Well I'm happy and I'm not with this new look. I love the colors and the header. I'm not used to the sidebar on the left though but that's minor. What's driving me nuts is that I can't get any code for Tiny Icons to work. You know to replace the ugly head on user names like destroyah_des. I want my budgie back dang it! Some of the expressive layouts have a little picture next to the subject of each post. I put in the code for that and it didn't work either. But worst of all I hate the S2 help sites here on LJ. It urks me so much when I ask for help and they say, "Read this link." I don't want to read that link. I'm asking because I want you to tell me. Because unlike most of the rabble out there I already read the FAQ's, tutorials, did google searchs etc, and now I need a human to show me what to do. Pisses me off. So now something that should have been simple is hard and I'm thinking of changing my layout to the Squid one, finding the code for changing the header, reinstalling the Miami header, changing all the colors to this purple one so THEN perhaps the little picture in the subjects will work. Sigh. But then I'll lose the cool purple squares that divide the sections in this one and will have to look up that all just for the subject images. As for the tiny icon, well that should work no matter what style of journal you have. I posted my code to that site but I made my style viewable. Well seems that when there's an error it won't show code that has an error so I had to copy paste everything. If I can't enjoy it 100% then in the end I may just switch back. Good thing my old layout is saved. But I'm not happy. Flexible Squares is the only community that has ever been helpful. They actually wrote the code and gave it to me many times. All the others should be like that.

EDIT: Ok, I've almost got this thing the way I wanted. My custom budgie heads are back and I finally have my little image in front of my Subject. That site may make me take back my words. I still have a few more things I need to learn how to do but I'll ask about that later. I've pestered them enough in the last two days. There, I'm not so annoyed now. So what do you all think of the flying budgie?
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Ok, DragonAdopters. I'm still not done ripping into them. This is a small gripe but you have to add the border="0" tag to your html or your pets will have an ugly border around them with the new codes. I got this very good info from schnee about what's happening to gold and silver dragons.

So if you had a gold dragon that, say, had a base production rate of 800 aura before and that got 400 extra from items, you'd have ended up with 2400 before – (800+400)*2 = 2400, but you'll only get 2000 now — (800x2)+400 = 2000. The same thing basically goes for silver aura, too — pretty sucky.

I'll say! That totally makes sense and how I wish I didn't. This explains why ProPhage doesn't make 4010 anymore even though I removed his stuff and put it back on. I still say they're stupid and should set it back the old way with EVERYTHING multiplied by 2 or 1.5.

At least enough people complained about the limits on the markets and they're going to raise it to 30 for resources and 50 for items. Supposedly it's gone into effect but mine still says limit 10.

And now there's an ugly ad for Thaz's wimpy art under the recent visitors list. Swell. I'll just block it on Firefox. I'm screwed on IE. Why doesn't he put it on top like it was before? Burn out my eyes. Does anyone know of a good ad blocker I can use with IE?

At least the recent visitor thing is nice because people will click you back. But as always there's something bad to go with the good. The bad thing is it's so much harder to find open lottos now. Forget playing off your friend's list. I had to go to the ranking and even there like on page 20 I was still getting "Someone already played" message. GRRRR!!! No, Dragon Adopters still sucks. Fancy colors won't win me over. Oh one good point though. I had fun adding custom colors to each dragon. That's just hexidecimal code. Thank goodness there's no stupid buying involved with that or I wouldn't have bothered.

So here's my new stupid egg.


Please click it because she's not growing fast enough for my taste even with 50 clicks a day.

Ok, I'll try to not talk about this anymore tonight. I have had a good day though. My gosh it was freaking cold this morning. It was in the 60's! Yes, I can hear the laughter now all the way down here from you northeners. I had to wear a T-Shrit today when I usually wear a tank top because of the heat. Tonight it will be aweful droping into the 50s. I need to bring in some of the weaker budgies.

I spent most of the day working in Illustrator. I've almost finished the first stage of the baby Deathclaw. It's coming along so nice. I can't wait to finish him and color him! I'd like to make him four stages but I can't think of anything else to add really so he'll be a standard three stage. I still need to finish drawing the other two stages since they went off the page.

A fourth budgie hatched today!! Yeay! I will start to take pics again of the growth progress since people are asking. I don't mind. More budgie pics are always good.

So I'm in the mood to watch The Godfather. I think I shall do that after this post.
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Well this will be my first time I put down Dragon Adopters but those morons went and ruined it. I'll mention the little bit of good. List of the last five people that visited you. Nice, I like knowing who's come to see me. Increase in amount of resources you can win on the lotto. Nice. Asking for gold and silver. About damned time. That's about it.

Let me rant about the market first because that was the only reason I was really there. There is a limit of 10 things you can do I guess per day. I did not know this and blew all of mine right away. If you remove an offer I think it still counts. It's annoying to see you can have 2 spaces left but can't put them up. Even worse you can't buy offers from others even if you have the resources. WTF!!??!! And guess what? This affects the items market too. I wasn't done buying items for my new furdragon when suddenly, "Sorry you're no longer allowed to shop here even if you have the money. Thank you come again!" @$%%&

Next, the items your dragons wear no longer show levels. Lovely. How do you know which gold ring is 20% and 22%? Trial and error I guess. That's plain stupid.

Here's the real kicker. All dragons have been demoted in ability to produce resources. This is almost as bad as the market muck up. My gold dragon was cranking out 4010 a day. He now makes less than that. It was like 1800 something. This goes for sheddings too.

Oh and they've raised the level cap to 110. How pointless is that? Thank goodness there are no 110 items. But I guess this solves the problem of the pointless growth items. Ha, did I call that one from a mile away or what? The value of gems has dropped which is good and bad. It's good that they are cheaper but everyone that made level 100 items has now been royally ripped off. I want my resources back damn it.

Oh and get this, not that I ever cared before but it's worse now, backgrounds! They are now auction items. You can upload your own but you don't get them until 10 people "buy" them in auction. I saw the rediculous prices of some. I think buying backgrounds is just plain stupid but it was a choice at least. Now it's even worse. Hello McFly? I remember suggesting to Thaz that he allow us to upload our own. This is NOT what I meant. But as I have been saying, Thaz keep proving to be an idiot. I'm not impressed nor am I pleased. All that praise I gave about DA being the best pet site I'm now thinking of retracting. They've made a liar out of me.

And he still has all his butt kissers. I read how everyone loves it now. Please, give kids a few shinny looking things and no one will complain when it's needed even if they don't like something. Luckily you can leave comments and I sure as hell let him know that I was not happy with what he had done. It is impossible to win me over with eye candy alone. More people need to speak up and hopefully will follow my example. Someone brought up a good point. With seven dragons you'll need 30 space for items. Thagirion help me!

Being that I make nearlly all my choices based on mathmatics and the bad majorly out weighs the good, not to mention that DA no longer feels fun, I should leave them to rot. But part of me hope that morons might listen to reason and still fix stuff that wasn't broken in the first place. I'll give them time before I decide what to do and if I need to spread the word of why they've gone down hill. BTW, the best way to get their attention is to PM Thaz on deviantart. That's always worked for me. I highly suggest that.

I'm sure I'll find more bad things as I go along but so far this is the worst of it. Oh and hey!! I was spot on about the seven dragons wasn't I? I'm so good. Don't know how I knew that but some how I just did. Makes me want to rub it in the face of the guy on deviantart that had "the inside scoop on 10 dragons". Idiots everywhere!
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It's funny that I mentioned Halloween cups in my cup post two days ago. I always look for seasonal cups at Wal-Greens because that's always where I've found them. Well Chris and I went to Wal-Mart today to get some gardening supplies and I found these! I wasn't expecting to so it was a nice surprise.



No pumpkins unfortunately but still that's two more for my collection. It would have been cool if they'd made a black one with an orange pumpkin. But this time it was weird. They weren't individuals. They came in five packs for a dollar. You can't beat the price but I don't need five the the same one over and over. Oh well, I'm happy with them anyway. Two more pics of the purple one because it's just differentall around.

( Bat cup )

These cups are made by Berry Plastics and I went to their website. I am amazed how much this company makes! They are huge but unheard of. They make all the cups for all the fast food restraunts, construction materials and even farm supplies. I'm thinking of calling them up and asking how much it would cost to make some custom cups just like these. I know I have to buy a whole box full but if I can have more than one design then that would be fine by me. If stores are selling them so cheap, the Easter ones were four for a dollar, then the boxes can't be that much. I'd like to make one of budgies, pumpkins, gourds and just a few other things. The way the printing process works from the looks of it I need to keep it simple to five colors max and no details or outlines. So I know the style to draw things in.

Chris got me the next issue of Birds and Blooms and we got a 3'x120' roll of weed mat. We worked in the garden today ripping out weeds and taking stuff down and we dont' want it to ever get this bad again. So we're going to lay down black fabric everywhere. We don't want any grass anywhere really. If we can make all gravel or dirt pathways and raised beds only we will. It's just money that keeps us from really doing that. But we're serious about no grass whatsoever. I saw a guy on youtube that did that and his yard is so cool. His front yard is one big veggie garden. As it should be and he doesn't have to waste gas on a lawn mower. You guys don't know how much I've grown to hate lawn mowers over the years. It's amazing how it's such a suburban show of territoriality. It never fails. If one person starts mowing then another neighbor will too and then another even if they cut their grass yesterday. It's like call to arms and it's rediculous.

Here's what's bad about lawns. They are expensive to maintain. You have to use lots of chemicals that are harsh on the environment. Because grasses for lawns aren't native it's a difficult artifical environment to maintain. It's a waste of water. It's a waste of gasoline and with gas being what it is in these days why waste it if it's not going into your car? Lawns encourage noise pollution. That's one factor I really hate escpaically when close neighbors go off at 6 am. There should be a law about not mowing until after 9am. And finally lawns are ugly and boring. Don't people care about color and flowers or veggies? Also if you're going to have grass then at least let it grow. Grasses are meant to be tall not to be kept at half an inch. YARG.
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As the subject says I'm in a fiery mood today and feel like ranting. One thing that's been on my mind lately is relationships, mainly people getting married for the wrong reasons then complaining about it. That or just plain lack of respect for the spouse. Relationships really aren't hard. People that say they are most likely shouldn't be together. I think marriage is a wonderful thing and I hate marriage jokes be them about men or women. Those jokes are from the point of view of people that have failed at it or just know nothing about the subject. You find someone you have lots in common with, that you trust are friends with first then comes love and lastly sex. If you're constantly fighting with your spouse or spouting off about how stupid, lazy or inept they are then that's wrong and you should not be with them. And the people that make the excuse that they are staying together just for the kids or dog or whatever are delusional as well. It's not working out you shouldn't be together and probably shouldn't have been together in the first place. You're setting a bad example for your kid/dog by doing that anyway. In a marriage you need to stand by your man or wo-man no matter what obstacles you face. And just because you signed a piece of paper doesn't mean things should change like being in love.

I'm proud to say that Chris and I have been together for 13 years and we have figured out how this relationship thing works. On my end it wasn't hard really. I had a list of qualities I wanted in my man. Chris measured up, we trust each other and we love each other. We're still in love and respect each other just as much as when we were dating. In fact we still go out on dates. Don't stop dating just because you get married. And we're still in love. That should never change. Of all that time we've been together we've had may-be two fights. Yeah people that think that if you aren't fighting you aren't married are totally flipped out. If you're constantly fighting you should NOT be together. Simple as that. See I live by the philosphy that life is hard enough as it is so I don't need to go out of my way to make it harder. Nope, I do my best to make it easier so I sure as heck am not going to be with a man I know I'll be fighting a lot with. And I respect my man too. I'm good at some things and he's good at others. No one's good at everything like SpongeBob said. So I wouldn't mouth off to my friends about him being stupid or some other disparraging remark. Leave that to evil in laws if you're cursed with them. My mother fills that role. Lucky for Chris I didn't side with her. Evil mother in law jokes are ok in my book if the inlaw is deserving of it. So yes, I needed to get this off my chest. Once I'm done with this post I think I'll get off, give him a big kiss and tell him how special he is. My relationship life is wonderful and I'm very happy in that department. No I have not been lucky in love. I knew exactly what I wanted and would not settle for less. I had a formula and all the variables came together in my equation and I knew that was the right move. The end.

Ok time for some of those Youtube posts I've been meaning to make. I don't usually get jerks on Youtube. I mostly just get stupid questions but my Fireworks video seems to attract idiots. Usually I just delete the posts and ignore them. I screen all my comments so no one sees if anything bad is said. But sometimes a post is so lame it just asks to be flamed back and I can't pass up a good flame. I allowed this little gem to sleuse through the other day.

royha123 (2 days ago) OMG, why do u lie. That isn't your firework. U film it in a open firework shop.

My response.

destroyahdes (2 days ago) "OMG" , to mimic your rediculous feeling based response, why can't you read? How can you be so blind or dumb to miss the big Bold text you clicked to open this video that says Fireworks SHOPPING? Wouldn't that mean I went to a SHOP and hence I don't own this? Never once did I say this was mine. I dare you to show me where I did. I'm allowing your post to show and leaving it up long enough for others to see how idiotic it was and laugh at it.

Part of the challenge of Youtube is making an intelligent response within the annoying word limit. That's difficult for a verbose NT. I don't know how this moron could have thought that I claimed this little fireworks tent was mine when it clearly said I went shopping and that this was an open air store. Also if it HAD been my store I wouldn't have had to buy anything now would I since that was already my inventory and that would have been bad for business. Morons!

The other comment I got I don't remember which post it was on since it was on one of my pigeon videos. This wasn't a flame but one of those questions that makes you laugh. It was something along the lines of,

"How do I train my homing pigeon to home. I let mine out and they all left. What do I do to keep them from running away?"

It was the last part that had me cracking up as I imagined these pigeons running on their legs like chickens into the woods the moment he opens the loft. I did answer the question as it was a serious qustion though it was worded kind of cute.

Chris took me out to Starbucks for lunch again today. I had that cafe vanilla frapp again that is so euphoric, but he also got me a turkey sandwhich and a brownie. He bought a cheese and fruit thing for himself and a cinnamon dolce frapp. He had little apple wedges and asiago cheese squares that I nibbled. Talk about a wonderfully delicious meal. I thoroughly enjoyed our lunch date today. We had so much fun chatting too. I'm still wired and fired up from all the caffeine I've had. I don't know if I'm done with caffeine for the month yet, but that was quite fun. I'm sure I'll crash soon especially since I've been so happy and any strong emotion wears me out. I try to avoid strong emotions because of that. They take up so much energy and I pay for them later.

I'm still reading my story to see if I didn't leave anything out. For some reason I started in the middle. Actually I know why. It's because I haven't read the middle to end in a long time and that's likely what needs the most work. So progress is being made. I'll be so happy once this thing is done. I want it over already. But I think I can definitely finish it up before the month is over.

Wow, I didn't play Sims 3 today and I'm glad. I've been working on my story mostly or been out with Chris. I think it's good to be away from the net like that. I thought about my Deathclaws today as well. Once I finish this story I want to get back to that one and the art that goes with it. I have some amazing stuff in my To Do pile.

Lastly, Cope's account got his third dragon egg today.



So please click it and help it hatch.

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OOps forgot to post this meme.

All about me Quiz
The only rule of this quiz: Answer truthfully and have fun.

1.) Favorite Movie?
Jurassic Park and Face off

2.) Favorite Video Game?
Primal Rage

3.) Favorite Superhero?
Superman. I always wanted to fly. I used to watch his movies and cartoons and dream about being him.

4.) Any fears?
Bears. I guess I'm afraid of bears. If I knew there was a bear in the woods I'd start running.

5.) Single or Taken?
Happily taken.

6.) Cartoon Character You're Most Like?
Personality wise or physically? Physically I look just like Catra from She-ra. Personality wise...um. Probably Mr. Burns. Though he's not a cartoon Odo from DS9 is the only fictional character I could relate to 98%. It is amazing. You want to know what I'm like real quick? I'm Odo.

7.) Give Five Interesting Facts About Yourself.
1. My personality type is INTJ and fire is my element type.
2. I collect bouncy balls and budgie statues.
3. I'm flat footed, pigeon toed and have dyslexia.
4. I'm a violinist and took lessons for seven years
5. I'm a lucid dreamer. Often times I know I'm dreaming and choose to take control of myself while leaving everything else to my random brain. My dream life is just as important to me as my waking life and if I don't dream well I don't get rested no matter how long I slept.

8.) Tag Anyone?
No. If you want to take this then take it.
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I've known this for a while but Youtube is going to force everyone to use their new layout tomorrow. The new layout is garbage, but they're going to push it through anyway despite how many people have complained. You should see the responses on their heads up video. It's one of the few times I gave a one star rating. I usually have a policy that if I don't like a video I just stop watching it. I don't give out low ratings, it's not nice. The person liked putting the video up and would like a full rating. Giving low ratings just seems spiteful to me. There have been lots of videos I didn't like. No one made my watch them so I just leave them be. I don't like it when I get a low rating so I have the decency to be this way with others in return for the same thing. But this video angered me so much I broke my rule. Some people had tried it early and they don't like the new look. I think Youtube is trying to look like Myspace. Nooooo!! That's the perfect way to ruin it. So I made a HUGE long screen capture of my channel before it gets destroyed tomorrow. One thing I already hate that I've seen on others' channels is you can't watch the video in its own page after you click it. Or I haven't figured out how. How is commenting going to work that way? I don't want to watch it on their page and be distracted by all their pictures. And supposedly there's some feature that friends can recommend videos and they appear on your channel. Talk about invasive. As a control freak I don't want anyone putting anything on my channel without my say so. I am not happy about this.

A bit of a budgie disaster again. Two days ago we had to spary the house for bugs. We had an invasion of seed moths and it was so annoying we couldn't stand it anymore. Seed moth caterpillars breed in bird food that's left open. Oops, yes we've been bad about that. But after freezing all the food to decontaminate it (imagine 100lbs of bird food in the freezer), sealing it safely and cleaning all the cages head to toe the moths were still everywhere. I have no idea what they were getting into. So I decided to put all the birds outside and let off a bug bomb. I knew the breeding budgies wouldn't like that. They are afraid of everything now since the snake fiasco. We moved the cage very carefully outside with the two eggs. But I think they remembered being out there when that happened. I left them out over night and when I went to bring them back in the next day the female had kicked out both eggs and broken them. So breeding has not gone well this year. I switched mates and hope this will help though the new female might not be better. She's another Gaus baby but has splayed legs. I worry she won't be able to mate because of this.

I tried to make a house for the Copes' yesterday. This second attempt went much better, but I didn't keep it as the whole basement thing didn't work out for me and I found some flaws in my original blue print design. Back to the drawing board. Literally. I was never good at technical, architectural drawings anyway so I'm not sure how to fix the problems. I'm not so good at drawing to scale.
I need to make an update for the sim stories too.
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I don't think the pigeon I have right now will work out. I think it's a male. Once his wings grow out I'l put him back in the loft to be a flyer. I will transfer the name Olney once I find a suitable replacement. I have that one baby that's Punkin's half sibling. Here's hoping it's a girl. I don't like nasty bites, threat displays and wing slaps when I'm servicing the cage or when I hold him. This is why male pigeons don't make good pets, unless you like fighting with your bird. I have a friend on Youtube that's halarious and loves fighting with his male pigeon. I had a pet male like that. Turbo was my male pigeon I used to fight with. He was great. But now I want a nice bird like I had with Punking so I really want a female.

Now that I've moved Peep out of Protist's cage she's gotten clingier which I like. She flies to me more. Today she landed on my head twice which was cute. I was doing dishes and she flew right in my face, did a U turn showing me her feet, tail and tummy then flew back to her cage. It was so fast and funny. She was inches in front of my face.

BTW, earthmother45 I sent you your seeds. Please let me know when you get them. I hope they make it there soon and you have lots of fun with them.

And I'm in a bad mood right now because of Sims 3. I have experienced the first bad glitch in the game. Grey furniture or furniture that doesn't load right away I can ignore. I put up with those kinds of bugs. But I get royally pissed when characters disappear. Here's how this glich goes. I had been playing with Davon and Solan and figured it was time to switch to Des and Chris. I've given into temptation and started to use the money cheat at least to help the families start out. Well I couldn't find Des. I clicked on all the houses and nothing. So I switched to Owen because he had met her and she should have been in his relationship list. She was. So I invite her with the plan to then tell her to leave and follow her to her house. That didn't work because she got in a car and was too fast for me to catch. YARG!

Well, I thought perhaps she had moved in with someone or Chris had died. So I clicked all the houses. Luckily they show pictures. I found that some guy had moved in with them and the house had been put in his name. WTF? So I broke them up and moved Chris and Des into a big farm house. There good! That's what I wanted to do anyway. So now I'm ready to go back to Owen and he's gone! AAARRRGGG!!! He wasn't in any of the houses, he was just gone. I replaced him and he couldn't aford the same he house anymore. Again WTF? Why not? That's the house I started in? So I put him in another house, used the money cheat and bought the original house back despit it being small. I wanted to finish there because he's nextdoor to Cope. Well all the furniture I had bought was still in that house and had raised the property value and that's why I couldn't buy the house. The worst part was it was like starting over. He had no skills and had lost everything he'd found. AAARRGGG. I had him befriend Des again. He even randomly ran into Fungus. So all should have been well now. It wasn't.

So I'm leveling him again and I decide to look in my relationships page. Des and Chris were gone again. So was Fungus. I checked the map and they were gone from their house to. This was DURING game play. I hadn't even switched families. I'm quite mad about this. I don't want to have to keep reloading everyone and restarting. I wonder if it's a Riverview issue. I responded to a thread that was started as two others seem to have the same problem. I didn't want to post on the forums but this has me pretty upset and I don't want to play if all my time and effort will be for nothing. I wonder if there are too many characters. Just when I was starting to respect PC games something like this happens. Missing main chracters? That does not happen on consoles! This is a major glitch that is like an unfinished game. How can they release a game with such a major problem? Yeah I could start again in the other town but the whole starting over is what I don't want to do. This would make my 3rd restart.
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Oh man. I was pretty upset about Avrye or whatever it's called going down that I joined Dragon Cave. Here are my eggs that I don't care too much about except for the red and black one.



The reason I joined was because they had a Valentine's Egg too. Well I didn't know that the way you get eggs is really stupid. You have to be a fast clicker. So I saw a few V-Day eggs but when I clicked them they said they were gone, or they couldn't be found or something stupid like that. WTF? This is what I miss about Arvyre. You could pick up any kind and rare ones were for a limited time. I must have spent a half our refreshing the damned page. My hand hurts then I proceeded to use the tablet in my left hand to refresh for who knows how long before finally giving up. Grumpy Destroyah now. Dragon Cave is a poor replacement for Arvrye.

Well I got in contact with a friend that was on the forum and she said that before it crashed the Admin posted what had happened. Ok finally some type of explination. But it's also quite stupid. There were so many people on at once that the server banned everyone. HAHAHA!! We all got banned? That's halarious. Well it was for a little bit now I'm annoyed. So he is trying to fix it and it should be back in a few days as the rumor goes. I'm so glad I got that extra egg I didn't show if this doesn't work out. Anyway, if they do come back I'll just let all my dragon Cave Dragons die and I'll just steal the sprites to show them. Simple as that. Man I guess everyone REALLY wanted to see the Valentine's Wyrms and crashed the site.

I am happy to report that I got some artwork done today and awesome stuff that it is too! I drew a pic of Solan at his desk working. The view is from over his shoulder. On a table I want to have little statues of sun gods that he's been in the past. I think this will be a very nice drawing once colored up showing him doing normal things. I only have a few more detail to add and it should be done. I've been neglecting Solan and Davon. Owen and Cope kind stole the show with their rivalry. I do want to make some art of Solan and Davon doing stuff. I just can't quite think of what.

I went to Wal-Greens and totally forgot about the Peeps. I was THRILLED to see the two walls of Easter candy and stuff. Oh the colors and the joy. I was so giggly. Chris was happy to see me so excited. He took pics on his phone. Hopefully we can get them off the phone soon so I can share. It's Peep season again!! Oh I missed them. I'm going to get off now because my hand and thumb hurt from the wasted time I spent clicking. I'm still pissed.
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These idiots come in waves. I'm hoping that it's now over until they decide to come after me again. I'll talk about the DA moron first because that was a rather easy situation to fix. Some guy named Zombie something or other I can't remember added me to his watch. As is my custom to do so I went to his main page and thanked him. But something seemed odd and I decided to go back and look. Sure enough my post had been burried down to page three in just a few minutes. I looked at his stats and at the time he had over 500 people he "Watched". So I posted again saying something to the effect of:
"Wow you have over 500 people on your watch. That must be difficult to keep up with. I hope you added me and the others because you care about our art and not for some weak attempt to bring attention to your site. If I am wrong about this then I welcome your participation. But if I am right then I shall delete myself from your watch."

I checked back a few minutes later and had collapsed my response. Oh heaven forbid I expose him. Lucky for him I'm not a troll or I could have kept posting that and posted it to everyone that had responded to him. I don't sink that low though the thought did cross my mind. It's sad that there are those out there that will add him back because they think if they get a watch they have to watch back. Sigh and that's likely the types he's preying on. The only thing I did was respond to my original post saying, "You'd best delete these too. You no longer watch me."

Now for the ENFP on Youtube. His name is raigekimaru and he barged into a conversation I had had with another person. Dang extroverts. I'm going to put this behind the cut.
( ENFP's love being the victim )

Since he had nothing intelligent to offer to the argument and now he's trying to make stupid jokes so typical of an ENFP that I have banned him. He was funnier without the jokes and now I'm bored of him.

On a different note, I have been talking to a friend on Youtube who's a chicken expert. He sent me his chicken care DVD which is really good. It's three hours of how to chicken husbandry. I have learned a lot. Unfortunately I have learned that I need to majorly rethink everything I had planed and start from scratch. Yarg. My biggest concern is the chickens flying over the fence and pissing off neighbors or going in the street. But I don't want to keep them in a coop all the time either. Chickens are meant to walk around free so it would bother me to keep them cooped up. I hate not being able to fly my prisoner pigeons so I know I couldn't keep chickens locked up. I also worry about open bottom coop as I don't want them on dirt and stepping on their own poops. I suppose I could clip their wings or just get heavy set breeds that can't fly anyway. But I want colored eggs. Cheezey, are your birds good flyers? Then there's the dilema of them digging up the vegetable garden, though having them on bug patrol is a good thing for the garden. Yes I still need to think about this a lot.
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Someone on one of the INTJ forums I go to posted that she doesn't like to drink and doesn't at parties. She then asked if others did this and was it typical of the type. I was the first to respond and told her that it's not. Saddly most INTJ's are prone to substance abuse. But that there were the few exceptions like her and I. We are the rares of the rares. I pride myself on the fact that I don't drink. It's not religious or anything like that, it's just my choice. I know the dangers of alchohol and don't want to subject myself to losing control and accidentatlly running over old ladies. I like my life too much, I like having control and I like keeping all my memories and not acting like a fool. This other person responded to me saying this.

Hmm. I don't understand why young people assume, that you HAVE to drink insane amounts of alcohol at once, or then you shouldn't drink anything never at all.

When I was a kid, I didn't like alcoholic drinks. But I didn't like onions, garlic, chili or many other things either. I've grown to appreciate both the taste of certain beers and wines, and
the feeling of being happily just a little tipsy. It relaxes me and usually leads to very interesting conversations with company.

I don't, however, see any point drinking alone, or drinking so much you feel sick or can't
even walk... Lots of Finns do that, sure, but I can't
even drink so much I'd end up like that.

Sigh. Why do people respond to me on these forums when I'm talking to the original poster because they asked a question? Anyway my response.

"I don't understand why young people assume"
Hehe, I'm older than you. And I'm not assuming anything. Like I said I gave drinks a chance. I've tried beer, wine, mixed drinks and champain. None of which are my cup of tea, and all tasted disgusting. Onions, garlic and such won't make me act like a fool or go out of control. At worst they'll give me bad breath or make me cry and that's easy to fix at least. I've also seen too many lives destroyed by alchohol so from experience I refuse to go there. Some of my friends drink, and then they do stupid things, and then I have to help them. But I'm still their friend and help them. I advise them not to drink if they ask but it's their choice. But it's not for me. So with experience I can say I do not like drinking. I have chosen to not drink in my life. Also I have enough problems with drinking too much caffeine. Don't need to add anything else to the list. I'm definitely a soda junkie.

The other responses were as expected. Most INTJ's drink a lot. But they weren't talking to me so all was good. But that is my stance on this issue. I'm proud I have such discipline. One person mentioned that they started because they never had and their friend said, "We have to fix that!" WTF? Talk about already losing control. And age has nothing to do with it. Beer tastes just as disgusting now to me as it did ten years ago. I'm not going to change because I get older. This is a choice and I have made it as has my husband. BUT I'm happy that a few others agreed with me, which I'm surprised even by that so I was happy. A little faith was restored in my fellow INTJ's. Poor Tesla. Even he drank too much.

I was reading some of the threads on the Dragon Adopter forums and holy cow I felt sorry for the admins. They have a bunch of very strickt rules and they recently revised them. You would not believe how many pages of bitching there were about the rules to the point that the admin flat out said it, too bad for you if you don't like it. Follow them or get banned. Now when I ran the square board the rules were basically the same thing. I admire that they keep order as well as they do. Lots of people have warnings but they should have read the rules before they started posting. When newbies used to join the Square Board we would welcome them then say, "Don't forget to read the rules." I didn't join since the thread had already been locked but one person brought up an excellent point. 80% of the people that whine about the rules are the ones that want to break them. If you don't like the rules don't join. The first thing I do on any new site I'm about to join is read all the rules. Ignorance is no excuse and they go by this too. I felt sorry for the admins but I'm glad they stick to their guns and really all the rules are reasonable. Morons.

Talon is finally a teen. No more butterfly snorting. He looks much better. I'm so glad.

Hehe, I know it sounds like I'm having a bad day but I'm not. I'm just in that cynical INTJ mindset I guess. We're happy when we're cranky like this. The day has been very good actually. I got some more writing done today. Not as much as I would have liked though. The subject of this post refers to my computer. Perhaps it was better when it was broken and I couldn't go online because it's really distracted me. I have been so bad today about going online I didn't write very much. Bad Des! Bad! I think tomorrow I will make my rounds then PHYSICALLY unplug the modem. That'll show me. Then I'll be forced to either write my story or work on my art. I'll be sure to turn off Chris's computer so I'm not tempted to get on his. I have to be tough on myself too.

Ok and now it's time for a meme I made. I hope the coding will work.

( Icon meme behind cut )

So I tag everyone on my list because I'm proud of this one, although narrowing it down to just one choice each was a bit hard. Coding looks decent so I'll go ahead and unlock the code link post. Hum I should make one for mood themes. I've never seen one for that.
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Oh this pissed me off so much just now. I love reading Discovery News everyday for SCIENTIFIC articles. Well today is the first time they've let me down. Notice what garbage they are putting up on a scientific news source.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/19/santa-reindeer-female.html

Ok reindeer don't ask for Directions. The fat man would if he got lost. But if he's magical he WOULDN'T get lost in the first place. Castrated males? Not good for Santa's breeding herd. WTF? Why demasulate all the deer? So stupid. The reason they would be males would be because they are bigger and stronger to pull stuff. Sigh. But we can't have males being stronger these days can we? Damn feminists!
And females accessorize? I don't! The only jewelry I wear are my wedding rings. Yes a male would have a red nose if he had a disease. And you can put any kind of stupid crap on a deer male or female. Just look at the aweful things they do to dogs to dress them up. This just seems like a feminist movement tryng to change a traditonal story that isn't even real to start with. And they would play nicer games of wit? So they're pushing that females are smarter. I'm sorry but I'd rather watch to males duke it out ot the death. It's like wrestling. A lot more fun. There go the damned Libs changing everything with their revisionist history.

Anyway, here's a MUCH better more SCIENTIFIC article I've had saved for years about the whole thing being fake anyway.

Is there a Santa Claus?

1. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

2. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.

3. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second; a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.

4. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.


5. 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
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Lots of my friends have been posting poltical posts again. Most of my friends are liberals and I get annoyed reading their journals. But I respect their journals. They did not ask for my opinion so I will not bash them though I've felt tempted. Again, I keep my emotions in check. But Hell, I'm tired of being quiet. The last rant I made was way too short. I also hate feeling like I'm the only conservative. I'm not. It's just that the net abounds with libs. But I am not alone. Chris is with me and there are a few cons (hehe yeah I know) around and I have at least one more on my list. Not to mention half the population of the United States. so it's my turn again. Last time I was disapointed in my friends that dared to say something to me when I showed them such respect on their little journals. I'm going to post a great chat I had with silvolf. I love talking with people that are of like mind. She posted her own politcal speech that I enjoyed and jumped on. We decided to continue it in a chat. Only my friends can respond to this. Also if you're on my friends list and disagree I don't want to hear about it. If you DO agree the speak up! But I'm not expecting any responses. That's fine. But it's my turn to vent. BTW, for those of you that have forgotten, brush up on the rules in my profile.

And now for the loooong Hell Fire and Brimestone laden post.

( Loooooong chat )
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Blarg what horribly bad news to wake up to today. Like I said I've been pretty much locked up from society the last few days. We have a new president and it's Obama. Not that McCain was a great choice either. But this jerk is going to royally screw up the nation. He's so far to the left and pro-socialism. He praises Europe and wants to make us like those messed up nations. Oh Hell help us! I voted for McCain of course but he sucks because he was going to raise taxes and wasn't a very good conservative. He was for gay marriage. Yes we did vote against that. Gosh we so badly need another Teddy Roosevelt who won't demilitarize us. See Bush went about it all wrong. He wanted to install a democracy in Iraq so they can stand on their own. Kinda like what Roosevelt did with the Philipines. But what needed to be done was have that whole place nuked into glass. Sand under tremendous heat and pressure will become glass hehe. We need to send out a show of force like Roosevelt did with the naval fleet when he sent it on a tour around the world. Gosh I could go on and on about all the amazing things that he did but that would take forever. My wish was that McCain would have been president then he'd step down after a week or so and Palin would have been the first woman president. She really would have put her foot down and cleaned up. I really don't like talking politics but I had to rant. It's like on the Simpsons when Kang and Kodos took over and said, "It doesn't matter which of us you vote for. Either way your planet is doomed!" I fear for my nation. We are the best and I want it to stay that way. But perhaps he'll screw things up so royally he'll be voted out in four years and we'll get a proper president. The thing is with the house and the senate being democrat this monkey now has free rign. At least if there were Republicans in there they could stop him at almost every turn. My country is in trouble now. If I had a flag pole I'd fly my flag at half mast.

I'm disapointed at how much I've been using this icon lately both on my own journal and on other people's. Anyway, I don't know as much about politics as Chris does. It just gets me mad. He'll do a proper and more scathing review in his journal soon. I used to want to move to Australia until I found out they are liberals. Politics ruins everything. We need a revolution. Another Civil War would probably do us good.
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Today has been an interesting day. We went out to Wal-greens to get some supplies and I saw a great deal on these ceramic pumpkins. Chris bought them for me because I want to decorate the house for Halloween and Fall.



I like how white pumpkins are becoming more and more common each year. I remember when the mutation was new and only could be found through seed catalogs. Now I see them in decorations and at pumpkin patches. I love these since they are so well made.

We flew the pigeons this evening and Instantly I knew they'd brought home a stray. I could tell because she landed on the backyard neighbor's roof. My birds are very good about only landing on our roof. Not only that I could tell by her color she wasn't mine. Most people would never have known. Chris was with me and I go, "Who's that? That's not one of mine!" She looked like a racing pigeon but had no leg bands. I was hoping she'd go in the loft with the others but she didn't and flew away. That was neat and it's never happened before. I'm hoping they'll find her again tomorrow.

I've been having fun and frustration with Spore. My computer is too old and too bug ridden to handle this game properly and I'm waiting more than I'm playing this stupid game. It's quite annoying. The space stage is the worst. Anyway, I've replaced my old "Out of My Fandom" icon with the Brain Gremlin with my Spore version of Sorath. I hope it displays right as I can't tell on my old crappy monitor that won't display clear PNGs. I hope you can read what it says, but the pose is perfect for this and better than my old pics. I'm posting this for all those "hardcore" gamers out there that are whinning about Spore on the main forum. I'm not a member there, I only lurk but it's so stupid. Everyone's whinning about it being too simplistic and the creators sold out to make money by aiming to the "casual" gamer. Hello!! Video games are business and last time I checked business is about MAKING Money. DUH!! This is my first real indepth PC game I've ever played. So it's people like me and there are probably lots that are the target audience and I think they hit them. The only ones complaining are a handful on that stupid site. The ones they're making money off of are too busy playing Spore to listen to them complain. Some parts of the game are hard so I don't see what their issue is. And besides look at all the characters. It's a KID'S game. You can't make it that hard. For Pete' sake! They were also saying it's not like the Sims. That's because this is SPORE not SIMS!! If you want Sims then buy Sims, but Spore is something different. Get over it and leave us alone that love the game. One moron went so far as to say, "I hate casual gamers." Well good because I hate him too and they already got my money so, ppptthhhuurrbbb!!!

The only thing I'm really upset about probably has nothing to do with the game. It's my computer screwing up. If it wasn't for that I'd probably REALLy enjoy it. And I do think it has wonderful replay value despite what those "fans" say. When you see how many videos are up on youtube you'll know there are tons of people that out number the nay sayers. You know why I really love Spore? Because it's so personal. MY characters and my favorite characters from fandoms I like I can make and put in the game. How many games let you interact with Kaiju monsters, Peeps, Budgies, macaws, Gourds, Orange Birds, ancient gods and my own original characters? That's why I love this game!

I have done more halarious things in the game lately. I played through with a varition of Sorath I named Solar Dieties. I played ultra friendly only killing people that attacked me first and I ended up being a religious culture in Civilization stage. I wasn't pleased a first but I QUICKLY grew to love it. For one a giant budgie attacked our city. Our cars shot it with magic and music and charmed him. The disadvantage was that it wears off and the budgie made a mess. Unfortunately the city's automatic defense killed him. I didn't want him killed, but I couldn't stop it. But when you "raid" a city as the cult they project or summon their god which is a giant ghost version of themselves. This was perfect since they are sun gods! So this giant Sorath is chanting to press on the attack. If you succeed the cities aren't taken over but converted. The ultimate weapon is called something like Fanatical Uprising where the largest version of the god comes out of the town hall. My town hall is a dark pyramid so it was awesome to see a giant sun god come out of a pyramid and let out all his power. This wins the game as it instantly converts all your enemies. I built this awesome spaceship that's a wicked Aztec looking flying pyramid that I named The Eye of Ra. Heavily inspired by Gamma Ray of course.

In tribal stage my favorite thing is to round up animals for egg farming. I LOVE the old cowboy music they use. I played just that stage as Godzilla and rounded up a Florida Orange Bird, a Costa's Humming Bird and a Budgie. Previously as the sun gods I had a gourd, a peep and a budgie. SOO cute. I've made tons of movies. I have to figure out which ones I'll upload to share. Or if you are on aim I can just send you the files directly. I loved watching Godzilla collect food. He looks like a waiter carrying it on a plate over his head. And when you collect eggs them come out cooked and sunny side up! I've killed two Epics already, those are the giant monsters in the game, but I haven't gotten the achievement for that yet. I don't know why. OH! And I found out there are blackholes you can use to teleport to other parts of the galaxy. That and you can find our solar system, the Sol system. I don't know how. I didn't want spoilers but I did see someone blow up the Earth. That was great. My only gripe was that there's no lunar lander on the moon. I know if they made the game right that our sun is on one of the very outer bands of the galaxy. suzidragonlady, your Spindoos were in my game and my Godzillas hunted them for food in their tribe.

I will share pics next time. I'm wondering if I should make another Youtube account for my Spore vids as I'm sure my friends there must be getting tired since I've strayed from posting nature and how to vids. I hate logging out and can barely keep up with Roundularman's account. I don't know. I need to think about that but I definitely want to upload a bunch more.
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I only made one cool creature worth mentioning today. earthmother45 posted some manatee pictures in her journal that inspired me. Here's what I made in the game.



I haven't uploaded him yet. Not too pleased with his fins. I need to find a better way to make them. But he's so ugly he's cute.

I went on a job with Chris today. It's so hot with out AC that it was nice to get out of the house. While I waited I started a new drawing. I can't say what it's about yet because it's not finished, it's going decent but it could easily flop. Chris doesn't even know so unless I can pull it off I'd rather not say. I'm a perfectionist that way and once I say it's good then I have the right to show off.

I hate being left waiting or stood up. I'm annoyed with a friend over the same thing again. I've heard NOTHING. No one does that to me more than once. BTW, has anyone read the stories I've been putting up? If no one cares I shouldn't bother to finish them. But since I can see clearly where this story is going I may finish them up. Hell, since I seem to have been left high and dry on this story I should forget about co-authoring and just finish it myself. I easily could and would likely be better. As usual I'm the one doing all the work anyway. It's a good thing I'm busy with Spore to keep me from getting bored. So even if no one is reading I think I'll finish it anyway just to have that closure. That would be my J nagging me.

Chris pre-ordered Spore from Game Stop today for me. YEAY!! That means i'll definitely be getting the game. I'm so excited. I can't wait. OH btw, I'm thinking of printing several screen shots of the Peeps from Spore and sending them to the Just Born candy factory to show them what a fan I am. Some part of me is telling me that might be a bad idea, but I'm hoping they'll like that I'm making peeps in a game and perhaps respond or feature my peeps somewhere. That would be the ultimate thing.
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I'm going to put this behind the but because it ended up being long. But I had to get it out because it's just too good of an example of how lame a few children can be.

( Retarted Cars fans )

Ok now on to the good stuff. I have finished the coloring for my new sun god. I love him. He's amazing. Gosh talk about alien. This guy is freakier than Sorath.



Click for full size. So this guy and all of his kind come from B Class Stars. B Class is the second largest star in the solar system. He has six jaws that he can move individually or all at once. He has two joins in his metal skull that he can flex his jaws inward as well like in the lower right picture. No eyes again. None of the sun gods have eyes. I only drew heads and shoulders because the body is the same build as Sorath's with the planets around their tails. Depending how many planets are in the star system is how many they have on their tails. I'm really happy with how this turned out. I do like Illustrator now. It is very time consuming but worth it. But the difference is seen once things are shaded. If you leave it black and white or flat colors it just looks weird. Now I know how they make those Simpsons screen grabs. It's easy with Illustrator. But I still have a lot to learn about this program.
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I'm glad LJ is back now. I came on to make a post last night and the whole place had crashed. I was to tired to feel anything so I went to bed. I wanted to say a big Thank You to taken_by_wayne. I went to get my mail yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to find a birthday gift in there. I love the card and the sweet little SpongeBob you got me. Thanks so much. Have a look.



I was also talking to silvolf when I got it so I took a pic in front of my computer.

A few days ago DeviantArt changed their layout again and I found it funny how many people on my friends list here were upset about it. I don't blame them. There was no need to change. It does look ugly. I say there was no need to change the time before. I still haven't forgiven them for that one. But I wasn't upset this time since I'm not there anymore. I've locked down most of my pics. Only have the Thag folder to go still. I've been procrastinating but I'll finish that by the end of the month. Then they can send the place to Hell for all I care. I just feel sorry for the people putting up with all that stupidity there. One thing I don't like and again they don't give the user enough options is now when you get notified of a new upload you get a preview window. It's nice to see a preview without going to the image but what if one of your friends post something you DON'T want to see? Then I'd have seen it and would have been annoyed. I prefered text because the few people I watch are good and put warnings in their titles. That does no good if the image is already open. DA you suck.

Speaking of changed forced upon you, Yahoo has gone and done the same thing. I knew about it because I got an email saying they'd be changing stuff on the My Yahoo page which is my homepage when I open the computer. Well they changed it and it's aweful and I'll never forgive them for fixing what wasn't broke. The extras are all unnecesary and infuriating. Since I DO actually care about yahoo I now have to yell at them in an email. The worst thing is that they think no one uses 800x600. Well guess what? We do! Now I have to scroll left and right if I want to see what's on the right. I hate scrolling left and right! Ok no other sites I go to better be "upgrading". I still have to send my angry letter to Youtube. They "upgrade" too much and I hate the subscriptions page updates. After watching a video it shouldn't come back and I keep finding stuff added from 4 weeks ago. AAARRGGG!!! Can't anyone do anything right??

But I've been having a good time despite minor internet annoyances. The garden is doing pretty good. Lots of stuff is coming up in my other veggie bed. My luffa plants are really taking off. I think my ball luffas will be getting new flowers even if they are just male flowers. Anyway I was going to share those cactus pictures.



Here's the cute tiny one I call a cucumber cactus. It's only like three inches tall. I'm putting the rest behind a cut.

( Three more cactus pics )

Now about the RP I'm in that I'm quite excited about. Well before that let me talk about my RPing style and what I expect. I'm good at multi-tasking but when I'm RPing with someone I don't surf around, I don't chat with other people and the game has my full attention. I don't play with just anyone and when I play I think it's one of the few times my feeling side is on. I get into character or characters and enjoy feeling what they do as the story unfolds. Well this is why I don't like other chats interupting me as it ruins the mood. When I RP I kind of get tunnel vision and really visualize what's going on. I'm also usually listening to music that's appropriate for the part I'm playing. When I respond I try to write as though I were typing a novel with descriptions to make the person really feel the act is real. I also try to respond in a timely manner so I don't make the person wait. Now I understand about needing time to think. I think a lot after all and what probably takes me the longest is reading. I'm a slow reader and some times I read things twice to not miss anything and really feel what was said. I also think I'm very patient but when responses take more than five minutes or two four minute songs go by that bugs me. Because then my mind starts to wander. I start to notice my surroundings and I lose the feel. Not being a feeling type it's hard to get back into the feel if I lose it. Since I play on aim another thing that is a placebo for me is seeing the other person typing. It says in their chat box "so and so is typing or entering text". That pacifies me too as I know something is happening. This is how I play out of respect and what I expect in return.

Now not everyone does this and I've rarely encountered it because I'm extremely selective of who I'll RP with. Main criteria is they have to be good writers. That and not freak out if I move their characters around. I don't mind it done to me so long as its within character. Some of the fun of it is the unpredictability. Although I love to brain storm before starting and then do a debriefing afterwards. So anyway I've been playing with thecrazyfox and I've been using Prof. Cope and most likely Owen will be thrown in the mix. She has a scientist character too named Wissen Fluss that is quite enjoyable to pit Cope against. Wissen's an INTJ so I could understand him on way too many levels. I also love how CrazyFox writes and it's such a welcome treat after settling for my previous RP partner who was less than ideal. I've ranted about her before so if you're interested just check the tags...provided I've kept them up to date.

So far we've done two chapters and I think I'll eventually take out the OOC stuff and spelling errors and write it up as a novel once it's done. If you don't mind I might post the chapters here for my friends to read depending on how it turns out. Would the rest of you be interested in reading something like that? Well you know I'm really into something when I'm thinking of drawing scenes from it. The other night I was contemplating if I should. I have finally decided to do so. That's a big thing because drawing takes a lot of effort for me and I don't just draw stuff for anyone. But I still need to think of what scenes to draw. I hope I can pull it off. Basically the story is the same for poor Cope. Wissen is a lot like Owen and Cope doesn't seen to know how to pick good bosses to work for. Poor guy. Plus I'm enjoying playing an INTP.
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Chris got his optical mouse yesterday. I'm so glad. He really needed an upgrade for the longest time. We got a lot accomplished. The major thing was cleaning the patio which was a mess. I hosed everything down and it's nice now. The trick is not letting it get bad and staying on top of it once a week. But with our track record that probably won't happen.

In the evening we got some pumpkins planted. I planted two Seminole Pumpkins and two pie pumpkins. The seminole pumpkins should do well since they are designed for our heat and humidity. I hope the pie pumpkins will be ok. I still have to plant two baseball pumpkins. I don't remember if I mentioned this but we also built our second raised bed a few days ago. I can't wait to put stuff in it but first we have to fill it with soil I'm hoping that Home Depot still has those awesome cheap bags, but it's likely that was a spring sale thing.

I've come to the conclusion that the personality type combination NF is very unstable and the most annoying for NTs to deal with. I used to think that SF was the worst but I was wrong. I have several SF friends and though they get a little down and over emotional at times they don't fly off the handle and come up with completely erroneous ideas. And of NFs the NFP's are the worst. You guys know how I love to trample all over the stupidity and whinniness of Ill. She's INFP. She's probably the first NF I ran into and now I see the pattern and why I do not get along with this type with only one exception. The thing is NFs love having choices and want to see things from different angles. Which translates to seeing things that aren't there or even wanting to see something that isn't there. Problem is a lot of times things are quite simple. It's right or wrong. Or there are many choices but only one right one. All the rest are wrong bad choices. They are idealistic fools dreaming of how things should be then getting emotionally shattered when the big bad world smacks them in the face with reality. Then they break down completely and need to be told they are special when they aren't. They are just average joes like the majority of society. And even if you tell them they are they will crave more and more. You know this almost sounds like some of those stupid women I was ranting about in the previous posts that keep taking abuse. I only have sympathy once. When the answer is presented and people don't act on it but choose to keep wallowing in self pitty or wishing the world were something else is when I change from supportive to attacking. And the wonderful thing is once that point is reached I enjoy it so darn much I never let it go or let them live it down. And I know it will haunt them the rest of their lives. Again I'm going by the way I've handled stupid Ill. Yes I'm still reverling in that victory. I always will. Now NFJs are a bit more stable than NFPs. I have more respect for them, but then Chris pointed out that because of the J they just come to the wrong conclusions quicker. I'd never thought of that and it really made me laugh. My mother I've finally figured out is ENFJ. Very smart but horrible wrong conclusions. We could not get along and well after that letter I sent her I think she finally got slapped in the face with reality and her world is now completely shattered. Real stupid. Really really stupid. There's a silly INFP on one of Chris's videos that made a stupid post. I must go cursh her now as that would be too much fun to watch her fall apart. Eh, the N without the balance of the T just doesn't work. The F will just lead it completely astray.

Seems there's a new type of troll on DA, but this I really don't mind or care. I find it amusing how everyone else is reacting though. I had someone leave a comment saying something like, "I LOVE your work. Thanks for sharing." Of which I quickly responded with a "no prob." I went to look at their page and saw people commenting that she was trolling because she was leaving the same comment on everyone and was going through all the names alphabetically. I looked at the activity and it's true. Well you know what? WHO CARES!! I like the compliment, she's not hurting anyone and since she's a no body to me I don't care. People need to quit freaking out over trivialities. Why should I get all bent out of shape over a meaningless post. Should I feel victimized because the words carried no truth? No of course not. 90% of stuff online is meaningless and empty anyway. People are so stupid.

Well I had four hornworm caterpillars but one was killed and eaten by one of my unknown browns. That annoyed me since the hornworms are my favorites. Three of the four browns have pupated so they better turn into something worth while. And of the three swallowtails well one ran away and the two remaining have pupated. They've turned into neat little crysallis that look like wood. I'll take pics and put them up soon. I'm also going to put up some videos of my garden's progress soon too.

Oh gosh it's really hot right now and our airconditioning isn't working right. It won't cool enough. It used to but now it's broken. We can't aford to fix it just yet. Luckily I'm very heat tolerant but man this won't be easy. We found a cool pink drink yesterday!!



It's by Sobe and it's a strawberry daiquiri. It's really sweet, good but not a thirst quencher. Like cream sodas I think of this as a desert drink. But I love the pink so I had to try it. There are a few of these neat colors actually I hope to try them all.
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I've been wanting to rant about this for a long time now and I'm at the boiling point now. You know something that really pisses me off? Stupid women with no self-esteem and self respect. These are women that think so low of themselves that they'll get the bottom of the barrel guy to be with. The jerk will go on to abuse (mentally and/or physicaly), take advantage of them, cheat on them the whole nine yards. Sometimes even kill them. A lot of the time these women are totally aware of the assholes they are with and what they do. And even though these low lifes deserve a bullet between the eyes the woman will STAY with them. Why? Because she "loves" him. It doesn't matter if he doesn't love her back. It's "all she's got". Or, it's all "she deserves". She thinks she can't do better and if he leaves her she'll die. Freaking mental disorder and stupidity is that!! In a way I can see why the guy abuses them. Hell I feel like slapping them around and yelling at them to grow a spine and not be so dense. Of which they'd respond, "You're right. I'm sorry I deserved that." GGGRAAAA!!! You can't help them. It doesn't matter what you do or say. It doesn't matter how right you are because they know it but they refuse to help themselves. It infuriates me so much. Their guy getting run over by a truck would be the best thing that could ever happen to them.

I've dealt with a few of these. I teminated the friendship with one because she was a lost cause. She couldn't understand why guys she went out with only thought of her as their "Little F$%^k buddy." GEEEE I wonder why? Perhaps because you make yourself nothing but a tool. You're not a woman but merely an object to be used. I have a friend that knows someone like this too and I feel sorry for her as she can't help her either. Yes they can do better. Yes there are tons more guys out there. My gosh, have some self respect!! I can't imagine being that low. I'm not a feminist. Certianly not one of those extreme feminazis, but I think these women could REALLY do with a little injection of feminism. Please someone give it to them!!

So to all those sad women out there I leave you with one of my favorite Batman cartoons Harley and Ivy I'm putting it behind a cut because it's long and in three parts. And to all my friends if you haven't seen this ep DO watch it. It's a great episode. One of the best from the 90s cartoon.

( Harley and Ivy )

Of all the females in the Batman series I think I'm most like Poison Ivy especially in this series. Ivy is little and people think she's weak and a push over. But she's very strong and can take care of herself. She doesn't need anyone and her innocent looks conceal a confident and dangerous personality if you get on her bad side. Sound familiar? Who'd have thought someone that cute and little could be so deadly? Gotta love it.
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The garden is really coming along. The tomato plants are getting taller and bushier. They are finally starting to get flower buds developing. And I'm in love with the backyard neighbor's Mimosa tree. Since it's in bloom right now I REALLY hope that will draw in the hummingbirds. I'm glad so many of its branches over hang on my property. Funny that by law anything over hanging like that is mine. If I didn't like the tree I could chop them to the property like. Luckily I do, but it's one of those things that I like knowing I have the power though I may never use it. I can also legally own an alligator because I have a state liscense to possess non-venemous reptiles. That gives me the right to buy one. Hehe of course I won't nor have any interest do so. I just love the knowledge that I COULD if I wanted to. I like that type of power. Bragging right is all it is. Like the baseball player Dizzy Dean said, "It's not bragging if you can do it." One of my favorite quotes. And one that Owen also takes to heart.

Randy's parents visited him today. I thought he might like the company of some other birds since Gaus died and he's been acting weird. So I put Abigail and Cinnamon Bun in his cage for the day. Randy was pissed!! He bit Abigail in the tail. He didn't like having his parents over. But I enjoyed having Cinnamon Bun in the house again. He's extremely sweet and cute. I put them back outside this evening and Randy's still having a hissy fit. Oh well, so that idea didn't go over so well. Poor Randy.

Well I want to talk about the subject of my post now. I've been doing searches for different trees. It started with the Mimosa and then a buddy of mine mentioned the Royal Poinceana and I looked that up as well. Well doing so I've realized a trend lately that you never saw in the 90s. For one almost always the first hit you get is stupid Wikipedia. I refuse to use Wikipedia as a source for anything! They should be destroyed as they carry nothing but misinformation. What kind of idiot puts up an encyclopedia that any dip snit can "edit". So much for presenting just the facts. So once you get past all the wikipedia crud you get web pages from universities that are sterile, boring to look at and don't really have the specific information you want, let alone pictures.

My point is, what happened to the personal web pages of the 90s? Does anyone even remember when you went on line back then and you searched and turned up actual pages, with nice images and useful information writen by everyday joes? Doesn't anyone make personal webpages anymore about anything interesting like botony or biology? As much as I love Live Journal I do blame all these online journals for the Death of the Personal Web Page. No one has to know html anymore. You just lazily pick out a layout you like and then type into a box about anything you want. It doesn't get anymore brainless than that anymore. Forget making html pages with pictures and info and uploading and fiddling around with ftp. It's really really sad and a big shame that the internet has come to this. In fact I've learned that to even find these types of sites, (they do still exist but are darn tricky to find), you can't do a regular search anymore. I'm a supporter of yahoo and I'll use that over google anyday. I'll break down and use google for a search once in a while if I'm desperate and yahoo has failed me. But that's a rant for another day. Well both have pretty much failed in this regard. The secret is now to do a google image search and that's where personal websites turn up. So it's come down to doing an image search for websites instead of a website search. *shakes head* Very sad indeed, but it does work.

I must admit I have been very bad about updating my own website ever since I got this journal. I've kind of fallen into that fray as well but I WILL update it soon. At least I HAVE a real website. I actually have to make lots of gallery pages since I'm reworking my gallery so I'll show up more on...sigh Google Image Search. Because people don't have personal pages anymore you also don't see webrings, web awards (although those were pretty useless but they were nice) or link exchanges anymore. I remember the days of getting emails saying, "Nice website. Please put my banner in your links and I'll do the same with yours." That's how people got exposure back then. So yeah, that's the type of nostalgia I was feeling today.

Chris and I have started watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 again. This will be my third time watching that series. It is my favorite of all the Star Treks. My favorite character is Odo. I took a shine to him from the first time I ever started watching the show. Never ever have I related to a single character so much before. Basically Odo is me. I know lots of people say that about characters but I mean it!! Every single episode he does or says stuff that I've done and said. In fact I'm going to make a list of all the stuff this time around. Now that I've been into this Myers Briggs thing for about six months I love to compare the characters with it. All the websites list Odo as ISTJ. I was talking with Chris about this and asked him what he thought. If Odo is so much like me why is he listed as ISTJ? I asked Chris what he though and he think it's a mistake and Odo should be INTJ. But then I've been doing reading and digging into ISTJs especially since my Solan is one. Seems both profiles of INTJ and ISTJ fit Odo which makes it very confusing and hard to pin him down. I know why most people would instantly peg him as ISTJ. The constant rule quoting, he's basically a policeman, the neatness and punctuality. But is it possible that he's been typed wrong since often times INTJs come off as ISTJs we even test wrong that way sometimes because we confuse N vs S questions as feeling vs thinking? I don't know but I think reading, comparing contrasting and then making that list of points of why he is me for each ep will in the end help me answer that question in regard to him at least. The fact he doesn't have a sense of smell (another characteristic we share), doesn't care for colors or sense of touch or much sensory imput, he doesn't eat tells me he's not an S. What was really interesting was back when I was watching TNG and hadn't even SEEN any DS9 eps I took a Star Trek Quiz. I was hoping to get Picard and I got Odo. I knew nothing about him and Chris instantly said it was right. I've taken that quiz three other times and I always get him so I think it's a pretty accurate quiz. But that was years ago and now I can't find it.
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Spring is definitely here. You know it when all the neighbors start mowing their lawns. Gosh I hate lawn mowers. I never liked them but recently I'm really starting to hate them and the idea of having a lawn. One thing I forgot that I don't like about them is the noise pollution. Most neighbors start mowing early in the morning when I'm trying to sleep. That's the worst. The others just have bad timing. I was trying to film a video outside and had to wait for one of them to finish. I really want to kill all our grass. I don't want to have to mow anything. A gas powered vehicle has no place in my backyard or garden. Gas is too expensive to be wasting it on a luxury item like a lawn anyway. At least in your car you get somewhere. On the mower you ride in circles going nowhere. Save that money for your car I say, you'll need it. And the noise!! Did I mention the noise noise noise noise!! Do I sound like the Grinch yet? Perhaps I should borrow a lawn mower and drive it around at 3AM when THEY are sleeping and see how they like it.

A few weeks ago I noticed they put up a barbed wire fence around the field. On the very far end they've been ripping it up to put up a new mini-mall of some sort. It sucks. I wish they'd just leave it be a natural feild but you know how it is. Anything nice will be plowed over to become a mini-mall or subdivision. As for the fence I thought it was because our neighbor Mac kept going in there. Hehe, I don't know why he went in there so much but I don't think it hurts anything. I've gone in there a few times myself to release birds. Well two days ago I found out it wasn't to keep people out. I saw a black cow walking around. YES!! That's a good sign because as long as that is a farm they can't build over it! There are several cows out there now. I'm so happy about that. It's nice to hear cows mooing at night now. The fence is to keep the cows in. I heard before we moved here that used to be a massive dairy farm and so huge that everyone would complain about the smell for miles around. I can't imagine that. I don't know why they got rid of the cows and I'm sure the new herd is nothing compared to what it was from what I've heard. Haha, if that's true I'm sure some people are pissed right now. I'm loving it. More cows please. I'd love to meet the farmer. Perhaps I could tie a ribbon on a cow and tell him to write me a letter. Hehe. I want to feed them carrots.

And I think I mentioned it before but it's baby crane season!! I had never seen a baby Sandhill Crane until I moved here. I've been seeing a few since we've been driving around the country roads and fields. I was thrilled to see some parents in the near by cow field. This is so great! I love this area and I really hope it doesn't get anymore developed. I moved out there to get away from the city. And our side neighbors are still stupid. I love that by just going out there I can make them run indoors. Their kids could be playing and if I walk out it's, "Let's go inside." I wonder why they are so afraid of me? Well it's better to be feared than loved.

Chris has been working on the shelves. They are almost finished. We had to find the studs in the walls because they were too heavy before. And instead of using just L brackets Chris got those long metal things for closets to give them more support. I'll take pics once he's done with it. As for my project it's kind of stuck. Raised beds are supposed to be super easy to build. But my circular saw is too small to cut through one inch wood. DARN! I'm hoping the Jig Saw will work but it has an old blade. I should replace it. I should get my tomatoes tomorrow so I feel rather rushed on all this. I also found out the Round Up takes between one to two weeks to kill grass. D'OH I don't have that long to wait! This is definitely not good. I'm way behind schedule.

Oh and back to the cranes. I found out a baby Crane is called a Colt. I didn't know that. So it's the same as a horse. Baby cranes are so small and fuzzy. They are a rusty color and so darn cute. I wish I could just touch one and hug it. Must be all warm and snuggly.

On the video game front I'm very excited about the new Mafia II game coming out. I saw a video for it and I really want it. Actually here's the trailer I saw for it. I love the lead gangster's philosophy.



So I'm looking forward to this. Well with the changes Youtube has been making to their site they did make one blunder that can be used to our advantage and that is the rating's system. I have found a neat way to abuse it. Any jerk can come in and screw up your prefect ratings out of spite. One did so to Chris and we banned him. We never cared much about ratings but cheating this way is fun. Here's what you do. You load your new video. Once it's up get your friends or you extra accounts to give you the rating you want. Five starts of course. Once that happens turn off the rating feature. Your stars won't disappear and they will stay up but no one else will be able to add anything else. Tada! Perfect scores all across the board and nothing anyone can do about it. Haha, before if you closed ratings all would disappear. Not anymore. Woopse. I wonder how long it will take them to realize this has happened? For now enjoy it.

Lastly back to video games. I've been watching the Stupid Mario Bros episodes and noticed that in one of the Eps they were making fun of Luigi's Mansion. I don't know why so many people hate that game. I think it's way better than most of the regular Mario games out there. It's nice to not be mindlessly smashing your head for mushrooms or stepping on poor little turtles. But I think there are two reason why people say it isn't good. It's not that it's not a good game. It's because it's not a MARIO game. Mario is trapped and helpless and you as Luigi have to rescue him. Sorry but that doesn't set well with the Mario fanatics. They have become accustomed to Mario being the only hero and the one doing the rescuing. Mario as the victim is blasphemy and no less caught by a mere BooBuddy. Not even Bowser himself trapped him. And to make the hero his second rate brother? I think a lot of people had a hard time with that. Well I always thought Luigi was under rated and better than fat Mario anyway. I'm glad.

The second reason is because Mario fans as I breifly mentioned like easy brainless games. In Luigi's Mansion you actually had to think and figure out puzzles. That's too hard for most side scroller fans to sit through so they chuck it all down to it being a crappy game. So I'm sure the game is fine. It's just the fans that are too stupid and set in their ways to see that.
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Gosh I had some funny dreams last night that I posted over on thagirion. I got an email last night that my extra user pics would expire in four days on my Sorath account. I forgot it wasn't included in the renewal price. Sigh. It used to be only five dollars extra to add on. I found out this morning they want ten bucks. I can't aford that right now. I've only used 13 of the 30 for a standard paid account. I'd love to have 100 spaces but I don't see uploading too many more too that account. So for now I guess I'll let it expire. It's too bad the prices have gone up.

I also found out there's a limit on how many friends you can have. At first this bugged me until I saw that for a free account it's 1000 and a paid account it's 2000. Sorry, no one has 1000 friends. Even in real life the largest human social network is 150 people. Any bigger than that and you can't count on others, keep track of them and it opens you up for backstabbing by people that aren't true members of your clan. I'm basing this on examples of ape communities but it holds true for humans as well. Beside how can one keep track of 1000 people posting every day and some of those might been annoying posters that post three times or more a day. I can't stand that! I seldom post twice and if I do, like might happen today, it's because I skipped a day and am catching up. But really it's best to just let the whole day pass then post a review of it instead of updating little paragraphs and pushing out more important posts in my friends list. Grrr. But yeah 1000 friends is more than enough on LJ. I don't consider that a limit.

One other feature I found that I wish I hadn't. You can view your friends' friends list. Not locked posts of course. That was a waste of my time and now I have to scrub my eyes out with soap because it wasn't just journals but communities and well some had gross naked pics. I closed my browser. Swell now I have to delete my cookies and lose all my log ins and urls in my browser. Grrrr.

So on to more fun stuff. I worked on the arbor yesterday. I have decided to go with the rungs on the inside. I like the idea of them being longer to have more room and possibly hang stuff. I would have taken those suggestions except that structurally it wasn't feasable. Since I glued and screwed two 1/2 inch pieces of plywood for my arch, drilling screws in from the top would have split the pieces and weakened my structure. Too bad but at least this way it will look cleaner. I have a few pics.



Here's the arch before I put it together. The two wood pieces there are what will hold them in place.



Here it is together. I've already added three rungs on one side. I'll take pics of that once I get done with it. So I need to cut and add four more rungs, paint it white, screw the arch to the sides and add the latice. I can't wait!! So close to being done.

I think my creativity is coming back. I had a funny dream, I've been building stuff again and I worked on my INTJ video last night. I got the dialog recorded. I had to make it two parts since it was about 20 minutes. I got the first half done as a video. I'll work on the second half today. Gosh it's getting harder and harder to find images to use. I had to resort to google which I'm not happy about since I wanted to use my own images. If this keeps up I'll have to go the lame way of one boring picture through the whole thing. I'm sure not done with the different topics I want to talk about. But once the second one is done I'll put up both parts: 2.1 and 2.2. This time I focused on the NT: Intuitive Thinking.
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I'm pissed right now. The computer is making me mad. I uninstalled Adobe CS3 because it was giving me fits. Well I just found out that somehow it must have uninstalled my driver for my scanner. Not again!! Of course it tells me to stick the CD in. Well I don't know where it is and even if I did know where it was it wouldn't work. This has happened before for no reason. The scanner worked fine then suddenly it decided the software on the CD was no good anymore. So now I'm scannerless. I found this out when I opened Photoshop to scan a sketch I'm working on. I want to blow stuff up right now. I hate it when these things happen when installing stuff shouldn't be so damn hard. Yes I downloaded the drivers from Epson. No that doesn't work either. Now I have to bug Alex again. He found the driver somewhere last time. I don't know how. But with this new drawing that's almost done I really need my scanner. As an artist I'm dead without it. Must get scanner working ASAP.

Well I WAS in a good mood. I've had a rather creative day other wise. But I'll get to that in a moment. I'm sick of the computer having problems of one sort or another. At least Alex found out why it kept shutting off. It wasn't over heating as everyone had suspected. I figured it couldn't be because it would turn off when I had just started it in the morning and it was still cool. Turns out the power supply was bad. Alex changed it out and he told me it was burned and had wires that were about to melt. Holy cow. So I at least am very happy to be able to listen to CDs and mp3s again in Media Player.

The day started with my Gouldian Finch getting out of his cage. I had left the door open and was thinking, "My finch is great. I leave the door open and he doesn't get out." I had to think that. The moment I did he got out. And what does every bird do that gets out? Why it goes into the macaw cage of course!! Yes let's all go into the worst possible place to land. Well with such a tiny bird I knew Daimon wouldn't catch him. So I kinda let it play out and wondered how long it would take for Daimon to realize it was pointless to try to eat this finch. I went to get the camera because the size difference between these two was just incredible. Of course the moment he saw the camera he forgot all about eating the finch and started hogging the spot light. Here's what I got.



I circled the finch in the lower left in case he's hard to find. Daimon was moving which is why he turned out blury.



And here's the finch being all cocky and cute. I unlike Daimon didn't have a hard time catching him. He was a handfed baby and I managed to grab him after a few tries.

Ok lastly I've started working on Owen's Character sheet. I've drawn four of his five poses. Check this out. I had to take a picture and it's hard to see because my SCANNER isn't working. Grrr. Anyway...



Click for full size. I only have to draw a complete back pose of which I'm thinking of cheating and only drawing his head and shoulders. Since the 3/4 back view you can see most of his back and I don't feel like redrawing it. I don't know. May-be I won't take the lazy way out. I'll also add a detailed shot of his helmet both wearing it and not. I'll also draw his sword. This should be a very nice reference sheet and it will be funny because he'll be narrating it himself. I hope you guys can take the over blown ego. He'll be so bad. Hehe gotta love Owen.

Edit: Silly me. This is why when I get angry (or any strong emotion. Happiness can screw you up too) I don't act right away. I forgot Chris bought a brand new scanner. It's an awesome one. So until I can get mine fixed I'll just scan stuff on his. I'll have to aim them to myself which will be the only annoying thing. So that's why the scan is nice. Well sorta. I need to learn how to use Chris's scanner. Hehe.
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I can't stop using this icon. I just love it.
Ok rant time about unreliable friends. I have a friend that's very unreliable and really pisses me off to no end. I don't know why I keep her around when I get more grief back than enjoyment. This girl has known me for years and she knows, as anyone that reads this does, that I HATE Deviant. I post my art here first usually a day before I post it there. I'd rather have comments here than there. So what does she do? She responds to my art only on there. She's there only to respond to me since she doesn't make art. But she also has an account here that she made just to respond to me. So I told her on AIM this was pissing me off . She said she would respond. Yeah fat chance. Sure enough two days later here she is without having said anything. It's not just responding but there are so many other things that she does like this that pisses me off. And her excuse that she was busy is a load of bull because the girl has no life. She lives in an apartment by herself that her parents paid for. She doesn't drive because she's too scared to. She dreams of doing fun and wonderful things but doesn't because she doesn't take charge of her life. She doesn't have a job and she no longer goes to school. She's either playing video games or on the computer. So busy? LIES! If her parents really wanted to help they wouldn't pay and force her to get a job doing anything to at least get started. That's pathetic for someone in their mid 20s. Gosh even I'm not that introverted, but then I'm not scared. I like meeting life head on. I'm so thankful I'm a fighter. People can be so stupid. I don't know why I keep her around. Really there must be a reason that will manifest in the furture but right now I'm not seeing it. This is yet another reason I should shut down my DA site. More on that later.

And since I'm slightly pissed it is now time for me to write that letter to Luis and send him a picture of my beautiful new loft and tell him how I did this without his help because his word and honor is worth squadoo. Since he's such a devout Christian I think I'll throw some Bible verses in his face. Nothing beats beating a Christian in the head with their own book. OY, but I need to find a Spanish Bible. That's gonna be hard.

Fred came over today. He needed his tools back. Darn. Well I thanked him for letting me use them. They were great. I miss them already. I really need tools of my own. Especially my own chop saw. I wonder if that cute little chop saw that was at Lowe's last month is still there? It was just the right size for me and good at eighty bucks.

I started working on my website today!! Gosh the poor thing's been neglected so long. I really want to redo the Thagirion and Owen sections. What I'm planning to do is set the Thagirion section up like a gallery similar to DA. Instead of having a long page with thirty thumbnails and descriptions on the side I think I want to make tables of five by six for the thumbnails. When people click them they are taken to a page that shows the drawing at a width of 300. The whole drawing is squished so even if it's big it loads. They have to click it to see the full size with the .jpg extension. I think doing it this way will help me get back into the google image search. Before on my old site I did it with the images on a webpage instead of just the image itself. I think because of the descriptions and the names on the html it helped to show up in search engines. The draw back is I have to make a ton more html pages, one for each drawing. I also want people to see my recent art first. Not my older bad art the way it's set up now.
Edit: Here is a preview of how the tables will look like. What do you think? Somehow I feel something is still missing but I don't know what. Advice would be appreciated this time.

I'm also fighting with tables. Holy cow I hate coding tables. I was working in Adobe Pagemill but some things it can't do. That's when I have to go into the source and type in the html myself. But if you do it in Pagemill it doesn't always work even if you save it. So I had to do it in the text source too. It took a combination of both text and Pagemill to get it right. I was trying to make two tables on top of each other and in the bottom two side by side to make it kind of look like the Deviant lay out but totally different color scheme. So this will be like my own private Deviant art without the annoyances. Just for me MY way. So that means I also have to reinstall FTP to upload all this stuff once I finish. It's going to be a lot of work.

Have a look at Owen's Page. Do you guys have any recommendations for a better lay out? Something less messy and easier to follow? I want to keep the history of it like that but I don't want it to be an exact copy of the gallery style layout I'm going to do for Thagirion. I've always made simple webpages that I'm not sure how to spruce this up.

Well tomorrow I get to put all the birds back out. This is the last cold night for a while. Tomorrow is also supposed to be the day I let my pigeons fly for their first time. But since they didn't get to be out for another day I may not do it. I may put it off until Saturday. It will depend on the weather and the wind really. Oh gosh, I'm always nervous on first flights. I've gone and done what I shouldn't. I've gotten REALLY attached to these babies. They are sweet, friendly and come up to me. I've never had such nice babies. Not even hand fed ones. So yes I'm scared to let them out into the harsh cruel world.

I may end up handfeeding babies again. With all the moving around I think Trubo and Gorda may have given up on their babies. I had to foster eggs out because of the move too. One pair quit sitting. Gosh I hope the eggs didn't get too cold. I don't know how long they were off them.
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I did so much to the loft. I can't believe it. I keep saying it's getting closer and closer but it never seems to get there. OY. Well we leveled the ground, dug holes and put the base in. It's now ready for cement. That is a major step. We found the paint from the last loft and had enough to paint this one with. Can you believe that two pints of paint have painted two lofts and I still have quite a bit left over? Check this out.



The only paint I had to buy was white and it's half gone and I've only used it for the inside. I must be more efficient with my color paint for some reason. I got some hinges so after I paint the landing board I'll try to attach it. I got a handle for the main door but forgot to get a locking latch. And I've finally decided I'm going to make the door hang down again for the aviary just like last time. I got the wire for that so I need to make a door for it. So here's what's left to go.

Cement base
Add perches
Add floor
Add landing board with hinges and latch
Wire aviary
Make door for aviary
Set loft on frame and anchor
Add main door
Add aviary
Add pigeons

ARG so close. I'm a bit nervous about the cement. This will be my first time mixing cement myself. But it should be fun too. I'm worried mostly about making it right because you don't want it too hard and you don't want it too runny. It has to be just right. Oh gosh and we have to trim all the branches off the oak trees.

OK let me rant about Oak trees. They are something I love and hate at the same time. I hate the three oak trees we have and I want them gone. I hate oak trees in subdivisions, parking lots and store lots. Why? Well the Oak is an over used landscaping tree and totally wrong for these "habitats". People buy these cute "little" oaks that are eight feet tall and so perfect for the small spot they put it in. But Oaks get HUGE!! No one seems to take that into account. In a subdivision when houses are inches apart from each other you can't have three oak trees that are going to get bigger than the houses on the property. The roots get everywhere, the branches damage the roof, they drop acorns, they release huge ammounts of pollen that even if you're not allergice like me they get all over your car, your yard and make everything yellow. They get too big. They can get sick from over crowding, fall on your house or your car especially in a hurricane and if place too close to sidewalks lift up the sidewalk with its roots. Did I mention they get too BIG? Oak trees are beautiful but they don't belong in subdivisions and mini malls. They belong in big open cow fields where they can get as big and beautiful as they want. They belong in their natural habitat not in a tiny backyard or front yard lot.

I got an early Christmas present today! Chris got me this cute blue bird off Ebay.



Finally after nearly ten years my collection is complete! He's still on the original card and I think I'll leave him like that. So now we have mom, dad and baby bluebirds. They are so darn cute and small. EEEEEE I love them!! Oh and I want to say a thanks to lizkay and suzidargonlady. I got your cards in the mail today. Suzi, I hadn't expect the funny little sketch you did of Sorath. Thanks. Now that I have your address you might get something from me sometime. And speaking of Ebay. I got one bid on my Kroenen auction. That means it will definitely sell. It ends tomorrow afternoon so I don't know if people will still fight it out or what. I'm very glad, but at the same time I'm dreading taking them to the post office. That's gonna suck. Definitely NOT looking forward to that. I would have rathered that my calendar sell. It ends tomorrow at the same time. If it doesn't sell this time I'm not going to relist it and I don't know what I'll do to sell the rest. It won't make as much as my Kroenen figures even if it had sold but the fact that I made it makes me want to see it sell more.

Edit: Thanks silvolf for letting me know the profiles work again on Youtube. So I have a temporary one back up until I can think of something more interesting to write. At least I got most of my interests and hobbies listed again.
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