hello friends

We got another hamster the other day. He had been at Petsmart since February, apparently, and as he got older they had to separate him out from his brothers because he would fight with them, and he just kept getting older with no one wanting him until we adopted him. We have named him Morgan, to continue the pirate-name theme. We are also apparently turning into Mecha and Jenny's Home for Wayward Hamsters. Morgan's fighting style, if you will, is very different from Grainne's; where she would leap and bite as hard as she could, he prefers to slap you. A lot. Slap you with his little hamstery paws, and then nip if the slap doesn't work, and then back off a bit and slap again. Definitely looking to intimidate the giant hand into going away, rather than trying to rip pieces of it off. Kind of cute, really.

Also, did you know Four Panels updated last night? I bet you didn't. But you could have. Oh yes, you could have, through the magic of fourpanelsfeed.

We had to walk Sarah and Ted's dog the other day, because they had for the second weekend in a row left town completely with the poor thing left locked in a crate for other people to deal with (and another dog they were dog-sitting, that got to not be in a crate). When we got there, she had no food or water in her crate. There was no dog food anywhere in the apartment that I could find, and only one water dish, that being out in the living room for the other dog, so I chose to not lock her back up in the crate for the couple of hours I was told it would be before Sarah and Ted got home. Somehow I am the one in the wrong in this situation, and not them. Huh. Funny. Sarah and Ted also lied and claimed we left their front door unlocked and their back door wide open and a bunch of other bullshit, but that is another story.

It's kind of like when a few weeks ago one of their cars got broken into, and so they chose to leave valuables in plain sight in the other car (including mecha's prized mp3 player, which would be irreplaceable even if they bothered to pay him back for it out of the insurance payout which they probably won't), and when SURPRISE SURPRISE the other car got broken into a few days later, it wasn't their fault, it's that they're being targeted by a "hispanic drug gang". Things never are their fault, it seems.

Huh. This is turning into a Sarah and Ted rant post when I'm not THAT mad at them any more. Probably because I didn't get a chance to mention all this earlier. At any rate, toze. Now I am probably going to play more Puzzle Pirates. I wonder if I've beat yesterday's standing of being #19 in ocean-wide carpentry now...?

Okay, thanks to rsspect.com, fp now has its own RSS feed. I've long since tired of having to remember to give update notices in my LJ here, but I'd no idea how the hell to code a proper RSS feed. Sure, I could easily have reuploaded an xml file at update time every Monday and Friday, but that is kind of missing the point of automation.

Of course, setting up the fp script to work with rsspect has given me some idea how I could code my own, but such are the ironies of life.

At any rate, if you're at all interested in Four Panels then you should add fourpanelsfeed to your friends list, or http://rsspect.com/rss/fourpanels.xml to your favorite RSS reader. I'll do manual announces of the next few reviews, and include a link to the feed there too, because I know what it is to be lazy. But after that, if you're not reading the RSS feed, you will be so damn out of the know.

Shifting topics, today would be my birthday. I have reached my first quarter-century. I think that means I'm old or something? Or maybe that's 30. I don't know any cool young kids to ask and make sure. Either way, when I was in high school, I figured that by 25 I'd be graduated from college and teaching somewhere. Instead I am currently waiting in a bizarre limbo state to see if and when IU will get off its ass and give me my financial aid and stuff so I can go back to trying for the sixth or seventh year to finally finish a damn degree. Six if you count years I actually was going to classes full-time, seven if you count calendar years. Jesus. It's depressing.

But! I don't need to think about that now especially since there is literally nothing I can do, up to and including getting my advisor to even answer my emails. So let's shift topics again to kittens.

The thing about kittens? Is they are awesome.

Puppies are acceptable too.

Finally, for anyone who has seen or will seen X3 (spoiler-free): http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1496

FP updated, late but still at least the right day, with The Dead Next Door. Mecha drew and colored this one! Can YOU tell the subtle difference in art style?

Today's review: Die Hard

Now with 100% more "wtf?!". Also 100% more "will finish shading later today".

Belated:

Today's review: Dawn of the Dead (1978)

It went up on time, I was just asleep when it happened and thus could not post about it.

Today's review: V for Vendetta

Sorry, no funny today. This would be mecha's fault.

Today's review does not exist. Four Panels returns as usual Monday.

Just wondering, can anyone tell who this is?

It actually looks to me like who it's supposed to be, and I'm wondering if I'm the only one who sees it. Excuse the crap quality, I haven't inked it yet.

Also, it is eight in the morning and I haven't slept yet. Because I'm not sleepy yet.

Whee.