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Oops. I forgot to write anything yesterday. Ah. I guess it was because yesterday was Diablo night. We went over to Greg’s like we do every Tuesday (unless something comes up) and played for a few hours. This time we killed Diablo (in Nightmare level.) But anyway, that was only a part of why I didn’t write anything yesterday. Before the LAN party I was doing work and stuff, and then afterwards we watched hockey, because there were two game 7s on (and Colorado lost!!!! Yay!) So, anyway, I’m sorry I didn’t write anything yesterday, and I will try to think of something good to write later today. But now I’m going to finish watching Charmed and then get something to eat because I’m really hungry.

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Okay. As all of your know, I’m sure, I have really, really weird dreams. Now, I’m not going to write about every single weird dream I have in this blog, because that would be crazy, and probably boring. But I will tell you about the more interesting/funny ones. So in my dream last night I was with this big group of people, on what seemed to be a group trip to an unspecified foreign country. Oddly enough, while I was wandering the streets of whatever country this was, I came across a “Made in Michigan” store, that was supposed to sell only things that were made in Michigan, obviously. I went inside, and what it really seemed to specialize in were Smurf toys. There were tons of shelves of them. Then, there were also fake Smurf toys of various quality, ranging from little blue people that looked mostly like Smurfs to a fuzzy blue ball on a pair of skis. Also, the store shared space with some sort of music school. I don’t remember what exactly went on at this school, but after seeing it, my comment was, “This place is even weirder than Interlochen.” So it must have been pretty strange. I left the Smurf store/music school, and I went out into the square. I ran into my brother, and gave him this souvenir that I’d bought for him — a tiny pink ceramic tea set that had only 2 cups, but 4 spoons. Then I sat down and started playing with my laptop (which was somehow plugged in.) A bunch of the other people in the group wanted to go out to dinner, so they came and got me, and I just picked up my computer and carried it to the restaurant, not bothering to put it back into the case. At the restaurant, Vern (a designer from Trading Spaces) started complaining that he didn’t want to eat at a sit-down restaurant. He said that he never ate a sit-down restaurants, except for one time when he ate at the Real Seafood Co. in Ann Arbor. So we all got up and went to some little takeout place. While we were waiting for our food, though, I realized that I’d left my laptop at the previous restaurant (a result of not putting it away in its case), so I freaked out and started running back to the restaurant. And that’s when I woke up. I really have no clue where this dream came from. My subconscious is insane.

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So, I’ve been collecting Buffy action figures. I bought a Buffy as a birthday present to myself last year, and I now have Angel, Faith, and Cordelia, as well. I’ve also ordered a Spike (and one for my sister), but it hasn’t arrived yet. See, I really wanted a Spike, but they were rare and popular, so they sold on ebay for quite a bit (over $100 sometimes). I wasn’t about to pay that much for a toy. Then, the company that makes the Buffy toys (Moore Action Collectibles) did this thing where they would re-release a small number of the Spike figures (and a few others) with different paint jobs as an exclusive for this Australian company. I was very pleased to hear this, as it meant I could get a normally priced (i.e. $20) Spike figure. So I preordered two (one for me, one for my sister) back in February, when they were first announced. They were supposed to ship in mid-March, but the company was really slow, and they ended up not actually releasing them until a couple weeks ago. So, now the store I ordered from has them in stock, but I didn’t get mine yet. The website still says “shipping pre-orders now”, so I’m not really worried yet, but I am annoyed. I’ve already waited long enough. Anyway, as soon as Spike does arrive, I’m going to completely destroy any value he has by removing him from the box. This is kind of a pet peeve of mine. I don’t understand why anyone would buy a toy and then just leave it sitting in the box. I get that they go up in value — for instance, the Spike I am anxiously waiting for is already selling for $35, while my preorder cost was only $20. But aren’t there better things to do with your money than investing in toys? I buy toys because they’re fun. Right now, for instance, I have all my Buffy figures set up fighting each other. Buffy is wielding a lightsaber, actually, because it’s way too big for the Star Wars toy it came with, but is the perfect size for Buffy. I like to move my figures around and give them different weapons and things. I also get a great deal of pleasure in ripping apart the boxes when I buy them, knowing that some collector types would be horrified that I would do any such thing. Really, they should thank me. I’m making their mint-in-box toys all the more valuable.

Oops… I just remember that I forgot to feed my fish. Maybe I should do that.

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I really want a digital camera. I keep going to events where other people have digital cameras, and now I’m jealous. I even got to take a picture with one the other day. The one I want is the Canon Powershot s200. It’s really cute and tiny, so I could take it anyplace, but it is a good quality camera and it has a zoom and a little LCD screen, and takes compact flash cards. Basically, it has every feature that I want. The cheapest I can find it on the web (after a lot of searching) is $200. This is still very expensive, so I have not quite been able to convince myself to buy it, yet. Plus, since I am still waiting for my Spike action figure to arrive (I will explain in another entry), I am a bit hesitant to buy anything else online right now, as I do not wish to wait for two things at once. I did try bidding on one of these cameras on ebay, but I wasn’t willing to go over $150 for it, so I got outbid. Buy, hey, even if I spent $200 on the camera, I would only have to take the equivalent of 20 or so roles of film to have made up the cost. Plus, there would be no waiting to get the pictures, I could delete any stupid ones (and try multiple times if I had to to get a good picture), and I wouldn’t have to scan anything to put it on my computer. It seems silly to me that I have a palm, cell phone, laptop and tivo, but no digital camera. I think it’s an oversight, and one of these days I’m just going to have to remedy the situation, even if it does cost money.

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So, I went to Susie’s wedding shower this afternoon. It was a nice shower, and I got to see several old friends that I hadn’t seen in a long time, which was really cool. However, not being a girly-girl myself, I can only take so much of this sort of thing at one time. Susie had a lot of presents, and all the “oh, it’s so pretty!” basically filled my quota of girliness for quite some time. I am going to remedy this by going out to see a very not-girly movie (Bulletproof Monk.) Also, I’m getting really hungry, because the lunch was a soup and salad lunch, and while it was good, it wasn’t particularly filling. I think I need some football and some beer and potato chips. Except that I don’t like beer. And it’s not football season. I guess I could watch arena football and drink water. Somehow, that just isn’t quite as macho. Oh well.

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I really really really hate work right now. Normally I don’t really mind work. I mean, I get to work at home and get paid a lot for it, and it’s generally not that bad. It can be boring, but sometimes it can be fun, too. Today, however, it is driving me absolutely crazy. I’m working on this big template called the Engagement Letter, which I hate because it’s huge and complicated and never works right. We’re updating all the letters we’ve made on HotDocs to this new set of styles and new letterhead. This means putting all new headers in all the templates. So I did this, and got all the styles set and even managed to get the template running (it wouldn’t run yesterday), but now the headers in the second section won’t show up. I keep trying and trying, but nothing seems to work. I’ve been doing this for hours, and I’m going crazy now. To make matters worse, for some reason I can’t get to my work email. It keeps telling me that my mailbox is unavailable and to contact my system administrator. So, I’m really annoyed with work right now. I think I’m going to get out of the house and do something. I don’t really know what, yet. But I have to do something else for a while before my brain explodes. Because that would just be disgusting.

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I now have a story blog set up so that I (and others) can write a story piece by piece. This is intended to be a just-for-fun thing, not anything serious. The current idea that Diana and I have is to write an ancient Roman romance novel. Anyone who wants to participate in the story blog, please let me know, because you will need to give Dan a username and password so he can set it up. Oh, and to read the story blog, you go here.

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Fox has sunk to a new low. I just saw an ad for a new “reality show” called Mr. Personality. It’s like the Bachlorette (a girl picks from a bunch of guys), but the guys have to all wear masks and only after she picks a guy does she get to see what he looks like. AND it’s hosted by Monica Lewinsky. What is wrong with people? Why do they keep watching this garbage? I don’t understand. See, THIS is why good shows like Firefly get cancelled. People are too busy watching “reality” trash — which is no more real than anything else out there. Sigh. People are morons.

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If you want to comment on anything I say in my blog, you can click on the little link below the entry that says “comments”. You have to put in your name and email address in order to comment. This is supposed to keep random people from posting obnoxious things in my blog just to be obnoxious. Whether it actually works, I don’t know. But, if you want to comment on anything, feel free.

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I just learned that they’re going to release “Firefly” on DVD. This makes me very happy. It was a really good show, and Fox was evil (and stupid) to cancel it. At least this way I’ll be able to see the episodes again.

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