I've been looking into forums to use for pbp stuff...

Mostly because I would like a solution that doesn't involve me coding a great deal, heh. Yeah so I'm lazy, meh. :P

Anyway I found that Vanilla has a pretty nice die roller plugin for it already... but I can't find a way to make subusers (basically one user, but several subusers to serve as characters). I'm thinking that it probably doesn't matter *anyway*, since I don't think anyone will play more than one character in Tower RP except me/Jon :P but it's still kind of annoying to have to log in and out for each character.

Also messed with a new theme, though I decided not to do it for now. Mostly just need to find one that appeals to me. The one I have now is pretty good, but it gets boring looking at the same thing all the time.

So I just rearranged some front page stuff. Decided to nix the forums and take out the buttons. I'll just bring back the donate button some other time, because it feels pretty lame asking for donations when I don't DO anything for anyone. I may end up wiping out and redoing the gallery at some point, too, and just reuploading all my screenshots.

I did find an awesome static cache for taxonomy_get_vocabularies patch, which I am hoping will really help with loading times given my hugetastic tag list. With that and my changes I'm back down to less than a second on load times (mostly), woo!

At one point I really have to go through the 700+ tags and remove some, but lazy Siren is lazy. :( I swear I'm just not good at anything. Not at writing or coding or anything. Just feel ...useless right now? I don't know. it's depression and my period has been delayed FOREVER, too, so, that doesn't help.

Well this time it's more for myself... namely needing to catch up on my games, actually get some REAL rest and so on.

Just too high strung and worn out to participate in much right now, sorry. ;_;

Like I mentioned a couple posts down though, I'll be back by Jan 12th I think... I'll see about starting to help Eni out with her project (uh, unless she found someone else) and getting Tower RP started as well, if I haven't already. Mostly I'm iffy right now on what sort of forum software to use (still leaning toward MyBB though). And I am freaking lazy about writing a web based dice roller, do I suck or what? x.x

Eni - do you need a forum for your new project, or did you already put one up? Also do you still want sim-chan? :P the domain already autorenewed for another year, but if you're done with that name I'll put a stop to the renewals.

[EDIT - Just a note on Tower RP. YES it is going to happen, but probably starting later than I had originally wanted. I figure by the 12th I'll have the forum started up and the custom rules all figured out. :D]

Oh hohoh. I may have a chance to play Gunmetal Godfrey... again. 'Cause Selina is going to run a Dark Heresy game! And I wanna be in it!

Jon already showed me more or less how I could create her for Warhammer 40k. We have the Dark Heresy book, which helps. I think the main issue, as usual, is finding time to read up on background stuff. (I still have SO MUCH RPoL to catch up on, and my brain is just... mush, after the past several days.)

Seraphina Godfrey is going to be a combat medic, preferably with shotgun! and shock mace... Jon just suggested it and I bounced around in excitement. I don't think anyone's doing a medic so that pretty much settles me in my niche.

Yay for 2009! Oh wait, this is the year I turn 30... *weeps quietly in a corner*

Anyway, sis should be back home by now (I'll have to check on her one more time, but she had a meeting to go to almost as soon as she got off the plane.) So I have the apartment to myself. I need days just to recover from how exhausting it was to have a guest for 10 days. It's not that I don't love my sis, we're just very different people.

The more I am away from the Bay Area, the more I realize how much leaving has changed my lifestyle. I just don't think living there will ever be 'home' again. Part of me is sad because I feel that my choices in life will ultimately distance me from my blood-related family entirely.

Whew... my body is all achy and tired. I feel fatigued a lot. It's partially my period and partially having to be used to adjusting my usual habits at home I guess. Ah well, I'll have time to myself in a week or so.

I bought a Zune yesterday (had to stand in crazy line to get it) but it ended up being some sort of broken refurbished version and we exchanged to get a new one. I hope this one works. I mostly wanted a mp3 player so I could have music to listen to while I'm walking alone ('cause sometimes I get anxiety from loud noises, I could drown them out with music.)

I have to say I REALLY HATE earbuds though. They're uncomfortable for me. I suppose it's also because I only have the one that came with the Zune though, and it kind of blows. :P

Well, it's Christmas morning afternoon, and I figured I should write something. I know not everyone celebrates it, so I'll just make this a general Happy Holidays to all, if you're taking a break to spend quality time with family and friends.

I have a few specific holiday messages too (for Eni and Kalli and Selina. Others already got snail mail cards from me, assuming they actually GET there. :O)

There's a lot of people I've kinda been sparing in contact with, and I'm sorry about that. ;.; This last year has been a really introverted time for me, I guess. I just need a lot of time alone. I'm worried that I'm starting to get increasingly asocial and agoraphobic (just don't feel the urge to go out much at all), but that's something I will have to think about more next year.

...early. whatever. I should be sleeping but I'm not. x.x

ANYWAY, oh! we have Soul Calibur 4 for PS3 and I'm having fun with it. I've not played Soul Calibur since the first one, or was it the second? Anyway, I am playing Tira now and she is my favorite. :D Razor hula hoop anyone? also, her soul edge weapon looks like Ouroboros. *awesome!*

Then Jon and I went into character creation and made Archana and Seventeen. XD (Archa is using Mitsurugi style right now because her current weapon in Wardragon is a reaver daiklave with quick draw iaijutsu type style. 17 is using Cervantes style, since he's a two blade fighter and also happens to have a pistol. Except 17's is not a gunblade.)

We also went out and bought a *board game*, haha. It's an adventure dungeon crawler type thing. I forgot what it's called... possibly because I am so sleep deprived right now it's SICK.

Happy Christmas Eve though. :D more holiday posty later!

We're leaving pretty soon to get my sis! Yay!!

Unfortunately it seems she's arriving on one of the coldest days this month. Geez, it's FREEZING even inside. ;.; Doesn't help we have such big windows though, and the finishing touches haven't been done on the frames yet.

Ohoh I had the opportunity to try every one of my games yesterday, too. I have run after posting this (just got call from sis, she'll be here in 2 hours!) but I wanted to post some short impressions, and a bit about other games Jon and I want.

Also, bonus chara artwork! Mostly 'cause I think Selina will appreciate.