part the first.
HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY.

let's get past the star wars reference for the moment. you know you have an awesome villain idea bouncing around in your head. whether based on some awesome superpower, over-developed personality trait, or an unhealthy obsession (say... lightbulbs. you could so do that), there's only one thing that could possibly make them better: appearing in super-deformed, super-tiny, super-huggable form!

yes? yes.

so you should go enter *IslandWriter's villain competition! lots of goodies lined up for the winners as well as all entrants, so there's literally nothing to lose. plus, who doesn't love villains? you might end up creating the next entity to take over and/or destroy the world!

"so give me details already!" you cry. and a [link] i provide with said details. come on, give me that evil laugh. there you go. but you better get your buttski in gear, as the competition ends december 11!



part the second.
THE MYRIAD WONDERS OF THE INTERNETS.

i promised the sordid tale of my actually obtaining the vasty greatness of the intrawebs in all their tubular glories. and here it is.

so my modem just up and kicked its little 56k legs in the air the other day, and so itook charge in a manner completely unlike me. i was like, "what goes on here?", and when my modem failed to answer, i punted it across the Great Mexican Borderfence. and by that, i mean i called broadstripe and told them to give me internet for less than i pay for phone + aol, and to waive stupid startup fees. and much to my surprise, they actually did so. even after the rate hike after a year. (the best part of that, is right after i called broadstripe, my modem started working perfectly and trying to win me back. it even played that human league song.) i scheduled an appointment for maybe four days later.

i needed to obtain a modem in three days. this i did, with much blood, sweat, and tears... on the part of the best buy employees. we did the "pick up at store" thing, which failed to work, as the arundel mills location waited around an hour to tell my mother "something happened" with the order, and it wasn't fulfilled. i feel bad for the casualties they sustained upon delivering that message, but not bad enough to ever, ever, ever buy anything from best buy ever again. in an effort to staunch the bleeding, they called the glen burnie location and managed to procure the lovely linksys which is now in cahoots with the daemons of the intertubes and is glorious and, if you ever should need to acquire a modem, you should totally buy.

modem obtained, living room cleaned, cat-5 uncoiled, saturday morning rolls around. i wait with bated breath for broadstripe to show up, all throughout the window of 11-2. around 1:30 he shows up, and since i'm not renting a modem, didn't know he had to split the cable. we both call customer service, he blackberrys dispatch, etc., etc., etc. naturally, the cable goes through the flood-damaged basement, and he traipses back and forth for maybe two and a half hours. that was somewhat of a headache, but he was nice enough.

and then on monday, my own personal geek squad showed up with a wireless router (also linksys), wireless card, and all the trimmings. my network, by the by, is named serenity.

in conclusion: best buy blows, linksys rocks, broadstripe is better than comcast, and now i have the internets. the end.



part the third.
NATIONAL NOVEL-WRITING MONTH.

with barely fifty-odd hours left in november, i had a sneeze over thirty-four thousand words written in my novel. i finished in a frenzied flare of typing with a few hours to spare.

and then openoffice offed itself, and when it recovered, it recovered an edition before the last time i saved. first thing i did after that was update my java. but alas, it was too late for poor cael and rilur.

and so i'm back to 34k. this one i'm going to keep writing, though. like, now. my goal is to finish it by 2010.



part the last.
WINTER HOLIDAYS.

so at work, we started the holiday cd rotation on black friday. on black friday, before even showing up to work, i sold almost $2k worth of holiday cheer in the form of electronic drum sets and guitars. methinks it's worth listening to miley cyrus wish everyone a ROCKIN' christmas every couple of hours if this is the sort of fruit this choice piece of psychology bears. right now i'm listening to muse in order to banish sabrina bryan's cheetahlicious christmas from my head.

it's working so well i think i may even take the christmas tree out today.

after twelve years of dialup...
awmigawd, it's so tasty.



life's on fire, but my next day off i will discuss the myriad trials of actually bending the intarwebs to my will. and i will also continue my binge of catching up with everyone.

in other words, be back soon~

i will speak in sentence fragments, as my brain is mushy at the moment.


by the way, what the hell happened to october?


new computer is a slightly used netvista from ebay. i have ordered 2gb of ram, which should be here soon. dom is downloading gimp, inkscape, and wacom drivers for me and bringing them over tonight, so i will be art-ing soon. oh, i have some shiny ideas coming for you, ducklings. dynamic poses! maybe even-- dare i say it-- proper proportions?

nanowrimo is, in case you haven't heard, the best freaking thing ever. i'm doing it. you should, too. [link] i think the vast majority of november updates will my nanovel. i'm trying something new with it. :3

internet, specifically cable, i am trying to get in the next couple weeks. i have to work around my days off, but hopefully this will happen very soon. which brings us to the next point:

i suck at the social part of social networking like no other. my internet shoots me in the face on a regular basis. and by that, i mean notes won't even load, and it took me three tries to get to posting a new journal entry. but worst case, i'll hitch a ride to panera or the library and sift through everything. i'll stop being a terrible jerk soon. i'm sorry.

ohai! i'm kinda back. still in the middle of rental season and overtime and literally being unable to feel my feet at the end of the day, but that just means i will hopefully be able to get a working windows box and/or internet that's actually faster than riding my bike. i absolutely punched my sales goal in the face last month and it looks like i will do so again this month, so i will have no more excuses for not getting a computer. well, i mean, i'm sure i could make some up. while the aforementioned excuses will be clever, they just won't be applicable.

i have some glorious ideas for nanowrimo (mystery-ish action-ish near-future sci-fi present-tense first-person nature-of-reality-and-games-mindsandwich), a normal novel (first-person present-tense quasi-philosophical mostly-character-driven steampunk), a comic plot arc, and The Game (a.k.a. Keijia, a.k.a. Pirates vs Ninjas, a.k.a. Jesus God, That Demo Is So Seriously Late, What the Hell Is Wrong With You, You Slacker). now if only i had enough time to hear myself think. i do not have enough time to make sense-- as is evidenced even further with every keystroke. i will likely be uploading sketches of these in the next few [insert period of time here], so more info will come as those are posted. i know you wait with bated breath.

i have literally 5,000 things in my message centre, between deviations/messages/notes/what-have-you (they apparently added in the what-have-you capability while i was gone; it's about time, i say). and so i once again beg patience while my internet blows so hard that dA just times out half the time. and this is on loading normal pages, not even trying to comment or fancy things like that. i'll try to be on at least once a week or so. if not, smack me along upside the head on twitter, as i'm still there more often.

so, yes! things are coming! some of them might even be shiny! huzzah!

hi guys... i've been having some internet/computer problems. specifically, not really having either. hopefully i'll be able to get a new computer and internet before the end of july, but i'm not quite sure how things will go. i hope to be back soon and actually address my exploding inbox..

but bye for now, ducklings.