As a byproduct of Yoshi Day, I’ll have ALMOST enough parts to cobble together another desktop. Yeah, this has happened before (I did, after all, assemble Reuben out of leftover parts), but the difference this time is that this machine will be miiiiine. >:D

Seriously, though… I’ve built all these machines, and this will only be the second one that’s for my own use. I’m not like mother and want a bazillion of them, but, you know, it’d be neat to slap one on my HDTV. Torrents and Painter on a big display? Yes please. I’m reusing my old GeForce 7600GT from Blastoise’s initial Erdekaiser build, so games will also be playable if I so wish it… though in those cases Blastoise is probably miles better. (Put another way, useful for those rare instances in which Robert actually comes over here and wants to play WoW; he can run on Blastoise and I’d run from this yet-to-be-named box.)

All I gotta do is front a case, a PSU (I have my old 430w but I’d rather get a modular variant) and an OS and I’m good to go. :D Since this is basically a Media Center-grade machine, may as well slap Vista Ultimate on it, too.

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Apparently Wednesday = not only delicious chocolate caek, but chocolate silk pie, too.

TEH SAUCE!!!1
Boboli = a bit strong, maybe using half the pouch would lessen this?
Ragu “Yellow Jar” = much of it gets absorbed into the crust, use 4+ spoonfuls instead of 3
Ragu “Green Jar” = PERFECT. Not too spicy, not loaded up with so much oil or something that half of it’s lost during baking, 3 spoonfuls will do

Etc.:
400F for 9 minutes = english muffin pizzas = good for burning up all the unused bags of those things that mother keeps buying… and buying… and buying…

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Oh hi, Daylight Savings already?
Best person of keeping track of time in the wooooooorld. Yeah. I think I should sleep now. >_>;

Argh I hate planning stuff out really far in advance. In this case, determining a queue for who goes next on cards, because I’m sure to change my mind a lot.

That said, here is a list of who’s left in terms of status card stuff. I reserve the right to NOT go in order! :P
Those who are grouped together don’t share a card, it’s just that I internally lump them together and I’m slightly less likely to jump around until the other half of the pair is finished.

Cal + Nimue
Megasex
Golgi (1st and Angel) + Centromere
Spoony + Gildward
Celina
Fyfe + Kupo/Profolyx
Touji
Old Lady Kit
Commander Ezelton

(In other news, I wish there really was a Mario Kart randomizer block widget, complete with the sound. Even if it didn’t really do anything. I just want one I can throw in my Vista sidebar so I can click on it whenever I want.)

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For lulz, using my last can of Pillsbury pizza dough I decided to see if I could recreate some form of cheesy bread not unlike what you’d find at, say, Little Caesar’s. (Their normal pizza is borderline-meh, but holy crap their cheesy bread is so damn tasty.) And holy hell it was not only edible, but it’s probably something I’d do again. o_o Sprinkled a little bit of olive oil on the dough before piling on the cheese, then after baking I added parmesan cheese powder on top. OMNOMNOMNOM.

I have Dinah back. And ohgod I’m so glad I renewed her warranty… she got sent to HP and they ended up replacing her entire lid, and on the invoice it said that without the warranty I would have had to pay almost $800. @_@ But now she has a new lid and everything that comes with it (for some reason I notice it more in the screws, they’re black rather than silver), and even her keyboard area got cleaned up. :D

And not that I thought it would come to it, but all her data’s still there. The Geek Squad clerk that brought out Dinah was squeeing over my Chiyo-kitty wallpaper and she wanted to know if she could loot it to her flash drive. XD;

So now I’m here, Dinah’s plugged back in and patching stuff (Windows Update, CoH, etc.) and I have tasty Jack in the Box. Omnomnom. Rineas’ status card is sketched, just need to ink and color that fool.

And yes it really did take me 2 hours to finish writing this post. I blame big yellow furballs constantly batting at stuff on my desk. :P

Hi, my internets have been down since Monday. I totally blame Aeth for this outage. That said, I did manage to clear… TWO pieces of Ramen. Behold…

Some would say it’s almost scary how much politics has leaked into Ramen. >_>;
I don’t know. I see an opportunity and if the potential for lulz is great enough, I go for it.
I recall, during the inauguration coverage on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow was gushing over the presidential limo, and one thing led to another and next thing I know I’m sketching this thing. Somehow I managed to not butcher the other two, yet at the same time whack them with the anime stick. (I like to think that Chris Matthews is the Velan of MSNBC… when he does that “HAH!” he totally gets XD face.)

Why yes, this is the MSNBC/politics version of the Yukarimobile scenes in Azumanga Daioh. In hindsight… if I were evil enough, I’d have put in whats-his-face, the dude who’s the substitute host for Countdown when Keith Olbermann’s out. Oh yeah. He’d make the perfect standin for “traumatized Chiyo.” XD

Anywho…. NEXT:

Kit’s Episode 0 FE Bromide!
Originally drew it so I’d have something to stick on her wiki entry.
Yes, her ultimate body armor (Robe of Jurai) is pretty much a pink version of the robes that Pretty Sammy wears. I can’t remember if this was by request of Neo or if I thought he’d be hella-amused by it… probably both.

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We’ve plumbers all over the house. There’s a leak somewhere under the master bedroom. x.x
Since this means nobody can really cook and such while they’re here… pizza! Omnomnom.

Of course, mother’s all “OMG MUST CLEAN,” which is scary for me since I’m, uh, hiding a freshly-repaired Synergy in my room. (Finally got her to boot yesterday, about damn time. Seems her original GeForce got fried, and I didn’t realize that when I meant to swap in mine for testing I kept putting in the dead one. A bonehead is me.) Actually, it makes me nervous when she cleans nearby my room to begin with… not so much dangerous intrusion into my personal space (which, with all these damn puppies, I have almost NONE of), but for some reason it gives her license to shred me for whatever the hell she feels like, and most of the time it REALLY isn’t called for, and then she yells at me more because I stress her out by being a bad person that causes her to pick some offense out of a hat to shred me over. WTF.

Also… Chrono Trigger DS.
Finally got New Game+. The extra dungeons are okay (I like the Dimensional Vortex slightly more).
I’ve not tried out the “new” final boss yet… might save that one for a future cycle. >_>;