Sunday, March 20, 2005

Krup you

West Side Story is a great movie. Best music ever. Its pretty funny too... heh, I just love that movie. I want to get the soundtrack; I absolutely love those songs, especially "Gee, Officer Krupke" that one's the best... I actually put up a fanfiction the other day. I dunno if its actually been put up on FanFiction.net yet, but its a Metal Gear Solid fic. You can find a link to it in my profile anyway: www.fanfiction.net/~ddg I think people are a little too obsessed with disclaimers. They aren't necessary; I mean, you're writing a fanfiction: obviously you don't own the series or whatever because if you did, you wouldn't be writing a fricken fanfiction. The disclaimers in fanfictions are what I find the funniest because I mean, its plain to see that they don't own anything of the series. That's why I'm pretty lazy on disclaimers and didn't include one for the Metal Gear fic, I mean, if I owned it, the fic would already be a game lol. And a disclaimer that I just added to my GTA 3 fiction that I started last night: *insert boring disclaimer here* Its obvious that I don’t own GTA or anything of the likes. I’m merely a fan who writes fictions, hence the name “fanfictions,” duh. Simple as that. Disclaimers = almost unnecessary. Sure, disclaimers should be included because legally the characters don't belong to the author, but that's why its a fanfiction: the author is a fan who doesn't own the series or characters and writes stories about them. Alright, I need to stop ranting on about disclaimers now... I changed a few things regarding the images on my site here... If you'll notice, I changed the size of the table background. It was originally 600x1100 and now its 500x900something. I also changed the introduction image. Its approximately the same height as the avatar and site music table(I think its one pixel smaller... but it still looks good). I removed a few links in the intro and changed what "v1" linked to. A few things were changed on the sidebar, too. I reworded how long I've been an Anime fan, changed my talents and hobbies and removed my YIM screenname. That's one of the more major things I did yesterday: I removed YIM from the computer. Every weekend I come over here and I never sign into YIM. I don't use it anymore. I hardly ever talk to anyone on it so I decided to just delete it. What's the use of it if I'm not using it? Its just wasting space. So now I've only got MSN and AIM. If any of you did talk to me on YIM, then you'll have to talk to me on AIM or MSN. If you don't know my MSN, then PM me for it. Just keep in mind I'm not normally the kind of person who IM's you to talk, unless its something important. I'll usually just sign-in and someone wants to talk to me, well, then they can send me a message and I'll talk. Rarely do I IM other people. Its kind of odd; I'm more talkative while I'm online than I am offline(well, usually anyhow) but I rarely feel like IMing anyone to talk and half the time when someone IM's me, I don't have anything to talk about. *smashes keyboard* I hate this thing. The keys are so fricken hard to press... my fingers start to get sore after I've been typing for awhile. And I can type for awhile and pretty damn fast. As of Friday, I'm pretty much officially the fastest typing person at my school. My highest words per minute on UltraKey *curses the program* is 103 words. That's more than Mrs. Wolfe can type, and she's the fricken CEWT teacher! When she was looking at my records back when I was typing upper 70's, lower 80's, she even admitted she couldn't type that fast. Of course, I got 103 words per minute by ignoring most errors that I typed(which were some pretty bad ones at that... some of the words were completely unrecognizable) and ended up with about... 30 some errors. I still passed the skill check, amazingly enough. My skill levels are set to like, 81 wpm and 90% accuracy and for good reason. If I had my accuracy set any higher I wouldn't have passed a few of the skill checks and lessons, eheh. I finally got to see what grade I got for my short story. Mrs. Stratton handed them out on Friday and had us all get into groups of four and read them out loud. Everyone in my group enjoyed my story. We didn't get to keep our stories, though, because Mrs. Stratton, though she had the papers checked, didn't have them in the gradebook yet so we had to give them back. You wanna know what I got? Eh, do ya? Perfect score, 100/100 on the story and 10/10 on the cover page. Course, the only way I couldn't have gotten 10/10 on the cover page was if I didn't do one or didn't color it and put the title of the story on it, heh. I think there were only a few small mistakes that Mrs. Stratton corrected in mine, but none of it had to do with the dialogue which was the main purpose of writing the stories, to practice writing dialogue. It was mostly missing commas(I'm bad with commas, so sue me) and I think one apostrophe problem(damn them apostrophes!). I'm so fricken happy. Next week we get Good Friday off and then, and then, we get that following Monday off for a teacher in-service!!!! Four day weekend! Huzza! Celebrate for salvation has come! And then, the week after next, is Spring Break!! April 2-10! And you know what's happening Spring Break? My mom's taking me and Xio(Alexa can't come, she's going to Niagra Falls for the entire break) to the Saginaw Mall! *celebrates* Mall! Mall! Mall! Video games! Anime! Manga! Books! Money! That's right, money! My mom says she should have some money for us to spend by then! Hooray! *giggles* I can't wait. -DDG

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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Psycho rabbits

Have you ever played the game telephone? You know, the one where someone thinks of a message to say into the person next to them's ear and then that person tells the next person what they heard and so on and so forth until it reaches the first person? Well, anyway, yesterday, I went to my friend Bridget's birthday party and we played that near the end of it. Part of the party was spent at the ice arena. I'd gotten new skates just for the occasion. I was sure I was going to fall flat on my ass once I got out there, but I was extremely surprised when I didn't fall the entire time. ^_^; Heh, guess I'm a better ice skater than I thought I was. I haven't ice skated in four years and its been quite awhile since I even rollerbladed. My ice skates are really nice though. *hugs them* I absolutely love them. After we had to leave the ice arena, we went to Zabros Pizza and Buffet. It was my first time going there... and wow. I absolutely loved it ^_^ They had a nice buffet with all different kinds of pizza and desserts and salad and noodles and a bunch of stuff. Plus, they had soft serve ice cream, yay! And another plus, it was an all you can eat buffet. Yep. Good stuff. But after Bridget had opened her presents, the twelve of us girls who were there played telephone. Well, actually we played it near the end of the party as before that we'd been conversating for awhile. But once we started playing telephone, god, you'd be surprised the oddest things that the messages ended up being. Like the title of this post for instance. Original message: Horses eat carrots, does that make them really big rabbits? Ending message: Psycho rabbits *shakes head* It was just too hilarious. I haven't written anything in my Naruto fanfic... But with good reason, of course. One is that I've been busy or doing other more, er, productive things(*shifty eyes* Definitely NOT playing True Crime: Streets of L.A....). The other is that I really was doing more productive things. Mostly things that had to do with my newly renamed "El Pistolla di un Assassino" which is now known as "La Cosa Nostra". You see, after taking into account all of the marvelous things I learned after reading The Godfather, I decided to make a nice handy chart/table in WordPerfect so that I could figure out who in my story played what role in the Family. I've done it for quite a few different points in the story and even for a few other families that were featured in the story. Huzza. I rock with Paint. I made an actual awesome looking banner a little while ago. It'll be up in my signature on OtakuBoards in a minute. Just after I upload it and get the link, then edit my signature. As much as I like my Gaara banners, I'm going to switch to this new one for a little while, then maybe switch back. I'll still be sticking with the same avatar though, because Gaara rocks too much to even make a new avatar. ...how come whenever I post I always forget everything that I wanted to talk about? *shrugs* Ah, whatever. Guess I'll just talk about whatever. I'm starting another Mafia story. I actually started planning for it a bit awhile ago, but I started writing the first chapter today. This one is going to be separated into 3 Books, each with 10 stories about people either from the Mafia Families, the police, detectives, victims, etc. I quite like how its going so far... And while still on the subject of stories: I'm fricken anxious as hell to get my short story back from Mrs. Stratton. For one I want to see my grade for it and for two I want to type it up and post it on OtakuBoards. The only thing that I disliked about my short story was that I couldn't be as graphic as I wanted to be because it had to be school appropriate. I also had wanted to write a bit more for the end. I think I'll at least add what I wanted to write for the end, but was 1.) too lazy to write and 2.) would have made the story longer than the 3-5 pages it was to be(it ended up being six, actually. Somehow. The rough draft was 5...) before I post it on OtakuBoards. So, yeah. Look forward to that. Its rare that I post my work online to be critiqued. I'm really... er, what's that called again... well, I can't think of what its called, but I'm quite shy about showing my work to others. My writing work anyway. Ah, there's that word I was looking for: self-conscious. I'm very self-conscious about my work. Well... that's all I've got to say for now. -DDG

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Saturday, March 12, 2005

What do you get when you cross a stripper and a snake?

Naked Snake. *complete silence* Don't blame me for the corny joke, I didn't make it up. Heh, an author on FanFiction.net made it up and put it in with a chapter to her Metal Gear Solid story(which is quite hilarious, check it out, its called "Just Eat It"). I was really getting into those Metal Gear Solid stories last night... I was going through and reading just about every single one and adding the one's that I really liked to my favorites list. I'll probably be browsing the stories again today as I've nothing else to do, other than chat with a lot of my old buddies from GamePro.com(one of my old buddies had the good idea to start an MSN group for everyone, well, not EVERYONE, but you know, most of us. There are few people who are never going to be invited to the group for various reasons(ie: having cybered in the GP chat, been jerks to a couple of people, etc...) Does commenting on a few days ago comments make up for not editing yesterday's post? I sure think it does. Shinmaru: I think having more money is everyone's wish. *holding out a cup to strangers, waiting for change* Crucifix: You really should read those books, they're great. Redwall started out a bit slow, but it got better and I really enjoyed it. And yes, I will be accepting new players for the sequel. anatema: Actually, I probably could have got three if I could have found some really cheap ones... But, you can't get two books for $11 in Miami? Wow. I'm never going there =P lea: Huzza for Redwall. In the world of fanfictions: my Naruto fic is up to chapter 10. I'm still working on 10, but I swear that once I finish 10 I'll put it up on Fanfiction.net, then display the link here so everyone can go and read it. I was searching around on Google last night for "free online language translators". I found a few and I'm happy about that because now I can put foreign language in "La Pistola dell'Assassin" (that's what the translator on Dictionary.com told me and one of the other one's had a similar version. I'm not worried about the name right now as the way I have it should be at least comprehendible if someone knew Italian and was reading the name). I was screwing around with the translators last night and ended up translating a little phrase I made up into Russian, then making it my MSN display name. Kudos to anyone who figures out what it says. I ended up bookmarking four different translation webpages, if only for variety and also in case one translator doesn't translate a word and one of the others do. Later I'm going to send the links to myself so I can open them on my laptop and bookmark them there. And if you'll all excuse me, I'm off to read more fanfictions... -DDG

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Friday, March 11, 2005

Life is schweet [To be edited later]

Things are going nicely for the sequel to .hack//TRUTH. I talked to Wave_of_Death the other day about it. I PMed her with a few questions about whether or not she'd like to be involved with it. I read her reply last night and was delighted to learn that she'd been just waiting for me to announce that I was going to make a sequel. Not much else can be done at the moment as any major plans for the sequel cannot be made until the first RPG is over. Also, as I expected and suspected, Wave_of_Death is planning something and until she reveals it, I can't make any major plans for her character, Kia, in the sequel. Until TRUTH is finished I'll just have to continue brainstorming and maybe write a rough draft of the storyline. She also PMed me with what I partly find as a surprising fact: we have fans. Fans! Well, .hack//TRUTH does anyway ~_^ I knew that people have been reading it, because the number of views on the thread is way too many for it to have just been the participaters in the thread reading it, heh. But actual fans? Other things regarding the RPG were discussed, most notably the idea that it'd be great if it were turned into an actual book or manga. Such great things... Such great things are in store for the sequel as well. Ah, only a few minute left of class. Its a half day today so I'll be at home by 11:15 AM and I expect to be at my dad's early I hope. I'll either edit this post later or make a second post, you all got that? I still have more to say... -DDG

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Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Fans?

"Keep your fans updated on your life." Since when have I had fans? o_O I just read that, its the first sentence in that paragraph that explains what you can do when adding a post. *shrugs* Well, loyal fans, I'm here again to update you on my life ~_^ I'm at school, first one in my class to finish our research paper stuff. I'm probably the only person who only had to change one thing in the entire paper. I had to change the text in the header on my bibliography page, as well as the text font. Other than that, the teacher had given us some other instructions on things we needed to add to our papers(header in the main paper plus page numbers). So, now that I'm all done with that(I had to print two copies of everything and also keep my two other rough draft copies of the paper(one on notebook paper, one that had been printed yesterday + the old bibliography) and my notecards, then put all of that crap in a paper clip. I tell you, that's a lot of papers. My rough draft on notebook paper was about eight pages long, the three copies on the computer were each five pages long, two copies of the title page, three copies of the bibliography, plus a nice pile of notecards... that's about... 28 pages of paper + notecards. And now I'm just kind of bored as I've finished everything else. Its a Friday schedule today, so class will be over in about ten minutes... I'm a bit ticked at the school right now. They blocked OtakuBoards! The first day they got the new site blocker, it was blocking every single site almost. Now I can go to myO and theO, but not OB. *sighs* And I can go to FanFiction.net, kind of odd since I'd think FF.net to be blocked rather than OB, but I can live. I bought two new books today: Soldier X and Al Capone Does My Shirts. I've already read Soldier X, but I liked so much I wanted to buy it. I'm going to go back to the book fair and buy more books. I was going to buy Montmorency but Lauren says she'll let me borrow her copy if I let her borrow Al Capone Does My Shirts. So, I'm going to browse around and pick out some other good books. I might buy some Redwall series books; I finally finished Redwall, so I'm trying to find a few of the others in the series. Bridget sent me the entire series in chronological order, so that's helpful, heh. I got $11 left and I plan to buy two more books from the book fair... I just can't wait. And you what else I'm doing? I'm planning a sequel to .hack//TRUTH. Yep, been doing lots of planning. Got three pages worth of information for it on WordPerfect. Even though .hack//TRUTH hasn't officially finished yet, I'm still already planning the sequel. Can't wait, can't wait, can't wait. -DDG

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Saturday, March 5, 2005

Kayla-sensei's happy again

Deleted that damn service pack and showed it who the hell's boss around here. Everything's running fine again. Nice and fast, just as I like it. Now I know exactly what's slowing down the computer at my dad's. *devilish look* That damn service pack is on there too and its going to get a good whoopin' when I get over there. It wont know what the hell hit it once I'm finished with it. And the next thing on my agenda is to write a formal complaint to those assholes over at Microsoft who apparently think that the service pack is helpful to computers. Sure, it gives you a firewall and Automatic Updates but the major downside is that is slows your computer down. Oh yeah. And just to show how serious I am, I'll write it in fucking blood. Well, if I can work up the nerve to prick my finger that is. *shakes head* I'm just too... afraid of pain to do it. A nice pin prick should do it though. Get it to bleed so I can write with it... Ahem. Maybe I'll just write in red ink. Yeah, that'll work too. I've got enough injuries on my hands. And I'm sick again... real woosy. Mom says I'm really warm, too. Got 98.5 on the thermometer(though you're supposed to add on a degree to those, so technically its 99.5). Mom says the thermometer might be going bad too... Hmm... *grumbles* Too much shit happened today. Most of it bad because it involved me working on my computer for about two hours at least. But the good news for today is that I got two new books when we went to the Midland Mall. And I got pajamas with rubber duckies on them! =D But, anyway, I got two books by my favorite author, Mario Puzo. I got The Godfather and The Sicilian. I had a hard time choosing... They had a few of his other books there at Barne's And Noble and I was thinking about getting a Tom Clancy book or a Patricia Cornwell book, but I only had $20 so I decided to buy two Mario Puzo books. Refer to the post below this one to see why I wasn't happy earlier... -DDG

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Don't trust Automatic Updates, its a bunch of bullhockey

I'm telling you all this now while I'm still thoroughly pissed off: don't download the "Windows XP Service Pack 2" when the Automatic Updates window appears on your computer. You know what its done to my fucking laptop? The thing is now slower than my dad's computer and that's really saying something. As I type this now I'm not even going to bother correcting my spelling because its going so slow that I'm not even going to wiat for the damnwords to actuallyuappear in the box. Its not worth it. I'm now attempting to figure out where the system restore points thingamajig is, so I can fucking fix my computer. Fuck windows. Fuck automatic updates. Fuck Windows XP. Fuck them all. I can't even do anything on this fucking laptop its so fucking slow. To you windows, I salute you for adding yourself to my list of most hated companies ever. Fuck them all. Don't fucking trust them with your life or the lfie of your computer. They'll kill it. Mercilessly. -DDG

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Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Its a bird! Its a plane! Its... Aw, who the hell cares anyway?

...Did I happen to promise anything to post about? I don't think I did. Anyway, Math Club was today and it was fun as always. We're now taking a turn from Math to Science(its actual Math/Science Club) and we were learning formulas today. Hehe, god, its fun to learn formulas when Mr. Elsea is your science teacher. I swear, he has got to be the best science teacher ever. It was also loads of fun to shout out what we thought(or knew) each symbol to be. Hehe, I was the only one who knew what E©§ and E¬â was. Kinetic and Potential Energy of course! It took me a moment before I realized that "E" was energy and that "©§" and "¬â" were Kinetic and Potential. ^_^ Science rules. On a completely different note: my foot is... injured. Somehow. To be scientific, my outer metatarsal of my right foot is killing me. It hurts whenever I put pressure on it, rub it or walk. It doesn't hurt as much as it did Monday when the pain first started, but it still hurts. I told my mom about it after I discovered the pain while taking a shower and she said that it might be bone spurs. I don't know though, I mean, my shoes are comfortable and it doesn't feel as if they're rubbing against my foot or anything. And I don't wear my boots enough for them to be doing anything to my foot. I told my mom that my foot still hurts after she picked me up from Xio's house. Actually, I told her that it stopped hurting a short while after I got to Xio's and then I told her it was hurting again once I got home. Odd, isn't it? That's what happened though. It hurt all during school and Math Club, didn't hurt at Xio's house and hurt again at home. Damn foot. My fanfiction is going quite well though. Xio, Alexa and I schemed ideas for it while at Xio's house. Oh boy is the next chapter going to be great(Chapter 6, I'm working on Chapter 5). I'm going to put in as many of the ideas that we came up with into Chapter 6 as I can. Chapter 5 has a different direction its going in. I'm not sure when I'm going to put up the fanfiction on FanFiction.net. Soon, I think. Maybe next week. How about when I get to Chapter 10, eh? That sounds good to me. Which should be sometime next week. I emailed the first four chapters of my fanfic to both Xio and Alexa(if it had just been Xio I would have only mailed the fourth chapter, but since I was also carbon copying it to Alexa[I hate my school email sometimes... couldn't get the damn thing to add more than one address in the subject line so I just added Alexa's name to the carbon copy... *shrugs* It works.] I sent all four chapters...). What else... what else... I finished the Steal Cars strand yesterday in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It was really easy. My favorite mission for it was the last one, hehe. It was hilarious. See, the women who's car I was after, she was this really, wacky, crazy driver and she ended up flipping her car onto the side going around a turn while I was chasing her and she could flip it back onto its wheels, so, I took the opportunity, to pull ahead of her, let out the spike strip and watched as her car slid over it and popped the tires. Now I'm working on the Imports/Exports list, just like my dad is, ehehe. He's got more cars done than I do, though. And also on the topic of yesterday, school was cancelled =D And I slept almost the entire day while have the strangest dream ever! Though I don't feel like repeating it here, as I've already repeated it at least three times >.> Though it was funny and involved Xio, Myself, Kakashi-sensei, Orochimaru, Bible School, Mike the Bible School teacher and three bank robbers by the name's of Owen, Matt and Mike(not the same bible school teacher Mike). And the name's of Owen, Matt and Mike came from a soap opera that was playing while I was half-awake, half-asleep. Damnit, I hate when I dream like that. My dreams always end up even more messed up. And one thing I must mention about it: When Kakashi-sensei came in and Orochimaru, the dream had almost completely changed from when Xio, bible school and the bank robbers were in the dream. So, technically there was like two parts to the dream. What was extremely strange was that Orochimaru turned me into a mini-Zabuza look alike, haha. I'm blaming that on the fact that I read part of Naruto Volume 2 last night. I mean, I looked exactly like him! There was even a part when Orochimaru was standing behind me and I was looking into a mirror and I pulled down the bandages covering my mouth just like Zabuza does when Haku is "operating" on him. *shakes head* Dream can be so... messed up sometimes. Evil subconscious... -DDG PS: I haven't gotten eight comments in awhile, heh. Maybe I should change my layout more often, lol. Naw, that's just way too much work... Definitely wouldn't want to do that on a daily basis....

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Saturday, February 26, 2005

It smells like... new layout.

As much as I adored and absolutely loved my "Hatake Kakashi Version 2" layout, I felt it was time for a change... Well, I didn't exactly feel as much as I had a huge urge to create a Gaara theme after reading chapters 213-218 in the Naruto manga. My urge was wholly increased by the fact that a lot of the recent chapters have included some special pages of the manga that were created by the wonderful people at PaintPixel. *thumbs up to them* I've seen a lot of their work and I think that most of them are really good. But, back to the layout: there were about three or four different PaintPixel created pictures of Gaara included throughout various chapters and I've used two of these four I believe. There might have only been three, actually. Yeah, only three and I've used two(the introduction banner and the picture are the two I used). For the post background, I used a picture of Gaara that Mr. Kishimoto drew and colored for part of it. (You'll find that one on the far left side, the largest picture of all the ones in the background) Originally, that was the only one I was going to use for the background, but I decided against it and picked out a few shots of Gaara that I liked from the other pages in the manga(those are a bit harder to make out because they're not in color and they're a tad more faded than the picture of Gaara that was in color). After all that was done and created, I opened up the introduction banner in Paint and got the Red, Green and Blue codes from a few colors I wanted to use in the rest of the layout(the link color and text on the sidebar are both from Gaara's eyes and the text color in the introduction, this table, and the sidebar are from Gaara's hair). I played around with the colors for a little bit before I stuck with what you see now. Nice isn't it? The new MP3 is in the process of being uploaded. T_T this is another one of those times when I hate dial-up. I'm going to be here for awhile... but I wont go to bed until its all uploaded and put up onto the site! I've got plans for the "v1" part of "Gaara of the Desert v1" in the introduction. I plan on heading over to Cut and Paste scripts and using their random link generator to have random links of people on my friends list rotate around. Since I have quite a few friends, I'm sorry to say, I can't put you all in there. Please, don't kill me if your link doesn't end up in there, as the other links in "Gaara of the Desert v1" are all Naruto orientated, the "v1" will be mostly reserved for fans of the Naruto series(though a few other may slip in there, all depends... *pulls up a shield to block any incoming tomatoes or rocks*). I also don't have the time to add all of those links, I mean, I'd like to go to bed sometime before 5 AM. I'm going to create a banner for OtakuBoards tomorrow. Can you guess who'll be on it? Kudos to anyone who can. And not just kudos as in praise and whatnot, I mean, the actual cookie bar "Kudos." Those things are damn good. Damn good I say. I've still got a few other pictures of Gaara I'd like to use in the banner. Do they have any Gaara avatars at OtakuBoards? Hmm... I'll have to check. If not I guess I'll either stick with Kakashi or create my own avatar, though I don't exactly enjoy making avatars. But, if worst comes to worse, I'll do it. Damn. Somehow I knew my webhost was going to tell me there was a "bad character" in the filename of the song. Well, better rename that right now and hope it doesn't take as long to upload this second time around >.> Short, simple file names are great. None of this "18 - Alone" just leave it at "Alone" and bam! perfect. Its not like I have a ton of music hosted or anything. At the moment its only "Kakashi's Theme." Earlier I was thinking about a layout change. I was originally going to try and think of another MGS oriented one, but I couldn't find the kinds of images I wanted so I gave up and decided to give another few hours for myself to think in. And throughout those few hours I downloaded from chapter 210-218 in Naruto. And that's when I finally started making my new layout(I'd decided on making it around chapter 216-217ish). And now I'm here. Writing this post. At 3:50 AM in the morning to inform you all of my wonderful layout change. I think I need another damn blank disc again. Computer's telling me "Please insert a writable CD in the drive or a writable CD with enough space on it to accomadate the file(s)." Well, a variation of that anyway. That was sort of like a synopsis or summary really. Maybe I'll use the disc I was saving for Saiyuki and download Naruto onto it. I mean, I can always buy more and anyway, I'm not even going to download Saiyuki: I'm just going to copy all of the Saiyuki files on Xio's computer and save them to a disc. And plus, I'll only be able to put Saiyuki Gaiden and Reloaded, as the site where Xio has been reading the regular series is a "manga viewer," so you view the files on the site. Or maybe I'll use the reserved Ranma 1/2 CD. I really don't think I'm going to use that one anytime soon anyway, so why reserve it when I may need a CD right now, at this very moment? Currently I've got chapter 118 saved to the actual computer and its just... killing me to have it there. I mean, for some reason, space seems to be precious enough on the computer(still can't seem to find the reason of why its so damn slow yet... wondering if maybe all those Naruto chapter ZIP files were never deleted(I just figured they were in temporary file folders and would get deleted soon afterwards) and are still lurking in the computer somewhere, cluttering it up with atleast over 200 MB(maybe less, who knows. If they weren't in ZIP form it'd be over 400 MB, so, yeah, I dunno) of file space. And everytime I attempt to find one of the folders they were downloaded into, a search into the computers(including every single place that could be searched in) comes up with nothing. Damn computers. They're all a conspiracy...) even though I have very little "large files" that could be causing any problems. Conserving space is also a reason why I'm constantly deleting things(mostly pictures) I don't use anymore, even if I liked them(such as pictures). Also why it's horrible when I lose files on my webhost because most of the time they've already been deleted from my computer by then *has happened a lot* *still waiting for MP3 to upload* Well, in the meantime I'm going to go do elsewise somewhere else. I was reading "Bikini Bandits" earlier and I didn't get to finish it so I'll go finish that up. By the way, awesome story Annie! Great job! I love it, it just so... so... damn hilarious. You know what, if I were to choose one swear word that I really liked, it would be: damn. I'm sure even if I hadn't of said which one I'd choose, you could have guessed(if only after a little while or investigation, maybe you should use "Find" (CTRL+F) in my Archives and find out how many times I use damn on each page, then average it out compared to other swear words). -DDG

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Thursday, February 24, 2005

Not posting = Good for Kayla-sama

Yeah, it actually feels great not to post for days at a time. I guess the sole reason why I haven't been posting is lack of will and probably just too much writing earlier in the day, which makes me less inspired to write even more later. Yeah, I never told you what happened on Saturday. And you know what? I don't think I will =P I just plain don't feel like it. Lets see what post lazy Kayla has to tell today: Yesterday, in Discovery Language Arts, for an assignment we were supposed to write a paragraph that could serve as the introduction to our memoirs. No, we weren't actually writing our memoirs, just practicing introduction paragraphs I guess. Heh, mine ended up being about five paragraphs long. I got a little carried away... You know, "I took over the world and I rock," is a great subject to use in your memoirs. I've promised myself that once I get the paper back, I'm going to save it and type up what it says on here so you can all read the hilarious-ness of it. Did I ever tell you all that I've started a Naruto fanfic? I don't think I did. Its going pretty well so far. I sent a copy of it to Xio yesterday, but I've written quite a bit more since then. She says she enjoys it, that its funny and entertaining. She's started a fanfiction too, though you can read hers on FanFiction.net (Author name: PlainAndSimple, Fanfiction name: Wishes and Ramen). I plan on posting mine there sometime, but not yet. (Author name: DDG) We have to write short stories in English. I'm really pumped about it actually. We're practicing dialogue and I've been trying to think of what I should write for the story on Monday when we start them. At first I thought that maybe I could write some kind of short story involving a few characters from "El Pistolla di un Assassino," I was thinking that I could write the VCPR scene. Then I thought that'd be unhelpful to me, as the VCPR scene will be involving a lot of swearing and without it, I don't think the story would be as interesting. And seeing as I can't write that kind of stuff at school, well, that's out of the question. Then it came to mind I could write a little short story for my currently unnamed story(the one that I based off my dream). I was thinking, that it could be a little look into the future of something that may or may not happen later in the story(sort of like a preminition for the main character, Disaster). And I was thinking, that I could actually include the short story as a little extra to go along with the actual story. Yeah, I think I'll go with that. Either that or I'll make some kind of story up. Something that's short, but well written. Maybe something that would delve into the mind of someone. I don't know, we'll just have to see what I think over the weekend. Doesn't seem like there's much of anything else I should mention. Well, there is one thing, but you all don't need to know that as I'll be taking care of the problem, relieving myself as you could put it, in a second or so. -DDG

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