First Fragments

Nothing like starting the day off in the red, course I think the instructions for the refunds should've been a bit more explicit, but perhaps that's just me. Laggy Internet Explorer fueled internetting isn't really the panacea to boredom that the much faster and Firefox-backed enviroment I have at home affords, but I'll take what I can get, given that I'm basically being paid to sit in front of a fan and surf the web anyways.



(HP & tOotP)

I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as a movie. Certainly there were pieces that didn't make it (a ton of them, that was a massive book) but I feel it did a good job with the time alotted. That's probably the breaker movie though, the one that seperates those that read the books from those that didn't. There's just so much more to the books, and really everybody could do with a bit more Tonks. Luna definately steals the show though, all I have to say. The Golden Compass preview needed more armored bear though.



(Anime)

Rest in Peace Nanashi (Yeah, I know, late notice, they've been dead nearly 3 months now), one of my preferred teams. Actually, one of the few now that Lunar never seems to be subbing anything I care about and Mahou and Static aren't really doing a whole lot either. At least A.F.K. and Eclipse are still being awesome.



Honestly, jaalin's comments on Zombie Loan are spot on. The show has incredibly varying animation quality, as if they really just paid for 70% of each episode and fill the rest with near stick-figures, and they're really sucking at explaining what's going on or why. I can't help but feel that I've seen the main characters before (though not in any series I've actually watched). And honestly, this show has to have the single most boring and stupid looking fights I've ever watched. And that's coming from someone who has seen a fair deal of Yu-Gi-Oh on American television and actually finished all of both Innocent Venus and Speed Grapher. Heck, throw Ergo Proxy near the bottom of that list and then drop Zombie Loan below that as well.

The Seventh Day of the Seventh Month...

of the Two-thousand and Seventh Year AD? Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Good lord is Internet Explorer ever horrible, I don't get anyone who can be a proponent of it after having tried anything else out there in the Web Browsing world (except perhaps Netscape Navigator) -- and good lord am I ever going to shoot this freaking HP Keyboard.

To expand on last time's post. That ever so wonderful of lunches was cool Chicken Salad spread over toasted bagels with chips on the side and a gigantic bowl of watermelon, plus the requsite iced tea.

Been reading a bit of Violent Acres, which is another one of those "caught my eye with a post linked randomly and read a bit more of site" sorta deal. Not going to become a mainstay, but I can say I liked a few of her writings. I dunno how many others saw the irony of someone ranting that the Internet and Blogs and our upbringings have made us selfish and distant and that it's hard to find real connections and friends. Not sure I buy into any of that, but the derision that PostSecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) as evidence of this phenominom (is that spelled right? I refuse to try and check on IE, it'd take too long) seems a bit odd, those aren't really confiditory secrets for the most part (I'm fairly certain I invented a word, but more power to me for it).

--Anyways, I liked this secret a ton, and admit to agreeing.

I wrote the stuff below before the stuff above, but for the purposes of flow, moved it down, sorta prelude to the next act sort of deal.

So, it's been awhile. Let's talk about the background to California. Now you might wonder how that's going to work, but honestly I've got a few things I'd like to say, and much as the fun of Cali wants to be written, I can assure you I've already been sidetracked.

From day 1 of my employment (discounting the orientation that had little applicability due to my seperate destination from 100% of the other participants) there was talk of sending me out to California for program training. And it took a bit of time to organize, but it did happen.

Now, officially, the sanctioned path is to book everything through an online service but that requires a code which requires a user name which requires a corporate credit card, so long story short I skipped all of those steps (except for the flight booking cause that was more than I really wanted resting on my shoulders waiting for reimbursement) and actually saved a fair bit of money cause Enterprise apparently doesn't care that I'm not 25 yet.

Well, that did bring the thought that I know a fair deal of people through various functions (mainly, though not exclusively WoW) that are out there, perhaps I could find some time in the evenings to get some visiting done. Of course, reality intervened and some were busy and many were a good distance away (cause California is pretty much huge in comparison to Georgia, and let's face it, 2 hours each way is about where you draw the limit when you have to spend 75% of the day in "class").

July Heat

Rabbit rabbit. (I wonder if that's a wiki-able superstition -- heh, guess so)

Nothing to add just yet, or at least nothing that I've substancialized into a formal post yet. Lunch today rocked, Marathoning 10 Eps of Gurren Lagann rocked, end of story.