For the birthday wishes (turned 20 on the 15th). I didn't know DA sent announcements to watchers about birthdays.

I promise there will be art soon.

edit* Oh and I want to mention that my dad fixed my car all by hisself (with my help and my mom's). Rather than paying ~$1200 for a mechanic, it cost us ~$400 (because a new gas pump ain't cheap).

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Then you have to watch it. A kid freaks out over his mother canceling his WoW subscription and... yeah. Wow. Carnal rage!

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I LOLed so, so very hard. So hard. I dunno if its fake - a lot of people think so but I read some comments from people with relatives who have Asperger's that have similar tantrums sometimes - but either way LOLOLOL

here is the kirby(?) remix

The '97 Chevy Lumina I've been driving for the past few years has been having issues over the past year and a half that have been steadily growing worse. It would do this thing when I'd turn it on and the engine would rumble; make noises that seemed like some valve was clogged and it would only get air or gas or something in intermittently, so it would go VMMvmVMMvmm until I drove it for a bit and then it would stop, though it wouldn't accelerate (just refused to, even if I floored the gas pedal) faster than 15 or 20mph for 5-10 minutes.

Weelll we finally got it checked out today (after I got stranded in the Target parking lot last Monday after buying some presents for a friend's baby shower) annnddd it's the gas pump, like my dad suspected (he thought it was finally getting clogged up - when you drive the car until it's approaching red, the pump can inhale dust and dirt along with some of the air it would pull in along with the gasoline).

So the gas pump is having problems and is due for a replacement. Except in order to replace that, you have to take out the gas tank and pretty much the whole gas system, which is something we HAVE to get done at a garage.

Cost of fixing: $1,200. Which is probably about or slightly less than the worth of the entire car.

Yiiikes.

Apparently, since the Wrath of the Lich King beta, some creature or monster in WoW has had an attack that would give its victim SWINE FLU.

PFHFHFH

also, for those of you who watch any stock galleries or have favorite stock artists, could you please link them in your comments? Momma needs references to make pretty draws! And since I use the family computers there's a billion other bookmarks my parents made, so anything I ever bookmarked is... yeah, hard to find.

note: my mood setting has nothing to do with anything mentioned in this entry.

- my aging cell phone finally seems to be dying out. The screen randomly turns this sort of blue color and then refuses to function until I remove the battery, put it back in, then turn it back on. This sucks as I don't really have the money for a new replacement phone ATM, and the contract with T-Mobile doesn't end until December.

- I'm one of the forum moderators at animeforum.com, and AF has it's very own troll known as Mavericker (we like to call him yellow7 to piss him off). He's an unrelenting, racist retard who will not leave, no matter how much we mock him and the fact that the admins like to fuck with him by putting his posts through a permanent Swedish Chef filter (bork bork!). Apparently he has a DA account, too. [link] I had to roll my eyes at that journal entry since he made a HUGE deal about it on AF about his great comic book idea and blah blah blah. It's fun to watch him flail about sometimes, though I keep thinking "Mavericker" is an e-personality made up by some genius who is doing a sociological report on internet culture or something. How else do you explain a 30+ year old black man, son of a radio pastor and devout Christian who claims to hate racism, who then goes into rants about greasy-haired white people (and how unattractive white women are) and the demonic names people use on the site (and it's an anime website, so most names are, like, "itachi" or "sasuke" or whatever)? Oh, and "yellow7" also thinks that the Major from Ghost in the Shell is a perfect woman - a caucasian-looking cyborg atheist. Yup. It MUST be a joke!

- Due to a move made by the management at my job that I felt was extremely disrespectful and demeaning, I've started looking for a new place to work. The short of the long is someone got promoted above me (and several other senior staff) to a position not one of us feel he is suited for (in fact, no one, not even assistant managers, understand our GMs decision to promote this guy, an old friend of mine whom I had helped to get hired after repeatedly reminding the GM to call him). It's also shocking that this could happen given certain fire-worthy actions this guy has done, because obviously the management didn't do any research before doing this or else he would've found out. Definitely will have to talk to the GM about this. Me and some co-workers will be sending an e-mail to our area manager about it as well.

- Ever did a sketch, had it look GREAT, then when you do it digitally or try to transfer it onto a different paper it loses all feeling entirely? Blah, I'm having that problem with a friend's commission. Gonna post the sketch on another art forum and hopefully get some help with it.

- Yo, GCG! Thought about the price thing yet? E-mail me soon.