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| 06:25pm 16/07/2009 |
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See the madness!
Live video feed of the dealer room:
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| 08:20am 15/07/2009 |
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Working overnight went really quickly...I've given thought off and on to just switching to overnight period, since you don't have to deal with anybody other then who you're working with. What I was doing was really tedious though...doing a new floor plan. It doesn't help of course that the planogram doesn't match our floor (we're missing entire rows) and half the stuff we have isn't even ON it so you just have to kind of squish it in. I'm wide awake now though, and kind of need to sleep. Well after I pack for Otakon, anyway.
My Otakon celebration and time I take off I swear gets longer all the time, for something that actually really only officially lasts 2 and a half days. Thursday is kind of an unofficial day...most everybody is arriving Thursday so it's already a kind of party atmosphere and you can pick up your registration stuff, so we always get there that day. We decided several years back that staying on Sunday was very much to our advantage, since hotel check out time is noon and it's a pain trying to find places to stash your stuff plus everybody ELSE in the hotel is clearing out making it impossible to use the elevator. So leaving from Baltimore Monday I'm still exhausted because we don't really sleep Sunday night, trying to get the last hours in since most of them I won't see again till next Otakon. The ONE year I decided to work that Tuesday I ended up going home early because I just felt like I'd been hit by a bus. Otakon takes seriously like a full day of just laying in bed recouping for me. Now this year Blues is gonna spend tonight with me, so I took time off for that as well. lol. |
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| 09:00pm 14/07/2009 |
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mood:  amused
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ROBO OBAMA...ROBAMA!
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| 08:16pm 14/07/2009 |
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One of the most fascinating things on Twitter is the trending topics. It's cool to see what other people are talking about the most...and also proves just how short an attention span the population has on a whole (except for Michael Jackson, for some reason). Interestingly, the Iran election has gone in and out, and when it went out, people just start tagging random stuff with it, several of them openly admitting that they're only tagging it with Iran Election because they feel it needs to stay a trending topic....not because they actually care about it or have anything to say about it..just that they feel they SHOULD. And that says a lot, I think.
I've also come to realize that I'm somewhat in the minority in Twittering even remotely coherently. |
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| 04:40am 14/07/2009 |
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I feel really old now, seeing a banner ad Youtube that they're up to Now That's What I Call Music 31. I remember getting the very first one, because it was 'holy crap all my favorite songs on one cd'. Looking at that cd now, they're all embarrassing to even admit to EVER liking. I looked at this one's track list and only recognized a handful of the songs. ;_; |
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| 01:37am 14/07/2009 |
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It's really no wonder I don't have anything even remotely resembling a normal sleep schedule. Saturday I opened at the store, Sunday I closed at the store, was off today, then tomorrow I'm working 10pm to 6:30am.
My plan is to pretty much stay up all night tonight so I can sleep most of tomorrow during the day...and even though I routinely stay up all night, it figures tonight would be the night I'm tired.
Then Wednesday night Blues is flying in so he can spend the night at my house and head off with me and Ben to Otakon in Baltimore. Otakon utterly snuck up on me....if feels so far away for so long then bam, there it is.
I'm hoping Otakon cheers me up, I've been very, very down lately. It's paid vacation for me, which always nice to know that I'll be getting paid to play video games and such. |
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| 06:39pm 13/07/2009 |
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Beeeeees...
*edit*
I wanted to add this one in here too...as apparently the answer to world peace, poverty, and evolution is honey.
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| 06:30pm 13/07/2009 |
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The original instruction book for Super Mario says Bowser turned the mushroom people into blocks. You have to destroy the blocks to get the coins. 100 coins get you an extra life, but really it's by harvesting the souls of the Toads. Also makes me wonder about the Mushroom Kingdom's economy. |
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| 07:45pm 10/07/2009 |
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This is what's going on like two streets over from me. I got stuck at work for hours because I couldn't go home due to my neighborhood being in complete lockdown...and the person that was supposed to come in couldn't because her house actually got evacuated. I could have left but like, what would have been the point? I had nowhere to go, really, and got paid if I stayed.
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| 10:43pm 08/07/2009 |
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I think, just maybe, we've reconciled. |
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| 02:50am 08/07/2009 |
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Only the cheese knows what's really going on and realizes the true horror of his fate.
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| 02:04am 08/07/2009 |
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Warehouse 13 kinda reminded me of Torchwood....only not as witty and clever. It was just the pilot but it left me with the overall feeling of "meh". The main characters are troupe-a-licious....the free wheeling go with your gut rules be damned guy teamed up with the uptight strictly by the book girl. I also have a particular annoyance with shows that get museums in DC wrong.
Also my fish tank sprung a leak today, soaking everything nearby. Fish are ok though and seem to be enjoying their new home that I had to rush out to buy.
Oh...I realized I didn't post anything about my July 4th. It was a bit blah, since I had to work. It was super busy early on and then completely dead by the end. Jeremy and I live close enough to walk to where the town sets off fireworks, so we did, feeling a bit like we were part of a migration. I wore a lot of glow bracelets. The band they had...was possibly the absolute worst band I have ever heard in my entire life. Fireworks were good though. And I probably shouldn't use walking a fair distance as the means to find out if a pair of shoes are good walking shoes. |
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| 10:17pm 07/07/2009 |
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I think it's interesting that one of the trending topics on Twitter is SciFi channel's name change to the incredibly stupid SyFy. It's also endlessly amusing that the reaction has been, as far as I can tell, 100% negative as being compared to New Coke. It really is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. I remember when Ben and I first saw a bumper ad saying it was happening we laughed and laughed. Even my mom, who saw the new logo earlier today while dad was watching Stargate had a reaction of "what the hell?" and thought it was ridiculously stupid.
They say they aren't gonna change the programing, but I'll believe that when I see it. G4 said the same thing when they merged with TechTv and it was a matter of like, months, before it was a completely different channel. Actually now, there's very little of what either channel was originally about. It's just become another brain cell killing throw away pop culture channel with completely interchangeable programming. I mean, I can even remember when TLC stood for "The Learning Channel", and didn't play endless shows about people who should learn to close their legs and stop over populating the Earth.
Course I ALSO remember when TNN was "The Nashville Network" and redneck programing, then turned into a kinda generic station, THEN transitioned into Spike TV...which words fail me to describe THAT channel.
It's fun to imagine the executive meeting this name change must have taken place at though...I pretty much imagine them to be exactly like the network execs they show on The Simpsons. |
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| 03:53pm 07/07/2009 |
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As overblown, over the top, and kind of ridiculous as I thought Michael Jackson's Memorial Service was, when his daughter talked at the end, it was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. It made me cry.
I've felt the most sorry for those kids through all of this...even just sitting through that had to be unbelievably hard.
Though, MJ tried so hard to keep them hiden. I never thought it strange...I understood that he didn't want their faces plastered everywhere and in all kinds of tabloids...so I don't think he'd be too happy to know that they're so public now. |
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| 02:16pm 07/07/2009 |
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The bowling alley here in Leesburg had this Osama Bin Laden modified Galaga. Holy crap, talk about not being pc at all....but very fitting to the "regulars" clientele of that place. I need to make another visit to the bowling place in DC that serves champagne. lol.
(I stole this picture from Ben because the one I took on my phone wasn't nearly as good)
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| 02:46pm 06/07/2009 |
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mood:  crushed
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After the beginnings of being pieced back together, my heart is broken even worse then before. |
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| 04:19am 03/07/2009 |
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I usually try to not read Youtube comments, particularly comments on videos with a lot of views, since they tend to either just make me angry or weep for humanity/the future.
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| 09:23pm 30/06/2009 |
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Man I'd COMPLETELY forgotten about Michael Jackson being in Space Channel 5.
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oh wel, at least he's dead!!!! :):):):):):):)
Kinda makes me wanna break stuff.