Happy Birthday to Me

I woke up and found my site offline, which pretty much ruined my day. Gremlin.net is still offline. They’ll probably fix that soon.

So I got my site offline for my birthday. And I got it back. Or something.

Chat still sucks. But I have a cake. And some surimi. Gremlin went with me to the store, and he’s sittiing here with me watching movies, even though he probably would rather be writing his next book. So that’s nice.

Don’t mind me. I’m just a little put off by the idea that I might be too old for Gir now.

Movie Catch Up

I’ve been doing that thing where I just sit around and watch movies again — mostly old ones, but there were two newer ones just now. Pan’s Labyrinth and Aeon Flux.

I didn’t hate either of them.
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PSA: Girls? It’s okay to google the screennames of the ones you love.

I’m breaking a promise I’m pretty sure I made, if not to someone that actually matters to me, then to myself. Sometimes, other things get in the way. Sometimes, a sense of decency comes out of nowhere like some horrible slimy thing, and wrecks everything.

Sometimes, you’re faced with a list of victims that turns into the infected wound you can no longer ignore, and it stops being the thing that you first groan at, then giggle over, because really, it’s kinda funny, isn’t it? But it’s not.
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