Juni's Journal

Much fun to be had going pewpew and making things go kablooie!!!

Juni fly rusted junk heap around, go pewpew, make things go boom.

Rifter + 3 x 150mm autocannons + EM ammo + silly NPC cruiser that can't even touch me = big blazing ball of explody goodness.

Yay!

Was nice to just mindlessly blow stuff up in level 1 missions. I've been spending time trying to research what skills I'll need for the long-term, and balance my mining/hauling needs with combat/missioning requirements. I forget sometimes that EVE Online is called the spreadsheet MMO for a very good reason. XD

In other news, the EVE server is down for its daily maintenance. *twitch* Now I have to keep myself busy until it goes back online. *twitch twitch*

I need something to drink. Maybe a snack and a drink will tide me over until maintenance is over.

*twitch*

That is all.

-Juni

Maria celebrates with lots of ice cream!

Seems that it was my birthday last week (August 5th), and for the most part, I hardly noticed. I must be getting old now, when it takes other people to remind me of that fact. Thanks for the well wishes, imooto, even if I was really late to even notice THAT. XD

It didn't help that the last few weeks have been incredibly busy. Between dealing with my worker's comp, being on my condominium's board of directors, helping neighbors, taking care of family, my own health issues, and a smattering of other things, I've hardly had time to do much lately. Seems like only now things around here are starting to calm down a bit.

Well, I guess if you consider Hawaii lucking out with a hurricane turning into a tropical depression at the last minute as 'calming down'. People were going a bit stir crazy when it was apparent the hurricane was headed smack-dab for Oahu. Right now it's humid, hot, with a side of occasional rain outside my condo.

So, back on subject. Looks like I'm 35 now, which makes me positively ancient!

Yeah, another year older, another year wis...well, maybe not wiser, but another year older, definitely. Am I supposed to start counting backward from this point? I forget what the rules were on that. XD

To celebrate, I decided to do something impulsive.

No, I didn't go back to WoW. I said impulsive, not plain stupid. I doubt I'll ever go back to WoW, EVER.

Now, if they ever did a World of Starcraft...no no, bad thoughts, get out of my head! Blizzard is evil!

No, I didn't buy a PS3. Just on principle, I refuse to buy that overpriced heap 'o junk, even if they got a Disgaea game now.

Yes, I've bought a Neo Geo system before. Yes, it was overpriced, but at least it wasn't a heap 'o junk!

No, I didn't buy more expensive boardgames/wargames.

Yet. I haven't gone to the local game store recently. I still need to buy the most recent expansion for Arkham Horror. XD

Anyhow, on to my bit of impusiveness. I opened up a new Eve Online account, a game I thought I was done with years ago. I did my stint with that game years ago, having had my fill of mining asteroids, managing tons of manufacturing, and doing all sorts of fun 'crafting-ish' stuff in Eve.

Guess I wasn't quite done with Eve, since they have made quite a few changes since I was last in-game. Decided to go back for a bit and see if I enjoy it still.

My only rule this time around is no Caldari characters. Been there, done that - it's all I played before.

Hence my decision to be Minmatar and fly the rusted heaps of metal they call ships. XD


Hooray for flying trash heaps, otherwise known as the Minmatar!

Time to go back to mining rocks, IN SPACE. Seems like I fish or mine in all of my games...

I'll end with Eve Online's latest "Butterfly Effect" promo video.



-Juni

Is it wrong that her slug phone thing is probably the most amusing part of the clip? :p

Anime female renditions of the classes in Team Fortress 2

Alright, time to pull a trick out of my Ninjitsu bag and make a post! Post-no-Jutsu!

So yeah, I've recently been playing Team Fortress 2 as well as Killing Floor. TF2 in particular has gotten my attention for some unknown reason. For the heck of it, once I heard there was a mod that would change the default character pictures that are normally in the bottom left of your HUD to cutesy anime characters, I figured I should track it down. Using my Google-Fu, I located a link and soon was merrily on my way with a cutesy meganekko replacing my usual Medic portrait.

In related news, while it's certain that Valve is still having to work out the kinks in the latest upgrade (or sidegrade, as many call them) items that can be switched in for different classes weapons...

( Rant coming up after the link! )

One of the only times Yuzuri shows up with glasses...

Was busy running errands earlier today, ended up so tired after I got home that I passed out until early evening. Still kind of groggy. -_-;;;

Had to buy a copier today (my old Canon was on its last legs), and ended up buying a Brother 7440N. While I probably won't be using the network capability (it will be sitting in a room with no computers and I can't be bothered to run network cable to it), it was on sale at OfficeMax. At under $200, it's hard to complain about a laser multifunction unit.

I considered getting the 7840W (wireless version), but at $300+, I wasn't interested in spending that kind of money.

I sort of miss the old Canon copier that used to sit where the Brother now is. Admittedly it wasn't very durable, was fairly slow, and for a ~$100 copier you couldn't expect much. Guess I'm not surprised that Canon decided to stop making that and stick with something in the $300 range as their entry-level unit. Still...you wouldn't believe how many of them I used to see in various doctor's and professional offices, even if I've been repeatedly told by service technicians and salesmen that they would cringe whenever people bought that $100 Canon. Most times, it wasn't worth buying a replacement toner cartridge - you were better off buying a new copier, because the copier had a fair chance of breaking down before you finished using the second toner (which was expensive to begin with).

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