Chernaudi

Hi everyone. I'm trying to get some stuff looked up today before I go and run my errands. I'll be getting some groceries and I'll also be getting a VIP membership here later today. Other than that, I'll be planning on doin gmore of the same as I have been: looking up stuff, looking up some Audi videos later, doing some gaming stuff, and trying to work on fan fic if I get a chance. I'll be back later

I'm kinda afraid of heights when I'm aware of how high I am off the ground, and I'm not on something sturdy, like a floor in a building or something. I also don't like escalators. I don't like they way I feel when I ride them, though I don't mind elevators.

This is fairly minor compared to River's loss, but this happened just a couple of hours ago. We just lost one of our cats. She was gone for about week, and came home last night ill and she passed away earlier today. That does sometimes happen around here. All of our cats are outdoor cats and sometimes they eat something they shouldn't and they can suddenly become ill. Even at that, though, we've had plenty of cats that lived full life spans. We have one that's about 12 years old, and we've had a couple that lived to be almost 20 years old. Of course, we also have some cats that we're really close to, and it'd be even more sad if we lost one of them. This cat wasn't very close to us, but she was still part of our family.

Well, then I think that you'd really like Lia from my fan fic. She looks like the woman named Lia from the LiaNight music videos I posted, or like a young goth/emo version of Cher. She's pretty feminine for the most part, and she's pretty hot IMO (though she doesn't have piercings or tattoos--vampire hybrid skin doesn't allow for that stuff since the ink won't absorb permanently and piercing tools won't work on vampire/hybrid skin). Her power and ability is manipulating electrical and electromagnetic fields. It allows her to levitate and use her hair and hands to discharge electricity and she can use that manipulation to discharge energy blasts. It also doesn't hurt that Lia is married to Camel, they're soul mates, and they can combine powers and attacks. She's pretty feminine and such, but she's also a fighter and a hard-ass when she needs/wants to be. She's got a loving, feminine personality, but she's also got a slight tomboy complex with her own interest in history and cars and such that she shares with Camel.

I heard that last night on the Weather Channel. A lot of flooding happened along the Gulf coast. There were areas that got more than 10 inches of rain in only a few hours time.

No, actually. That was last night when I first posted about it. But it was weird that the line of storms didn't get any kind of warnings on them until they were on my doorstep, though my brothers saw lightning on the way home over an hour before it hit and I could tell by the lightning outside that it was no ordinary thunderstorm. I even looked on the radar and the line looked ominous though without no sever warnings on it. It's just rainy today, and then it'll cool down tomorrow and stay cool the rest of the week and into next week.

When I want to escape some of the stresses I face, I do various things. One of which is playing video or PC games. I'm a believer that violence belongs in games and not in the real world. I often play Gran Turismo 4 (though I wish I had 6, but I'd need a PS4 for that, and I don't have the money for it yet), but that's just to have fun. A more serious stress reliever is the old Medal of Honor games. Who wouldn't get a kick out of bringing a halt to the Nazi war machine? Besides, in Medal of Honor: Frontline and European Assault, most of the guys you face are from the SS, the Nazi Party's para-military organization that ran the Gestapo and ran the concentration and death camps. What do you think I'd do in the game seeing the SS insignia on these guy's uniforms? And then there's Postal 2. I know that it's a controversial game, and with that fact not withstanding, a fairly crappy game at that (glitchy as all hell and crashes often, among other flaws), but it does make fun of the more jaded and cynical aspects of our world today, buy having you play as the Postal Dude, a rather jaded and cynical person. You can get though the game without harming anyone or anything, but you're clearly not really encouraged to take that route. Why? The town of Paradise is anything but what it's name implies. It's a hellish cesspool that is badly laid out, full of violent protesters, hate groups and criminals that want to kill the Postal Dude while he's doing mundane errands (cashing his pay check, returning a library book, picking up a package from the town parcel center, etc). The town is also a dump, scary music and sounds play though the game, and signs and advertizements in the game showcase the games sarcastic, sardonic humor. The whole game's just absurd beyond belief. But it's the stupid stuff and the absurdity that makes it fun and entertaining. And what other game can we name where you can make the main character walk into a cactus so he can release a stream of profanities and catch phrases (Hey, now I can't feel my legs!, Ow, so that's what it feels like!, etc), tight-rope walk on telephone wires, and run into so many LOL errors in the game, such as disjointed dialogue and programming errors, most of which were probably intentional. Another big stress reliever for me is music and dreaming. I'm addicted to a couple of Jane Child songs called "Welcome to the Real World" and "I Don't Wanna Fall in Love", as well as some Cher songs and Within Temptation songs. I also dream about my fan fic and my OC's in it, namely Lia and Camel, as well as a variation of the scene in the Guyver manga where we're introduced to Shizu, but in Sho's place is Camel. That'll feature in my fan fic at some point. So that's some of the stuff I do to relieve my stress and unwind.

Hi everyone. My area was under a tornado warning last night, though nothing really happened. A severe thunderstrom warning wasn't even issued until the storm was on top of us, and the tornado warning wasn't issued until the storm was gone. Still kinda eerie to hear the tornado sirens off in the distance, though. We got the Pontiac back last night, and I get my social security check tomorrow, so that's grocery day, and we might be getting a new microwave. I'll be looking up some stuff, watching some videos, and playing a bit on the PS2. For dinner tonight, I might be having some pasta stuff that I've been wanting to try out. And I'll probably take a nap between doing some of this stuff. I'll be back later

I know that I've talked about my taco salad nacho thing a lot. I like it because it's easy to make and pretty cheap and easy to eat as well. Basically, to make it, what you'll need is 3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, a hard taco kit, taco cheese, and any thing that you'd want for a taco filling. Make the chicken according to directions, cut into pieces (I cook my chicken before I cut it because it's easier), and brown to taste, then add the taco seasoning and sauce according to directions. Microwave or heat taco shells in over until warm and crunchy. Crumble shells into smaller, tortilla chip sized pieces, and top with chicken and sauce and cheese. Pretty simple, though cooking the chicken is the longest thing that you'll have to do. You can also substitute chicken with ground beef or steak strips.

This is mostly about personality, actually, as well as people's perceptions. Both things will differ from person to person. One of my favorite things to discuss is tomboy vs girly-girl. We have that in Guyver with Shizu, Mizuki and Natsuki showing various traits of femininity, tomboy-ism and girly-girl-ism. Shizu is overtly feminine but fights and is a leader of combatants, Natsuki is a sci-fi addict, and Mizuki is sort of like the damsel. Which is tomboyish or girly-girlish is up to an individual opinion, but I consider all of them to be feminine. Also in my fan fic, we have Lia and Camel. Lia is overtly feminine, but, like Shizu, she's also a fighter and has leadership skills with both men and women. And Camel's a decorated retired Army Officer, a car nut, a weapons expert, but yet he likes doing feminine things with Lia, has long hair, a slightly feminine body-shape, and his battle forms amps the latter up, though it's mostly due to advantages in combat (lower center of gravity and increased agility), and he likes emulating female forms to confront enemies in an "ambush" situation (belief that women are weaker than men, suckering dumbass men into traps, etc). Of course, I think that a lot of standards with gender, race, religion, and stuff like that are kinda arbitrary, overly-broad, and pretty much irrelevant. We're all human, after all, and we're 99% the same, regardless of the 1% that makes us different. Do we let that separate us, or do we embrace our uniqueness and and not let arbitrary standards divide us? I vote for the latter, and the world is a better place for it, and would be a better place if more people appreciated that.

My area was briefly under a tornado warning. Of course, by the time it was issued, it was away from where live. It hailed and rained pretty hard. The really bizarre thing is that it took forever for the NWS to issue any kind of warning, that in spite of the fact that I knew it wasn't a normal thunderstorm. You don't get that much lightning with a regular thunderstorm. It was a bow echo, and sometimes a tornado vortex signature shows up on radar.

My area was just under a tornado warning. It was issued for northern Richland County until 9:45. It was odd, because I knew that the storm was coming and how intense the lighting was, but it took forever it seemed for even a severe thunderstorm warning to get issued anywhere near the storm. It was a huge bow echo, and sometimes the leading edge could have tornado vortex signatures in them.

Well, it's about to storm here now. Though it all should be gone by morning. I'll be watching some videos and getting ready to make some dinner. It'll be chicken taco nachos tonight. After that, I'll be working on some fan fic stuff. Right now, there's a pretty good lightning show out at my house. Of course, one of our cats ran outside. Instant it saw the lightning, it ran for cover. We also got the Pontiac back today, and the oil issue on it's been fixed. I'll be back later

After I'm done watching these videos, I'll probably shave, take a shower, do something on the PS2, hop back on here, finish off Postal 2 (I'm on Sunday in A Week in Paradise mode), look up some Audi videos, and take another break for dinner (I'm thinking my chicken taco nachos again--pretty good stuff IMO), then I'll be taking a nap until I get back up to work on some fan fic.

I'm sorry Riv. Sounds like he was really close to you. I lost my grandma on my father's side a year in a half ago, and though I wasn't especially close to her, she was still my grandma and I was a total wreck and I had to take almost a week off of work. So I can't imagine what you're going though now. My condolences

I just got up less than an hour ago. Actually, I got up shortly after 9:00 to make grandma her breakfast, but I was so out of it that when I got done I went back to sleep. I went to sleep at 5:00 this morning after being up for quite a few hours with only a brief nap. So I'm still a bit out of it now, but I'm listening to some LiaNight covers on YouTube so that should hopefully wake me up. At least I don't have a pounding sinus headache like I usually do when it rains like it did the past couple of days.

Hi everyone. I just got up. I went to sleep last night at 5:00am and got up just past noon. I have more of the usual stuff planned for today: looking up stuff, watching stuff, working on fan fic, etc. Right now, our creek is about 3/4 full of water. That's how much it's rained here, though the sun wants to come out now. I'll keep everyone posted on what's going on with me today. I'll be back later

Sorry If you need help or support, there's a new area on this forum in the General section called The Circle, or you can share your feelings here if you'd like. We're here for you.

My grandma's been better than she's been in quite a while since we had to send her to the hospital because of high blood sugar. We though that she had a stroke at first, but it was mostly high blood sugar making her groggy. She's on new medication, and she is also suffering from dementia, but she's on medication for that. As for me, my biggest concern is that some of my friends were in the firing line for the severe storms, though they've all pulled though OK. This severe storm stuff kinda scares me, especially when my family and friends are in the line for it. I even talked about a dream I had that I just had randomly one night where a storm demolished my house and I was alone in the abyss. Very surreal and dark, and it just happened randomly. Thank god for it not being real and me being on Celixia now. I also kinda fear fire, because we had a house fire that caused part of my house to be remodeled (work that was long awaited anyways). Fire did very little actual damage, but it was enough to displace us until all that stuff got fixed. But since I got home and some stuff got worked on, things in general have been better for me. Only thing I'm frustrated over is not being able to get back to work. I have a job waiting for me, but I haven't been called in for it and I haven't been given a definite date for it to start.

Well, I do like Shizu/Griselda. I do think that her human form is much prettier, though, and that does say something, since Griselda is an esthetically pleasing Zoaform.

I'll be logging off for a while and taking a nap and doing a few things. After that, I'll be back on here and looking up some stuff and working on fan fic

Particularly dangerous situation tornado watch for parts of MS and AL right now, and a large, destructive tornado sturck parts of Tupelo, MS a while ago. Stay safe if you're in the watch area and warning areas.

My issue is trying to shoehorn people into broad categories and trying to have one all-encompassing definition of what is what. I don't think that most people will fit such definitions. It's kinda like saying that a cat's a cat. Perhaps that's true, but there are several breeds of cat, and even the "common" house cat will be different as far as fur color and length, and body structure. People are varying degrees of whatever, and femininity and masculinity are two of the things that will vary from people to people as far as expression, how they feel, and how their personality is. And personality is mostly what I'm trying to look at. People's personalities are different, and what I've mentioned above is no exception. Of course, I do have a beef with how society sets arbitrary standards and how narrow minded they can be.

Jeep will be back home soon. My brother got in touch with my uncle and he got a new tire. Ironically, the tires were due to be replaced. This would be the last summer for those tires, and we have the four new ones here for it, but they're not mounted on rims yet.

Not really, I don't think. It just happened randomly, then kept occurring. At least I haven't had that happen lately.