There are new Kanesaki scans available over at ikemendokusai

I wanted to make sure I posted them before I passed out asleep. ♥

RIGHT, OKAY



DISCUSS PEOPLE....*__________________*

(turkeyimposter and I were drooling and orgasming like you'd never know discussing that if the real Niou in Negahyst's 'Ring' met the one that Yagyuu duplicated, THIS WOULD BE WHAT THEY WOULD DO. OKAY. THERE NEEDED TO BE A FOLLOW UP ON THIS STORY CLEARLY)

OK SORRY THE CAPSLOCK HAS BEEN RAPED...BUT WTF LOOK FUCKING NIOUxNIOU ADKSJGHLDSKGABSKJFBAS.DF

So, after the ridiculous week and all the stress and problems and going insane at work, what do I come home to?



KANESAKI PACKAGE. BEST. PACKAGE. EVER.

MAKE YOUR DIRTY JOKES I AM TOO HAPPY TO CARE. /CAPLOCK

FC & Event stuff from his trip to Bali. Photos. Calendar. Pamphlet. DVD. Clearfile.

Leah die now. ♥

You know, I may go days, weeks, even months without necessarily thinking about Kanesaki at any given time, but then when I do, it's like a starving dog perking up at the word 'food'.

An attachment I apparently cannot shake. :|

OH WELL. IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, JOIN 'EM.

EXCUSE ME I HAVE FANGIRLING TO DO. RIDICULOUS, INDULGENT, BLATANT FANGIRLING. IRL CAPSLOCKING WITHIN MY OWN HEAD. Thank you.

~à tout à l'heure~

ETA: Important Fact -- Apparently Yagami and Kanesaki are sharing hats, now.

LAST POST OF THE EVENING unless something majorly awesome comes along, like if the refrigerator in the lab catches fire again.

I promise.

I just had to spam this youtube video link, because I was watching it and remembered how much I love it.

Wang Leehom covering Billy Joel's 'Piano Man'

Piano Man is one of my favorite songs, and is my favorite Billy Joel song. Wang Leehom does an epic cover. Wang Leehom was also one of the good things about that crazy MOON CHILD movie Gackt did. *coughcough* ;3

I really want to do a music rec post. TAT

PLEASE READ THIS POST AS TONGUE-IN-CHEEK. I AM ACTUALLY LAUGHING AS I TYPE IT.

ETA: OMG I love you, flist. The comments on this entry are epic. ♥

I am twenty-eight years old. I am not old. I am YOUNG. I am not even thirty yet. I AM JUST ENTERING MAJOR ADULTHOOD. Then I sit and read newspaper articles and I feel like I should be reaching for my cane and rambling about BACK IN MY DAY and yelling at kids to get off my lawn. DO THEY EVEN KNOW WHAT A LAWN IS NOWADAYS?

Case in point:

In the newspaper (Burlington Free Press) for November 12, 2009, they had an article about Vermont colleges abolishing landline phones from dorms. They are still keeping them in admin offices and one in each hall, but apart from that and international students on a necessary basis, landline phones are gone.

Because of cellphones, of course.

( Oh god, I sound like an old person. )

Am I really that old? Or do I just hate crappy journalism?

I also hate the music on pop radio stations. Everything is crap or outright offensive. 'Come fuck me against a dirty bathroom wall. Fuck me against a car in the alley.' THEY DON'T SAY FUCK, BUT THIS IS REALLY ON THE RADIO. Does nobody make actual music anymore? Women just sing about shaking their asses and their tits all over the place and bumping and grinding in the clubs. Guys sing about just being powerless to do anything but want to bang them and then follow-up with 1408972389472 songs about OH I AM SO SORRY I CHEATED ON YOU WAAAAH! When you started 'getting with' some chick because of her tits and ass what the hell does anyone expect when the dude starts banging some other chick. SURPRISED? He didn't give a crap about you for anything but your body, you can't expect him to stick around if another, hotter girl wants to hop on his gearshift, yanno. OH MY GOD I HAVE TO STOP THIS I THINK I JUST AGED 20 YEARS.

*sob*

P.S. THERE IS ONE SONG ON THE RADIO I LIKE. Owl City - Fireflies

My parents always told me I was 'born old'. :|

Me half-raising my nephew is going to be fun! :D;;; I am suddenly reminded of the new manga with Sanada and his nephew :| :| :|

So, after all the frustration of work, Shann managed to cheer me up with goofy Tenipuri stuff.

( Long, ridiculously hilarious conversation. )

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Okay, so I have three 6 to 8-page essays to write for classes within a month's time (thankfully not all due the same day) before finals. It's not particularly hard, since I know what I'll be writing about, so once I get them out of the way, I'll hopefully be able to do some major catching up on all my blogs. Tomo's and all of the D-Boys' bloga are now inaccessible, but if I can continue it, I will. Next, I'll definitely focus on Nagaoka's, especially the last batch of back-backdated entries that I started.

In other words, after mid-December, I should have a steady-ish stream of translations coming in, unless my work tells me I have to work during winter break (like they always tell me to do). BUT I HAVE MY LAPTOP AND I WILL TRANSLATE DURING WORK IF I HAVE TO!

Yeah.

Thanks, everyone, for your ultimate patience.
disutansu

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Fangirls and boys of Seto Kouji, I bring you happy news!

As of today, inspired by all the Kpop pic-a-day comms here on lj, I have officially opened a pic-a-day community dedicated to no other than the ever gorgeous Seto Kouji ! HOORAY! Partey time & balloons all around. Drinks are on me (-:

Anyway,
I need affiliates, and perhaps another poster.

So if you want to join, watch, lurk, stalk, contribute, or whatever; click on the half-assed banner below (-:

I just got back from my sister's.

Ryoma peed on me. \:D/ While I was changing him. He had some major distance on it. :| I HAVE NOW BEEN THROUGH MY HAZING RITUAL AND CAN TEACH CLASSES ON BABY PEE 101. I had cleaned him up and put a fresh diaper on. I went to go attach the little sticky tags on the side of the diaper, let it loose for a second by mistake, and... whoosh. NEEDED ANOTHER NEW DIAPER.

Oh, what fun.

He is at the I WILL MAKE FACES CONSTANTLY AND FLAIL MY WEE ARMS AND LEGS BECAUSE OMG I CAN TELL I HAVE ARMS AND LEGS NOW :D stage.

It is cute.

I JUST WENT BACK 300 ENTRIES ON MY FLIST. *sob* I cannot go back any more. I was desperately trying to catch up on people, but I have a massive headache, and still need to go visit my sister and Ryoma now.

♥♥♥

300dpi scans of Seto Kouji, Shirota Yuu x Yanagishita Tomo, Igarashi Shunji etc from the three magazines listed in the title.

( This way, this way~ )

1. Have you been to the new D-Boys info blog? I feel somewhat better, seeing that there are new pictures and that different members are posting.

2. Hey, Seto's hair is black!

3. I guess it is for his role in Rinne no Ame? (I've blogged about this here and here.)

4. I recognized the kanji [雨] for あめ (ame) without having to look it up! I'm so proud.

I woke up about an hour ago, and since then have been completely amused.

I started watching an episode of MST3k, which made me think of Shann. I sign on to AIM, since I haven't been doing that lately, and, lo! she is on. She makes me remember that Kite's birthday just happened, which means his CD is out (apparently she has the same birthday), and I go to find it.

I think it is rather awesome.

Which then leads us to this Pair-Puri thing. I have been away from fandom for ages, and the last SPOT I read was the chapter where Atobe and Hiyoshi were playing, so it's been a while.

All I have to say is... WTF. Sanada's nephew(?) looks like RENJI, which clearly means that my theory that Sanada's older brother and Renji's older sister hooked up is entirely THE TRUTH.

Me: All they have to do is arrange marriage Yukimura's little sister to Renji and it's a clusterfuck family

Shann: OH GOD THAT'S EXACTLY THEIR PLAN ISN'T IT

I will not mention Batobe. I will not mention Batobe.

I am still dying inside. THANK YOU KONOMI.

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I really, really love Crimson Gem Saga. I think I picked it up used for like 14$, and I have more than gotten my money's worth out of it. I'm in Chapter IV now, farming medals from the lower levels of Ziggurat before I go up any further and can't go back.

Not last night, but the night before, I had a serious WTF moment. I was sleeping, and heard this insane CRASHBOOMCLATTERSMASH SMASH CLATTER CLANG BOOM CRASH, and it woke me up. I sat up, wondering what the hell was going on, fast enough to see the cat bolting out of the bathroom like his ass was on fire. I put on my glasses and got up, and saw he was shaking water off his paws.

Then I looked in the bathroom and started laughing. Basically, he had peed in my tub again, and I was cleaning it out with water and disinfectant. I left the water sitting in the tub to soak. I pulled the curtain shut. He went to jump in there again, but apparently just blind-jumped straight from the floor to the tub, without climbing on the rim first to ease in. Just jumped straight in, expecting it to be empty.

It was full of water, so he freaked the hell out, ran around the tub trying to get out, slammed into all my heavy (huge economy size) shampoo bottles and bodywash bottles, flew out of the tub, and out into my bedroom.

I WISH I had a video camera.

Yesterday morning while we were out buying cat litter and frozen dinners for inappropriate to have for work, we stopped in the frozen foods aisle. She was pissed that the Lean Cuisine dinners she usually gets for $2.50 apiece when they are not on sale had jacked up their price 29 cents each. She reached for them, and the whole row fell over on her.

She muttered, "Screw you, Lean Cuisine!" out loud, by accident.

There was a woman standing about a foot away from us, getting something out of another freezer, and she burst out laughing her ass off. Like, SERIOUSLY laughing HARD. inappropriate turned RED AS HELL but all three of us cracked up. The woman was still chuckling after we walked away.

She stayed red for a while, but said, "Hey, at least I made somebody's day!"

We had an event in the elevator on our way home, also.

I was carrying my purse, a tote bag, a 20lb box of litter, a loaf of bread, and three grocery bags, plus my wallet with my swipecard to get into the building. She had her arms full with grocery bags and her purse. I managed to swipe the card and push the handicapped 'open' button for the first two doors, and then set something down to push the 'up' button at the elevator. It was really hard to pick stuff up once I put it down, though, so when we got IN the elevator, I kind of had to just... lean on the console and push the button... sort of with my chest >>

The following ensued:

Her: I wonder how many people have touched that button...?
Me: ... ... ...
Her: ... ... ...
Me: I wonder if anyone has ever pushed it with their wang? (joking, really)
Her: ... I was just thinking that same thing... you sick, sick puppy.
Me: *starts lol-ing*
Her: ... It's funny that I just called YOU a sick puppy when I was thinking the same thing.

*ELEVATOR ARRIVES*

Me: *still laughing, walking* Now I have to get inside so I can change this shirt, ewwwww.

I love being an adult.

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.