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April 21, 2003

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block. And I sit at home looking out the window, imagining the world has stopped. Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack. And says, "I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack!" I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud! Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd on my cloud, baby. The telephone is ringing. I say, "Hi, it's me. Who is it there on the line?" A voice says, "Hi, hello, how are you?" Well, I guess I'm doin' fine. He says, "It's three a.m., there's too much noise Don't you people ever wanna go to bed? Just 'cause you feel so good, do you have To drive me out of my head?" I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud! Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd on my cloud, baby. I was sick and tired, fed up with this, and decided to take a drive downtown. It was so very quiet and peaceful; there was nobody, not a soul around. I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream. In the morning the parking tickets were just like a flag stuck on my window screen. I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud! Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd on my cloud.

A few updates since our last episode...

I start my intership, earlier than I originally expected, on May 19th. This will lead to some of what I call "power moving" in the few days after I get done with finals. Nothing like a little pressure to make sure you get things done though, plus now I get a big clump of time at the end of the summer after I'll have made a bunch of money :D

Hans and I found a place to live next year. It's only a couple-few blocks further away from here, and it, and it's parking, are just so much cheaper than here I don't care about the walk. Plus it is actually a three-bedroom place so we intend to move the desks into the extra room and make it a "get shit done chamber" of sorts. The place has some potential to be pretty nice, even if the carpeting reminds me of my days at Fremd.

I have a new game for the gamecube called Ikaruga. You may (probably have not) heard it mentioned on Penny-Arcade in the past. By Atari, it recently came out in the US but it has been an arcade game in Japan for a long time now. Basically, it's like your classic 1942/3 or Galaxia for the NES (you fly around in a tiny ship on the screen and blow up countless enemy craft as they fling completely impractical amounts of beam-ordinance at you that you must avoid along with random objects that are flying through the air, and the enemy ships themselves) the key difference here being that there are two types of shots the enemies fire, black and white. You must constantly change the color of your ship to be immune to shots of that color, as you'll find the screen completely swamped with one color or the other at any given time.

The other key difference is that this game, I'm convinced, is completely impossible even on "easy" mode, which is anything but. As Tycho said, hard mode likely just gives you cancer and kills you. But really, who wants a game you can just conquer without any effort?

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