together, so I can't cheat and watch ahead even on Youtube. Darnit.)

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OMG GAIZ I AM MOVING NEXT SATURDAY WTF I DON'T EVEN KNOW.

I spent most of this afternoon moving my utilities and doing other change of address stuff. NOW it's finally sinking in. HOLYCRAP. (This does mean I'll be without internet for a couple of days.. but it's just 'til the Monday after, and I'm getting both faster DSL and better phone service out of the deal. I think my net connection might even be faster than Mom's cable connection after I move!)

And now back to making phone calls. O.O

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So The Girl and I were thinking about getting the band back together.

I used to GM a Megaman-based multiversal game on LJ. Eventually rp started conflicting with work (and, indeed, I was rping like 4-5 hours a night and going craaaaaazy) and I had to pry my hands off the crack. The game actually managed to survive a few more months before caving, and in all it managed to outlive the average lifespan of an LJ rpg. (18 months of really active play is nothing to sneeze at) It was a happy time.

I also really miss getting to do awesome story-based rp. Playing on RP servers in WoW just ain't the same. And while I've kept up playing out stuff with The Girl, well, there's stuff you can do in a two-person rp and stuff you can't.

I've been slowly pecking away at worldbuilding stuff for a new campaign setting. The Girl's been helping a bit. And since we've both developed an unhealthy fondness for Astro Boy in addition to our Megaman addictions, we've been trying to figure out a more inclusive list of possible fandoms to draw on. (And it would be cracky. Just saying.) It's a generally SF setting with a huge element of robotics, cyberspace/VR, and transhumanism mixed liberally with a bit of high-tech frontier town. No plans to connect the setting to the Nexus or have it be a Nexus-based game, just because I wouldn't want to end up having to deal with fallout from plots happening elsewhere.

I would be interested in feedback on what fandoms might be cool for a setting like this or what characters people who also miss rp would be interested in playing. (we've already settled on allowing all the Mega Men, Astro Boys, various robot movie type fandoms, and Reboot.. I'm of two minds about Transformers or Gundam even though both pretty heavily feature different types of robot. Maybe some Big O action? I just don't want giant robot fights to erupt since they could take out the entire setting pretty easily and I'd rather make people have to work to destroy the setting! I'm also debating just throwing it open to any SF sort of fandom and let Bob sort it out.) I'll probably be posting a lot of development stuff over the next few days, if only to have some backups of the material.

The game itself would have to be on LJ-- I don't have any illusions about the general rp community moving off LJ anytime soon.

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Got to spend some time with The Girl. We watched Up since I managed to score the DVD of it yesterday. It still made me cry. And the new little short about Dug also made me cry. Both in a good way.

I don't know what it is about movies geared towards children and making me cry.

I'm actually tipping at a bit of fanfic. It's an idea that's been kicking around my head for a while so I thought I'd try and do something with it. Let's just say it's Dr. Light's revenge for getting fridged and/or made into a bit of an ass in a lot of my fanfics. XD And that Blues takes after him far more than he'd like to admit.

It's gotten chilly again. I hope this means fall's here to stay finally. I hate it when the temps see-saw like they do a lot of the time. I usually end up getting sick when it happens and I have too much crap to do to get sick right now.

Continuing also to watch the 2003 Astro Boy. And.. well.. This is their character model for Dr. Tenma:


(image ganked from Wikipedia, for the curious)

As you can see, he has a rather unfortunate resemblance to a chicken. And since I've taken a bit of an instant dislike to him as a person, at least on-screen, well... there's been a lot of clucking involved. Especially since in a lot of his dramatic scenes he's backlit in profile so he really looks like a chicken.

And since I am dead tired this is hilarious. So I shall leave you with that.

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It's been nearly two years since I moved off LJ.

To be honest, I've been missing the company. D: Most of my LJ friends didn't migrate off the site, and while I've been lurking and making the occasional pithy comment as usual, it's like half the normal conversation has been missing.

Sooooooo.. I made the call to add LJ to my DW crossposter. That way nobody has to try and follow me to Dreamwidth (where I keep my primary journaling account-- after the crap-up back in 07, I just don't want to have my data only be there/be tempted to give them money) but people can still see what I've been posting. I'm not going to be moving any fics back to LJ, but at least this way people can get the links to my fic journal and all when I start actually putting stuff together there.

(I still have like a billion invite codes if anyone does eventually want a DW and doesn't have one. I will be glad to dip into my stash.)

The footer you see at the end on the IJ and LJ posts is just the link back to the Dreamwidth account, if only so you know where the primary entry is hiding, etc.

My tags are probably going to end up a TRAINWRECK.

BTW, I've gotten a bit less fansquee and a bit more bitchy in the last two years. I hope nobody minds cussing. Though I am easily distracted by robots.

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OK, so after lostangelssong's last post.. I kind of want to start a community called My Gay Agenda or The Gay Agenda or something like that. Just so that we can all get our secret decoder rings and bitch about our gay agendas. Like, you know, laundry. And buying milk. XD

Dear State Governments:

Please stop putting civil rights on referendums so that douchenozzle bigots get the chance to deny minorities basic rights. The founding fathers warned about this sort of behavior-- they called it the "tyranny of the majority" and tried to design a system of government that eliminates this sort of stupid behavior as much as possible. Especially you guys who start to get equal marriage due to judicial intervention-- that's the entire purpose of the judicial branch of the government and you neuter an entire third of our system by doing this bullshit. And Maine-- congrats, you just managed to violate your own state constitution there. Nice EPIC FAIL.

If you must give in to the impulse to be a collective bunch of enabling douchebags (no, you do not get a free pass from having your "enemy to all that is good and decent card" punched for enabling the douchenozzles) then at least for the love of cute little kittens write the damn referendum so that it makes sense. Every state that's decided to vote on whether or not all American citizens get the basic right to the pursuit of happiness ends up putting out the crazily-worded referendum that people have to read twice and often still can't figure out. Make your own jobs easier-- most people can understand a referendum that says "Marriage Equality: Y/N." Many people have reported that they ended up accidentally voting the wrong way due to opaque wording. I, for one, would not be surprised to see suits that make the 2000 election look like a church picnic at a UU church in your near future for this sort of childish behavior.

No Love Whatsoever,
The management.

PS To Douchenozzle Bigots: YES you are a bigot. NO, it does not matter if you happen to personally have one and a half gay friends. The moment you think that you should get rights based on the set of genitalia that your partner has VS the set of genitalia your gay friend's partner has, you have become a bigot. Go read a damn dictionary sometime before you start crying about people calling you on your bullshit.

You want people to stop calling you bigots? Stop trying to take away people's civil rights and we'll talk.

Can't resist the (ahem) holiday icon.

I hate having all-day headaches from hormones. Added work drama does not help matters (none of it is particularly poised to suck me in, but I ended up staying late to deal with it because teenagers are stupid, stupid creatures sometimes). And I have meetings all tomorrow morning so heaven knows how all that's going to play out. I also need to do chores around the apartment and start packing (yay for book boxes!). And all my instincts want me to be a slug all weekend since it's my first weekend without class.

I pretty much aced the grad class, btw. I'm beginning to think that the insane writing program I was involved in during undergrad has given me an unfair advantage in grad school. And then I cackle because I rock so hard.

Downside is that grades won't be available on transcripts until December when the regular semester ends, which means reimbursement paperwork will have to wait 'til then. Nuts.

I can say that I am definitely liking the 2003 Astro Boy series. Picked it up on Sunday when I was out with The Girl as a bit of a YAY CLASS IS OVER present to myself. It doesn't come in subtitles, but the voice-acting is about regular American cartoon normal, which means it's not Oscar-winning but the actors didn't phone in their lines in one take like some anime dubs. They picked a really weird one for Dr. Tenma... he reminds me a little of a phone sex operator. XD I've noticed some of the romanizations of the names are different, and the 2003 series lacks some of the really depressing moments of the 1980's version.

Miso has been dubbed adorable by one of The Girl's coworkers.

I am envious of the NaNo participants, but realistically there's no way I can participate this year with moving and packing to do on top of my usual insane workload. I might still get off my butt and write something, though. It's been an age since I actually sat down and wrote stories, and doing a little comment flashfic for glitterbats makes me want to do something cool again. Maybe when this all-day headache goes away.

I'm having fun being a paladin. I'm going to spec her holy and take healing for a spin, since I enjoy being DPS and tanking definitely drives me up a wall. I haven't healed in years, though, and my last healie character was a shadow-specced priest, so this will be interesting. Moose even quit Demon Soul in disgust and rolled on my server on Alliance side and is considering bringing his badass prot warrior over and faction-changing to play with the rest of us gaiz. Hey, his tank will have a healer if I can settle down and play for a while.

( The coffe's not the only thing that's hot! )

Title Ref, since it's too good not to drag out occasionally.

I think I can add Astro Boy to my official list of fandoms (TM).

We did end up seeing the latest movie incarnation last night. It was actually a nice round of fun. I do agree with the other criticisms that Donald Sutherland's performance fell pretty flat, in that adult-trying-too-hard-to-be-relevant-to-kids sort of way, but the other guys were pretty fine, even if that made Dr. Elefun outrageously British. (And I'm sorry, he'll always been Ochanimizu-hakase to me.) When I heard some of the voice acting crit I went in expecting something along the lines of the Escaflowne dub, though, so my expectations might have been lowered.

In all, it did a competent job of following what I have managed to figure out is the basic Astro Boy sort of mythology. (My only other reference is the 1980's Astro Boy, though. I'm actually considering getting the 2003 animated series now too.) It did have an overlay of pretty stock Hollywood Kid Movie Hero's Journey Plot in there, but it still managed to capture that undertone of alienation and trying to fit in that runs through the anime. Parts are, in fact, about as dark as the series itself got, which is kind of a feat in a US kid's movie. (Though between this and Where the Wild Thing Are I'm kind of seeing a revival of unflinching storytelling reminiscent of the kid's movies of the 1980's-1990's before everything suddenly got sanitized.) Heck, they even managed to do the entire backstory on screen which if you know Astro Boy's origin story might raise your eyebrows.

I was even happy since it did manage to feature one of my two favorite characters after all-- Daddy Mustache got about a zillion minor cameos (they decided to translate him as Mustacio-- or however you spell that). Uran wasn't in it, but I didn't expect her to be as she was a later addition to the anime's cast, at least in the 80's Astro Boy.

It is sad, though, that of most of the stuff out right now or that I want to see in the near future, more of it is PG-G level than not. (Though I totes want to see Avatar now.)

Tomorrow I may or may not be seeing the new Astro Boy movie with The Girl. We know going in that it's going to be hella Americanized, and a lot depends on how bushwhacked we both are by the end of the day. It does, however, make a good excuse to show off Uran-chan. Alas, she is not in the new movie. Which is a double-alas since they'd be obligated to give her superpowers too in the Girls Can So Kick Butt Law of the mid-90's

I have also learned today that Miso is a nut for tuna fish, to the point of repeatedly trying to climb into the sink in order to lick the dishes for the PRECIOUS PRECIOUS REMAINS OF TUNA OM NOM NOM.

And holycrap the new layout is full of ALLCAPS.

Materials

3 5oz cans of tuna (15 oz total)
1 12 oz package noodles, cooked
1 can cream of mushroom soup
a bit less than a pint of cream, to moisten
brick of frozen corn
brick of frozen green beans
brick of frozen peas
crapton of grated Parmesan that's been sitting in the fridge
convenient breadcrumbs or panko to coat the top

Process

Combine all ingredients but breadcrumbs in a 9 x 13 pan. Or in a bowl if you're smart, which you will then pour into the pan.

Cover the top with breadcrumbs.

Bake at 325 for 25 min or until happy. (you want the veggies to still have a bit of crunch)

Eat and congratulate yourself. And fight the cat for it.

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I am going to make tuna noodle casserole this week.

I couldn't find any recipes that had the stuff I have on hand, so I'm going to riff off the ones I did find and see where it gets me. Wish me luck.

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Things I have managed to do so far this week:

-- See Where the Wild Things Are and bawl like a baby
-- Catch a case of the lurgy that I'm still not 100% free of... stupid chinese place
-- Start playing WoW again after getting tremendously sick of Aion's lagging and getting intel about some of the grind-tastic mind-numbing grinding in the later levels (hey, I played the free month at least)
-- Start a draenai paladin on a new server, just for kicks (and 'cause pallies aren't the trainwreck warriors still are)
-- Write a decent draft of the paper I have to have for class and send it to my awesome helpful librarian to take a look at it
-- Get the paperwork turned in for ~*~moving~*~
-- Get bus tickets to New York on 12/12 for me and The Girl
-- Order a pretty wreath to support some helpful teenagers and their music program (I've been getting one every year, and the things last from early December pretty well into January, so it's worth it!)

Things I still need to do in the near future:

-- Finish catching up with work since the lurgy put me a little behind
-- Get cash to buy that pie I ordered from those helpful teenagers
-- Clean the apartment for the pre-moving inspection
-- Get more sicky food D:
-- Get another underbed storage box to keep the terrorist cat from climbing into the box spring in the future (he managed to rip a hole in the bottom and I'd rather he not rip another one.. and I can always use more boxes at this point)
-- Get boxes so I can pack AUGH
-- See Astro Boy and hope that it's going to be as cute as the trailer suggests
-- Finish class in two weeks ZOMG FINALLY

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I am attempting a cooking experiment in my crock-pot today while also using the time to do errands and do my best lump impression. I shall probably post something if the cooking bit works out-- from the way it smells now, it will either be awesome or suck terribly. THERE WILL BE NO MIDDLE GROUND.

I'm working through the paperwork for moving in November. I have a pre-move inspection scheduled for the 26th which means I have cleaning to do this week in addition to working on the last bits of stuff for my class, which ends at the end of the month. It's actually kind of exciting to be moving because I want to into a bigger space than I had before.

AND THEN I will hopefully be going to New York on the twelfth of December. Assuming there are spaces still left on the bus.. but with any luck I'll be going on an epic date with The Girl.

I have a feeling it's going to be an insane next few months. But then I'm kind of angling for quiet on the actual holidays and perhaps even staying home for a change with my insane cat.

The weather's been pretty unremittingly cold and rainy lately-- it feels like it did last December, if you want to be honest, so I figured I'd break out some of the Christmas music I have sitting in the computer and give them a listen, since I'm planning on waiting a bit before putting up decorations this year. Here's hoping this set of holidays will be good. :3

I spent today working on a paper and goofing off on Facebook and then selling football tickets to a cold a rainy game. (I'm pretty sure we lost.)

Today has been not too bad of a day off. Though I have to get up early tomorrow and do class. Boo.

I love screwing around on Facebook. I have discovered Farmville and the world will no longer be safe for cows!

Also, pictures of things coming to Flickr eventually. I have to go through them and do some cropping and ask people about wedding pictures and you know the drill.

Oh yeah, I went to a wedding on Sunday. :D katimus_prime and roflcopter_down's wedding to be precise. It was totes awesome. And I bawled like a baby at parts because it was OMGROMANTIC. And I have no idea what sort of wine was in the wedding favor.. help?

I got my hair dyed on Saturday but I can't find a decent non-blurry picture of myself with the new hair. :| I may have to coerce The Girl into taking a few when I see her again. It's purple-red and given the fact that it has universally been proclaimed awesome, I might just have to keep it that way for a while. Just because.

Of course, now I'm back to the rat race because I didn't decide to take vacation today. Blerg for transitioning back to hectic work schedule. I get a yay since I'm off Friday, but I'll likely be spending it on college work so boo anyway. Not to mention the mountain of paperwork from my actual job that I'll need to read through. sigh.

I am trying to talk The Girl into moving in with me in November when I move apartments. Wish me luck. :3

Fall is definitely here. The air is crisp like apples that have been in the fridge for a bit and it's been gloriously windy like it hasn't been in quite a while. The trees are just beginning to turn colors, though none of them have quite managed to put on the firey colors of late autumn just yet. This year I think I'm actually optimistic for snow. Nice romantic dustings of it and a good freezing blizzard that shuts down the schools for a week. I'll take working a little extra in June.

I'm going to move apartments in November. Right around Black Friday so I'll probably be incommunicado for a while. I don't know-- it depends a lot on how smoothly the transfer goes for my phone and DSL service and how smoothly the transfer of my stuff goes. I have all the stuff, so that's not going to be a problem. It's a bit bigger and while I'm expecting to pay a bit more than I do now, it's worth it since I'm gaining quite a bit of square footage and an actual kitchen equipped with a dishwasher.

I haven't had a dishwasher in years and I loathe handwashing dishes with a purple passion. This is a big deal.

I'm not going to get to cook Thanksgiving dinner, obviously. I did order myself an apple pie assembled raw and ready-to-bake by a bunch of teenagers. It's really funny since the majority of the takers for the class that's providing the pies are male. And hot damn those guys can cook. They are a nice bit of extra credit to the gender. Since the pie will keep for a month and I signed up for late October delivery, I plan on eating pie on my last night in the packed-up apartment. Possibly with either ice cream or whipped topping. This is not an unhappy thought since I'm sure I'll end up getting turkey and all anyway with the family, just probably in town rather than up where they live. The local diner puts on a reservation-only Thanksgiving feast, so I think I'll be well taken care of even if it is just me.

Work goes on. I'm having fun with it. A little bushwhacked, but that always happens when I have to deal with a hundred or so essays that I have to read carefully. I'll catch up tomorrow or Friday with the rest and probably just stay late Monday too if it comes to that. I don't have class this weekend, but I do want to devote some time to straightening up and working on the big paper that will be due for my class in a few weeks. Even with the late-phase-class crunch looming, I am glad now I chose an accelerated course. It means I'm free in November to pack and clean for the move!

And since I have managed to come full circle, I shall sign off now.

And don't ask me about NaNo. I'm debating it.

Yatsumi v 2.0 is officially spreading the gospel of her boot up someone's ass. Aion released today, and so I was able to put in my awesome serial code, my digital collector's edition upgrade (suck it, Game Stop), and set up my payments so I don't have to keep mucking about with game cards. Yats is ascended and level 12 and OMG I MISSED BEING ABLE TO PWN THINGS. Gladiators kick ass.

There will probably be screenshots and other sundry images later when I'm done drooling.

Symantec has also generously let people beta test Norton 2010 for free, so I'ma go install that. Booyah.

And then I shall knit!