Kenji Murakami

Mom and I have just finished whipping up a homemade cheesecake; I can smell it baking in the oven even now. P: I love cheesecake.

I hope you can find some new income soon, Ryuki. And I'm glad you're feeling better.

Things seem to have picked up now, at least. On another note, this is kind of late news, but I've started transcribing the written pages of my Guyver fanfics into the computer. So that's kind of fun.

Courtesy of RinkWorks: I work for an entertainment company that has about 150 stores. We run servers in the back office that connect out to dumb terminals that the associates use to ring sales. This is probably the worst call I had to field in two and half years of tech support: Her: "Umm, My thingies aren't up!" Me: "Your thingies aren't up?" Her: "Yes, my thingies aren't up!!" Me: "Ok, calm down. What exactly are you talking about?" Her: "The thingies! You know, the thingies that have wires coming out of them!" Me: "Do you mean the cash registers?" Her: "I guess." Me: "Are you talking about the thing that looks like a small TV screen. The place you ring up sales?" Her: "Yeah! The TV thingies! They aren't up!" Me: "Ok. What happens when you flip the switch on the front of the monitor?" Her: "Nothing." Me: "Are all of your terminals blank? Like they're turned off?" Her: "Yes. Everything looks turned off." After ten minutes of checking power cords on one or two of the terminals her manager gets on the phone. Him: "Why do you have my associate messing with the terminals?" Me: "Because she called and asked for help." Him: "Well I don't know who you think you are, but you WILL NOT tell my associates what to do!" Me: "Well, sir, if you want this problem to get fixed, I'll have to talk to someone." Him: "No! From now on we'll fix our problems by ourselves, we don't need your help anyway!" (click) Riiiiinnnnnnngggggg....... Him: "Yeah, I need some help. The last idiot I talked to didn't know what he was talking about." Me: "Well, sir I'll be glad to help." Him: "Nothing is working." Me: "Does any of the equipment in the backroom have power?" Him: "Hold on.... No. Nothing has power. This entire side of town has been blacked out since 3:00am." Me: "Sir, I need you to take the monitor from terminal 1 and move it to terminal 4, then take terminal 6 and move it to terminal 1." There is a long wait while he lugs the terminals around. It's not a pleasant task, because of all the dirt and dust that builds up. Him: "Ok, I'm done. What now?" Me: "Well, first, I was the 'idiot' you talked to before. Second, a man who doesn't realize that computers need power to work has no real right to comment on someone else's intelligence, does he?" Him: "Uhh, bahh, uggh." (click) The actual time I spent with the manager on the phone was about twenty minutes. I got written up, but it was worth it.

This place seems kinda dead lately. Still, I do enjoy hanging out here. I hope we get some new topics to discus in the future.

Chapter 22 has been completed and posted; I'm going to hold off on 23 for a bit, though. I need a bit more material to work with.

I've got twelve members of Chronos' sub-Council of Disciple Zoalords; only four of them are viable at the moment, but all twelve have been introduced in some fashion.

Yeah; I don't think some of the things that Wade says about him will go over too well with Alkanphel.

Thanks. Tou can rest assured that nothing like that's going to happen to him in my story. Maybe to someone else, but not to him.

These are the two titlecards I've made for my previous two stories. I don't have one for Meeting Places yet, like I said, since I don't have a good picture of Sean or Ryan that I can use. This is as far as I've gotten: mp1.bmp

I think that would be interesting; if you wanted to do the work, that is.

I don't know, she seems a little scrawny to me. She'd look better with a bit more muscle; I can see her ribs.

I think I might start posting my story Meeting Places, in spite of the fact that I don't have a finished titlecard. I'm not quite sure yet, though.

From what I know, you've covered the salient points. Good job, Ryuki.

At one of the houses I lived at years ago, we used to have a bush that grew in front that went all the way up to the roof. I'd climb up it and look out over the neighborhood when the mood came over me. It was fun. I almost wish we had something like it at this place, since we live on the second story, but the big tree outside is too far away to be of any help, and there are no low-hanging branches on it anyway.

My mom's thinking about setting up a blog, but for some reason she doesn't like the way that LiveJournal calls the people who watch your journal for updates your "friends". My mother, folks, I love her, but she's nuts.

It'd be really interesting to have Alkanphel and Deadpool in the same place again, maybe for a bit longer this time.

Woah, that's a very cool paintjob. Nice base, too. Shiny.

I dressed up as Egon when I was four. I've liked it since then, too.

The first one actually came out the year I was born.

You're welcome, Jerry. I hope I wasn't too incoherent; it was late and I was just about to hit the sack when I typed that up.

Remember this? I love this movie.