Things I should probably do before 2010 ends

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Four months left to go in the year, and I still have lots of free time on my hands. It’s high time I knocked some of these things off my “to-do” list:

  • Purchase a replacement PlayStation 2 to fill the void left by the one I gave to my sister (done).
  • Finish watching Ah! My Goddess (22 episodes done), Soul Eater (four episodes), Spice and Wolf (5 episodes), and Clannad (6 episodes done).
  • Start watching Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (missed the Adult Swim run) and The Boondocks Season 3 (one episode).
  • Read Volume 8 of Yotsuba&!, volume 7 of Negima!, volume 3 of Fairy Tail, and volume 5 of Chibi Vampire.
  • Start playing both Valkyria Chronicles games (I bought the second one last night), Castle Crashers, and one or two of the PlayStation 2 games I haven’t yet given away.
  • Try to finish The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, Rune Factory Frontier, Overlord: Raising Hell, and Makai Kingdom (again).
  • Rearrange my room and turn it into a true mini-entertainment center.
  • Finish at least three more chapters of my web serial, The Delta Drifters (I published chapter 1 last week).

Last, and most importantly,

  • GET A JOB!

Filed under: Anime/Manga, Cartoons, Life, Video Games by WillyFourEyes on September 1, 2010 - 11:31 AM
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School is in session again, and…

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…my sister officially begins her first day of college at West Chester University today. We helped her move all of her stuff into her dorm on Friday, and it took our minivan and my dad’s friend’s truck to haul it all over. Everything got set up smoothly, but Dad and I had to go back up there to deliver a book that she wasn’t able to pick up at the bookstore. I’m sure she’ll be scared at first, but she should at least be able to get through freshman year.

Of course, I’m feeling a bit silly now, because I’d given her all of the first three Guitar Heroes to play while she was away, but forgot to send the guitar controllers with me. I could probably take SEPTA to go up there one day and deliver the guitar controllers myself.

Filed under: Life by WillyFourEyes on August 30, 2010 - 4:18 PM
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Delta Drifters sub-site is live!

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So yeah…I started writing this book last week – a story which I’ve decides to call The Delta Drifters. As it is right now, it’s your basic “woman-goes-on-adventure, woman-runs-into-bad-guys, woman-assembles-crew-to-challenge-or-escape-from-the-bad-guys” fantasy yarn, but I’m hoping that over time, as I get some new ideas, it’ll evolve into something a lot cooler and more compelling. I spent hours yesterday trying to find a different CMS to use for posting it, but ultimately settled with WordPress again because I’ve been using it for years and it’s simple enough for me to use and install (I ran into problems getting Joomla to work). The DD site also has information on a few of the characters in the story, as well as help with some terms that may not be fully familiar to first-time readers.

As far as updating does, I’m shooting for a new chapter no later than

Filed under: Literature by WillyFourEyes on August 27, 2010 - 6:47 AM
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GiveAwayStation 2

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After some pontification, a bout of post-teen angst and the realization that I’ve been way too selfish with my belongings over the course of…forever, I’ve decided to give away all of my old PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games. One of my friends suggested that I try selling them on Amazon.com and recoup some cash for them, but it’s too troublesome to go through all that. Some will be split between my sister and her beau, others will be given to my brother and his girlfriend, and the rest are going up for grabs to whichever of my friends wants them. I’m not interested in making any money from this; it would be too much of a hassle to send out so many packages, and would probably cost me more money in shipping than what I would make through sales. My initial plan was to put my entire collection (PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP, etc.) on the “out” pile, but since those still have games being  made for them, I’m going to hold on to them…for now. I won’t make such a drastic liquidation move when the next generation of handhelds and consoles (Nintendo 3DS, etc.) comes out, but at least there’ll be less of a temptation to expand on a collection of games I know I’m not going to use.

Filed under: Video Games by WillyFourEyes on August 25, 2010 - 5:10 PM
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Didn’t make the cut

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I’ve taken down the Let’s Play and Red Mage Radio sections from the website. The first section got removed because my work with Rune Factory Frontier and Overlord: Raising Hell is still in development, while RMR, my attempt at creating a weekly podcast, was a resounding flop and only lasted for three very short episodes. There is a possibility I may bring the first two back once one of them is finished, but it’s both tiring and pointless to try and update them here and on the TV Tropes forum (where I started them) at the same time.

Filed under: Blog by WillyFourEyes on August 23, 2010 - 7:22 AM
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