Cognitive Link

To exemplify a point, here's Cognitive Link:

Indubitably I meandered along the shifting path of stillness as I looked upwards at the flowing floor. With warping sky did I see the fluffy death approaching from behind, but alas, did it miss me with it's velocity and brevity. A spin and spun later and My person arrived at the place I was currently leaving, waving hello to myself as my back waved goodbye. Seeing a circular pillar move sideways defied my logic so I pressed through the door of wall and looked inside.

The swirls around me abated to the neon recesses of a two by four which repeatedly passed through my nasal canal like a goldfish of time. Sneezing the proliferating profusion outwards into the technicolour abyss gave rise to a gargantuan utterance of the ninth level of biscuits. Crumbs my lady, for the crumbs of wrath shall descend upon my being and erode to the core of my temporally misplaced grandeur. With such snippets of edible essence I pressed onwards through the blend of gravity and light that was the passage till I stumbled upon the incorporeal form of tomorrow basking in the darkness of parenthood. What child did I see before me?

"Things are the noise of the void." Gibbering, their forms warped inside around as the light shone through the particles of the tissue plastered on the walls of the cage. Children and mushrooms blend and splice to form the skeletons of the heart, joy ripping apart envy with spurious limbs. Excitedly, I bounced forwards to feel the sight before me as my mind wandered into the next planar existence, looking for a speck of quiet vibration. Instead my mind found a taste too fantastic to reveal, it's nose gazing at the scene of figure skating.

The little critter belched his soul through my skin as it reverberated around the mollusk. Trails of the rainbow glimpsed through a shimmering glaze trampled across the bull as it charged the thoughts of madness. Displacing the objects of royalty came the process of kittens, rampaging amidst the vampires of the Pacific as teeth ripped the carpets of the sinners. Alas, did I know the exaltation of the pygmies as their fires froze the depths of the cupboard. Forsooth, such was the setting awaiting me with its impatience, tapping its mantis upon the stove.

Shards punching through the hoop as the billiard cries out in delirium, shocked by the cable of the glass hat. I watched backwards as the dance folded upon the cards of the sun, hate of the deceiver plummeting through the walls of revolution. To declare, I did see a Newton as it bounced past the ford, trails of death curling around mentors which clucked the tendrils of life. Avast, I forged onwards, hearth berating the jewels inverting around my dilapidated comments and such did I see the scale of the bread inherent within the hose.

The mice chattered as their shapes whirled through the spectrum of mammalian reptiles. Purple fur sprouted forth as the chimes giggled past, a tap dance of phonetics sliding through the inverted landslide. Edging southwards I did see such a waste, a rhythm of a fountain shimmering in the base pixel. Alas, such work came jaundiced, marred by a blessing of the leprechaun as it darted forwards. Darting it did for I took heed of flabbergasting instruments.

Gasp yodeled the mongoose upon the tipsy summer chime, metallic rumours mitigating sweeps of acidic breezes. Did not the crowing of the balloon incite the hysteria of the peeping drivel? Yea, for kooky was the twitter chatter upside the green fender of peaceful handkerchiefs. Gloriously did I stumble through a duck of the vortex bosom, tied vastly underneath yeast sprinkled pine cones. Scents hammered on the door of the lids, furious echoes of whistling igniting water of the walls. Forsooth, verily I did crumble like teeth at the presence of the nothing as several giggled like a stoat.

Aghast, the teaspoon merrily pivoted like a train in a blender, the soothing shrieks melting the planes in a torrent of dandelions. Entranced, the cup slid forwards out of the outside, into the sky of the weather. Tissues abounded in the realm of the twiddly spelunkers. Fizzing weasels larked in the summer house as the catastrophe atrophied in the glare of the nuclear fridges. Alone, adrift was the state of the being in the mind whilst the ball of the sitting spuds unraveled like an orange in moulting season. Through the unpleasantness came the soft wail of the turtle as a spork flitted through the air like a rock on imagination, the drug coursing through the rafters of its logistics.

Silicon tapped the nuance of removal in the yellow blend of the charm bell. Excited spit the morning drill in the essence of the blasphemy candy, a twirl of hollow solidity channeling the revelry of the salon belly explosion. Fish inverted like a canine of the paper, expressed dreams shriveling like the tofu inherent in the synergy. Gone, the usurper was gone into the gates, knots and lines twisting the fabric conditioner of seventh dementia, a cuckoo spiraling death as the blue pane glimmers. Conversations ebb like reapers, faint traces of the gelatin kissing the nights flowers. Cherries exponentially split, the atomic humidity forgotten in the haze of people. Spite runs amok through the entire constellation, a forgotten player in the remembrance of fog and spice.

Expeditions did arise in the meandering local, a herculean fish rapping amidst the slumbering slices. Kettles squawked night tables of which conflagration was an inverse method of higher drowning. Walking forever determined the fractiousness of bespoken personages, faltering within a cycle of a ladle. Spinning frivolity erased the lark of chance as they frolicked aimlessly through walls and clouds of viscosity. The computational gardener archived the assiduous qualities of the voracious delvers, for their candor was not without graceful bawling. As a robust whisper warbled through the glen of misunderstanding, the lewd kelp chattered and, dancing, returned to the provost from whence it held law. Picking up the complete works of the pieces left in deft squares of triangles, the gardener mourned the gaining of insight, the mouldering view untamed by the rigors of temperamental youth. Alas, such wasn't the greatest of nothings that such a vocation, faltering in step without holdings, decried the pagoda of dreams, for it was glorious, yet woke constantly and irrevocably. Misery blossomed from a multitude of wreaths due in whole to jubilant messengers ferrying ideological structures of ducks. Quacking, such quaking, the pure language of the heavenly hedonism evident amidst the divinity of boredom. For, as was wont, sooth was said drearily alongside the threads of everlasting mediocrity lurking between the mushrooms. A laugh of the book derailed the segment of hot time for the digital remembrance questionably forgot the bubbling of the gushing metal strut. Eventually the pass was countered with the crevasse of posts, typicality erasing the nature of the lemming.

Such was the nature of a psychoanalytic warble.

Like a phoenix I am, booyah!

Wow, it's certainly been a long time eh? Since Februrary very important things have been happening, like still being with my wonderful girlfriend, playing a crapload of Pokémon Diamond, spending a vast amount of time reading Black Library novels, socializing at my University gaming club SWARM where I'm now the Communications and Events officer on the three-man committee and generally living and having a moderate amount of fun. I still work at ASDA and get a respectable rate, so that's not too bad. Another interesting tidbit of information is that I've finished my first year of University. Though I didn't get the grades I was hoping for, I still got a solid happy pass so it's not too bad. Something to work on this coming academic year, no doubt. University was, for the most part, bearable. I reckon my slightly lower grades were probably a factor of complacency, panic and not revising till two weeks before all the exams. Possibly a bad idea, but at least the first year doesn't count towards the overall grade. SWARM itself goes incredibly well and, in my uni week, it's essentially the point I live for and is a hell of a lot more enjoyable. As law isn't exactly a passion of mine and merely something I can do, you can guess it gets a tad... 'wearing'. Oh well eh?

Something rather nifty indeed is the Soul Society has revived after a fashion. There's new blood on the forum, one of whom is an excessive poster of good quality, so that's extremely reassuring to see. The other new comer shows promise, but currently hasn't posted much yet, so I guess I'll have to wait and see how it all develops. I've rekindled my whole riddle fiasco with a series of rapid fire riddles which have gotten more impressive in terms of prizes as more people have begun taking part. Though one forum regular and mate of Skype said the riddles often seemed like they could be about anything I'm hopeful they're not all so confusing and unspecific. Since my characters on the forum are all XPC's now, or rather 'Xanthier Player Characters', I generally don't do much roleplaying myself. I tend to just act as the Storyteller as before, though every now and then I jump in if it looks entertaining. Latenter and pals aren't entirely dead yet, oho no, not close to retirement at all. Once this post is over I'll be updating yet another riddle, so kudos to the people who've got right answers.

I've also spent a fair amount of time on two other forums, those of Earth Eternal and Pokecharms. The first concentrates on an MMO in the making. Google it and check it out, it's pretty cool. I go by a similar alias there and have a small pseudo-Guild set up called 'The Enscaled'. There was a competition to add extra races and I was one of the 3 winners with a reptilian race called the Lisian, based on geckos. They look pretty damn cool, so I formed the Guild with the aesthetics based on them yet open to everyone. It's a gallery of rogues in a sense who all fight for themselves and, when personal gain is possible, for the Guild itself. The other forum, Pokecharms, is naturally about Pokemon and it's a pretty damn cool place. Though understandably there are waves of 'n00bs' every now and then the admins and moderators are pretty sharpish when it comes to warning and banning people. There are two people there who are incredibly good at spriting and one in particular has fulfilled ridiculous numbers of requests, all the ones from me for a start. My entire team is sprited as cosplays by her, she's an awesome friend.

Just to round things up for now, spending time with my girlfriend is utterly blissful. It's been about a year and five months now which amazes me. The fact everything is going so well and we're happy together just makes some aspects of life seem utterly surreal. I must be one of the luckiest people I know, and it bloody rocks.

I also still go down to Games Workshop on Tuesdays, and yesterday I went down briefly. Instead of staying there for the evening, as is the norm, my girlfriend and I decided to come back to mine to watch anime and what not. All in all a pleasant and relaxing evening away from a vast number of young and annoying children in the store, so a good tactical move I reckon. At any rate the riddle update beckons, so I'll be off for now. With luck I may be able to write here once a week. failing that I guess I'll stick with the incredibly sporadic updating schedule. At any rate, 'Yo' to all my friends reading this, and adios. See you all next time.

~ Xanth

Still alive.

Well wow. It's certainly been a long time since I last made a post eh? I'm actually only making one now just to keep this place 'alive' as it were, since it'd be a shame to have it die completely. Who knows, as I paint more models I may even start putting more pics up here. One new D&D campaign starting this coming Monday has me playing a Warforged Paladin, and I'm quite proud of the model so far. All I had to alter was the two arms, armour on the front of the shoulders, the weapon and the lack of a shield. Though a mate said the pose looked slightly off, due to the positioning of the feet and arc of the hammer, I still think it looks pretty nifty. At any rate all the robes are (almost) finished, as is the shield. It only needs another thin layer on the cloak for final highlights before it gets a layer of matte varnish to remove some of the ink's shine in the deepest recesses. I still want to try painting Celtic knot work along the edge, but I reckon I'll finish the rest of the model first. At any rate, till next time.

Bleh.

So tired.... I don't feel like posting at all, and haven't for the last couple of days. This means I'm likely to reduce the frequency of posting to every couple of days or every week. Blarg, need sleep....

Retrospective.

To start with, a smaller post about yesterday as I didn't get the time to write it when I should have -

On wednesday I woke up early and didn't exactly feel amazing. I had a slightly runny nose and a sore throat, so I assumed a mild cold was attacking me. Regardless I was slightly happy as my wireless stuff arrived today - a wireless card for my PC (just in case) and a wireless router. Annoyingly I had to call both my ISP and Linksys to try and set it up thanks to the craptacular Speedtouch USB modem, but neither could really help. They just said to get a modem with an ethernet port. Well bummer. Later on when in uni I spoke to a couple of mates and they said just to put in all the details, such as DNS, in the router setup page and it'd work like a modem but alas, it didn't. When I got home that night I just bought a modem with two ethernet ports anyway, so that'll arrive tomorrow with any luck. Anyway, at SWARM a Magic the Gathering draft was run and so I happily took part. It was only the second draft I'd ever been in but it went rather well. I lost the first round rather annoyingly and in retrospect was even more annoyed when my mate realised I could of won had I remembered a card in my graveyard with a flashback cost. It'd have let me draw a card, another mountain, allowing me to actually play a blocker. Bah! On the plus side I completely flattened my next two opponents in the next rounds with three wins out of three. Accordingly I came third out of eight overall, whilst my friend who beat me came fourth. Oh, how ironic. The two booster packs which constituted the prize weren't fantastic, but it was lots of fun taking part. When I got home I felt crappy, so went to bed.

Today when I woke up I felt abysmal. I had a headache, a very runny nose, a harshly sore throat and stomach pains. I also got that excruciating pain which results in trapped air in the intestines (it's is incredibly 'not nice'), had a nosebleed and generally felt like death warmed up. Not good overall then. Since I felt this way I just went back to bed and slept, or at least wandered between consciousness and unconsciousness, all day till about 11 pm. When I got up again I felt one hell of a lot better, but it does mean I had absolutely no time to revise tort, which is a slight problem. Tomorrow I'll be going into Lewes Court, hopefully if it's open, to prepare my court report then in the afternoon I'll need to revise tort. My plans aren't entirely scuppered, just mildly inconvenienced. Dark_Alex also released firmware 3.03 OE-A for the PSP today and it's incredibly nifty, what with supporting PSX compression. Excellent stuff, excellent. At any rate I'll leave it for that for now as I need more rest to prevent collapse. Till next time.

New Year

Right, another New Year's Day has come and gone relatively well for me. Yesterday I slept through the day (as I'd not slept the night before) and as such I woke up at around 10 pm. Resolving to (finally) do some actual law work I started preparing the materials for my tort case note and started work between 10 pm and 11 pm yesterday, finishing at 9 am this morning. Yeah, it took a while. This is probably because I spent large chunks of it playing Guild Wars Nightfall and making sure I got the new Christmas hats. Thanks to a handy 15 minute gap between the celebrations in Lion's Arch and Kamadan (Guild Wars Factions and Nightfall cities respectively) I was able to grab all four hats in just the two sittings. Unfortunately I'd completely missed the Halloween event, but oh well. Not witch hat for me, meh. When I bought Nightfall I actually assumed that since it was after Christmas I'd miss the celebrations. Go figure they ended midnight on New Years Day in some region of America, don't know exactly which timezone. It was pretty handy. At any rate I did get the tort case note done, though as it was only 1,000 words I had to do a ridiculous amount of editing and I was still 42 words over. Bah, working with just 1,000 words is harsh. 1,500 is much easier to handle as it generally needs less pruning.

At 9.50 am my girlfriend arrived which was great, and it wasn't long before she was having a look at Guild Wars (most notably I was showing her the different dances for the professions) and playing Rayman on the Wii. She seemed to despair that she was poor at the minigames without knowing that she wasn't really at the beginning so some of the games weren't supposed to be incredibly easy to pull off first time. Several frustrated dancing attempts later and I directed her to the first ones which she did very well in. It's all about practice really. That ate up most of our day, but eventually we both went to Games Workshop. We had a nice meal together at the noddle place after our game of Mordheim. I used my undead heroes and buffed up a load of human ones for her to use. Her men were generally better than mine, with the exception of my vampire. He won the game for me as he tirelessly ate half her warband on his own. Nifty. I also had a game of Warhammer 40,000 against the Dark Angel player I've beaten 13 times in a row. Make that 14 now. I went first and the poor bugger got annihilated. He lasted till turn 6 however, mostly as stuff was deep striking in, but as stuff appeared it got slaughtered. Poor guy, he needs to seriously rethink how to play his army and how to specialise with it.

Once I got home I had the first episode of Afro Samurai to watch. If you don't know about it, look it up. Suffice to say the episode was pretty damn cool. I'm most definitely going to be following the series. As that wraps everything up, till next time.

Even more skipping.

I didn't bother writing posts for thursday and friday as I was far too tired to bother. On thursday I went round to my girlfriend's place for the day, and on friday I supposedly did revision but didn't actually get much done unfortunately. At any rate I'll write a rather brief account of today. I went in to work early as that's when my step mum was able to drive me in, so I actually had a big breakfast which was nice. Work itself wasn't too bad even though it did drag on a bit. During my breaks I mostly had a rest, since I wasn't exactly feeling pumped full of energy, but I got through the day alright. When I went round my girlfriend's place we mostly spent time together chatting, then had dinner and I challenged her to a few more games of chess (continued on from thursday). With time I reckon she'll improve, as at the moment she's essentially a beginner. Even though I made a stupid mistake here and there I still only lost four or five pieces a game, always eroding her down to just a King. It'll be nice to gradually teach her how to improve, as then we can have close matches and what not. At any rate after I got home I watched Kiba and Death Note, and both updates were good. Kiba had an armoured Amil Gaoul, whereas Death Note had Light working for the police investigation. Having the real Kira needing to pretend to be Kira for the cops strikes me as very funny. At any rate I'm tired again, so till next time.