Well, I've managed to waste another three days off, and I'll probably continue to call it "wasted" until I actually go down to the school to see about financial aid and classes. Don't know what is hindering me.

I will go on my next day off for sure.

We played a lot of Magic today. We've discovered that Two-Headed Giant format is actually pretty fun, and a much better multiplayer format than free for all or rotate. The interesting thing about Two-Headed Giant is that no matter how slow your strategy is for your deck, it seems that you can get it out eventually. At least once. There are bad decks for two-headed giant, however. Like how most of my artifact cards ignore the "target" word, so I can't really cast instants and sorceries on other guys. It doesn't really help that almost every card in that deck is a creature either.

I watched more Dennou Coil today before responding to Casey's call about Hawghead Comics. So I rode with Mason over to Hawghead and bought some commons that I wanted. I'm working on a Domain deck. Should be fun.

Wish I had tomorrow off. I'd go to the waterpark. I'm sure Mike would love to go with us. Maybe next week. I am off next Saturday.

I want Boom Blox: Bash Party. I swear, the boxart for that game is the worst. You can barely tell it's a sequel to Boom Blox, or that it's even a Boom Blox game.

Hey, that BASH PATY game looks pretty cool. Oh well, it is still awesome. Seriously. It is.

Dennou Coil and My Bike

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. I spent most of it alone, and cleaning, but that's not all it was. I got to spend some time watching my current anime, Dennou Coil, and hung with Casey for a small bit.

I really like Dennou Coil. I don't think I can power-watch anime at all like Steve and Mason do to One Piece. I think doing so, or at least trying to force my way through something, really makes me lose interest. If the only forcing I do is about one or two episodes per day, then I really enjoy an anime, it seems. And I don't seem to miss any details. And I can get through an anime fairly quickly - at least compared to powerwatching seven or eight episodes and losing interest altogether.

Anyway, I had meant to write about Dennou Coil.

I believe the full title reads "Dennou Coil: A Circle of Children", and it seems fitting enough. The entire anime revolvies around many very likeable and very different characters in a very interesting city. We aren't given any hints as to what the time period is, but the technology - at least the personal technology - is very advanced. Everyone, mostly the children, it seems, has a pair of glasses that gives them access to the cyber network or server, and they can just about make anything on the server using those glasses if they have "metabugs", which seem to appear around "obsolete" or broken space. This broken or obsolete space is the name for an area which may be out-of-sync with the server, or out of date, thus when you look at it through the cyber glasses, it appears pixelated and broken. The story works off of this in the most interesting of ways, and mostly has to do with the origins of the "Illegals", which reside in said space.

Anyway, that's what I've been watching and enjoying thorougly. I might pick up One Peice next, but I don't know. Maybe in conjunction with another anime.

I'm finally getting my bicycle fixed up. Steve brought over his pump yesterday, and it seems my tires are still good. After jogging last night, we went to Wal-Mart, and I picked up some new pedals. I hope they aren't extremely cheaply made. I really wanted metal ones. I only need to replace the left pedal. But I did ride on it yesterday, and even with no pedal on the left side, everything seemed to be in working order. Now I just need a nice basket and a new seat to put on it. You know, so I can run over to the stores and stuff.

2 Days Off and Some Anime

Well my laptop cord went out last night to where I couldn't write a blog (unless I used the other computer, which I really didn't feel like doing).

But yesterday was pretty fun. I watched Skip Beat, Akikan, and Choas; Head. I've been a bit in the mood to watch a few animes recently.

Skip Beat is about an aspiring actress with strange motivations. I've actually really been enjoying this one. It tends to be very funny and at times have some very touching moments.

Akikan is, and this is scary, about a girl who is a soda can... and materializes into a girl when it's juice is drunk. After the first episode, I actually feel like watching a few more just to see where they go with this story. So far it seems to be taking the traditional anime route. The main character now wants the girl to go to school. And the antics ensue. Let's see how cliche it can be... before we dismiss it. It is pretty funny, after all.

Choas; Head is a psychological anime about delusions and their interactions with reality. I've watched quite of few of these so far, and it has had its moments. But I think I haven't made up my mind about the series as a whole yet. Well, I guess I can't do that seeing as how it isn't over yet. Sometimes it is very good. The first few episodes were everybody's favorite, it seems, since it involved just him and his very anti-social, hyper awkward behavior. Very interesting for a main character. Though the fact that he is the main character hasn't changed, it seems like the whole focus of the anime has changed a bit. I don't know. I just have problems with villians like to explain their whole plan and idea. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to keep your enemies in the dark? Plus you get the joy of figuring out the plans along with the main characters. Eh, who knows. I think it is still going to be good series. I might post more thoughts on it later.

So last night Steve and I went to Wal-Mart to try to find a new adapter for my laptop. A puppy chewed it a long time ago and I've been fitting and tying it off with electric tape since. I had noticed that Sam's Club had a univeral adapter for 30 bucks. If I'd have known it was such a steal I probably would have dropped the ball and bought it. Because the one we found at Wal-Mart was around $100 after tax. Yeah, I resolved that I would never pay that much for an adapter. So today, this morning, I cut up the cable, connected and spliced the correct wires (it took about an hour to get it correctly), and taped it off again.. and it worked. I don't think I can use it on my little modulating surge protector however. For some reason.

Meh, so the rest of today has just been watching some more anime, watched a bit of tv with Grace. Oh and Staci has been really into playing online with Animal Crossing. That's been fun stuff. Met some people online that were from Europe yesterday. Why is everyone's accent so much cooler than ours? Our hick accent. But yeah, Staci's been all over animalcrossingcommunity.com. It's a really cool site.

I just ate a meatball sub. Yay, five dollar footlongs.

I'm ready for a big tax return.