A wonderful day indeed.

I got up quite early today as I knew my girlfriend was going to arrive early, and I was right. We'd arranged for her to arrive between 10 am and 11 am, and she arrived at 9.40 am. This was quite nice, as I like spending more time with her. We spent the morning playing Pokemon Colosseum as she hadn't played it in a while. The time flew by remarkably quickly, and soon it was time to go to the station to meet up with my other two friends in the gaming group. We just talked for a while when we all got back to mine, but eventually the first D&D session started at 3 pm and went reasonably well. Taking a break at roughly 4.40 pm for food and drinks, we ended up watching the Part Troll performance by Bill Bailey since he's funny and it was great being able to hang out with my friends and girlfriend some more. In the second D&D session which started at around 6.10 pm, things were beginning to get worse. For a start, most of the party had split up which wasn't really a good thing when encountering monsters that would be a challenge for all five of the group combined. Whoops eh? My girlfriend's character also developed a phobia about elven runes, due to the rather nasty effects she'd seen the ones in the dungeon do to her comrades. The Gnome was severely unlucky, the rune removing parts opf his right arm and enough of his left leg to make it useless. Quick, clean, painless, but incredibly inconvenient.

Near the end of the evening my girlfriend felt tired however, so we had a rest whilst my two friends watched TV. Thankfully it wasn't long before she felt better and so she went onto my computer and started going through some manga. I packed everything away then, and by the time everything was settled it was only about half an hour till she was to go home. When she did one of my mates got a lift to the station, so that just left two of us. A bit of net surfing followed then we decided to go to the station as he needed to be up ridiculously early tomorrow. After I got back I just did the usual anime and manga rounds, reading the quickly scanlated Naruto and raw of Bleach. Dang, I want Bleach translated soon... There were only a few other anime updates to get overall. In terms of what I have to watch, I still have Muteki Kanban Musume, as well as Naruto, Air Gear, Honey & Clover II, School Rumble, Tonagura and the Sky Girls OVA when it's done. Not too many really. I'll probably get most watched before bed, but I'm feeling reasonably tired as I got up quite early. Since I'm not really doing anything tomorrow I should have adequate time to sleep and watch anime afterwards. If I actually feel motivated, and if my wages are paid into my account quickly, I'll probably go to Brighton for a short while. As those are my plans I'll leave it there for now. Till next time.

Slowdown.

Twas a good morning once again. The Heresy Miniatures didn't arrive again today, and I finally worked out why. I'd completely forgotted a pre-order model had been part of the order, and it's not available till September 4th, so the order won't be sent out till then. Bah, stupid me, oh well. Five days away isn't too bad really, and the campaign won't exactly move on -that- quickly or anything, as the dungeons will be getting much much bigger. I figure the deeper into an underground complex you go, the more insiduously evil the denizens will be. Ghouls fit the bill then. One thing did arrive this morning however - the Saber figure from Fate Hollow Ataraxia that I bought on ebay. Ye gods it looks fantastic.... it has pride of place on top of my burnable DVD spindle, slightly to the left and infront of my computer screen. Work itself wasn't too bad either. It started out moderately busy, but as the evening wore on it slowly got quieter and quieter, till at the very end I was signed off my till and moved to the clothing department, where I essentially helped them clean up. Therefore work was largely relaxing as I didn't really have to do much overall. I also managed to check out the prices for printer cartridge refills, and it's not that bad really. I'll be buying one tomorrow morning before my girlfriend comes round so I can print D&D dungeon maps.

I also got round to watching the anime I had piled up. The last four episodes of Noein were watched this morning after I'd woken up. It was a great series, involved quantum physics, looked impressive and had a distinct anime style, and had a good ending. It was left open enough to know that the characters could continue with life, but the final 'showdown' of sorts was conclusively finished. Some of the effects and fight scenes in the series overall simply rocked. I also watched Utawarerumono, Kiba and Chocotto Sister. In Utawarerumono, Hakuro finally transformed into the big gribbly daemon-thing. He looked 'cool'. Kiba had more fighting in Task, with Roia finally meeting her mum. However it wasn't quite the reunion that she had hoped for. Looks like she's in for an interesting fight. In Chocotto Sister Choco went to buy a bra. That was 'interesting', as was the guy's best friend's assault on the manager of where they lived. Fondling was involved. All in all a funny episode. That pretty much brought me up to date with all the anime updates, but I still have an update for Muteki Kanban Musume to watch, which I'll be doing after this post is done, which it essentially is anyway. I'm going to have to rustle up some drawn maps and enemy models for the D&D... should be easily doable. Till next time then.

Diabolic plans.

A good day indeed today. Though the Heresy Miniatures order didn't arrive I wasn't that worried, as I had a Diabolus sorceror figure to keep me occupied. I got up around midday and by 1.30 pm I was at Games Workshop, much earlier than usual. Since I had time I actually managed to finish painting it too. If I had a decent camera I'd put a picture or two of it here, but alas my webcam is crap. The skin's a fair purple blending to lilac highlight, with orange eyes. Dark green clothing, and the coat itself is a deep dark brown, as is the pack and weapon haft. All in all I'm very pleased with how it looks, and got several complments for it which is always nice. I also managed to chat to a few friends there before veteran's night started, and explained about my D&D campaign. When vet's night did start my usual two friends showed up and we all talked about various things, mostly D&D, whilst we waited for my girlfriend to show up. I managed to persuade the friend who'll run the next campaign into (mostly) allowing me to use a Diabolus. I explained the pro's and con's of such a race, as well as the very prominent fact that not only did it have less bonuses than Gnomes and Dwarves, it also had a level adjustment of +1, which means that it gains less exp than the others in the group. Not generally handy and quite debilitating, but oh well, it looks cool. he did say he wasn't allowing polymorph spells, and if that's the case I'll have to make him into a rogue rather than sorceror, since I only want a sorceror for polymorphing badassness.

Once my girlfriend arrived we all went for noodles before heading off to the pub to start the D&D session. Unfortunaely my girlfriend had to part incredibly soon and didn't even make it to the dungeon before she had to go. Thankfully I'll be seeing her on thursday and she's coming round early, so I get to spend more time with her. With her character effectively acting as an NPC the party went ahead into the dungeon under direction of Aziraph, my halfling 'NPC'. It went rather well too, with no fatalities, and a few closer combats this time that were entertaining, rather than purely 'uh-oh' situations. Goblins were duly dispatched and in turn dispatched, heh. On thursday there should be enough time for an afternoon game, a break with food, and an evening game. That'll most likely complete the current dungeon and get the party right up to the cusp of the main plot itself, unless they decide to branch off. The friend I talked to about the Diabolus, the owner of the dwarf fighter, constantly wanders off from the party. This may get slightly troublesome in the future, but it'll be incredibly more dangerous once the whole main arc gets underway, so it'll be entertaining to see how he fares.

I've not watched any anime yet, though I only have an Ah! My Goddes update, a Higurashi no Naku Koro ni update, the second episode of the Hellsing OVA, and the last four episodes of Noein. I'll probably watch all of that tonight, should Hellsing and Higurashi finish downloading, since I don't have work tomorrow till 3 pm and don't need to leave the house till 2.35 pm. A late night is therefore acceptable and won't matter much. I've not got round to doing much else at home admittedly other than transfer D&D material to my laptop. I have 8.9 GB of it, and a torrent running to get another 2.35 GB of material for it. I have a fair amount then. Once I've gone through most of the stuff I've specifically selected to get I may get a few other aspects of the D20 system, such as Cyberpunk settings and the like. It'd make for an interesting blend. Since that's about everything, till next time.

Holiday hassle.

Working on a Bank Holiday generally isn't fun. For a start, it prevents sleeping in when sleeping in is due. Second, it's hideously tedious in the morning for an hour or two as everyone else is sleeping in. Thurd, it's aggravating in the afternoon when it's very busy and there aren't any other jobs avilable so working on a till is all that can be done. I did not enjoy work today. The only benefit I can see is that in the paycheck after my next (which is on friday) I'll have slightly more money. Better than nothing I suppose. Though I was only working from 10 am till 4 pm it felt like ages. Ye gods, it wasn't that fun. When there was still two hours to go I badly wanted to go home, but alas, those two hours dragged on, and on, and on... When I did get home I was changed in a flash and off I went to Games Workshop for an hour or so just for something to do. I brought my usual stuff, and when I got there bought some green stuff (a sculpting material) and began the work that needed to be done on my diabolus sorceror model. I'd already done the basic structure, such as torso, head, legs etc at home, but a great deal of the clothing had to be done. As such I chatted with the two staff there, the manager being one of them, whilst I worked on the figure. I managed to get most of it done before I got home, and once the first bit had cured I finished up. Now I just have to add a few minor details when the main work has cured, wait for that subsequent detail to cure, then I can paint the blighter. With luck the order from Heresy Miniatures will arrive tomorrow. I seriously hope so at any rate. If so, I'll have the display bases which I want for my D&D stuff, and a bunch of ghouls, not to mention a few more hero models.

I also got round to watch some anime, as I assumed I would. Inukami, Tsubasa Chronicle, Binbou Shimai Monogatari, Chocotto Sister, the two first episodes of Kemonozume and the latest DVD specials for Utawarerumono and Mai Otome. Inukami had the Shinigami defeated in a slightly unusual way, but Youko looks cool in her wolf-like form. Tsubasa Chronicle had Kuro's past. No wonder he places a great deal of importance in being strong. Monogatari had a strange misunderstanding about Valentine's day. If I was the guy who (briefly) appeared I'd be incredibly confused at first too. Chocotto Sister also had Valentine's day, though the ending was vaguely cruel. Choco hid in a box to surprise her brother, since her brother's friend had explained about 'choco' in a box for a liked guy. All he did was tape up the box and push it into the storage cupboard, as he knew what'd happen if he opened it. Kemonozume has a very strange animation style. It reminds me of one of the Animatrix episodes, the really sketchy one. I'm watching it almost as much for artistic interest as well as the plot now. The DVD special for both Utawarerumono and Mai Otome made me laugh, so that was pretty nifty. Now I just have 11 episodes of Noein to watch and I'm entirely up to date once more. I'll most likely manage most of them tonight as I have no pressing reason to get up early tomorrow unless my girlfriend calls. As such I'll be off to watch yet more anime. Till next time.

Sleepless-ish.

I didn't go to bed till 3 am today, which I knew was bad since I had work. Fortunately when I woke up I had time to have breakfast, and a small chocolate snack at work before I started. This helped quite a bit as it gave me energy, and as I stood up for the whole morning I wasn't sleepy. If I'm tired and sit down I tend to slump and get even more tired, so it's generally not a good idea at work. I made it through the day rather well overall, since I asked to do other jobs and was allowed to. Replenishing bags, putting returned items back, collecting the baskets, going outside to gather trolleys, collecting and returning security tags to their respective departments and filling in for other people's lunch braks were the other jobs on my agenda, though I still spent a fair amount of the day on a till as per normal. All in all, not too bad a day as though it was busy, again like yesterday it wasn't overly hectic. Huzzah indeed. After work I went round to my girlfriend's place, but there the lack of sleep hit me. For a short while, maybe no longer than half an hour, I dozed a bit. My girlfriend told me to have a nap, but after I felt I'd rested enough I simply returned to my usual lively self. It's quite easy to mask the 'worn out' look, and I do it often, so it wasn't exactly a big deal.

After I got home I felt like watching a bit of anime, but decided against it. Constant eye strain so soon after getting back wasn't a good idea. As such I checked for anime updates and found six - Ouran High School Host Club, two of Inukami, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and the first two of Kemonozume. Combined with the most recent episode of Utawarerumono I need to watch, as well as the remaining 11 of Noein (as I watched a few yesterday before going to bed) that's only 18 to watch. Not too bad, and easily doable tomorrow if I don't get round to watching many tonight. I'll more than likely spend a lot of time with D&D stuff, as I'll probably write up the Human Jester and Diabolus Sorceror and start work on the actual model for the Diabolus. I'll start with a Games Workshop Ungor legs and head, with the torso and arms of a normal human. That way I get the whole 'goat legged and horned' look. When the order from Heresy Miniatures arrives, most likely on tuesday since I dout there's mail on a Bank Holiday, there'll be a bunch of 30 mm display bases I can use for it, as well as getting a load of evil ghouls ready to eat some adventurers. Not that I plan on killing my friend's characters, oh no. I would never even dream of doing such a thing. Right, right. At any rate I guess I'll end my post here for tonight and make a start on that devilish transmutator and humane trickster. Till next time.

Tolerable.

Twas busy, but not too busy. Work left me only slightly tired and not completely wrecked as there wasn't the sheer amount of customers present today compared to last week. That's a very good thing, obviously. There were still few gaps, and I nearly fell asleep in the first two hours of work due to lack of sleep, but I managed to keep going. After my frist break, replete with two slices of chocolate cake, I had enough energy to cope with the rest of the day. Had it been as busy as last week, I may have broke. With luck they'll be less people on sunday, and even less on monday. I'm hoping people will use a bank holiday for something other than grocery shopping. The rest of my day was great thoughm, as I spent even more time with my girlfriend. We spent some time watching some TV, and also watching her sister's boyfriend and her dad playing Lord of the Rings. It was a rather slow game indeed. We also listened to some more of 2 the Ranting Gryphon's work, since the guy is funny. After the tedium of work many things are an improvement, including possible ABH if it's interesting enough, so obviously my girlfriend brightens my day up considerably. Tomorrow I'll probably bring some D&D stuff round to her place to flesh out the campaign background, as I may firmly set it in Eberron. If I do, changelings and warforged become viable NPC's, if still a little rare.

I still need to go through a lot of the D&D stuff, as there are a few duplicates since I got two different torrents. I also grabbed another, 16.7 GB, but only for the adventure modules. Those have still got to finish and are on hold since anime gets priority now I've got most of the D&D stuff I need and want. I did get round to watching Tonagura and Zero no Tsukaima, and they were both fun. However I still have 15 episodes of Noein to watch when I get a reasonable amount of time, which is likely to be monday after work. Update-wise I have two episodes of Utawarerumono, two of Blood+ and one of Strawberry Panic. I should be able to get those watched tonight, but I shall spend more time on D&D. I want to create a Diabolus and Warforged character, who'll most likely be Sorceror (if plausible...) and fighter respectively, and I also want to make a character of the Jester class, who in all likelihood will be human. I did manage to update the forum, so other than the anime and D&D material I'm theoretically free of tasks. Not too bad since it's earlier than usual. If I do manage to gain time from nowhere without being distracted, I may forgo the character creation and just read up on them, and instead watch more Noein... hmm.... I guess it all depends on hos I feel after going over D&D stuff. At any rate I now seem to be entirely rambling, so till next time.

The D&D day.

An early morning was required, as I had to go and buy a whiteboard for the D&D campaign. I did manage to find one at Staples, a stationary warehouse-like store which was quite large indeed. That ate up some of my morning, and the rest was spent in preparation for the campaign start in the afternoon. My girlfriend managed to arrive at 1 pm instead of 1.30 pm, and my mate resheduled to arrive at 1.30 pm instead of 1 pm. Essentially they switched, which was a bit odd, but enjoyable as any extra time with my girlfriend can only be a good thing. After both had arrived we started clarifying the characters. My mate had assumed all the skills shown in the starter package for a fighter were what you started with, instead of the two he should have chosen. That was a bit of a 'whoops' moment for him I believe. Once we'd corrected everything, which took a long, long while, the game finally started. Fior the benefit of the friend who couldn't make it, I'll describe the session in reasonable detail.

The dwarf, kattairian, gnome and supplementory human paladin npc, were situated round a table when my halfling witch hunter npc approached them with a job. He required their services to aide him in obtaining a certain item from some underground catacombs. They all readily agreed after some monetary persuasion, and made their way to the entrance of the complex in the woods. After a few careful checks, and only spotting a broken trap, the party made their way inside. It wasn't long before they found two humanoids crouched in the distance, feeding on what was apparently some previous adventurers. After some initial attacks, and a rather loud couple of declarations by the paladin which actually made the dwarf walk over to slap him, fighting started. The weak ghouls were no match, and so the intrepid explorers gradually made their way through the dungeon, dispatching ghouls along the way. The dwarf got a bit... tetchy as most, i.e. all but one, of the corpses were dwarves, so 'looting' the bodies became 'caring' for them, such as death rites. The other adventurers pressed onwards and eventually made it to the final grand hall with the item in question that the halfling wanted. he quickly nabbed it needless to say. The dwarf, having been left behind, did more searching and found a couple of secret rooms, one of which made him slightly wealthy. All in all, quite convenient for him. Eventually everyone made it out without much mishap, and thereby earnt enough experience for level two, and were requested to continue their hired status. Thus, the campaign well and truly started. To the friend who reads this and couldn't make it - I've left the level two newly gained spells and such up to you, I'll help you select them on tuesday.

After the game the three of us had pizza and watched Galaxy Quest, a slightly old, but funny, film. It was great being able to snuggle up with my girlfriend. The D&D game made my day good, but my girlfriend made my day fantastic. She did however have to leave just before 9.30 pm, though my friend stayed till almost 11 pm. We went through lots of the books I'd gained in the second D&D torrent. The first was 1.7 GB, this second one was 3.8 GB. Lots more in other words. The Dragon magazine compendium was especially good, as they had the Diabolus race and Jester class. God damn I'm going to make a jester character now, heh. Unfortunately as I spent so much time on D&D I don't have much time for anime. I still have 15 episodes of Noein to watch as I didn't get round to watching any yesterday, plus I have Zero no Tsukaima and Tonagura to see also. I'll at the vert least get the two updates watched, but I doubt I'll have time for Noein yet again because of work tomorrow. It's a long working weekend ahead of me, since I'm working on the bank holiday too. Bleh. Ah well, till next time then.

Several outfits.

Sleeping in - the way to go. Yet again I'd had such a late night that it counted as an early morning, since I'd watched all the updates and 9 episodes of Noein. i would've watched more, but had spent about three hours with D&D, so it was starting to get light outside. When I did get up it wasn't long before I was off to my girlfriend's place. I introduced her to most of the D&D stuff on my laptop and she seemed fairly happy with it, so we decided to leave the actual creation of her character till later. As her dad had left a few models at Games Workshop we walked into town and vent to various stores after collecting them, one of which was Phantasia, a hobby store that sells games, a few miniature ranges (Like Warmachine, D&D, Games Workshop etc) and several card games. It took all my resistance to not buy a gargantuan Black Dragon model for D&D.... Afterwards we caught a bite to eat, and got a life home. On the way into town however we'd found a small store that sold clothing, and inside my girlfriend spotted a pair of boots that were not only in her size, rare as she's a small size, but also looked good, were practically new (had only been worn once before) and were quite cheap. She didn't have any money, but was very happy when I bought them for her. I figure if they're a rare find, nab them right? Her mum actually said she was very spoilt with gifts, heh.

Though my girlfriend had to spend some time filling in forms we eventually got around to creating the character, and it was a very quick process. It didn't take long as not onmly did I know where to look for most of the details, I also had them all on my laptop. No flicking through books, just lots of tapping the 'next' key. How convenient. After that, since she had the new boots, she tried a variety of outfits to go with them. SDhe looked stunning enough in the Chinese-style dress, but in the predominately black outfit with a tartan miniskirt..... Damn. Just damn. Suffice to say in a manner of understatement, she looked 'rather nice'. Basically, wow. Once again it was a bit of a wrench leaving her, but she'll be coming round tomorrow, as well as the experienced D&D mate from Games Workshop, and the campaign will begin. Sadly one mate can't make it, but I'll roleplay his character in the shadows till the next session. That way it at least gets exp and isn't completely left out. It won't progress far, maybe just a bit of fighting but nothing major. Anything dramatic or overly threatening needs to be saved for next tuesday or thursday when both my mates and girlfriend are available to play. That way it's fairer and no one misses the epic, shocking, or fatal stuff. Cue evil laughter.

Anime-wise I need to watch 15 episodes of Noein, two episodes of School Rumble, Ergo Proxy, Air Gear, Ouran High School Host Club, Naruto and Demonbane. I doubt I'll get it all watched, but with luck by the time I finish watching tonight I'll only have 10 episodes of Noein left. Till next time then.

Vaguely quiet.

Hmm, today wasn't too bad. I got up at around 1 am, after waking at 10 am and doing simply nothing but stare at the ceiling and plan my D&D campaign, and just went onto my computer. Hey, I practically live on the thing when at home. Since I had nothing to download last night I decided to grab another completed anime series. This time it was Noein, reputedly good and with quantum physics. Hmm. By the time I left for work it'd completed. All of it. That leaves me with 24 episodes to watch when I get the time. Work itself was pretty 'meh', but one of the more enjoyable types of days. It was heinously quiet there, and I spent -ages- either just sitting there, or actively trying to get customers to my till by standing, making eye contact, smiling, and occasionally waving. Yes, it was that boring. I managed to spend some time replenishing bags, and the last two hours or so of my shift was spent doing other people's tea breaks but taking over their till for them and... sitting there. Lack of customers... On the plus side I got my tea break at the same time as a friend, and the lack of customers meant I wasn't tired at all. When I got home I felt perfectly awake, as there hadn't been an endless stream of stress. That's why such an empty shift counts as one of the better day types.

Other than Noein, I also have Bleach, Tsubasa Chronicle, Honey & Clover II and Tonagura to watch. I'll probably end up wating those four and probably a quarter of Noein or something before I go to bed. At around 9.30 pm, not long after getting back from work, I saw one of my Games Workshop mates on MSN. He'd gone home from work, found it boring, and had gone back to work. As such I invited him round, so by 10.15 pm he was over. We talked about the campaign for the most part, as well as Heresy Miniatures and Knights of the Dinner Table. His dwarf fighter is practically done, so that makes things easier. In the end he went off home when it was nearing midnight, and I decided to actually get round to typing this. With the lack of anime updates, yet abundance of D&D in my mind, I had a look for D&D torrents. Lo and behold, one which has a vast majority of all the 3.5 edition books. How convenient indeed. Those'll most likely be done before I even go to bed. However as that's all my news for now I'll be off. Till next time then.

Whoops once again....

Hmm. Seems like I forgot to post earlier, and as such have completely gone past the midnight marker. Damn eh? Blogger to the rescue, what with it's time rolling back feature. Anyway, onto the post. Against all expectation I did go to sleep even though I'd not intended to. This morning, feeling a tiny bit groggy, I decided to read the latest issue of White Dwarf, the Games Workshop monthly magazine, in bed at 7 am. However as I'd not yet been to bed, I dozed off and woke up around midday. That sucked slightly, but oh well, at least I wasn't tired. Around 2 pm I decided to go to Games Workshop early again for something to do, and passed the time by painting the Paladin I'd made for the D&D campaign I'm planning to run. Instead of the usual shining silver and white, I used a mix of tarnished silver and gold combined with a green-fading-to-turquoise colour scheme. I simply didn't want to paint it in the usual colours (hence my Halfling Witch Hunter is in dark red rather than browns and blacks). It turned out rather well, though I did keep the shield design quite simplified. He's just a backup character after all. I did meet up with my girlfriend at Games Workshop too in the evening, as well as my two main mates there, and we all went for a meal at the noodle place together as per usual. However my girlfriend soon started feeling tired, and went home early. That made me feel a bit low, but oh well.

After she left my two mates and I decided we may as well go to the pub next door, and so we did. It wasn't long before we had made a few plans for D&D, then busted out the Magic the Gathering cards. One of them had just started and had told me he'd be bringing his cards, so I brought my spares. Since I could actually make a full deck out of the spare cards I had, even if it was a bit random and wholly rubbish, I did so and we started actually playing a few games. With my crap deck of badness I actually seemed to have an even win to loss ratio, and when the guy had left, lending a deck he'd bought of me to the second mate so he could keep playing, I actually won. Looks like such a random deck still has a chance of winning. How odd. When I got home I spent some time continuing to write up D&D characters, since I have to write up a Gnome character and cat-girl character (some strange feline-like race...) for one of my friends and girlfriend respectively. Looks like I'll have to convert both models, but I reckon I can manage it. If need be I'll damn well sculpt them. I didn't get round to watching anime, but I only have Honey & Clover II and Tonagura to watch anyway, so it's no big deal. Instead I spent lots of time looking for D&D stuff on the net, and found a damn good Dungeon Master's screen program with a few fit-in generators. This means in the upcoming game sessions I can use my laptop for everything, with only a few visual aides such as dungeon layout and models for fighting needed. How convenient. The ability to generate a NPC and trasure awards for encounters is very handy indeed.

I also bought a few more models from Heresy Miniatures in a moment of weakness. Curse my money-spending ways! I got 10 more of the display bases since they look good and are very suited to single models, plus I bought another of the Halfling Witch Hunter models. I figure if I give him the bag of gold and paint him green he'll make a great leprechaun, heheheh. A human fighter and human rogue were also on the buying list, as well as a tribe of certain critters... I would say what they are, but I know this blog is read by one of the friends, so it'd completely ruin such a surprise. Cue eveil laughing and whatnot. In the end I spent £26 for twelve models. Roughly £2.17 per model is excellent compared to Games Workshop prices. Huzzah for a smaller company which still produces excellent miniatures. I was almost lured into buying a giant spider to be honest, but just about steered clear of the temptation. Mind you, as I get paid next month my willpower may completely and utterly crumble, depending on how well the campaign is going.... At any rate that's all for now, so till next time.

A spot of painting.

I slept in today once more, as I'd gone to bed at around 5 am. It's almost like a routine now, sit at my computer idely chatting to people and garnering anime, then go to bed when it starts to get light. In the end I got up in the early afternoon, though I actually woke up at 10 am. The pocket watch I'd bought had arrived today and it looked rather nice. The only problem was that it wouldn't wind up properly - the moment I let go, it'd all unwind so it's a bit pointless. As such I contacted the seller and so forth to enquire about a replacement. He or she is bound to have one, since they have multiple auctions of the same item. With that little bother aside once I got up properly I decided to go to Games Workshop for something to do. I ended up checking a jeweller's place, but it was extortionately expensive to get the watch fixed there, so I decided not to. In Games Workshop itself I just hung out with some mates, the staff included, though I did have a funny intro game for the new Warhammer edition, and also partook in a three-way beer dice tournament. If you don't know what beer dice is, I guess Google may reveal the answer. In the intro game itself I won rather quickly, though it was still close. The pony and cart I had to stop before it left the board almost made it, before it was pincushioned by lots of arrows.

Earlier I'd logged onto Windows Live Messenger, hereby referred to in the future as WLM, and saw a mate of mine who I meet at Games Workshop. Last night I'd watched both series of 'Knights of the Dinner Table', flash animations about a roleplaying group. This instilled a HUGE desire to play Dungeons and Dragons, so I'd got out all my D&D books as well as some magazines and the old Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay book to construct a campaign to run. When I saw my mate today I proposed the idea to him and he was in. Not only that, but he was happy to print out some character sheets. Excellent stuff! Now I just need to tell my girlfriend tomorrow, as well as the other mate who actually reads this thing, and hopefully they'll be in too. I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't be to be honest. I've already prepared the backhistory for the character I'll run as the GM to 'guide' and help, who is already called Aziraph von Kalmsturm, the halfling Witch Hunter! God damn he's cool. I have the model from Heresy Miniatures, and spent some time today painting it when I got home. (Aha, the odd chronological structure of this post is finally revealed! Had to tell it this way, otherwise suddenly launching into the whole painting thing would need me to effectively work backwards through my day, which is pointless....) So far the flames on the burning torch, as well as the hat and base, are completely finished. here's even nifty lighting effects from the flames. Oho, he shall look cool.

Not only that, but I also got time to watch ten episodes of anime. All six released episodes of Welcome to the NHK!, Kiba, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Coyote Ragtime Show and the final for Yume Tsukai. NHK is, to put it bluntly, quite weird. It's also however incredibly funny. To see such a failure of a guy sink even lower before starting to rise is immensely enjoyable. Seeing the other guy's anime, manga and figure collection was quite impressive too. That guy has a rather large amount. Damn. I know I'm not exactly an 'obsessed' otaku, but I figured I had a fair amount of anime. Compared to this guy, hell no. Kiba was also funny for a different reason, since Zed barely had to bother defending himself against Troia in a tournament. He's a lot better at fighting than her after all. Higurashi was slightly freaky once more, with the little purple-haired girl committing suicide by placing the handle of a kitchen knife against the wall, then repeatedly banging her head against the point of the sharp end. 'Ew'? Coyote Ragtime Show had more of Marciano's evil, which is a good thing when it comes to explosions. The oddest episode was possibly Yume Tsukai however, as it was revealed who the big gribbly nightmare belonged to, which had been obvious for a while, but also why it was created. Kinda.... unusual for such a series. Hmm. At any rate another finished anime brings me down to only 32 active series and five which seem to be stalled. I'll probably have to pick up another one or two to keep the consistency of anime downloads up, heh. Till next time then.

Fatality!

Technical bliss. Work today wasn't anywhere near as busy as it'd previously been. True, there were still a huge amount of customers, but I had a few quick gaps inbetween them, and at one point several minutes. That was very nice. Very nice indeed. Unfortunately however I was on a normal till for the whole day, so the customers I did get generally took a while each to get done, which lends itself to a tedious outlook on work. I didn't exactly feel great in the morning either, since I woke up with a cold. The thing is, I'm always going on about having a strong immune system considering I don't sleep much, and that I rarely, if ever, get ill. The funny thing was, after a few hours the cold was completely gone. By midday the blocked nose, sneezing, sniffling, headache and general 'rotten' feeling was all gone. Now that's quite convenient indeed. I'm also quite looking forward to the first of next month, since I get paid a huge wadge of cash. To celebrate, I spent some of what I have left (bad me, I know) on a Fate Stay Night Saber figure which'll arrive in a week or so. It's the 'evil' version, where she's wearing the gothic clothing. Rather nice if I do say so myself. With luck my pocketwatch will arrive in the mail tomorrow, or at the very least during the coming week. Excellent stuff indeed.

After work I got to see my girlfriend again, and that was excellent. She was wearing a relatively simple long black dress, made from cotton (I think...) and she looked incredible. God damn, I never realised how alluring it could be to see her in a black dress. Damn. I constantly remind myself I'm a very lucky guy... We spent a fair amount of the time watching various shows on TV, though the usual Fullmetal Alchemist and Mezzo DSA featured. Unfortunately the shows were running 15 minutes late, so I had to leave halfway through Mezzo which was a bit vexing, but my girlfriend's dad was kind enough to record it even though I said he didn't have to at all. Pretty cool of him. Sadly I won't see my girlfriend again till tuesday at Games Workshop (I know not seeing er for a single day isn't exactly harsh, but I still miss her) so I'll most likely go to Games Workshop tomorrow and actually get some painting done. Zomg indeed.

I also got through some more anime. Another episode of Ergo Proxy, xxxHOLiC, Ah! My Goddess second season, Hanoka, Demonbane (at last!), Binbou Shimai Monogatari, and Muteki Kanban Musume were all dutifully seen. Ergo Proxy was again cool. The guy who was apparently in an important position went against the system, which was more than interesting to watch. Quite a good way how he went about it too. xxxHOLiC had a rather strange snowball fight. Watanuki should've paid attention to the name of the 'prize', which included 'Pandora' and 'box'. Not a good combination then... Ah! My Goddess had Skuld's little angel appear, even if briefly. Quite cute, and very reminiscent of the movie which I'll have to rewatch some time now. Hanoka was more flash anime strangeness. Demonbane had yet more gothic lolita fighting action. God damn I like that anime's visual style, plus a killer robot falling in love with the main male character, her enemy, is funny stuff. In Monogatari there was an epiphany for the young rich blonde girl. Looks like she made a good emotional breakthrough with her older sister. Last, but not least, Muteki had the secrets of why the bakery and ramen shop get their customers. Customer service and fighting showdowns respectively. Gotta stick with a good lure eh? I've also been recommended the anime 'Welcome to the NHK!' since it's about a guy who's busy failing at life, only to be interrupted a lot whilst doing so. Sounds entertaining, so I have the first episode of six/seven released so far to watch. I'll probably watch them all tomorrow or something. Till next time then.

Exertion.

Well, work today was certainly hectic. The queues never ended. At first in the morning it was slightly slow for a few hours, and though I was on the express lane I didn't get many customers. However once midday hit, it got insane. It literally didn't stop at all. My breaks were beacons of hope in that time of stress, and luckily I managed to relax enough in them to not simply break down. Luckily I also managed to get some time on the self serve section, and that wasn't quite as busy, just immensely crowded. The training to help customers there was pretty straight forward, and aside from a few odd changes it was very similar to just being on a normal till and doing less work. As such I now like that section, and I'll be bothering my manager for my own self serve sign in number so I can work in that section most of the time. Since it always needs two people, I reckon I should be able to manage that. Unfortunately later on in the day I had to keep going on to, then off of, the express till I was on before to help with the queues. The moment they disappeared and I went to self serve, they were back. Quite literally, twice I signed off with no queue, had a second glance, and had to sign on again. Where the hell do they bloody come from?! Thankfully work did indeed end, and I sorted out my holiday pay problems, i.e. that it wasn't paid, with the Personal manager. Come next month I'll get a chunk o' money. Excellent stuff.

Naturally as it's a weekend I went round my girlfriend's place after work, and it was great fun hanging out there. She was on Neopets for a bit, but it wasn't long before we decided to watch the movie I brought round, Dodgeball, as well as play a game of Lord of the Rings. I took 140 points of goblins, and she took 141 points of wood elves. No heroes, just bog standard troops. I'm used to seeing high elf armies, so going against such a large elf force was a bit worrying. However traditional goblin luck won through, and though she killed a few, I managed to swarm her and took the elves down rather quickly, securing a win. It probably helped that I outnumbered her force two to one. The movie as a background to the game was good too, since both her parents and her enjoyed it a lot. I'd pointed out to her dad previously that it was exactly like American dodgeball shows, and he was actually saying he'd seen some of the things in the film not long ago, since he'd checked it out. Yet again unfortunately I had to leave, but thankfully I'll see my girlfriend tomorrow after work.

Anime-wise (a term I've not used for a while apparently) I got round to watching the new episodes of Ergo Proxy, Witchblade, Zegapain and Zero no Tsukaima. Ergo was back to it's usual non-gameshow form which was good, plus it had lots more of Pino and Real Mayer. Two characters I happen to like, good stuff. As for Witchblade, dang. It demonstrated what happens to a cloneblade, or witchblade user, when it takes too much of a strain on their bodies. Crystalisation, then disintegration. Um... that's quite lethal indeed then. Zegapain had an odd state of affairs with emotions stored in a different place to the body, and Kyo completely lost it when fighting some enem,ies in a field of flowers he couldn't touch. Needless to say, he wants to be real and not just data. Zero no Tsukaima, one of my recent favourite series, was very good. Lolicon maids, and a funny familiar who misinterprets certain things. Gotta love a good comedy, heh. For now I only have the Ah! My Goddess second season update to watch, so I'll probably leave that for another time. For now though it's goodbye. Till next time.

Nifty.

Today I got to sleep in once more. I called my girlfriend at 11 am-ish to check when she'd be round, and since we agreed on 2 pm as she had a hair appointment, I got to simply rest in bed. Pretty nifty. I did however loose track of time slightly, so when she turned up I had to hurriedly get out of bed. Whoops. She hadn't played Pokemon in a while, so that was pretty much the first order of the day. It almost turned out to be the only order too. Over four hours later she was still playing it, so I excused myself to the garden as I felt slightly left out but didn't really want to say anything. After all, she was having fun playing the game. She noticed rather quickly though and came to sit outside with me and actually apologised. That was slightly unexpected. Afterwards she suggested we have pizza and watch a movie, so that's exactly what we did. Kung Pow for preference, but unfortunately halfway through the tape seemed to die a grisly death, so we switched to Dog Soldiers. We didn't get to finish it, but she liked what she saw of it, so we may finish it next time. Parting with her isn't something I enjoy at all, but on the plus side I'll be seeing her tomorrow after work, so no worries there. Once my dad and I dropped her off home, I had to consider this post to write as well as the need to update the forum, but I'm leaving the forum till a bit later.

Ergo Proxy, Air Gear, Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club, and Hanoka were all seen early this morning. Ergo Proxy, though usually a show to make you ponder, got a lot weirder. It was a game show episode. How... strange. Still interesting though, as huge amounts of backstory were described thanks to having questions about them. Air Gear was good too, but my worry was realised - the episode overtook the scanlated manga. This means that unless the scanlators are quite far behind, the manga creator is going to have to tell the anime what's going on, lest it diverse immensely. Naruto was Just a bit strange, but not ridiculously stupid, so it was bearable. Ouran was entertaining as always, since it had haruhi in a school play organised by the Zuka club in the all-girls school. Oho, what hijinks they have. As for Hanoka... well, it wasn't overly bad. The animation was slightly sub-par, as expected from flash, and it was incredibly short, but it didn't seem to be too bad. The intro actually ate a huge amount of the five minute length. For now I just have Zegapain, another episode of Ergo Proxy, and Witchblade to watch. I'm managing to stay relatively up to date with the releases, which isn't bad at all. Since that brings my news to a close, till next time.

Drama! Shock! A day out!

I went to be at 5.50 am this morning. I was supposed to get up at 7 am. Gragh, not a chance. I ended up getting out of bed, blearily, at 8 pm. Less than 2 hours sleep is very rare for me, since I'd usually go for none at all, yet I didn't feel I'd be able to manage it since I've not been getting much sleep at all lately, as I seem to be feeling tired less and less at night now. Anyway, to continue the story of my day, my dad drove me down to college in Haywards Heath and we got there at 9.30 am. It was much to my dismay when I found out the college results were not being handed out till 120.30 am. Since my dad had an appointment for then, and had to drive back to Polegate, I quickly told him and he went home. After hanging around and chatting with friends the results were finally available, and I was the very first to get them, and the first out of the college, ready to go home by train. Lots of friends asked me how I did as I left, and I had to say, quite well indeed.

In sociology, the AS subject that didn't matter, I'd got an A overall, with an A on all three unites. Not bad then, considering I didn't really revise at all for it, nor overly bothered in lessons. For Law, I'd got 2 B's for the moduls, which when added to all my other Laqw results was an A overall. Excellent stuff. English Language was also an A overall, and in the editorial writing module, the one I described a few months back with the King Arthus radio question, I'd scored full marks. I consider this highly cool, since not only were radio scripts my weakest point for the whole course, but also that most people don't do all that well in that module. Fantastic stuff then. For Psychology I'd duffed up slightly, as my three moduls had gotten an A, C and D. Overall therefore, with my AS marks, I only got a B. Still, out of the three subjects that matter, an A, A and B. Considering my law placement at Sussex University only required A, B, B, I reckoned I'd done well indeed. When I got home my step mum and dad were incredibly pleased as overall three A's and a B is darn good. I checked on the UCAS track site, and my placement at Sussex was confirmed. Now I just need to log on during the 19th and fully accept and I've got a solid Uni placement. Excellent stuff.

Afterwards I went into Brighton, since I believed that I'd arranged to meet my best friend there at 3 pm. When she hadn't arrived by 3.30 pm I called her, and realised my mistake. We'd arranged to meet at 5 pm, so I apologised a bit for making her feel bad, since she felt guilty that I had to wait for her, and wandered around to places like Dave's Comics and David's Books. That used the time up quite well. When I did meet up with her we went for a walk along the shore leading to the pier, before heading back to the cinema to see Nacho Libra. Reviews had said that aside from the well-choreographed fights, it wasn't that good. However, we both enjoyed it a lot. Jack Black is just cool, plus his comrade was insanely harsh when he threw the corn on the cob. Seriously, you have to watch the movie just for that bit alone, if nothing else. It was a really fun day overall, and afterwards we decided to go into a club or two. However, I'd forgotten my ID, so instead we found a bench outside and just sat and chatted for a good long while. When the time came to go home we hurriedly went back to the train station only to bump into some friends. We'd bumped into more earlier, so it's quite impressive how many people seem to go to Brighton on a thursday...

At home once more, I had a quick chat with my happy step mum and dad, as they were still happy from the news on my results, before coming to my computer as always. A quick webcomic and anime check later, and I have a few shows to watch. Ergo Proxy (at long last!), Air Gear, Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club, and a new series I'm taking up, Hanoka. It sounds interesting as apparently it's the first anime to be fully done in flash. Odd, but it'll hopefully prove to be different in a good way. I'll most likely watch them after I update the forum, so I'll be off for now. Till next time, and cheers to the mate who emailed me a good luck message for my results.

More work.

This morning wasn't too bad, as I actually got up. The first order of the day was music whilst I read Battle Royale, and I finally got round to finishing it. I prefer the ending in the manga, as well as how the manga expanded on Mitsuko's warped personality, but the book still had a good ending. The most notable difference was that the book ends earlier than the manga, and with a bit more tension. Definitely a good read, and overall it's best to read both the book and manga, and completely ignore the film. Hell, in the film the 'cold and emotionless' Kazuo Kiriyama grinned as he killed people. Not a very good adaptation for his character to the 'big screen' then... After I finished I watched a couple of episodes of Farscape to pass the time in a good way till I had to go to work. It's nice being able to rewatch all of the series, since I missed a few the first time round when they were aired on TV years ago. Oh how I missed Scorpious. He was cool, especially the hallucination version inside John's head as he got closer to the end of the whole Farscape series timeline. Scorpious as Albert Einstein simply rocked. Wormhole knowledge for the win eh? Not to mention Chiana is... 'nice'. Work itself wasn't too bad, since I was put on an express till. Thanks to the self-serve tills right next to it, the evening was pretty quiet for me. Result.

Once I got back it was a question of talking with my dad and step mum about details for tomorrow, since my exam results will be coming out, and I need to keep track of my University application and so forth. We have a plan worked out which basically relies on how my college is going to release the results. Should it be early, I'll be off to Haywards Heath very early indeed. Should it be at midday as per last year, I guess I'll get a bit of rest in the morning. Aside from that though I've not done much aside from come here. I do have some anime to watch, though I'm not sure if I'll get it all watched tonight, as Farscape is pretty cool. I have Bleach, xxxHOLiC, Yume Tsukai, Strawberry Panic and School Rumble 2nd Term to get through. Not too bad really, since I like the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th series quite a bit (sans the Bleach filler.....). I guess after this I'll go update the forum as per normal then get down to some anime or something. Most of my focus does happen to be on tomorrow though, since I'm understandably slightly nervous about my results, plus I'm seeing my best friend in the afternoon. Let's hope the day goes smoothly then. With luck I'll smoothly make it into Sussex University, then I can relax. If not, then bugger, lots of hassle.... le sigh. Till next time then.

New games.

Getting up early was a strange decision to make today, but I did it anyway. I guess at the time I felt like actually doing something. As it was, that something was listening to more music as I went through some of my manga. I also burnt a couple of DVD's, one for a mate and one for my girlfriend as I was going to see them at Games Workshop and so needed to get it done. Aside from that however my morning went relatively peacefully. I helped my dad strip off the polystyrene tiles on the kitches ceiling, since we're going to redecorate the kitchen. After the kitchen's redecorated I think the bathroom will be touched up, but other than that I'm not too sure which room will be next. That helped take up some time, and it wasn't long till I decided to go to Games Workshop much earlier at 2.30 pm for something to do. I took along the Popolocrois and Viewtiful Joe PSP games, since I wasn't overly keen on them, and managed to exchange them at Game for the Tokobot and Super Monkey Ball Adventure PSP games. I've played Super Monkey Ball before and liked it, so that was an easy choice, but I grabbed Tokobot out of curiosity rather than anything else. Ye gods, it's addictive. The beginning tutorial is not only nifty, but damn essential. For a while I refused to go ahead and tried to work out how to get the little robots to do stuff. Took me a while.

I also managed to play a game of Warhammer 40,000. The first game of 40k I've played in a while, so it was pretty good. I was up against my aforementioned mate and he was using Grey Knights. He had 22 models. I had Plague Zombies, and 92 models overall. In the end he had something like 8 men left, and I got wiped out. Zombies are cool an' all, but they tend to die rather easily. On the plus side it was great fun, since all the games I play against him are enjoyable. I don't always enjoy playing some people since they get a bit... odd, but he's cool when he plays, and we joke around a lot so it makes the game a lot more enjoyable. Spending time with my girlfriend was great too, and the three of us went to the same noodle place again, since we now seem to go every tuesday as it does good food. When I did get home I updated the forum, for the most part, and did the rounds for anime. I now have an episode of Blood+, Coyote Ragtime Show, and Kiba to watch. I may get them watched tonight since I have work tomorrow afternoon and evening, which means I'll probably be going to bed at 3 am or something. No doubt I'll spend a fair amount of time playing Tokobot or something... Ah well, time is meant to be used in frivolous ways... Till next time then.

Yet another MMO.

Early this morning, i.e. about 2 to 3 am or so, I was chatting with friends on Skype. The question of MMO's came up, which prompted me to search for more free ones. One which caught my eye was Tantra Online, a Philippine game. Well I'm half Philippine, though I don't look it, so it caught my interest a little more. After reading up on the site I found it wasn't really free, as you eventually had to buy more game time, but it's ridiculously cheap, something like £2.06 for 30 days of play. Not bad really. Since it looked interesting I downloaded it and installed it, though I didn't get round to actually playing it till late afternoon. I slept in for most of the day, but when I did get round to it the game was rather fun. I set up a character in the 'Xtreme' server, which gives a rate of 2000% exp and only 3% taken away for a death. Needless to say it means you level quickly. I've only played it for a couple of hours, but I'm already level 32. That's pretty nifty. The weapons and armour look quite good too, and overall the graphics aren't bad when everything's set to max. Not only that, but it's not gone wrong at all yet. Admittedly I've died a ridiculous amount of times, but one kill later and I have far more exp anyway, heh. I'll probably play it till the free trial ends, then leave it for a while. For only "2.06, I'll most likely buy some game time far into the future, when I have nothing to do for a month or so. Most likely over the Christmas period then.

I also watched the anime that'd piled up. Happy Seven, Ouran High School Host Club, Binbou Shimai Monogatari, the two episodes of Blood+, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Honey & Clover II and Muteki Kanban Musume. Happy Seven was kinda odd, with the young guy being pressured to seduce an older woman to exorcise the daemon posessing her. It didn't get far, because understandably he was a bit freaked out, but it just seemed like a really bad hentai plot... Ouran was good, as you got to see the past of the shota character and his harsh family background. Monogatari had yet more impoverished lifestyles, though the owner was seen to at least be kinder. In Blood+ there was much drama, with Diva trying to get Kai on her side. Good thing he's loyal to Saya then. Shoin's sliding off the rails in the latest Higurashi plotline. She's already started her killing spree for revenge, so I'm assuming she'll eventually die due to some predictable attack. In Honey & Clover II it was mostly focused on character's pasts, but most dramatically it ended with showing blond hair across the floor, and shards of glass with blood on them. Only Hagu has blond hair, so it's implied she's either had an accident, or caved in due to the pressure... Lastly with Muteki Kanban Musume there was more fighting challenges and a noticable lack of delivering the actual meals. How strange. That about rounds everything up, so till next time.

Bleh to fun Reloaded.

You guessed it, work was busy. Just as busy as yesterday in fact. What the hell happened to the customers whilst I was on holiday from work? Were they givens steroids or something? Jeebus. At any rate it was much of the same old gig, little to no breaks between customers, and an almost endless queue of soul-crushing consumerism. I'm a capitalist at heart, but large volumes of customers with no end in sight can have a bad effect on anyone... I did get through it however, since work has to end sometime, and my mood brightened when I went round my girlfriend's place. Possibly due to work, I wasn't quite as 'peppy' as usual, and I caused my girlfriend to worry a lot about me, as she asked if I were okay quite a lot. That made me feel kinda bad, since I didn't want to make her worry, so I did my best to be vaguely normal whilst still being in a slightly down mood. I just hope I didn't worry her too much. We went for a walk up on the downs as I felt like I really had to get outside and get some air, and it was sweet how she insisted she come with me since she didn't want me to be lonely. That cheered me up a bit too. The walk did make me feel better, so that was all good. Fullmetal Alchemist and Mezzo DSA were also fun to watch, so it was still a good evening in general regardless of my slightly low ebb.

After I got home I felt like having a long talk about generally everything in my life, and so did so with my step mum. She's a great listener, and excellent at giving advice. I also have several friends who've given me their numbers should I feel really low and want a chat, and indeed one of them reads this and is a great friend, but I felt my step mum was the best option for today, since she was already around and knew I had something to talk about the moment she saw me. I worked out a lot in the talk with her, and I now feel a bit more focused on some aspects of my life, so it's all good. Afterwards I came here to write this, so that brings you up to date. I was also right about more anime being released today, but it was only two more episodes of Blood+, nothing else. Since I'm not going to bed today, vexed as I am that I need to go to bed early during the weekend for work, I'll probably get around to watching my anime. If not, I'll at least play a fair amount of SRO, or at the -very least- read more Battle Royale and listen to music. I really should make progress on that book..... At any rate I'm off to update the Soul Society forum yet once more, so till next time my avid readers(plural needed?).

From bleh to fun.

The title practically says it all really. Work wasn't 'bad' per se, it was simply hellishly busy. For some reason there was a much higher number of people shopping in the store than usual. This meant that I only got one or two short breaks between customers overall throughout the entire day, and those were when I was on the 'express' till. The breaks were probably because the self-scan area is up and running, so people seemed to be using it out of curiosity more than anything else. When I got moved to a normal till the stream of customers was neverending. I counted down each hour to my two designated breaks. It may make time seem slower to some, but it's almost required for me to keep my sanity. Luckily work did indeed end, and I got to see my girlfriend again. To those who've read my blog continuously (for some bizarre reason...) you'll know that my girlfriend makes me incredibly happy, and makes me not mind the badness throughout my day previously. Therefore hugging her brightened my mood drastically. It was the usual affectionate hanging out whilst round her place, and she went to this funny quote site. I didn't really bother remembering what the url was, but it was quite funny regardless. We also both played a little bit of Bleach 3, but she seemed more focused on the sound section. Some of the fighting character sounds are a bit... ambiguously dodgy when heard without actual fighting. Ulquiorra's sounds five and six seem to be her favourites, and make her go into a giggle fit every time she hears them.

Unfortunately, though practically, I had to return home. When I got back someone was setting off fireworks not too far away which was quite nice. I watched those for a while before I headed in and actually got round to doing stuff, such as updating the Soul Society forum. The usual webcomic and anime update procedure followed, though I still only have Happy Seven, Ouran High School Host Club and Binbou Shimai Monogatari to watch. Since there's only three, with more likely to be released tomorrow, I'll watch them all tomorrow. I get back from my girlfriend's place usually at around 10.20 pm, but on sundays I get back at 9.20 pm. I'll have more than adequate time tomorrow then. In SilkRoad Online news, I finally created the Guild! I got two of my fellow forum/Skype/SRO-goers to help donate a third of the required costs, since it had been us three who'd planned it from the beginning some time ago. The Guild 'Caedaeros' lives! Caedere is Latin for 'hack', so I thought it was quite funny. The other two also liked the name, so it's all good. I'm still level 40 and working through quests, but I only have seven or eight to do overall to catch up, and there aren't any new quests till level 44. I should make it then, heh. That's me out of news for now, so till next time.

Sleep in.

Well whoops. I'd agreed with my girlfriend that I'd be round her house at 3 pm. I woke up early in the morning, and, seeing it was morning, decided to stay in bed as I had plenty of time. That was a mistake. I accidentally fell into a doze and lost track of time, and when I did notice what time it was it was already 3.15 pm. Crap. Luckily I got round to her house by 3.35 pm and apologised a lot. Only 35 minutes late, but still a screw up. Damn. My afternoon with her was a lot more fun than the act of making a mistake though, so that was all good. We both played a lot more Bleach 3 as she loves the game, and even made remarks about wanting to get a PSP. She's now rather proficient at fighting as Hisagi, and even though it's a lieutenant character she was easily beating some of the captain characters, most notably Byakuya in Ban Kai form. That was pretty impressive to watch. I'm getting better as Ulquiorra too, plus I found out that Ban Kai Ichigo can actually fully go into Vaizard mode shoul you use the second special and be hit. He has the half mask an everything, which is just cool. Nearly all our afternoon which was spent doing something, and not resting, was spent playing Bleach 3. It was a fun afternoon all in all,. plus seeing my girlfriend always puts me in a happy mood.

Back at home, I didn't really do much. I had a muffin, if you count that as news. I also did watch all the anime I mentioned yesterday after I finished writing the post, with the exception of Happy Seven. Since that hadn't finished downloading by the time I'd watched all the other anime I left it. I still need to get round to watching it, yet as no further updates came out today I'll probably leave it for tomorrow or something. I'll need to go to bed much earlier than usual, since I have work tomorrow and need to be up at around 9 am. Blarg. On the plus side once work is over I'll be with my girlfriend again, so that's something I can look forward to throughout the day. Since my work holiday has ended my shedule is pretty much going back to normal. This means slightly less time for me to do everything. I'll have to start getting up at a normal time on weekdays now... Damn. I still have to update the Soul Society forum so I better go do that now, as I want to play SilkRoad Online before I go to bed. As such, till next time.

Moving stuff.

The day was off to a good start when I was woken up by the knocking on my bedroom door. It signalled the arrival of my new PSP game, Bleach: Heat the Soul 3. Excellent, excellent stuff. I didn't expect the game to arrive so fast to be honest, so it was a pretty nice surprise. Not only that but I was going to see my girlfriend at 11 am, so everything boded well. By the time I got to her house I'd already tested the game slightly, and the new characters available from the start rocked. The game went away however as I said I'd help my girlfriend rearrange her room, and so thus I did. It didn't take long, since most of the time was taken up with cleaning. Once that was done she went on her usual Neopets purge whereas I played my spangly new game. The sounds soon caught her attention however, and for a large part of the afternoon I let her try it. She improved quite rapidly once we'd downloaded a completed game save file. It counts as heinous cheating I know, but I wanted to test all the new characters, and I made a backup of my original files anyway. Thanks to the save file my girlfriend was able to play as her favourite character, Hisagi, and I tested nearly everyone. Overall though she actually played the game more than be before the PSP ran out of power. Tomorrow I'll bring the mains adapter...

The evening passed by in a haze of assorted TV, and when I got home I was treated to chocolate cake. Since my girlfriend's sister had also made cake for all of us, it's been an apparently cake-filled day. Not bad at all then. I put my PSP on mains power and played a bit more with my favourite characters, Ulquiorra and Ban Kai Ichigo (since his throw uses his Hollow mask, and his alternate costume is all white like his inner Hollow's clothes). Oho, I'm getting good with Ulquiorra. I then did the usual rounds for anime updates, and, combined with those that appeared last night after my post, I now have around 11 to watch. Hmm. I'll probably watch them before I go to bed, but since they'll most likely not feature in tomorrow's post I may as well mention them now - two episodes of Air Gear, two episodes of Zegapain, and Zero no Tsukaima, Blood+, School Rumble 2nd Term, Utawarerumono, Happy Seven, Naruto and Yume Tsukai. Not too bad then. I've also vaguely themed my laptop and desktop with matching wallpapers nabbed from Deviantart, a minimalistic black background with a large version of the little skull on the energy pills in Bleach. I think it looks quite nifty. Since I've still got the Soul Society forum to update, and as I feel like playing SilkRoad Online for a while later, I'll be off. Till next time.

Back to work.

I got up thios morning, since I felt like actually doing something with my day aside from just work in the afternoon, evening and part of the night. As it was I managed to get half of the way through Battle Royale since I dedicated some time to actually reading it whilst listening to yet more OC-Remixes. I'm still only on F for those.... At any rate the book was going well, and it was nice linking it to the manga and seeing where the two stories differed. Surprisingly, they don't differ by much. The manga's quite a faithful adaptation, it just added a bit more in certain places that weren't developed as much in the book. The music was pretty good too. Admittedly it didn't fit that well at times, but meh. Nothing's perfect eh? I'd also ordered a few figures from Heresy Miniatures, since the guy sculps some cool stuff. They arrived today, and I was treated to a halfling witch hunter (Sherbert Von Halfling), an evil dwarf lord reminiscent of a famous bad guy (Lord Va'Durr) and a model of Sherlock Holmes scupted by another guy who has stuff distributed there too. Seriously cool stuff. It'll probably be a while till I get them painted, if ever, but the Sherlock Holmes model is simply too cool for me not to paint. With luck I'll get some time next week to do him some modelling and painting justice. It's a bit of a pity there isn't a Watson or Moriarty model from the same person.

Work was so-so. It was nice seeing familiar faces, some of them customers, but the work itself was just as I remember it - 'bleh'. Just 'bleh'. Nothing else seems to adequately reflect the state work can put me in. It's like a form of apathetic carelessness. Thankfully when I got home I was able to watch anime. Kiba, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Strawberry Panic, Bleach, Love get Chu, Inukami!, Ah! My Goddess second season and Honey & Clover II. Eight isn't a bad amount considering I'm relying purely on updates for the time being. In brief then, since I need to update the Soul Society forum - Kiba was cool, and had 'the land of the enemy' turn up. Interesting shard beasts there. Higurashi was a bit weird but not overly freaky. Strawberry Panic reached new heights of potential yuri, during a heartfelt rendition of the past no less. Bleach was kinda pants, as two Vice-Captains who've not shown their powers before got their arses kicked before they could do so this time. Love Get Chu had an interesting maid cafe. Inukami has the poor perverted guy win all the fights he had when unconscious, yet when he finally came to he got beated by a daemonically posessed plushie rabbit. Well damn. Ah! My Goddess had Skuld learning to ride a bike, which was a story I liked in the manga. Not only does she make a new friend wo she quite possibly cares for, but Urd pwns her in a contest of skill. As for Honey & Clover II, Hagu seems to be a bit lost, and Morito (I think that's his name) doesn't seem to want to talk to her, even though he loves her. How odd. That's the updates summarised rather heavily, so till next time.

Pub Quiz.

Once more I slept in during the morning, since I didn't have much to do. Therefore I'll skip right to when I actually did something. At about 2.15 pm I decided to go down to Games Workshop a lot earlier than usual simply for something to do. I also took six of my PSP games with me, since I don't really play them and felt like trading them in. I met up with a mate who'd also gone to Games Workshop early, and we both headed down to Game. I prompty traded them in and got two new games, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble and Popolocrois. Not bad considering four of the games I traded in are quite old. After that we wandered around for a bit and got a slice of cake each to eat since we could. I went to WHSmith and he tagged along as I still had to use my £20 gift card there from my birthday last month. After a lot of deliberation, and mutual complaints about a lack of manga, I ended up getting two Bernard Cornwell books I've not read, as well as a games(tm) magazine. It's been a long while since I've read one after all. Later on when we went back to Games Workshop another of our little group had turned up, so we stood around chatting for a while till my girlfriend turned up to complete our usual group.

We all went to the noodle place again for a meal, this time on me, though one of my mates thankfully paid for the drinks since he wanted sake. The meal was nice once again, though my girlfriend didn't like her dish. After trying it, none of the rest of us liked it either. When the lady who ran the place came round she noticed this, and told us we didn't need to pay for it as it wasn't really touched. That was pretty cool indeed. Afterwards, since none of us were in the Inquisitor game and also since my girlfriend forgot to bring her army down, we all went into a local pub to chat since it allowed us all to sit down, and my mates to drink. My girlfriend and I only had coke to drink, but they were bought for us so that was again cool. As it moved on later into the evening there was a pub quiz, so I chipped in the entry money for me and my girlfriend, whilst one of my mates was nice enough to pay the £1 for the friend buying all the drinks, heh. Unfortunately my girlfriend had to leave after a short while which was kinda depressing, but I went with her to see her off from the Games Workshop store. Back to the quiz, I guess we did vaguely alright. one of my mates and then myself had to leave before it finished however. The guy running it collected in our answers just as I left, so it's up to my round-buying friend to tell us all how it turned out.

Once I got home I decided to try out the two new games before coming here. Viewtiful Joe was... odd. I managed to win a stage without knowing what I was doing at all, and when I tried again after working out the controls I came second. How strange. As for Popolocrois, the game menus seem slow, areas take a while to load, and the map actually causes a bit of lag when it opens and closes. How... unpolished. Neither game struck me as overly good, but hopefully they'll grow on me. If they don't, I'll simply return them next tuesday and go for something else. Hopefully there'll be other games I'll like. On the plus side, Bleach 3 should be arriving within a week or so, and that simply rocks. In anime news I have five episodes to watch, though one still needs to be downloaded. Honey & Clover II, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kiba, Inukami! and Love Get Chu. I go back to work tomorrow, unfortunately, but 'll have time in the morning to watch them. if I can't be bothered, I'll at least watch them after work since my hours are 3 pm till 9 pm. It'll be a bit weird going back to work after three weeks off, but meh. When I got home there was actually a message from my boss asking me to call back since he wants me to start a bit earlier if possible, so I need to ring him tomorrow morning. Urgh. At any rate that's pretty much all I can remember for today, so till next time.

Uneventful day.

Hmm, what to talk about? Well, I slept till late in the afternoon. To be more accurate, I was awake but didn't bother getting up till the late afternoon. Since my computer always stays on overnight, my rooms heats up. As such when I woke it was far too hot, and I didn't have any energy to move, let alone the motivation. Eventually I dragged myself out of bed. Cold water and breakfast got rid of the fatigue, in a sense. After that it was just a question of what to do, which wasn't much. I read more manga, updated the forum, watched some more Farscape, listened to several hours of OC-Remixes and so on and so forth. Not really much of note to be honest. Tomorrow I'll be playing a game of Warhammer 40k against my girlfriend, so I'll at least have something to talk about then. Looks like this post is going to be slightly disproportionate.

I did get round to watching anime, namely Air Gear, Chocotto Sister, Coyote Ragtime Show and Muteki Kanban Musume. Air Gear was good. It had the group finally get round to meeting Team Behemoth, which makes me wonder about the pace of the anime compared to the manga. It's not far behind now, as in the manga they're still on the final two matches, and the first matches will start next episode. Maybe scanlating group for the Air Gear manga isn't up to date or something. At any rate if it keeps going on like this then the anime's either going to overtake, or go into filler, which seems pointless for a 26 episode series. The new manager of the apartments in Chocotto Sister turned up in the latest episode, where she met both the brother and Choco before even finding the apartments. The end of the episode was pretty funny. Looks like Choco's little book has a few words her brother finds quite unsettling for her to know, even though she doesn't know the meaning of them. She even asked him to explain them. How 'interesting', heh. Coyote Ragtime Show had a bit more of Marciano's 12 Sisters which is always a good thing. Though they're androids (I currently don't feel like looking up the female version of that word) they do seem to act quite human, evidenced by the three youngest who were happily chanting the name of some food they wanted to eat. Looks like Mister and his group need to go through a lot of evasion, considering they got attacked before their plan finished... In Muteki Kanban Musume the 'evil spirit' teacher, i.e. the female teacher who never seems to smile and has such a neutral expression of gloom that she scares quite a few people, made a small appearance which was cool. She's currently my favourite character. The main girl herself was just as violent as before, so nothing overly unexpected. Since that's the whole four episodes described in a bit more detail than usual, I'll be off for now. Time to watch more Farscape I guess, though I may go on SilkRoad Online later should a few friends turn up in Skype. Till next time.

Wolves.

Again today was a good day, since from the early afternoon I spent the day with my girlfriend. For most of the morning I didn't really do much at all except read a bit of Bleach manga and listen to more music. Once I got round to my girlfriend's place I went on my laptop for a bit, since she decided to play more games of Neopets to finish up. Since it was quite warm she felt slightly tired after that, so it was quite a peaceful afternoon over all. Later on we both decided to watch TV, since on one of the channels the anime movie Princess Mononoke was showing. Though I've seen it several times before, my girlfriend hadn't, so I watched it again with her. The white wolves made me think of my wolf on SilkRoad Online, which looks very similar. That was quite entertaining, since when I'd first seen the SRO white wolves I'd thought of the movie. Interesting how some thoughts can cycle round. Once the movie was over it was already 8 pm, so we watched Fullmetal Alchemist and Mezzo DSA as per usual. FMA was funny, since Armstrong's sister made an appearance, as well as the little story of the 'haunted' hut 13. One of the more stand alone episodes. As for Mezzo, it was linked with last week's episode which I hadn't seen, but since it had flashbacks to the OVA, which I have seen, I understood quite a bit of it, so it was all good.

After that I had to come home, and when I arrived I didn't really have the motivation to do anything. As such I basically just signed onto IRC for a bit, though yet again didn't do much apart from listen to music. Out of the 1,250 game music remixes, I'm at the D's now. Only a few more weeks.... Though I have the two anime episodes mentioned yesterday to watch, as well as the newest xxxHOLiC episode, I don't really feel like watching them now. Instead I reckon I'll sign onto SRO for a bit to see if anyone is around, since the usual crown on Skype seem to have vanished. Meh, that draws my post up short today, so till next time.

A very, very good day.

The title doesn't seem that descriptive does it? Well, to explain it all really quickly, I spent the day with my girlfriend. As such, an absolutely fantastic day. First we went to the small goth clothing shop in the Enterprise Centre, and whilst there she spotted an item of clothing that was kinda-like gloves, though mostly to cover the forearms. It looked really cute on her, so she bought those. Then she spotted a more expensive top, and seemed disheartened that she didn't have the money for it. regardless I encouraged her to try it on, and since she looked incredibly stunning in it I bought it for her. It's pinstriped, and it really suits her. After that we went to a small Pagan festival since it just so happened to be nearby, and the morris dancers looked slightly different from the frilly stereotype I'm used to. They were all dressed completely in black, and looked pretty cool. The stalls were quite interesting to, so it was fun wandering around. Since it was bright and sunny we decided to go back to her's so she could prepare, then go back to the coast so she could paddle in the sea. That was a nice afternoon, plus I can't stress enough how good she looks in her swimming suit. God. Damn. At any rate after that we walked to Meads (spelling?) to be picked up at 5 pm.

Once back at hers we did the usual 'look at webcomics, go around Neopets' thing. Since it involved her more than me I had prepared, and had enough foresight to bring a book with me. I brought Battle Royale, simply as I really needed to actually read more of it, and what I did get through was a good read. I didn't read for long though, since it's nice being by her side and hugging her. My friends from Games Workshop have probably clearly realised this already, since when I'm there I spend nearly all my time with her. Eventually though I had to leave. Once I got home it was getting pretty late, so I just fixed up dinner, checked emails, then came here to post. I only have two episodes of anime that need watching, a Tsubasa Chronicles one and a Blood+ one. Those'll probably either get watched later after this post, or sometime tomorrow once I get back from my girlfriend's place. Farscape's also plodding along well enough, so with luck I'll have the torrent completed within a week. Tomorrow also happens to be my last day off, so I'll need to go back to work on wednesday, and the time I see my girlfriend during the weekend will be drastically slashed. Well 'damn'. Le sigh. Ah well, since that's pretty much all my rambling for today, till next time.

Old quests.

Ah, the first half of today was relaxing. Mostly because I didn't get out of bed. I was awake, I just didn't really feel like doing anything at all that required movement. After a few hours of idle thought I decided to actually do something with the day. As such, since it was payday at long last, I went down to Brighton. Dave's Comics and David's Books were the only two shops I bothered going to, and I managed to buy the latest three released volumes of Bleach, the NewType USA magazine, and one of my favourite books - Neuromancer by William Gibson. That was pretty nice, to be able to get manga goodness, as well as a favourite book. I didn't stay in brighton long since it was nearing late afternoon and I still had my girlfriend's Daemon Huntress figure to paint. When I got back home I figured I still had time, so I went to play SilkRoad Online. I got yet more old quests done, and though a died during a new one, the rewards for the others easily got me my exp back. Then, since I wanted as much painting time with natural light left as possible, I started on the daemon Huntress. Unfortunately it took a lot longer than I hoped, but I'm kinda happy with the finished product. I'm not too sure about the parchment, but I'm happy with the armour, details etc.

Once that I was done I prompty bought Bleach: heat the Soul 3 on eBay, since I have the first two games, and they rock. The third has 33 characters. 33! That's more than the 11 of game two and six of game one... When I finally went to watch anime I was slightly disappointed. I only had a Zero no Tsukaima and an Aria the Natural episode to watch. Both shows I like, but it's just a bit 'meh' only having two new episodes to watch. On the plus side, they were both enjoyable. Zero no Tsukaima had the poor lad practicing for a familiar presentation-type event, yet he was told to just bow. What a lot of wasted effort. His suggestions for his 'performance' were pretty funny though, such a pity he wasn't allowed to do them. As for Aria, it had more of the slightly whimsical fare that characterises the show which always makes for a nice change of pace. Thankfully I do have some Farscape episodes to watch now, so those may bide me over till I get more anime. Due to the lack of anime, it looks like my post is slightly shorter than usual. lets home I can ramble on about more tomorrow eh? Till next time.

Huggled.

I really enjoyed today. Sure, some parts were really incredibly stressful, but I got to spend the day with my girlfriend, so that made everything much better. I got round her place just after midday, and was able to give her the manga I'd spent ages getting for her. However, disaster struck. The first two volumes were corrupted on the flash drive. Well, that sucked. I quickly got the first from direct download, but the only good source for volume two, the one which gave me hell yesterday, was through IRC. Fair enough, I went onto IRC. It took nearly half an hour to work out how to connect through her proxy server. Oh well, no worries eh? No file sends would be accepted, as any connection failed. Well, damn. I then went onto Skype and luckily a friend who uses IRC was around. They were great and downloaded it for me, and sent it. The only problem was that over Skype, or over MSN, the send speed was only 3 kb/s. It's take over 3 and a half hours. Well that was bad, so we tried IRC. No good. In the end he uploaded it to a gmail account he uses to transfer music between friends, and I managed to get it that way. It took a while, but it was worth it to make my girlfriend happier. She's a good fan of Saiyuki, so it was nice to be able to get her Saiyuki Reload. I also gave her the story I'd written for her, and she liked it a lot. That felt good too.

In the afternoon we watched The House of Flying Daggers since we could, and afterwards went on a walk along the Downs. Since I started going out with her I've got one hell of a lot more walking exercise, which probably explains why I've lost a reasonable amount of weight. As it was we took jackets, and when we got up to the top of the ridge the sun came out and it got warmer. Meh, oh well. After that long walk we read more manga, webcomics and so forth, since that's one of the things we do together. Unfortunately I didn't get round to painting her Daemon Huntress, so when I came home I took it with me, since I can paint it tomorrow instead of just doing nothing. When I did get home I checked for anime updates, and there was only three. PowerPuff Girls Z, School Rumble and Aria the Natural. I count PowerPuff Girls Z as almost a pure time filler now, plus since I've not got anything else to watch really it's not too bad. The four series of Farscape, and both parts of The Peacekeeper Wars, are starting to actually get episodes finished, and by tomorrow I reckon I'll have at least half to two thirds of the first season done. Considering I only have it running when I don't have anime to get that's not too bad. At any rate I'm now off to watch those three episodes, so till next time.

Music-filled.

Most of my day was filled with music. Lots and lots of music. Most notably several hundred of the OC-Remixes of game music. The annoying thing is I forgot to save my playlist and loaded another. Whoops. When I added my whole music folder as a new playlist, all the OC-Remixes were in a slightly different order. So... I lost my place. Whoops. Guess I'll have to start again then. On the plus side I managed to actually get the name of my favourite one so far, so that's all good. Took a bit of finding out of 3000+ songs, but I know roughly where it is on the playlist now. Nifty stuff. Since I wasn't really doing anything in the afternoon I figured I should finish up the story I'd started writing for my girlfriend since I'm seeing her tomorrow, and spending time round her place writing it seems like an absolute waste. In the end I managed to wrap it up quite well in my opinion. I just hope she likes the written romance, since it's pretty much the first time I've ever written such a scene. Though I had some, well lots, of spare time afterwards I completely wasted it. I just sat around chatting idely to friends on my computer whilst I listened to, yes, more OC-Remixes. I do have quite a few to get through after all. I should've probably read more Battle Royale, since I haven't touched the novel since I read the first 100 pages... Ah well, probably later or something.

Later on in the evening my girlfriend asked me to find the Saiyuki Reload manga. It took an INSANE amount of searching. Ye freaking GODS. I've never known something so hard to bloody find. Yet, as my girlfriend had asked me, I happily spent hours looking for it. I told her when I found them and she left MSN happy, but when volume 2 of the 4 and a half volumes finished downloading, it was corrupt. The uploaded file was cack. That's when the several hours of searching started. God damn. On the plus side I found a fantastic IRC channel with bots that have a ridiculous amount of manga, so I can go back there should I ever need to find more stuff. I also got round to watching my anime. That was inevitable as I only had three episodes to watch anyway. Utawarerumono, Bleach and Strawberry Panic. Utawarerumono had an interesting turn of events leading up to yet another war. There do seem to be quite a few of them going on apparently. Bleach had Ishida show up with a form of Quincy powers, completely going against the manga. Bleh. At least Ichigo got Ban Kai on Earth.... As for Strawberry Panic, there was yet more drama as Nagisa found out a tiny bit about Etoile's departed previous love. She didn't take it well when Etoile collapsed infront of her, repeating the dead girl's name. Must be a bit of heart pain for the poor girl in love. Since that rounds it out, till next time!

Oho, soon.

This is the 307th post, and the first for the month of August. This means I've been writing blog posts for roughly twelve months, and it's just 49 posts till I have a whole year's worth, one per day. Jeebus, it's always vaguely surprising thinking back to just how much pointless crap I've written, dang. At any rate - talking about today. I had a relatively quiet morning since I decided to sleep in for a bit as I had no pressing reason to get up. Once several hours had passed from the point of me waking up I figured I had nothing to lose by getting out of bed, so did so. I had more than adequate time to watch anime, so prompty didn't since I didn't feel like watching it in the morning. Instead I started listening to more music, and did so for several hours. I found three torrents which when combined yielded 1,250 OC-Remixes of game music from a huge variety of games. Even after several hours I'd only managed to listen to around 60 or so, so there's definitely a lot left to listen to. Some are god damn fastastic, though since I was reading manga away from the computer I didn't really catch the song names. I'm sure I'll get back to them eventually. Once it got to the mid-afternoon I decided I may as well go to Games Workshop an hour early, as I didn't feel like doing much else.

Once I got there it was the usual socialising and so forth, and happy hugs when my girlfriend turned up. She'd bought a new top and curled her hair, and looked absolutely freanking stunning. I mean, 'damn'. We were both in the main Inquisitor game which lasted ages, since it was still going on when I left at 10.05 pm, though slightly nearer the end since so many people were badly injured. Though my character had died last week, I was given another on the opposite side, so was working for the guy that had infected and interrogated my ex-character. How odd. I was in charge of the character he'd been using in the previous games, whilst he took charge of his actual main character for a change. The game didn't go too well whilst I was around. The new side I was on got shot and hacked to pieces for minimal loss in return, since my old side have rather good people, even if they are outnumbered. The character I controlled constantly failed psychic tests and partially melted his own brain three times, but got the information needed in the end. I had to leave before the figure I controlled could escape, so I'm not too sure what happened to it. On the plus side switching sides did allow me to be on the same side as my girlfriend, so I was a lot more content for most of the game.

Once I got home I updated the Soul Society forum, then decided to watch the anime at last. I got through Ouran High School Host Club, Kiba, Honey & Clover II, Zegapain, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and Ah! My Goddess second season updates before I had to come here to post this. Ouran had lots more background information on the guy with glasses, the one who truly runs the Host Club. An interesting character indeed, since he makes himself out to be egoistic, but in reality is helpful to others. Kiba had the insane princess actually die by the end which was good, but Amil Gaoul, the powerful shard spirit Zed can't control, made a flashy appearance. How nifty. In Honey & Clover II, several of the characters managed to admit small things to themselves, and the most notable was one of the girls who admitted to herself that she likes a guy who wants to be with her, which was hard to do since she still loves a friend who rejected her since he loves someone else. Zegapain had more of the anti-Zega which was frankly just cool really. In Higurashi there was fingernail removing. Hmm. Ah! My Goddess was a good episode too, since it showed some of Urd's past with the Troubadour, a slightly (i.e. very) manipulative Demi-God. More Urd is always a good thing. I still have two episodes of Kamisama Kazoku to watch, as well as an episode of Inukami. As such I'm off to watch them now. Till next time.