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See you next week!

It's been a while.

Where to start..?  Um..  I beat Mario & Luigi (GBA) two nights ago.  I had been stuck on the final boss for a few months now.  I've had the game for over a year.  It's a good game, 'twas quite rewarding to have finally beat the game after all this time.

I set myself two goals before this Saturday.  1) Ding level 90 in PSO so I can access Ultimate.  2) Ding level 30 in FFXI so I can do the Dark Knight and Beastmaster quests (those ones specifically, but really I can unlock most any advance job now).  I hit level 90 in PSO with ease.  However, I've had a harder time hitting 30 in FFXI.  I am currently level 29 with less than half of the needed exp to go.  SO CLOSE!  I eventually gave up though, as there was no chance I was going to get an invite from any party in the area.  And now I'll have to wait a whole week just to get roughly two-thousand experience points!  Agh!!

I bought a copy of The Good Earth at Border's so I can do the second part of my summer assignment for Honors.  This part's due on the fifth.  I won't be back until the sixth or the seventh.  Whatever.  Ms. Szmiegil can't honestly expect people to be doing these assignments and turn them all in on time.  It's the freaking summer.  We're going to procrastinate, we're going to turn them in late.  We're not going to give a shit. 

AndrAIa's been acting up a bit as of late.  I can't run installshield installation programs anymore.  At least, not on my user.  I can do so just fine from the administrator account. o_O Things seem a bit slower overall, and blackbox hangs on shutdown.  As far as I can tell, however, this only happens when I play FFXI on my computer.  After I force-close blackbox, I have to force-close PlayOnline (after I already closed it before hand).  This abnormal behavior of POL and FFXI can be attributed to the windower I use.  FFXI doesn't natively allow one to play in windowed mode, so I downloaded a program (recommended by Tim) that allows me to play with FFXI in a window so I can still chat on AIM or look stuff up.  Funny thing is, the windower causes no problems on Brian's machine. o_O

I think I may have to wipe AndrAIa clean...  I'm not looking forward to that...  All the backup...  At least I have another partition to put things on AND my external harddrive (which still has >50% disk space free).  I've been kinda worried about her lately, though.  You know how during the summer, temperatures rise?  Well, it's not uncommon to see her running at 120 degrees Fahrenheit.  Infact, the only time I've seen her running lower is when I had the air conditioning on in our room piping cool air into the office when it was already somewhat cool out.  Mom said to turn off the air conditioner, though, as it was apparently "too cold" outside for it to be running.  I saw AndrAIa's temperature readout shoot from 108 to 120. :cry::cry:

I've been getting about one shift a week at work.  Last summer I was averaging two or three shifts a week.  But now, all the shifts are g oing to the newbies (understandable, i guess) as well as the rehires.  People are getting rehired at their old wage, in their old position, and getting MORE HOURS than I'm getting!  WTF ::kicks a wall::

Oh.  I'm going on vacation tomorrow.  Mackinac Island.  Going with Dad, Pia, Brian, David, and Ali (how DO you spell her name?).  A week.  Away from home.  Usually I look forward to vacations...  But right now... not so much...  I dunno why.  There's nothing really.. going on around here.  Heh, unlike last time we went up north.  The whole Jason-Heather thing...  Whoo, glad that's over with.

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Anyway..

I wanna get back on FFXI to see if there are any parties willing to accept a lvl 29WAR/MNK in lvl 17WAR gear for just one more level, but I feel as if my endeavor would just be in vain.

I've started playing Final Fantasy 2 on the GBA compilation Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls and it's pretty cool.  I wanna bring the PS2 up with us so I can play Final Fantasy 4, but I seem to have left ALL PS2 discs at Mom's.  (FFXI doesn't require any discs, harddrive for the win).  Oh well...  Brian seems to recall them having a TV last time we were there...  Maybe we could bring the PS2 to watch some DVDs or something.  I dunno.  I also wanna play Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but there's only two saves on the cartdridge and they're both taken by Brian and David.  David just started playing the game again after I kept bothering him about not playing it...  I doubt we'll have time to hit up an EBGames or something on the way Up North.  (And I seriously doubt any of the local ones will be open at 9AM, when we leave)

I'm don't have a Final Fantasy fetish, I swear.

Shelby's birthday party was last Saturday.  It was pretty cool.  I didn't go swimming, though I brought all the required gear.  Near the end of the night, most everyone partook in a game of Apples to Apples.  It was quite fun.  Basically a card is pulled from the green card stack and layed down in a place where everyone can see it.  Then, everyone else (everyone but the person who layed the green card) looks at their hand of red cards and tries to find a card that most fits the description on the green card.  The person who layed the green card then flips over all the red cards and chooses the one they agree with most.  They then give the green card to the person that layed the winning red card.  Next person in line lays a green card.  Rinse and repeat.  To spice things up, there were cards that had people (people at the party) and descriptions or phrases that described them.  Most were red, some were green. o_O

It seems I kept to myself most of the night until Catherine showed up.  We mostly talked geek/nerd stuff <_<

Well, I'm out, gotta shower and pack for tomorrow...