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[10 Dec 2009|03:02pm] |
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Just so everyone knows, I'm still alive. Had to move and stuff, living with my boyfriend right now, working on getting our income set and things like that. Stuff is at least finally falling into place. Just giving a random heads up since my last post was a while ago.
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| All I ever seem to do is complain, but.. |
[15 Mar 2009|11:35pm] |
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So I check my online banking all the time. No real reason. See if my paycheck went through, see if checks I write go. Maybe I'm paranoid. Yesterday I checked it to find myself 3000 dollars short. With charges I didn't do. 1000 dollars to walmart.com, and so on. I called the bank and they canceled my debit card immediately.
I'm not sure how they got my number. I ordered a few things online recently, but I received them, so the sites weren't fraud. Mom says Paypal can't be trusted, and I used that for one of them. Maybe someone accessed the database at one, or intercepted data, I dunno. They either did this late Friday, or early Saturday, since I had checked my account Friday afternoon to see if my paycheck went in. Since it's not 'business days' all the charges are pending, the bank says they have to go through before they can look into getting me a refund. So in the next few days at some point I'm gonna have to head to the bank to dispute charges.
I don't need all this. I've been saving money to move to be with my love. Sometimes I feel like life likes to kick me in the face whenever things are looking a little up. At least with my paranoid checking of my account, it coulda gone on until I had no money. I just hope there's no problems getting my money back. And I hate the feeling of stuff hovering over me, things that needa be done, not knowing how it's going to go.
All I ever seem to do is use my live journal to complain. But my life seems to either be 'nothing is going on' or 'something bad happened'. I hope when they investigate this stuff, they track an address and go arrest this person. Maybe beat him up a bit. Then again, when someone got a hold of my moms info, she said it was like someone in china or something. So I dunno if they'll be in 'beating' range.
All this just makes me want to scream.
UPDATE: A few more of the charges went through with descriptions. One of them being COX*NEW ORLEANS. Which means this is looking less like someone online stole my number, and more like someone at one of the places I went to copied it down. I imagine it wouldn't be hard if I go to mcdonalds or something, for them to quickly write down the info before handing it back. This makes it a bit worse, more personal, someone looked me in the face and stole my card info. But them being local also hopefully makes it more likely they'll be spending some nice time in jail. It's not like they have the safety of being halfway across the world, eh? Plus paying your cable bill with stolen info? Isn't that kind of dumb? With that, the online, and the pizza orders, there has to be plenty of way to find this person.
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| So, 2009 |
[02 Jan 2009|11:36am] |
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I don't want to make a big depressing post or anything. So I'll just say this. 2009 needs to be the year of me and Ammy. I need to get out of here, I can't deal with living here anymore, from the people to the hurricanes. My housing status is degrading and other things. So I hope to be with Ammy soon.
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| I'm alive |
[15 Oct 2008|12:24pm] |
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But nothing exciting going on. Still just trying to survive until I can move out of here. Working a lot, but at least that means I'm making money and stuff.
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| So.. |
[01 Sep 2008|04:09pm] |
I'm perfectly safe up here. Gustav didn't hit as hard as people were predicting. In a way thats a little bad. Ike is headed this way and may come into the gulf, then who knows. Behind it, what is likely to be Josephine. It would suck to go back only to have another hurricane come.
But mostly I guess we needa see damage, and then it's prolly dependingo n if /officemax is opening again that'll need to drag me back.
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| I'm in Iowa |
[31 Aug 2008|06:28pm] |
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Just so everyone knows, I'm in Iowa with Doran so I shan't be threatened by Gustav.
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| Addendum |
[30 Aug 2008|03:14pm] |
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I was checking flight prices, not expecting much, but I found a trip to Dorey tomorrow morning at 7 AM for only 220 bucks, so I took it. If all things go well I'll be with Doran tomorrow afternoon and far away from all this. My sister is gonna take care of my cats, since she already is planning to have a car fulla animals.
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| Really tired of hurricanes |
[30 Aug 2008|12:24pm] |
Lots of people around me are evacuating. People think I'm all freaked by Katrina, others seem to be worse. I really don't want to go through the evacuation hassle again, I don't wanna stuff my poor cats in little boxes.
The prospects now is that Gustav is gonna pass by west of here with the possibility for it going even further west. I don't think my area would get it that bad, plus if my house wasn't flooded or destroyed by Katrina I doubt something less thats not directly hitting it would do worse.
But then part of me is scared because I suffered through Katrina. And with family members panicing around it it's not making it easier.
I got a hurricane for my birthday a few years ago, I really don't need another, and stores don't take them back.
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| Tired of hurricanes |
[26 Aug 2008|09:42pm] |
Some people think I worry too much, but after Katrina I have trouble not. I stressed over Fay for a while. Whew, it dies out without doing anything to Louisiana, I can re... wait, what? Another one? Great.
So now most guesses are that Gustav is coming this way, and since it's taking a trip through the gulf, it would be estimated at category 3 or 4 if it does come this way.
This week is my vacation and I haven't exactly felt relaxed during it. I'm just rambling, no one out there can control the weather. But I'd like mother nature to stop, please?
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| There's a new update available for Amber, download? |
[08 Aug 2008|11:36am] |
So, I'm just gonna ramble a bunch of junk, no reason. I know most people dun pay attention.
Work has been pretty sucky. I got a promotion to supervisor, with a teeny raise, but much more work. And it's Back to School time which is pretty crazy for Office Supply stores and all. Next week I have work days ranging from 9-12 hours long.
Lets see video games. I put the old X-Wings games back into my computer. They were my favorite Star Wars space ship games of all time. the graphics are a lil dated and sometimes the challenge level is a bit high. Espesially when you're defending something. But I still think they're the best star wars sims, most others tend towards more arcade style action. Nothing wrong with that, of course.
On a newer front, I got Final Fantasy 4 for the DS. It's one of my favorite RPGs of all time, possibly because it was my first ever. It's nice seeing better graphics and voice acting, and a few new features. Would be nice if they added the features from FF4 Advance though.
Soul Caliber 4 is fun though I freely admit I suck at it. Though since I don't have a GOLD MEMBERSHIP to X-box live and all, I can't play with anyone anyway. It suffers from that fun new trend of 'we'll lock content, just to make people pay extra for it' that seems to be going around in our new fun age, though.
I've been working so much, I haven't really been having much of a chance to RP. Either I'm at work or I'm home and too tired to. At some point, Remina managed to sneak in and be my most prominent character.
I sorta made her up randomly, I started with a friendly nice kitsune named Maraenia, but she was getting dragged off to get raped one night so I had an alternate personality pop up to save her. Since I didn't want that to occur. She kinda went from there. She's snuck into most of my RPs somehow. Go fig.
Speaking of RP, I'm still paying attention to Mia's Lunar Mecha thingie as little time as I seem to have. And I keep making up ideas and characters even without much to do with them. Gives me stuff to think about while I'm at work, I guess.
Lets give some shout out to my peeps.
Ammy - you don't read my live journal, so hey!
Dorey - you do read my live journal, love ya.
Soir - We need more time together
Seby - Hey look, girly guys!
Rainwing - love you, miss you
Azakir - hugs
Adept Omega sheesh whatelse should I call you - Thanks for caring
Wyvern - We just sorta drifted apart, huh? I'm glad you're doing well
Hahn - We needa get together and chat and stuff again sometime
Rune - Ditto
Cil - I miss you
Yuki - Even though I'm quiet I keep an eye on your journal
Later
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[13 Jun 2008|12:00am] |
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So, as most people know, I work at Officemax.
We have a theft problem. Yesterday I wandered into the bathroom and I heard rustling. The rustling continued and I was like, it doesn't take that long to pull pants up/down. So I wandered into the stall next door. I had no amazing plans in store, I was just feeling suspicious. I'm tall but the stall parts are like.. I dunno.. almost 6 feet tallish. But I glance over and see the person in the stall next door looking back at me. Now, like I said, based on the wall height, I could see eyes and the top of a head. Like I said, I had no amazing plans. I guess I just figured if I could see who it was, then I could tell the manager and we could see if they were acting suspicious or set the alarm off then they left. I wasn't like, able to see anything lower than part of their face. Nor did I try to or want to.
This person proceeds to walk out, glancing back at me as I glance over. I'm just like.. 'why is this person so worried about who might be walking into the bathroom?' I go and tell the manager that I felt that was suspicious activity. This person complains to the manager that I was 'peeking on them in the bathroom.' I've had complaints before, life moves on. That night a woman showed up, asked for some stuff, then asked for our corporate number and left.
So today, the police show up. And say they want to have a talk with me. Talk about freaking out, I'm wondering what the heck is going on. Seems that woman that showed up last night was their mom. She both called corporate to complain about me, AND filed a complaint with the police. The story is, at this point, I was peeking over the stall and if they hadn't pulled their pants up fast enough I would have seen them naked. Now, remember, as I said, I saw the top of a head. I was just glancing over. If I had walked to the edge, stood on tippy toes and peeked over, even then I don't think I could see that low, I might see chest up.. if they were standing.
Now, the manager told the police I thought this person was suspicious and I followed them in.. which is wrong, I was just going to the bathroom. But I just went and told the manager that I was suspicious about the person in the bathroom, so I guess he assumed. So the police is all 'ah ha, a contradiction!' Then he basically asks me why I went into the stall next to the other person. Now, I had no plans.. no idea, I was suspicious, I just went and glanced over. The police believes I wouldn't have gone into that stall unless I was planning on peeking. He asked me to admit it because he says looking over a bathroom stall isn't a law, and if the storys have contradictions he'll have to investigate.
I said that it doesn't matter to me if it's not against the law, I'm not admitting to something I didn't do. We checked the stall height in the bathroom. And he pretty much believes that I did it. Because of what the manager said, believing I followed them with the intent to keep an eye on them. And went into the stall besides to peek. But since it's not against the law, he just took my side of the story. I'm still annoyed that people seem to think I did it, whether or not it's against the law.
Anyways, since it's not against the law, he says no charges are being filed against me, but that 'the parents' might do civil action, which is up to them. This person was around 20, so I dunno why their parents have to do everything. So I guess they could sue me, or officemax. How fun.
Then they do a background check. Turns out I have a warrant out of for me due to an unpaid traffic ticket. Now, my court date for this was the day before Katrina hit. I had thought that it had been dismissed. I renewed my liscence after I got back and I figured if I had an outstanding ticket I couldn't do that. Well, guess what? He said it wasn't part of this case and just warned me to get it taken care of as soon as possible, so I guess it's a good thing I didn't get arrested over that.
Tomorrow morning I'm gonna go see about paying it before work. It wasn't that much that I recall, but since it's been like three years, I'm hoping it won't be zillions of dollars in interest.
So yeah, my day sucked. Nothing like having the police drag you off for a talk, huh?
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[24 May 2008|10:20am] |
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I'm kinda sick of seeing the other post at the top, so I'm making this post mostly for the reason of not constantly reminding myself of landlord problems.
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| Wherein my life starts to fall apart |
[20 Mar 2008|03:50pm] |
So ever since Katrina our landlord has been trying to get rid of us. After Katrina, living space became a premium. One bedroom apartments were going for 2000 dollars a month. So us renting this house for 900 a month is obviously a deal. But if they got rid of us, they could triple the rent or whatever for someone new, or sell it for lots more.
Anywho, he's decided to raise the rent, and then again in 3 months and then again who knows. They're also being abusive towards my mom, so she wants to get out as soon as possible, but then there's the 'everything else is really really expensive, if you can find anything' thing. She's basically planning on moving in with one of her sisters. And I'm basically getting 'yeah, you needa find someone to live with.'
I don't have many options. Wee. I'm hoping none of this is overly immediate.
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| Star Fox |
[18 Mar 2008|10:49am] |
So, long ago on the SNES there was a game called Star Fox, and it was good. With the POWER of the SuperFX chip, we got polygonal goodness. We got multiple paths to take, easy, medium and hard. It was one of my favorite spaceship games.
Along comes the N64. Starfox 64 pretty much improved everything. You still has multiple paths, but now doing good or poorly on one could shift you to others in the middle of things. They threw in a couple of Landmaster stages, but not enough to ruin the whole 'this is a space ship game', and one submarine stage that I almost never got to on the water planet. Graphics and everything was improved. There were a few 'all range mode' stages. But once again, not enough to ruin the shooter on rails fun.
Then came Starfox Adventures. I have nothing against it, it wasn't supposed to be a spaceship game, so I don't really count it.
Then Starfox Assault. I guess someone said 'in the last game, Fox was running around on foot, so..' No. Just no. Out of the whole game, there is but TWO 'on rails' shooting parts. The rest are these free roaming, hop in and out of your ships stuff. While that might sound good on paper, Fox doesn't control overly well. And you spend most of your time looking around in buildings for that one target you're missing. Need I remind you that this is supposed to be a space ship game? Rogue Squad made the same mistake with poorly controlled on foot sections. Even if they did control well, it's not the point of the game.
Going to Starfox Command for the DS, at least they stay in their ships. But every area is 'free range' with the option 'kill all of the certain enemies'. So there's no interesting level design. There's a few interesting bosses, because they play in the 'follow behind them' method.
Not that I have any high hopes that Nintendo will read this, but I've decided to go ahead and tell you my perfect Starfox game.
First of all, don't make any sort of cute motion sensitive controlled stuff just because it's the Wii. Please? I don't wanna fly my controller around.
Anyways, least we forget, Starfox is a mercenary group. Some of the games end with you tallying up your 'score' which is supposed to be how much money they made. Command has you flying around in different ships and characters.
How about we factor in the money issue. Make it so you can buy upgrades to your ships, give them a couple of upgrade slots. And make it so you can buy new ships. That in itself makes higher replay value, since you can redo stages as different ships. Make it so you can do some secret stuff to unlock things like a Wolfen for Fox.
You want 'walking around' stuff? We can have it so that he walks around the Great Fox in between missions, you can select his ship, talk to crew. Make it so you can buy upgrades to the Great Fox as well. Or even buy new command ships. Also, I see no reason you can't hire new wingmen to join you. And then select who you want to bring on missions. Never again would you have to save Slippy if you didn't want to. But if each has a special ability (like 'reading enemy shield level' or such) then you might want to drag them along anyway.
Not to miss the point, once you're done doing all this, I think Starfox 64 had it right. Mostly on rail shooters with a couple of other things to mix it up, but never shall Fox be on foot. And if you have seperate 'paths' to take, and you happen to hate the Landmaster, you're free to not go that way.
I'd like to see secrets. Say 'if you do this mission in a Wolfen, Starwolf shows up' sort of thing. Or 'if so and so is your wingman, on this mission, so and so happens'. Like in Starfox 64 if Falco is around, you end up fighting a different boss at the end of stage one. This gives the game even more replay value.
Putting these factors together, I think we'd have a Starfox game that would be pretty darn awesome. Ah well. Not that anyone is going to make it from my lil LJ.
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| Pokemon |
[18 Feb 2008|10:29am] |
I'm going to talk about pokemon, for no apparent reason.
Now, Nintendo seems to enjoy sticking in their habit. People are acting like Mario Galaxy is some sorta gift from god. But I didn't like it overly much, I disliked the 'small planets' idea, I'd prefer big areas to explore, myself. But at the core, it's still a game where you run around and collect stuff, like Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine. Zelda games consist of 'find dungeon, find new weapon in dungeon, use weapon to beat boss' usually. How many times have we all found Link a boomerang? You can enjoy playing the latest game, even without it being overly 'different.'
But lets look at pokemon. Back in Pokemon Red, your nameless character wakes up, picks one of three starters, fire, grass or water, and heads to the first town to get your first pokeballs, running into some rodents and birds on the way. You travel from town to town, each town has a gym, somewhere is a dark cave you need 'Flash' to get through. At some point you beat up a group of bad guys. In the end you challenge the elite four and finally your rival. And know what? Pokemon games have not changed at ALL.
I mean, at least Mario and Link get some new things. Link gets a boat, Link turns into a werewolf, Mario gets a water cannon, ect. I played Red back in the day. Then I played Silver. Then I got Emerald, but never finished it, because I just totally felt 'I've done all this before, lots of times.' When Diamond and Pearl were coming out, I didn't care at all. Because it's exactly the same game again. Except now they're out of ideas and all the pokemon are stupid looking. But I don't think my opinion matters, because I'm sure it's selling and making lots of money anyway. So why should Nintendo even try harder?
Lets take a second to ponder what would have gotten me to get the game. It wouldn't have taken much. The battles for example. The pokemon still appear and just stand there stiffly, and wiggle a bit. The end. I recently got Digimon World: Dusk. Lets compare. First, you have 3 digimon 'active' at once, that itself changes things a bit, you can have a 'healer/buffer' type digimon in your party to assist. You have 3 digimon in your 'back row' who aren't in the battle, but get full XP. That saves you from 'The Magikarp experience', if you've ever had to level one of those to get a Gyrados, you know what I mean.
You have a 'digimon farm' where you can put digimon not in your party, and train and they level up, a lot slower than getting battle experience, but still not forcing you to level EVERYTHING. It has other features that just make sense and make the game fun. One of these things is animated sprites. The digimon have idle movement, attack movement, and 'taking a hit' movement. It's not the most ever, but it makes things a lot more lively than pokemon.
Lets get a bit more advanced. Dragon Quest Monsters and Dragon Tamer are both 'monster catching' games, and the 'monsters' are in 3D. I would have gotten the new pokemon game for that. Even if all the pokemon are ugly, I could have traded my pokemon and seen my old charizard in glorious... 3D moving around.
As long as they make money, they probably have no reason to try hard. But at this rate, I forsee the next Pokemon will probably be exactly the same. And since they're so low on ideas, we'll be seeing things like a rock. Thats rock type. Named 'Rock'. But at least it's strong against Scissors (metal type)
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| Ponderance of the day |
[13 Nov 2007|04:25pm] |
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Would the Tomb Raider games be as prolific, or even have gotten past one game, had it been 'Tomb Raider starring Larry Croft'?
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| Thought of the day |
[31 Oct 2007|03:30pm] |
Forums are like Mos Eisley Space port. You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. I look over forums because, at times, you find interesting stuff there. Dorey all is 'I'm glad you do, so you can tell me stuff and I don't have to go there.'
But honestly. Why can't people put forth an idea without getting 'you fail at life' type responces? I know it's probably a bunch of 15 year olds and all. But it just gets tiresome to have to slog through that sorta crap looking for a scrap or two of something worth reading.
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| Nothing really |
[24 Oct 2007|01:37pm] |
Nothing really to post, just haven't in a while. so I'll just talk about something random.
Some silly thing I see at times is 'contests' people run in live journals and other places. It'll go something like this.
I'm having a contest! People draw me! And I'll choose a winner!
And to me it just seems a blatant attempt to get free art out of everyone. Seems kinda silly, but if people wanna do it, hey, it's their buisness. Maybe I should try it.
I'm having a contest! Whoever gives me the most money wins! So you should donate as much as possible to better your chances!
Tee hee... I'll be rich!
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[26 Apr 2007|11:41pm] |
Yuki did one so I figured why not, hm?
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