Microsoft just shipped out my XBox today.
Assassin's Creed II arrives Tuesday.
Which gets here first? Oooooh, the anticipation.
Assassin's Creed II arrives Tuesday.
Which gets here first? Oooooh, the anticipation.
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Life: Don't Make It Tricky
11 November 2009 @ 08:08 am
JJ Abrams isn't doing the Dark Tower movies/series anymore.
Disappointing, as I'd love to see what he would have done with it. But at least I can appreciate his reason: He's terrified to screw it up.
Disappointing, as I'd love to see what he would have done with it. But at least I can appreciate his reason: He's terrified to screw it up.
10 November 2009 @ 03:12 pm
Title: An Unexpected Mission (The New Mutants 1.2, Chapter 6)
Author: kanedax
Spoilers: X3, Previous Chapters
Rating: PG13 for language and suggested nudity
Summary: A New Mutant gets his first taste of life as an X-Man
Notes: The original version of this chapter can be found here.
I don't own these characters. They belong to Marvel Comics, Disney, and 20th Century Fox.
( An Unexpected Mission (New Mutants 1.2, Chapter 6) )
Author: kanedax
Spoilers: X3, Previous Chapters
Rating: PG13 for language and suggested nudity
Summary: A New Mutant gets his first taste of life as an X-Man
Notes: The original version of this chapter can be found here.
I don't own these characters. They belong to Marvel Comics, Disney, and 20th Century Fox.
( An Unexpected Mission (New Mutants 1.2, Chapter 6) )
10 November 2009 @ 09:51 am
KOOL 108's not starting their nonstop Christmas music until the friday after Thanksgiving.
Last year they started it, oh, two weeks before?
Thankyouthankyouthankyou.
09 November 2009 @ 10:49 am
08 November 2009 @ 12:01 pm
Title: Dualkey (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 37)
Author: kanedax
Rating: PG13 for language and violence
Spoilers: Previous Chapters
Summary: The Ministry counters
Notes: Another chapter that, due to length, had to go over to Dreamwidth.
I own these characters. The others belong to JK Rowling.
Dualkey (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 37)
Author: kanedax
Rating: PG13 for language and violence
Spoilers: Previous Chapters
Summary: The Ministry counters
Notes: Another chapter that, due to length, had to go over to Dreamwidth.
I own these characters. The others belong to JK Rowling.
Dualkey (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 37)
07 November 2009 @ 11:22 pm
Today:
- Drove to the car donation site to get rid of my Ford Rustbucket. (*sob*)
- Walked the 18 blocks to Dinkytown
- Had my first Burrito Loco
- Bused to Uptown
- Bought Almost Famous, Tombstone, and A History of Violence for about 18 bucks.
- Bused to downtown Hopkins
- Picked up Batman: RIP from the library
- Walked home from there
- FINISHED CHAPTER
- Played Super Swing Golf
- Saw Landscape of the Body (Weird. Good, but weird).
- Oh, did I mention FINISHED CHAPTER?
Sunday I'm getting together with a guy from the show and his wife to bum around the MOA and see The Men Who Stare at Goats. Chapter will be posted either before or after that, as I'm not getting together with them until sometime before 2.
Next chapter... I can see just as much time before that one is posted. There's not much for me to do in it, but what I need to do is stuff that I haven't structured out AT ALL. So a little outlining's in the cards first.
- Drove to the car donation site to get rid of my Ford Rustbucket. (*sob*)
- Walked the 18 blocks to Dinkytown
- Had my first Burrito Loco
- Bused to Uptown
- Bought Almost Famous, Tombstone, and A History of Violence for about 18 bucks.
- Bused to downtown Hopkins
- Picked up Batman: RIP from the library
- Walked home from there
- FINISHED CHAPTER
- Played Super Swing Golf
- Saw Landscape of the Body (Weird. Good, but weird).
- Oh, did I mention FINISHED CHAPTER?
Sunday I'm getting together with a guy from the show and his wife to bum around the MOA and see The Men Who Stare at Goats. Chapter will be posted either before or after that, as I'm not getting together with them until sometime before 2.
Next chapter... I can see just as much time before that one is posted. There's not much for me to do in it, but what I need to do is stuff that I haven't structured out AT ALL. So a little outlining's in the cards first.
06 November 2009 @ 04:57 pm
Tonight: Busy
Tomorrow: Busy Busy
Sunday: Quite open now that the show I was going to see sold out.
Result: I promise to have a chapter completed and posted by the end of the weekend.
06 November 2009 @ 12:03 pm
05 November 2009 @ 08:31 am
04 November 2009 @ 09:36 pm
There's a car in my parking space where my old car used to sit.
On one hand, no more manual transmission, no more 30 mpg (I think), and no more headlights that go "VWIP."
On the other hand, no more plumes of exhaust kicking up in the morning, no more struts hanging off the back, no more rust falling off in bunches.
I've upgraded about 8 years (95 to 03) and about 100,000 miles (170,000 to 70,000).
I can drive to Duluth next weekend in my own damn car instead of renting one.
On one hand, no more manual transmission, no more 30 mpg (I think), and no more headlights that go "VWIP."
On the other hand, no more plumes of exhaust kicking up in the morning, no more struts hanging off the back, no more rust falling off in bunches.
I've upgraded about 8 years (95 to 03) and about 100,000 miles (170,000 to 70,000).
I can drive to Duluth next weekend in my own damn car instead of renting one.
04 November 2009 @ 10:32 am
03 November 2009 @ 09:48 pm
Well, I suppose it's a right of passage for all XBox 360 owners:
I got my first Red Ring of Death.
3-lighter, which means it's still under warranty. I'm shipping it out tomorrow. If I'm lucky I'll get it back by Thanksgiving.
Perfect timing, just in time to NOT play Assassin's Creed II.
Ah, well... now that the show's over, and my 360's in stasis, it'll give me more time to write or Wii or clean or PS2 or whatever.
BTW, did I mention I have a "new" car coming my way tomorrow? WOO!
I got my first Red Ring of Death.
3-lighter, which means it's still under warranty. I'm shipping it out tomorrow. If I'm lucky I'll get it back by Thanksgiving.
Perfect timing, just in time to NOT play Assassin's Creed II.
Ah, well... now that the show's over, and my 360's in stasis, it'll give me more time to write or Wii or clean or PS2 or whatever.
BTW, did I mention I have a "new" car coming my way tomorrow? WOO!
01 November 2009 @ 09:57 am
So the group of us were planning to meet last night at about 10:30 at First Avenue, the first time I had ever been there. I got in the car at 10-ish, started it up, pulled out of the parking lot...
Only to discover Hey! Both of my headlights are out!
So thankfully it was only 10-ish, and my parents were both still up watching the ballgame(s), so I gave them a call to borrow one of their cars for the night.
I get the cars swapped, on the road again, finally get there around 11:30.
Then I have to wait in line for maybe an hour to get in. Ugh, remind me to buy ticket online the next time. I would have, but I didn't have a printer. Yeah, worth it to find a printer.
Get inside, find my friends, discover that... well... this ain't really my thing.
Okay, here's the deal, for those of you not local: First Avenue is considered the music venue in Minnesota, possibly in the entire upper Midwest. Prince, Soul Asylum, The Replacements, The Jayhawks, Semisonic, they all got their start there, and if you're a band in Minneapolis you consider playing First Ave as a focal point in your career.
That being said, it was my first time ever there (although I had definitely wanted to get there in the past), so I was expecting some decent band to be playing a live gig. It's First Ave! It's Halloween, for God's sake! Let's get creative!
Instead, we had DJs and boom sh boom sh boom sh
Ugh. At 30, I'd say I'm too old for this shit, but quite frankly I was too old for that shit at 18.
So, yeah, miserable time. Could barely talk to any of my friends that were there because I couldn't even hear them, and it was so dark I didn't even realize one of my friends was wearing a red outfit until I took a picture on my way out. But I had the Jayne Cobb going, which was cool, especially when a girl came up to me to get a picture. Like I said, it was loud and dark, and she had an accent (sounded Russian, but who knew), so it took me about three swings to realize that she was dressed as Kaylee. Kind of.
So we get the pictures taken, and she leaves, and one of my friends says "you get her number?"
Ummm... Was I supposed to? This is the very definition of me in a loud, crowded, nightclub-esque scene: I become a fucking idiot.
Anyway, didn't last long, I got out of there around 2ish (the first 2, I think), came home, played video games, and that was my Halloween.
Remind me to never go downtown on Halloween again.
Only to discover Hey! Both of my headlights are out!
So thankfully it was only 10-ish, and my parents were both still up watching the ballgame(s), so I gave them a call to borrow one of their cars for the night.
I get the cars swapped, on the road again, finally get there around 11:30.
Then I have to wait in line for maybe an hour to get in. Ugh, remind me to buy ticket online the next time. I would have, but I didn't have a printer. Yeah, worth it to find a printer.
Get inside, find my friends, discover that... well... this ain't really my thing.
Okay, here's the deal, for those of you not local: First Avenue is considered the music venue in Minnesota, possibly in the entire upper Midwest. Prince, Soul Asylum, The Replacements, The Jayhawks, Semisonic, they all got their start there, and if you're a band in Minneapolis you consider playing First Ave as a focal point in your career.
That being said, it was my first time ever there (although I had definitely wanted to get there in the past), so I was expecting some decent band to be playing a live gig. It's First Ave! It's Halloween, for God's sake! Let's get creative!
Instead, we had DJs and boom sh boom sh boom sh
Ugh. At 30, I'd say I'm too old for this shit, but quite frankly I was too old for that shit at 18.
So, yeah, miserable time. Could barely talk to any of my friends that were there because I couldn't even hear them, and it was so dark I didn't even realize one of my friends was wearing a red outfit until I took a picture on my way out. But I had the Jayne Cobb going, which was cool, especially when a girl came up to me to get a picture. Like I said, it was loud and dark, and she had an accent (sounded Russian, but who knew), so it took me about three swings to realize that she was dressed as Kaylee. Kind of.
So we get the pictures taken, and she leaves, and one of my friends says "you get her number?"
Ummm... Was I supposed to? This is the very definition of me in a loud, crowded, nightclub-esque scene: I become a fucking idiot.
Anyway, didn't last long, I got out of there around 2ish (the first 2, I think), came home, played video games, and that was my Halloween.
Remind me to never go downtown on Halloween again.
29 October 2009 @ 12:26 pm
- Got my first look at my new bus schedule today. Well, my new bus ROUTE, at least. I don't get the schedule until March, cuz that's when the new route starts. Should be nice, get out of town a little faster. It'll be amusing just to see how many people are confused by the new setup, though. Buses aren't picking up at every block within the cooridor anymore. Smart way to run it, but I can definitely see people complaining that their bus is picking up on 8th but not 9th. When you have a city that can't figure out how to fill in a bubble on a voting ballot, then leapfrogging buses are going to make their brains explode.
- My weekend: show tonight, show tomorrow night, show Saturday afternoon. No show Halloween night, but no Halloween plans, either. Might end up at a friends house watching Shaun of the Dead or something, but who knows? Probably just do what I do the last few years: Get in the car and drive around for a few hours. In the end, it's all about avoiding the neighborhood kids. When you're in a condo, it's all or nothing, and it's usually the opposite of what I expect.
- The chapter's coming together nicely, although slower than I anticipated. It won't be up this weekend unless I find a surge of writing this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon.
26 October 2009 @ 12:24 pm
I have to remind myself every half hour or so that I have a show tonight.
I don't think I've EVER had a Monday night performance before.
The energy level should be... intriguing...
25 October 2009 @ 10:47 pm
Over 3000 words into the next chapter. I'm thinking it won't be more than 10,000 this time around. I MIGHT be done with it by the end of the week, but I'm not making any promises. This is going to be a WEIRD week for the show, between performances Monday and Thursday nights AND a Saturday afternoon performance (with nothing Saturday night to not conflict with Halloween).
My muse is still cranking, though. So I think Christmas is a very conservative estimate to get this puppy finished up. Dare I say Thanksgiving?
No, I don't dare Thanksgiving. But I wouldn't be surprised............
My muse is still cranking, though. So I think Christmas is a very conservative estimate to get this puppy finished up. Dare I say Thanksgiving?
No, I don't dare Thanksgiving. But I wouldn't be surprised............
23 October 2009 @ 08:53 am
Yeah, I know that KISS is considered the most sell-out group in rock history. And you're speaking to someone who loathes Smashmouth with a passion.
But even THIS is weird...
I was at Walmart yesterday.
They had KISS-themed M&Ms.
But even THIS is weird...
I was at Walmart yesterday.
They had KISS-themed M&Ms.
23 October 2009 @ 08:13 am
So guess who posted two chapters yesterday?
I sat down yesterday to map out the final chapters.
Four more to go.
Well, five if you count the postlogue.
I also have a few vague ideas for one-shots/deleted scenes/etc (including yours,![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
bethaboo84), but in terms of the actual series, I have the LAST FOUR mapped. They are going to be long, I'll give you that, but I don't feel like stretching them out any more than I have to.
So... when will Oligarchy be finished?
Is "By Christmas" too vague of an answer? Remember, that's only two months away. It'll probably be sooner than that, especially now that the show's winding down. But who knows what's happening between now and then?
Also note: Remember a few months back, when, for a few hours before it went kablooey, I had a poll up for a commission art piece? I'll be reposting that at some point in the next few days. If you voted for it that time, please vote again since I have no idea what happened to the old one beyond it just blowing up and not letting me read the results.
I sat down yesterday to map out the final chapters.
Four more to go.
Well, five if you count the postlogue.
I also have a few vague ideas for one-shots/deleted scenes/etc (including yours,
bethaboo84), but in terms of the actual series, I have the LAST FOUR mapped. They are going to be long, I'll give you that, but I don't feel like stretching them out any more than I have to.So... when will Oligarchy be finished?
Is "By Christmas" too vague of an answer? Remember, that's only two months away. It'll probably be sooner than that, especially now that the show's winding down. But who knows what's happening between now and then?
Also note: Remember a few months back, when, for a few hours before it went kablooey, I had a poll up for a commission art piece? I'll be reposting that at some point in the next few days. If you voted for it that time, please vote again since I have no idea what happened to the old one beyond it just blowing up and not letting me read the results.
22 October 2009 @ 03:07 pm
Title: The Next (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 36)
Author: kanedax
Spoilers: Previous Chapters
Rating: R for language, suggested nudity, and violence
Summary: Meanwhile, at Hogwarts...
Notes: I'm posting two chapters back-to-back this time. If you haven't read Chapter 35: Fight or Flight, please do before reading this one.
I own these characters. The others belong to JK Rowling.
( The Next (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 36) )
Author: kanedax
Spoilers: Previous Chapters
Rating: R for language, suggested nudity, and violence
Summary: Meanwhile, at Hogwarts...
Notes: I'm posting two chapters back-to-back this time. If you haven't read Chapter 35: Fight or Flight, please do before reading this one.
I own these characters. The others belong to JK Rowling.
( The Next (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 36) )