malkav11

So my PC stopped working for ~the seven billionth time. It's looking pretty good (I mean, bad) to be the CPU that's at issue, which is roughly 185 kinds of bad. 'cause, um, that's how much it'd cost to replace. There are things that are more expensive in there....well, one thing, my graphics card. Everything else is cheaper and would be fairly easy to replace....
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Back from my 9 day trip to Germany to see my parents. (Though the travel involved meant it was really 7 days.). Introduced them to the joys of Cowboy Bebop, RahXephon, and Tom Holt's book "Expecting Someone Taller". Lounged about the house, petted cats. Saw castles and museums and the city of Bamberg and the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. Purchased no fewer than 11 CDs....
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Goddammit. Two days ago, I bought God of War. I didn't really want to pay the 40 dollars it cost used, but it was by far the most tempting thing above 25 dollars and I was specifically looking to get two somethings above that range to take advantage of my 10% discount card, my additional 10% discount coupon (expiring the day after), and the store's...
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I fired up Guild Wars again a little while ago. I made a go at the first major Cooperative Mission. I was rapidly reminded why I quit. MMOs thrive on community. People bitch and moan all the time about WoW's crop of immature battle.net-inherited idiots, and while they are certainly plentiful (hard not to be, with 5.5 million subscribers or whatever it is now.), you...
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Managed to step on a piece of broken glass with my bare foot this morning. Apparently it had managed to evade detection for four or five straight days, waiting for its chance to strike. Bastard.

Bled rather a lot. I think it'll be fine, though. Just kind of squicky.

Absolutely loving the latest Takeshi Kovacs novel, Woken Furies. Great characters, great action...I do think Broken...
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You know, recently I was considering buying Disturbed's more recent albums off Amazon. I listened to their carefully representative 30 second samples of several songs on both albums, heard nothing as shatteringly angry or wonderful as on The Sickness, and decided against it.

Now I've downloaded (i.e. pirated) said albums and the full songs are incredible. I'm going to buy them next chance I get....
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Seriously playing some more Disaster Report, partly because I was waiting for Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, Growlanser: Generations, and MechAssault to show up on my doorstep. (which they did today. As opposed to yesterday, the day I have entirely free to do anything I feel like doing.) Unfortunately, the game is never again as cool as it is in the opening bridge sequence. You accumulate...
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Yeesh. Friday's cold snap froze a pipe which subsequently burst, spraying water along much of my bathroom's ceiling, which wound up flooding it as well as portions of my main living area. Looks like it was stopped and things were set to dry in time that my carpet is probably ok and I'll be able to return my stuff to a normal configuration in a...
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Oh, and further acquisitions (I'm burning off my tax return, you see):
The Arc the Lad Collection. Used for 30, which is a bit steep for a PSX game, but it's a four game collection with frills, and hard to find, so there's that.
Clock Tower 3, Onimusha 3, Samurai Warriors, Dynasty Tactics, all part of a 4 used games for 20 bucks deal at...
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Still kind of on the edges of being sick. Persistent, hacking cough, worst at night. Tendency to wake up multiple times at night for no real reason. Vague partial deafness in one ear that comes and goes. Went to work on Sunday but called in sick again today. Just generally feeling kinda bleh.

Played more F.E.A.R. Got to Interval 05: Blindside today. The ninjas (assassins,...
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