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Because I have to use this icon every year…

Heh, the LiveJournal banner on top of the page is done up like a ship… I wonder if that’s special for today. On second inspection, the user icons have eyepatches (), so it must be. … It also says “Update Captain’s Log” on the submit button. These guys have way too much time on their hands.

Anyway, stuff is happening. Working, FFXIing, Magicing (Time Spiral Prerelease this weekend, joy!).

My car is getting considerably dirtier because of all the trees in the parking lot here at work or something. What’s kind of funny is that almost every single car in the lot is filthy, so I’m not alone. One of them has “PLEASE C” wiped into the dirt on the back, I’m guessing that’s as far as someone got into “PLEASE CLEAN ME” before they chickened out and ran away. On a similar note, I saw the car with the license plate “WASH ME” again on the way back from work, almost in the same spot.

FFXI is moving along slowly. I haven’t been putting as much time into my chocobo as some other people, and I got started late so I know when to expect certain things. In two days, my chocobo will be ridable! Yay! I’ve got my Paladin up to 71 now, and I decided to take up Woodworking so I have a “real” craft, and eventually useful to repair Lu Shang’s Fishing Rods in the field. Most of the crafts I’ve been doing so far have been break-even or profitable… in theory, if they ever sell on the AH. I got undercut on Uchitake by 1,000, and I still have 5 bundles to sell. I think I’ll hold off listing the last few so that the number listed doesn’t go too high, encouraging people to undercut even further. Of course, the last few times I’ve been spending crafting have been cutting into my fishing time, so that’s sort of counter productive…

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Before I forget…

I keep hearing a promo on Alice 97.3 for their morning show. It starts of with someone saying “Karaoke!” and then the two deejays singing a horrible rendition of a song.

Now, here’s the part that only a few people will find hilarious: The song is “Girls on Film.”

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I was suddenly reminded of an entry I was thinking of making but never did.

I went to Michael’s the other day for a… project… (which I took a picture of but haven’t put online yet, and I don’t want to ruin the surprise. Some of you have seen it) and I saw something that made me a bit sick to my stomach. They sell self-contained, customizable mission kits now.

For those of you who didn’t go to public school in California, every student in the fifth grade (I think it’s fifth) has to make a model of one of the missions. I made mine out of sugar cubes and glue, other people used cardboard. Now all the kid has to do is buy one of these kits (they have different kits for different missions, of course), and they just assemble it with glue or whatever.

This doesn’t seem fair.

The other thing is, right next to Michael’s is the new Popeye’s that finally opened up near my house. The odd thing is that it shares a storefront with and has a connecting door to a pearl tea shop. Only in California can you buy a po’boy at the same place as boba.

The third thing that was mentally attached to this stuff was, on the way back from Michael’s I saw a sign for a real estate agent whose very appropriate last name was “Villanueva.”

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Duck?

Evidently, the picture of Mike Wright’s duck that’s in one of my picture galleries is being used all over the internet by various people. Only since I switched webhosts was I able actually check referers to see where it is. It’s a bunch of forums people using it as their avatar, people putting it in their profiles.

Because, you have to admit, it is an awfully good picture of a duck.

This opens up all sorts of possibilities for image replacement.

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How odd….

Just yesterday I had a very random thought pop into my head about high school. It was then followed by the thought that whenever I have a random thought pop into my head about high school, something happens regarding high school. I completely forgot until just now when I got a phone call from a high school friend whom I haven’t seen since graduation day, who’s now going to law school at Berkeley.

Also, today we were having a conversation about Classmates.com at work today, which I started for whatever subliminal reason.

If I’m going to be psychic, why can’t I channel lotto numbers?

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And I would care…. why?

The following news article title is currently sitting on My Yahoo…

“Elton John Says He Finds Women Attractive Too”

And this is newsworthy? With all that’s going on in the world right now, someone actually wrote this story.

Man…

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Gasoline!

I realized yesterday that the gas gauge on my car was only at half a tank, but then thought back to when I actually bought gas last. It was two weeks ago. At this rate, a tank of gas is going to last me a month.

It’s amazing what not having to drive to Oakland once or twice a week does to save on time and money.

Of course, now that I’m using so little gas, prices have dropped $.40 from the last time I checked.

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$300

So I got my $300 Tax Relief check today. Yay.

Sorry, Dubya, the bribe didn’t work, I still won’t vote for you in three years. Thanks for the DVDs, though.

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We’re goin’ hostile!

Luke now has a matching pair of Ken’s ears.

Oh, I’m talking about Diablo II, of course.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you wouldn’t find it funny anyway.

But anyway. I’ve finally gotten everything network related mostly working in the office. Only a little hiccup with the win2k machines not being able to see the linux machine. Hope it works.

I will then no longer have any more reason to rant on LJ about my computer problems. Yes, I know you’re all sad, but you’re going to have to deal with the loss.