Hour 8: WOOPS.

So, sorry about being late in posting.  I missed the hour 4 post, due to inability to use the intranetz, and then I got distracted by the site of a recently demolished fungus-infested, radon-laden middle school.  Between getting home and now, I’ve basically just been reading fanfiction.  Sorry, again.

I’m probably going to try to scrounge together some sort of meal involving crackers and cheese.  I’ll try to make the 4:00 post on time.  Hopefully these posts will be more like the first official post was, and not so short and boring.  However, I have great faith in my ability to go batshit insane (mostly due to the fertile soil and close proximity to caves, but still), and I suspect that things will get more interesting as the day (and night, and then day again, and then night again, and then day once more and then one last night) drags on.  Also, I will become progressively more miserable, and nothing is funnier or more entertaining that watching someone else’s self-inflicted misery.

Oh, and I won’t be able to make it to class today, due to it being…

INCONVENIENCE YOURSELF DAY!

No, I am not kidding.  Well, I am about class, of course I’ll be there.  But today is actual National Inconvenience Yourself Day, and I think I don’t really have to do anything else to celebrate it.  Let’s review the facts, shall we?

1.  I am preparing to act upon on of my stupidest ideas ever.

2.  I had 5 and a half hours of sleep in preperation for this event.

3.  Starting today, I can’t eat meat.

What are YOU doing to celebrate IYD, huh?  Huh?

Also, this is National Read Me Week.  Not “Read To Me”, but “Read Me”, and guess writing many blog posts to then be read counts.

Lastly, February is National Time Management Month, which I am celebrating ironically, by poorly managing my time, as witnessed by all the late posts.

Tomorrow, I promise I will choose more fun holidays to celebrate, and choose them earlier in the day.

Okay, now I really am going to go get something to eat.

I can’t make a post about the history of insomnia…

DUE TO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE POLICE COMING TO MY HOUSE.

Da Rules: Drinks

Finally, it’s here!  Sorry that it took so long.  For some reason, I was thinking of doing some history of drinks used to keep people awake sort of thing, when there was only one reason to: I wanted to work in this great song called “Surgerunner”, which is a song about the popular energy drink/soda hybrid.  It was, to quote YTCracker, “hocus pocus focus juice”.  It was discontinued, but there was a fight to bring it back, and it did, in a way.

Coke later introduced into the market “Vault”, another green energy drink/soda hybrid.  And that is the only energy-fueling beverage I will be allowing myself.  No Amps, Red Bull, Monstar, coffee, tea, caffeinated sodas, nada.  Also, I will be putting a limit on how much I can consume – I can drink only four 20 ounce bottles of Vault over the course of my escape from Mr. Sandman.  I will ration out the green elixir to my liking.

Wow, that was dissapointingly easy.  Sorry that it took so long.  Next, I believe, is ninjas?  Or possibly incentives.  Hopefully that will be up soon!

Brief Hiatus

Till, like, tomorrow. But I got the latest Percy Jackson book for 6 bucks, NEW! For some reason, Albertson’s had this random bin of books. Like, they were literally just thrown in there haphazardly, with a big sign above saying “CLEERENCE!”, I kid you not. Unfortunately, they were no longer selling February bus passes, but I got a cheap book out of it!

Also, I finally received my shipment of the 2008 Wizard Rock EP of the Month club, so I got 12 new albums (and actually 13 CD’s!) of wizard rock, so I will be reading and wrocking out today.

But tomorrow, if not later tonight, I will have the drinks post, and there will be two or three posts tomorrow! To tide you over here, I have included a photograph of myself during one of my trips to Scotland:

Why There’s Been A Drought Of Posts

Actually, before I clear that up, there’s something I don’t understand.  In “drought” the gh is silent.  Yet, in “draught” the gh turns into an f.  Why?  How does adding or taking away an “o” make that much of a difference?!?  I’m so distressed I’m using multiple pieces of punctuation!!!!!!!!!! (the sure sign of an insane mind)

But the reason why I have been so lacking is this:

Well, not that specifically.  That was me at the Portland Freeze, where roughly six to seven hundred people showed up and and descended upon “Portland’s Playground” as channel 8 keeps calling it, and held the same position for 5 minutes.  My position was yelling at my Nintendo DS, but over time, my jaws started to really hurt, so I got more of a zoned out look than an enraged one.  But still.

Anywho, the real reason why I haven’t been posting is this:

HOLYBALLSTHISGAMEISGOOD

As the caption says, HOLY BALLS THIS GAME IS GOOD.  It takes everything you would hate about JRPG’s – the random battles, the turn based combat, and either throws it out the window or tweaks into something that is still amazingly fresh today – mostly because no one seems to have learned from it.  Instead of strictly turned based combat, each character has a “timer”, which fills up depending on their speed stat, and when the timer is full, they get to make a move.  But you have to be quick in making decisions, because enemies have timers too, and won’t hesitate to attack.

Also, the story and writing is (are?) impeccable (which is a tad confusing word – the story can’t be pecked?  Why would birds be trying to eat a video game’s story anyways?), and it has an update translation over the original, some new fully animated cutscenes, and some other extras.  Also, one of the best scores in all of video game history.

However, my procurement of this videoelectronic game from a local entertainment reseller does not spell all doom and gloom, mostly because it is an inanimate object, and thus, it doesn’t have a mother, and thus, no one ever taught it the alphabet song.  It’s a very sad story.

Ahem.  Anywho.  The silver lining of this game is that this is another weapon I can use in my fight against insomnia, which I believe may happen next week.  Speaking of which, sometime later today I’ll have up a schedule for the next few posts, so I can hopefully post more often, and possibly yet another post, a “real” one, probably explaining the rules surrounding liquids and the drinking thereof.

Addendum: You probably can’t tell it from the pictures, but the day of the Portland Freeze was also the first day it snowed this winter.  That means two things – first, that the Freeze caused a true freeze, which I find mildly humorous, and second, IT WAS REALLY FLOBBERWORMIN’ COLD.