Random out-of-context quote of the day:

"Jeez!! You'd think I carried razor blades in my armpits or something..."

Alina vs. God of War

Alina: Yay!! I got God of War!! Time to play it!
Alina: Oooooh, hydra! SHINY!

(Five minutes later)
Alina: Stupid! Fucking! Archers!! Stop shooting my box!!!
Layne: They're shooting your what now?

(Often, over the next few days)
Alina: You want me to do what now? Oh, fuckin' hell... I'm going to check the walkthrough... It can't be THAT stupid...
Layne: (smirking) ...
Alina: Yup!! It -IS- that stupid... Ressing fressing... Stupid, stupid timed platform jumping...

(Somewhere in Pandora's Temple)
Alina: Hades' Balls!!
Layne: Wha---?
Alina: No, seriously. Look. They're flamey!

(Much later)
Alina: (unintelligible noise of anger)
Layne: What was that?
Alina: I said, stupid freaking spinning pillars. ARGH! Fuck!
Layne: Nothing like a nice, relaxing game after work, hmm?
Alina: DIE YOU STUPID FUCKING FLAMING ARCHERS!! Grrrraaaargh!

(Shortly thereafter)
Alina: Why does Ares have spider arms on his bac---Holy crap!! I have to fight ARES!! (button mashing...)
Alina: HAH! Eat that!! Uh oh, wait...
Alina: AAAAAAAGH! Now I have to fight me - no, wait, zombie-me! Aaaaagh!
Alina: You... Will.... Not... Have... My... Family!!!
Layne: Maybe now is a good time for Hades' Army?
Alina: Used it already! Aaaaagh! Quickly...Must...group...hug!!!

(One climactic battle scene (and much frantic cursing) later)
Alina: HAH!!!! I win!!! Ooooh... Cutscene...
God of War: You have unlocked...
Alina: CONCEPT ART! Glee!
Layne: It says you've also unlocked God Mode... What is that?
Alina: Ludicrously hard. You do half damage, and your enemies do FIVE times their normal damage to you, and I swear about ten times as much and never get past the first box puzzle.
Layne: So, that's a no then?
Alina: ... Maybe in a bit.

It used to be that I had only a couple conditions with which to make me a reasonably happy, productive worker. One was my own space in which to work since I can't stand people looming over my shoulder while I'm trying to concentrate, and another was to have proper equipment for the task at hand. There's more, obviously, but those are the things without which the other conditions become rather irrelevant, and I become rather irate.

Today, I have added a new condition, one that I never thought I would need to add. That condition is:

Access to an indoor toilet. And not having to wash my hands in a snowbank afterwards.

(A hard hat in hazardous conditions might also be nice, but I believe that falls under the category of "proper equipment")

Anyone who's never worn contacts or glasses will never be able to understand the joy of getting a new prescription filled.

It's like suddenly gaining a super power. The world is suddenly crisp, sharp, intense. Tiny twigs on distant branches spring into view, you can see textures up to three blocks away, and as your eyes adjust to the new, more powerful prescription, you feel as though you've grown several feet and are towering over a vast carpet with individually outlines specks of dust clinging to the woven fibers like small peasants that you can crush underfoot.

This feeling wears off after a week or so. So, if during the next little while I break out in dramatic poses or seem shocked that I'm actually kind of shorter than I thought, you'll know why.

Ikea : When you need a map and 100 feet of rope just to go buy a lamp, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

New Years

2007: In review

- Finished the second season of a T.V. show, said my goodbyes to cast and crew
- Moved to Edmonton
- Hung out with tons of awesome people in Edmonton, started playing Hell to Pay
- Learned how to sew PVC. Hell, learned how to sew at all. (With a machine, anyway)
- Finished off my first year of my comic, and built up a nice-sized reader base
- Got my first piece of fanart!! Woo!
- Got my own piece of fanart published in a comic anthology. Also woo!


2008: To Do

- Get a job. You know, like one I can actually put on my resume and feel good about, and that doesn't involve scrubbing toilets
- Keep putting out those thrice-weekly updates
- Find a tabletop group
- Try running a tabletop game
- Have an adventure. (Well, above and beyond the little adventures that make up my life.)
- Experiment with casting my own stop-motion characters
- Find a hedgehog breeder and get Hazel someone to snuggle with/ignore completely
- Keep on rockin'