The Systemdown Chronicles

Windows 7

2009-04-23T23:51:39Z

Everyone Chill the Fuck Out

2009-04-23T22:35:41Z

Peg A into Slot B

2009-04-23T20:10:33Z

Around this time every year I start to feel the call of the wild urging me to go camping. Time to drag out all the camping gear from the past year and see what condition its in. Between the different members of my family we have enough equipment for a small army to survive for weeks in a forest. So this weekend I need to travel down to where it is all stored and pick up the things i need to start the season. This means I have to setup all my tents and see if they need to be cleaned again. This is always a pain to do on your own, as my big tent is on its last leg, or poles in this case. It has been put up so many times by just one person when it really is a three person job, and this has caused the poles to start to crack from the stress. I will be using my big tent as the community tent during events this year as I have done at past events. This makes it very easy for people to bring new comers to pirate events that are not equipped for camping. So it looks like we will be inheriting a new tent this year, a ten by ten tent from my girlfriend's parents. Now we will have a total of 4 tents that I will be bringing to events this year.

With spring in full force, I am inclined to get out and do things outside of my basement home. Its time to explore the options outside, such as going to the drive in. I have not been to the drive in in a few years. Ever since they tore down the drive in that was in Lebanon to put in the Super Walmart a few years ago I have not been to another one. So this weekend we will try to make the drive up to Dallas to the Motor Vu and see Monsters vs Aliens and Knowing. I am excited to get out of the house and do something, so this should be fun.

Sakuracon 2009

2009-04-14T18:28:19Z

The boring winter has ended and the events of the summer are beginning. The first event of the year was Sakuracon. This would have been the forth or fifth time that I have gone to Sakuracon, can't quite remember how many times. I will have to dig out my badges and count them up. I truly forgot how long it takes to get through the registration line. Last year I was given my badge by the convention chair since I was there as an exhibitor for Kumoricon. We had a great weekend this year, very laid back and relaxed compared to other years. We were all at different stages of the same cold though, my girlfriend ended up hitting the worst part of the cold during the second day. I felt bad about leaving her up in the room all day but she was ok with it since all she was doing all day was sleeping. This has to be one of the nastiest colds we have had in a while, a constant cough and a stuffed up nose that lasts for more than a week.

There were some great cosplays, but I unfortunately can't seem to find the bag with my camera in it. So I lack pictures from our trip, minus the one that my girlfriend snapped of us under the cherry blossom. Next on the agenda is to get prepaired for pirate season. I need to make some new garb for myself and my girlfriend before the season starts. She needs an entire outfit made and I just need some better outfits, mine are kind of generic and bland. I would like a more vibrant looking outfit and one that matches my girlfriends.

The RIAA took my baby away

2009-03-25T23:32:43Z

The Ride that Never Ends

2009-02-02T19:47:42Z

This last weekend was quite the adventure. It started out with the normal drive of 60+ miles that I do almost every weekend. But then the next day we spent 6 hours in the car driving 333 miles down to northern California. We were there to celebrate my girlfriends birthday all be it a week late. I have to admit i started this trip feeling weary to meet her family but after finally meeting them I don't know what I was so worried about. Everyone was very nice and fun to be around. I felt right at home after a few minutes. After spending one night there we headed to the beach in the morning and then got on the road around noon to head back north. So another 333 miles and 6 hours later we were back in our stomping grounds. We spent a quiet evening at home and crashed out a little early. Over all this was a nice weekend even if it was spent mostly in the car.

Return to WoW

2008-12-20T02:03:38Z

I have took up the reins again. In a moment of boredom I reactivated my WoW account. I started a new character about two weeks ago and now I am at level 21. This has to be the fastest I have leveled a character on any MMO. There is a goal in my mind of getting a raid level character within a month. This is a really short time frame for me as I am not a dedicated gamer and will get board soon unless I get to an interesting part in the game soon. At the same time I am trying to get my girlfriends computer to keep WoW working but it seems to freeze up and once it does it will not let her reload her account. So that is a big headache that I have to work on. I will figure it out though, just going to take time to do so.

Crash

2008-12-20T00:10:19Z

Oh the fun I have had this week. Lets start with the good points. I had a wonderful week and weekend with my new girlfriend. We spent the entire weekend at home alone with each other. I will leave it at that. As for the rest of the week, I was not so lucky. I had to return to Portland on Monday afternoon in the snow, rain and ice. I got into Portland around 7:00 pm but ended up feeling sick from the sudden cold weather. So I decided to turn in early for the evening so i could get over the sickness as fast as possible. When I awoke in the morning on Tuesday I was not feeling my best at all and decided that I should call in to work that day and get over this as soon as possible. This momentary retreat from work was later shatter by a phone call from my boss asking me if i could make it in for the night shift. At this point I was feeling up to making the trip to work and got dressed and took off for work. Everything was going fine at work up until lunch. I took off from work to head to Uncle Vinne's for some pizza, as I was heading back I turned left from sandy onto the 122nd on ramp and I was struck on the passenger side behind the rear door. I spun almost 180 degrees around. Everyone was alright at the time of the crash but I do know now that I am a little sore from the whole ordeal. My insurance is covering everything other than the first $500.00. So now i have to scrape together the money needed to get my car fixed. My girlfriend has been staying with me since Tuesday night after I got home from work at nine o'clock and letting me barrow her car for the rest of the week to get to work. I appreciate all the help she is giving me and I wish she was not stuck in my house all day with nothing but video games to hold her over. But now its Friday and we can get out and do somethings together tomorrow. So thats my fun filled week.

The Chronicles Return

2008-09-30T08:26:59Z

Yup, I'm back. Its been a long summer, and a busy one to boot. So once pirate season started I became so overwhelmed with things I just did not have the time to update this page. So some big changes in my life are about to happen. I am excited and scared. I have a new girlfriend, but that's currently personal so I wont go into that. I am looking for work in a new town, away from this vortex of hell. So the biggest challenge is finding a job that will pay me enough to move. Once I land this job I will be staying with some of my friends in this new city for awhile till I get a place of my own. So hopefully I can land one this month. I don't think my current job will last that long.

You are a Pirate!

2008-05-23T03:26:41Z

Oh its that time of year again. I leave tomorrow for The Gathering. Oh happy day. I can't wait for a fun pirate filled weekend. Hope to see you there. That is all. See you later.

Fermentation Chamber

2008-04-14T09:45:17Z

So I got my fermentation chamber built today. Its completely insulated and has an Air Conditioner installed. It took the better part of Saturday and some of Sunday to get it made. The only things it need are, the Temperature controller, some hasps to hold the door shut and some black spray paint. I will order the temperature controller this Thursday.

I also did some research on brewing this week and found out that the old keg i have had in my attic since forever ago, can be converted into a brewing pot, hot liquid tun or a mash tun. So I am going to try and secure 2 more of these kegs from scrape metal yards and get a real brewery setup. More pictures are on my flicker account.

Bleach 166

2008-04-10T09:12:22Z

Looks like it wont be long before the bleach anime catches up with the manga. They may need to draw out the fights a little longer. Todays episode was very action packed. I was really impressed with the visuals of this fight. It really got my blood pumping.

Busy Busy

2008-04-10T07:47:01Z

    I have been on a roll lately. Things are starting to move faster for me again. I have been working hard on so many things I can't seem to make enough time to do them all. Firstly I have been working for Kumoricon the majority of the time. With tier 1 and tier 2 already ended we are about to mail out both at the same time. The reason for the delay is do to many factors, the major one being free time. The little bit of free time I get I try to dedicate to getting things done.

    The next thing occupying my time is looking for a new job elsewhere. I have reached the point were I do not want to work for my current employer anymore. So this means looking for work anywhere in the state. This could be a good thing for me. I am truly tired of the city I live in. There is no real culture here. When I say culture, I am referring to things such as unique restaurants, niche business, etc. So needless to say I have been on the look out for a new place to live.

    I am also working hard on getting my online business up and running. This is a slow process as it seems to have been place in queue behind the other things on my plate. I still have a large amount of data entry to do on the site before its ready for full release.

    And one of the other things I have been doing is trying to reduce the amount of things I own. I am Craig's Listing a lot of the bigger things and then later this summer I plan to have a garage sale to get rid of the rest.

    Also one of the back burner things on my list is getting the Washed Ashore website updated. I need to add the preregistration page to it soon.

Mai-Otome 0~S.ifr~ - 01

2008-02-24T01:38:22Z

So I just finished watching Mai-Otome 0~S.ifr.~ episode one. Right out in the opening of this OVA we get some nice action. After watching Zwei, I was not expecting much out of the Mai-Otome franchise, but I was very excited to watch this episode. With all the jumping around and flashbacks of the episode, now I have many more questions about the back story of this universe. I look forward to seeing more from this series, even if it will be only 3 episodes long and take 3 months for each to come out. If you have not done so already go and check this one out. The Mai-Otome series is a lot of fun to watch. The characters are cute and entertaining. And in this episode especially there is a yuri undertone that is implied. And we all love yuri.

Anime-Fanatic Official Blog

2008-02-23T23:23:22Z

Just a quick update. I have added the Anime-Fanatic Official Blog over at Blog.Anime-Fanatic.com. This blog will track the changes and updates to Anime-Fanatic.com.