I feel more sympathetic toward the crooks in LEGO Space Police 3 than toward the cops.
I feel more sympathetic toward the creatures and fish-men in LEGO Atlantis than toward the explorers.
I felt more sympathetic toward Achu than either of the artifact-chasing European factions in LEGO Jungle Adventurers.
I feel more sympathetic toward Tren Krom than toward even most of the more likable Toa in BIONICLE.
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Internet connection has become too slow to bother with. Strongly suspect chat bot incident. Will wipe hard drive and reinstall OSes when have energy. Will be offline for indeterminate period, likely matter of days. Have fun, me.
Update: This appears to have been a false alarm. Internet is inexplicably now back to normal.
but den i stolez it back.
Man, that was weird. I get an Add Contact permission request from someone named JuanitaSomebodyFourRandomNumbers. Click "Chat First." Say hi. Have a very short convo. Obvious chat bot posing as a sexy young female wanting to webcam. "[Don't use obscene language. -Shine], bye." "Block User."
All of a sudden:
"Yahoo! Messenger is disconnected." Waaht.
"Connect to Yahoo! Messenger."
"Unable to connect to Yahoo! Messenger while signed in from another computer
I added black tires to the shoulders and hips, revamped the sword, filled in the back, and built a custom head for the 2001 Hau.
Similarly, custom head and back armour added.
(Sorry, no more pictures till I get new batteries for my camera.)
I've been having very vivid dreams in the past while, even though I don't always recall much. I'm sure if I recalled more, and pondered what they meant, I'd get lots of useful material. Anyway, I just thought I'd share something from a dream I had last night.
It was dark, as is usual in winter here, and I was outside. With my eyes closed, I could "see" a diffuse white glow in the vicinity of my hands. If I kept my hands balled up into fists, the light would still peek out a little, and when I
Yeah, the title is from Cryoshell's Murky. Which is a great song, by the way. I've probably listened to it thirty times.
So I put my slalom skis up for auction with a starting bid of 55 euros and a Buy It Now price of 85. Some dude down by Turku snapped them up for the 85 within hours. I'm thinking I could have asked for more. <.< But I don't care that much. The point is to get rid of all the things I don't need, one way or another, and just raise enough cash to get me started on my wa
There's a gallery, too, when Brickshelf gets around to modding the folder. I'm not too happy with how the photos turned out, but the MOC itself was quite a fun little diversion.
1. A BZPower playlist for my megaproject-in-progress, the BIONICLE Rock Concert.
2. Me doing an audio book of one of Greg's serials or some fan fiction. I love reading aloud.
3. Getting rid of all my stuff, dropping all projects, and disappearing for a while to roam Europe and maybe some other places, eventually resurfacing back in BC, Canada.
I need to do some serious dowsing and card/rune work to find out whether the third idea is what I should go for, and how fully.
Merely hiding. Not by choice, though. I've lost my computer, my phone, and my camera. Hope to get them back when I visit the police station tomorrow. We'll see, we'll see. In the meantime, I've come up with another small series of original character MOCs. I'm quite pleased with them, and if the person who found my stuff downtown is honest (and I have a feeling he or she is), I'll have my camera back soon and you'll have some new LEGO pictures to look at.
LOL. I only found out the durn laptop
[originally published Dec 19 2009, 12:33 AM]
New display name, avatar and sig.
In other news, I returned from my trip to Helsinki about 24 hours ago. It was a blast. B) Went to a lovely Christmas party with some "New Age" types, which included a group meditation. Reconnected with a dear adventuring friend from the Seattle, WA area, spent the night at his place. Went to the local Laestadian church/hangout, chatted with my ex-gf's sister there. Went to a friend-of-a-friend's place to mingle
So today I found out that I am, in fact, going to be receiving income very shortly from one of the sources I mentioned yesterday. The other two will take a little longer to kick in, but they, too, are coming, thanks to my taking command of the situation today. (LIKE A BANDIT.) As an added bonus, with the help of a nice lady at the tax office, I got the back-tax monkey off my back that's been there for months just because of my phobia of paperwork and bureaucracy.
Now I'm just fervently hopi
Mixed Choir Twinkle just gave its first Christmas concert of the season. The church was packed, more so than at the same event last year. We performed together with a children's choir and a few soloists. The highlight of our choir's portion was a cantata, "Come, Lord Jesus," with words by a well-known poet who was sitting in the audience, and music composed by our own director. It was rather an awesome experience to perform it for the first time. We get to do it again this Sunday.
The childr
I was counting on receiving income from three different sources right around now. None of them have come through. Now I have no money.
Oh.
Crud.
...
Time to engage those sources and SHAKE 'EM DOWN LIKE A BANDIT.*
* Said shaking down will involve more Paperwork, Talking to Bureaucrats, and Waiting. >.<
Avoid exposure to all glowing LCD displays, including computer monitors and cell phones, for two hours before going to bed in the evening. The light from these displays suppresses and disrupts your body's production of melatonin, the "sleep hormone."
I wish I'd known this a long time ago. It also explains why it's possible to stay up all night in front of the computer and not feel sleepy, merely sleep-deprived.
I bake almost all my own bread these days. I use a sourdough method, which gives the bread a deliciously tangy flavour and significantly reduces the need for added yeast.
The sourdough method is actually very simple and requires only a minimal amount of effort. The easiest and fastest way to get started is to take a bit of ready sourdough starter from a friend, like I did. You can also take a piece of store-bought sourdough bread, grind it into crumbs, and add water and flour. I've even made
Now with waist articulation!
- I'm Kiina, a Glatorian. One of the best!
- Bare-knuckle boxing is always a good way to blow off steam.
Any challengers?
- Hmmm. . .
*Grab*
- Hey, you!
- Waugh!
- Where's Tarix at? And what did you do with my morningstar, you sneak?
- I haven't touched your stupid morningstar. And Tarix just left. Put me down!
- Humph.
- Sheesh.
(BUMPED)
LEGO.com's email form only allows 2000 characters, so I've sent this to Black Six for him to pass on.
Let it not be said that BCii doesn't keep his promises.
EDIT: Oh, and I might as well reprint my initial reaction to the big news here.
