Whose Blog is it Anyway

Well, John did it, and I'm bored, so I figured why not?

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.3
Mind:	7.6
Body:	8.6
Spirit:	9.2
Friends/Family:	4.4
Love:	2.9
Finance:	6.1
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I'm tired of the anger, the hurt feelings, the fighting, and the drama. People need to back down and cool off, but instead they just keep fueling the fire. I'm tired of wielding my sword. At this point, I'm liable to use someone's throat as my sheath.

Vague post is vague. Doesn't apply to anyone on this friend's list though.

You know what one of the chief benefits is to not celebrating holidays? You don't have to put up with the ridiculous headaches they bring. I'm not going to burden myself in time and money to buy a gift because it's the socially expected thing to do. If I see something and I have the means to obtain it, I'll buy a gift for someone whether it's the middle of December or the middle of June. Besides, genuinely surprising someone is so much more rewarding than giving them something they expect on the day they expect it. :]

Get up, turn on the computer, and sign onto AIM and YIM. Depending on what day it is, I'll check to see if someone's online. Either way, the next stop is Facebook to catch up on whatever notifications and stuff I've been hit with (anime con people never sleep). I also check on the few games I play on there. After that, it's time for a tour of the rest of my Internet presence: dA, LJ, Twitter, TVTropes, and my email accounts. Finally, I take a quick look at Kotaku. After that, I just kind of idle about. ^_^;

I don't know if I could choose just one CD, but I would like the entire catalog of Shing02's music. Now, I know, there's a lot of other bands that I love, including Do As Infinity which is my namesake here on the Internet. But, Shingo Annen's compositions are just amazing. Born of Japan and now living in the Western world, the hip-hop artist's lyrics, rhyme, and beat flow just as freely in English as they do in his native tongue. And the words in his song speak to everyone, from the complex feelings of love (of which he's composed a trilogy of songs), to the generation gap that exists, not just in Tokyo, but across the entire world. It's a shame that not many people know about him because the majority of his work is released in Japan.

Now, a lot of people on my friend's list are going to be attending either Sugoicon or Youmacon on Halloween weekend this month. Personally, I'm already booked for Sugoi. But, there's a lot of you that are probably going to have very little to do that weekend. For you people, the team over at TheSpeedGamers are going to be running a marathon of the Resident Evil series. It'll start on the 30th, that's a Friday, and it'll run for 48 hours. Like usual, they'll be taking donations for charity as well, this time it's the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation. So, if you've got the time available, go check it out. They run a pretty good party over there.

http://www.thespeedgamers.com/

My dad got discharged from the hospital today. He's home!

Well, I've been making posts on my Facebook about the surgery, and then I realized I don't have some of your Facebooks or you don't use it often. So for you all, my dad's been doing alright. The surgery took a bit longer than expected, but it was successful. He just got out of the ICU and into a regular hospital room a few minutes ago. So... crisis ultimately averted for now. ^_^;

I haven't even posted here on LJ for about a month now, besides comments on other entries. So I guess I should let you all know what's up right now.

1) Matsuricon was a great time. I met a few people I'd only contacted online before that, which is always cool. I got to see all my friends from up in Cleveland again, as well as the Chicago crowd. The panel we did on Aniblogging went well, though the attendance was pretty poor. That's what you get from an early Friday slot at a small convention I suppose. Whose Line went about as well as it could. I'm really proud of Amara for finally getting her Best in Show at the Masquerade. I hope she can continue to get more in the future. :)

2) School's started back up again. I have two classes and a small "speaker's series" class that's basically me answering questions about presentations other people give ._.;. Logic is going very well, I'm really enjoying the course and the work. Programming Languages, on the other hand, feels like it might be the class that finally breaks my college GPA. Then again, I said the same thing about Computer Systems in the Spring semester, and I still got an A in that. Oh, and I got an A in my summer course too.

3) I had to get a new laptop. The old one had its graphics chipset blown out for the third time, and no one was willing to do anything about it. Sure, it was out of warranty, but they really should take responsibility for what is obviously a continuous defect. It's just as well, they'd just replace it with another motherboard that'd have the same problem in about a year's time. I can't wait to see if the class action actually goes through against HP/Nvidia. So, I now have a Toshiba A505-S6965. Plug that into google and you'll see it.

4) I've relocated. For the time being, I'm living in Illinois. I'll still be making it to conventions, no worries about seeing me at them. But it'll be about impossible to make trips to Ohio/Kentucky for anything other than that. I loved living in Indianapolis, but I still couldn't manage to find any work, and things were becoming very... *ahem* hectic in the house I was staying in. The calm here is nice.

5) Instead of foisting it on you the night before like last time, I'll say it now. On Tuesday, my dad goes in for invasive surgery. Surgery prep starts at 5:30 AM, the procedure starts at 7:30, and it'll take at least 4 hours from what I'm told. If it's successful, his survival chance and life expectancy increase a great deal. If not... well..... yeah...

Well, that's about it. Big shoutout to all my friends that I've been talking to over the past two months about things. I don't think I could get through this without you.

The Speed Gamers have just started their Mega Man Marathon.  All of the donations are going toward Earth Day Network.  They'll be playing from now until 6 in the evening on Monday, so if you've got any spare time on your hands, be sure to check it out!

http://www.thespeedgamers.com/