The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

As a twitter user, I follow tweets from people. A lot of these people are internet personalities I like, or people on Talking Time, or even some people I know in real life. However, every once and awhile, a novelty twitter feed comes along that is so consistently entertaining, I must follow it, and laugh all the time. I will show you two now.

Brer recently showed me Friend_Computer, and it is pretty completely awesome. If there is anything I always wanted, it is a twitter feed direct from Alpha Complex, where I can interface directly with the most helpful friend I have, the computer! It answers questions helpfully! It provides useful information! What more could one ask for from our friend, the computer! I love you, Friend Computer! It’s a tweetfeed in its early stages, but I am already smiling at it.

The best one, by far, though, is Fake AP Stylebook. I am a complete nerd for such things, I know, because it directly affects the work I do. But man, it is so funny so often. There is nothing quite like editing jokes to brighten one’s day, let me tell you. Here are just a few samples of recent useful information. Follow it. Love it. Use it. Well, if you’re using AP Style in your publications, anyway.

Yeah, hopefully those feeds can brighten your day just a little. Laugh and be merry! It’s, you know, December and all. That’s what people do in December, right?

This is the picture in question.
But yeah, so, internet pornographer, fellow Talking Timer, and all around neat dude Momo was doing these tiny little thanksgiving commissions on FurAffinity. I rather like his art style, and I dig his comic, UFO, even though it’s very silly and doesn’t update often. I bet his pornography is pretty cool too! So I was kind of wanting to do it. I was all waffling, though, because I know him from Talking Time and I thought it was weird.

Then Brer told me that was the stupidest worry ever. And he was right. So I went for it.

And that was the result.

I really like it. I look really neat in his style! I do always wonder, though, why I always end up blond in these sorts of things. I’m not, last I checked. I guess I just seem blond? Or it just looks a whole lot better in contrast to reddish brown fox fur? At this point, it’s almost completely part of how things look, so I have no issue with it, but I just have to wonder sometimes. Heh.

Anyway, there. That’s my picture. I showed it off. Whee! Less lame furry things to come tomorrow. Maybe.

Oh, by the way, my brother got engaged to his girlfriend last Friday. I said that last time, but it deserves it’s own post that isn’t full of anger at other things. Congratulations, Jonathan! Hope everything works out for you two like you hope. You both certainly seem happy together.

But yeah, seriously, my little brother is engaged. He’s going to be looking for a house and shit. And here I am, still in school, still having issues with getting transitioning off the ground (gah, I need to call someone soon…) and all kinds of shit. That… just seems really weird.
I mean, I’m accomplishing a lot. I’ve got a degree, and I’m going to get another degree. I’m doing cool stuff at my assistantship. I’m busy as fuck.
But I don’t know. I really do want to just kind of settle down, be me, get into building my own family and shit… and that always seems so far away. And here my brother is, totally getting on that. Which is fucking awesome for him.

Still, you can’t help but think about how your life is going and compare when things like this happen, you know? At least a little?
But I’m pretty happy with how things are going in my life. A lot more than I used to be. I have no complaints. And I have all the thumbs up in the world for my brother. Want him to find his happiness, too, you know?

So Rock On, Jonathan and Shauna! Go, you know, get married. Sometime. No rush, enjoy the engagement thing, too.
Just generally be awesome.
Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.
Wait, that’s Bill and Ted.
Oh well.

I got up Tuesday morning, and got ready to get to the office and work, etc. When I come downstairs, I learn that, Monday night while I was working, my crazy neighbor apparently threatened to shoot my brother.

Lovely.

It was bad enough when he was threatening non-existent “kids” who were doing non-real acts of vandalism on his house. That caused him to do things like shoot his gun off in the middle of the night and prowl around in a frightening fashion. That was bad enough. Now, apparently, my parents are going to meet my brother at his car and walk him into the house every time he comes home. All because my neighbor thinks that he stole his paper “No Trespassing” sign, which is just a ridiculously stupid charge. All he’s been doing is getting engaged. (congrats on that officially on the blog, by the way. I should write a post about that too) He’s not pulling that kind of childish prank. And now he’s been called out specifically and we’ve been warned that he is “allowed to use his gun.”

That has crossed a motherfucking line.

There is just no excuse for us feeling so unsafe in our own home. If it were up to me, I’d be calling the police right now. However, since it isn’t just my decision, and it would completely affect my parents, probably more than me, I’m not. I’ve voiced this position. They’re worried that the retaliation for such a move would be worse than having to do this stuff, and that’s probably true.

Just… what the fuck. Why is this kind of thing happening around here? It frustrates me so much that there’s no easy solution to this situation that we should never have been in.
Ugh.

I have so much shit to do, oh god.
I mean, I guess it’s to be expected. One week of school left, you know? But man, I have papers, journals to finish, papers to grade this time around, an entire book to read… it’s… crazee!

But I can do it.

At some point I became someone who gets everything done on time, and does it well. Fuck if I know when that happened. But it happened. I know I can do it.

Doesn’t make the process of doing it suck any less, though!

So yeah, uh, I guess this is a warning for, you know, if you get more kind of bullshit posts like this over the next week, then you know why! I’m not going to miss a day, but I may fill a day with something stupid. I’m that awesome.

Have a great last week of school, everyone!

I’ve been wanting something new to listen to musically because… I dunno. I’ve been listening to the Presidents of the United States of America literally all semester. It was time for a little change. I was trying some Oasis, but it wasn’t working. I mentioned to my brother that I was looking for something new, and so he hands me a CD by a group (okay, actually it’s apparently just one dude) called Owl City.

I kind of love Owl City. He’s got this very poppy, synthy song, and all his songs are sugar sweet but genuine and emotional. I’m falling in love. But most important, I have gotten one of his songs stuck in my head horribly, and that song would be Fireflies.
Got a pretty good music video, yes? It also has a good beat. Mostly, though, what’s getting to me is the lyrics. They’ve just got this very strong emotion behind them that, for whatever reason, is really affecting me right now. I mean… “I’d like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly” is such a great line. So full of hope, and yet sad, a statement of trying to force will against the inevitability of time.

Things just slipping away, as you dream, and try to turn things into something you want, but everything is never as it seems.

Yeah…

Chrissymas Holiday Shopping Update!

Mom: No Check
Dad: Check
Jonathan: Check
Grandma: No Check
Grandpa: Check
Shauna: (Forgot to put her on the other list, durrrrrrr) Check
Brer: Checked and Delivered!
Kale: Check
Essner: Check
Spants: Planned, but currently unchecked.
Cris: Still no clue how to approach that one.

As you noticed, I got shit bought! And I did it through the power of a little website you might know called Amazon.com. Yeah, I seriously just bought like… EVERYONE’S gift on Amazon over the past day or two, and of course I had every one shipped individually, because I have Amazon Prime and I can. More cardboard for me! Whoo!
So yeah, I’m going to have stacks and stacks of boxes showing up at the door over the next few days, and then I’m going to have to build a fort out of them in my room to hide all the gifts in or something.

Of course, I still have the hardest person to shop for, Grandma, left on that list. The shopping challenge is far from over! But, you know, at least I’m on top of it, even while I’m busy. Or maybe I’m just shopping instead of working on my end of the semester stuff. You never know.

APPARENTLY IT’S THE LAST DAY OF NOVEMBER AND I HAVEN’T REVIEWED ANYTHING AND I WAS SO DEAD SET ON THAT AWFUL JOKE YESTERDAY I COULDN’T DO IT THEN AHH.

But that’s okay, I don’t know how much I have to say about either. Mostly because I, uh, don’t have much experience with either.

For example, the KoL IoTM is the first one in a long, long time I haven’t picked up. It’s the Movable Feast. It’s… kind of mind-boggling. Sure, it’s an all-around familiar equipment. Sure, it lets you buff up your familiars, I guess, and it adds some damage and familiar experience. But man, I just don’t know. It only seems worthwhile if you’re switching familiars a lot. At the same time, if you’re playing softcore, you’re PROBABLY playing casually and don’t switch familiars all that often, and this doesn’t do much to entice you if you aren’t trying to train up multiple familiars concurrently. It’s just kind of uninteresting to a casual player, which is who I always think about these softcore-only items being aimed at. It’s especially less useful when I have a Mayflower Bouquet, which, while more random, I feel is better in pretty much every way for my purposes. And while I passed the little box of fireworks up for a similar reason that I passed this one up, it’s still extremely close to the cost of 1 Mr. A in the mall and still seems way, way better than the Movable Feast in every way.
So yeah, I just don’t get who this is aimed towards. So I didn’t pick it up.

In Twilight Heroes, we have the Atmos Spear, which works both shortened and extended!
Twilight Heroes kind of likes these changeable morphable items like that. As is, in the current gamestate, it seems like the extra chips from the shortened version seems like your best bet, as it’s clearly the best weapon in the game at the moment with that kind of enchantment. And the flying on both versions can be useful to free up vehicle or other slots, not to mention the lighting strikes.
I just, I don’t know. I’m kind of burned out on the grind of Twilight Heroes. If there were some way to redo the quests, I’d probably check in more often… it’s a great game, that’s why I’ve supported it for so long. Just… yeah. I can only grind for so long! Especially when I have so many other distractions.
Still, you should at least read the utterly ridiculous story that Cris wrote about the thing. Because it’s pretty awesome. The idea that something I can go buy in a store is so important is kind of silly. And awesome.

Anyway, there are some thoughts. DECEMBER, HO!

It’s Turkey Day! Thankful Day.
Yeah.

I’m thankful for all the standard things: My awesome friends, my nice family, all the neato things I have, THE INTERNET, life, etc. And I really am thankful. If I take them for granted… well, I shouldn’t. I try not to, but I probably do.

But today is the day where I don’t. So…

If you’re reading this, know that. Know that you’re important to me (because let’s face it, if you’re actually reading this blog, I know you personally, right?) and know that I care and know that… well… I probably owe you a hug! Or a hearty handshake of thankfulness. Or a turkey.
Though probably not a whole turkey. Maybe some deli-sliced turkey. I couldn’t afford whole ones. But the good type of sliced turkey! Honey-glazed. Something like that.

Okay, anyway, have a happy Turkey Day. I’ll be off doing… things. Probably schoolwork. Something boring like that.

So every time I start a blog post, I want to start it with the word “So.”
Normally I will edit it out and rewrite it so it doesn’t start so stupid. I obviously didn’t this time for effect. But it kind of bothers me that I do that literally every single time I attempt to write something. It’s always “So I was playing” this or “So I went” that. Surely I’m a better writer than that?

Then again, I guess I am, because most of the time I change it. I keep on doing it, just to get me writing, but I make sure the end result is just a little bit better than that, I guess. That indicates something about me as a writer, right? Maybe?

I guess it’s almost the stupid way I kick-start myself into writing something. It isn’t always easy banging these things out, although like most things, once I get rolling, then I go and go and it’s no issue whatsoever. It’s a habit, and gods, do I fucking love habits. I guess it isn’t a surprise I do things in a habitual way.

Still, if you ever see a whole lot of posts on here that start with the word “So,” slap me.