What is everyone doing?

[Rowan]

right now im completing the alst of my coursework which is due in just over a week. Cutting it close, but I also have to work a full-time job, play video games and make time for my gf; yet I still find time to post on here. Currently playing Valkyria Chronicles, its a great anime based war game that reminds me a lot of code geass. You command a squadron of a variety of units ranging from snipers, engineers, scouts, shocktroopers etc and strategize a way to capture enemy based/eliminate enemy forces. I have played 90 hours of dota in the past 2 weeks, which is on average about 6 hours per day. The ****ed up thing is, there are days I wont play it at all which means its more like 9 or 10 hours. I am upto 220 wins, 214 losses. I hate playing with nubs, but I resent playing with players I refer to as "Talkers". A "Talker" is someone who doesnt shut the hell up. If you play any online team based battle game, you will know exactly what I'm talking about. enough about that. I had my wizzies out just over a week ago and im almost fully healed. Got some food stuck in one of the sockets at the back, but managed to brush it out. The whole experience wasn't nearly as bad as what it has been made out to be , by some people. Although I did wake up from the anesthesia chocking on what I believe to be the breathing tube, that was very unpleasant. The nurses started dancing gangnam style in the recovery ward though, so I knew that everything was going to be okay. I have started legend of dragoon for the first time. Im playing it on my ps3. The scenery in the game looks lovely, it reminds me a lot of final fantasy 7. The characters are still a mystery to me, there doesnt really seem to be much development happening as of yet, but im still early on. I just escaped helena prison and now im on my way to somewhere else. I find the battle system verrrrryyyyyy sloooooow and a little too structured. I also find that its very difficult to time your hits since the indicator is for the timing of the button press moves at like 3 frames per second. The battle system seems very shallow at the moment, so I'm not sure when I will continue to play through with it. Anyweh, I got my gf this plush white mage chocobo on ebay. She really likes it, she named it Bobby Corwen after the baby chocobo in ff9. I later realised that Bobby Corwen was a longer version of Boco. I also bought a little Vivi that I put on my desk to remind me that life is important. Sometimes I get down that all life is about is working a job for 45 years of your life, 5 days a week. With that money going toward taxes and bills, and very little actually going back to yourself. But the Vivi helps to remind me that one day I'm gonna be dead, and I wont have to work. cause ill be dead. DA end. life is precious and to keep focusing on the great things.


What is everyone doing? Where are you at in your lives right now?


As far as the forum is going, i think this picture says it all.


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[Mystyrion]

That post was a lot longer than I thought it was going to be haha.

Right now this very minute, I'm at work. I work for Hostess/Wonderbread. I'm technically a part timer, but there is rarely a week I don't get 40+ hours. I took this bid out in Layton (about 15 minutes from my house). Which is further than the plant I usually work at. The reason I took it is because it works better with schooling (ill get to this later) and it guarantees me 40 hours a week. There is only one person ahead of me on the bid and I have to train him next week to see if he is able to do work the job. I'll admit I want the job, but I'm not going to hurt his chances by training him bad that's just not me, but his chances of learning this job in a week, that's all the time you get, are slim to none.

I'm currently living in a town house, but I'll be moved out in a month and back to my parents. I was all for the living on my own and being independent, but that's just not going to work anymore. I need a better job, more money, so I'm going to school when I get back to my parents.

I was originally suppose to go to school, I had a college fund saved for me. But my brother got messed into drugs and ended up wrecking his 30k car. My college fund paid for that, then he went into the military to clean up his like. My college fund also paid for that. My parents were going to rebuild it, but my father lost his job and times got hard. They are doing great now, but the time had passed to save for me to go to college. My parents are willing to pay half of anything I do for college and I'm grateful, but just letting me live in their house just a little longer is enough for me.

I've been thinking about starting a YouTube page called Mysteryion Media. I play a lot of games, I go through a lot of technology, I listen to a huge variety of music. I just though I could share my reviews, do let's plays, put up halo montages, feature underground artist, but I'm having a hard time actually putting forth the effort of getting it off the ground. I'm lazy and procrastinate a lot.

I game a lot in my spare time as always. Currently hooked on wow and halo 2 vista until halo 4 and persona 4 golden come out.

No girl friend, no prospects, no social life for that matter. It's a rather lengthy story why, so I'll save that for those journals you guys always write in or maybe one of those blog posts.

I got flashbulbs new CD today. What an amazing artist. There is literally nothing like him in the music industry and he never ceases to amaze me with the music he puts out. It'll be a sad day for me when he retires.

[Lacquer Head]

Absolutely nothing...besides learning how long it is humanly possible to stay sober in ones home (30 minutes)

[NikkiLinkle]

I just finished work, on my home. Currently waiting for the bus!! My life consists of these things. Work, sleep, internet, Skype, Crime City, sitting on my a** doing nothing, just chilling. It's pretty sweet really. I'm meeting a guy I met on Facebook on the weekend in Brisbane somewhere. So hopefully, I'll have someone to call a real life friend!! Haha.

The next few months will be awesome! I'm going to see Reel Big Fish/Goldfinger/Zebrahead at the end of November. I've met a few people on Facebook who are also going, so more friendship prospects there!!

In late December/early January, I'm going to Fiji for a week with my sister. I turn 25 on February 6 and will be going to a mystery location!! It. Will. Be. Awesome.

Lately I've been really enjoying listening to Epica.

It's been nearly 8 months since I left my ex. Despite my recent anxiety 'attack', I've been feeling really good about me and my life. Leaving the ex, the best thing I did. I know I still go on about him at times, but I'm starting to leave all of that behind. I'm really looking forward to my future, whatever it may be.

At this very moment, I'm really hungry and I want a chicken parmigiana.

[Alpha]

I've just sit down at my desk after doing the dishes and dancing to Ricky Martin. I made spicy chicken wings and fried rice/vegetables for dinner for my flatmates and myself. I intend to start studying for my first exam (in eight days) tonight.

Today at work, I tried writing a piece of code in Python that takes every one of the bus stops in my dataset of bus stops across Wellington City, find the coincident ones, and displace them all by about 10cm so that there are no longer any coincident points. This will allow to me to build a functioning multimodal network dataset of Wellington's walking, driving, cycling and public transport network. After I have executed this code, I just have to get the ferry stops and routes and I'm ready to rock and roll my code out across a grid of hundreds of PCs across the university to do my bidding calculate about 600,000 route calculations to inform my boss' econometric analysis on residential choice, car ownership and commute mode decisions. I expect this doesn't make sense to anyone outside of the people I work with and I haven't really bothered explaining it here or to anyone who doesn't work with me, including my girlfriend. I have attached a quick map I pulled together a while back that illustrates part of the outcome.

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Also at work today, two colleagues left to greener pastures. We had a huge morning tea, and I scored three bacon and egg paninis, two chocolate and caramel brownies, a chicken and cream cheese sandwich, several muffins and some biscuits... all for free. Need a long run tomorrow to work all that off.

[loaf]

I'm busy coming up with 30 characters in my replies to posts.

[Xanatos]

Our toilet clogged for the first time since we moved here, I'm helping my dad to solve that shit (sadly, there are some of that, too). Right now he's at the store buying new pipe/s, I assume, and I'm here on TFF mildly grossed typing this.

As for my life in general, well, I'm officially in my final year at university (yay for me), it could have been all over by now if I was only less lazy. Had a lot of free time these last two months or so, I've spent that time partially at my relatives in Zagreb, it was a great vacation by the way, though mostly, and I'm kinda ashamed to admit, playing video games and watching movies (some might say I'm living the dream).

I'm looking to get into anime again, but I'm having a hard time finding anything of interest, I just might watch Noir all over again.

[Martin]

In no particular order:
Purging my iTunes library of the absolute shite that I've been listening to and adding copious amounts of Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. Those bloody geniuses.
Just finished blogging.
Listening to the Fallout New Vegas OST for no reason whatsoever.
Pruning my endless direct debits. It's a pain to get old. Don't do it kids.

[Unknown Entity]

Well, I've not been on my laptop in a long time (again). I turned it on last night whilst very, very drunk to probably cause trouble or something, and I'd forgotten to put the charging cable in. So my laptop made some strange sound and turned off. When I'd fixed the issue of the charging cable, I got some strange repair screen instead of the usual log in, so it spent about twenty minutes doing... whatever it was doing. By that time, I realised dealing with my laptop in that condition wasn't a great idea, so I turned it off, thinking "**** it, I can deal with it tomorrow after work."

Whelp, now it's "after work". As you can tell, I managed to get on TFF perfectly fine so laptop still works. But I have a million updates to do now, and Kaspersky is calling all my databases obsolete, and keeps throwing a hissy-fit every time I try and update it. So, I'm un-installing that junk to reinstall it again... where the next problem came to be. Because I changed my email password last time I used this piece of shit, I forgot it. That took a while to find again. I found the email with my ID, activation, information and stuff is, and I'm going to spend the next few minutes working out how I put it all together again.

Then, I'm going to read my new issue of OPM or play some Tales of Graces f.

[Leon]

I kept coming back to find it as a ghost town, but I decided to come back for good as I found a few reasons to stay. Reason I left is because I, uh, fell in love and we spent as much time as we could with each other (well, it was online so.... ._.). Things didn't turn out well in the end (we remained friends, at least) but I was a wreck for the longest time and I'm finally starting to get over it.

Besides that, I have gotten back into Pokemon and started playing Pokemon-Online. Always losing but at least it's fun :3

[DragonHeart]

There's a Halloween event going on at a pet adoptable website I frequent, so I've been pretty occupied with that. I think it's about time to go make some tea and move on to another project, though. Still have about an hour before I have to worry about getting ready for work so maybe I'll try to get some writing done. Either that or maybe I'll do one of these silly labs for class. At the very least I need to download some software to do them.

[Tallulah]

Looking on here, of course!

Also watching Angry Video Game Nerd videos, flicking through the TV channels, and debating the pros and cons of the new uniform with my workmates on Facebook. I went in to collect it today and tried it on in front of a couple of my friends. We all had a good laugh.

Contemplating playing more Assassin's Creed; trying in vain to play all the existing ones before the next one comes out next week. Not gonna happen... -_- Trying to find the cheapest deal for Revelations as I don't even have that one yet...

[OceanEyes28]

Eating Kit Kat bars. Plural. It's (almost) Halloween and I love Kit Kats.

About to take some pumpkin hazelnut soup (that I made last night) to boyfriend. It's a fall festival at the elementary school where he teaches, and he wants me to meet some of his kids. We're going to wear our Calvin and Hobbes costumes.

I just got home from a long day of listening to my new coworker talk about her NA meetings and other things I have no business knowing about a coworker. I keep trying to stop her from telling me all this personal information ("well I was feeling pretty bad because I used the other day and I was in my meeting talking about it and my ex boyfriend called me this morning and I was like 'oh, look who's calling me' but his mom is dying so that's pretty ****ed up, and my mom kicked me out so now I'm gonna try to be a live-in nurse with my grandpa because I don't want him to go to a hospice, and I was trying to get him to eat a banana but he was like 'I need that like a hog needs a side saddle' blahblahblahblah"), but it doesn't work.

We HAVE been pretty slow lately. This layout is still tripping me out haha.

[Pete]

I just got home after a long day of not doing a whole lot at work. Went to two sites and checked the firestopping caulk in a ton of walls and hallways. It was a lot of sitting around and writing up reports. I also picked up the last two books of The Hunger Games series, since I fricken blew through the first one in about two days. Then I went back to the office, wrote up another report or two and called it a day. Now I'm sitting here, sending a few texts back and forth with a pretty cool lady, and watching How I Met Your Mother. Probably gonna work out soon, and then maybe play some Dragons Dogma, which I've been neglecting. Then it'll be time for a tall glass of Bushmills, It's Always Sunny and the League. Should be out cold by midnight, and up for another day of work by 6.

[LocoColt04]

I'm watching Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network while taking a quick break in Borderlands 2 so that I could come and see what all of you delightful people are up to.

I've only been home before midnight once this entire week. Vacationtime is fun but it has completely ****ed my chances of sleeping like a normal person for when I have to go back to work on Sunday. This all started last Friday night, before the vacation even started, because the girl I've been talking to decided we should watch a movie at a mutual friend's house that night and we ended up not leaving until 4am. I've been to a party or social gathering or out with individuals every single night since then.

Somehow, I have still managed to throw twelve hours into Code of Princess, another twenty into Pokémon Black 2, six or seven into Dishonored, about ten into Forza Horizon, and spent most of my day today binge-watching the first half of the Black Cat series.

[Rocky]

Still being self-employed while taking up an internship at my local hospital, going to be helping with the transition of a new computer network system, training doctors and other faculty on how to not send off the wrong electronic prescription to the hospital so patients can survive and come back another day and spend more money on getting healthy again instead of being smart and spending considerably less money by practicing preventative health procedures.

I was going to school for masters but I ended up having a slew of real life sh1t come up, so I withdrew. It was before i found out about this internship that I nabbed, so it's just proof that someone's looking out for me, heh. If I was still in school, I'd not have the time for it.

I was depressed for awhile and struggled to get through it, especially over the summer months and at times it's a work in progress to find meaning in the things I do. Thank God my mom and dad helped me out, when it hits me I get very withdrawn and self-destructive and they were able to pick up on the signs before it got too late. <3

As for what I did today, I woke up and went for a run in the morning. It was raining but the cold air felt good to breathe in while I'm taking off and getting my mind off of stuff. I went to my grandparents and cleaned out their gutters and they did some of my laundry and made me some food since they're awesome and I love them and I'm one of the 2 grandkids they have so they spoil me a lot. After that I made myself a grilled cheese sandwich and watched a couple episodes of Dexter from season 6. (yeah I'm behind, fml) After that I played some League of Legends and played the videogames with some friends. I got out of the shower, cleaned up a bit and now I'm waiting for time to pass so I can go and meet some old friends over some margaritas.

[SuperSabin]

I'm playing MGS Twin Snakes...well TRYING to play the Twin Snakes. I wasn't expecting such a rise in difficulty when I picked this game up. The worst part is when the guards trap you in a corner when you're trying to avoid being seen. They can notice you at the end of the cone of their vision :/. Other than that, working out, attending school, more gaming, listening to music, and trying to recuperate from past events.

Not a whole lot else really... now I think I'll have a snack.

[RamesesII]

Busy at work, we just finished having the school fair which was a complete shamozzle glad it's over, I was in charge of the audio and visual of the indoor activities which was planned by someone else who forgot to count the fact in that I am human and would probably need a break or two so that went swimmingly well.

Our next events are Big Note which is a whole school musical performances instrumental and choir, this one shouldn't be to hard just need to setup 800 chairs and then its all backstage from there curtain calls and shifting instruments and choir rises.
Then after that it's grade 7 graduation which will be a few plays and skits with audio and visual so it's back to the mixer for that one.

Other than that been busy at home haven't had a quiet weekend for a while they usually consist of moving people, BBQing or birthday bashes, today has been the first day I have been able to sleep in and do some housework.
The missus is busing making her hair wear products and studying and I just made the kids a babycino (not sure how you spell that)

[Unknown Entity]

Just finished a session in Borderlands with my boyfriend over two beers (one of which is still sealed). Finally got my platinum trophy for it. Everyone's asleep at the moment, but I had to turn the volume up for that moment just to hear the "ding!" as it popped up. Nineteenth platinum. Gemmy is a happy Gemmy. =3

Currently, not sure what to do now that he's gone to bed. Feeling pretty sleepy for some reason myself. I don't have work until 1pm tomorrow, so it's not like I need to go to bed... but it's not like there's much to do now anyway. Feeling pretty glad I didn't open my beer because it'll have just been wasted...

Thinking I might read, and if I wake up any I might play Tales of Graces f. OR go to bed, wake up early at 8am for once and read or play for a couple of hours before work over pancakes and tea.

[Leon]

Still playing FFVIII, and this time around I AM drawing the heck out of the rare spells (like Triple). Just beat Odin and Cerberus today and now I'm about to fight Edea. Yay.

Not much else. I go back to work tomorrow so I'm just enjoying my night off before Halloween. It's gonna be busy and I'm scheduled to work it so yeah, no fun for me when I work in retail Dx But my birthday is coming up in eight days so I'm excited. Turning 22 will be awesome :3