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Yeah, it’s been far too long since I wrote anything of substance in here. I’ve been reading, just not writing. Oops.

The girl: Amazing as always. We spent last weekend at her parents’ house for her dad’s 50th birthday. Fun times. I helped her dad cut down trees in the front yard and move some huge furnace into the basement of an apartment complex he runs outside of town. It’s fun doing small projects like this. Liz’s family is always fun to hang around.

Being on the same shift is absolutely awesome. Whenever we’re not at work we’re together, even if we’re not doing the same thing. I’ve been spending time playing through Earthbound in anticipation of the Mother 3 translation (which is nearly finished) and Liz will sit right next to me either watching some downloaded TV shows or cruising the LJ communities and Japanese shops for lolita stuff. She cooks meals for me, and I’ll clean up afterwards. We have some common TV shows we like to keep up on too, so that’s always fun.

Work: frustrating at times, especially when supervisors clash over my priorities. I do a lot of extra work that isn’t quite related to my assigned position, but I do it because I’m one of the few that possesses the knowledge. So when I go back to my assigned job, it’s almost like they’re looking for reasons to go after me. It’s silly. And the scary part about that is that the upper management kinda just… doesn’t care. I do the extra work that will no doubt benefit the company in the long run, so that’s what matters to them. This small stuff the supervisors chase me down for is the last thing they worry about.

As I write this now I’m researching things for work. I was there for almost 12 hours today, and I’ll probably pull another 12 tomorrow. It’s crazy. I love solving problems and tweaking the system. I’m sure it will pay off after this project gets finished. There’s been talks of me moving to another department… which I would gladly take.

Internets: Nothing’s really changed. Still got the same servers, the ROM site hasn’t changed really and I just haven’t mustered up the effort to finish the GBA set that *needs* to be finished. I’ll get to it. I need to work on the tracker too… but once again, just finding the time and effort for it. I wish there were two of me. That would be much easier.

School: Eh, it’s school. Taking statistics and some risk management course. Boooooring.

Guess that sums things up. See everyone again in a month haha.

My past weekend was pretty awesome. I had to work Saturday morning, but I suppose the rest of the time made up for it.

Liz and I spent some time at the mall (well, 3 trips worth actually), mostly because Saturday was busy as hell there during the day and after we saw Roller Derby downtown we decided to catch Tropic Thunder. Awesome movie. I wasn’t expecting much out of it, so I was thoroughly pleased. Most comedies these days are just filled with stupid toilet humor, not really my bag. TT was done really well though.

We also had a meal at the awesome Vegan restaurant downtown, where I proceeded to make fun of the PETA flyers they had there. Ever wonder why all their photos are taken in the middle of the night? Maybe it’s because they break into farms illegally and then doctor them up afterwards? Maybe one should take into account that PETA kills more animals than it adopts out. I’m sorry, but animal rights activists amuse me greatly.

Sunday we went back to the mall to finish up some shopping since Saturday was way too effin’ busy, and then went for a walk in the park. The weather was absolutely beautiful for it. Headed back to the apartment and laid back watching Hot Fuzz which was absolutely amazing. Can’t believe it took me this long to see it. And I’m sure demi’s going to kill me for that statement

Came home from work today to see my sister making margaritas. Since my mother claims they’re “too strong” I now have two of them.

Trying to spend my spare time doing more productive things, since I’m working 10 hour days and I don’t get much free time to myself. I updated my ROM site with an updated MAME set and I’m hard at work at fixing the GBA ROMs. It’s just time-consuming. Still looking for a host that offers 100mbit unmetered at a decent price. School’s keeping me busy still, too.