This. The more I read, the more I feel I have to go. Ideally, the full Los Angeles to Seattle route (because… dude… SEATTLE, HELL YEAH), but even a custom Los Angeles to Sacramento version would be fine too.

(Dammit, why do my internets tank whenever I write an LJ post about trains? For the past two days, my internets have crashed every time I start writing about how I’ve been staying up the past couple of nights just reading about other people’s train rides. YAR.)

*about a half-hour later…*

Anywho…

Still have no motivation to draw. Still need to order a replacement Slingbox… I may just wait to see what VPI says on how much they’ll reimburse me for Kestine’s last appointment before I go buying anything. This train lust is nice but it doesn’t do much in terms of kicking me back into drawing stuff. I know seraphzero has been waiting quite awhile on those Sleepover scribbles… >_>;;;

In OTHER NEWS… people who have a Hamachi link to Blastoise will find that my music and video stashes on my secondary drive are now accessible. Steal away! (I need to rebuild my seiyuu folders again though… at the very least my Hikaru Midorikawa folder. It’s trapped on my damaged firewire drive. Extreme sadface.)

I had this whine-fest about how bulldogs are driving me nuts and I don’t know how much more I can tolerate and BLAAAAH, but after a bit of trimming and thinking and such, it’s come to this:

…I want to travel. Well, more like if I value my life, I really ought to travel.

And, well, I’ve never been on a train before. I mean, airplanes hell yeah, but I’m obviously more of a “slow and steady wins the race” person. So, I went poking around Amtrak, just to see what kind of stuff they had as far as tour packages they had, and Coast Starlight seems like a total winner. Los Angeles to Seattle? Oh my… Essentially the ultimate (and literally) West Coast tour, cutting through Sacramento and Salem, and ending in Seattle. o_o

It would be impossible to sell this to mother as a solo trip… just not going to happen. Yet… Bren’s AmeriCorp thing ends in July, and while that kills any ambitions of being able to go to AX this year, it’s crazy but I wonder if we could replace that with a Coast Starlight run, perhaps in October or sometime after? The plot gears are turning. And it doesn’t look anywhere nearly as expensive as what I thought it would be (seriously, I was expecting $1000+), so it would definitely be feasible to do it this year and still be able to make the car insurance payments as far as pricing goes… of course, I’ve never done anything like this so it would appear I may need to call in Bren’s help anyway since she has family connections who know about these things. >_>;;;

Ah, I have a shallow mind. There’s a strange appeal about upgrading to a superliner bedroom, putting up my feet and staring out the huge window. And, well… it’s a freaking train. Want. o_o I mean, c’mon, the closest I’ve EVER gotten to a train ride is, what… those ghetto trains in Disneyland? >_>;;;

Bad Yoshi, no daydreaming about the “Across Party Train,” which in itself is several kinds of WRONG…

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In other news, I should totally be wiping and formatting my sister’s laptop right now, but I got so caught up over OMGTRAIN. >_>;;;

I think… I’ll set that to run and perhaps bum around in Brawl or something. YouTube has made me want to replay Subspace Emissary, despite that awful maze.

So, uh, FINALLY I have new sheets. (And you’ve heard me bitch about them for how long?) Kestine’s vet bill (boo ear infection and tapeworm) and my Slingbox bricking itself kinda put off things like replacing my sheets, and this morning I find a sheet package + mattress pad. Woohoo!

Now, it’s not blue like I wanted… but I think this is even better. I thought brown was rather meh, until I’d unfolded and installed the thing and then this thought entered my head…

I can’t find the TV version anymore. YouTube’ing “Land of chocolate” now only pulls up footage from the Simpsons game. Ah well.

In all seriousness, though, my bed now looks like a giant brownie with two of those Halloween-sized Hershey bars for pillows. I kinda wish this set included a blanket… hmm >_>;

Perhaps I need to find an excuse to obtain chocolate chip pancakes. o_o

CoH Issue 14… yeah, it’s been out for a couple weeks and I’m just now fiddling with it.

Seems there was also a patch that FINALLY enabled Widow buttcapes. HELL YES. Ohgod Maria has needed it for such a long time, it was the first thing I equipped on her. I also looted the Magic Booster, but I’m beyond tired right now… still, I’ll get to making her a proper sexy upper-class villain costume real soon (that and rig her secondary Fortunata-mode dual spec).

Also…

Mission Architect, amirite?
Could this mean… we may see the return of something so horrible that it could only come from Yoshi’s Imagination?
Something like…

Great Teacher Numair?

Stay tuned >_>;
and yes, I may very well attempt to reconstruct Neo’s abandoned CoV characters too… at the very least Zeiress and Kestrinia since they’re both involved in Kopii Yoshi’s tale… However, in the absence of screens I may have to, um, use this opportunity to make some “upgrades” here and there. >_>;;;

…but… Star Trek TNG manga?

And it doesn’t look like crap? o.O;;;

WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE?!
Well, whatever the case… they’d better put more Yar in here, she was a badass. >_>;;;