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I know you all were scared, but you didn’t have to worry. I remembered what I wanted to talk about. The Roku!

I bought my parents a Roku a long time ago because I thought it would be a simple thing they could use to stream Netflix, and that my mom might like that. She used it a bit, certainly, and watched some TV shows. It was nice. Fast forward to the Netflix price hike, though, and my parents just totally killed their Netflix all together. Thus, the Roku was unused. So I basically stole it. Then I hooked it up in my room just because.

Roku is awesome.

It took me like 2 minutes to download the Giant Bomb channel and start streaming Whiskey Media stuff onto my TV. Somehow this damn thing streams better than my iPad does when I hook up a direct feed. It’s awesome. It’s magical. It’s exactly what I’d rather be watching in bed anyway!

In a few more minutes of fiddling, I had Tested on there, and Crunchyroll if I am desperate for an anime, and what’s best, Amazon Prime Video Streaming. I knew I had Prime Video Streaming, since I have and love Prime, but I never used it. However, damn, Roku makes it easy and a fun idea. I watched some Next Gen with little effort. Huzzah!

The only thing that’s been a complete disappointment so far is blip.tv. They say they have a Roku channel, and frankly, that would be great. How awesome would it be to be able to easily stream, I dunno, the latest Chip and Ironicus Let’s Play? Super awesome. That’s how awesome. But instead all you can watch is their “official” shows. I watch a TON of shit on Blip.tv, but nothing I watch is one of their “official” titles, so I can’t stream it. Obscenely stupid.

Really, the entire experience is just polished. It could be better with a keyboard, or a search in the channel store, or a slightly faster processor and/or RAM to get in and out of menus quickly. It also could really use a way for me to stream stuff from my PC: if I can get a 3 dollar app that does that to my iPad flawlessly, there has to be a way for me to do it on a Roku that isn’t a pain. That’s just about it, though. It’s just a damn good little device. It was totally worth what I paid for it. I now wonder if I’m going to have to buy a SECOND one for my house, so I can have one in the living room and one in the bedroom. I suppose we’ll see how much I use it. But I am enjoying it for now! Buy a fucking Roku and stream some shit too, hm?

Molly has been really attached to me lately. People, including myself, have been trying to come up with theories as to why she’s sticking to me like glue and sleeping with me, when she’s never slept in my bed before, really, unless the parents were gone.

My mother’s theory is perhaps a bit too personified to be real. She believes that Molly is sleeping with me now because her and my father snore too much. While Dad, especially, is quite the snorer, I don’t really understand how this would be the case. Surely Molly would never have slept there if that’s something she actually minded.

My theory is self-centered. It’s also based on hormones, because that’s my reason for everything nowadays. (Only sometimes is it a joke.) My theory is that I must be smelling female to Molly now. I am really the only one who punishes her, and she listens to me more than other people. Because I’m now female, then, my theory is that in Molly’s mind, I have ousted my mother as the alpha female of our little pack, so she has to be all nice to me to earn favor. Again, kind of a self-centered theory.

Cara’s theory is one I didn’t consider. Cara thinks that Molly can somehow tell that I am about to move out and move somewhere else. I guess it’s one of the things that dogs can sense? Molly is trying to keep me around, so she’s trying to play nice so I will stay. I suppose that’s possible? But goodness, that’s some good intuition if Molly can figure that out. I don’t know what has really changed about my habits to have clued her in on that if it is true.

What is the real reason? I have no idea. But having Molly curled up with me is awesome. So no complaints here!

Let me just explain how the last couple of days went for me, frustration-wise. A little venting never hurt anyone, yes?

So, like, a month ago, I ordered some Pony shirts because I am that kind of person apparently. I got this one and this one. There was no notice that these were preorders or anything. I was hoping to have them before the new season started. That didn’t happen. It took about a month, and when the box got here, it had shirts in it that I did not order and would certainly never wear. I called the company, and was told that I should leave a message and would be called back “in a few minutes.” That didn’t happen, and I had to go to work.

This story has a happy ending, or at least the start of one. The customer service person DID get back to me, gave me a free shipping label for the wrong shirts, and said she is sending out my real order today by a quicker shipping method. She was very polite and nice when doing it, so I can’t fault her for that. Still, I’m certainly going to rethink ordering shirts from them again, as that as kind of crazy.

The other story is more up in the air.

For the past month, I have been trying to get this home loan thing finished. I’m closing on the house on the 7th, and everything needs to be good to go then. Throughout this month, I have had many panic moments, mostly having to do with a mutual fund I have. See, I gave them a statement for it, but it didn’t have page 3 and 4, which my mother destroyed because they had no information on it. I have, during various points this month, given them at least 3 OTHER documents with the information about the mutual fund on it that they would need. However, they are holding up my loan because I don’t have pages 3 and 4 of the original document.

Today, I found out, via a statement for an unrelated mutual fund, what is on pages 3 and 4 that my mother threw away. It’s ads. Pages 3 and 4 are nothing but ads for other services the mutual fund wants you to sign up for. My loan is being held up because they don’t have two pages of ADS. Makes me want to crack my skull against my desk.

I think we’ve finally got solutions in place (although this is about the third time I’ve thought that about this bullshit) and everything should be fine now. But gods, what a pain in the ass. I mean, yes, I am borrowing a bunch of money, but goddamn. They do this everyday. Something so stupid shouldn’t be an issue.

Hi! This paragraph is from me many hours after I wrote the previous one! Guess what? I’m totally screwed because I went to school! Isn’t that great?
Basically, we dealt with that bullshit, but then they decided that they have to use the amount of money I was making when I was a full-time student to determine the loan, as opposed to what I am making now. Because that fucking makes sense, right? So because I wasn’t working 40 hours a week while also teaching 20 hours a week and going to school full time, I now can’t get a loan. Which I was basically promised would not be any sort of issue for me to get. HOW FANTASTIC. *bangs head against desk*

Anyway, those are some of the anger-inducing things I’ve been dealing with! Hopefully your time is going a lot better.

LINKS! Goddamn I have a lot of links. Also, Chrome wants to restart for updates. So I bet be free of these links. LET’S LINKING!

On The Stick is starting a new October of articles this month! I have one coming later in the month! Yay! But you can read what they’re doing right now if you want. It’s sure to be good stuff!

I thought this was a pretty funny little video. It’s got, you know, jokes.

It’s Adventure Time, come on, grab your friends.

Two Memes, One Mashup.

Bask in horror upon the women of the future! What a strange place the future will be.

Why do I find this so funny? Because it’s hilarious. That’s probably why.

The quietest dinner ever.

Beware the COMPUTER CRIMINALS!

Finally, here’s some good advice from the Onion.

List of Fighting Games I Am Excited For, Ordered By Amount of Excitement.

1. Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena
2. My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic
3. Skullgirls
4. Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3
5. Street Fighter X Tekken

List of Japanese Shows I Am Currently Following, None of Which Essner Approves of

1. Mawaru Penguindrum
2. Usagi Drop
3. Nichijou
4. Game Center CX

List of Candies I Purchase Too Often

1. Mike and Ike: Tangy Twister
2. Sweettarts
3. Nerds
4. Fruit Mentos
5. Laffy Taffy

List of Games I Wish I Could Buy On Launch Day This Year, But Shouldn’t Because of Money

1. Kirby’s Return to Dreamland
2. Professor Layton and the Last Specter
3. Solatorobo

List of Tumblrs I Check Daily

1. Fashion It So
2. Fillydelphia
3. Ask Pinkamina Diane Pie
4. Ask Princess Molestia

List of Things I Don’t Really Know How To Use Properly But Use All The Time Anyway

1. Tumblr
2. Fashion Sense
3. IRC
4. Microsoft Excel
5. Anger

Debated whether or not to write about this because I feel like it makes me an asshole. But whatever. I can trust you, right blog? You understand me, right? So I’m going to talk this out, and we’ll see where it goes. If you don’t like me being extremely personal and diary-like, this is not a day to read this blog, I guess. Come back later! Anyway…

At work, we often have coupons going on. By often I mean “always.” Over the past few days, we had a “friends and family” coupon going on, that we were supposed to give out to, you know, friends and family. Of course, we have some at all the registers in case people forget theirs. We do this for all our coupons.

Basically, though, this leads most people to just automatically ask “do you have any coupons I can use?” any time they come up to the register. Which is fine, I suppose. Kohl’s would much rather have them come in thinking “well, surely they have a coupon so it’s okay to shop” than not. When they ask, there’s nothing wrong with giving them the coupon. It doesn’t hurt me for Kohl’s not to make as much money, and it makes the customers happier, so I guess there’s that.

But there’s a part of me that’s kind of annoyed at the assumption that there’s always going to be a coupon there, and I’m not totally sure why. I think it’s the way in which a lot of people ask me for it, like they deserve a coupon and will be unhappy without it, instead of wondering if I have an extra bonus for them. It’s a difference between “hey, do you think you could do me a favor?” and “give me my discount, slave.”

The point is, all weekend, I’ve been telling people there are no coupons. Not every person. Whenever someone met criteria I didn’t quite understand I’d tell them about it, and get them their discount. Like, if they made a mistake, and pulled out their coupon for later this week, and looked sad instead of upset, or took the news well, then I’d offer them the other coupon instead. If nothing about them struck me as whatever, I didn’t mention its existence unless specifically asked for that coupon. Then I pulled it out, of course. I wasn’t about to get in trouble. But I held the power of 20% off in my paws, and I wielded it like I wanted.

The way it happens, though, is just… strange. It really is an almost subconscious decision. I’d smile at the customer and immediately fall into one of those two roles, and I could not break from it at that point, even if I wanted to. I couldn’t ruin the illusion. The lie. Even when there wasn’t any lie. It was so much faking it, something I’ve done so much of in my life, and have worked hard to get rid of. But here was a chance to do that, with no consequences and no reason not to, and I jumped on it. I jumped on it, and wielded this stupidest of lies to keep a barrier between me and these people who are all nice enough, and whom I have no ill-will towards, but who love to punch me in the gut and knock the wind out of me with mentions of me off-hand to their kids, for example.

Believe it or not, I like customer service. I like interacting with people, and the vast majority of people I see every day are awesome, nice people. I don’t mind working the register at all. But my own problems get wrapped up in these interactions. People I may never see again don’t know what they’re getting into and what they’re doing to me emotionally. So I keep coupons from them in order to feel distance from them so I don’t feel as hurt. I guess that’s basically the scenario I have talked through here. Maybe I should be doing other things to protect myself. Maybe I should be going overboard with my appearance so there’s no fucking way anyone could make a mistake. I don’t know. It’s silly to take it out on others, even with something as trivial as a coupon. I should really stop that.

I am kind of in a lot of pain right now! I do not know why, but I hope it will pass. In any case, I am just going to write a little tonight and get back to watching shit with Brer on Synchtube.

But what is Synchtube, you don’t actually ask but I will answer anyway because this is what I’m writing about tonight deal with it.

I find Synchtube really awesome. One of the reasons I sort of wanted a Google+ Account, but not really, was the Hangouts. The idea that I could instantly sync and watch youtube videos with my internet friends is a benefit, to be sure! But then again, most of the stuff I watch isn’t actually on the youtube. Thus, when it was pulled into a Synchtube group the other day doing the pony-watching festivities, I was intrigued and excited.

It really works exactly as advertised. You don’t need to make an account to watch or make a group. You just dump the link into a chat and people are there. You can put just about any type of video you’d want on there: it supports stuff like blip.tv, making it good for all sorts of the content I watch on the lines. It’s just incredibly friendly to use, and it works. Apparently you can stall out of their little chat after awhile? But just don’t use their chat. The video stuff works just great. You’re synced up, and watching shit with your friends.

I like it. I will probably use it more often. I’m glad Phenwah showed it to me. You should use it to.
I’m off to bed.

Let me tell you about Shockers.

I purchased Shockers as part of a mix of candy from an expensive movie theater machine, and it reminded me that Shockers are pretty good, though I rarely have had them. I like sour things, and they were basically Chewy Spree with a sour oomph, which is right down my alley. It was a nice surprise and treat at the movie theater.

Then I made the first mistake of trying to figure out where I can find them. I couldn’t find anywhere selling them in Cape, but I did find places on my way to St. Louis that sold them. Of course, I wanted them, because they were good, and kind of a treat for when I did my commute. The problem is, I can’t buy them in Cape, so I always seem to end up buying two. That’s my second mistake.

Shockers destroy my tongue. Everything is basically okay for one tube, but a few pieces into tube number 2? Your tongue just becomes useless for the rest of the day. It becomes hyper-sensitive, and it’s frustrating to eat anything after that point.
I always intend to have one now, and one later when I buy more than one. That’s always my intention. But I have been having fucking horrible cravings lately. It’s frustrating, but I haven’t really experienced it before. I am just overwhelmed with a need for something sweet every so often, and when my body finally gets some sweet, it wants all of it. So, of course, I bust open the second tube and then I am in agony for the rest of the day.

Let’s be honest: this is about the stupidest problem a person could have. I really need to just quit buying Shockers, now that I know where to find them. But I keep doing it every time I go to St. Louis. Time flows like a river, and history repeats. No, wait, that’s the Mana Fortress. Well, something like that. I’m an idiot when it comes to buying candy. That’s all there is to it.
And now I imagined what a movie-theater box of Shockers would be like. Gods, I wouldn’t be able to eat for a week if I came into possession of something like that.

I feel like I’m having problems finding things to write about lately! I’ve been consuming less content because I’ve been working so much, and my current game conquest I shouldn’t talk about, because the whole point of me playing it is to write an article about it! (Dun dun dunnnnn!) More and more, I find myself on days like this one where I just kind of want to go to bed, and don’t want to do this. Still, here I am, because this silly blog is such an element of pride for me. I’m proud that I write some sort of bullshit everyday. It means a lot. So here I am. Let’s ramble.

I still have no idea what the whole right thing to do is on FurAffinity. Every so often I write my stupid shit and post it there. I don’t edit it, and I don’t spend much time on it: I get feeling all guilty when I’m doing heavy editing and storytelling work on pornographies. Still, I put them up, and people who find them somehow often decide they like them, probably because they play into under-served fetishes I am also a part of. It’s when they favorite, or comment, that I don’t know what to do. People have sometimes sent me messages thanking me for watches on FA when I watch them. Should I be doing that? People leave feedback on a story and what they want to see. Should I address every person? I’ve mostly just stayed quiet out of being unable to know. I just don’t use FurAffinity that way. I know it’s some furs Facebook or whatever, but it’s not mine. It’s just an easy way to track artists who draw shit I like. I dunno.

The house-buying continues well. I guess I haven’t written about that much here, but I’m buying a house, and I’m excited. I’ve got all kinds of household goods I’ve been collecting, which is useful. Of course, I still haven’t gotten the most important parts, like a new router and cables to run all over the damn place for the serious internets. Of course, apparently my bank has decided to take my loan deposit out of my account twice, instead of just, you know, the one time, so I’m a big super-broke at the moment. I get to yell at them about that tomorrow. Yay! But yeah, that’s all going according to plan. I’m cooking and planning and scheming. Of course, I worry the house won’t really feel like my home until a certain wuff gets his butt down here to me, but that’ll happen in due time.

I also continue to unironically like ponies. I rather think the pony thing has gone too far as a fandom, though, and this sort of thing is proof, but that is part of the reason why I revel in it and enjoy it so much. For whatever reason, ponies are something that the internet has decided to just be okay with liking without caveats or haters. (Okay, there are surely those types out there, but for once, I just feel like they are getting drowned out by love, instead of the other way around.) People can show their love for this silly kids show, and it’s fantastic to watch people just go for it, and feel for once they won’t be judged for it. Maybe I’m misreading things, but that’s how I see it. I love it. The fact that it’s a genuinely good show that I am entertained by is fantastic too.
I do still think the term “Brony” is fucking terrible, though. Ugh. Certainly not going to call myself that.

Anyway, that’s a blog. Goodnight, everyone.

Today was a tiring day. Today was a mostly good day. Today has become a linkdump day.

It’s Rarity’s cigarette that sells this one for me, really.

Let Jeff Green invade your nightmares.

Join me in being sad once again at the loss of Idle Thumbs.

This is my Tiny Tower. I can’t escape Tiny Tower.

Were you wanting a 20 minute long remix of Mario Songs? Well, you can get that right here.

More Persona 4 Fighter footage. It looks so damn good. I want it now.

I started watching Mawaru Penguindrum today. It’s sometimes a bit weird.

This is one of the better Retsupuraes I’ve seen in a long while.

I’m off to bed. Thanks for being nice today, world. My day off is over, so, you know, can’t rest anymore!