Okay, I just. Want to post this; I don't use this much, but there's this incredible fucking book trilogy that was released recently; first came out October, second this month. I haven't read the second, but the first was. Remarkable. Instantly became my favorite book series. Authored by a guy named Brent Weeks. "The Night Angel Series".

It is a very, very dark fantasy novel.

To sum it up, it chronicles the life and journey of a child, as he grows up to learn to be a type of assassin (in the first book, about the first thirdish shows the growing); they call themselves "wetboys." Basically assassins that are much better at their trade, and have Talent -- a special ability that lets them do minor things. Ranging from dampening the sound of their footsteps, create illusions, even strengthen their bodies.

Seriously, if you like dark novels, and/or fantasy novels.. give this a peek. You can read the first two chapters or so of the first book, "The Way of the Shadows", Here.

I would give examples of the darkness, but I don't really want to give much away.

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I've avoided doing this for a week and three days, now... but..

RIP, Athena.

Spore... you failed, and you failed HARD.

Marriage, huh...?

George Carlin died :

So. Minor discrepancy in my heartbeat. Guess it's nothing to worry about, but getting an echo just in case.

What use are friends when, I finally feel the need for one, none are there for me?

Things to do today, hopefully time permit:

Close accounts at fucking Comerica.
Open account at TCF Bank.
Mail a letter.
Ship a computer.

Yar.

My mom bought a 27 dollar item, online, towards Best Buy, with a gift card given to her by a family member. It was a USB network adapter for the Wii, to give it internet access.

It arrived today, and we open it. Inside, we find...

A 350 dollar GPS device. Yep.

I guess.. my new years resolution..

Will be to get a new years resolution by next new year. :P

I am so fucking confused.

So, yeah. On the 13th. I purchased my computer, leaving my account at $25.82. That same day, I installed FFXI and POL, because friends were starting that again, and I figured I'd start as well.

I login, and it tells me I had pending fees. I was like, fuck, whatever, and paid it -- checked my account online to see that my account was at $12.57, which isn't enough for the 12.95 subscription so, I waited. I had a 50 dollar deposit the next day, checked my account to make sure (was about $60, I didn't check precise), and then subscribed, played, etc. I should've been put at $62.57, then, upon subscribing, $49.62, right?

Today, I decided to take a look at my account history. Got the computer purchase, with me at $25.82. 'kay. ..But.. the next thing on the history is the deposit... which.. has me at $75.82, and then the next is the subscription charge -- $62.87. That's my current account balance.

I'm fucking confused as to what happened to that first charge BECAUSE I SAW IT CHANGE MY ACCOUNT BALANCE.

"Your average framerate during the stress test was 183.07 fps"

..I love you, computer.

Past purchase.

nVidia GeForce 8800 (PCI-E)-- 269.99
-- 20 dollar shipping (I think, I can't remember)
===== ~290 dollars ====


Seagate Barracuda 250gb Hard Drive -- 69.99
ASUS AM2 Motherboard, x2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 memory slots, 7 SATA -- 124.99
Artic Cooling Thermal Compound -- 6.99
OCZ Gold series 1x2gb sticks memory, DDR2 -- 57.99, 10 dollar rebate
AMD Athlon X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2 GHz -- 179.99
Artic Cooling CPU cooling unit -- 19.99

-- 10.52 shipping

==== 470.47 dollars ====

~760 for a top-of-the-line computer. People who say you can't get a good one for less than 1,000 dollars, eat your hearts out.

..I need someone who doesn't mind risking sickness, nor extremely warm bodies.

I'm so fucking cold. Blankets aren't cutting it.

Hmm, I'm talking out loud as if there's someone here. And I 'respond', as if someone is talking back.

This concerns me a bit. Ah well.

"Our first and last love is... self-love"

I think it's taunting me. Stupid fortune cookies.

Fuck you, sites that require your password to be more than 8 letters, less than 15. Fuck you, sites that require you to have a number in your password. Fuck you, sites that require your password to have uppercase letters.

Fuck you sites for making me create more passwords, fuck you sites for making accounts more complex than they need to be for people with half a brain. Fuck you, sites, for being so nazi on people, believing that they are so stupid that they'll use an easy-to-figure-out password, trading that assumption, instead, for causing people to forget their passwords and/or write it down where it's even easier to figure out.