Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 12:50 Only on Dec. 25th do I not get online before noon. Merry Christmas~ :)
• 12:51 @FinalMacstorm as my mother-in-law got a Husky snuggie, Erin said "It's not christmas until someone gets a snuggie."
• 12:52 @FinalMacstorm XII? Don't they know that we're supposed to play that in February?
• 12:54 @sabin1001 Was SMB Wii even on your amazon list? I don't recall it.

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Deluxe digital Dragon Age and Borderlands. Also apparently a "huge" Transformers toy whenever my mom can locate it... nobody's had it or something. I want to say new-age Devestator, but who knows.

Honestly, last month's purchase of a super video card was kind of the big christmas thing. But oh how wonderful that is. Crysis in smooth 30fps on very high = drool.

Anyway, I suppose going to look for a generator tomorrow could be construed as a christmas gift, so that if this ice shit shows up here WE WON'T FREEZE TO DEATH AGAIN. *shudder*

Merry Christmas everyone! Now move, I've got some cookies to eat.

Happy holidays to all my friends list.

Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 10:06 Apparently my #FFXIII holiday card arrives last week and I wasn't informed. Thanks SquareEnix, it looks sweet. :)
• 10:16 [Aion] Hit 25 with my Spiritmaster. My spirits fly now. I'm pleased. They still can't travel up elevators, but it's a start.
• 10:17 RT: @RPGamer: Final Fantasy XIV - 27 Screens - 2 Art: bit.ly/4QBOXU -- So pretty. I wanna play now.
• 13:14 @sabin1001 Because you can't tweet with your iPhone? ^.~
• 15:07 @sabin1001 Have fun. Glad you decided to fly.
• 15:09 @sabin1001 TV lying? How could you say such a thing. It's on TV so it must be true* (*Until told otherwise by a court of law).

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My brain leakage for today...

• @dresdencodak That would seem to be the Dresden Codak formula, but do you want a formula? #

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Well it's Christmas Eve, at least it is here on the east coast of the USA.  I wish all believers a merry Christmas.  I myself will be working tonight, and tomorrow.  Aside from the usual surprise gifts which I always end up getting, I'm just getting money- I will put it toward updating my computer or getting a receiver and speakers for the telly.  After looking at the new FFXIV screenshots, I have to say that updating the computer ASAP in case I get in the beta is very, very tempting.

Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 10:08 @merrygodown uhm, yes. :)
• 10:11 Just got started with Sakura Wars V [SW5]. Don't want to spoil too much before the impression, though. :)
• 10:12 @sabin1001 You were so happy you knocked yourself offline? Now I have no one to talk to on AIM.
• 10:15 @wagamamajuliet Your dad normally buys girl clothes? Interesting.
• 10:20 @merrygodown Maybe she was hot a few decades ago. Now she was just a bitchy old maid~
• 10:27 The day the last harry potter movie came out, I was out of the office. I picked it up the next day, but they mailed a copy anyway. Now what?
• 10:30 @DHStom Nah, WB only gives us DVD copies.
• 10:30 @merrygodown Dude. She's 60. I refuse to find a 60yo hot. I just can't do it.
• 11:24 @TheRealMariners Aww, the first trade I don't like. Morrow showed real promise.
• 12:11 RT: @merrygodown: Oh Victor Ireland. Your ego amuses me to no end.
• 14:29 @SquareEnixSonia Hmm, so Square Enix Members doesn't use the Square Enix ID I made for PlayOnline? Now I have to remember my password.
• 19:03 @amneufeld Heh, this is why you never came on to talk to me after all. :)

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Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 09:18 Two Fantasy wins this weekend. I am playing for 5th in both leagues. Scored over 130 points last week for my good team. Dang.
• 14:43 I have given the code on the whiteboard a holiday hat. I'm not entirely sure why, except that it was funny.
• 14:44 I wish it was Christmas already. All this waiting is crazy. This might be the slowest week ever (except maybe last year's xmas?).
• 15:07 @Reetin It'll be "wow" if I actually see a day that Office can't be sold in stores, but MS is hardly done playing their hand.
• 15:32 @SquareEnixSonia Pff, you have nothing to whine about; Seattle sunset: 4:20 PM. :(
• 16:51 The example of the usage of Net::Twitter is outdated. A few variables no longer exist in the API. Can you submit a patch for documentation?

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Some images were leaked today, from FFXIV's Character Creation. It turns out that breast size for females it's going to be one of the adjustable settings.

Will FFXIV become like Bleach? (NSFW) http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/4291/bleachqb4.jpg

Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 16:16 Hurray for two new toys: tinyurl.com/nfd9yw & tinyurl.com/ycdopjk .. Mall traffic sucks, though.
• 16:17 @jodyblair Cool, congrats! What's the job?

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Me: now "in print"!! Check out my story "My Sister's Soul" at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. :)

Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 00:05 Wife and I previewed The Secret of NiMH today. I don't think Vivian will be watching it any time soon. I like the story, tho, always have.
• 00:15 @IanNeufeld young children, maybe. I saw it after reading the book and felt I understood it then. Book is still better, though.
• 00:20 @IanNeufeld Still haven't read that, honestly. I don't have an urge to, either.

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It's on netflix. If you've ever done any pen & paper RPGs and you have netflix, go watch this. (bonus points for it being locally produced)

The Gamers: Dorkness Rising Trailer from Dead Gentlemen Productions on Vimeo.

I went over my friends' list and regardless to say, I was surprised at how many people I have listed that I don't remember. Most of them have long abandoned Live Journal, so I don't think it matters.

But, if you find yourself deleted from my list, please do not take it personal... and ask me for a re-invite! :P

Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 13:36 Fare Thee Well, Mac Mini: I wanted to run the mac mini until it died, but I never thought it would be so soon. tinyurl.com/yjughwv
• 13:59 Avatar must've been good. I didn't tweet once on my phone while watching it.
• 14:30 So tired of hearing how good Gonzaga's basketball team is. Nice to see them being crushed right now.
• 22:02 There was no signal at the holiday party tonight. That's happened every year. It was a good party though.

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I know its been a while, but the opening of beta applications for Final Fantasy XIV has encouraged me to write again. Hopefully this blog will be similar to what it was before, and by that I mean when I was playing FFXI. Game experiences plus some private life.

Lots of things have changed, for example... I have been living in USA for the last year and a half and I am attending college, as well as living with Patrick (Caine from WOW).

PS. I just took a 3 hour nap and I have a headache -_-

It's been a rough week for the little guy. I decided to install FreeBSD, but that failed miserably on Wednesday night. I was up until 3:30 trying to get something to work, but I, and the mac, were left in a state of disrepair. The mac couldn't be partitioned by FreeBSD, so I installed ubuntu (Linux) first, then used the partitions for FreeBSD. No problem, except that FreeBSD wouldn't install a boot manager, and yaboot from ubuntu wanted ubuntu, oddly enough. I couldn't even eject my CD to reinstall back to ubuntu. Gave up so very frustrated.

The next night, I decided to take apart the mac mini to retrieve the CD. This actually went fairly well, considering the amount of cursing I did while trying to hack it open with a kitchen knife. Overall, very minimal cosmetic damage to the casing, and none of the clips broke. I quickly remove the CD and reboot the machine, deciding to leave it outside of its casing, just in case I can't get it eject again. Ubuntu installed like a dream and I had a machine working again. Case went on fairly easy and all is well. Right?

Sadly, I had forgotten to backup Delphyne's mysql data, so all I have to work with is a 2007 backup I used before trying to install new Pokemon data. Fortunately, the scripts that I've used to get this data do still exist. Still, it's going to be some work rebuilding two years worth of data on the poor wyvern bot.

Friday night, I went out to see Avatar. When I came home, I tried to ssh into my mac, but was unsuccessful. It would simply not load a shell. My programs that were resident in the memory ran fine, but anything else crashed immediately. I rebooted the machine and it wouldn't come back up. I sighed and went to bed. What could be wrong now?

I tried to boot up the mac this morning and it spewed, and I mean maybe hundreds, hard drive errors. What the heck? Bad install? I try to reinstall the OS, despite not wanting to, and it takes forever, then finally says "Error installing the base system" ... not good. I try a few more things and it's just one I/O failure after another. The hard drive has failed.

All I can think of is that I am so amazingly lucky that I managed to start this process a few days before, thus having a recent backup of almost everything I need. It's too bad about the mac, though. For now, I might just live with a remote shell and see if I can tolerate it, or I need to find another machine for the house. I'm not home as much as I used to be, so maybe it's not a big deal now.

Today's Twitter from @mtidwell:

• 00:51 The Mac is Back. I was going to blog about this, but I'm tired now. Will blog tomorrow instead.
• 09:41 Hurray! Sakura Wars finally arrived. I hope I get a chance to play it before the podcast tomorrow.
• 13:53 Pizza and beer, always a good decision. That was just a warm-up for tonight's movie night!
• 13:54 @DHStom I think XSEED has a facebook page. You could become a fan, if you're into that stuff.
• 15:20 @DHStom I know. That's one of the reasons why I never seem to become a facebook fan of anything.

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I should probably mention that I started officially working at RandomNPC again this week. I also started my gaming blog again: http://blogs.randomnpc.com/roku/

For those of you who have been living under a rock, the TF2 WAR update has gone live. It adds one of the best CTF maps in the game (seriously, find a server on ctf_doublecross and give it a try), a 2CP map I haven't been able to try, and the new weapons/achievements for Demoman and Soldier.

Oh, and a massively increased drop rate. Oh, and the crafting system to use those random drops with.

P.S. red.ocrtf2.com is passworded for this weekend. Password is "ocrtf2"