Yeah well. My video card sucks. I got the game, installed it, and apparently it doesnt care if the CD is in or not. Butttt it doesn't matter because the first thing it says as I load the game up is: Your video card does not support Pixel Shader 1.1 . I spent a lot less time getting this than the Sims 2, but man. I thought I'd have a new game for a long time... Stupid game. I think I'll keep it on my computer though, theres a chance I'll get a video card that doesn't suck for christmas. I mean, I got this one for christmas last year, prices have dropped, maybe I'll get a GeForce 5 Ti or something. I WANT A Ti! *sob* Oh well. It seems nothing's going my way. I went to Best Buy today, because they advertised a 160 gb hd for 30$ after rebates, and I had to go. Thats an offer nobody can refuse. I get there and it's aleady sold out. Stupid Best Buy. Whatever.

I guess one thing is going my way though. I've recieved no news that the LAN party is not going to be held, which is a good thing. And, Ryu's keeping up with the constant stream of Naruto coming my way. It's really starting to pick up, I just wish somebody would fricking die. They say that Sasuke-kun is dead, but I doubt it because he's like, the second main character, and he's still in the opening movie beating up some gang or another that they haven't done yet. So obviously he isn't dead. And Naruto still isn't kicking major ass yet. Most of it has been plotline, which is cool. It has a nice plotline. I just wish they'd get through the battles faster. They usually take some 4 or so episodes to finish. This last one that I'm at has already been going for four and it only might end on the fifth. There are only a few things I don't like about the Naruto series: 1) they spend three minutes of every episode at the beginning reminding everybody what happened last week. They could easily do that in one during the opening movie instead. 2) Nobody EVER dies. Ever. 3) Naruto still hasn't started to kick royal ass, even though he's got some Demon Fox stuff or something in him. He's getting there though... This is at episode 17.

And I think I'm done with this. I actually celebrated Thanksgiving today, and it was nice. Too much food though. Always too much food. Just had some pumpkin pie. So good... But so full... >.> Only 29 days to Christmas, oh boy ^_^

Adion is currently listening to: Arch Enemy - Snow Bound [1:32]

Well, I've delayed posting for a while... Not much has really happened. I Bit the bullet and redownloaded RO. Ryu's been begging me for so long... And theres that whole free until the 30th thing going on. Anyway, they reactivated my original account, but the one I made recently isn't. Don't really know why, but it's still pretty cool. It sucks being a lvl 61/23 wizard on iRO with no equipment or money though. I can kill stuff, but I'm nowhere near as effecient as I used to be. Oh well. And I'm being taxed, even though the guild is dead and the leader is gone. Yeah, the guild is still there. Pretty crazy. So I'll probably ditch it. It's a shame, but oh well. Actually I probably won't play on Loki. I've got two novices on Chaos, Adion & Spectar, the two names I used to use. I made them a long time ago so that if I ever went back no fool would take my name. Spectar is going to be a swordie, Adion is my mage to be. As always. So much has changed since then though, my 61/23 wiz isn't as good as he could have been. I maxed out SP regen when now, they pumped the natural SP regen a lot so it's practically pointless. Oh well. And theres five character slots. I can make my acolyte again... Only, now there's nobody who wants to buy warps. That's mostly because everybody's rich and doesn't mind spending a few grand to go somewhere and don't need a discount fare of 1k.

Of course, Jordan's also been sending me episodes of the anime Naruto. It's very good. I'm at number thirteen, and they have a bad habit of ending the episode at a point where you want to watch the next episode to see what happens. Good stuff though. There is supposed to be a LAN party on Saturday, from 9 AM to 9 PM, and I should be able to go. Hopefully this time, nobody does anything stupid to cancel it. Like, get sick. So I'm looking forward to that. Also, there is supposed to be a SWRPG session on Sunday, but that's iffy. I've not gotten any message from the DM if we're going to go through with it, and if we are I should probably start doing my homework. Stupid school assigns homework over Thanksgiving... *shakes fist*

I finished downloading the Sims 2 a while ago, managed to discover how to install the thing, and then it wouldn't load the game. Some error like, "please insert the correct CD", even though I had. Thats the second time I've had a problem with burning games, maybe they're finally getting to the point where it takes some better burning software to get around that. Which is odd because I used Alcohol 120%, which is supposedly the best stuff out there for the most part. Oh well. I burned the CD's and then uninstalled and deleted it. That opened up a few gigs... So, I'm now downloading Deux Ex. I heard it was good, and a lot like System Shock 2, which was fantastic. That game rules. So yeah. I guess I'll see how that goes.

We're celebrating Thanksgiving tommorrow, for some reason that is beyond me. All the family is home (brother drove home, sister took the train), so it doesn't seem logical to wait a day. But whatever. Thats pretty much everything that I can think of thats going on. Cya all later... And good luck, Becky, with the computer ;_;

Adion is currently listening to: Opeth - The Amen Corner [8:43]

Well, I originally planned to be in bed by this time...

It was about 11:50 when I realized I had been playing Max Payne for a good portion of the evening and should probably get to bed. So, I quit out, nothing special. Besides the cool exit question that I think changes depending on how far the latest save in the game is. Nifty eh?

I drop out of that, check my friends list, and then WHAM, it hits me. I haven't started my homework. Greeaaattt. Luckily, I only have to write ten sentences. If only my blog counted... I've easily written 30 by now. Don't make me count. I'm too tired to count. Yeah yesterday I got a total of five and a half hours of sleep 'cause it was two before I finally went off to sleep. Doh. I think this constitutes a good enough blog for the day...

Early to Rise

Adion is currently listening to: Freezel - Elevations Episode 40 (10/26/04) [362:20]

Well, my weekend was a lot less awesome than I thought it would be. SWRPG was canceled because Mark's mom found one of his old tests and saw he failed it, flipped out, and he couldn't do anything. The LAN party was canceled because the host got pink eye. In place of that though, I spent the night at a friends house and we played the campaign coop style for pretty much the whole night. On the second to last level, and it's not looking good. Playing as the covenant isn't any worse than playing as the humans. He says he hates those levels, but they're not bad. Plus, on one of them you spawn with the energy sword which is ueber.

Past that not much happened. I started downloading the Sims 2, and I certainly hope it splits into parts so I can burn it to CD. Because if it doesn't, I don't have space to unrar/zip and install it. I'll be down to about 100 mb on this dir after it's finished downloading, and my games dir only has a gig and a half open. The download alone is 2.4 gigs, unzipped it'll be even larger. I don't think I have space on that directory. *Just checked* It's split into four parts, one for each CD. Thank god I'm not downloading the DVD edition, because that would suck.

On a completely random sidenote, I've been eating a lot of my halloween candy recently. I probably ate like, a quarter pound of sugar today alone. I know I'm asking for a massive headache soon... It's going to suck. And my tounge feels weird. But meh. Candy is so gooddd.... I haven't had ice cream in a while, I used to eat that when I got home from school and at night, but now I'm eating EasyMac when I get home from school, and not eating anything for my late night snack. I guess that's better for me, but I wasn't really worried about gaining weight 'cause I have a pretty high metabolism. Mmm... Thank god for metabolism. Otherwise I'd be so huge; like a three hundred pound monster. I'd probably make weird growling noises too, if somebody got close to me that didn't look tasty. Heh, three hundred pound cannabalistic monster. Freaky. Hmm. Yeah dad just came in and totally threw me out of my groove...

Adion is currently listening to: YES - Tempus Fugit [5:15]

Well, today is the first session for SWRPG in a long time. So, in approximately 10 minutes, I'm going to call Mark and ask if he can take me to Clayton's, since he passes by me anyway, and he's cool like that. I heard from somebody else who was invited but couldn't go that Mark might not be able to go at all, so I guess that will be cleared up right then and there. If he can't go though, then there is no purpose to going to Clayton's house, seeing as no Mark = no SWRPG. We'd probably end up just sitting around Clay's house doing nothing.

Oh, before I forget, I need to get an envelope for English...

OK back. I just recieved word that there will be on LAN party on saturday, the host has gotten sick for the third time in a row this week. Come to think of it, if he's getting that sick, I don't want to be near his house. It's probably some germ magnet or something. Yeah, he started with the flu, then got a sinus infection, and now has pink eye. I don't know where the hell he's getting all these sicknesses from either, he sits at home all day. Anyway, sucks to be him.

Just called Mark, he isn't at his house... Time to call his cell. And it's off. Interesting. I am now completely clueless. LAN party canceled, as I should have expected, everything I get excited for gets canceled. Which would mean that SWRPG today is canceled too. Damn.

Adion is currently listening to: Freezel - Elevations Episode 40 (10/26/04) [362:20]
Only 46 minutes to go...

Well, all was going great with this new XP thing goin on, for two and a half days. And then, being the genious that I am, I try to get winamp to display the visual stuff fullscreen so I don't burn a picture of my desktop to the monitor while I'm doing homework, and then my computer reboots. It didn't even give me a warning, BSOD, or anything. So now I'm apprehensive of using the feature. It's nice too... I can get normal sized visualizations, but I don't want to risk doing fullscreen agian for a while at least. Also, it fucked up AIM and Winamp when it did finally reboot. My AIM lost all data, except for my profile (thank god) and my friends list. I loaded my buddy list, which should have fixed it all for the most part, and nothing changed... So I quit out of AIM and restarted the program. It fixed itself then, or something. DeadAIM started working, my text was the right color, it didn't make annoying noises when somebody logged on/off. Happy days. But right after I fixed that, I loaded Winamp only to hit the play button (what else is it for?). Anddd it popped up a message saying that the audio device was already in use. So, I tried hitting play again, same message. Looked at my screen funny for a bit, and decided to change output devices in the preferences of Winamp. Voila, problem solved. Only now I don't have cool audio fading :( .

I had been using BitTornado on Win98SE for a while, and because my dad has a port blocked on the router, I can't go very fast because it's a pretty important port for it. Anyway, once I installed BitTornado & opened up a torrent file I have saved, I noticed that my download speed had improved from 1~3 kbps, to 10ish on average. I'm not quite sure what happened to make this happen, so either a)XP's networking proticals are far superior to 98SE's (which they probably are), or b) I found me a nice host. I finished the download today (500 mb >.<), and its pretty good. 362 minutes of progressive trance ^_^ It's sooooo longggggg.... The best part is, the RIAA can blow me 'cause it's a legal file ^_^ Mmm... I love ETS-Global ^_^.

Adion is currently listening to: Freezel - Elevations Episode 40 (10/26/04) [362:20]

Well, my computer is now up and running Windows XP Pro. Only, I don't know if I like it enough. Whenever I scroll, it goes super slow. And the fucking thing won't let me uninstall some Windows Messenger that I really want to get rid of. So, yeah. If it bothers me enough, I just might go back to my old school Win 98SE. And, since my registry is gone anyway (its backed up though >.>), I won't have crashy crashy every time I try to shut down. Stupid computers.

Adion is currently installing WinAmp.

Um... Also, I lost all of my bookmarks. So, comics that I don't have on the side of me blog here? Gone. Oh well, probably didn't read them anyway.

Ok, I thought I'd post real quick-a-like here... I'm installing WinXP in like, 5 minutes. Right after I finish this blog. So... That'll be why I'm not going to be on tonight. It might take me into tommorrow to fix, so I might not be up and running solidly until tommorrow, and I think I'm going to reinstall all of my games... Which means, I have to reinstall/repatch FFXI. Oh boy. That's getting done overnight, let me tell you. It's a... what, hour install? And then right after that is a 10 hour patch. Oh boy. Mmm... Might not take as long as I thought... Who knows.

Adion is currently listening to: Armin Van Buuren - Live at Sublime Sydney (1/23/04)

Well the day went by kind of slow. In gym we got permission slips to go to Vertical Endevors, which is a climbing facility off like, 30 minutes away. So that's going to be fun. Uhm... An old friend of mine from back in my StarCraft days apparently tracked me down and found my SN somehow. I have no idea how in hell he did it, that'll be a question for later days. Of course I haven't really hidden my SN, but I don't allow people who know my email to find my SN on AIM... and AIM doesn't know my email anyway. So yeah, it's pretty crazy that he found me.

I was informed of this great flash movie earlier today by none other than Clayton. So yeah, it's funny as all hell, assuming you've read To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Yeah, very funny.

Played a lot more Warcraft 3 CS, mostly because I logged onto FFXI, and then Jordan told me he wasn't going to play at all today, so I decided why should I play alone? Yeah, and I also died in a few minutes because I got link mobbed by a few Crawlers. And the EXP would have been great if those bastards didn't link... Damn.

Not else much for me to say... I talked with an admin for the W3 server I sent "gahhhhh" to, and he said he hadn't checked his email out yet... So it might take a while for him to look at it. Oh well. I'm pretty much just not doing my homework when I should be... I have to write a rough draft letter thing for English for wednesday, and I have to write to a hero/really cool person and ask them what books influenced them in a business letter format, and if they respond I get extra credit. Anyway, I wanted to write to Michael Stackpole, one of the many authors of the Battletech series I so throughly enjoy, when it came to my attention (after looking all over the internet) that he is not accepting emails/letters because they take too much time to read all of. In conclusion, I'm screwed.

Adion is currently listening to: Airbase - Session 6 (6/09/04) [121:45]

I'm a bad person. I told Jordan yesterday that I'd spend all of today playing FFXI with him, and I would have too probably, if I wasn't so engrossed in this WarCraft III CounterStrike server. I even petitioned to get "gahhhhh" (my favorite CS map that nobody has) in the rotation, so we'll see how that goes. An admin already emailed me for the files, and I sent him one back with them, so I guess if he likes it then it'll go in. If not, then I guess I uploaded 7 megabytes for nothing.

I think whats keeping me from actually playing FFXI a lot with him is that I've gotten bored with the level I'm at. Now that I know I've done this, theres nothing for me to explore at my level. I've already done what I can do, and I really wish I had paid for my account back when it mattered. I really miss my old Kaelos... Level 21 BLM/8 WHM goodness... *sigh*. I guess I'm kinda a hypocrite there too, because I said that in deleteing Kaelos I lost all reason to come back, signifying that I wouldn't, but here I am. 13 days into a subscription to a game I don't play that much anymore. And in times like these, where I've been told it might not snow that much this year, and I have no job/income besides shoveling, I might not have much in the way of cash to upgrade my computer with another 80 Gig harddrive, a respectable video card, and a sizeable jump in CPU Ghz, aka at least one. Mmm... 2.8 Ghz AMD Athlon XP... Good stuff. Whats most important to me right now is getting that harddrive. Damn it all I ran through 25 ish gigs in about... 6 months. And now that I have a few programs that are much more efficient than before, and BitTorrent will soon be a common use for me when I get to college, I predict the next 80 gigs to go in about a year. At best.

I'm becoming something I kinda wish I wasn't. I remember back when I spent all my time just surfing the internet, and now I spend all my time wishing I had more time to play games. And I lie to people (aka how I lied to Jordan just last night) that I care about. Ugh. Life sucks. We had a Challenge Ed (gym!) journal to write today, and it just so happened to be about what I dream about for the future and "what do i want from life". Best question ever, I have no idea. I've been thinking about it a lot since Friday, and I realized exactly what I just said. I have no idea what I really want from life. I know what I want to do, but hell, thats not at all the same. My dreams: go CPL and kick ass on CS. But haha, that ain't gonna happen unless I get some cybernetic implants/gene therapy or something else incredibly radical... But what do I want from life? A wife, some kids, but that's really all I can think of. Is it wrong to be so shortsighted? I spent most of my high school career wondering if I really ought to go into Computer Science, and I thought I had finally decided I really want to do it. But this question... It's gotten to me. Bugs me. Not to mention the fact that I recently finished reading "Tuesdays with Morrie", a book about doing the important things in life. Aka, not a job, but pay attention to family. In truth though, I mostly hate my family. They're all annoying, my brothers a prick, my mom constantly bitches about stupid shit, my dad keeps just doing stupid shit to piss me off (whether by accident or on purpose, I'll leave you to decide). My sister is the only tolerable one, she actually doesn't bother me when I'm doing things, and at times she'll even make my day go by faster when I'm bored (which isn't all that often nowadays) by playing board games with me. Anyways, off of that...

Mark recently decided we were going to bring back SWRPG to our little group. So, we're probably going to have a session of that soon. There's been little talk about it, and it seems to be a small group size, only 5 total (including the DM, or GM as it's called in SWRPG), all of who will probably be Jedi's. I believe I'm the only one who will actually contribute some fun values to the group, as I'm the only noncombat oriented member in the group, being a Jedi Counselor. So, I'm sure the party will be driven in the direction of "shoot first ask questions later", and I'll be the only person being all like, "Hey, can't we work things out?". It all depends, a session can easily go in a completely random direction, even with tons of guidance and direction from the GM. Thats one of the beauty's of any D&D game, they're so open ended. You could, potentionally, walk up to a random person and just tie them up and make them be your slave. Or you could put them on a giant catapult you built the last few weeks and just launch them for no reason. Less violently, you could make friends with a bartender and eventually get information free from him. Anythings possible. Some things are much less likely, like, you killing a royal member of some family or another, taking down high leveled monsters by yourself at level one... Yah. And so concludes another boring session of Adion's life...

Adion is currently listening to: The Global DJ Broadcast

Well, Jerry said that he was going to call me today so I could go over to his house and play the co-op campaign of Halo 2 with him, because we started it at the little group party kinda thing the other day (Wednesday?), and we've finished a level. It's taking a bit of time to get used to, because now there's no health bar, and I turned up the sensitivity of the joystick so I can turn faster, so my aim is a bit off and that sort of thing. Not to mention they changed all the weapons, so to me, the best weapon is dual wielded plasma rifles, which are very cool. I think they're called plasma rifles... Whatever. They fire fast as all hell, and they do a shitload of damage. Limited ammo, but meh. Good stuff. If I get my hands on an energy sword... Oh boy. A friend of mine already beat it by himself, and he says later you have to play as the covenant, which seems to be nifty, but he says he hates that part. Dunno.

Off of Halo 2, I did update my Xanga the other day, as a reminder for those of you who read this and haven't read my new post. I think it's pushing the story somewhere, much faster than before at least. Ryu kept bitching that my story sucked 'cause nothing happened, so I made at least some stuff happen. Also, if you still think so, keep in mind that this is only page three. As in, if I was to print this out on normal paper, it would be three pages. Maybe 4 or 5 on book sized paper. When was the last time you read a book that had some huge ass thing happen at the first page? Most books start with a sort of "exposition" where the characters are explained, and then they go into the plot. Which is where mine is going right now. I sort of explained that it's present day, and that we have only one main character, with the possibility that this new one becomes a major one. Also, I established that the story is going to a futuristic era, or something like that because of the laser weapon thingy. Right. You should have been able to put that together on your own, I mostly just said the simple, obvious stuff.

I just finished beating Jedi Knight Jedi Academy for both the light side and the dark. There's different endings, but neither of which are truely impressive. The light side is just like, stuff stopped, all is cool. The dark side ending is all like, "Oh no, Jaden escaped!" and then you're on a star destroyer flying away smiling. Not even an evil laugh. So upsetting. I'm thinking about rebeating the game with skills that I like or think will be better than the ones I chose. I don't like Mind Trick at all, it's not really worthwhile, because it only works on the peons of a level, and costs too much force points for what it's worth. I don't like Drain either, because it costs a shitload of force points and you get like, 25 health out of it. And it leaves you defenseless. Bad stuff. Dum de dum... Ok I'm off to eat some food. I might not bother updating every day now... It's kinda become a chore. But I so want to see my profile say that I post an average of 7 times a week. Even though I missed a huge period at the beginning because I didn't think I'd end up actually telling anybody I had a blog. I know what it's like though kinda. I know when I come home, one of my first thoughts is, "Wonder if Rae posted a new blog/LJ entry..." and then I go and check. And then I check my email to see if anybody posted a comment to my blog. And then I go read my webcomic links. Anyway, I'm off. ^_^

Adion is currrently listening to: Airbase - Session 2 (4/28/04) [117:48]

Wellll, let's start off with some cool news. I finally updated my Xanga. I didn't really realize it until now, but I kinda changed writing styles. My first style was a result of reading Marvelous Bob, by Michael Buonauro, now deceased (suicide...). Also, his webpage only shows the first chapter, the rest of which have been taken offline so they can eventually publish it in his name. Twas a good story. Wish the guy didn't commit suicide, he was a really great writer. Funny too, I have a movie of him with lego hat on his pointer finger and acting like a space explorer gone mad. It's funny. Really. Wow. Now I'm sad.

In gym we finished the belay activity and now we're climbing vertically ^_^. I had to belay today, as I was already set up with a harness and stuff, and we only had enough time to get one person up, so maybe tommorrow I'll get to see the gym from a whole new perspective. We finished our program in computer science today, I stayed after for about ten minutes getting the damn thing to actually work. Twas difficult, but with Mr. C's help, I finished. After school I stayed for German club, where we ate Tootsie Rolls and discussed selling Advent Calenders. Advent Calenders are little calenders that have a flap for each day, with a piece of chocolate inside them, all the way up until the 24th. Anyways, I've got to sell 10 of them by December first, or nobody's going to want to buy them. And they're not cheap either, $3 a piece, when you can easily go to the store and get them for a dollar ;_;. I wonder if she knows just how hard it is to sell the damn things. Nobody wants to buy something at three times cost. Thats like trying to sell a 20 inch TV for two grand. It's not going to happen. No matter how good the TV is, if it steals cable TV from your neighbors automatically and doesn't charge you for it, it doesn't matter, nobody wants it. Exactly the comparison, it doesn't matter if it's got the best chocolate in the whole world (which it is by far not), nobody wants it.

As to missing yesterday's post, I was too tired to realize I didn't post. My bad. I slept during commonplan again this morning too. Still didn't get enough sleep, even after going to bed an hour earlier. Odd >.<

Adion is currently listening to: Luna C - Insanity Clause (1993) [4:40]

Well, my day started out pretty OK. I only finished 13 of the 16 math problems we had for homework, and one I knew to be wrong, but I was called to do the last one I had done, therefore saving my ass. Also, I was partners with a pretty smart kid who actually did his homework so I wasn't screwed. Day drags on, get to gym. Pass a few simple tests on how to tie knots, and now we're one step closer to climbing vertically. Some sort of belay activity. Seems easy enough... Comp Sci rolls around and I learn that I can watch those flash movies I posted a bit ago from our browsers (I.E. its not blocked). Get home, read my mail--this is where it gets pretty good--I get an acceptance letter from Truman. One down, one to go. If I get into UIUC then I'm going there, otherwise I'm going to go to Truman. Truman is a nice fall back choice, they've got a good department, and they are really heavily focused on travelling, which is something I'd like to do. And, because it's a Liberal Arts school, I should be able to get a pretty good foreign language education. I'm thinking about taking Japanese, either school I go to, just because it's so cool. Dunno though. Depends if I get a few electives or not, I think I do. Maybe I'll major in Computer Science & minor in Japanese? I dunno. Too early to say. But anyway, I go upstairs and finish my english homework as fast as I can. Go downstairs for some food, go back upstairs, log on FFXI. Dad comes walking in to my room, and he immideatly hits the power button. No questions, no hellos, he just walks in and mashes the button. So, I bash his stomach with my elbow to get him the message, "Don't fuck with my stuff," and he's all like, "Oh, I just wanted to congratulate you on getting into college" and shit like that, and in the meantime I'm really pissed because I was finally leveling on XI (I'm up to 4! Yay!), and he's all being a douche bag and shit. So I kick him out, and turn my computer back on, low and behold, GAIM crashes on me. Which in turn crashes my computer. Fucking piece of shit.

That was my day. Started out pretty cool, and now its going to hell. I swear to god if he even tries to walk in here again I'm going to punch him in the stomach before he even gets close to my computer. Fucker.

Adion is currently listening to: GTO OST - 09 - Fire That Guy! [1:56]

Well, today was a sort of productive day, I managed to finish 90% of my math homework, and did another two problems after I decided I'd stop for the night. So that was good. And before that I did a bunch of my English homework that is due on Tuesday. I'm still a bit aways from totally finished, and I need to find some sort of review for Tuesdays with Morrie that's of respectable length so I can find interesting things to put on notecards. Stuff on the author (Mitch Albom) also is cool. Thankfully, this time I need not write an essay for all these notecards, but she says the next project we will need to ;_;. I didn't get around to finishing the chapter for my story though, perchaps tommorrow... Between finishing my physics lab that I'm sure I'll have to do as homework because that class is gay, the rest of my english project thing, and playing FFXI with Ryu because I told him I thought my day was going to be empty. I made a few textures for the school map, a sky (which is just a sky blue solid), and some bricks (which are too large now, I'll have to play with them later). Makes the school look a bit better, if a bit artificial because it's all shiny and not dark. Soon enough I'll need to make a locker texture, and a floor texture that won't look like our current floor, because our current floor looks like Dr. Suess exploded according to multiple teachers. And so do our walls actually. To such an extent that when we walked into our school after summer renovations, that many students went straight to the nurse. Yes, I'm not kidding. Now to sleep, because I need it. Oyasumi.

Adion is currently listening to: Dream Theatre - A Change of Seasons [25:17]

Well, I started and am mostly finished with that part of the story, but I got kinda bored after about 3/4th of the page down, so it's not finished, but very close. I might finish it up... today...

Found some hilarious flash videos a few days ago and have been meaning to put them in here... Here they are.

Adion is currently listening to: Cosmic Gate - Airbase One Life (06/07/2003) Whee Airbase ^_^

Well, it's been a long time since I was in the mood to write onto my story at my Xanga, but strangely enough I am. I'll probably post the new chapter/section/thing sometime tonight before I get off to bed, I have high hopes. I might actually progress on the story finally, instead of just boring suspense. So far I have 3 lines typed out, though, so I guess we'll see. I have a sort of outline in my head as to how I want the story to progress, and I think I'm getting close to the plotline, instead of the bad exposition.

Today after I woke up I started playing Jedi Knight Jedi Academy, and I think I'm on the last level and almost finished entirely. Dunno yet though, I'll find out when I play some more. I played for about 11 hours straight, so for now I'm done. Thought about logging onto FFXI, but I decided that since I'm kinda in the mood to write, I better take advantage of it, because I usually am not, and it has been well over a month since the last update. That said, I believe I will get back to writing...

Adion is currently listening to: Gomi - Carcinoma [6:22]

Well, not too much happened today. Inbetween playing Unreal Tournament 2003, Dawn of War, FFXI (for a few seconds), acRO (for a few seconds), Starcraft, Condition Zero, CounterStrike, and Quake 3: Areana, there wasn't much time for my life to move forward. I did have a shitload of fun though. Two wierd things happened today though, when I moved my computer over to Ryan's house for the LP, my monitor had a yellow tint to everything, and then Windows wouldn't even load. Oddly enough, the cure for that was to unplug my monitor, shake it a few times, and then replug it in. Everything worked fine. Stupid monitor. I need a new one, this ones old and small ;_;. I should really get a job. Then I can get a decent Video card, CPU, monitor... A headphone & mic combo headset thingy-ma-bob. Whats just pathetic is that I could probably find a job, I just am too lazy to go and get my drivers license and throw applications in. Probably better that way, otherwise I'd have no time for gaming, which is definately a no-go. Need my game time. Especially now that I've got so many games to be playing. That reminds me, I completely forgot about acRO, where I'm the right hand man of a guild. I'm such a dufus, I should be playing that a lot, and I haven't played it in like, a week. Well, besides a bit today where I tanked Matt with my thief. Yeah. Anyways, I'm really tired. I have one last thing to say: this flash movie is godlike. The two characters are squirrels. The first one that shows with the glasses and stuff isn't a main character. The one that pops up right after that is, and he's the cool one. If that's funny to you, go ahead and check out the rest of the movies. I've only seen like 6, but theres a good 24 ish. Ok, I'm off to bed. Tommorrow I have some homework to do in the morning too... *sigh*. Twas worth it.

Adion is currently listening to: IIO - Rapture [5:09]

Well, I installed Dawn of War today shortly after approaching my house's garage and entering through it. It truly is a fun game, theres just a few things I don't like about it. 1) My computer's having trouble handling it ;_; and 2) it's going to take me forever to get really good at the game because the view part of the screen is so tiny. Also, the game isn't truely strategy so far, it's more of, who can mass more units to annihilate the other team first. That could be because I only just now beat the second level of the campaign (after playing for like two hours) and they haven't let me use all the units yet (bastards!), or it could just be a bad game. Well, bad game with good ideas. It is, afterall, the first good Warhammer game on the PC. So, they're at least making headway.

LAN party tommorrow ^_^ Yay! I'mma be dissassembling my computer tonight, which means I'll be off earlier than usual also. This, of course, is because the party starts at 8 A.M.

Ryu's starting up XI again. And you know what that means, KAELOS RETURNS! I promised him yesterday that I'd join if he did, and I keep promises. I'm going to be slightly upset if I can't find my old linkshell, I think it was called "TheBlackPearl". But I'm not sure if I can do a search for members of a linkshell. If I can, then I can find some of the people I remember and all will be cool again. Short explination on how I ran out of money, and I'm good to go.

It seems that I'm going back to having to many games to play! From Jedi Knight Jedi Academy on loan to me, to Dawn of War, to now FFXI. But, XI and JKJA are at the top of the list, because I'm actually paying for XI, and JKJA is on loan. DoW I have forever and a day to play if I want. Hopefully, I'll get a better video card & a CPU upgrade soon, so the game will run smoother. XI & JKJA are both easy for my computer though, so that is nice. I might have to start checking up on prices soon, need a good processor that isn't too expensive and that my motherboard can handle. I think it can go to 3 GHz, so that shouldn't be a problem. Soon enough I'll get XP from Brian, I still haven't done that. I don't think I should do it anytime soon, either. Because I'm not so sure if I want to copy my registry over to an XP computer from 98SE, I don't know what kind of issues that may cause. I might keep a registry file saved somewhere, just for testing. We'll see. Anyway, I'm off to play FFXI, because I made another promise that I'd play that with him after I finished blogging...

Adion is currently listening to: FFVII OST - Disk 4 - Nobou Uematsu - Descendant of Shinobi - Yuffie's Theme [2:45]. Whew, long title.

Well, I've got so much to do, and so little time to do it all in. Invited to a LAN party this Thursday, which should be a bunch of fun. Only problem now is that I have no ride there or back. My mom's going off to Missouri to watch my sisters last performance this year (she's in colorguard, last football game), and my dad'll be at work. With luck, I can hitch a ride on the "Desch bus", so I don't miss the awesomeness. In the mean time, I need to start collecting sleep hours like Asians on a DDR pad. I found a crack for JKJA, only it didn't work for some reason, so I'm still looking around. I really don't need it, because Mark is letting me play with it until I beat it. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't realize how long it would take me to beat an RPG right now. Considering I usually don't have much time at all for games right now, it would probably take more than a month to play 20 hours. Jeff logged onto Xfire today, so I got my key for Dawn of War, which apparently is a wicked game, however I have yet to install it. Later... When I have time. It's kinda odd though, now I'm spending more of my time finding cool stuff on the internet, instead of doing cool stuff on my computer, such as making my CounterStrike map, or playing JKJA, or installing/playing DoW. It's been a long time since I last was using the internet for entertainment rather than information, I'm not sure if I'm liking it as much as I did back then. Mostly because now I know I'm missing a bunch of cool stuff. Oh well. I'm excited for the LAN party... tommorrow... I hope I can make stuff work out. >.<

Adion is currently listening to: Foo Fighters - Learn to Fly [3:57]

Woah how time passes. Spent most of my time working on homework and talking to people. Its been a long time since I played on iRO so, I decided to make it official. I'm not going back. Uninstalled as of 11/2/04. However, I still will play acRO from time to time. I should probably play a lot more than I do, because I'm the right hand of a guild... But RO is really losing in its fun value fast.

Yesterday I got Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy from Mark, yet to install/copy. Perhaps as I write this... Ok doing that. But it's making my text go slow, which means my RAM is shot. Oh well.

Jeff was supposed to log on today and help me with installing Dawn of War, which is complaining about some thing or another. But, in typical Jeff fashion, he was not to be found. I'll kill him later.

Today in gym, we are starting to get to learning how to climb vertically, which should be a lot of fun. Worked with the harness and tying appropriate knots today, tommorrow will be further knot tying and harness wielding. Anyways, not much else is going on, I'm gonna go get some sleep so I'm not entirely screwed tommorow morning. Cya ^_^

Adion is currently not listening to music. (Making an ISO takes up all my HD's buffer, none left for music sadly.)