It's been awhile since I've posted here but it's for good reason. I got a job at Turbine Games. For now it's just QA and they say "Temp" but they have a good rep for keeping their Temps and hiring them full time. Besides they have an entry-level animation position open. I just need to find the time to make a 3D animation demo reel. I'm still working at Zales just in case the temp thing does turn out to be temp so I do work a lot of hours but I like working at Turbine so it doesn't bother me much. But Oh the drama at Zales is endless.

     I'll keep it short. First they made everyone in the company go to a 9 hour meeting. It was pointless; I was pissed and wrote a really nasty comment on the survey afterwards. The district manager was pissed but I had no intention to apologize; especially after she tried to give me the "When you get out in the real world..." speech. Oh I hate that so much. I cut her off right there and told her not to patronize me. She said I had no real retail experience. She said my 8 years managing a toy store didn’t count because I didn't have a sale goal. She's full of shit. Besides she became District manager and she has never been in the jewelry business. So isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black. They wonder where all this negativity comes from. I hear nothing but shit and unhappiness from the full timers because to save money they cut their hours from 40 to 30 a week and give the part timers 40 or more hours a week since they get paid less and have no benefits. One full-timer had to arrange working at a Zales in another mall just to keep her house. It's disgusting.

     So before I get too riled up back to the happier news: Turbine is great and I wasn't sure if I would enjoy QA (which stands for Quality Assurance) or not but I do. Sure it's testing a video game over and over and being a game tester is highly misunderstood as sitting in front of a computer all day and playing games. It's not. It's testing a part of a game no matter how minor and making sure it works over and over. I work on Lord of the Rings Online. I know it's the game I wasn't too thrilled with when I first started playing it. But I figured out that a lot of their good features are not turned on by default and you have to set it like you want it and it greatly improves the game.
Weird thing happened to me yesterday. Noon at Turbine I walked around to see who was here to go out to lunch with. Steve and Natasha (My BF's sister and her husband who also now work at Turbine) had already left for lunch. I saw my friend Bob and he introduced me to a guy named Dan. Low and behold after talking with him I find out that he was the same Dan Ouellette who was in my 6th grade class at St. Elizabeth's School. As soon as we figured that out I said “You totally cheated at the science fair!” “Did not!” he said. Ok he didn’t cheat, but how I remembered it was his project broke before the judges could see his project. He doesn’t remember his project breaking. He won first place I won second place. Every time I look at that 2nd place trophy I think of him. Ironically I work with him. It was a very strange moment.

El Dorado Stuff:
I have stuff to update that I haven't in a month or two and I apologize. I didn't forget about it. Also I have a lot to work on soon as well since geocities is shutting down and most of the gallery images are on geocities. I will be moving them over to photobucket until I get to making the flash version of the site.  Hopefully you won't even notice the difference.

The ipod, personal computer, mobile phone, and other modern pieces of technology that takes away the face to face human interaction.

The whole society is plugged in. No one talks to random strangers on the subway anymore.  We have teenagers who are texting each other while sitting next to each other in a living room. We have people with camera phones who take pictures of car accidents instead of helping the person in need. And then when we're lonely and looking for love.... we have websites like match.com to do that for us too.

We've become a pathetic species.

(If your reading this on facebook and pictures are not showing up you can view the original livejournal post here: CLICK)

Well here I am in partly-cloudy Huntersville, North Carolina just 15 minutes north of Charlotte. Why I'm here and why I had to come in the short notice of about a week is a bit of a story...

Since Kindergarten I've been best friends with this girl named Mary. I know none of my live journal friends and only a very select few of my facebook friends know her. Since I went to St. Elizabeth's School (A private catholic school) until sixth grade.


Me (on left) and Mary (on Right) in 1st grade in 1991

Mary's parents moved to Long Island, New York in 3rd grade and a few years after that moved to North Carolina. I was upset my best friend had to move away. We wrote lots of letters had some long distance phone calls. (And a bunch of free ones when we had the same cell phone service.) and there were a few e-mails thrown in.

Since then she was able to visit me twice. Once when her dad drove her and her brother up here in about 1996 for a day. And another about 2 years ago when she drove up here with her then BF "Smith." (She drove for 15 hours to come up to Rhode Island for two days.) I simply didn't have the money yet to come down to see her.

I have never known Mary to call me, even when we had free cell service. She never never been the first to call me (She wrote letters a lot more.)

A week ago Mary called me 3 times in one day when I saw it was her I called her back and asked her what was going on. I wasn't prepared for what she was going to tell me. Her fiancée Michael had died in a motorcycle accident. I was going to be the Maid of Honor at their wedding next year I even already had my dress for the wedding in my closet. I told her, "Mary I'm coming down as soon as I can". I explained what had happened to my Manager at Zales and since then she has tried to get someone to cover for me the one day I had to work in a 4 days span. I spare you the boring details but I had confirmed coverage 2 days before my flight. (I was going whether on not someone was covering at Zales honestly.)


Michael and Mary last year

So the little I know about her late fiancée is this: He was in the Navy and fought in the Gulf War on a battle ship and later was in the Air Force. He was interested in joining the National Guard. He was an avid biker. He was interested in racing motorcycles pro. He had been in 2 previous accidents. And always wears full gear when riding. Helmet, gloves, boots etc. including on the day he died. A car hit him and he flew off his motorcycle and snapped his neck. As far as we know there is still a pending investigation on what exactly happened.

So sparing many many details it's why I'm here in North Carolina. It was out of necessity. Mary is doing better that I had expected.

I finished painting my very first mini yesterday. Not so bad if I do say so myself....it was a learning experience.




Now I'm sick and I have to go to work with this cold...it sucks.

The latest job interview:

      This kind of goes along with my last post where I'm stuck in a rut and sick of filling out applications. I had an interview today at Zales that went so-so. I think I pinpointed why Swarovski never called me back (I'll get to that in a sec). I may have said some dumb things in the interview but the manager at Zales said she was very impressed by how I handled her test. She gave me a highlighter out of a box and told me "Sell me this pen." So I said something along the lines: "This pen is great because it's small and fits in to your pockets and it even has the hook to attach to a shirt so it won't easily get lost. It's also made by Bic which is a great company that's been around a long time so you know you're getting a quality highlighter that never dries out and is dependable." She said. "Wow I've never seen anyone able to pull that off so quick. That's great." She said her only concern was that I’ve never been in a retail job that had sales goals to meet and I think this is where Swarovski became concerned as well. Hell, I know I could do it if given the chance I just do a really bad job at selling myself.
     Interviewers keep asking me these questions about naming one good customer experience and one bad customer experience you've had. I freeze up I can't think of one. So many have been mediocre and I last worked in retail 2 years ago it's hard to remember. They especially ask about Victoria's Secret, which had no sales goals to meet. And if a customer had a problem with a product, me being the person at the front of the store couldn't handle their problem it was the cashier and manager's problem. I would have loved to help the customer if it was allowed. But Victoria's Secret has some retarded rules. So I'm stuck where I can't answer their questions and I suck at lying. With this interview at Zales I was automatically scheduled for a second interview when I was scheduled with the first. The second is on Monday with the harder to impress regional manager. I'm glad the first person; the store manager; whom I had the interview with today said she was the type of person who wants to give everyone a chance to prove themselves. I know what I'm going to do now on Monday with the regional manager. I'm going to be straight and tell her. "I'm great at selling anything to a customer and I would love to be given the chance at proving this to you. I'm just not so great at selling myself and I'm working on that."

New Myspace Page & Role Playing:

      I've updated my Myspace page, it matches my portfolio site and there is no more broken links of images and sites that I used to own that no longer exist (Such as X-Men Fantasies, a role playing group I had with Troy until the host server went out of business). I do miss role playing and I've role played a little with my Warhammer guild on their forums, but truth be told I'm no Warhammer master, all I know comes from the MMO and not the tabletop books, So I'm a little limited at playing a Dwarf. I'm also a stickler about miss spelling words but as a Dwarf, they talk a certain way. I have to write what I want to say and then edit for their accent. An example I wrote in my last post would be: "Aye," she said finishing her ale. "Tis a fine tool for an engineer." She said to the familiar Dwarf. "But that be th' problem, this was once me trusty hammer that had slain so many of those savage Greenskins." Speaking of the Greenskins, who are the Orcs and Goblins in Warhammer, they're probably the hardest for me to role-play, since their grammar is even worse because of their lack of intelligence. I try not to role play on my Greenskin characters in game.

     I used to have a playlist on my Myspace page and now I've chosen a single song to play on there instead. It’s one of my favorite Elton John songs off the 1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Album. It's called "This Song Has No Title" and the piano music in it is just simply Elton's genius at his best, Bernie Taupin's lyrics are great too, the song is about the quest for infinite knowledge. It was never a single so if you don't have the album you've most likely have never heard it (I'm old Skool and I have the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road LP i.e. the actual record that I bought for 75¢ at a church bazaar, best 75¢ I ever spent). I keep forgetting to play the song for my Dad, I know after one or two listens he'll be able to play the song himself on the piano. My Dad always had a talent for that, he is a professional piano player. When he played in restaurants and bars as a kid and people would make requests, if my Dad didn't know the song he would ask the person to start singing it and my Dad just knew how to play it right then and there. I've always been curious if my Dad could do it to a song Sasha sings... simply because Sasha is completely tone deaf.


Babelfish is special:

      Babelfish is a fun tool; it takes words and sentences in other languages and "translates" them. I put that in quotes because it rides the short bus when it comes to Russian. At work Sasha has a Cyrillic (Russian Alphabet) keyboard that he uses at work sometimes. Some projects he is given he has to translate signs on 3D models into different languages, one of course being Russian. So before he had two computers at his desk when he was using the Cyrillic keyboard he would send me IMs in Russian (So he wouldn't have to unplug the Russian one and plug in the English one to type to me and vice versa.) This is where our endless entertainment from Babelfish came from. I would copy and paste what he said in Russian and a lot of the time the English translation didn't make any sense. Here's an example. I wrote to him "Bunnies are cute and fluffy creatures." in Babelfish Russian and sent it to him. He received from Babelfish "Зайчики милые и пушистые твари" which translates as "Sunbeam reflections are the dear and downy creatures". That one is no where near as special as what came out today, I wrote to him: "I love Russians whole bunches." Which came out: "Я люблю пуки русских все." Now when you take that Russian sentence and put it back into Babelfish to translate into English again it comes out kind of right. "I love the bunches of Russians all." except when you use the word "все" (Pronounced something like VE es ye) in a sentence in that way the meaning changes. It goes from meaning "bunches" to "farts" so when I sent it to him he read it as "I love all the farts of Russians." and he was like "WTH are you trying to say?!" Ah yeah, it was fun times.


New Submission Move:

     While play wrestling and harassing Sasha the other day, Sasha discovered a killer wrestling submission move. It involves being in the dominant stance in trying to get your opponent into an arm bar and with a twist of the hips and legs instantly moving into a surprise leg lock (Obviously it's hard to explain it without demonstration). He says he's never seen anything like it on TV or in fights and today he said while in the wrestling gym he tried it while wrestling a partner. His partner was like "DUDE WTF was that!? I was fighting off your arm bar and you put me in a leg lock!?" Sasha told him it's his "secret From Russia with Love move." I'm interested in having Sasha show the move to his Dad Slava in Maryland. His Dad was a big champion wrestler in Ukraine back in the day and if his Dad has never seen anything like it no one has.

In Warhammer the four of us would LOVE to move on to the epic stuff in the endgame. One problem is to get into the highest level dungeon (Called the Lost Vale)...you have to collect all 5 pieces of Sentinel armor in Sigmar's Crypts and both Warpblade Tunnels. Basically if you don't have all sentinel gear and you go in there, the monsters "bend you over a barrel" as Sasha puts it and you get one-shotted.

Sentinel gear is the PVE Equivalent to the PVP Conqueror Gear which can be just as annoying to get. For Sentinel you have to do crypts/dungeons for a CHANCE that the piece you are looking for will drop....if it doesn't drop....well there's a 3 day lockout before you can try again. 3 days of finding something ELSE to do in the game.

Conqueror gear requires all the high level players on your side (We play Order ie the good guys.) to go on a rampage and start taking forts from Destruction. It's a long process that requires you to guard keeps for hours and traveling back and forth so zones will lock and the war will advance closer to the fort. Even if you get into the fort there is usually 150 other players also there.... and only 10 golden loot bags that will go to random people in the fort. So yeah slim chance of getting that.

As it stands I was lucky enough to get all my Sentinel gear in mostly one run. Sasha has most of his and Natasha has most of hers. Steve who is our main tank and is the MOST important person who needs that gear for Lost Vale has......2 pieces of 6. For whatever reason Sword Master (Steve's character class) gear has the lowest chance to drop. Since they added a new class to both sides.... the new class; the damn Slayer; has the highest chance of drop. At the most I'm guessing there are only about 5 Slayers  on the server that can wear that gear as of now. We've run the crypts/tunnel run about 12-13 times now.

Olganna's Full Sentinel:




So since we get it for free because Steve works for Turbine we installed Lord of the Rings Online. I know they stopped playing it originally because it's too ridiculously easy. So far I'm "meh" about the game. I'm the Minstrel which is a main healer and I find having to click on a monster to attack or a player to heal back and forth really annoying. In most games you have a Defensive target (another player) and an Offensive target (monster) that can be selected at the same time so you don't have to change your selection when you want to attack or heal.

There is one thing that that I find absolutely ingenious. LoTRO has a full player generated music system. Any class can play an instrument but because I'm the Minstrel class I can play ANY instrument. but the cool thing is: if you type /music you can actually use the keyboard to play notes. Shift raises the octave and CTRL on the right make sharps and CTRL on the left make flats (Or something like that...).

Here is a video of a player live in the game playing "Hotel California" by the Eagles on his lute.


Of course there are people who totally get into this and create a band this is Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd (remember this is something all the players have to coordinate and practice together doing at once in the game):


Only time will tell if I warm up to LoTRO. But what else do I have to do while waiting for Warhammer.....

So I guess I've done a lot since my last post.. applied for more jobs, played some warhammer, started to texture Sasha's Knight model again. I'll just briefly go through them because like my subject says: I'm waiting for Mythic to fix their Warhammer Servers, they had a major patch today and it looks like something went wrong because all their servers are down.... those people are going to be working late tonight....


( 3D Knight Texturing )

 

( The Providence Gay Bars... )

 

I applied for a job at a local toy store that also does the nerd gaming stuff. It's the same store I bought my Dwarf Mini back in October ....Cross your fingers.....

I also bought this mini today....




I'm glad they had it since it looks as close to my character as I could get.

I've been applying to quite a few freelance jobs online two of which e-mailed me back and asked to send samples and pricing. The first one was for a Dog Rescue organization, I sent them my designs and said it would be $100 for 10 illustrations and I sent them 5 character designs, they eventually wanted a comic but how can I write a comic not knowing anything about what type of character they wanted.... they didn't write back after I sent my samples. The second was for a department at Harvard University they were offering compensation of $15-20 in their ad. They asked for two images. I told them how long it took me to do and then told them what the total cost would be (Since they wanted a total of 163 images.) It came to $1,260. Apparently they found someone else. I even saw an ad for a Sales Associate at Swarovski Crystals...I applied... and their e-mail kept bouncing back...probably because their contact no longer worked for them. I've been looking and applying almost everyday. This sucks.

So Sasha and I have been looking for something fun to do together so he has been looking into local Karate schools to take classes. We both have Martial Arts experience. I was in Tae Kwon Do for 7 years and well he's been a Sambo (Russian submission wrestling) and Muay Thai (Kickboxing) fighter for 20 or more years. Sasha always told me how Tae Kwon Do is pretty useless in a fight.... I don't think he'll be saying that anymore after we saw Okinawan Karate Do. While Tae Kwon Do is a South Korean kicking style, Okinawan Karate Do is a Japanese open hand fighting style (Originating from the fishing villages of Okinawa), much of it focuses on open hand strikes and blocks while having a sturdy footing. It's kinda cool looking and has graceful and quick movements but it was funny to see the Sensei telling Sasha how these moves would work in a fight and I know he wanted to say something like. "I'd like to see you try to block on of my punches little lady, I will break you." But we agreed to go in there with the open mind of a good student. We didn't want to mention just how much experience we had in other styles because it's not important, we were here to start from scratch and learn a new style. I know Sasha hated students that he had taught who would come into a kickboxing class for a week and think they were ready for a real kickboxing match.

We did pretty well for our first day. We probably would have continued there if the price weren't $110.00 a month per person. The Sensei seems like a really good teacher and she knows her stuff. So if you want to check out a good Traditional Okinawan Karate Do Dojo and willing to pay that price for adults then maybeThe Stow Martial Arts Center in Stow, MA is for you. They seem to cater a lot to children as well; they had a ample supply of toys and Legos.



We'll probably be looking into other schools next week.

Post the first couple lines of 20 songs on your playlist (no matter how embarassing!) and see who can guess what they are!

1. She is smiling like heaven's down on Earth...
2. When are you gonna come down? When are you going to land?
3. Tune me into the wild side of life. I'm an innocent young child sharp as a knife.
4. It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark.
5. It could be ten, but then again, I can't remember half an hour since a quarter to four.
6. Fruit on the vine, you got yours and I got mine...
7. Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth dear. And it shows them pearly white.
8. No more gas, in the red, can't even get it started
9. At night I hear it creeping. At night I feel it move, I'll never sleep here anymore...
10. Dead I am the one, Exterminating son...
11. Well it rains and it pours when you're out on your own...
12. Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear...
13. Cigars in the summertime under the sky by the light,
14. It's 9 o' clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in...
15. This may never start, we could fall apart....
16. You walk on like a woman in suffering Won't even bother now to tell me why...
17. Something takes a part of me, Something lost and never seen.
18. Girl! I wanna take you to a gay bar!
19. Am I more than you bargained for yet. I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
20. So deep, that it didn't even bleed and catch me, Off guard...

For the last five years in November I've attended the Boston Super Mega Fest. A convention that is part sci-fi, part collectible, and part comic book convention. I love going to this convention because it's a place where some of the older stars of music movies TV and sports come out and sign autographs for the fans. The last two years was a bit of a disappointment. In 2006 I wasn't considering going but a last minute addition of the Ghost Hunters (Jason and Grant) to the guest list made me drive the hour and a half to the convention. Upon arrival a sign at the door listed the large list of guest cancellations and lo and behold the Ghost Hunters were on that list. I was especially disappointed because I brought my friend's Craig and Jacqui to the convention because there was some guests they wanted to see as well. Their guests also canceled last minute. The three of us still had fun.

In 2007 I gave The Boston Super Mega Fest another chance this time some of the other Ghost Hunters (Brian and Donna) were suppose to be there. I was very surprised that they not only didn't show up but did not alert the convention they were canceling. There was an empty guest table with their names on it that was taken over by a comic book artist. It just so happened that this comic book artists was a friend of Brian and he spoke to him the day before and Brian said he was coming. Something must have come up. 

So 2008 this year's convention comes up. I was very happy to see Jonathan Frakes on the list. (Who Played Cmdr. Will Riker on Star Trek The Next Generation. But also was the host of Beyond Belief and was the voice of David Xanatos in Gargoyles.) Since he was always one of my favorite characters and I always thought he was handsome. (I'm a sucker for a man with a beard.) But I wasn't holding high hopes, every time a guest appeared that I actually wanted to meet they canceled last minute. I was thrilled when I walked through the door and Jonathan Frakes came through! I was also pleased that Leslie Nielsen also made an appearance since everyone would stand in line for him and I could have a short chat with Jonathan without worrying about people behind me so much. I got his autograph took a picture and had a short chat with him, it was so fun. He was there with his wife who my Mom informed me that night that she is a current Soap Opera Star on Gereral Hospital. My Mom then regretted she wasn't able to go because she would have liked to see her. Jonathan acted happy to the fans but I could tell there was a tiredness to him, he's done the convention thing for so long and seen so many people. I don't think that it was he was not having fun or didn't want to be there it was more like going through the same old motions, not that I could blame him. I feel that if your at the Boston Super Mega fest which is a pretty inexpensive and small albeit a very crowded show you've come to terms that your career in whatever you became famous for is pretty much over and that besides the random voice overs for cartoons and video games this is where you will make you visual appearance. I also wondered how he felt sitting at the table next to Leslie Neilsen... who not only had a very long line of fans but Leslie Neilsen looks pretty much the same where as Jonathan has changed quite a bit since the show which ran from 1987-1994. (though we have seen him since in the last few Star Trek movies.) Jonathan Frakes is 56 this year and still looks pretty good.

I would also like to state that I was happy that Leslie Nielsen wasn't charging an arm and a leg for his autograph like egomaniac Adam West was the year before.

PS: I did get the chance to remind him of the memory I had that I mentioned in my last post about he and my Uncle Charlie. My Grandfather nodded and indicated he remembered. I was happy he did.

Happy Halloween everyone!

So a few days ago Sasha and I had time to kill in Westborough while his car was getting a routine service when we came upon a toy, gift, and hobby store. It was a surprisingly big place that had kids toys, greeting cards, for kids and adults as well as tabletop gaming stuff you would find in most comic book or gaming stores. I don't know how many of you have been in a gaming store I know most of you who read this have but basically things like Dungeons and Dragons, and Warhammer minis, Yu Gi Oh and Magic the Gathering cards, role playing guides....etc.

Well since I've been playing Warhammer Online I was looking for a Female Dwarf mini to put on my desk. Minis are generally these tiny pewter and tin statues that are about an inch high some can be bigger it depends on what kind of race it is (elves are taller than Dwarfs. Orcs are taller than Elves.) Well Warhammer doesn't cater much to the female crowd with their minis, the guy there said that girls who play Warhammer (not the online, the table top) usually play the vampires since it's really the only race where they make female characters. So I said "Well it's just for my desk does any other game make female Dwarfs?" and he said Dungeons and Dragons have a few but Reaper is your best bet. So low and behold after less than a minute of searching I found this female Dwarf....


Right now I'm up because I'm cooking chicken wings for Sasha's Halloween party at work... he was the unlucky one who got picked to bring a main course. We bought 6lbs of wings which I hope will be enough for 15-20 people. There should be plenty other desert foods there and it's really no big deal if it runs out. My grandmother said I should cook them an hour then flip them over and cook for half an hour they seem to be pretty good. Hopefully my overly resilient stomach isn't hiding if they're not cooked enough. They should be fine, they're little and were cooked for a long time.

Last night after work I went to The Garment District with Yao in Cambridge to find a shirt and satchel for my Indiana Jones costume. The Garment District is a huge clothing and costume store and they have this room called "Dollar a pound" where there is a pile of jumbled up clothing and some other fabric items thrown on the floor and you pick stuff up for a dollar a pound, I did find a shirt and actually a decent pair of old brown boots that would work for Indiana Jones (and they were in my size.) No Satchel yet, I did find a satchel that was in an army surplus store for $23 but I figured I would look in other places first for something cheaper and maybe used.

After that I went to Cornwall's Tavern in Kenmore Square, I had a Margarita and I think it's called a Lemon Shot, basically it's a shot of some kind of clear alcohol and after the shot you immediately suck on a slice of lemon and it tastes like chocolate cake....it was amazing, I also played a round of pool with Yao and his friends Dan and Amanda. Yao was on fire.....and not on my team. Shortest game of pool I've ever played...damn him.

I didn't stay there long, I'd say it was around 9:30 when I left because I still had to get my car in Brookline and drive back to Marlborough. So Kenmore station is right outside Cornwall's. I sat there and waited for the D-Train to come when a familiar looking man caught my eye. He was a large bearded homeless man and he looked liked photos I've seen of "The Chili Guy" from Toucher and Rich website on WBCN. Which is a radio show I listen too everyday (link will take you too some Chili Guy audio clips). I thought to myself.... "It's gotta be him....but I need to hear his voice for certain." After digging through the trash he walked over to in front of me where I was sitting, stood there smiled at me with an infectious smile you would expect to see from Santa Clause, muttered something inaudible (in a friendly way) and walked away. All was made right in the world for that magical moment. It was him for sure! I would have given him some money if my train didn't arrive as he walked away, The Chili Guy made my day.

Indiana Jones Costume List:
Hat
Shirt
Satchel
Whip
Gun
Gun Holster
Pants
Boots

It's Monday and I'm still in Bristol, they haven't even called and told me what's wrong with my car. I don't have my laptop so I can't do any work and I have Weiner's class tommorrow. I also can't work on the RtED site without my laptop. I have to get rid of Cingular/ATT because they're charging me a butt-load probably because I'm not under contract any more and a lot of my friends who used to have cingular and I could call for free have switched over. Now I'm thinking about Alltel, my parents think I should get the pay-as-you-go Virgin Mobile like they and my sister have....but it's my main phone line I don't want to pay attention to how much money I have left on my phone. There is also no Alltel retail stores anywhere near RI and MA, and it looks like without a nearby retailer they don't want you to get very far on their site....wonderful. I might go with verizon again....I would talk to both Sasha and Ashley for free...the two people I call the most. There is some word that Alltel and Verizon are merging...maybe I'll get my Alltel phone then. The prices aren't pretty for phones....I'm still deciding maybe I'll go the pay as you go route after all....

Today I'm heading back to Boston, I have to to take a bus and two trains to get to a station that Sasha can pick me up at. I had the option of skipping the bus part and having my cousin Kin drop me off in Providence since he was coming to pick up my Dad so they can visit my grandfather in the hospital, but I would have 4 hours to find something to do so I'm just going to go later. I feel like such a burden without a car, I either take the train which I have to be driven to by Natasha in the morning or I borrow Sasha's car. Hopefully the car will be fixed soon.


Indiana Jones Costume List:
Hat
Shirt
Satchel
Whip
Gun
Gun Holster
Pants


The to do checklist for That Girl of Barcelona:

Info about the deleted opening scene
Fan Art by Perlusion
Add more pieces of fan art here and there.
List and Photos of all (to my knowledge and possesion) RtED merchandise as well as their rarity. *In progess*
The Story of the Chief Tanni Marquette *Complete* abridged version
More Concept Art *Complete*
Cosplay Photos
More Download-ables
Animated Flash Interface with new updated site logo.*Long term goal*
New navigational bar with standardized buttons
Finish Mexico gallery page *In Progress*

The to do checklist for Sacrificial Brownie: (To be done ASAP!)
Add loading progess bars
Fix Navigational menus to be uniform
Fix broken images in some galleries
Make 2D animations play on page
Upload my resume
Optional:
Add button hover sounds
Remove particle effects   

Other Site Status:
Khaki and Oracle: To be deleted and completly redesigned elsewhere, maybe one day with a domain.
Ozzie's Academy: To be deleted.