Cafe, cafe, cafe, cafe!

Damn, I've got that DDR song stuck in my head. "Cafe, cafe, cafe cafe, cafe cafe cafe!" or something.

Okay, so a couple of new things:
(1) Seems I grossly misinterpreted what was going on with god_101 in terms of someone dying or whatnot. Of course I'm still extremely worried about him, but everyone handles break ups (as the case truly was, not someone dying like I thought) differently. If he wants to be open to the help that his friends are willing to give, then my offer still stands. But I won't put mental strain on myself taking blame for something I honestly have no control over.

(2) Okay, I'm making one giant exception to my own rule that I posted for the contest on weekly_ygo. In this week's issue (#20), I decided in lieu of an Editor's Choice, I'd hold two contests, one for a community layout/icons, and one for WikiFic. The deal is, whoever makes the community layout and icons will get a paid account (or extra time/userpics, whatever, if they already have a paid account) and whoever adds the most full-length, brand-new articles to WikiFic within the next week will get their very own unlimited subdomain on seventh-star.net (or, if they don't want a seventh-star.net subdomain, I will register a domain of their choice -that is currently available, of course- for two years and host a Yu-Gi-Oh fansite and related material). I thought this was a great idea, but no one commented on it AT ALL in the post. So this is the ONE place where I will pimp the contest, in the hopes that people simply spread it by word of mouth, comments in LJs, etc. I don't want anyone else MAKING POSTS about it, but everything else is fine, and I hope we get some participation. If you have any questions, see the latest issue or just ask me. :)

(3) Yuck, Jury Duty. And I can't get out of it, because it's the second time I've postponed it, and saying you're related to a lawyer, a socialist/communist, a student, too far away, don't have a car, don't have money to get there... none of it works. They see that I live a mere 9 miles away from the Van Nuys courthouse, and I get slammed with Jury Duty. Worse, one of my bosses said I can kiss Japan goodbye if I end up getting stuck in a trial that lasts months on end. I just hope I don't get called at all, but my Group number is *1* so what's the chance of that? *sigh* At least I'll be getting paid next week, and I found a decent, cheap bus schedule for getting there if I can't get a ride from Grandpa.

(4) Inspiration... for the wrong thing. I have ideas for almost all of my 30kisses, but getting them written out is another matter altogether. I've started most of the good ones, and unfortunately they have the potential to turn out to be long -sort of like how I didn't think about Prophecy Girl, Something to Somebody, and Death and Absolution would be multi-chapter whoppers, but THEY ARE! But if I do want this to be one of my 30kisses, I have to figure out how it could work for a theme that isn't taken, and not make it look like it's part of Prophcy Girl (because one particular scene -no dirty jokes involved, honest!- totally screams Prophecy Girl, and I don't want that). The only problem is, I only have 2 themes that don't have any ideas for them at all, and that's because they're the hardest themes for me: #17 - kilohertz, and #21: violence; pillage/plunder; extortion. This idea I *MIGHT* be able to make work for #21, but it would likely take a very different turn than I intended (and still be Prophecy Girl-esque because of it).

But the very beginning of the fic just makes me giddy because it's so evil. :> Well, in my mind, anyway.

AsuX

Ah well, doesn't look like A|X (not Armani Exchange; Anime Expo!) is in the works for me unless I just do a day pass and grab a shuttle there or somesuch. Which feels like it'd be kind of stupid, but truthfully I'd do anything to make up for the lackluster dealer's room and good showings/panels that were so few and far between. Unless... someone's got a hotel room already (Mom procrastinated on getting the room so much that they were already sold out for the weekend by the time she called... yesterday!); I'd be willing to pay my fair share so long as I had something relatively cushy to sleep on (chair, rollaway, kitty bed).

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

( Glowing praise from work, and a delicious review. )

Ah, nostalgia...

So over on AFSM (that's alt.fan.sailor-moon to you non-Usenet Internet n00bs... Kekeke!), a guy started this "200 Days of Sailormoon" project wherein he watches 1 episode a day until he hits the total 200-- just like it was when we were "kids" (okay, not all of us were kids back in 1992. I was, though!) and we had to wait an agonizing school day before we saw another new dub episode. Now we can complain about the dub, but we have to love it for introducing us to the series in the first place- and in my case, to anime and manga in general. And today was Episode 12 day - "I want a boyfriend too! A Trap on a Luxury Cruise Ship!"

So I added my two cents, and I also took screen caps using VLC Media Player of Episode 12. They're all Hi-Res screen caps in PNG format, posted on the alt.binaries.pictures.sailor-moon group... 198 of them, to be precise. Alas, I think the PNG format is larger than expected, because PowerPost 2000 is breaking up the files into 2-4 parts per image, and I don't know of an encoder/recompiler! I used to use Outlook Express, which had an embedded recompiler; does anyone know of one? (Otherwise I'll feel pretty stupid about posting my first large-scale flood and messing up royally.)

( Gomen ne sunao ja nakute... )