my new best friend

Sarah and I both had hours to kill yesterday afternoon so we ACTUALLY got to hang out with each other which was really nice.  I really haven't seen much of Sarah since this incident.  The good news is that you can still kind of see "caution the driver is a FOOL" on the back window and it still says "FOO" on the sunroof.  As an added bonus, it was the first time I had seen Anna since then as well so I got to receive her accolades on a job well done at pranking Sarah.  I think her exact words were, "I was like, 'oh man, why didn't I think of that?!"

Muahahaha.

But the real story here is about Chewy, Anna's dog, who I got to meet yesterday.  I don't know why I have been kept apart from him for this long when clearly we are two peas in a pod.

He was such a nice guy, he kept trying to climb in my lap so he could breathe heavily in to my ears.  They were all making fun of me for how much I loved Chewy, not unlike the evening I met Sparkles.  I think the point is that I need to just get a dog.

I think Chewy agrees.

how I feel about my friends in relationships

Haha HE IS NICE.  

Thank you Jonathan for sending this to me. 

worth it, as always

I beat Majora's Mask, it moves so quickly at the end, I forget there's no final dungeon.  It's a shame too because you get all the best gear right at the end.  It left me with a taste for Zelda, but I needed more, so I decided to put in Skyward Sword.

I haven't done anything with this game since I beat it back in December or January or whenever that was but I knew that there were still some heart containers I hadn't gotten and things like that.  What I had completely forgotten was that by beating it the first time I had unlocked "hero mode" but then never played it.  I was saving it for just such a time as the dog days of summer when I have nothing better to do.

I'm patting myself on the back right now.

The even better news was that they let me change my character name.  For the first play-through I had to go with Link, I didn't want to sully the experience of the game.  But now that I'm doing it again I could change it to my favorite.

What's funny is that I actually remember playing it the first time and reading things like, "...Link?  Ah, Link.  Good.  Very Good." and thinking, 'man that's going to be so funny when it's Uranus".

Again, I am patting myself on the back.

There have been a couple good ones so far but the best I accidentally skipped past in my frantic A button pressing.  I was glad I managed to catch the one above, and I'm sure there will be plenty more to come.

What's not fun about "hero mode" is that enemies do double damage and there are no health items anywhere in the game.  You have to rely entirely on potions and fairy's, which you'd think would be a recipe for success for me but so far it has not been.  I don't think I ever saw the game over screen the first time I played this game and I only just beat the first temple and have already seen it more times than I'd like to think about.

We'll see how long it takes me to beat it this go around.

two well behaved ladies

Heather is once again out of town which means I get to visit these two precious angels.  It's still early on so they are both excited to see me when I first come through the door.

Can't you tell?

They are like, "just give it to us straight, how long is she going to be gone this time?"

I don't think Paris is pleased.

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They both let me hold them and pet them!  Paris was purring furiously while I held her but only tolerated it for a few moments before she struggled to get away while Mia did her classic 'show no emotions and just wait for it to be over' which she definitely learned from the detective.

So far no damage or destruction!  They are nice.

omg SO GOOD

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So the much ballyhoo'd Triumphant has been released to listen to on mariahcarey.com and I do enjoy it, I do.  ESPECIALLY because they mention being in a James Bond two seater beemer and while they are probably talking about this:

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I am going to imagine that they are talking about this:

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But back to Mariah.  She released this song on her website earlier this week and then followed it up with the announcement that she had already done a remix as well.

And oh, its good, it's real good.  I am definitely putting this on my running playlist, and by that I mean I am just going to put it on repeat for my entire run.

I'm also really excited that this song is so good because the hope is that it will become her 19th #1 single.  I feel like everyone is so distracted at her 18 million dollar contract with American Idol that they aren't realizing it's all about publicity so she can finally get to the top of this list:

Most number-one hits

• The Beatles (20)
• Mariah Carey (18)
• Elvis Presley (17) (Pre-Hot 100 charts and Hot 100)
• Michael Jackson (13)
• Madonna (12) tie
• The Supremes (12) tie
• Whitney Houston (11) tie
• Rihanna (11)^[25] tie
• Janet Jackson (10) tie
• Stevie Wonder (10) tie

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I can't wait to see her first interview when she gets her 21st.  "I don't know who the Beatles are".  No, she would never, she'll come up with something amazingly classy to say I'm sure.

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Like I said, I can't wait.  In the meantime I am literally listening to this remix on repeat, and intend to for the rest of the day.  I suggest you do the same.

a pleasant august so far

I've been struggling with a summer cold the past few days which has been annoying.  The good news is that I have had a couple days off work from a trip to LA that was never meant to be.

I forced myself to go to the beach, even through my dayquil haze.  It was a beautiful day and I'm glad I went, I just wish I had felt better.  I couldn't tell where the fever sweats stopped and the beach sweats started.

Otherwise I've kept myself holed up in my apartment, drinking tea and working on the Anju & Kafei quest.  I've been getting little support or comfort from this guy:

I feel better though, as of this morning.  I might even go for a run and try to work out the last of this mess in my system.  I was just reminded of the fact that it's Friday.  I could actually go out and do something tonight.

Watch out Miami.

I just noticed this

The roadster doesn't have a spare tire, both because there isn't space and because there are two different size tires on the car, so instead they threw this in the trunk.  It's basically an air pump and then there's a can of spray sealant.  Very James Bond.

So in all the times I've been in the trunk and seen this air pump I've never bothered to read what it says. It's that first sentence that I can't make any sense of.

"To be filled easily visible for the driver."

What?  It's troubling because you get through most of the sentence feeling like it's going somewhere logical and then it all just kind of gets mucked up at the end.  I am not filled with a lot of confidence by this, especially as it brandishes the BMW logo so brazenly.  So this was clearly printed by BMW, do they not have proofreaders?  Much less proofreaders, wasn't there anybody at the plant who read enough English to notice this and point out that it doesn't make any sense?

Speaking of, maybe one of you who speaks german can read the bottom part of that and tell me what the translation is trying to say.  Perhaps it's just one of those lost in translation situations, there's no way to really capture what they want you to do with the air pump.  Rest assured though, the tire will be filled easily, and it will be visible for the driver.