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Hey folks, X-Mas has come and gone, as has New Years, and even the first bad Snow storm. Other than some unfortunate stuff that happened the week before X-Mas that got my whole fam down. We ended up having a good X-Mas (I say X-Mas because i don't want type Christmas). As always i don't know how but i made out like a bandit. The 'rents gave me an unexpected 20GB iPod, and i love it dearly. A DVD-Rom drive so ferro can give me anime, and i can finally play Myst 4...once i buy it. got a bunch of coveted DVDs. Of ocurse a bunch of fun smaller stuff also. Then later that day X-Mas continued at Cat's house. I had to quest for my gifts, she set up a fun treasure hunt, which was quite ingenius. All together her fam gave me Metroid Prime 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, taking care of my gaming needs. Cat also got me Upright Citizen's Brigade, and ATHF Vol.3, ain't she the awesome?

Let's see New Years was interesting. Went to Matty N's house for that got plenty drunk for a while. Ferro was late, as expected, and without any of the promised Jello shots. Cat left early for various reasons, so i bummed around played a bit of Halo 2 for the first time. Went home sober. Matt did not..get sober that is till after i left.

Let's see...hung out with Matt a lot so far this break, and his house has been host to many small get togethers recently. Got to see Zara on monday, it has been a long time since last I've seen her. And can i say i learned more about everyone that Monday night than i prolly needed to know, but was fun, lol.

And the last 3 days i've spent with by beloved Catherine. Big snow storm, she stayed over 2 nights in a row, it was fun for many reasons :wink: Amazingly we didn't drive each other totally crazy. We had a pillow fort and everything, watched some movies, we finally gout out of the house today and spent an amazingly long time at the mall shopping. Why even i bought some new clothes, although Cat bought much than me and didn't spend any actual money. Damn her gift cards! Oh yeah, also in a moment or rare bravery I ate a Wendy's Tripple Cheeseburger, thats right the whole thing, and had a small chili, bitches. Today I am slightly more manly because of it...or a few pounds heavier.

I was gonna comment on Penny Arcade a bit today, cause they totally bitch slapped syndicated newspaper comics. But tomorrow or next day I will chat about it. Laters

I win, I win, I don't lose, I win

It seems the war over me getting Hot Chocolate easily has been won...by me or just is in a stalemate. Two days in a row the Hot Chocolate machine that gave me trouble a while ago has worked properly. Its curious, makes me think its planning something, or maybe poison! But I digress.

I was looking around at some AnimeInfo sites, and my favorite composer has been doing some more recent stuff, shows I could have seen but just never decided to watch but now that I know Yoko Kanno has been doing the music for Wolf's Rain and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, I'll have to give them more serious watches. I mean she wouldn't do music for a bad anime...I don't believe it! Or if the shows are ass I'll prolly just download the music, cause well her music is the awesome.

Oh yeah I finished reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and that was thumping good read. I can't wait to see the movie version the cast looks awesome, if they can keep the same people playing the same roles for all the movies...well that'll be awesome. Thats all for me i'm off.

I know I've said it before

I've prolly said stuff like this thousands of times on here, but mad I'm so bad about updating. Plenty of stuff I wanna say, no time to say it, plus I swear whenever I do start a post, I end up clicking on a website to confirm some information and then bam it loads in the same window I was typing in and then everything I wrote is gone...you don't even know how much that has happened lately....really makes me mad.

Lately I've just been thinking I gotta make a new website, I need a new project really bad. To get me motavated about something again get the old designing juices flowing. Try out some new stuff, and put the old to the test. Please drop a comment if you have an idea for me just can't think of anything that I think would be a good idea. Maybe even some kind of group site, something I could make and bunch of us contribute to. Just something new and fun.I feel so worn out and dried up for ideas lately. Need something where people say "Hey mike is that done yet I can't wait till thats done". Cause I remember when the idea came to me for this design I had it ready to go in like 2 days total. Obviously I tweaked it from there. But still the site worked and i had it all done fast cause I was so primed about it.

Plans have started to form for a New Years Party at Matt's house. Catherine, Matt, and myself had a fun discussion about stuff to do, food we could make or get.

I've been redo-ing my room a bit thowing a lot of stuff out, retiring lots of figures, thining them out, keeping the new ones or just the extra nifty ones. Next step I might take down some posters, change up the rotation perhaps.

Lets see, I know I'm like the only who cares but they Dadedevil: Director's Cut finally came out after all these years. And it was good. I liked the original but felt it was missing something, this movie has what was missing, the drama, inparticular the dramatic pauses, and some actual lawyering going on that was ok, kinda funny in some parts. You see where it diverges from the theatrical release, and totally changes the story. This was going to be the original cut, but they thought it was too long or whatever. More DD, more Kingpin, and even a few cuss words. If this movie was released it would have done so much better, and rated R.

Work hasn't been that bad lately been jokin around with the guys more, work is actually tolerable at the moment. And we're so close to having the dipshit fired after all his screw-ups. Plus after a while of trying I finally got my co-worker Hino's website to work. He runs a nifty as heck anime site, where you can download episodes, and they come down pretty fast. I've started watchin this show called Samurai Shamploo from him, has the same kind of feel as Cowboy Bebop, same designers, director, and animation studio. But its set in feudal japan, and like Cowboy Bebop had a country/folk music that set the tone for the series, this has a more Hip-Hop/Techno style to its music which amazingly has fit well with the show. Also bought this Japanese movie "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman" whoich was also set in feudal Japan, was pretty bad ass.

So yeah um in recap I need to post more, I'm messin with my room, check out http://www.katn-anime.com for some cool anime, and samurai are cool.