So... I haven't been on my personal LJ - or checked my friends page - in a month.

>_>

I blame RPing. And plurk.

MAYBE I'LL SUCK LESS. ... Later.





...daddy I'm so sorry I'm so s-s-sorry yeah... *shot*



Important things of note:

1. I'm turning 24 on Monday. Yay for my birthday being on a long weekend!

2. LADY GAGA CONCERT, SEPTEMBER 15. It's going to be insane. And fabulous.

I got my new computer today!

The processing speed is amazing compared to my old dying monster of a PC. Example: It took approximately 22 hours to transfer my music files (211GB) from my old PC to my external hard drive. Approximate time for transferring from external hard drive to new PC? Two hours. Impressive!

Specs:

OS: MS Windows 7 Home Premium
CPU: Intel Pentium E5300, 2.60 GHz
RAM: 4.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR2, 402MHz
Motherboard: BIOSTAR Group G31D-M7
Graphics: 512MB GeForce 8400 GS
Hard Drive Capacity: 488GB

Also got a new mouse and keyboard, because my old ones were practically in the process of fossilization.

Medium: Television Series
Fandom: Torchwood
Subject: Jack/Ianto
Title: Chasing Starlight
Warnings: SPOILERS for Children of Earth. (Explicitly contained in extended notes.)
Notes: This is a fanmix for crimson_antics, who won my auction at gulf_aid_now. The request was for a Jack and Ianto fanmix set during the events of CoE. Further notes below.

( Chasing Starlight: A Jack/Ianto FanmixCollapse )

That was for my personal journal. For my fic journal, it gave me Kurt Vonnegut.

I learned something new today: If you ever plan to make a drinking game out of the similarities between Twister and Tornado Valley, you will need to use beer, unless your goal is to die of alcohol poisoning.

Seriously, Tornado Valley has so many identical plot points that it's ridiculous and kind of alarming that it wasn't called out on ripping off Twister.

( spoilerificCollapse )

Seriously, I could go on, but I'm bored already, and Tornado Valley was just a terrible Twister clone.

For clarification - my biggest beef with it is that they make this huge deal about how a TERRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO is headed straight for the house! (Twice!) But the damn thing doesn't so much as rip up the forest, and it looks like maybe a five-year-old's conception of what a tornado should look like, what with it basically being a white cloud tail while it's sunny and not dark out at all. There's seriously no damage beyond the destroyed house and one human death. There is no sense of menace or ferocity. Looking at a tornado ought to inspire both fear and awe. But this thing just made me roll my eyes. It was utterly disappointing.

My brother got the new X-Box immediately after it came out, so now I've got his 360! And he gave me two of his games - Bioshock (which I've been pestering him relentlessly to give to me) and Kameo (idk). Last night I downloaded a few demos, and a handful of full games (Portal, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3, and Scrabble in that Family Game Night thing). He helped me set up my Netflix account on it too, which is great.

Today, I stopped at GameStop to raid the used section, and ended up getting four games. Dead or Alive 4 was the main one I was after, because Owen went and lost his, fail. Also got some Shaun White game because, uh, hell yes snowboarding games. Got Qubed because PUZZLE GAMES WITH MUSIC, Y/Y. And Street Fighter IV, just because it's fucking Street Fighter. Had to get a headset too, so that I can play shit with Owen and actually be able to talk to him.

I was considering getting myself Halo 3, but... the used copy was $40, sooo no. :/

STILL NEED MOAR GAMES.

My house has been without electricity since Thursday afternoon. We've mostly been avoiding the house - went with my parents to mom's Elks Club induction Thursday evening for a/c and food. Went to parents' friends' house yesterday for more a/c and food. Am now holing up in gleeful_beat's basement because she is an excellent friend and invited me over.

After talking with other people who observed the storm as it was happening, it turns out that there were several small tornadoes throughout Delaware and Chester Counties, and some others, but those two got the worst of the storm. (I'm in DelCo.) The tornado that went through my neighborhood left a pretty clear path of destruction, though fortunately it didn't cause too much damage beyond a lot of ripped up trees (which smashed into a few houses and took down powerlines). It was most likely an F1. The path of damage indicates that it tore up Sproul Rd, went over to Lawrence Rd through Veteran's Memorial Park, and continued on through part of Lawrence Park.

To give an idea of how close that was to my house: Veteran's Memorial Park is next to the church, and my house is on the other side of the church.

I was at work when the storm hit. Power went out, and initially I planned to go home immediately, but I decided to wait 45 minutes until the actual time I was supposed to leave. And it's a good thing I waited too, otherwise it's highly likely that I would have been caught up in that tornado, since it took the same path I typically drive to get home. YAY FOR GOOD LIFE DECISIONS. (EMPHASIS ON THE LIFE.)

Meanwhile, my brother was at the Phillies game. When he tried to leave the stadium, the storm pushed him back up against the wall of the stadium. It took him several attempts to get down, and he eventually ran through the parking lot (clinging to cars on his escape attempt) and eventually made it underground to the subway. It was either another low-grade tornado or just a really strong gale, but either way, that was ridiculously dangerous of him to do. I'm just glad that he, and everyone else, is safe.


The other shit that has been going down is that George, the cat with the crazy eye, well... his eye sort of popped, right before the storm. He had surgery in Delaware yesterday, and we brought him home today. Poor little guy's not happy about his e-collar, and the heat is not doing him any good, but he's been laying on an icepack, so hopefully that will help him keep cool.

Power went out at work at 3, I hung around until 3:45 and finally got home a few minutes ago. It took so long because trees and power lines were down on the major roads.

The icing on the cake is that a tornado apparently blew through the park up the road from my house.

Power's still out, obviously (since the twister brought down trees and a major power line), so that's about it for now. Need to conserve phone battery. :/

I'm auctioning off a fanmix/genmix over at gulf_aid_now. My posting is here, for anyone interested.

Face of the Future is a fun tool to play around with.

...but it is creepy as hell to use the masculinization transformation. Because, seriously, I look enough like my dad; I don't need to see my face pretty much exactly turned into his. D: CANNOT BE UNSEEN.

(It should be noted that the Botticelli and Mucha transformations are neat, though! I guess it helps that I am already a fatty of a curvaceous build, lulz.)