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I finally got Bionicle Heroes for GC! (Every store I went to had the game for every console except GC.) I am also uber-angry and jealous of my brother, because by the time I had enough free time to pass Vezok's Coastline (the first four levels), he had passed the whole freakin' game, 100%, in 3 days. I should expect this anyways. At 13, my bro's a major computer game genius. We got two of the three DESCENT games by Interplay back in, oh, 1997. (Very confusing. Lots of mazes. I still haven't passed the first one.) He was 4. And he passed both games in a matter of days. *runs after brother with baseball bat* ~Nikira
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Now that I'm finally sixteen, I can finally apply for a job. And get some moneys. For once in my life! Thankfully, Hallmark Crown has open spots (for the holidays, no less!), so I'm crossing my fingers that I can get the job. And get some moneys. ~*~ Oh yeah, my b-day. I got Hakann. I got Vezon and Fenrakk. Coolest. Set. Ever. I got Legends #5 (#4 was sold out). Coolest. Book. Ever. I've already read it four times. Now that I have Vezon and Fenrakk, I can actually do some nice sketches of them. Whee! ~*~ Last note: Went to church tonight for choir, and met a BZpower member (well, guest that comes all the time but hasn't signed up. But he knows who I am.). How weird is that? ~Nikira
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Hey, look, I'm sixteen! =D And I got my paper finished! Whoo-hoo! *does got-paper-done-on-birthday-dance* ~Nikira
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Astronomy paper, astronomy paper, will you please... disappear, or write yourself, or burn into ashes, or tap dance, or do something besides staring at me from my Word Processor? Yeah, I have a lovely science research paper due by tomorrow morning. And I've been on Wikipedia all day looking at stuff for it. I hate papers. ~Nikira
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Oh, geez, it seems like I haven't been on here in forever. Well, yeah, I haven't had access to a computer for a while now. Sorry for being gone. *hands out apology cookies* ~*~ Well, hey, my B-day's tomorrow. Everybody says turning 16 is, like, the most wonderful birthday to have. I can't see what's so special about it. (And don't say 'you'll be getting your driver's license'. I can't get that until January.) But, hey, I'll be another year older. Hoorah! *waves flag* ~*~ Art-wisey-stuff: I've discovered the joys of Photoshop! Well.... scratch that. I've discovered the joys of ArcSoft Photo Studio 5.5 - the closest program I could get to Photoshop without ripping a hole in my mom's wallet. It's awfully fun - this is the first time I've used a photo-editing program with the whole 'layers' thing. I have fun. ^^ I'm working on a couple test pictures, and (maybe, just maybe) I'll have a BIONICLE one ready sometime. ~*~ My life is a rollercoaster. Whoo for whiplash.
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Yo. B) Yep, I'm back home, and glad to be in lovely air-conditioned rooms! =D My week has been... ah... hectic, to say the least. Prepare for a long entry today. ~*~ For those of you that didn't know by now, I was gone all of last week on a building project over in Cincinatti. The group I worked with is called World Changers, off of the NAMB, which has hundreds of teens go around all summer and do week-long construction projects in different parts of the USA. Now, I know some of you are thinking: Why would I want to spend a whole week working on construction in 105+ weather? Let me tell you, it was WORTH IT. Alright, here's how my week rolled out. Saturday (29th) : Woke up, ate breakfast, then packed all my luggage into my mom's van and drove over to my church around noon. I unloaded all my luggage from the van, put it into a bigger van, submitted in the rest of my medical forms to my youth leader, and piled into said bigger van with about 8 other kids my age or older. All 16 of us drove in two vans for about 2 hours, arriving at Rockdale Elementary School at 3:30. (Rockdale is where all the World Changer participants stayed during the week - slept in the classrooms, ate in the cafeteria, etc.) Quickly got up the stairs to my church's girls room, which we shared with another church. (We had 6 girls, they had 7.) Dumpped my luggage, set up my cot, etc., while waiting for supper. Problem number 1 of the week: We found out, after supper, that there were only 12 showers. For 200 people. And 3 of them wern't working. o_o Needless to say, this problem went on throughout the entire week, thus, endless lines to the showers. The rest of Saturday was just, like, a welcoming thing. No need to get into it. Sunday (30th) : Met with my "crew" for the first time. A crew consists of 8-15 youth, a crew encourager, a crew driver, and a crew chief. Each crew is assigned to one house during the week, which they will work on until Friday or until they get it done, whichever comes first. My crew had 10 youth, youngest being 14, oldest, 17, from all over the Eastern and Central U.S. We all introduced ourselves, sorted out jobs (I became official BreakMaster), then headed off to our sponser church (which provided our on-site meals during the week.) After service and a very generous lunch (homemade fried chicken... ^^), our driver brought us over to our worksite. Our main job was to rip apart the porch and columns, rebuid and replace both, and prime and paint both. Seemed easy enough at the time. Got back to the school, did some other stuff with the crew, had supper, and went to worship, which was in the gym. Now, here comes problem number 2 of the week: The air conditioning in the gym didn't work. At all. So we were all dying of heat stroke for about half the week. They finally brought fans in around Tuesday. Monday (31st) : We finally got to work today! Sort of. Since I was BreakMaster, I had to wake up at 5:45 a.m. to go down and fill our water cooler. I got to do this every morning. (The Assistant BreakMaster hauled it onto our truck.) Got back upstairs, got my tools, had breakfast, and met with my crew to head out to the work site. We got the whole porch ripped up within an hour. We never got our lumber to rebuild it. So, instead, we helped out the other 15 crews with random jobs (picking up brush and tossing it into the dumpster, carrying ladders, cleaning up shingles, stuff like that.) We were all dissapointed that the lumber never came. Got back, waited for 1 and a half hours for a shower (), then had supper and went to worship. We still didn't have our gaint fans, so the heat in the gym was still very high, and one of the leaders actually passed out, having to be carried out halfway through the service. Nothing major really happened this day, actually. Tuesday (1st) : Filled the Water Cooler again, had breakfast, went to the work site. And we still had no lumber. So, again, for the first 4 hours of our work day, we did more random jobs. Then comes problem number 3 of the week: One of the crews, about 6 houses down from us, was being kicked off their site. The Health Department of Cincinatti claimed that they were endangering the community. (They were powerwashing a house which had lead paint. The Health Department said that the paint would get into the ground water, endangering the people who drank it.) Thank goodness, for reasons I cannot discuss on this website, the issue was cleared up, and the crew was put back to work by lunchtime. And, speaking of lunch, after our meal, we FINALLY got our lumber! So we got some of our porch ready to build before we left. Got back, waited for a million years to get to the showers, etc. Wednesday (2nd) : This day was scary, with problem number 4 of the week. About halfway into the work day, I heard this really loud scream from across the street. I find out, about 10 minutes later, that a highschooler fell from 16 feet of scaffolding, hittind another kid and a fence before hitting the ground. Hs name was Philip. And he was from my church. Had a big commotion with the youth from my church as the fire truck pulled up, then our youth pastor (he came up the street at about 80 miles an hour), then the ambulance. The people who had seen him said that his leg was either broken or shattered, no doubt about it. We got back early from our work sites, only to recieve excellent news: Phil was fine. Perfectly fine. No broken bones, no fractures, no swelling, no cracks, not even a sprain. Just a scrape up the side of his back and a bruise on his ankle. It was just remarkable. He was discharged from the hospital at 2:00, and, along with his crutches, he came with our youth group on a rest-of-the-day trip to Downtown Cincinatti. We walked from the Reds Stadium across the river to Newport, Kentucky, where about half of us had lunch at Johnny Rockets. Got done with that, met up with our leaders at an AMC, and walked over to the GameWorks (huge arcadey place. It was awesome.) Stayed there 'til about 6, had supper at the grill there, walked over the bridge back to Cincinatti, and got our seats in the Reds' stadium (18th row box seats behind third plate. ^^) Reds against the Dodgers. Reds lost, 3-5. But it was still fun! Thursday (3rd) : This was another scary day. Around 10 in the morning, my crew chief sent me any the two other gals on my crew to go down the street and get his ladder back from another crew chief. We agreed and went down the street. And here came problem number 5 of the week: We had just found the ladder, when the leaders of that crew rushed us, and everyone else on their crew, down below the house. We wern't allwoed to talk or leave. After about 10 minutes, they herded us into one of the vans and told us what was happening. One of the crews, about three houses down the block, had gotten serious shooting threats. To ensure the safety of the youth, all crews were evacuated from their work sites. Everyone was in the cafeteria in about 15 minutes. We wern't allowed to leave the school at all after that. After playing Yuker for 3 hours, everyone in my church was getting restless. We wanted to go out there and finish up our projects, no matter what came in our way. We did end up going back, our church and three others out of 20. Each church worked on one house, and we did it as long as we could. We got so much done, it was crazy. Later that night, we heard that the guy who threatened us had apologized. He thought we were there to hurt the community and steal their stuff, so that's why he threatened us. Friday (4th) : Got our house done early! It looked amazing when we finally finished it. Everything was going pretty well out last day. I was actually first in line for the showers! =D After I got back up to my room, however, I was immediately pulled out into the hallway by my youth leader, for problem number 6 of the week. My father and younger brother were in a car crash earlier that day, totalling the car and landing both of them in the hospital. That news really made me want to go home faster. Shared the news with my youth group and crew before worship. Halfway through worship, my youth leader pulled me out into the hallway again, to answer a phone call from my mom. My dad and brother were alright, just a lot of bruises and cuts (which they still have right now.) I was thrilled to see them when I got back home, even though it was 1:00 in the morning. Saturday, I slept. Sunday, I worked at church, and then slept some more. Monday, I actually unpacked all my stuff. Yesterday, I WAS gonna come and post all this, but my family went to the State Fair for the whole day, so I never got on the computer. And today has been perfectly normal. And I have air conditioning. ^^ ~*~ Art news: Like, ZOMG, it's Jaller! I've got some new stuff up in my art topic, as well as a new topic in the Art Forum. ^^ The Inika are fianlly becoming easy for me to draw. I'll also be updating my website later this week, along with a new piece of art for my 2nd year thing! ~Nikira
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My work was uber-simple, so I got out of school at 11:00 today. Being homeschooled rocks. B) ~Nikira
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I missed my 2-year anniversary! *sobs* ~*~ Well, I owe an explanation: Last Friday, my dad and I were doing some work on his bug, just tuning it up and stuff. He turns and asks me, "So, are you excited about going to Gettysburg on Sunday?" So, yeah, I took an unexpected, week-long trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, home of one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War (over 53,000 people died in 3 days of fighting.) And, yes, Devil's Den is part of Gettysburg. Not much to say. Tons of monuments to be seen. Tons of hikes to be done. I drew a cannon, which I will have up some time, and my sister and I ran Pickett's charge, a one-mile trail over open, rolling hills. I about died by the time I got to the other side. But, yeah, it was really cool. It blows my mind to know how much all these guys had to do in three days. Anyways, I got a sweet souvenier: A saber. It's sharp enough to, like, actually kill someone, but I only got it for 12 dollars. I was gonna take pics of it, but I found out my dad's digital camera was stolen after the wrecked car got towed away. ;_; (see Friday of last entry) ~*~ Other than the cannon, I didn't get much done. I completly forgot about my two-year piece for last Friday, so I'll have to think up a late thing for that. I have to get DigiTrinity's thing on the computer *ducks yet another volley of punches*, and I have to work on my webcomic for my website. Better yet, I have to actually update my website. ~*~ So, yeah, I've basically been absent from the site for, what, almost 3 weeks (give or take a couple days)? I'm kinda behind on...well...everything, right now, so just give me a little time and/or space. I really need it. ~Nikira
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Three things: 1) I'm finally done with that huge drawing project! Now I just have to get it to the person I drew it for. 2) I got my hair cut. Like... really cut. As in much shorter than I had it before. 3) I only slept 4 hours last night. Mainly cause I stayed up 'till about 2 in the morning finishing up my drawing project. So, if you'll all excuse me, I'm gonna go and collapse on the couch. ..Ah....mushy pillows... ^^ ~Nikira
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*is tired* The reason that I am tired is because last night, I helped my dad pick up his new car. It's a royal blue, '59 Volkswagen Beetle, and it's the most adorable thing in the world! If it didn't belong to my dad, I'd want it so badly... But, yeah, he bought it from a guy named Paul who lives a few counties down from us. It hasn't been out of the guy's garage for about 10 years, and there's a lot of stuff that needs to be worked on. All the tires are flat, it needs two more hubcaps, a new window and windshield, new windshield wipers, a lot of welding, a new battery, and a new coat of paint to cover the rust. Ah well. At least the engine works. My dad's already named the car "Charlie." (Yes, we name our cars. We also name other people's cars, if they want us to. ) He had two older Beetles when we lived in California, but one got crashed into, and the other we had to sell. ;_; Also, once he gets it fixd, it'll be a good way for me to learn how to drive a stick. ^^ ~Nikira
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Hey, everyone! Guess what: No new art! *is pummeled* Ow. ~*~ Just a quick note: I'll be gone, starting Friday, on a building project over in Cincinatti. I'm supposed to be there for a week, but I was there for a bit longer last time I went, so I dunno when I'll be back this time around. Hopefully, I'll make it back to do my two-year spinny celebratory thing. Goodness, I can't believe it's been almost two years already... It seems like I just finished my one-year thing. >< *is starting to feel old* But, yeah, I'll be working on something for August 11th while I'm in Cincinatti. Hooray! ~Nikira
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Good news first, of course. I passed my written test for my temporary driver's license this sfternoon! I'll be going out with my dad in parking lots and stuff to practice sometime this week. *hoorays* ~*~ Bad news, which is really disappointing: Going to Brickfest... well, it ain't gonna happen. At least not this year. Sorry, Omi and KIE. ;_; Yeah, my parents and I checked the calendar, and the dates for the event (August 25-27) don't work for me or my mode of transportation, so I will not be able to attend. If the dates were weekdays, I would have been able to come, but, as the public days are on a Saturday/Sunday weekend, I am not allowed to come. And I had my hopes all up yesterday... >< Ah well. Maybe next time. ~Nikira
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Well, my church's VBS started today. And oh, am I tired now. >< I teach 2nd grade this year, and I have fiesty boys in my class. Whoo. 4 more days to go. Oh boy. ~*~ Good news from my parents: I might be attending Brickfest. Yes. THE Brickfest. Since it's over in D.C., I can make it over there in a few hours. Silly me, I thought it was over in Los Angeles or something. But, yeah, if I could go to that, it would be so awesome. I'd take lots of pictures. XD ~Nikira
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Edited at 9:36 p.m. EST ~*~ Hi, all. Boy, this Independence Day has been real fun. Around 9 this morning, my family went to walk in our Patriotic parade. This was my first time as a walker/person who gets to throw lolipops at people, and it was pretty fun. ^^ Once the parade was done, all the walkers piled onto the float as we drove back to the parking lots. And, wonder of all wonders, it started to rain. None of us had jackets, of course, so all 36 of us just sat there as the float made its way through traffic. Our decoration leader also has more to do, as the paint for several of the pieces for the float washed off. Hooray. ~*~ If you all read below, you know I also just went to a BBQ. Well, while I was there, it rained. Again. Hard... So I was all soaked and cold when we came home. ;_; ~*~ We changed into dry clothes really quickly, then left for fireworks around 8:30. And that was a no-go. All the parking around the city was full. ALL OF IT. We wandered around for an hour trying to find any parking spots, and it proved useless. So we just went home. No fireworks for us this year.... *sigh* My life is so much fun. Hoorah for the 4th of July! ~*~ Art-wise news: I've got a prototype sketch for Hahli Inika. And I think it actually looks decent! Hooray! I should have that up tomorrow. Again, it's a protype, mainly cause I did not have enough detail to work off of. (I used the pics in the summer LEGO catalog, and the pics are so dark around the edges, so you can't see much of the mask or weapon details... Boo hoo.) ~*~ Finally, the news on my driver's permit. : I went in Monday to get the permit package. Since it's a holiday week, they wouldn't allow me to take the test until Wednesday (tomorrow). I do have my pretty laminated picture, though! *huggles it* My dad says the writer's test will be a sinch for me. I did the sample test in the back of my state's drivers' manual, and I got a 100. My dad says if the actual test is anything like the sample one, I'll pass it with no problems. Good thing it's multiple-choice. ^^;; Adding me onto the car insurace is gonna cost a bit, though, so I also have to find a job (looking at working at Wendy's). Most of my pay will go for paying off the insurance bill and, possibly, driver's ed ,if I want to ever get my license before I turn 18. It's, like, $365 though, which really stinks. >< I might as well renew my temps every year until I go to college. Bah-hah. ~Nikira
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Ugh, it feels like I've been in my mum's van forever... >< Shame on me for staying up 'till midnight last night: Got up wtih my mum around 7:00am to drop my sis off at the zoo for her volunteer job, went home, had some breakfast, then we jumped back in the van and drove for 2 and a half hours over to Coshocton to pick up my bro and dad from a Scout thing. Picked them up around 12:15. Loaded the van with all their Scouty stuff. Turned around and drove to Newark. Stopped at KFC for lunch at 1:00. Drove for about 1 and a half more hours and got home. Unloaded the van. Went BACK into the van for about 20 more minutes to pick up something from the store. Came home. Logged onto BZP. [sarcasm]I love our van.[/sarcasm] Good thing I didn't do any of the driving. Yet. (Got a conformation from Dad to go Monday to get my permit - whoo!) ~*~ Good thing is, my brother LOVES his room! He freaked when he saw all the X-Wings and TIEs, as he did not know I was going to paint those. My dad liked it lots, too. Said it was one of the best paint jobs I have done so far! +5 Ego! Now I just need to re-charge my camera... ~Nikira
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*deep breath* I just got off the phone with my dad (he's at a Boy Scout thing about 3 hours away), and guess what? He's taking me in to get my permit when he gets back! I'll finally be able to DRIVE! *freaks out for the second time this week* ~Nikira
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Vampire bugs stink. (Like anyone didn't know that already.) We have a swamp about a half-mile from our house, so there's mosquitoes EVERYWHERE. Got 22 bites this week. Got 6 more last night. And I'm probably gonna get more when I go to camp next month. And yes, I counted all of them. They itch. Badly. *looks for aloe vera cream* Help me. ~*~ On a good note, the guys in my family are gone for the week (Boy Scout thing), so my mom has a whole bunch of stuff planned for the rest of us in the house. Main thing I gotta get done while my bro's gone, though, is his room: He's got Endor, Endor's moon, and the Death Star only halfway painted onto his wall, and my goal is to finish them. Basically, I have to darken up one side of the planets, add some texture and highlights, and do some fine work detail on the Death Star. With wall paint... *likes pencil better than wall paint* ~Nikira
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Ever have one of those summer days where, like, NOTHING happens? *flops onto floor* Maybe I can go reprogram my treadmill.... ~*~ Art-wise, some of you have already seen the recently-put-up MoL pic in BA#1. I'm very happy with the background, and I'm hoping that, in future drawings, I'll be able to hone my landscaping. Almost done with SC (I had some problems while inking the first picture, so I have to re-do it now.), and I'm working on Piraka (again) and some of the Inika (again). Hooray for endless free time until July. *is still terribly bored* ~Nikira
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I just realized that I had to approve all the comments before they appeared. Whoopsies. Saw Cars this afternoon with my dad after church. I officially LOVE that movie now! It was so worth the money and the two hours. Much better than X-Men 3, IMO. *dies at the hands of X-Men fans* I wanna go watch it again. Maybe I can call up a few of my friends and see if they wanna go. ~Nikira
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Four things that are not so good right now: 1: It's warm (92 degrees). And humid. And I am dying. Even with an air conditioner. 2: I need a trim. I can't see very well when my bangs are covering my eyes. 3: People are STILL PMing me about requests. 4: I have no pretty golden stars in my rating box. ~Nikira
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Yep, our house isn't going bonkers anymore, now that my parents are both home. On Saturday, we ended up seeing X-Men 3 instead of Cars (which we are going to see tonight, I believe) X-Men was...okay, I guess. I didn't like it as much as the others. (They could've made Archangel do more... you only see him three/four time during the movie. ) I'm really looking forward to Cars, though. One of my dad's co-workers saw it the day before it was released (don't ask, cause I dunno how she did that either), and she says that it's really good. I'm crossing my fingers that she's right. Oh, and I got attacked by mosquitoes last night. Hoorah. ~Nikira
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EDIT: Oops. I forgot to publish this yesterday.... >< It's 8:00 in the morning (a summer morning, out of all things), and do you know where I am? BZP. A duh. Yeah, I have no life until second week of July. My grandma's turning 80 today, so my mom's not here (left on Tuesday to go see my grandma) and the house is kinda...I dunno, under a lot of stress without her... My dad's got a bunch planned, however. ^^ Thursday (today), we're gonna quickly drive over to Blcokbuster and pick up X-Men and X-Men 2 (which I have never seen either of ) Then we have dentist appointments from 2:00 to at least 4:00. I'm guessing that we'll come home and watch X-Men for the rest of the afternoon. Friday: This is the only not-really-fun day. My sister's got an orientation meeting at the state zoo at 9:00 in the morning, and we'll be spending the majority of the day doing housework. Whoo. Saturday: Got cartoons in the morning (Tmnt and Sonic ^^), then it's off to the Science Imposium over in Columbus, OH (couple hours driving, but oh well), to see a Star Wars exhibit they have there. Then we'll come back, stay at home for about a half-hour, then go see CARS at...one of the theaters aorund our house. Later in the evening, one of my friends has his graduation open house, so we'll be going to that, too. Sunday: Same busy routine we always do - We all go to church, I head to choir, my siblings head to Sunday School, my dad heads for the Children's wing (he be the pastor for the kids). We stay in our respective places from 8:40 to 10:20 (except me - I leave choir around 9:15 to go to Sunday School). At 10:20, the cycle starts a different way - I go bak to choir , my sister and brother both go over to Children's wing to help sing, and at 10:45, I go over to Children's wing to teach 2nd and 3rd graders. That goes 'till 12:00. My sis has a church camp meeting after service until 2:30. Then we leave. Then we eat. Then we go home, change, and turn around and go back, cause my sis has a VBS Worship practice. After that's done, we go to evening service until 7:00, then we leave, get home at 7:45 - 8:00, do what household chores we can until dark, then watch TV for about a half-hour and go to bed. Yay for the Sundays of a Pastor's Kid! Monday: Rather boring day. My sis leaves for camp at 7:30 am. LARGE SPAN OF TIME, in which we will do more chores and housecleaning. I have drama practice at 6:00, and my brother and one of my best friends have Boy Scout Court of Honor the same time. I wanna see my bro get First Class... ;_; Nother large span of time until we go to bed. Tuesday: We will be SCOWERING THE HOUSE ALL DAY. That's all I know. And then my mom comes back Tuesday evening, and sanity will be restored. Then I can worry about my AC11 entry in the polls next Saturday. ~Nikira
