….totally getting my eyes checked again. Both of my eyes have been watering, but my right eye is getting to be quite bothersome. Not only is it watering up ALL THE TIME but now it decides to burn. It’s annoying to wipe it down every few minutes.

Fortunately, this Friday I have to go to the bank to renew my CD anyway, and I was goint to transfer monies into checking to reload… so I’ll see if I can get to an optometrist afterward. Not going back to Sears Optical, I think their associated optometrist did a rush job with my current glasses since the left lens is already useless. Mother is suggesting Costco this time. I really hope they do same-day/walk-ins, I don’t mind waiting. >_>;;;

ALSO:
It is very, very likely that I’ll be upgrading Blastoise’s video card within the next couple of weeks.
Um… I’m running a 450W PSU here. My lazy side would like to avoid having to swap that out for a bigger one if possible, but, again, that’s the lazy option. XD I’ll just have to suck it up in terms of yanking all the power cables and such. Thankfully Blastoise is, like, the easiest computer EVER to work on (no, really… he was laughably easy to assemble compared to everyone else except Synergy, who is more or less the same exact machine save for the sound card).

Anywho… going nVidia as usual. Ideally something with at least 512mb on it; more is definitely better since I’m running dual monitors and that cuts my uisable memory in half. (And before anyone says it, I will never ever EVER go back to single monitor mode on Blastoise, I’m too spoiled by the awesomeness of two)
SO, fellow nVidia fanboys… anything in particular I should be looking at? I admit I haven’t kept up with graphics news (last I recall, nVidia was going to patch in PhysX support, and that was awhile ago). I can afford to splurge a bit if need be, especially if I end up getting a 1GB card, so don’t hold back over price unless it’s over $500.

Snowschemes are being extended through January. Weee~

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How did I fare as far as loot? Well… not much, really. I gave out FAR more than I got… but, you know, that’s totally fine with me, since that’s more fun anyway. And I much prefer to get the things I want myself. >_>;;;
Again, my sole regret is that I had to direct-ship BOX fodder rather than assemble it with my kooky touch, so I guess that SOMEWHAT justifies my going a little far in regards to loot quality.

…but… did I really go a “little far?” Or is there such no such thing as… that, and I’m really just rebelling against mother and her twisted idea of “generosity is good but only if you’re the one benefitting from it?” (Really, just a nice way of saying GREED IS GOOD) But, that’s “weird Yoshi-brand pseudo-existentialist-or-something” fodder best saved for another day.

By the way…. if you really want to know:
- $100 total in gift cards (Pizza Hut, Best Buy, Gamestop and Visa. Highly useful for imminent Montclair raiding)
- Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
- hueg toaster oven (that one I keep mentioning, also FINALLY cleared enough space to plug that thing in, I just need another surge protector)
- new floor mat
- grabber… pole… thing (You know, those things that janitors use to pick up stuff? Yeah. Highly useful and much less icky than picking up Yoshi-brand hairballs and other hard-to-reach litter by hand)

loot given TO family:
- SlingCatcher (mother, but technically this is “network-wide”)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (Robert)
- laptop bag (Kelly)

I’m still not revealing the contents of the individual BOXes until all three recipients have theirs (I’ve confirmed two out of three have them now), though I will reveal who got tapped on the 24th: pigeonguided, xenosphobatic + lady_of_entropy, and serotomi
This does not rule out potential SURPRISE UPGRADE in the future. Bewaaaaaare. >_>;

Note to self: Pigeon-guided red shells = OW

Now if only Nintendo WFC would quit booting me off the server. ;_;

Hi.

Been inking this and cleaning up my laboratory of doom. Still need to put old stuff in boxes and go find my feather duster. @_@

…of course, I will probably need to get another surge protector at some point, but for now I can make do with just the two plugs in the back. BUT HAY I’ll have a clear table and a freaking toaster oven. YAY BEING ABLE TO COOK UP HERE.
(and not just, like… Boboli kits and such. I could even stockpile on those refridgerated Toll House cookie packages. COOKIES ON DEMAND and such!)

I’ll get to painting that Snowscheme up there later tonight.

Muahahaha. Epic kart fighting, in MY Mario Kart DS? Hell yes.

What? >_>

Also… I suddenly have a hueg toaster oven. That solves… pretty much the other half of my kitchen-related issues. Now I can make things hot (aside from microwave). Woot!

I… just need to clear space for this thing. >_>