Target

Sorry about yesterday, but I was really caught up in the story of that DS game I bought the other day, "9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors." Yes, that's the title. It's a "visual novel" game, so the vast majority of it is just reading the story. Every now and then, you're required to make tough decisions that determine the course of the plot, and solve various puzzle situations, but the story is incredibly compelling and the characters are fully-realized and genuinely interesting. These types of games are very popular in Japan, but they hardly ever come to this country. This game did, and I heard it was really good, so I went to GameStop to see if there was a chance they had it in stock, and was really surprised to discover that they did. So, I was very happy. Today, I managed to get one of the many possible endings to the story (and because of some decisions I made, it didn't end well), so now I'm on my second time through, knowing some things that I didn't know the first time, and hoping for the real ending. Good stuff.

Today was my first day of four off ^__^ I actually slept for a solid eight hours last night, which was nice. I spent a good chunk of time writing today, which is always nice and frustrating. I seriously need new hobbies. My current ones either require too much of an emotional deposit, or too much of a desire to pull out my hair. Sometimes I wish I just participated in fantasy football and did awesome things to my car, like every normal 20-something male. Actually, that's a lie. I don't wish that at all. I have way too much fun re-thinking Shakespeare and idolizing 15-year-old Japanese girls ^__^

I am trying to stay busy and involved in things, as this could be a pretty rough time for me if it allow it to be. 28 years old and my first time not at home at Christmas-time. Feels bad, man.

I think I'm going to go to bed early tonight, even though I don't have to. I can already tell that I'm not going to want to get up on Monday. But at least I have next Tuesday off. And a half-day next Wednesday. Then another four-day weekend. The best part? My paychecks don't change ^__^

Ooh...I almost forgot. One year ago today was my last day at Target. Wow, the places I've been and the things I've experienced since then...

Crazy.

I'm going to have a lot to write about for my end-of-year musings, which I need to start thinking about thinking about. Next Saturday's 2011, after all.

There are a number of various things that I've been wanting to post here, but they're all sort of queued up, waiting for a day on which I have nothing to say, which may never come. Heh. I'll be so glad when I get my domain up and running, then I'll be able to have more control and a central location to do what I want to do with the Internets. It'll be cool, eventually, but looking at where it stands right now, it'll probably be pretty weak when it first goes up. I confess that I've been spending more time working out the rather complex J-pop pages, than I have on the blogging sort of stuff. I'll be at it tomorrow, though. Hoping to put some good work into it, maybe to a point where I can actually preview what it looks like at this point.

One more thing, then bed.

I haven't mentioned a birthday in quite a while, after a run of quite a few earlier in the month. But I have mentioned the girl whose birthday is today. *SIGH* Just as I was starting to feel that I was done being so moody over her graduation, Eri Kamei had to go and have her birthday, and put herself back in my thoughts ^__^ I kind of feel that I've posted enough pictures of her over the past couple of weeks (plus, she's been on the header picture for this blog since August), but then I realize that there's no such thing as enough pictures of her, so:


Happy 22nd!!!

Not the same without her <_>

G'night.

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