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Today's Rant

So, I've been playing an online verson of Free Cell Solitaire. (Why? Because it's fun and my compy doesn't have it built in.) It's pretty great, with a timer, keeps track of the card movements, and your win/lose ration and streaks. The only problem is this: Every now and then, they decide to animate the cards, so they "fly" across the screen to where I want them to go. It generally catches me off guard as this isn't a normal occurance and I get used to it not doing this. Furthermore, I'm too lazy to figure out how to stop this from happening. Bah.

...Okay, that was my rant. Just wanted to let you all know I'm still alive-ish.

Mountain Dew

You know the new Dew campaign? With the three new flavors? Just wanted to weigh in here and say Revolution's awful. It just tastes of blue. Maybe you like that, but I don't. Go for the other two flavors.

Why didn't I say this on the Dew page? Too lazy to create an account for that. Heck, this account was made for me.

Ahoy again

So, here is my "farewell, BISON!" post. Yeah, we finished Frisbee's campaign, in which I had the best character in the party: A druid with a bison. As we were all 12th level by today, my bison was froxin' powerful. AC of 20, gore attack with +15 to hit and 1d8+10 damage, with a second attack of +10 to hit. Best of all, my druid had Mounted Combat (ride skill of +16), Ride-By Attack, and Spirited Charge. So, for every successful hit after a charge, my bison did a minimum of 22 damage. That pretty much defeated everything.

To defeat the final boss guy, my character was riding by with the bison attacking, summoning fun stuff each round. In addition to the necromancer's three celestial bison, I had a megaraptor, two dire lions, and a rhino attacking. Then there were the holy water arrows. And we won. So then the game was over. *sigh* I'll miss that bison....

...So much that I made him into a god! Huzzah!

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Happy Wintereenmas!

So. It's been awhile. Let's see what I have to say....

Lolzuko! Yay!


Yes, I am an Avatar Geek. I'm even working on my own version of Book Fire. It's going to be epic. I don't think I can top the "Zuko, dance with me!" said by Aang. Though I've been busy with other stuff, like a campaign for D&D. I just need to fill out the plot line a bit. And, since I have to wait for the rest of the new episodes that seem to be ninjed onto the air, I'll probably make a lot more lolavatarstuff. And post them here, and to my imaginary friends I rp with, and random places like that.

Also, the writer's strike must end soon. I've had enough reality tv! And that's only from watching the commercials! Plus, I want more "Avatar" and "Chuck" and "Ugly Betty" and "Heroes" and "Bones" and "House" and and and....

And Jimmy's still crazy. Let him canter once, he wants to keep going. So it goes (in order of usage): walk=amble, posting trot=sitting trot, sitting trot=sitting trot, canter=canter, walk=working walk, sitting trot=CANTER!, posting trot=CANTER!, canter=TURBO CANTER!

We got a new pony! (We as in the horse center. Not my family.) And he's tiny! Even smaller than Pie! And much more energetic! You walk by, he follows your progress. He's lucky the door is mesh. The wall, however, is solid wood, so you see his nose peeking up over. He's adorable! He came to us named Mr. Bean, but we changed it to Mr. Vanilla Bean, coz he's one of our five white ponies. Awhile back, we got Cookie, who is supposed to be really well trained, but she's not really. She looks like a cross between Louise, the black shire horse, and Natalie, the pudgy black pony. So, our buffet now consists of Cookie, Mr. Vanilla Bean, Rosemary, Snickers, Kit Kat, and Pie. Nom nom nom.

I do not own Avatar, nor do I own Avatarspirit.net.

Whew! It's been awhile!

First off, curse you, Meese! CURSE YOU! Why? Well, remember back in the day when you gave me a present? Specifically, Merchant of Death and The Lost City of Faar? Yeah, so it's been awhile since I got it. And I picked up the first one to give it a second try (first try was probably during one of the bad times, not its fault I couldn't get through it). You know what? I liked it. So much, I leapt right into the second. Then I sent Mom for The Never War. Then I swung by a library for Black Water and The Rivers of Zadaa. And now I'm on The Quillan Games. All this took place over a couple months. Yeah, thanks for leading me to a series I like. Thanks a lot.

The little girl I've been working with for about a year and a half has gotten so much better. She's been moved into group lessons and has been thriving. She's gotten so much more confident around horses, doesn't need me to lead her anymore, doesn't try to make me help her further when I say I'm going to cut her loose, just...wow. Amazing. She's come so far!
What else? Well, for a few weeks now, I've been working with a young man. Yeah, so I'm not in shape, but I've been trying so I can hold onto the horse while it trots. (He doesn't have the experience to handle this horse on his  own and we don't like terrorizing our students.) But he's been getting better with posting and two point! (Not enough for him to handle this horse; that would take so much longer.) At one point, the horse got used to hearing the repetition of "up, down" while trotting and, when it heard it while we were walking, it sped up.
My instructor wants to clone me. Why? Coz I'm there and young enough to run around a lot. If there's a lot of people in the lessons, she'll need more young'uns. Of course, that means we'll need more brownies. And scripture smarties.<3 the free foods.
Last, but not least, JIMMY! Yes, my favorite gay boyfriend. ...What? You should see him with Topaz (yes, also male). But that's a matter for another post. What I was going to talk about was my lessons. Today, I got to canter without stirrups. Believe it or not, I did so much better without than with. With, I would brace myself when he sped up. Without, I would have to use successful techniques to slow him. Also, another riding instructor gave me tips to handle it. Singing actually helps! There was one time when the word "canter" entered my brain and he began to speed up. Very few songs that I have memorized have that word in them. Maybe if I connected words like "cthulhu" or...I'm drawing a blank right now, but the point is, associate those with "canter" or "gallop," he might respond the same. Me: "Okay, Jimmy, Cthulhu! Cthulhu!" Jimmy: <WTF, mate?>

We got a new tv! See, my dad had gotten a new entertainment system housing cabinet that dwarfed our old tv, so obviously, we needed a new, bigger one. So...beautiful...and just in time for the Nielson people to solicitate our help. They even bribed us with a dollar!

Also, I plan on going trick-or-treating for Unicef! Anyone want to join me? Or want their own box to hit their locals? And also know me in "real life?" Hopefully, the kit will come soon. Though I can't decide whether I want to try to freak people out (like at the convention), or just assume they don't know who I am. (Turniphead, by the way.)

By the by, loving the new season of "Avatar"! And "Ugly Betty"! And "Bones"! And "House"! "CSI" is a little too dramatic for me and "Numb3rs" had to explain how 2 plus 2 is the same as 2 times 2 and 2 squared.