So I finally got around to breaking the sunrise set up into tracks so that I can burn it to CD. Anyone who’d like a copy drop me a line with your address and I’ll see if I can get one out to you. (Though I’ll warn you that I’m a slacker and it may take a while :))

So this company online CD Japan is an amazing place for picking up japanese music CDs and anime DVDs. Weekly they send out announcements of what their upcoming preorders are. I hate it when they come up with things like this (because I want it SOOOO much!):

LUPIN THE THIRD second tv, DVD-BOX (Title subject to change) (DVD)
Catalog Number: VPBY-11912 Price: Yen-105,000 , US$(880.95) Release Date:
05-12-2001
A collectors item containing all 155 episodes of ‘Shin Lupin Sansei (LUPIN
THE THIRD second tv)’ which was aired from 1977 through 1980. Hayao
Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke) directed the episodes 145 and 155 under the
name Tsutomu Teruki. Like the 1st TV BOX set, these episodes are
remastered and refined new prints. Comes in special Box. 13 packs of ‘2 in
1 keep cases’ with booklet enclosed.

Almost NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS! AIE!

So I ordered a few poster/wallscrolls from The Right Stuf (which, btw, rules for most things anime related). My ‘cube’ at work had been looking a little bleak, so I’ve been looking for things to brighten it up. I got two, one is a Cardcaptor Sakura wallscroll, and the other is a Gasaraki poster. Pretty cool. I’ll have to get a pic of my desk up for people to see sometime soon.

So, I have found out that my Pirate Name is:

Captain Harry Kidd

Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. Even though you’re not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

So this morning I get a call at 6am saying that the power is out at work. I make my way up there slowly, since there wasn’t much I could do once I got there, and once I get there they decide to send everyone home to work from home. So, I finally get home, traffic was insane, and power comes back on again. Sheesh. Never a dull moment. At least I didn’t have to drive back in. I got to stay in air conditioned happiness all day.

I think it is naptime now.

Book of the moment: The Practice of System and Network Administration
I’d heard about this book coming out a few months ago and was really psyched about what I heard of it. It just arrived at the bookstore today and I leafed through it and decided to pick up a copy for me and ones for my two sysadmins. So far, this book seems like a great ‘how to be a sysadmin’ manual from the more general side of things. There are tons of books on system administration for every OS out there, but this covers that area of “but why do I do it that way?” or “what do other people do?”. I’ll post a more complete review of the book when I finish reading/skimming through it (including the index it is over 750 pages long!)

LOTD: Underground
I found this flash game from a link on zannah’s site and need to stop playing it! If you like dancing type games at all this thing is pretty keen. Multi-player too. Give it a try!

So I got my first R2 DVD today in the mail. So I finally get to test out that feature on my DVD player. The DVD I got is Kiki’s Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyubin). This is probably one of my favorite Miyazaki films ever. It was definitely the first I saw. Totoro is due out next week and I can’t wait to get it.
On the other hand, all the text on the box is in Japanese and now I think I’m going to have to learn it enough to at least understand DVD cases.

I forgot to post this last week, but I noticed that my friend Colleen made it to the Continental Divide on the bike trek she is on. I’m way psyched for her. This bike ride sounds like it has been quite an ordeal and it’s so cool that she’s made it so far! If you happen to be going to Burning Man she’ll be working at some massage tent there. You should head over and tell her Gregory said to say hi. You can read about the bike trip over on http://www.intrepidheroines.net/.
On a related note. I can’t wait till she gets back because I’ve been lazy and haven’t found another massage therapist since she’s been out of town.

So I created a Live Journal. I don’t know that I’m going to post anything to it, since I have my blog here. The main reason I created it was to make it easier to read all my friend’s journals. I’ve been trying to think of just what kind of things I should post to it. Maybe I’ll try and remember my dreams and write them down in it or somerhing. Or maybe I’ll just record what I had for lunch every day.