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I should be strong today. I should get stuff done, not spend the entire day in Skyrim. I should....
I have slayed dragons! I snuck up on a dragon!

I am a terrible hero. And compulsive collector of anything that isn't nailed to the floor (and believe me, I've tried to get those as well).

I have part of a post for this that I need to flog myself to finish and post because it's kinda funny (mostly at me).

My first inclination in almost any game like this is to raise my carrying capacity. Even before damage or armor. Why? So I can carry more stuffses! More stuffs is more monehs! And more flowers. More bowls, pots, armor, lanterns, emblaming tools, pickaxes, linen wrappings, ruined books and barnacles! I HAZ STUFFSES!

Dammit. I told myself yesterday that if I played then, I'd have to be productive today. But my will is weak... And the urge to avoid life is strong. And, and, and... there are internet dragons to slay. Because apparently one cannot play single player games without a mandatory internet connection anymore. Which is an angry, frothing, fist-waving rant for another time.

Perhaps I shall stare at animals I cannot afford atm. Soon animals. Soon you will be mine.

Music

Don't Stare at the Sun by Cicada

Save Me by Nicki Minaj* is half good and half... meh.

Shattered by Trading Yesterday is heart breakingly beautiful from lyrics to composition.

Ah melancholy music, where would I be without you?

First impression of Skyrim coming. Haven't played much yet. While it is a fucking gorgeous game, I've all ready run into bugs. Really guys? Four hours into the game doing pretty normal shit and I'm all ready having to deal with bug for which the only cure is to completely uninstall and then reinstall the game? Indeed...

*What? Don't judge me. I saw those Britney Spears songs you've got hidden there. Yea... That's what I thought.

Trying Something New

Waaaay back, I cut myself off video games completely because they were becoming an atrociously inexcusable time sink from which I could not pull myself away.

I have decided to try something a little different. I'm only allowed to play video games on my "free day" (the day I have no obligations*), but only if I get certain other things done during the week. How many of those things I get done determines how many hours I get to park my ass in front of the computer and zone out in video game bliss. My god I must be terribly boring. Too bad!

To that end, I shall be purchasing the much hyped Skyrim (assuming I can find a copy in this tiny ass, fucking, shit town) for to be whiling my time away in. I will almost, probably be purchasing either the Star Wars or Guild Wars 2 MMO when they come out. Not sure which yet.

I feel like I've let you all down again. So little funny gets posted here again as of late. I am sorry for that. I just really haven't been in a very funny mood lately.

*Unless I get a dog of course who will still need to relieve on a regular basis. Unless I can somehow train my dog to hold its needs for exercise and bowel relievement** for an entire day. And if I could do that, FUCK CESAR! I would be Queen, queen I tell you, of doggies everywhere!MUHAHAHAHAHA!

**Naturally spellchecker hates the word relievement. I'm a writer spellchecker, we make shit up. Deal. One of these days spellchecker and I are going to don gloves and step into the ring and it will be on! Now, I'm not a bettin' man, but if I were, my money'd be on me. Spellchecker is very concerned with rules and propriety and doing things right. Meanwhile, I'll be sweeping dirt into spellchecker's eyes and punching it in the junk. "Spellchecker doesn't have junk" "Punch it there anyways!" *This is the sound of spellchecker being punched in the junk. Imagine as you will* "Spellchecker has junk!"

Two upcoming MMOs have caught my attention. Star Wars: Old Republic and Guild Wars 2 (which is somewhat amusing because I couldn't stand the first GW).

Both look interesting. Guild Wars 2 looks visually stunning. Both have aspects that sound interesting to me and both keep their pvp largely separate from their pve, a must because I am not an MMO-pvp fan in the slightest.

Alas, the release date for SWTOR is Dec 20. GW 2 just says "sometime in 2011"... which, is coming to an end pretty quickly here guys!

Not that I have time to play something so involved as an MMO.... only it's been so very long since I had one I enjoyed and I should quite like to, maybe, one day, schedule permitting, play again. :(

But until I learn me some "all things in moderation, including video games" I'ma probably stay away from both. Boooo.

I watched a couple of episodes of that new show Once Upon A Time... yea. Really basic plot holes drive me nuts, especially when they're blatantly ignored because having people take the next logical fucking step that anyone in their place would, would pretty much end the story dead in its tracks. To that I say; so don't ignore it, either find a way to effectively neutralize it as an option, or find a way to have said next logical step happen, and still keep the story going. Part of our jobs as writers. That's not an easy answer but hey, you're the one who decided to write the story that way and this shit comes with the territory. Unless you're a big name I guess? In which case you can ignore it after all?

The thorn in question being the fact that early on, Henry's mother very clearly lays out how the law works for closed case adoptions and lack of rights on the birth mothers side to go digging that up again later (when she's the one who requested it be closed to begin with). So the fact that Emma's now hanging around Henry against his adoptive mother's wishes is pretty cut and dried. You call the cops, ask for a restraining order, press charges based on the evidence of her continuously hanging around your son and whatever else.

The cops come and say "ma'am, I'm afraid you have to leave" and escort her away! But then she couldn't stick around and we'd have no plot and no tv show...

Of course, it is television and I don't know if television show writers have more or less say than they do in movies (which is to say, none in movies). If less or the same, then there's a reasonable chance the omission wasn't the writer's fault. Annnd I'm bored with this topic!

Time to go sleep!

I Am A Wild Party

Ladies and gentlemen, I am done for the semester! Boo Ya!

Time to slide into a hedonistic debauchery of video games and, ah, writing. Yes. I am just that exciting.