NOTE: Expect this place to get cleaned out when I feel like it. Maybe in a week or so. But probably never.

Sept 29: I put up a new character and a pair of new techs. Next I think I'll stick up a few mech profiles (no pics yet... sorry). Also a banner that I forgot to mention. I sorta like the effect; it's like granite/marble splattered with blood. Not sure if that was the effect Tim was going for, but what the hey, it works.

Sept 27: I added a few technologies to the project. Next time I'll do another character and the second of Devin's toys.

Oh, and it's come to my attention that I haven't even talked about GMS in a while. I'm going to try and finish up this saga, but after that it's going on temporary leave until I have enough time to waste to even consider starting two sagas of a series I'm not really that proud of to begin with. I've always thought that I should have made it with original characters instead of leaching off everything imaginable, but oh well, too late now.

Sept 26: I added the first of the character profiles to the project. Next will be either another character or some technology; maybe both. In case you noticed, I'm trying to string you guys along to maximize your interest. And maybe, if I'm really lucky, get some extra hits out of this too.

Sept 22: I'm evil. Here's a teaser of my new project to prove it. And in case you haven't guessed, no jokes. Very dark. Look mommy, I'm a serious writer now!

Sept 21: I think I've been hanging out with the wrong crowd for too long. Today at lunch, I was reading King Lear for english and got to the part where he yells at Cordelia (early act 1). So I, in my great wisdom, speak up with "Wow, Lear is really laying into his daughter." And, being gifted with foresight, I immediately added "Not that way!" What scares me is how quickly I responded with that; I made it sound like there wasn't even a period.

So, anyway, they're a Bad Influence on Our David.

Sept 19: For all of you who were wondering, the "inappropriate" post wasn't really that bad. It just came out flippant instead of the intended bitter sarcasm/anger I was shooting for. Ugh, it's so hard to do tone on the internet. So much subtelty, lost forever...

Oh, and I'm finally starting to get back to writing. The first episode of my not so secret project is almost finished, after which it gets to be sent of for alpha reading to my partner. Then it gets farmed out for beta reading. Then it comes back here for gamma reading. Then, if all goes well, it actually gets MADE. Cool, no?

Sept 12, part 2: I still haven't quite managed to wrap my mind around the fact that tens of thousands of people just died. I think I'm just going to stop updating until I return to normal from my current level of shock and disbelief. Hopefully, that'll happen in a day or so. And just for the record, I subscribe to the Toastyfrog school of thought, rather than the Penny-Arcade one.

Sept 12: I'm not really a heartless bastard with a callous disregard for human lives. I just sound that way sometimes. I've deleted yesterday's post, because it's in really bad taste. Next time, I think I'll wait to let the shock wear off before I make an idiot of myself (the post was litterally made about 45 minutes after the announcement, back when I kept looking at the date to see if we had jumped back to April. Really, I'm not even joking about that).

Sept 11 part 2: Whoa. Just... whoa. No more World Trade Centers. I can't (well, couldn't) deal with this right now.

Sept 11: I've had "Love Hina" mentioned to me in about five totally unrelated instances in the last few days. Keep in mind that, other than this, I've heard about it maybe once in the last five years. I think the Universe is daring me to watch it.

I hope it's not a double dog dare, cause then I have to do it.

Sept 10: Eh. I've had a really "Eh" few days. I had a few things I wanted to talk about, but, well... Eh.

Oh, but this site passed 3,000 hits today! On another day, I might say something interesting, but right now... Eh. Sept 6: Well Lyn, it was very smart of you to specify "good" layout design.

Sept 4: I got into Ultra, I got into Ultra, I got into Ultra! Of course, the guy took every application except for one (sucks to be the one, I guess, but it was probably a joke app anyway), so it's not like I really had to prove my worth, but still... I got into Ultra!

Sept 2: I saw Rush Hour 2 last night. It was a bit weak on plot, and probably won't win any Grammies (or is it Oscars for movies? God I'm hopeless), but it was fun. Watching Jackie Chan kick ass is always worthwhile, and his best movies are the ones with funny partners, so it was pretty cool. Plus, the whole movie was totally made by one of Chris Tucker's lines: "Let me tell you about my theory of criminal investigation. It's called 'follow the rich white man.' At the bottom of every case is a rich white man waiting for his cut."

Come on, you've got to see the hilarity of that line.

Oh yeah, Lyn forgot to mention (in her list of reasons why I look gay, even though I'm not) that my AOL screen-name is derived from a girl ("RikaFirst." From Phantasy Star 2 and 4. It's a long story). You're not paying attention, Lyn! Of course, neither am I, because I just remembered about that, but still.

Aug 31: I'm not entirely sure whether I should be angry, annoyed, or amused, but since I was laughing for five minutes after reading it, I'm going to go with amused (NOTE: there's a difference between "should" and "actuality." For instance, Bush should be in a small padded room, but in actuality, he's president. Just so no one's confused here, I'm not sure what I should be feeling, but in actuality, I'm feeling amused. Got it?). And yes, I'm well aware of all of those things; I was the one who told Lyn about it in the first place. Look at it this way: I've got to be pretty secure in my sexuality if I'm going to do all those things.

Oh, and it's magical girl satire, the key word being SATIRE.

Well, I got a few more pages of writing done on my "not so secret" project. At this rate, maybe I'll have the first script finished soon. Of course, at the rate Tim is modeling, it's not likely to appear anytime soon (hurry it up over there!). To make it worse, school starts on thursday. Less than a week. Eep! Strangely enough, though, while this will make Tim's modeling go at a snail's pace, it will actually improve the speed of my writing; every day I'll have one hour of study hall time in which I can do nothing but write. I mean, what else am I going to do with it? Schoolwork? I suppose I could talk to people, but I've had zero luck getting study halls with my friends, and I doubt this year will be different.

Aug 27: School's almost here. I'm gonna go cry.

Oh, and in Lyn's defense, she doesn't really think about smut all the time; it's just that she doesn't really have anything better to talk about at the moment. Trust me, I know. Of course, I deal with a lack of things happening by not updating for a week as opposed to talking about whatever yaoi I just read, but to each his (or her) own, I guess.

Aug 24 part 2: I just fixed R+J, which was suffering from weird fonts and huge text sizes. If you haven't read it yet, do so; it's quite possibly the best work on this site.

Aug 24: Last night at Tae Kwon Do, I smashed my left knee and left thumb up real good (not at the same time). Now I have to limp everywhere. And I can't do anything with my left hand. Ouch. Well, I added a bunch of Lain suggestions. That list is now up to 75; if it breaks 100, you'll be able to find me sitting on a roof yelling, "There is no God!" No reason, really.

Also, my cable modem is getting weird. Sometimes it won't work, sometimes it just won't let me use the internet, sometimes it works fine. I have no idea what's wrong with it.

Aug 15: I added some more suggestions to the Lain list. It's finally been listed on anipike, so I'll hopefully get a whole bunch more. Hint hint.

Aug 8: I was all set to do some major writing today, but I got distracted by a shiny object. Oh well. At least I finally remembered to clean out the three months of accumulated updates on the main page.

Aug 7: Good thing I got my Tae Kwon Do confession out of the way yesterday, because now I can complain about it today. We were doing sidesteps, and the correct way to do those is to drag your foot on the mat. Since our mat is made out of some sort of vinyl, my right big toe developed the king of all blisters. It hurts like hell.

Oh, and in case anyone cares, my AIM screen name is RikaFirst. Yes, I'm a guy. Yes, that name is from a girl. No, I'm not gay! Nevermind the fact that all my online friends are girls, and... and... oh, shut up. Anyway, incase anyone actually cares enough about me to want to talk to me, just give me a call. I'm just as stupid live as I am in text (probably more so, in fact).

Aug 6: I suppose I should, like, update and stuff. Oh well. Um... let's see... Other than trying desperately to live up every last second of summer, not much has been happening. Here's a link to the latest Fritz Fraundorf fic. Good stuff, go read. It's probably not that funny to non-gamers (specifically, non-rpgers), but I was laughing so hard I made my brother freak out.

Oh, yeah, my brother. I'm trying to get him hooked on Dragon Force, mostly so I can free up the PS2. Which reminds me: I got Valkeryie Profile and Persona 2, both of which I've been meaning to pick up, and am playing them up. They're both sort of slow-pased, but I think Persona is my fave so far (even if the first one wasn't released in America (well, actually, Persona 2 is the third game, and the first was brought over, but the second wasn't (actually, there are more than three games, but only the PSX ones are relevant here))). Good lord, that was a ridiculous amount of clarification.

Anyway, I promised that next time I updated, I would make a confession, which is part of the reason I haven't updated. See, I've been doing Tae Kwon Do for almost half my life (about seven years or so), and am currently a black belt. I've never mentioned it because whenever I try to, it always sounds like I'm showing off, so I just sort of brushed it under the rug and never mentioned it. Of course, I still will never mention it, but at least now you guys know I could kick your asses, huh?

Alright, I bluff. I might be a black belt, but I'm still a total wimp, thanks to my small stature and lack of anything even remotely resembling muscles.

July 31: One of our servers went down today at work, so I couldn't do anything. It sucked. On the other hand, I came home and watched five episodes of Flames of Recca. I can't believe no one's picked it up for US distribution yet; it's so damn cool.

I'm going to a Lan party this weekend if I can convince my dad to let me take his computer. Since I totally suck at FPS games (and don't own any), I'm going to be utter meat. Oh well. I'm endeavoring to take a five-day crash course, but I don't think it's helping all that much.

Someone is sending me the SirCam virus. Over and over. In several MB files. And this person is overfilling my mail account. Not that I know this person. He's never written to me before. Hey, Max, quit it already!

July 28 part 2: I had to come back and put up something that happened to me. You see, my brother loves baseball and is a really big Yankees fan. In our local baseball teams (which are named after real teams) he got put on the Reds (much to his dismay). The other two teams are the Braves and Yankees (yes, this is going somewhere, hang with me). Tonight, so many people are on vacation that the Braves and Yankees had to combine forces against the Reds in order to have a full team (hold on, here comes the funny part). My brother called the resulting team the "Brankees." I made many, many jokes about the Yankees and their Uke designation. None of which my brother got, of course (he just gave me funny looks), but they were hillarious nonetheless.

Actually, now that I think about it, it really wasn't that funny unless you were there.

July 28: Hey, I'm back! No, I don't have an update. Ungrateful people.

I had a dream last night that my site had been voted "worst on the internet." I was just happy because it meant more people might come here.

Well, it turns out we weren't being used for a DoS attack; we were being used to spread SirCam. Somehow, I feel even more honored. You might ask how I know we were being used to spread it as opposed to just being infected. Well, the answer is that the virus was put in several weeks ago, and just blew up over the weekend.

I got dragged into the minion wars yesterday by Lyn. I suppose it was really inevitable. I asked for a Zeus cannon, but had to settle for a replica of Wolfwood's cross and a Permit for Suspension of Disbelief so I can actually lift it. Maybe I'll go and shoot something now.

July 20: Way to go, Lyn, lay the smack down!

Anyway, while Lyn was packaging prophilactics and getting cooed over, I was at work while we got hacked into. At first, we thought it was just our server getting really slow, and only when I came in the next day did I find out we'd been used for a Denial of Service attack (DoS, for all the acronym concious out there). We don't know against who, but if you hear in the news a couple days from now that some big company had a hacker attack them, well, that was us. I spent all of today loading upgrades and running virus scans on ten different computers, all of which had huge hard drives (the average scan took one hour), and many of which weren't working right. We've got most of the problems fixed, but our main server was utterly fragged when it crashed in the middle of running an update to windows; we'll have to rebuild and reformat it over the weekend. Ugh. Actually, though, I feel kind of proud that the hackers chose us to take over; our hardware does, indeed, rock. I think the coolest thing about the place, however, is that the administrator password is in L33T. No joke.

Also, I'm fighting the urge to do a Digimon parody. I've been storing up jokes since forever, and the only thing holding me back now is that I don't have a good setting. I might end up breaking down and doing R+J again. Oh yeah, and Farscape was very funny. I love that show.

July 19: I fixed the dates for the past couple days (they were all one day ahead of where they should have been). I should start replying to some e-mail. But before I go, something cool happened that I have to share with you. In Outlaw Star, during one of the later episodes (it involves a women's wrestling tournament), the cat-girl (I forget her name) put her opponent in an arm bar. The cool thing is that I just learned how to do it.

July 18: I guess I lost the contest Lyn and I were having over who would go the longest without updating. Oh well. I can't really concentrate yet, since the summer's already half over! I don't want to go back to school!

July 17: I! UPDATED! G!M!S! HECK YEAH! I FEEL TOO GOOD TO SWEAR!

July 16: I'm back from Carnagie Melon, and yes, I know I spelled it horribly wrong. Tough. Anyway, I know I promised an update, and I have 9/10ths of GMS ready, but it turns out I'm missing a part. I think it got deleted when I cut out a big three-page chunk that totally sucked. I'll fix it tomorrow. Really, I will! I promise!

July 14: Well, I'm going away over the weekend to visit some colleges, Carnagie Melon in particular. When I get back, a cable modem awaits! Whooo! Also, I absolutely promise to have GMS up monday. YEAH! FIRST CONTENT IN SEVERAL MONTHS!

July 11: Thank you, Lyn. Where would I be without spontaneous L33T injected into my life?

I hate shopping for shoes. Not only do I hate the current style of sticking a bright, neon-colored thing in the middle of the shoe, but my feet are quite possibly the rarest size in existence: 12 wides. NO ONE has them; I have to end up getting 13s (which are also pretty rare).

Speaking of shopping, my mom decided to get real nice and buy me a couple pairs of Fubu jeans. For the few who might not know, "Fubu" means "For Us By Us," where "us" in this case is "black people." Now, I'm not racist or anything, and I usually don't pay much attention to "cool," but I generally steer clear of pants that might encourage several large football players to beat the crap out of me. It's a silly little habit of mine. I ended up calling in my brother, since I didn't think I could do the scene justice by myself. That's what siblings are for, I guess.

July 10: