| Trick or Treat... |
[13 Sep 2009|02:33am] |
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I started playing Scribblenauts tonight. It's outstanding once you get used to the controls.
One puzzle had three trick-or-treaters dressed as witches and a black cat. The hint they give you is "Trick or Treat."
The first time, I typed in "candy." Problem solved.
Then I went to Advanced Mode where you have to play the same puzzle three times in a row without using the same word.
I type in "sucker." The game asks if I want the food or the fish. I go with food.
The second one, I just go with "lollipop."
Then, out of curiosity, I went to my deviant side. There was a Jack O' Lantern in front of the house. I picked it up and threw it at the kids. They run away in terror. Stage cleared.
I've been laughing aloud while playing this game. It's tons of fun.
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| Do no left-wingers own guns? |
[18 Aug 2009|05:10pm] |
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With more and more town hall meetings being greeted with gun-toting protestors, I think it's time that some left-leaning gun owners show up to protest the protestors.
Honestly, I fear for Obama. I kind of hope for Civil War, if only to quell the South once more. The South isn't rising. It's going into the ground. It needs to be put down. It's a cancer eating away at the soul of America. It's fear, not hope.
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| Pedometer... day two... |
[04 Jul 2009|04:46pm] |
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Reset the pedometer this morning, put it on my belt, and the belt clip shattered.
ProTip: Never buy a Pedometer with a plastic belt clip.
Later, it fell from my hip and broke apart.
ProTip: You really do get only what you pay for.
Lessons were learned. I may have mentioned wanting to get Personal Trainer: Walking. I suppose this will be a good enough reason to go ahead and buy it. I need to find out how sturdy the belt clip is, though.
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| My Pedometer... |
[02 Jul 2009|08:53pm] |
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Since changing jobs, I found that I have been slowly losing weight without really trying. No exercise, no dieting, nothing. I knew it took me way longer to get to work, and I have less break times at my new job than I had before, but I also spend loads of that time on the subway or riding the bus to work.
I took 14,580 steps from the moment I reset the pedometer at 8:34 AM to when I walked in the door and set it down at 7:40 PM. A quick check of average steps per day that I can find online range from 5,000 to 7,000 per day. I kind of killed those numbers without trying. Heck, it was even rainy today, so I didn't go out for my afternoon break to get the hell out of the office like I regularly would.
I may try to hit 20,000 steps. Maybe a half-hour run or the like would do it for me.
I'm down to 175 pounds and would like to get to the 165 pound (75 kilograms, since every scale is metric here) range that I was at when I met Youngeun.
I might have to exercise to get down that much, though.
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| By no means PC... |
[08 Jun 2009|09:26pm] |
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I'm sick of this shit.
Let's just wipe North Korea so far off the map that South Korea goes from being a peninsula to being a fucking island.
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| Seriously? In, like, two days? |
[30 May 2009|11:49pm] |
Um... I didn't know Final Fantasy IV: The After Years was coming out in two days.
We're getting one on July 3rd for Jule's birthday. I know what I'll be playing when I'm not forced to waggle to Mario Party 8.
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| This could be considered crazy, but... |
[23 May 2009|10:40pm] |
If the Cleveland Browns current regime manages to lose Joshua Cribbs because it fails to honor their promise, I am going to personally cripple Eric Mangini and the ones he loves.
I've been a life-long Browns fan.
When Byner fumbled the ball on the 1, I took it in stride.
When Kosar was cut, I was hurt but stayed along.
When the Browns ceased to exist, I simply awaited their return.
When the Browns went from 10-6 to 4-12, I was disappointed but watched eagerly for the Browns to rebuild through the NFL Draft.
I will not, however, stay a Browns fan if they shoo away one of the few good things to happen to the Browns in the past few years. A good guy, beloved by the team and by fans, and routinely referred to as the best special teams player since Steve Tasker.
Pay the man, or risk losing another fan who simply grew tired of the constant missteps.
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| Ken, Willing, and Abel... |
[17 May 2009|12:29am] |
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My wife has been beating me at Street Fighter IV.
Just every now and again, mind you, but it's enough to make me feel quite ashamed. Seeing how she doesn't actually play the game, I feel as if playing nothing but RPGs and platformers for the past few years has really killed my abilities.
Youngeun would regularly own me at Mario Golf. I worry for the future and wonder just what she is really doing while I am at work. However, I am so glad that I finally found a game she would play with me. So glad, perhaps, that I may just throw a fight now and again.
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| Not exactly important, but... |
[02 May 2009|01:12pm] |
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I like scotch.
I don't really like to drink to get drunk or anything, but I find I really like me some scotch whiskey (or whisky, depending on who you ask).
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| Panic from the Air! |
[23 Mar 2009|09:50pm] |
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My parents were supposed to be landing in Incheon right as I type this.
They, however, are stuck in Japan right now, on account of the fiery wreckage that is that FedEx plane at Narita.
I get frazzled by airplane flights, anyhow, but reading of three separate airplane-based occurrences in one day has really made me nothing but nerves.
The incident in Narita, the wreck in Montana, and the murder in Australia all have made this the most stressful day I've had in months. Man simply is not meant to fly.
My parents also didn't get a free hotel or anything, so they're sleeping on the concrete of the port they were re-routed to in Japan.
Moreover, they don't know when their flight starts, next, as Narita apparently is still down.
So, I get to be a nervous mess all over again tomorrow.
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| Whine time! |
[17 Mar 2009|10:44pm] |
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I am, for all intents and purposes, overwhelmed at the moment. Consider the following:
I spend ten to eleven hours at work everyday. Most of it is break time, but it's still work if I'm in that building.
I've less than two months to find a new job. I need to consider things like if a job will provide key money (hefty deposits simply to find any apartment in Korea), as well as work hours, curriculum, distance, et cetera.
Youngeun is back at mobbing me for no reason and started drinking again... because everything is my fault.
I have been perpetually sick for something like the past seven months. Headaches, sniffles, dizziness, eye pain, eye twitching, et cetera.
Money is tight as all get-out. I still can't afford to get that stomach lump checked out. I will continue to assume it's simply a lump of hardened fat and hope for the best.
My aunt has been battling breast cancer but, I don't know if I mentioned this or not, didn't bother to tell my mother or anyone else in our family until January. They've since been worried a scrambling to get here as quickly as possible.
I am constantly worried that one of two scenarios will play out with my aunt:
1.) She'll die within the next week before my parents get here.
2.) She'll hold out long enough to say goodbye and simply give up the ghost.
I almost wish I had never met my mother's family. Shortly after meeting my grandmother, she passed away. I've been trying to get my aunt to visit ever since getting to Korea and know now why she's continuously slighted me. Still, I feel as though I'll never be able to say anything except goodbye to my Korean family.
It's brought me sorrow that my brothers will never truly know. I almost envy them. Still, I treasure the moment I called my grandmother, in broken Korean, "halmoni" and actually had her respond. I treasure how I understood when she called me handsome and held my hand.
I hope, if my aunt does die, I can remember something and, perhaps, share it with my brothers one day. More than that, I hope my aunt doesn't die.
The only thing keeping me going is that Juliana's been so very lovely through all of this. Honest to God, I would have given up so long ago were it not for my little girl. She might not love me as much as I wish she would, but I love her more than I ever knew I could.
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| This is actually just a reminder to myself... |
[07 Mar 2009|03:07am] |
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Today, I had to walk out of class because I forgot my lesson plan in the teacher's room.
When I returned to my class of third graders, two were hiding. This is actually a common thing that kids do here. One boy was behind a door, but the girl was half hiding under her desk.
I see them right away. The girl, though, didn't get that the jig was up. I took my shoe off and put my foot down by her face to flush her out of hiding.
When she gets up, she says to me, excitedly, "You only knew I was there because you saw my ass."
I had to make her repeat it because it was so damn funny.
"You just saw my ass."
Apparently, her dad taught her that. Which, for so many reasons, is just too funny to me.
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| Being away from America has its disadvantages... |
[04 Mar 2009|12:12am] |
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I am, after accidentally stumbling across it, just now hearing about the "Ohio GI Promise Bill."
Next week, I'm going to start perusing the web for colleges within Ohio that I can actually apply to while living outside of Ohio.
Now, though, what do I want to be when I finally grow up.
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| Three words destroy the good intentions... |
[12 Feb 2009|08:38pm] |
My gaming stoppage, by no means a New Years resolution, is definitely getting put on hold.
I've three words for you:
Puzzle
Quest
Galactrix
Okay, so I don't believe "galactrix" to be a word, but... whatever. There's no way I'm not playing the hell out of that game. I put money aside just to import an actual copy the same way I did for "The World Ends with You."
I cannot wait for this game. I've been playing the flash-based demo every couple of days.
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| It's that time in Seoul... |
[01 Jan 2009|12:02am] |
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Happy New Year to one and all.
I hear an actual "bong" sound coming from a festival around here. They're striking a large bell with a large piece of battering ram type device.
No resolutions for me. They're so often unrealistic. Perhaps getting back down to 170 pounds again is a realistic one. But even then, it's more a burden than a goal.
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| I don't really have a lot to say... |
[14 Dec 2008|11:10pm] |
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I'm considering a six month video game sabbatical. I don't have the 360 here, I've yet to buy a Wii, and my DS Phat's in need of minor repairs. My touch screen's been about two millimeters off in some areas which severely limits the games I can play (Trauma Center? Sonic Chronicles? Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!? Impossible.).
I'm trying to get my life back on the right track. Honestly, I shouldn't have gotten out of the Army. I did. I'm paying the price for it, too, and my family has suffered long enough because of that decision. Honestly, the fact that Youngeun and I are still together and appear to be past the period of adjustment (which was, for all intents and purposes, maddening) is crazy. I've been in Korea for ten months, now, and I'm finally feeling comfortable.
However, I'm afraid that comfort could easily be mistaken for complacency. I'm not satisfied with my life. I want better. I want better for Juliana, too.
I haven't decided for sure. It's something that's really a basic part of me. It'll be rough, surely, in the same way that it was to part with all those Magic: the Gathering cards when they were put up last year.
I may really be a grownup. How bad does that suck?
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| I'm in gamer purgatory... |
[09 Dec 2008|12:26am] |
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There's been a lot of great gaming to be had on the Nintendo DS as of late. The game I've been spending most of my time with, though?
Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams
Sometimes I can't tell if Juliana loves me or makes me play games with her out of spite.
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| Cue inappropriate laughter... |
[05 Oct 2008|02:57am] |
Some famous actress here in Korea just committed suicide. It's a sad thing, really, as she took internet ramblings to heart... at least that's what the media here is saying.
My wife was watching this somber retrospective and I burst out into laughter. The music they were playing to accompany the piece? "Zanarkand" from Final Fantasy X: Piano Collections.
In other news, the sky's not falling. I'll try to quell my whining.
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| And that's the moment I realized, we're going to lose again... |
[25 Aug 2008|10:15am] |
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Obama-Biden.
Really? The right wing's been poking at the fact that Obama's name resembles Osama bin Laden. Seriously, the only way that ticket could look worse was if he could've found someone named Sin Laden.
So, looks like I may never come back to the United States.
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| Totally gross... |
[30 Jul 2008|11:21pm] |
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While about to wash my hands after going to the bathroom (about five minutes ago), I looked up to see a 2-inch long cockroach chewing on my toothbrush bristles.
Needless to say, I've got a new toothbrush and a mouth that now feels unclean no matter how much I brush.
Additionally, I think I may quit using "Apple Mint" toothpaste.
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