um... my clock is haunted!

It has just struck me that I have never ranted about how my clock is haunted. At least I don't think that I have, but I'm too lazy to go back through the archives and find out just right now. Anyway, it's pretty simple, really. First off, it's not actually my clock, but close enough. It's one of those Bose clock radios and it's in our kitchen and it is upon said clock that sits the bottle containing my doxycycline (formerly minocycline, but then my dermatologist decided this new stuff would work better even though it doesn't). So every time I go over there at night to take the stuff before I go to be, the numbers and stuff dim. My dad claims that it's just because it's light-sensitive, but I still think that it's haunted. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've said something about this before, but I don't really care.

In other news there were several tornados that paid us a visit though none of them were particularly close to our house; one was really close to Max's, however, and that was rather worrying, though nothing ended up happening to them.

Ah yes, now I remember what else I was going to say! After 2 1/2 faithful years of service, our PS2 finally crapped out on us. No, it's more accurate to say that we finally got the motivation to get a new one, that motivation being him crying because he couldn't play his new game because it wouldn't read the disk properly. So now we have a new PS2, and it's about 1/4 the size of the old thing which I find to be absolutely mind-boggling. My brother got Lego Starwars. Not regular Starwars, but lego starwars. Personally I find that absolutely disgusting, though I must say that the drop-in drop-out cooperative play really is rather nice. That and being able to run around as just about anybody from the 1st three movies in the diner place and get in random brawls with everyone. Okay, so I played it a little and it's mildly entertaining, if not disgustingly easy. No game-overs, no punishment at all for dying except you lose a little money. What are video games coming to?

I did a new sketch of Ki'ara. Yeah, so it's really better than a sketch and I'm quite happy with the way that it turned about, especially cause now she doesn't have massive shoulders. I did the arms better and the whole figure just turned out more realistically. I should have made her hair a little more prominant, cause right now her face could easily be mistaken for that of a boy. I blame it on the manga style as the failing point for thatl, but hey, it's so much easier to just give everyone a round, glossy face, so what the hell. Her hands suck as do her feet, but I'm working on the latter at least. On of the feet actually turned out ok, and the other would have looked fine if I hadn't decided to giver her sandals.

Working on HiTN has turned out to be a real pain in the ass, though a lot of that is thanks to the fact that I haven't had much time to write because of cross country, orientation, and the code-of-bullshit-conduct meeting, so I'm not taking all the blame. Part of the matter is that I was dumb enough to play Kingdom Hearts to burn off steam yesterday. It is without a doubt the most fun hack-and-slash game ever, and the storyline is absolutely awesome as well. But anyway, now I want some fantastical but subtly menacing stuff in it as well. Not quite like Kingdom Hearts or the FF games, but sort of intensely colorful but dangerous and evil at the same time. Twisted. So, that's getting worked in. My thoughts are that after the whole escape sequence in pseudo-RL and a boatload of trench fighting, both Ki'ara and Kami are going to find themselves in this fucked up world in weird clothes, etc, etc... It's gonna be this virutal playground/battlefield hoasted jointly by Clandestine I & II so they can slug it out with each other. Of course Clandestine I will at the same time be trying to annihilate the actual housing of Clandestine II, but Clandestine II has little knowledge of RL and won't have any idea that it's vulnerable outside of it's own domain. You poor, stupid bastard, Clandestine II, well, you both--wait, shit, giving stuff away! Ah! 'Kay, I'm done for now : )

"now i'm in over my head, with something i said, completely misread, i'm better off dead"