Tuesday, December 28, 2004

You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby!

My mom just came in my room and asked me if I actually listened to the kind of music I'm listening to right now. I said yeah and she was like, "I used to listen to this kind of music when I was 13 and 14." Heh. To know what kind of music I'm talking about, just take a listen to "Radio X" in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I've been playing the game all day. Well, since about 5:30 PM, but, whatever. I finally made it into the Badlands! Whoo! I've traveled up into San Fierro, too, but there's nothing I can do up there right now. I can't even purchase property there yet. And there's a lot of property up there. You look on the map in overhead view and all you see are little red houses where San Fierro is. I've traveled all over the Badlands and stuff. And I found a lawnmower, lol. Oh, my. I'm about to go do my next mission, one I've been waiting for. Its called Body Harvest and from what I've read in the strategy guide and what I heard from Tre, its fun. *giggle* I was on Rockstar's San Andreas site the other day. Takes forever to load but its pretty cool. I think when I go to my dad's I'm going to explore it in its entirety. I always seem to be able to wait for those kinds of things to load when I'm at my dad's. Probably because I have all the time in the world. I think I'll visit it again today, but not for too long. Man, I'm hungry...but there's nothing to eat in the house. ;_; I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich earlier, but, it wasn't all that good. Maybe I'll attempt a ham sandwhich in a bit. But I'm not really too eager to use that mayo/salad dressing. Its looking kind of iffy to me. I smelled it earlier too and...well, lets just say, it didn't smell the best. Of course, my sense of smell and taste are all altered because of my cold. Today my cold is most a runny nose but I've had a few coughs here and there. Hehe. Lonnie says I gave him my cold. I told him, "Just spreading the love!" and he's like, "Yeah, spreading the love my ass..." Oh, well, I think I'll..uh, go do something or something.... And sorry if I haven't been making it to any of your sites lately. I just really don't have the time too. I've got a very limited time on the internet here at my mom's so I usually only get to a few sites. And even if I do get to a few I rarely comment, so, yeah. Sorry. -DDG Day: 135

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Monday, December 27, 2004

Damn it, I’m going to miss that fucking morphine.

I would too if I was in his position. Poor guy. Unfortunately for the characters in my story, I enjoy seeing people in pain...and putting the characters in my story in constant pain can be quite...enjoyable. Plus its just plain fun and can add to what I'm talking about or what's going on you know? Boy oh boy was what I wrote today amazing. It was beautiful...wonderful. Absolutely amazing. Of course, not beautiful, wonderful and absolutely amazing in the sense that the scene was "happy" as you might put it. It was in the sense of how it was written. I wouldn't say it was the best that it could be written, but to my abilities it was great and I loved it. Especially the way I described Hennessey and Fat Joe(who at the moment does not have the nickname, Fat Joe, but is called Macay or Joe). ...................................... I just lost my train of thought...Oh, right. I finally explored the DVD capabilities of this laptop. I played my new Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD on it and had a great time laughing at all of the jokes and enjoying the movie even if I disapprove of some of the things they did with the storyline. And after seeing Lupin transform, I must say I still do agree with Sara's accusation of him on Group Sounds of looking like a "Gollum on steroids." I really expected him to look a little more wolfish when he transformed. Not a mutated, bald, freak. I always thought werewolf's did look a lot like wolves, I mean, in the book when Professor Snape did the lesson he even asked what the differences between wolves and werewolves were, which leads you to believe that J.K. Rowling imagined Professor Lupin when transformed to look much like a wolf. Not a hyped-up Gollum on steroids. But, it was the director's choice so...*shrug* Anyway, something I think is cool...the first page(front and back) in my notebook has pretty much been increased to four pages. Yeah...If you look in the Story Archive, this would be from the beginning to when Hennessey and Fat Joe are taking Tommy to the jail. And I've just barely reached that part in my re-type. That's 1 and 1/2 pages from my notebook(I just picked it up and looked at it) increased to 4 pages on my computer. In size 8 verdana font(that's the exact same font and size this post is typed in). That's a lot. A lot. And the other day, I increased the font to 12 points and...whew. A lot. And the paragraphs are huge. These are the stats on the damn document so far! Characters: 16,780 Words: 3,897 Sentences: 272 Lines: 241 Paragraphs: 68 Pages: 4 Average word length: 4 Average words per sentence: 14 Maximum words per sentence: 45 Okie dokie...I'm done for the day... -DDG Day: What do I look like? A counter person? Oh, that's right. I sort of am. 134 or something.

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Sunday, December 26, 2004

Cluckity f***

If you come back, you're a moron. Don't choke on the bone fragments. The chewy bits are harmless. The things that the dude at Cluckin' Bell in GTA: SA says is just...funny sometimes. And then the things that the pedestrians and the drivers and whatnot say...just funny. Just too funny. I swear, that game cracks me up sometimes. Boy oh boy was I having fun last night in that game. I thought I was going to turn it off after I saved, but once I'd saved I decided I wanted to have one more shootout with the police. So, I pulled out my RPG and stood out on the sidewalk, shooting everything in sight. Man, that thing is awesome. I aimed at a car that was like, I dunno, really far away and the rocket chased the thing around the corner before it blew it up. I was having fun blowing up all the helicopters that came after me, too. Of course, I had to be careful when they fell out of the sky. I usually had to take off across the street once I hit them because they were going to land too near me. I eventually ended up dying. I was like a few seconds away from finishing the full health + armor + cash cheat(they're all in one. I don't mind the health and armor together, but I really would have liked to have made my own money, even if I have purchased all of the properties that are currently available and I've bought all of the clothes from Sub Urban and Binco...). Ah, but it was fun while it lasted. So, I guess I could say I'm getting better. Atleast I'm closer to getting much better maybe...Atleast I haven't been sneezing today. Yesterday I was sneezing every few minutes and ended up grabbing a roll of toiletpaper from the bathroom to have next to me so I didn't have to get up. Now today I've woke up and I have a horrible cough. And I mean horrible. Hacking cough or something like that. Damnit it's annoying. My legs aren't as wobbly today...but they still are, and that's the major thing. I've been laying in bed most of the day and about an hour ago I decided to start typing up my story again. I started typing it up a few days ago, as I mentioned, well, a few days ago, but I hadn't typed up much. But today I've typed a lot and I mean a lot. A lot. I'm typing it up in size 8 Verdana font. That's a lot. Not size 12, size 8. And the paragraphs are quite long. More than the average three or four sentences. Heh, I haven't looked at my notebook since I began typing. I just don't need to right now. I know most of the important things that happen, plus I'm rewriting it and I need to change it, so looking at it just wouldn't really do anything to help. I've included almost nothing from the original text. Only the major things, like when Joey shot Tommy and that Tommy's stealing a car. Other than that, I've pretty much scrapped almost everything. Even the dialogue. And there's much more detail. MUCH MORE. Oh, here's a little teaser: I laid myself flat on the ground and crawled forward to the edge of the bushes to take a closer look at the house. Scanning the gutters of the house, I spotted a few stationary cameras. I glanced over towards the garage. Spotting only just one camera, I quickly made my plan. Grabbing a rock nearby, I pulled myself to my feet. Then, pulling my arm back, pitched the rock as far as I could. It sailed through the air and smashed straight into a window. The alarm sounded, and all of the guards rushed to the area. I grinned to myself and rushed from my hiding place, straight towards the garage. Its much better isn't it? And you wont find any of that in the story archive. Not a bit. Speaking of the story archive, if you'll notice, the link has changed. Its now hosted off of Anime Datastream instead of my GeoCities account through my Yahoo! email. I'm going to switch my Anime Listing over to Anime Datastream, too, just not right now. -DDG Day: 133

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Saturday, December 25, 2004

Saint Marks Bistro

Wow. And I mean wow. Maybe its just the fact that I feel worse today than I have since I got sick and that I'm not myself but...wow. I was playing MGS3 and I mean...wow. Either I'm rusty or, that game is just immensely tough. Or maybe its just me. Who knows. But I mean, I swear, I was in alert mode left and right and half the time when words from guards talking were on the screen like "Who's there?" or "What's that?" or something along those lines, I couldn't spot the flipping guards to try and plan an escape route and ended up fighting against about five of them. Not too far into the game and I'd already completely wasted the compressor on the Mk22. So after I'd gone a little ways farther and failed to spot a guard up ahead in the trail(my battery was charging for the equipment, so I couldn't use anything...) and went into ANOTHER alert mode, I hit the reset button without saving, planning to play when I'm feeling better. Yeah. I'm still kinda...pissed about that. Damnit, its hard sneaking around in the jungle, though. So I've been playing GTA: SA since then. For the past two hours or so I've had the game paused on the audio menu so I can listen to the radio stations and I've been reading the strategy guide. Ah, how I enjoy reading through strategy guides and learning stuff beforehand...its so much fun. ^_^ I'm on the last chapter of it and I figure I'll continue reading it in a moment. Whee! I got the hardback copy of Lord of the Rings. Its the book with all three in one. Its great. And I also got Eminem's new CD, "Encore." By the way, I got both of those yesterday. I got the Lord of the Rings book from my Grandma and I got the CD from Tre. Ah, well, there are two new Homestar Runner cartoons! Visit them via the links at the bottom of this post! -DDG Day: 132 [The presents! Where are the presents? A very merry Christmas in the world of Peasantry!]

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Friday, December 24, 2004

Gambling on Christmas Eve! Gambling on Christmas Eve!

Yeah, gambling on Christmas Eve. That's what going on in the kitchen here at my Grandma and Grandpa's house. Gambling is just such a wonderful thing isn't it? You should see the pile of one's that they've got stacked up on the table out there... Yeah, nothing new...nothin' at all. Been playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the past three days...that's all. And being sick...that's always a plus on Christmas isn't it? Felt real woosy today...when I got up. Then I was freezing. Then I was sweating...then I was just...normal I guess. Now I can't talk unless I clear my throat or drink something...and I got a hacking cough. Wonderful things... Bah, nothing else to say. -DDG Day: 131

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

From great to not-so-great

Its funny how things can go from awesome to terrible in a matter of hours. At around 7 PM or so yesterday I started feeling absolutely awful. It might have happened because I needed another dose of medicine, but when I got up to go to the bathroom, man, I had to use the walls as a support just to make it there. I was achy, had a horrible cough, stuffy nose...ugh, horrible. Then a little while later, Josie came home and made dinner and...I just couldn't finish it. I ate about half of my burger and just couldn't eat anymore. It was tasteless and I was just forcing it down...bleh. Then I changed into my pajamas and laid down on the couch to unsuccessfully fall asleep. I ended up not falling asleep until atleast midnight. And all the time I couldn't get to sleep I was giving my dad advice on what to do in GTA: SA. At first he was just trying to get me to the save house(I had four stars when I'd paused the game to eat dinner) and then after he'd got killed and got to me to the save house after that, he reset the PlayStation, inserted his memory card disc, then started up GTA: SA to play it himself. Haha. I'd say a few of the games he bought me he wants to play himself. Well, I know he wants to play GTA(obviously) and Ghost Recon 2. Maybe even Snake Eater. But he's already beat Sons of Liberty and he's not really interested in Digimon...so, yeah. I need to get something to eat...so I'm just going to do some quick commentry on commentry: Shin: Poor, poor Shin. =P Mimmi: Man, I really want to go get something to eat :( Zefie: Just keep writing and writing. You'll be amazed at how long your story could end up. Capricious Tyrant: Yeah, its about twelve or so notebooks full. Although, each notebook has less than the number of pages it started out with, heh. I think the first notebook I used was supposed to have 70 pages and when I started using it, it only had about half that. kamemaster: That's ok. I think I'm just going to stick with AIM and not download any of the others onto it. Baron: Well, as merry as it can be when you're sick =P And yes, I am quite spoiled. I didn't even expect to get all of those games. I only expected maybe one or two of them! Petie: Its to keep track of the days in the Daily Posting Contest (Sponsored and organized by Mr. Shinmaru) -DDG Day: 130

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Video games and strategy guides rock my socks

And that's a fact. So, I just got done opening the gifts my dad, Josie and Brittanie got me. You could never guess the things that I got. I got six gifts: five were video games and one was a strategy guide. Wanna know what they were? The first gift I happened to open contained: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Gift numero dos contained: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Gift numero tres contained: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty(to replace my old disc which is totally messed up) Gift numero quatro contained: Ghost Recon 2 Gift numero sinco contained: Digimon Rumble Arena 2 (whee!) And gift numero seis contained: The Strategy Guide for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (yes, I'm a little cheater and I know it. But I'm going to do as many missions as I can before I resort to the guide....) Whee, I started typing up my story today on my laptop. Boy is it a whole lot better. The first paragraph spanned from about three sentences from my notebook into about seven or eight sentences with much detail and thought behind them. God almighty is this going to take forever to type up. Did I ever tell you all that the rough draft of my story is 1,124 pages long? I don't think I did. But, yeah, its 1,124 pages long. That's a lot. And the longest chapter is chapter 2 of Part 1 with about 230 pages...and then after that its like, Part 4 or something with 150 some. My mom and I were discussing my story the other night in the car. We got pretty into it, and she was just surprised that I've kept up with it for so long because most kids give up on long stories after awhile. But not me...been writing it since 6th grade without ever a thought of stopping. Its like a novel pretty much...1,124 pages. And you know, Ms. Mott told us that if we wrote three pages every day for nine months straight that we would have enough pages for our story to be considered a novel? Or to be considered something or another. I can't quite remember. I did the math and it was like, 810 or so pages. I laughed after I finished doing the math and showed Xio. She laughed too and I was like, "Guess I have a regular 'ol novel don't I?" Well...I think I'm going to go force my dad away from the PlayStation so I can play GTA: SA...then maybe one of the other games. -DDG Day: 129?

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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Oh the humanity!

Ok, so my day's been bad and good. The bad: I'm sick as a dog. Well, see, I was miserable all day at school and then later at the party I told my mom I wasn't feeling well and my Grandma and Grandpa volunteered to take me back to there house for a few hours. That was okay. I felt much better after I had gotten under the nice warm blanket and curled up on the couch. And the good...well, lets just say I'm using it right now and I love it to death. That's damn right. I got a new laptop about an hour ago and I've finally gotten it to connect to the internet after a bit of exploring. Oh, its so wonderful. *hugs* Much better than that other hunk of junk in my room. *tosses in the garbage* The only thing I don't like about it is the mouse. Its got one of those little screens where you use your fingers or whatever to move the mouse on the screen and I really don't like it. It bugs the hell out of me, but I'll get used to it. And I got to open all of my other gifts. I got some pretty cool stuff. Blaike got me Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban so my guess that he got me either a movie or a cheap video game was right. ^_^ Robin got me an Eminem t-shirt and The Secret Window by Stephen King. Yay for reading! I got a new portable CD player. I was so happy when I saw that...I don't think I'll ever get rid of my old one though. Its like, just something I don't want to get rid of. I've had it since third grade so its kind of something I treasure. Um, my mom got me a little snowglobe with a dragon sitting on the top. She also got me this weather thing-a-mabob. What else...Lonnie got me a nice fleece sweatshirt(and some new boots, but I got those awhile ago). I also got a CD rack and a new calendar. Oh, and a G-Unit poster from Blaike whee! More posters to cover up my walls! And I have another gift around here somewhere from Deb(my step-grandma). Gonna have to find that later haha. Oh and my mom got me new comfy pajamas and a fluffy snowman! *hugs* Its so soft and cuddly. Hmm. An hour and 26 minutes left for battery power. I'm going to have to ask my mom where she put the power cord. I wanted to download MSN, YIM and AIM tonight. Or atleast AIM and then MSN. I don't think I'll download YIM actually. I just don't talk to enough people on it. I mean, I don't think I've talked to a single person on it in awhile. But I probably will now that I think about it. YIM is one of the only messengers that a lot of my friends from school have, so I talk to some of them on it sometimes...hmm. We'll see. Ugh, my stomach. *holds* When my mom came to pick me up earlier and I took the blanket off myself, I immediately didn't feel good. I got on my feet and felt like I was going to pass out. Then when we got out of the car once we were home, I felt even worse. I took one step out of the car and fwam, my stomach started churning. It was really bad earlier, though. It all started with the potatoes...I guess. I took one bite of some potatoes and almost threw up. I managed to eat everything else on my plate, but I just couldn't stomach the potatoes. And after talking with my mom for awhile she said she was going to try to get me an appointment with the doctor. Yay. Whoo. She says that the last time I slept this much and cried because I was in so much pain, I had mono and she doesn't want me to have that again...God. I hate mono. Its an evil sickness and I hate it. And they say you're more succeptible to it once you've had it. Well, my mom's looking for a different phone cord for me and I'm going to plug this baby in in a bit. Then I'll see if I can download AIM before I head off to bed. Maybe if I'm feeling well enough I'll talk to some of you for a little while. Oh jee, I hope I don't miss this year's Christmas chat. Anybody have any idea when that's going to be taking place? If so, let me know. And I'm pretty much speaking directly to you, Mr. Shinmaru, since you always seem to be coordinator of these little chats. -DDG Day: 128

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Monday, December 20, 2004

El Pistolla di un Assassino

Yeah, if any of you know what that says here's a cookie and a free...um...whatever else you'd like. Mind you, you never got any of it from me if anyone happens to ask... Anyway, I was bored earlier today and decided to rename my story. In Italian. So I flipped through the Italian learning book I got for Christmas last year and through a couple of sheets of words I'd printed out from the internet and came up with that. I'm hoping that I've got everything in the right order. If anyone here knows Italian or is fluent in the language, please feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken ^_^; It *hopefully* translates into: The Pistol of the Assassin I probably could have came up with something else, but I had limited resources. Plus I do kind of like this one. ^_^ It just sounds so...ah, I don't know, just so. There. So. Xio got Saiyuki #4 over the weekend *celebrates* So I got to read it today. Teehee. Its been so long since I've read Saiyuki...I can't see how I ever lived without it. But onto more...eh, painful matters. Today during Science, Mr. Elsea shocked us. No, not surprise shock, literally shocked us. No, it was nothing dangerous, but it sure hurt. Ok, see, he had us build compacitors out of a cup, tin foil, a nail and water. And then, we had to hold the nail sticking out of the cup up near the Van De Graaff for about ten seconds or more. And once we did that, we were supposed to touch the tin foil with our thumb and the nail with out index finger. Let me tell you, the shock that went through me after charging up one of those for about a minute is tremendous. It was so bad that when I got shocked, I hit the glass and caused it to tip over and spill out the water. *shakes head* So horrible. My partner Kristen kept making me touch the nail whenever we did it. God, and I can still feel that...horrible shocky feeling. Its horrible! For awhile I said I didn't want to mess with it anymore, but then I was finally goaded into a few more after some people promised not to make me touch the nail. Before Mr. Elsea made us go back to our tables and start working on our lab questions, he let us form a long chain of people(almost the entire class) and let us touch the last compacitor that had been charged. God damn that fucking hurt...my hands are still kind of...shaky from it...and the rest of my body is just...well, its hard to explain. But I guess that'll teach me to never play with electricity. Then during English there were two ambulances outside taking a kid to the hospital and Lauren shouts out: Hey, I wonder if its Mr. Elsea! Haha. That was a good laugh. And you want to know something that should not be? Darby sitting next to me on the couch. See, Darby is a very talkative person. And a very funny person(at times). I tell you, she had me laughing half of English. *shakes head* Atleast I know that she'll probably never sit next to me on the couch again because our last name's are in different parts of the alphabet. It just happened that Mrs. Stratton let her sit on the couch today because she missed her day because she was doing Student Council stuff for Mrs. Stratton. Hmm...don't think there's anything else I'd like to say right now... -DDG Day: 127 EDIT: Ugh, here's what I knew I forgot to mention: God am I sick. Its worsened...now I'm sneezing all the time. Got a really runny nose and a sore throat...and I do have an upset stomach, but that's just because I haven't ate since lunch ^_^; Never fear! Dinner is on the way! *points to spaghetti cooking*

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Sunday, December 19, 2004

An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.

Teh Comments: Katana: I don't think I completely have the flu yet. Still just cold symptoms...but I'm sure its coming soon. It'll probably be here before Christmas. I always get sick the day of or a few days before Christmas. Baron: Yes, I did very well enjoy it. It was a great book and I swear the ending screams sequel. Mimmi: Yes, see a doctor. Great idea. *hugs back* Thanks for all the well wishes and stuff. It really makes me feel a lot better. So today was...well, what I would call productive I guess. I watched a few movies after I woke up at around 4 PM. I didn't get to sleep 'till around 5 AM. I was just too immersed in The Supernaturalists to put it down. But I woke up from a dream that I've failed to remember the details of. But I do know that I did dream because it was one of those dreams that I like to try to finish after I wake up. I don't think it ever finished though...Oh well. Atleast it wasn't a really bad dream or anything. If I can't remember it then there was obviously nothing significant about it. Anyway, I didn't feel like getting on the internet at my dad's today, so instead I watched some of the movie marathon they were having on USA. I think it was a Robert DeNiro movie marathon or something. I only got to watch half of "15 Minutes" and "Casino." After Casino they were going to play "Meet the Parents" but I never got to watch that. I've seen most of it before, but, I did want to watch it again. Once I got home I was asked by my mom to pack stockings and stuff. God, that was almighty hell I tell you. There were uneven numbers of all the stocking stuffers...took me forever to figure to stuff out. And my mom didn't know the name's of everyone so I couldn't put name's on half the stockings. *shakes head* Then I had to wrap a few gifts...atleast that's done now. Only two more days until the party at the Sportsman Club and early presentry opening! I'm so...eh, I dunno. I'm not really up for going to a huge Christmas parties. *scuffs feet on the floor detestedly* I'm not a big party-goer. I think I'm going to bring a few books to the party and occupy myself with them in a corner. That way no one will bother me. *grumbles* And for some reason I'm just not in the Christmas spirit this year. But oh well...I don't mind. -DDG Day: 126

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