Awesome kitty Kestine likes to rub his face on freaking EVERYTHING. Doorways, table legs, MY legs, box corners, and ninja laptop Dinah’s wifi parts.

In the case of the wireless-N card, it was just one facerub too many, because the fat purple end of the card snapped off and the card shut down. Thankfully Dinah didn’t freak and go all Blue Screen of Death, but her wireless-N card is now officially dead.

Oops.
I don’t blame Kestine enirely, though… old card is quite old (I think I got it a few months after I originally got Dinah) and it was starting to flake out. I’ve ordered a D-Link* Wireless-N card off Amazon (yay having enough rewards points to slash off half the price!) and also a Logitech lapdesk (combo cooler fan/speakers) because ninja laptop has been running VERY hot as of late.

For now I’ve fallen back on using the original onboard wireless-G… and remembered WHY I boosted Dinah to N in the first place. Wireless-G sucks! :P Actually, wireless sucks as a whole– mind you, this is coming from someone who loots podcasts left and right and at any given time is either running YouTube, Slingbox, Netflix, South Park or the TWiT Live stream– and I moved as much as my crap as I could over to wired mode earlier this year. Wireless-N is the closest to wired mode as I can get, and is the only form of wifi I’ll stick on a machine on this network ’cause I’m spoiled on my awesome gigabit ethernet that I use to pass things around inside the house network.

As for Kestine… well, he’s a bit frustrated that he can’t rub his face on Dinah for now. XD It’s funny that he goes specifically for her wifi stuff– the card and the corners of her monitor lid, which are supposedly where the wifi receiver bits are. I wonder if they emit some low-level EM wave that cats find interesting enough to facerub?

* = old router and wireless-N card were Linksys (obtained at the same time), new router is D-Link, which has been AWESOME thus far, so may as well go D-Link for the card too.

Bigger is still better: Pizza Wednesday, doods. The weekly tossup between Pizza Hut and Papa Johns is complicated a little more this time around; the former rolled out a new event pizza type (the Big Italy, yet another attempt at an extra large… dude, why can’t they bring back the Big New Yorker? THAT was awesome!), yet with the latter I’ve piled up enough rewards points to get a free pizza. Ordinarily free pizza would trump everything (because seriously, what’s better than free?), but when it comes to new/event rollouts, I gotta try it. It doesn’t help that I’m a wing addict. >_>;;;

Live from Azeroth: Yoshi now has as much of the t10 Mage armor (“Bloodmage’s Regalia”) as she’s going to get, and there’s nothing more I can pile up Frost emblems for… so any future emblems I’ll just convert into Primordial Saronites so I don’t need to kill my gold buying ‘em up to make the ICC craftables for my alts or guildies. :P Any future gear upgrades Yoshi will have to get through ICC, most likely in 25-man mode. (That said… while inferior to the Frozen Bonespike that Yoshi’s packing now, I want Halion, Staff of Forgotten Love since its essentially the WoW version of Planet’s Burden, Yoshi’s signature weapon everywhere else).

I will slug that Lich King in his noobish, ice cream-hoarding face, yes I will. >:D

While old man Phil would be next on the gear supply chain, I need to throw in Rei stat, to unlock the craftable leather/mail pants. I’ve, uh… lots of rogues/druids/hunters/shammies in the guild who could use those things and I’ve kept them waiting for quite awhile (with Robert on break, I’m the only in-house ICC crafter-dood, after all). And, of course, Rei can use ‘em too.

No Kon Do: BOOOOO. :( I liked Paranoia Agent (or, “what happens when Japan turns Law and Order into headmessy anime”) and Paprika (which I definitely need to revisit for the dub, hehehe I’m terrible). If you’ve no idea as to who this awesome dood was, do yourself a favor and watch either of the above. :O

So, uh, my ankles and feet used to be all swollen and such. Not anymore. Yay?

…not quite. Awesome as some visible sign of weight loss may be (along with a noticeable stamina boost), it comes with an extremely painful companiom– my lower legs are itchy as hell and I can’t put any pressure on them (roughly below the shin to the ankle) without it being OMFG OW. I don’t have any pain/itch cream right now so the best I can do is reapply lotion and keep a cool cloth on it when possible, and unless I’m up and about (and not for very long because of burning due to clothes contact) I’ve been in bed. I can still log into WoW and such from Yggdrasil but aside from auction house I can’t do much via a DiNovo Mini keyboard…

I don’t know. Did I do something wrong, is it a freak occurrence or is this just what happens and I have to suck it up? Can’t get to a doctor until early July (which I have to do anyway to reup my synthroid). Mother is no help, of course, refusing to believe I’m actually do anything (I am, just under the table else I’d trip the Drama Monster alarm and she wouldn’t believe me anyway). WTF. What did she think I was doing, scaling back my food, getting up from my desk more often and such? I was on the verge of starting daily morning walks until this burning nonsense started up and, well, it just seems a bit unwise to do that for the moment. Ow…

I wasn’t even going to document any of this, either. See, I take issue with the weight loss culture… I hate the attention and how it can make people crazy obsessive. (Ever see that one commercial where the lady is all “look at me, doods, I look GOOD.” Ugh, that “toddler beating on a drum” mentality, do not want.) I will not buy into that insanity. I will not become those people who in the process of losing weight become attention whores. Just… no. All I want is to be able to get in and out of the Yoshi Car without feeling like much of a squashed marshmallow, and maybe be able to walk a bit without being wiped out. I know that in going it alone I lose out on any kind of support system and such, but I don’t think I could take all the attention it would invite… Is it strange to think that?

Well, so much for doing that discreetly… That’s all I’ll say on the subject for now.

In other news, I cleared FFXIII the other day. :) I’ll do a more, ah, spoiler-laden post later, but for now… is it me, or is Fang the new Balthier? (One could make the same argument for Snow, too.)

I don’t really call myself a Lady Gaga fan (despite a couple podcasts on TWiT busting out Bad Romance and Poker Face, which are stuck in my head), but I saw this trainwreck of a “parody” linked on the Twitter. And, well…

Really, dood? Putting aside the horrible compression on this (worse than what YouTube is normally capable of, though it looks like it may have been recaptured from another source)… really? So much effort put into what amounts to little more than spiteful taunting. Of course, this comes from Westboro Baptist, so it’d certainly be too much to ask for them to, you know, redirect all that flame-fanning and hate into something more constructive.

I won’t even touch on the severely malformed religious fail in here. *facepalm*

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My chair’s support ring is broken. Well, crap. I dropped, like, $150 on this thing and I’ve only had it for a little under 6 months. Hopefully I can get a replacement ring or otherwise get it fixed (I’ve got a giant freaking blue ball to sit on in the meantime, but…). Failing that, I’ma need a lot more pillows. :\

It’s June 1. Today my awesome new TV gets here, and there shall be much happiness because this means Yggdrasil gets his head back, and I can use my PS3 and Wii again. :D :D :D

In the meantime, join me in a bit of WTF in the form of Ghostbusters Pachinko:

On one hand, how badass does this look? I wish this was an actual video game as opposed to a video-enhanced pachinko machine. It’d be pretty freaking awesome on the Wii! (Similarly, this is giving me major flashbacks of Luigi’s Mansion.)
On the other hand… epic, EPIC FAIL for omitting Winston. Dude. He was AWESOME. :( And yet this just pretends he never existed.
I don’t want to jump to the “racefail” card off the bat, but… yeah, WTF Japan? o_O

Promise right now you won’t laugh at me. >_>;
I saw this topic pop up on TweetDeck and against my better judgment I’m going for it. And, well… they say music can evoke memories…

We travel back in time to when I was about 5 years old. And back then, not only did VH1 and MTV actually air these things called “music videos” but they were actually kind of awesome. For some reason, I remember being glued to these channels marginally more than cartoons and such even though, like, 90% of the lyrics made no sense to me at the time. I think it was all about the visuals.

And then, uh, I saw this:

In my 5 year old mind, this video scared the SMOO out of me; I was all “oh shit, George Michael is going to freaking jump out of the TV and EAT ME” (not in those exact words but you get the idea) because he looked all pissed off. Again, at the time the lyrics were nonsense to me but, dood, take it from the perspective of a 5 year old kid and you’d be spooked out of your mind, too!

And apparently it was so bad that I had actually blocked it out of my mind for, like, 19 years until one day when I was in the car and the song came on mother’s XM radio. GEE THANKS, memory repression… thing. I have all this stuff I’d like to either forget or block out for all eternity and instead of anything out of there, you go and suppress a memory of a freaking George Michael video.

W. T. F. XD

There’s a couple other stupidly-spooky relics that still linger in spookiness. Like… the Lavos screech in Chrono Trigger. No, wait, worse than that, that synthesized “breathing” sound you hear while inside his shell* and gets louder the closer you get to the core. Holy crap that’s just… no. DO NOT WANT. Thankfully EVERY version of Chrono Trigger has the “sound glitch;” loading the menu kills the breathing sound.

* I’ve always wondered where EXACTLY you’re wandering through. Graphics-wise, it resembles a watery cave. In most instances, you’re entering from that hole where Lavos’ head used to be… but my brother claims you’re actually climbing up Lavos’ butt. That’s not ENTIRELY unreasonable…