neko’s thinkbox

Eh, this might be an extension of the two twitters I just spat out a couple of seconds ago… I think I just had something like bad conscience about neglecting my blog, or whatever. Well either way, I didn’t keep my schedule (as usual) to blog about Hyakko5, Index6 (and now tora7, hyakko6 and index7, soon tora8 and hyakko7 too! yay), not to mention my one day trip to Venice, or the 2 packages I got this week.

Yep, as it were, I raped that schedule to death twice with that stupid FFTA A2 which I still haven’t finished. Crud. I think I’m bent on getting at least 300 quests done before the final thing, if there ever will be a senseful end to that tiring and honestly boring game. (And before you ask, no I can’t let go this far in the game now -_-)

And there will be definitely no updates until Wednesday either, because I will be leaving to Venice again tomorrow, this time for two days. I’d promise to update soon after I return, but as it has been the case in July and now a week ago, every time I return from Venice, I become so comfortably lazy here at home, procrastinating in my blissful state excuses. Anyway, once my little mind barrier breaks (which should happen with the end of that goddamn A2), I should catch up to all of the stuff I missed. Most probably gonna batch blog them episodes or so…

So anyway, sorry about the lack of updates. You guys must already be used to this, but bear with me. If you really must know, some more excuses and musings after the jump.

Rest assured, I’m not 24/7 on my DS just yet: 3 hours of FFTA usually forces me to take a 1hr break. There is a limit to how much faggotry I can stand - 3 hours of FFTA over two minutes of saturnine’s faggotry any time though - but I didn’t feel like being on the computer all the time. Guess I really needed a little break from this bright 22″ TFT which so often kept me awake until dusk. Actually, these days I seem to be having quite a healthy sleep pattern: from 10pm to 6am, I rarely slept like this during holidays. Not that I often missed morning tv programs, but they feel much better if you’re actually waking up instead of falling asleep. Heh, it’ll be a matter of days until it’s ruined again.

But apart from wasting my time gaming, there were quite a few things IRL too. As I had rapidly tweeted some days ago, my mum had a pretty stupid mishap with the car (she forgot to pull the hand brake, and you can already see where this is going - the wall in this case). Despite looking like a minor accident, the expert from the insurance company deemed it an “abandonment” - repair costs exceed the actual value of the car.

This is not a Renault.

Thank goodness for Physical Damage Insurance, at least we get some money for the damaged car. Makes buying a new car less painful. And despite the ZOMG terrible crisis in the economy (esp. car market), prices won’t lower just yet. If only this accident had happened in a few months…
So it took quite a few afternoons to search for a nice bargain, but in the end we still stayed with Renault :D It’s a diesel this time, because petrol gets much too expensive these days. New car comes on the 26th, yay~

And also, my mum (in her despair) forced me to help her clean up at an acquaintance’s home where there was a flood in the basement a couple of months ago - lots of antiquities needed to be carried around and what-not; old stuff at an old lady’s home, a very stereotypical setup IMO. But hey, that couple of afternoons there netted me 200 Euros in the end. Easy pocket money for my Venice trip tomorrow!

Which reminds me, I should get things packing now. Damn, this late already? Heh, thought I’d be typing something real fast, and I ended up writing an entire novel again.

If you didn’t understand a thing right now, well I do understand myself. No need to make sense of it, don’t waste any more time.

(Also Simbou, I thought I already had uploaded everything before my long absence? I’ll check by the staff chan after my trip, if Rizon finally stopped hating me.)

Oh wait on second thought, I did spend 20 minutes on the comp this week. I absolutely wanted to make myself an ARIA theme for my R4 :D