Saturday, July 31, 2004

'Should I take that as a compliment?'

I've got a new website in the works. I think its going to turn out pretty well. My friend/step-cousin Tre finally convinced me to start making it so I got on the computer at my mom's last night, found a cool picture of the splash page banner and started making it while he sat in the living room and wrote reviews on games. Yep, games. My new site is going to be about games; more specifically, Mature Rated games hence the name of the website, Mature Game Play. Of course, we have plans to not only cover games but also movies as well. Horror flicks mostly, with the largest coverage probably being on the Freddy and Jason sagas, as well as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I'm sure that the website will turn out rather well. So far, Tre has written three reviews and I've written one. Eh, I hate to say anything about his reviews but...they need some work. That's not to say that they're not any good, but, I'll definitely be doing some fine tuning on them before they go up on the site. Heh, my review ended up longer than I thought it would be and there are still things that I could have added to it, but, these aren't final copies of the reviews anyway; just rough drafts. Click here to view all that's been done so far. (its just the splash page...) Well, to go along with that website news, I've narrowed my new site name down to two choices. 1.) The Anime Datastream (Courtesy of Wandering K) 2.) The Anime Darkroom (Courtesy of the Dictionary!) Both are very unique. I looked them up on Google and neither, neither of them had ever been used before. Well, atleast not from what I could tell. So, I'd highly appreciate it if you could tell me which one you like better by leaving me a comment, PMing me(here at myO or OB) or emailing me. ^_^ And lets not forget what you'll be seeing if you've visited TAD lately. An apology. About TAD being down... for re-construction. Yes, re-construction. I'm going to keep TAD down for a few weeks while I work on a new layout and get some major work done on Anime pages. Finally! Its here! Its here! Yep, when I got back to my mom's house on Wednesday, my mom told me that my WinTV GO had arrived. I was so happy! I immediately grabbed its large box and ran off into my sanctuary(my room). After opening the box, I read the instructions and found out that I'd need to open up the CPU just to install it. oO You think I'm going to do that? By myself? You're nuts! So I decided that I'd wait until I could go back to my dad's at a time when he was there and have him help me install it on the computer. Well, I'm at my dad's now and I have a few problems. 1.) I left the WinTV GO at and 2.) I'm only going to be here for about two more hours before my mom's going to be picking me up to take me back home because if she doesn't, I'll be here alone all night because Josie has to work. Man, I just hate technical difficulties. I'm dreaming... Hm. I've been having odd dreams over the past few weeks. The most odd one's were of meeting OB members, especially if they were members that I didn't really know all that well. In my latest dream, it was split into two parts, each was a different day(in the dream, not in real life)I met Mimmi in the first part and we talked for about...two minutes before the dream went into the second part(the next day). In that part, I met up with Mimmi again, along with BabyGirl(Why it was her I don't know why. I barely even know her!). Then, later in that part of the dream, the three of us were walking along on the beach when, out in the waves we spot Baron surfing. Eh, right. Well, that was my most recent one about meeting OB members. But, the very first one I had was very odd indeed. I can't remember much of what was going on, but, I do remember that I met OtakuSennen, Shinmaru and Charles. And then, there was a very messed up dream that I had a few days after my first dream about meeting people from OB. I really can't remember what went on in that one and the only person I remember meeting was Sara...and she was sitting in a large teacup full of tea. oO I guess while on the subject of dreams, I had an interesting Metal Gear Solid dream the other day and it got me thinking. Why the hell did I have a dream about Metal Gear Solid? A game that I've played very little of? Then it hit me. My dream(which I can just about fully remember) had the perfect storyline for an awesome Metal Gear Solid story. Yeah, you must be thinking, how can you write a story about a game that you've only played one demo of, huh? Well, I've read every single article about anything Metal Gear Solid in my GamePro magazines, on the internet and in my GMR magazines. And I've also watched as my dad played Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and I played through a few parts in the game when he was away(*hint hint*bathroom*hint hint*). I really think I could do it. I also think I'm going to take the game home with me...*snatches game from video game cabinet and slips into her bag* Ehem. You didn't see that. The awaited anticipated meeting Well, on Thursday, I finally got to meet Robin, along with her sister Courtney. I liked them both very much, they were very nice and very friendly. We(Lonnie, Blaike and I) didn't get to spend much time with her and her sister, not sure why and I didn't really feel like asking. But, we did go out to eat at Pizza Hut *prevents self from pueking* Pizza Hut...is...not one of my favorite Pizza resturants. The last time I had ate there I ended up throwing up two personal pan pizzas that I had gotten with my two Book It! vouchers. No, I didn't throw up because I ate too much. It was the pizza. I know it was because I felt really sick right after I finished eating it that afternoon, I mean puekey sick, sick-sick, not upset-stomach-I-just-ate-too-much sick. Alright, moving on... After eating at Pizza Hut, we took a short drive over to the local ice cream shop, got some ice cream and then took a walk. While walking, we found a really nice place to take a few pictures at. Well, it was a decent place to take a picture...if you didn't have to close your eyes during the picture because the sun was shining directly into them. Ouch. So, if I ever get ahold of that picture from the Digital Camera, you all can see me looking as if I'd fallen asleep on the bench... *coughs* We didn't do much else. We visited a store that sold musical instruments and then headed down to the park where we watched people play basketball. The entire time Lonnie complained about not bringing a basketball. T_T I'm going to make it my duty to remember to bring my basketball next week so I don't have to listen to him complaining again... We are not getting gay with any kids. Blaike let Tre and I borrow his complete third season boxed set of South Park the other day so Tre and I could watch the episodes on it. Oh my was that hilarious. I'd have to say the best one out of all three DVD's was the ChinPoko Mon episode with the Sexual Harassment Panda with a close second. Ok, I'll just make this post even longer by posting my story, lol. Continuing from...eh, Tuesday I believe. “Boss, I think they got away.” Luigi said. “Let’s get back to the hideout then.” Sonny said. As they walked outside they saw a cop coming out of the mall towards them. They quickly ran to their car, started it, and sped down the road. They reached their hideout in no time. It was a mansion on Starfish Island. They walked inside. Joey went into the living room and turned on the TV. “Hey, Sonny, come here ” he yelled. Sonny walked into the living room. Joey pointed to the TV. “Look who’s on TV,” “The NARCOTICS officers here have just arrested two main crime lords, Tommy Vercetti, who was just released from prison yesterday, and Victor Maveski.” A news reporter said. “Well, well, well. So Tommy can’t even stay out of jail for a day. Let alone see a setup in the making.” Sonny gleefully said. * * * “Alright, we’re here.” Said the driver of the Enforcer. Two officers opened the doors at the back of the truck. “Oh my god. Some one get a stretcher.” one of the officers yelled. As the officer went to go get a stretcher, Hennessey talked to Victor. “Maveski! Get over here ” he yelled. “But, I want to stay with Tommy, to make sure he’ll be alright.” Victor said glancing back at me. “I’ll make a deal with you. If you can beat me in a fight in the gym, I’ll give you a detention cell with him. Deal?” he said with a gleam in his eye. Victor didn’t notice nor care. “Deal.” He said. Hennessey came over and uncuffed him. Two doctors then came with a stretcher. “Who is it?” asked one of the doctors. Hennessey pointed to the back of the truck. “It’s Vercetti, back there.” Victor climbed into the back of the truck. “I’ll help you put him on the stretcher.” “Are you sure you can pick him up?” questioned the other doctor. Victor nodded. “Yes, I can.” He came over and picked me up. I opened my eyes at that moment and was amazed he could pick me up. He gently laid me down on the stretcher. Hennessey came over and uncuffed me. The two doctors wheeled me away to the emergency room in the jail. Victor looked at Hennessey. “Ok, cop, let’s get it on ” he challenged. Hennessey led Victor inside to the gym. He took Victor over to the boxing ring. They both climbed in. Hennessey took off his uniform shirt and threw it on the floor. They started fighting right away. Hennessey punched Victor on the shoulder and Victor struck him back. Not on the shoulder, or the face, but the groin. Hennessey fell to his knees with his hands between his legs. “Oh, sh*t! I give up. You win. I didn’t know your punch would be that f*cking strong ” he fell over. "Your cell is right down the hall! 3C!” he yelled, still in great pain. Victor walked out of the gym, laughing, down the hall, and into the detention cell. Copyright Kayla Neff/DDG 2004 Be sure to check the Story Archive for the rest of the story! Whew, glad that today's bit was short. I didn't want this post to get too long. Alright, that's all from me. I'm going to go add this bit of the story to the Story Archive and then work on my website(s). -DDG

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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

'Please. . .Let me die. . .'

I think I'll skip posting my story today so that you'll all have to wait extra long to read more of it(a day or two at the least) because I'll be going back to my mom's house tomorrow. Plus, it hasn't been all that long since I posted yesterday and I want to make sure that everyone's read it. AC's(Shortened to conceal her identity *shifty eyes*) PM to me earlier reminded me that I'd forgot to update the Story Archive today. I got that done and then afterwards, I got a great idea. I decided that I should spruce up the page a bit, so, I added a background and then inserted a fixture tag so it would stay in place as you scrolled down. =D I'm quite pleased with the background I chose, I thought it might be appropriate because its a screenshot from Vice City and, well, my story in set in Vice City(for the most part). Old memories. . . I visited one of my old sites today. It was my GTA site. I was visiting it because it had a screenshot from Vice City that I really liked and I wanted to use it on my Story Archive page. I found the website that the background was from but, unfortunately, they didn't have the screenshot anymore. But, anyway, after visiting it, I realized that I really needed to start re-building it in GeoCities or some other webhost(its currently been built in Freewebs). But, the site brings back a lot of old memories, I mean, it was my very first site that I ever created. So, I guess that'll be one of my next web projects that I'd like to get done in the near future. Your request could not be honored at this time. Please try again at a later date. Don't you just hate those random titles that tell nothing about what's going to be discussed? Well, I finally got to talk to Xio on MSN today. Turns out that she got a new email address because she was trying to avoid someone with her old one and that's why she wasn't on. When I logged on to MSN Messenger, though, and saw the 'New friend' window with the email '*****_****'(blanked out to coceal her new email), I immediately new it was her. Our conversation wasn't too interesting. Nothing strange happened at all, although, something could have had MickeyJ been on at the time, lol. So annoying... Gah, it annoys me so much...What annoys me you ask? Spam. More specifically, spam at OB. It aggravates me a lot when people spam, especially when I can't do much about it. I mean, the only thing I can do is report the post and know that a Moderator will deal with the spam(mer) accordingly. But, its just so annoying, you know? Shugo My Shugo drawing is up, check it out. So fars its gotten all positive votes. ^_^ Anticipation eats away at me I'm sort of anticipating tomorrow. You all remember me talking about my new step-sister, Robin, right? Well, if you don't, its on Page 4 in the post entitled 'Mosquitos'. Anyway, Lonnie's finally getting to see her tomorrow. Its only the second time that he's seen her because her mother and step-father wouldn't allow Robin to contact Lonnie so, Lonnie took Robin's mother to court and now they get to see each other again. I'm hoping to get to meet her tomorrow; that's what I'm anticipating. Hello, my name is DDG and I'm a stealaholic No, I don't steal in real life(well, not all the time, anyway ;), but, I do steal words and letters occasionally at a friend of mine's forums. Its a lot of fun, actually. Sometimes after I've stolen something people will start posting without the letters or words that I stole and they'll improvise, but, they don't do it for too long. So far, I've stolen the letters A, B, C, and D and the words incident and indecent. Ah, good times... Alright, its not worth spending ten minutes trying to think of something else to talk about What it says...what it says... -DDG

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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

'That sounded pretty damn gay, Jordan. Pretty damn gay.'

Oh, how fun. ^_^ I changed my site theme. Now its Akira! It still has a dark feel to it but, I just seem to like it better. *grins* I actually had been thinking about changing my theme for the past week or so and I finalized my decision when I made this post background, heh. I've decided to throw a few twists into .hack//TRUTH. Wave_of_Death and I have discussed one of them through PM, but I'm keeping the others a secret from everyone. =P The first twist that I revealed yesterday was Helba being caught and sent to jail. Pretty odd, huh? I'm sure that caught a few people by surprise. You know, I actually started this post last night, well, earlier today at around 3:30 AM but, I got pretty tired and headed off to bed so now I'm finishing it at 3:50 PM. I was also planning on doing some quizzes, but, they were taking too long and I want to get this posted, so, I'll put up the story and try and think of something else to talk about. Continuing from where we left off yesterday... I spoke to Victor. “I’m gonna land near the pier so be ready, ok?” “Ok,” he agreed. I landed the helicopter near the pier and jumped out. I spotted Cortez’s Infernus coming down the road. “Victor, guard the chopper,” I yelled to him running to Cortez’s car. I ran in front of it and he stopped. “Cortez, get out of here. The feds are on your boat.” I informed him. He rolled down the window and I walked over to it. “Thank you for telling me Thomas but, you better get going, too. The NARCOTICS officers have you on their most wanted drug lord list. I picked one up from a downed agent.” Cortez informed me. He turned his car around and sped off. I started running back toward the chopper. Suddenly, I was tackled to the ground and cuffed. Victor saw and tried to run away but the same happened to him. “Get up, Vercetti! I knew something was going on with you and The Colonel the first time I saw you two.” Hennessey said to me. I got up off the ground and he led me to an Enforcer. Another officer opened the door. I was about to step in when Hennessey and the other officer picked me up and threw me in. I slid all way to the front very fast on the waxed floor. I hit the front off the Enforcer and blacked out. * * * Victor shook me. “Tommy? Are you ok? C’mon, wake up.” He mumbled. I groggily woke up. “Huh . . .wha . . .ow . . .my head hurts.” I reached up to touch the lump on my head. Victor yelled at me. “Don’t touch it! It’s bleeding. I wrapped part of my shirt around it to help soak up the blood and stuff.” I looked at his tank top under his dark green jacket. Part of it was torn off now. I never noticed ‘till now but his outfit definitely didn’t match. He had a dark green jacket, light green pants and a white tank top to go with it. His hair was jet black with smoothed back spikes everywhere. I heard my phone ring. “Huh? Oh, that’s my phone,” I answered it. “Hello?” “Thomas, did they get you?” Cortez asked. “They got us Cortez. Can you bail us out?” “Us?” “Victor and me.” “Oh, no, I’m sorry, Thomas but, being on a NARCOTICS most wanted drug lord list means six months in jail and no bail. But I am pretty sure I can persuade the officers to go easy on you and maybe get you two some privileges. A couple thousand should do.” “Thanks Cortez.” I heard Mercedes talking in the background. “Oooh, father, can I please talk to Tommy? Please? Please? Please, please, please?” she begged. “Fine Mercedes. Here you go.” Cortez handed Mercedes the phone. “Hello, Tommy. I’m hoping to persuade my father to let me pick you up when you get out. I’ll visit you every chance I get. Love you, baby ” she said and handed the phone back to Cortez. “Thomas, I’ll stop by today and visit you and Victor. I’ll bring Mercedes also,” Cortez told me. "Ok . . . Cortez . . .I need to take a little nap now . . ..” I said and fell unconscious again. “Hello? Thomas?” Cortez asked. Victor took the phone from my hand. “Um, Tommy is kind of unconscious right now.” Victor told him. “Well, I guess I will meet you later today. Goodbye.” Cortez hung up. Victor looked at my unconscious body. “Well, guess I’ll just put this in my pocket.” * * * I really can't think of anything else to say, so, I guess I'll leave it at that. -DDG

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Monday, July 26, 2004

'Oh yeah? Try me old man!'

God damn I hate those cocky, arrogant 17 year old punks! *indicates title* I actually had fun writing a good whole hearty 'beat the kid up so he'll learn a lesson' fight last night in my story. Boy, was it fun and boy, did that kid learn his lesson... *coughs* Anyway...no pictures. I forgot to bring the Digital Camera and adapter over here to my dad's. *hear's groans in the background* Maybe next time, sorry. HiSpeed Internet or SlowA** Internet That's what I'm asking myself right now. Its not moving too much faster in my opinion. Well, I did have some problems with it from the start because I didn't have the applications for the HiSpeed on my computer anymore because my computer went spaz on me that fateful day last week. But, I reinstalled them and I've learned that I need to Log Off of the internet before they'll take effect and then log back on so the HiSpeed toolbar and stuff will come up and whatnot. I'll do that after I post this, though. You know, sometimes I think I do a little too much color coding in my posts on OB in the Adventure Arena. I mean, my latest post in .hack//TRUTH is a perfect example. I've started color coding speech, a different color for every person(I plan on writing the person's name down and what color I assigned them soon enough...), sometimes I'll color certain items like Aromatic Grass and Magic Portal. Then of course, I color my OOC bits of my posts a different color, I like to change the color of my post when I edit it. God, that's just a lot of color coding... Oh, well, I plan on working on my website today. I really need to. And, seeing as I didn't get to put up my new Hentai Free picture(Actually, I still haven't even made it yet...) before my computer flipped out on me last week, to catch up and keep the Picture of the Week and Hentai Free on the same number(I mean like, I'm going to be on my 7th Picture of the Week this week and I don't want my Hentai Free picture to be on its 6th because I started them both at the same time on my site) I figure I'll use my Cut and Paste Scripts account to have last weeks Hentai Free picture and this weeks Hentai Free picture randomly show up so they'll both get air time on the site. Sounds cool, dontcha think? I'm also thinking about changing the site name, too. I just don't like the whole 'Database' thing. Its just so...un-unique. I want to keep the acronym of the site TAD, though, so I'm trying to come up with a good word that begins with the letter 'D' to use. If you have any ideas for me, just tell me in the comments box. I think that I'll come up with a few names and then I'll make a poll on my site so the people can vote for the one they like best. Allright well, I guess I'll post this, disconnect, reconnect and then surf OB for awhile. -DDG

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Saturday, July 24, 2004

'Got it, dead man.'

Yay! Its fixed! Its fixed! The computer here at my dad's is fixed! I found the NetZero disc, set it up(Its not the newest version, but, every time I come on it downloads the part of the newest version so in a little while, it'll all be downloaded and I'll be using the newest version of NetZero again) so I'm on the internet and I'm about to download MSN Messenger and then after that, Yahoo! Messenger so if I'm not on right now, I will be within the hour. ^_^ But, anyway, my new mouse is a cordless one! Its awesome! *starts humming that one song: I'm free! I'm free! Not just a puppet on a string, no ties to...ANYTHING!* Ok, enough of that. Here's the next bit of my story that I'm sure you've all been dying to read. Continuing from where we left off however many days ago it was... * * * “Get in the car and chase them!” Sonny ordered. Tony, Luigi, Joey and Sonny each jumped in the car and started chasing us. * * * I looked behind me quickly. I saw that Sonny and them were kind of far behind so I motioned to Victor to head the Ammu-Nation in the mall. He nodded and we took different routes to confuse them. * * * “They split up boss, which one do we go after?” Luigi asked. “Go after Tommy. He’s a big liability. We need to deal with him first.” Sonny said. * * * I made it to the mall pretty quickly. I parked my bike and looked around for Victor. He got there shortly after me. We had parked on the top floor of the car park so we took the elevator down to the first floor of the mall. “Let’s get to Ammu-Nation quickly. It won’t take them long to find us.” I quickly said. We walked over the Ammu-Nation. I opened the doors and we went in. “Hey Tommy! What are you doing here?” A familiar voice asked. “Phil! How’s the whole army suing you going?” I asked. “Oh, it’s not so bad. I’ve just about paid it all off.” Said my old buddy Phil Cassidy. “Phil, you got any Sniper rifles? ‘Cause I really need some for cheap.” I explained. “Yeah, I still got some left. Do you need any AK’s? I got a bunch of those I need to get rid of.” He answered. “No, we don’t need any AK’s. We need sniper’s.” I told him. “Um, why do we need sniper’s?” Victor asked. “I’ll tell you when we get them off us and we’re safely back at my mansion.” I answered. * * * “Where did they go boss?” Tony asked. “Hmmmm…. They probably went to the mall. But instead of going there, let’s go to Tommy’s office building across the street. Then, we look for him to leave. If he’s as smart as I think he is he won’t suspect a thing. Ha, ha, ha ” He laughed. * * * “I think we lost them.” Victor said hopefully. “No, Sonny’s smarter than that. But his problem is that he thinks there’s no one smarter than him. But he’s wrong, I’m a lot smarter than him.” I boasted. “Yeah, so?” Victor and Phil said at the same time. “He’s across the street in my office building.” I said. “Wha? Huh?” They both said looking stunned. “Take a look out the window.” I told them. They ran to the window and looked up. They saw him. He was on the fifth floor. Tony was on the fourth, Joey on the third, and Luigi on the sixth. “How do we get out of here?” Victor worriedly said. “They’ve obviously found our vehicles already, so… I’ll call Ken. Get him to drive over in my limo. I’ll tell him to pick us up over by the old Tar Brushe Café.” I suggested. “Here Victor. Buy some new weapons. We need some long distance ones.” I said and handed him $6,000. “Where did you get all this?” He said amazed. “I own a lot of assets.” I said walking out the door to the payphone. I pulled fifty cents out of my pocket and put it in the slot. I dialed my mansion’s number. “Hello?” said Ken. “Hey, Ken. I need you to drive the limo over to the entrance to the mall, the one by the Tar Brushe Café. Got it?” I told him. “Tommy? Is that you? It’s been so long. How come you didn’t come here after you got out?” He kept going on with questions. KEN! Get here now! This is serious! I got the Mafia with me.” I screamed into the phone. “Mafia? But the Mafia hates you ” Ken answered worriedly. “No, no, no. The Russian Mafia boss is with me. Just get over here Ken ” I said and hung up the receiver. “What are you people looking’ at?” “Excuse me, sir? Please don’t yell at the public or I will be forced to arrest you.” Said a cop. “Yeah, surrrrrre officer. I’ll be quieter from now on. But I’d like to report a break in at my office across the street.” I said pointing out the nearest window to the sixth, fifth, fourth, and third floors of my building. “I’ll get right on it,” He said and ran out the mall exit. I waited a minute before Ken showed up. Copyright Kayla Neff/DDG 2004 Well, I guess there's another bonus that comes along with having to recover my entire computer: all of the effects that I mysteriously lost from PhotoImpression4, have returned. *grins* Now I can make my awesome banners again!!!! Oh, here's another cool thing. My mom's friend, Kathy, she gave us a little miniature Digital Camera. Its so cool! And, the disc that it came with, has, guess what! PhotoImpression on it! So now I can make graphics at both my dad and my mom's houses. ^_^ I can also take pictures so expect some my next post, alright? I plan on taking a few pictures of my room so I can show everyone how unmatched the posters are and how messy it usually is. Oh, oh, I also want to show everyone Puffy, my stuffed dragon. He's the best! *huggles* Oh, now I can't think of what to type...Well, I drew a pretty good picture of Shugo the other day. I gave it to my mom as a late birthday present though, so I'll have to ask her if I can borrow it and scan it sometime.Oh well, I guess that's all from me today. Later. -DDG

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Thursday, July 22, 2004

'I think the problem is Florida's open doorway to the North! Those Northerners are bringing their trash into Florida so the solution is not to have laws, but to dig a river. A river of hope. A river of freedom. A river that runs from coast to coast and...

...cuts us off from the mainland. Then, the Nation of Florida will float out to sea...' oO That took longer than I thought it would to type. Heh, but, you should hear Xio and I say that...oh my god is it funny. Computer + Virus = Dead mouse Well, the other day while I was surfing theOtaku network(myO, theO, and OB) the computer at my dad's experienced what I'm now calling 'the Mouse Killer Virus'. What happened was, directly after clicking the 'no' button for an offer to download a web tool bar of somesort, my mouse(on the screen) began doing things on its own. oO It totally freaked me out. But, anyway, it began opening programs, closing them, pulling up the start menu, doing a bunch of crap that I was most definitely not doing. My hands were on the keyboard at the time of this, I was not touching the mouse! So, anyway, not finding any solutions to the problem, I hit the power switch on the power strip below the desk and sat there for a moment, contemplating. I decided that I'd turn the computer back on and see what happened. As the desktop came up, it happened again. I furiously began trying to gain control of the mouse but, to no avail, I lost the battle miserably. So, I went to Plan C. I restarted the computer and went into the System Recovery. I first attempted to return to a System Restore point; that didn't work because the mouse seemed to still be controlled by the MKV(Mouse Killer Virus) and would not allow me to enter the System Restore menu once the desktop loaded up. So, I went to the next Plan, Plan D. I did a complete system reboot, the one that keeps all of the stuff that you've downloaded, saved, etc since you bought the computer. Well, that worked, to an extent. After doing that, I learned that the mouse was now dead; it has ceased functioning. I also learned that the most of the programs that I had downloaded, did not work or would not load. So, I decided to give it a rest for the night and I turned off the computer. After it shut down and I turned off the moniter, I proceeded to yell at it, saying that it was a hunk of junk and that it should be condemned to hell and that it should rot there forever. *growls* After that experience I watched the new Anime that I had bought earlier that day. Ninja Scroll! It was a good movie. ^_^ I can definitely see why it was recommended for 17+ though. I also bought the second volume of the .hack//Legend of the Twilight Manga. I would have bought the first but, they didn't have it so, I settled with the second. *grins* It didn't take me long to read it and I loved it! And, call me a dork if you must or something like that, I bought some Pokemon cards as well. Ah, it brang back such fond memories. I haven't bought Pokemon cards in awhile. A long while. Well, ok, back to the computer issues. So, this morning, I woke up to my dad on the computer, doing a System Recover on it. I then told him that I'd done one of those last night and that it didn't work. He then said that we might as well try it again before going to the last, drastic measure. Doing a full System Recover that took the entire system back to where it was when it was first bought. I really didn't want to have to do that. I had stuff that I really didn't want to lose on there or to re-download. But, we had to do it anyway... So, I lost: My entire .hack pictures folder My banners folder My website images folder Winamp Syboy: Search & Destroy Yahoo! Messenger (Latest version) MSN Messenger 6.2 *cries for a moment* But, anyway, after doing the complete recovery, my dad had to leave along with my step-mom and step-sister so I was left to try to connect to the internet. The problem was: I couldn't find our NetZero disc. So, I resorted to using one of our *many* free trials of AOL. I got pretty far into the setup when it began asking for a Credit Card. T_T So after awhile, I finally gave up with trying to see if there was an alternative to inputting a credit card number(for when the trial ended and there was an alternative but they wouldn't let me do that either) to be able to sign-up. I turned off the computer and went and watched MADtv. So that was my eventful past day at my dad's. Eh With computer issues at my dad's(plus not having my floppy a at the time) and me having Lonnie, my mom and Lonnie's brother Kelly behind me, no story for now. I guess I'll just have to postpone it 'till further notice. Sorry everyone. *cries louder* The problems at my dad's computer have also caused me to not be able to change my Hentai Free picture on my website(I had this week's Picture of the Week pre-done, but I hadn't gotten to the Hentai Free pic so I never actually got it up, nor did I get to post my update saying what the new Hentai Free pic and Picture of the Week was). *growls* Well, I guess I'll try to get around to everyone's sites before I have to get off. (I've already visited a few) Later. -DDG

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Tuesday, July 20, 2004

'What? Are you nuts? I'm not letting you give me a sponge bath!'

Heh, the quote above was taken from a slightly hilarious part in my story. Well, atleast I think it's hilarious. I wont go into details but...the subject of homosexuality(that's a word, right?) comes up and is 'discussed.' Well, anyway... I'd like to apologize to Kanna9 for forgetting to add her as a friend, even though I said I would in her Guestbook. Sorry, sometimes these things slip my mind... Anime! So much...Anime! I watched Princess Mononoke again yesterday. I was going to Akira again, but, I decided to go to Coldwater Lake with my mom and Lonnie for a little while. My Grandma and Grandpa are staying down there for the week, as are my cousins, Jasmin, Jaide and Ethan(actually, he went home today), and my Aunt Jamie and Uncle Jimmy. Yesterday was...a tad bit uneventful. As was today when we returned. The highlight of the trip: Jasmin and I making fools of ourselves in front of these two hispanic people. See, we were sitting on this wagon thing that kids are supposed to play on and there were these horses in front of it(you know, those little one's with the springs on the bottoms of them) and we were pretending that they were real horses...but they weren't moving so...we started taking some drastic measures to 'make' them move. It involved killing them. I then began asking as we killed them off whether I should unhook them from the harnesses or just let them drag. We let them drag. But, anyway, this continued for awhile until we decided that a cop should show up. The first time, we killed the cop with a nuke. Yes, a nuke...*coughs slightly* The second time, when another cop came, we 'asked' him if he liked baseball and he 'said' yes. So, if you can't guess what happened next...I 'used' a 'baseball bat' to...(WARNING: The following sentence has been rated R) ...whack his head off. Yes, a very strange day indeed. Oh..*laughs* today, we went swimming and Keegan(he's a 'friend' from school) was there as well so, Jasmin and I began to have a little fun. We picked up seaweed from the bottom of the lake and began tossing it at him everytime he was busy throwing the football to some other kids. It was absolutely hilarious. He would freak out everytime a piece hit him, too. *laughs cruelly* Ok, back to where I originally planned to take this topic... My mom has promised me that she'd take me back to Sam Goody tomorrow. *grins* She's supposed to be getting some money and she said that she'd let me buy some stuff with it. Aw, she's such a nice mom...buying me stuff...on her birthday. Eh, which reminds me...I said I'd draw her a detailed map of the house...I must get to that later...*makes a mental note* I've still not decided what I want to get. I'll probably know by tomorrow after contemplating about it all night... oO I always seem to get a lot of comments when I talk about Anime or when I'm complaining about how people rate art. Oh yeah, and thanks for backing me up with the whole 'its not right to not like a piece of art because you don't like the Anime' thing guys/gals. Repetitiveness! Mimmi: Yep, new sneakers are the best! *grins* Japan86: Armitage III was on a little sheet that came with Akira. One of those little sheets that say like 'Other titles by blah-blah-blah' and I was thinking about getting it. I've also heard that Ghost In the Shell was good. Ghost In the Shell is also an Anime that they show on my Winamp player sometimes...I even tried watching it once because the file size of it was low but...no luck. It downloaded about nine seconds of it with my dial-up internet connection before saying that the server was full... Damn you dial-up! *shakes fist* KiraraDOWN: *nods in agreement* Psy: Oh, that sucks. Well, try looking around. It came to me by surprise that I had two stores that sold Anime within twenty minutes driving distance. TheAngelHasFallen: Yeah, I saw that you had commented as well, backing me up. ^_^ But, yep, Sam Goody has Anime. I definitely suggest that you check it out. Zefie: You really think so? I got Princess Mononoke because I'd heard it was good and it'd been suggested by a few others. I only got Akira because the summary on the back sounded interesting. Lol, yeah, dunno what's up with the whole 'bobbybob' thing. Some people are just strange like that I guess... lost soul: *nods* Yes, you are probably right, too. It always seems that people vote negatively on a piece of art because that artist is better than they are when it comes to drawing. Otakusennen: My old vans were completely black with tan bottoms. They made it through the entire school year...but, now they're kind of...dead. There are large holes in the backs of them from where my heels rub on them when I'm sliding them on and off(I'm too lazy to bother with untying and tying the shoelaces...). AutumnCalamity: Most definitely not out of style... Yay for hyperness! Whew, nine comments...that got to be my record so far... So sorry! I'm really, really sorry for not posting anymore of the story yet! Some of it should be posted soon though because I'm supposed to be going to my dad's sometime soon. Ooh...BestBuy says that my WinTV GO should arrive within 3-10 business days. The tracking info said that it was in Franklin Park, Illinois on the 17th. oO *cries* I had something else I wanted to say..but I forgot. Oh well...I'll probably think of it tomorrow or something. Well, I have to get off now. I'm going to go watch Akira. ^_^ -DDG Edit: I just remembered what I forgot to say...look up in my introduction. There's a link called 'Story Archive'. I created that the other day. Its got all of my story that I've posted so far convientently located on a webpage so you don't have to go digging through my archives. Everytime I post another bit of the story, I'll update that page so if you haven't read my story as of yet, its all there for you. ^_^

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Monday, July 19, 2004

'No! Not the hospital! Who knows what kind of drugs they got me on there!

Aw, thanks for all the support guys/gals. Ok, now, today, I have other things to talk about other than rambling on about Fan Art. Although, there is one thing I'd like to mention that I read through a comment on my Vileplume drawing. bobbybobgurl: no offence, but don't u think poke'mon is kinda of out of style? *growls* That's absolutely no reason not to like a piece of art! Ok, enough fan art rambling...on to 'important' things. Eh, no story... Sorry, no story today. I'm at my mom's house and I don't want to get in trouble for putting my floppy disk into the computer so, that'll have to wait until I get back to my dad's. You all probably need a break anyway. But, anyway, yesterday, my mom asked me if I wanted to go shopping. I was hesitant at first, but then I remembered the $70 she had given me. So I asked: "Can we go to Sam Goody?" she said yes and I quickly took a shower, got dressed grabbed my $70 and was ready to go shopping. *grins* I first came upon the realization that Sam Goody had Anime videos when I saw a commercial for Gungrave. At the end of the commercial, they showed a small list of stores that had the Anime. Sam Goody was one of them. I was so happy to learn that Sam Goody had Anime. There are two Sam Goody's near my home. One is about a 15 minute drive away in Alma and the other is about a 25 minute drive away in Mount Pleasant. But, anyway, when we got to Sam Goody, I immediately went over to the video section and found two shelves full of Anime videos on the outside of two large rows of regular movies. Then I found a whole quarter of a row filled with even more Anime! It took me about a half hour to decide what I wanted, heh. But I finally decided on Princess Mononoke and Akira. *grins wider* I watched them both right when I got home. I really liked Princess Mononoke. The story was great, the character designs and art was wonderful! Akira...What can I say other than that I absolutely love this movie! It was a tad bit confusing at first and I was a bit turned off by it, but by the middle of it I was really interested in it. Ok...lets see...oh yeah, I also saw a TokyoPop stand at Sam Goody. Unfortunately, I forgot to look at it. >.> Well, I've still got some money left(the two videos together were only about $35, they were both on sale ^_^) so, I think I should be able to buy another video and maybe even some Manga with it. I also need to buy my mom a birthday gift, but, she hasn't told me what she wants and I think we'll be busy tomorrow (her birthday's Wednesday >.>) so, I might just end up giving her a few of my drawings, heh. But, I was thinking about getting Ninja Scroll or Samurai X. But, there are some other Anime's there that did make it onto my Most Wanted Anime's List(the page of which will be updated later). Well, other than the Anime that I got, I also got some new shoes. They're Vans(of course!) and they're colored grey, black, white and red. My favorite color combinations, heh. I've promised my mom that I wont wear them until school starts so, they're still in the box. Well, I think that's all. Later. -DDG

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Saturday, July 17, 2004

'What is it with you people and coming into the bathroom while I'm trying to take a bath?'

Well, because I'm sure not too many people got to see my story yesterday(I posted it kind of late in the evening), I'm not going to post anymore today. I'll post some more tomorrow, though, so don't worry. ^_^ But, anyway, my new Fan Art is up. ^_^ Well, I finally played around with that scroll table HTML that I got from Japan's Anime List site. I decided to use it on my own Anime Listing site so, check it out. I think it turned out rather nice. ^_^ Oh...how to decide...or, how to not decide I replied to both PiroMunkie's Anti-Dragon Warrior Campaign thread and Dragon Warriors All Must See thread. I've declared myself the one and only middle-woman. I play both sides to my own advantage...my goals of playing both sides to my own advantage are unclear but I am sure I will find a reason to play both sides soon...or not. I prefer not actually. Here's something of interest... I've come to the conclusion that one ending to my story is not enough. In fact, there should be one original ending and two, yes two, alternate endings. =D The only thing I'll clue you in on is that two endings are sad and the other is happy. Free trial? Sign me up! I love free trials. Especially if its a free trial for NetZero HiSpeed. Even though I absolutely despise NetZero, I figure, I'll sign-up for their HiSpeed trial and see if it does me any good. I get one week of pure HiSpeed heaven. It starts the 26th so I must make sure to be here at my dad's as much as I can that week... I plan to watch some Anime on my Winamp player and also see if it makes my internet connection fast enough to download some stuff that I couldn't download prior to this free trial...*cough*Photoshop*cough* More complaints... I really don't want to start complaining about being considerate to how hard an artist worked on a certain drawing...so I wont. All I'm going to say is that I'm very upset. Very, very upset. Had I not been uploading two pieces of Fan Art today, I would not have known that my Balmung and Sora drawings were disliked and that my Kyoko Tohno drawing was even more disliked. I mean, how can a drawing with a rating in the mid to high 80's drop so suddenly to the high 60's? Kyoko's wasn't too bad. If you can call a drop from 67 to 50 'not too bad'... *grumbles* *goes on all out rampage* Well, anyway, I've got a sort of little contest in mind. It'll take awhile before anyone can begin answering but, I'm thinking that I should have people try to guess where each of the quotes in my subjects came from throughout my story, after I finished posting the entire thing. It might be a bit of hard work for you all...but, hey, it'll be hard for me, too! Once I've got the entire story posted, I'll have forgotten where some of these came from, too. What are the rewards if I do do this contest and if you do win? My recognition as someone who really, really paid attention to my story. Or cheated and somehow got me to fess up with where each quote came from. (like that would ever happen...) Ok, not only that...if I do decide to go along with the contest and you do win, I'll personally make you a banner. That sound good? Good. -DDG

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Friday, July 16, 2004

'Going to cry? Need your personal space?'

Ah, writing page long arguments between two characters is always fun. Especially if the argument that was first in one characters favor, turns around and becomes against that character in favor. *coughs* Well, the argument I wrote was funny. Very funny...I'm sure that Xio wouldn't enjoy it, because it involves one of her favorite characters from my story being made fun of, lol. But, onto other matters. I had no luck with the mouse situation yesterday. That little creature is still down in the basement...*growls* Unless the cat or the dog went down there and found it, heh. I'm at my dad's right now...I'm pretty bored, too. *sigh* Damn, I wish that Xio could be at a computer where she can sign into MSN. I haven't talked to her in weeks. ;_; I'm so lonely... Earlier today, I watched the last half hour or so of Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights and I also watched the last hour of XXX. Ah, I love both of those movies; and this totally awesome quote: I wonder if that guy ever wiped his ass with the wrong hand! -Davey Stone, during one of the songs at the 35th Annual All Stars Ball. (If you haven't seen the movie, he was talking about a guy who had a hand that was a hook) I think I'll scan my two drawings in a minute and then send them in, so, keep a lookout for them. Need I repeat myself anymore? AutumnCalamity: It vibrates? And its supposed to be a kids toy broom? Sounds more like an Adult's toy than a kid's toy...*coughs slightly* Mimmi: The mouse scares me, I'm sorry, I must kill it. I don't like rodents. I had a bad experience with a hamster and it just...changed my whole liking towards rodents. *pauses* Eh, I've nothing else to say, well, maybe not. Just one more thing: Since I'm completely bored, add me to your YIM, AIM, or MSN if you'd like and chat with me. ^_^ YIM and AIM are on the sidebar. MSN: the_dragon_queen_43@hotmail.com -DDG

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