Miscellany
Jul. 7th, 2008 02:51 pm
- One-day AX turned out to work pretty well. Enough time to do what we wanted, not so much that it was exhausting. I got three commissions (two of them completed) and all the FF4 figures except Cecil. And a bonus Rydia if anyone wants. Also got Vaan, Ashe and Penelo from the new lines of teeny FF figures (in hopes it would spur me to go back to FF12), though I'm irked at their selection - some FF12, some FF7, some FF8, one of Yuna, but no Turks and no FF6 or FF9. AND the only Balthier is in the Tactics-for-PSP figure set.
- I didn't see very much to make me feel like I'm as wildly out of touch with anime/gaming as I actually am. Lots of Trigun, FF7:AC, and Haruhi merchandise. I remember buying that cellphone strap because I was all thrilled to see Haruhi stuff, and now I can buy figures of the entire female cast as catgirls or maids or nurses or what have you. Yay?
- I haven't actually been playing the games I was playing last time I posted about any of them - FF6 and FF12 are both at points where I need to grind levels, and for some reason I'd rather grind levels in a game I share with people who name themselves things like "Sharingon" or "Restodude." I know it defies all logic! Believe me, I'm puzzled too!
- For Merc and Justin - AX-in-LA actually didn't fail at all that I could see, except that the ball-jointed doll fandom is starting to make a showing. Not as bad as at ACen, but worse than last year... but that's not the con staff's fault. They were being a bit zealous about crowd control, which meant kind of a hike to Artist's Alley, but the security guards weren't evil, there were virtually no lines, there was reasonably-priced food, and reportedly the AMV competition went well though I wasn't there for it. Traffic to the con area wasn't even bad, though our one day was on the fourth. I gather lodging sucked if you came from out of town, but we just drove in. Want to come next year and, uh, sleep on our floor? We'll vacuum! My cat is mostly sane most of the time now!
- The Antique Bakery anime exists now, and I think it's on a computer in the house, but I have no idea how I'm going to view it short of hijacking Will's computer since something changed about the home network thing a while back. Which sucks, because I know Will doesn't want it on his computer, and I *do* want it on mine.
- Went and cashed in a bunch of Barnes & Noble gift cards weekend before last, so now I'm rereading A Game of Thrones and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle at the same time, along with Georgette Heyer novels. Brains are for breaking, y'all. (I actually already owned Wind-up Bird Chronicle, but my old copy of Game of Thrones has been missing for a while - I think I loaned it to my brother before we both moved. Now I can reread the whole series.)
- Speaking of my brother, he's staying in Japan (his previous job contract was ending this summer) and has a job with a video game company. I have no idea what kind of video games, sadly. Mom is eagerly anticipating smiting her classmates in her next Japanese course with this news.
- And yeah, my mom is taking Japanese - at this rate she'll be the only one able to communicate with my brother's girlfriend should he marry her. My sister, meanwhile, tried to turn the poor girl's name into "Tamago."
- Cupcaaaaaaaaaaakes. THIS is what I meant about food porn, for those of you who got all weird about it when I described Antique Bakery as such. Cupcaaaaaaaaakes.
- Feral druid gear guides, for teh boyfriend.
- Some time ago, I uncovered a CD from the distant past. Now I know why I was so convinced Warcraft II had no women in it - apparently I never played it and instead played the first one.
- Merc, you need to read Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters trilogy. One of the protagonists has superpowers based on math. Okay, not your kind of math, it's probably understandable by mortals (though most of it not by me as I majored in English - she starts talking about base 60 and I whimper and skim that paragraph), but still, she likes numbers and stuff. Also you've probably never been in Oklahoma so the inaccuracies of setting won't bug you.
- Minor redecoration of living room is in progress. I had to move the coffee table to remove the rug from underneath it, but first I had to move the junk-buttresses constructed around it. These included: A bike helmet, a Trader Joe's bag full of folded jeans for some reason, a Right Stuf box containing what might be an old router and nothing else, a bunch of teh boyfriend's dirty clothes, a big plastic crate containing a binder (tabletop gaming stuff, I think) and an unopened box of Japanese kleenex, a pair of house slippers that seem to be beavers or something (Caltech thing?) and a toilet repair kit. It's not so much that we're slobs, although we are, all three of us - it's that we're very strange slobs.
- I didn't see very much to make me feel like I'm as wildly out of touch with anime/gaming as I actually am. Lots of Trigun, FF7:AC, and Haruhi merchandise. I remember buying that cellphone strap because I was all thrilled to see Haruhi stuff, and now I can buy figures of the entire female cast as catgirls or maids or nurses or what have you. Yay?
- I haven't actually been playing the games I was playing last time I posted about any of them - FF6 and FF12 are both at points where I need to grind levels, and for some reason I'd rather grind levels in a game I share with people who name themselves things like "Sharingon" or "Restodude." I know it defies all logic! Believe me, I'm puzzled too!
- For Merc and Justin - AX-in-LA actually didn't fail at all that I could see, except that the ball-jointed doll fandom is starting to make a showing. Not as bad as at ACen, but worse than last year... but that's not the con staff's fault. They were being a bit zealous about crowd control, which meant kind of a hike to Artist's Alley, but the security guards weren't evil, there were virtually no lines, there was reasonably-priced food, and reportedly the AMV competition went well though I wasn't there for it. Traffic to the con area wasn't even bad, though our one day was on the fourth. I gather lodging sucked if you came from out of town, but we just drove in. Want to come next year and, uh, sleep on our floor? We'll vacuum! My cat is mostly sane most of the time now!
- The Antique Bakery anime exists now, and I think it's on a computer in the house, but I have no idea how I'm going to view it short of hijacking Will's computer since something changed about the home network thing a while back. Which sucks, because I know Will doesn't want it on his computer, and I *do* want it on mine.
- Went and cashed in a bunch of Barnes & Noble gift cards weekend before last, so now I'm rereading A Game of Thrones and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle at the same time, along with Georgette Heyer novels. Brains are for breaking, y'all. (I actually already owned Wind-up Bird Chronicle, but my old copy of Game of Thrones has been missing for a while - I think I loaned it to my brother before we both moved. Now I can reread the whole series.)
- Speaking of my brother, he's staying in Japan (his previous job contract was ending this summer) and has a job with a video game company. I have no idea what kind of video games, sadly. Mom is eagerly anticipating smiting her classmates in her next Japanese course with this news.
- And yeah, my mom is taking Japanese - at this rate she'll be the only one able to communicate with my brother's girlfriend should he marry her. My sister, meanwhile, tried to turn the poor girl's name into "Tamago."
- Cupcaaaaaaaaaaakes. THIS is what I meant about food porn, for those of you who got all weird about it when I described Antique Bakery as such. Cupcaaaaaaaaakes.
- Feral druid gear guides, for teh boyfriend.
- Some time ago, I uncovered a CD from the distant past. Now I know why I was so convinced Warcraft II had no women in it - apparently I never played it and instead played the first one.
- Merc, you need to read Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters trilogy. One of the protagonists has superpowers based on math. Okay, not your kind of math, it's probably understandable by mortals (though most of it not by me as I majored in English - she starts talking about base 60 and I whimper and skim that paragraph), but still, she likes numbers and stuff. Also you've probably never been in Oklahoma so the inaccuracies of setting won't bug you.
- Minor redecoration of living room is in progress. I had to move the coffee table to remove the rug from underneath it, but first I had to move the junk-buttresses constructed around it. These included: A bike helmet, a Trader Joe's bag full of folded jeans for some reason, a Right Stuf box containing what might be an old router and nothing else, a bunch of teh boyfriend's dirty clothes, a big plastic crate containing a binder (tabletop gaming stuff, I think) and an unopened box of Japanese kleenex, a pair of house slippers that seem to be beavers or something (Caltech thing?) and a toilet repair kit. It's not so much that we're slobs, although we are, all three of us - it's that we're very strange slobs.
