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Been playin' a little o' Mario Kart Wii.  I'm doing pretty well, actually.  I've raced a few online matches against Ted and beat him a few times.  I'm actually getting fairly adept at playing with the Wii Wheel.  I'm still better with the Gamecube controller, but the Wheel helps make it feel more real, if you can call kart racing while throwing shells and dropping banana peels "real". :P

I received my Myself; Yourself OP CD Single, yesterday.  Along with the anime's opening theme, it also had the opening theme for the visual novel.  Both are actually really engaging songs, and I'm glad I made the purchase.  I still haven't received my H20 ~footprints in the sand~ OP CD single, but I expect to get it tomorrow.

I'm also thinking of purchasing the 2006 "LEGEND OF DRAGONWORLD" CD set, which contains a lot of songs from the Dragonball anime.  It seems to have a lot of songs, and when I was listening to the Daizenshuu EX Podcast, the hosts agreed that it was the CD set that you want to get if you're just looking for the main movie themes, OP and ED themes, insert songs, image songs, etc.

Speaking of Dragonball, I actually just finished reading the series last night.  42 volumes worth, as a matter of fact.  It was nice to just get through the entire series in a non-stressful, easy go.  Reading it was the best choice, since it would be extremely expensive to get all the DVDs right now.  I easily breezed through dozens of episodes worth of material in only a few hours each night.  Now, I have the entire series fresh in my mind, and that's nice to have.

Still don't have the pictures of little Matthew.  I'm hoping they'll send them sometime tonight.  I actually talked to my brother on the phone today, and he held the phone up to the baby while he was making noise.  It was so cute! <3

I finished Myself; Yourself just a second ago.  It was a good series, even if the ending wasn't precisely what I hoped for.  But it was enjoyable, nonetheless, and I would recommend it.

I also finished Goshushou-sama Ninomiya-kun last week, but forgot to mention it.  Interestingly, I felt the exact same way.  Not the ending I was hoping for, but it was still a good series.  Just a short, little diversion, nothing more or less.

Now, if someone would just put up a subbed version of the ef -a tale of memories- final episode...

The internet connection was pretty spotty, today.  Something happened to the modem, I thought, but it turned out that we forgot to pay the internet bill, so they cut us.  But, we were able to pay them to get it back up and running.  Wouldn't really matter to me, since I can tap into the neighbor's unsecured wireless connection, since I'm a techie ninja and all. :3

Oh, and it turns out that Mr. Chow Yun-Fat hasn't actually read the Dragonball manga, which kinda disappoints me, since I think you should actually know about the character BEFORE you agree to play it.  And c'mon, Master Roshi HAS to be played true to the manga, or else the whole character falls apart!  He has to be a lecherous old man, or this movie will bomb! D:

Wow, I just realized that a lot of anime that I'm currently watching are going to end soon...  let's see, what was there?  Myself; Yourself, Kodomo no Jikan, ef -a tale of memories-, Goshushou-sama Ninomiya-kun, and Genshiken II are all pretty much over, it seems.  Wow.  But it was a good Fall season, I'll give it that.  The Winter 2008 season looks pretty spiffy, with four different shows based on visual novels, which, as we all know, are my favorite types of shows.  It's going to be a busy Winter, then, since I'm also going to be watching Clannad, which makes five series that I'm watching for certain.  And with the GekiRanger finale right around the corner, with Kamen Rider Kiba and Enjin Sentai Go-onger both airing immediately after that's done... woah, I'm going to have my work cut out for me in terms of shows I have to watch and critique.

Oh yeah, can't forget about Prison Break and Smallville, either.

Christmas is only four days away, not counting today, correct?  Boy, this month actually flew by rather quickly.  Usually time goes about as slow as molasses stuck with bubble gum on a piece of flypaper at this time of year, but time flew by me, this year.  Lookin' forward to the Candlelight service, but I'd actually prefer it to be longer than half an hour... I was thinking more like three and a half hours would be more fitting for a candlelight service. :3

I need to start playing Pokemon Pearl, again...

Harvest Moon DS... looks to be the stupidest Harvest Moon game available.  I mean, the visuals are so kid-oriented, it's embarrassing.  I definitely prefer Harvest Moon 64's visuals, which, while still looking kiddy, actually had some redeeming value to them, while the visuals for the DS game look like super-chibified versions of the characters, with ugly looking faces and huge chins.  Like the 2002 version of Kanon.  Ugh.  I'm not putting any time in THAT game.

The wait for Rune Factory 2 is going to be a long wait, indeed... x_x

It seems like many of the Fall anime shows I'm watching are coming to an end, soon.  Goshushou-sama Ninomiya-kun ends in one episode (giving it twelve episodes), Kodomo no Jikan does as well, ef -a tale of memories- also follows suit, and I believe Myself; Yourself ends in two episodes, bucking that trend (giving it thirteen episodes).  I think I'm correct in the numberings, but I'm not entirely sure.  It seems that, out of all the series I'm watching right now, only Clannad will keep going, since it will go to twenty-four or so episodes.  I'm wondering as to whether I should watch Minami-ke as well, but I'm currently undecided.

...this leads me to a question: when is the second season of Haruhi Suzumiya going to air?  It feels like I've been waiting forever...

I had no idea that this Resident Evil movie existed, but it looks fantastic.  Kinda like Advent Children, but better.  Yay for Leon and Claire! :D

Oh yeah, I'm no longer at "The Farm".  I'm now... uh... on the Thousand Sunny.

Yeah.