FFRedXIII

Sorry for my absence, guys. Been too busy with school to write or draw, and I don't really own a camera so I don't get to do much photography, either.

Anyways, the point of this journal:

I know nobody really reads these things, but who knows, one of my few watchers could be a World of Warcraft or Diablo player.

Anyways, tickets for Blizzcon went on sale yesterday. If you know anything about Blizzcon, it's a bloodbath. You refresh the moment the time hits, you hit the purchase link as soon as it appears, and then you get put into a queue based on the order you clicked. Under 3700 you're almost guaranteed a ticket, at about 5000 you have maybe a 50% chance if you're lucky, and if you're at 7000 or above, you can wait it out but it's extremely unlikely.

Anyways, this was my intended first year of going, so I got this information second hand. Did the gauntlet, got queue number 1700-ish. Then got locked out of my account due to unusual log-in patterns. Had to quickly create a new battle.net account in a separate browser just so I would be able to buy my ticket. I did, and I got my ticket.

So, would any of my watchers happen to be Blizzard fans and going? Just curious, is all.

Sorry guys (should anybody be reading this) for the image spam. As the first image stated, I went to the Toronto Zoo a few weeks back. If I had gone like normal, with my mom, I guarantee that there would have been a LOT more photos, as I would have spent time at each exhibit.

However, I went with my uncle, well, was invited by my uncle actually. My uncle is friends with a guy who works at the zoo, who was kind enough to give up a private tour. I went into employee only sections, ate pancakes/bacon/eggs with a few of the zookeepers, got to feed an adult male rhino with still 1 foot of growth left in him (and he was already at almost 6 feet tall!), played with some type of wild pig (can't recall the species name) held a Hornbill on my arm (and have two small scars to prove it, ouch!) and got to go behind one of the tiger exhibits (which led to SOME nice pics. Really wish I could have stayed there longer, but some crazy lady came by and it prevented me from getting to take more photos from an angle that I will likely NEVER get again).

I don't have photos of the rhino and pig, though. My camera's memory card was being screwy at the time, so all I have is crappy phone photos that turned out blurry or have me in them.

Hopefully that explains the image spam.

Well, not new, per-say.





Does anybody remember that? Well, the process stopped because, well, I lost Photoshop.

I just recently go use of Photoshop again, and stumbling across the file sparked my interest.


So, I've been working on doing a full set of the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children characters. I'll definitely be uploading it when it is finished.

Planned Characters:

Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Nanaki, Cid, Yuffie, Aerith, Cait Sith, Vincent, Sephiroth, Bahamut SIN, Kadaj, Yazoo, Loz, Rino, Rude, and maybe a Chocobo. Others may be added based on reception and request.

Completed Characters:

Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Nanaki, Sephiroth, and Bahamut SIN.

Long way to go, but at least I'm working on something new.

Well, everybody, I'm now officially back at University after Christmas break. This means school will be picking up again, but I should be able to handle it better now. Expect some artwork and writing this year!

In other news, I managed to pull something in my pack while moving back into residence. Never have I had a back injury persist more than a few hours. 2 days now, and it hurt enough this morning that I asked a friend to go and take notes at class for me. Just found a friend with a heating pad, that should help.

Now I just wish i could find a friend with a screwdriver so I could set my TV up.

It is now. . . looks at clock. . . 5 AM. I have been up since about Noon yesterday.

Why am I still up?

My aunt is in labour.

I was originally going to go with my mom to wait at the hospital, but now I'm pretty glad I didn't. As it is, I'm staying up, getting texted updates from my Mom on my phone. It isn't going as smoothly as we had hoped, but both are still doing good, thank goodness.

I'm getting tired, but I'm sure I can last out this labour.

Hopefully.


EDIT: 5:43 AM, roughly. He is born. A little bundle of joy, at 8 pounds, 1 ounce. I knew it would be a boy! Ha! Everybody was guessing girl.

Also, they named him after my grandfather, James. That made my Nan tear up a bit. My grandfather died when I was 2 or 3, 15-16 years ago.







In other news, aw, screw it, I'm just going to copy and past this from my FurAffinity account journal.





Long story short: I now have a Nintendo 64.

Long story:

Not that I didn't have one before.

See, I'm a twin. Growing up, my brother and I have always shared our video game consoles (given that it really wasn't cost effective to buy two consoles. Handhelds like the Gameboy were different). Now, we're at the age where we are going to be separate for a long time, and the issue of ownership has come up.

My brother can be a bit of an overbearing asshole at times. He does things purposefully to mock me when he can. He has basically decided that he owns all the consoles and games (because, according to him, he played them more), except the ones he doesn't like. As I said, an asshole. He lives with my Dad now, leaving me little opportunity to argue otherwise. Last thing I managed to do was grab my PS2 and a few games I wanted to play. He's had the system for over a year, and he never played it. He can let me have it for a nice long while now, dammit!

Anyways, back to the story. I know that in the end, I'm going to have to buy all these consoles and copies of the games, because I know he never will, he'll just keep taking them back. So I need my own (which is gonna be hard with old, popular games like Final Fantasy VII (which I've seen for sale at between $75 and $120)). There was a yard sale down the street. I was told by my grandmother that she "saw some cartridges there, you know, like old Nintendo games" (I use her quotes to illustrate her good intent, but he lack of video gaming knowledge. She did buy us our Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and N64, so she knows the basics of gaming, kind of. Wouldn't be able to play a game to save her life, though.). I quickly rushed over there. Thank goodness people don't know value.

Picked up a N64 console, 4 controllers (1 plain grey, 1 purple and see-through, 1 green and see-through, and one red), 6 N64 games (Perfect Dark, Excitebike 64, Pokemon Snap, Toy Story 2, Donkey Kong 64, and Banjo Kazooie), and 4 Gameboy Colour games (Hamtaro, Pokemon Yellow (and the internal battery still works!), Mortal Kombat 2, and Monster Rancher Explorer). All that for $35.

Given that Most N64s at used game stores and conventions that i see go for about $50, and that's with no games and 2 controllers, I think I got a damn good deal. And now I have my own N64, my own copy of Banjo Kazooie, and 5 other games I've never had before. Plus those 4 GBC games.


To expand upon that: if you or anybody you know wants to get rid of old (or new) games, send me a note. I may just be happy to take it off your hands. Especially if you are in the central-south Ontario area.


And there's my news/rant.