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July 4th

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Confirmed by FUNimation today. (Although if you have visited daizex.com, you knew it was coming.)

Dragon Ball Season 1, comprising of the first 28 episodes including the first 13 episodes (Emperor Pilaf Saga) which have never been released uncut in R1, will be available at stores everywhere starting September 15.

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Ok, so I need to get my laptop checked out. I need someone to figure out why it won't read the cd rom plus the plug that the battery charger plugs into is loose. Any recommendations from the community on where to take it?

Part 1 was an entry I thought was submitted, but firefox never sent it through .:S

This warrants its own entry.

Friday I'm thinking I'd like some Sonic. And since we live near one now that opened, said ah hell, will go. then I get a tweet/txt from adam and I'm like ah sure, come along.

8 hits, he comes up through the PATH, I pick him up, thought hell we go in grab food and then chill.

big f8cking mistake! The place on 17 was PACKED! Cops were even turning people away! DAAAAAAMMNN!!

Now we figured allright, we can try again. Nope, tried two more times, still turned away. Can't park nearby because the other businesses either said no parking for Sonic, or one guy was clever and said $25.00 to park here for Sonic. PS: if you can't afford it, ask Obama for a loan. heh. Clever.

So on Sonic's website they showed the other one in totowa being opened. Hell, we drove up there...

It was open......

We got in...

AND WE GET TOLD TOO FULL, DRIVE ALONG! WTF?!

This turns into a plot for the sequel to harold and kumar go to white castle! :S

So hell, we figured let's try the other one again for shits/giggles.

Another long drive.

And.......

we make it there..

And they let us IN! And we wait to pull in.

:) ALL THAT for a Sonic?! Yep. but damn if I'm going to that again.

Anyhoo, been doing some preparations for the past few days, will get some final word on Monday. Still in the secret hush/hush thing.

I found my unipod. So for Otakon it's one camcorder, one unipod (about a 5.7') so far. I need a microphone with at least 6 feet of cable, and pack the portable headphones.

Took care of Joann, she's feeling a lot better now.

hanging out with Trisha and Adam was quite honestly one of the best nights I've had in ages. It's VERY rare that I can hang out with friends, and it's even rarer that I hang out with those whom I can tell some of my darker secrets to and trust with.

And I still love my Macbook. I'm not a Mac-head, nor a Windows crazy, but sometimes I just marvel at how much easier one system can handle things than the other. Believe me, it's good to be multi lingual when it comes to operating systems. Just it was the ONLY thing that got my HP all in one working. The PC I downloaded all 3 drivers and 2 of them didn't work, the last was missing a DLL. wtf!?

But it's all good. I got my stuff done. I wish they had a media pro version for XP.

And yes, will definitely go to Win 7.

One more thing I had to notice... The Zune. My beef is with the MS store. I've been getting sync problems with random songs as they aren't available anymore to download. Sorta defeats the purpose of listening as long as one wants.

Oh!!! Another thing. I spent 20 years... actually 24 years trying to find 2 songs. I FINALLY found them. They were very rare songs that you only knew if you ever watched U68 based out of Newark's UHF (before they went to WHT cable service which eventually became Showtime) Feels great. And I have to thank......... not Google.


Wikipedia.

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http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-2ndapendance-day.html

Glad to see you at least got sprinkles, Jill C.

Just recently got a facebook invite from an acquaintance regarding Landmark Forum.
I've had some non-direct experience with them (via family and coworkers), and I just wanted to let anyone else who is also on this friend's list to have a look at this before they decide to go.

Other than that, a successful drunken Anthony birthday night was had tonight. Steph's tomorrow and anyone who is interested in showing up, just let me know and I'll give you directions.

Viz Media is going to play catchup with One Piece's manga next year, much like they did with Naruto. Volumes 24-53 will be sent to the streets over the first 26 weeks of 2010.

This will probably make some of the manga geeks happy.

Now if only Viz can put out the Fullmetal Alchemist manga a lot faster than twice a year, I'll be happy.

Im off for the weekend,although the service department is actually open for the 4th for the first time ever,
I guess since the dealership is already open for Sales, they figure they might as well open in service too, so they asked for volunteers, about 10 mechanics will work,
we get paid for the holiday regardless if we go in or work, those working will make a few hours if they are busy at all, today seem to be a lot busier for a friday but in general we are pretty slow,

Saturday we will go to my Sister in Laws house for dinner before hitting the beach for the night and fireworks at 9pm
its usually pretty good, although Im not sure how Hansi will do with the darkness and the noise, he already has fits when there is loud noises so we will be prepared to leave early, hopefully the weather cooperates,

I will try to get some yardwork done this weekend too, its overdue and I need to start working on the house before the adoption process starts for real, there will be a lot of home visits, and the yard needs to be kept up a lot more regardless of how busy I am or how hot or rainy it is,

Hans Sr will have his visit Saturday, even though he gave up his rights he wants to be in Hansi's life, it will be interesting to see how things go long term,

Amy is still in jail, next week I will try to get the lawyers to call each other and call the drug rehab for info that will clear one of Amy's charges, still working on the stolen identity cases that have happened,
one of the problems when someone does drugs is that get very careless with their possesions, and she probably has misplaced her drivers license at least 5 times, so there are IDs out they, one of the women that has used Amys license actually styled and coloured her hair just like Amys, Im sure there are probably some other uses she has done with her ID, hopefully no bank fraud or more credit cards issued will come from her loss ID,

Amy has 3 court dates the week of the 14th, it will be interesting to see if they transport her all around town that week,

Hansi is doing great, has a few more teeth cming through,
Jenni is feeling better and her bruise has pretty much gone,

I need to lose weight badly, I am at my all time high, over 200 pounds, and at my height 5ft 5inches, its probably about 50 pounds higher than it should be,
I imagine that I would be healthiest around 170, that would be 35 pounds lost though, and would probably take a few years to get off,

the weather here has been wet, hopefully this year we dont get any hurricanes this year , I am not ready to get prepared, hoping I get the yardwork done enough to start replanning the shutter issues I have, I have mostly wooden panels for all the windows, but the walls where the panels go were all filled and painted last year so I know I will have to be ready so it doesnt take too long to have all the windows covered,

half the year has gone, things need to change financially very soon, I need to hit the lotto badly, we are in limbo with the Hansi situation so moving away and changing house payments will have to take time,

Y only made it to one baseball game last month, not sure how many in the month of July,hopfully one or teo,

Im getting old, my eyes are starting to get woret, I need to use glasses to look at the laptop, I have done well holding off till this year I guess,

I should be in bed right now, its 3:50am and I feel I need to sleep more, but once I wake up from the 2 hour nap that happens when I fall asleep I end up staying up for a few hours,

I have never slept in , I wouldnt know what to do staying in bed till 11am like some people do on weekends,

well im heading to bed, see if Hansi stays asleep till at lesst 8am,

hope everyone had a great week

have a great holiday weekend, stay safe,

take care
Ossie

How is it that there are several live-action Bleach musicals (and one for Prince of Tennis, too)?

And have they ever thought of bringing at least the live-action Bleach musical stateside?

And why Bleach, and not, say, Death Note? or even DBZ? :)

Heck, Nerima Daikon Brothers is just screaming for a live-action musical, but other than the live-action music video of the open, there isn't one.....

Did you know that Play Around Golf in Newport News now has DDR X, the arcade machine?

I went up there on a whim tonight and played a few games.... and it kinda feels a little different than the DDR machines I'm used to. Also, there's lots of songs, but no licensed songs past SuperNOVA. (i.e. No Dam Dariram, no Cowgirl, no Twilight Zone, etc.) The timing seems a little strange, and I seemed to be getting B's when I should be getting A's. I eventually got used to the timing and got a few more A's, although it'll be a little harder for me to score those AA's on this machine.

The machine is set to 3 songs for 4 tokens ($1), and joint-premium is on, which means you could play 3 songs on doubles for only $1. As with the home version, the songs have been re-rated so that the scale goes from 1-17 instead of 1-10 like it used to be. Also, not everything from the home game is on the arcade machine. The announcers have toned it down a little from the home game, although sadly, you can't turn off the announcers on the arcade game. There's also some new songs from the Japanese version of DDR X, such as "Koko Soko" and "Purisimu" (ugh, I hate romaji-cized Engrish).

It's nice and all, but certainly not really worth driving out of my way for, at least for now.

Oh yeah, they also have Guitar Hero Arcade, which Konami co-produced with Activision and Raw Thrills. (Considering that Konami has the patent for Guitar Freaks, I'm not surprised they have in on the action.) You get one full-length song for 3 credits (75 cents) and that's it. Worse thing about it is that for certain songs you have to put in more money (3 more credits) to play them. Ugh. There's no whammy-bar on the guitars so you can't do the cool vibrato effects on hold-notes. Also, no speed mods, even though Guitar Hero never had speed mods to begin with. It's OK, but expensive as all get-out.

Nice place and nice people, but again, not really any reason to go out of my way to visit.

Or so, once upon a time, absolutedestiny and kusoyaro said.

I'm doing some dry runs on what I'd like my Iron Editor video to look like, and right now, I still need to figure out what scenes belong in the particular parts of the footage that I'll be using. Turns out that I might end up using 4 out of the 5 sources (in addition to the as-yet-unnamed Secret Ingredient) for the Iron Editor video. Don't know how I'm going to work that fifth source in, though. I really wish vicbond007 had decided to use One Piece Movie 8 instead of 9, but I'll figure it out.

The bad thing about it is that for all the talk of using one version of the song that I want to use, it turns out I may have to use a different version of the song that can accomodate the 2 hour timeslot. Two hours is NOT a lot of time to make an Iron Editor video, which makes knowing the location of certain scenes paramount to your knowledge of the sources. I'm sure brycicle is doing some dry runs of his own for his video.

Anyway, whether you're going to Iron Editor or not, Otakon is in 2 weeks. Are you ready?

...first full-blown threesome since Dec. 2006. It is hot. She is hot. Hubby is hot. I like her bunches. I have pictures, which most people will never see.

I just got Nolan Bushnell to autograph 3 Atari 2600 cartridges. If you don't know who he is, search for him on Wikipedia.

the fixie in the front looks particularly melancholy.

this one is mine, looking at it, i feel like such a bad person:

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So I'm watching ESPN. Or at least I have it on in the background. And I turn and I see... furries? Not mascots. Furries. And then there's a mention of Anthrocon. On ESPN.

As you can imagine my mind is going WTF all over the place.


Oh, and I finally got my Billy Joel songbooks back. Yay!