Brian goes BOWLINNNNNNNNNN

Spent Friday night bowling with some friends. But before that…

I met up with my friend Daniel to shoot some pool. Played for an hour and a half. Both of us had our share of crazy shots though I think I won more games.

After that, I had a quick dinner at Subway (no, not called Wrong Way, HAR HAR HAR) and then met up with other friends to partake in bowling shenanigans.

In all, there was me, John, Mike, Dan (different person), Mattea, Mark, Adam, Abe, and Isaac. Fun times were had, as is usually the case.

Because I know my readers here HATE reading long things, it is time once again for me to bust out the bulleted list!

• John and I bowled the first three games by ourselves. My first three scores were 96, 82, 94. John’s were 121, 143, 66.
• If you are going to say “HAY BRAIN I THINK YOUR GOT YOUR ASS BEAT LOLOLOZLOLOLOLOSLOLOLOLOLOLOL” yes, I did. Thanks for stating the obvious.
• Mike and Dan arrived afterwards. So did Abe. We got together and bowled a game. I bowled a 95. A pic of the scores is below.
• Mattea and Adam made their appearances. We then split into two teams of four to compete for bowling supremacy with no prize or reward. I was part of a team with Mattea, Abe, and John. Dan, Mike, Mark, and Adam made up the second team.
• At first, our team had the upper hand but Dan’s team caught up and passed us. In the end, I bowled a 96. Our team lost 361 to 353.
• John demanded a rematch and it happened. We all chipped in $1 for Adam to bowl another game to make this possible, much to his disapproval.
• Second game got serios. The other team bowled a combined 365; we only had 318 by the time I had to bowl my tenth frame. DON’T YOU FEEL THE DRAMA AND TENSION?
• I bowled a strike. I needed to perform in the clutch and I did just that. Now I just need to worry about the second part of the tenth frame.
• I bowled another strike. I was feeling quite good at this point. I think after this, some cock and his bitch faggot cunt of a girlfriend walked past us but they walked along the alley; if I were about to bowl, I would’ve bumped into them. I was not pleased; neither was Mark. I gave them the finger but they sadly did not notice.
• I end up getting 5 pins in the third part of the tenth frame, but I was content; bowled a 114.
• John’s turn to bowl in the tenth frame came up. Despite his efforts, we ended up losing 365 to 344.
• Another game…this time with no teams. I bowled a 118.
• The last game was a total blowout. LOL I SAID BLOW. Abe pwned us all. I ended up bowling left-handed for a couple frames and bowled hopping on one foot in the tenth. When you know you lost, you tend to let yourself go and do silly things that you know have no bearing on the outcome.
• End bowling.

I got a ride back home thanks to Abe (or rather Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe…inside joke). Driving through Queens was about as homosexual as Christopher Street…some random guy kicked Abe’s car and ran away being the pussy he was. Mark and I wanted to give chase but the fucker ran away TOO FAST. After that, there were other cars driving shittily, mainly in the form of driving too slowly.

I make it back home in one piece (no Luffy) and here I am typing this entry out.

I have to go help out at the volunteering thing I do on Saturday, so I’ll be signing off here. I’ll SEE YA when I SEE YA.

P.S. The Claymore manga is awesome on many levels.

Oh yeah, before I forget…PICS FROM BOWLING, WITH CAPTIONS!

I bowled a 96 in Game 1

I bowled an 82 in Game 2. That usually happens when you don’t bowl strikes and make shitty gutter balls.

A 94. I’m reaching towards respectability. And yes, our initials spell out BJ like Blow Job. HAR HAR HAR.

OMG FIVE PEOPLE. I bowled a 95; John a 138; Abe a 77; Dan a 133 and Mike a 106.

Another 96 from me.

It was up to me and John…

LOL WE STILL LOST. =(

Me bowling a 118 = WIN

THAT’S A SMALL EXCUSE FOR A BOWLING SCORE

Edit/retraction:  please disregard the ethnic slurs I used when describing the random guy kicking my friend’s car.  I wasn’t in a good mood and, if you are Captain Obvious, it clearly showed.  Apologies to all.

The meaningful entry I promised…

Another week is about to come to a close, which means the wonderful senior year of college is one week/one step closer (no Linkin Park).

A lot of my friends are busy doing big things…getting their feet into the proverbial door at various jobs that benefit their future careers.  I, on the other hand, am doing grunt work for little money.

The future is an intimidating beast.  You know it is ahead of you, and it becomes more and more noticeable with each step, but yet you cannot discern it.  In the case of my future, I know it is ahead of me but I don’t even know what it entails.

I really want to be a writer, and a damn good one, too.  This novel I’ve been trying to complete this summer is a testament to that.  Will it be done by the end of 2007?  I think not, but I really need to keep hacking at it and keep writing away if I think I have any shot; more time spent not writing means more chances for me to become discouraged with my work and to no longer believe in myself.

I just hope that I can finally discover myself; half a year has already passed and I am still on the same figurative “square one” that I was at at the beginning of 2007…

For all zero people who asked, Claymore is the only anime I am blogging here.  This isn’t really an anime blog per sé but I choose to write my reviews on each episode of Claymore because it is by far the best anime I have ever seen, ever (hooray for redundancy).  If anything else in the future really grabs my attention, I may write about it here.

But for those who actually do come here for the reviews, please bear with me.  I haven’t really refined my talent to write reviews for shows, though I did take a class this past semester on writing critical pieces.  If anything, consider my reviews a way of “practice” for writing reviews for tv shows and stuff.  Who knows, I may end up doing this for a living if I get really lucky.

Anyway, Friday was supposed to be a trip to Philly  but that got pwned.  Instead it will feature billiards and bowling in Flushing!  SIH SIH SIH

Let’s hope that works out well.

Anyway, SEE YA (no Michael Kay)

Claymore Episode 13 — The Endless Gravestones, Part 2

Claymore episode 13, bitches!

Clare is running like Forrest Gump in a forest (LOL YOU SAW WHAT I DID THERE) but psycho Ophelia catches up. She taunts Clare about her slowness in her super fast atomic leg running technique. Ophelia and Clare both release yoma powahhhh but Clare voluntarily stops it, leaving Ophie-chan a bit confused. She goes to attack Clare but she is blocking everything! Ophelia then realizes that she did that so she could read Ophelia’s yoki flow. So smart!

HOWEVER, Ophelia shows off her sword’s ability. She cuts Clare multiple times as Ophelia’s sword looks like it wiggles rapidly in the air. Clare knew where the attacks were going to be but she still could not defend as she gets deep cuts in both her shoulders.

The attack is known as the “Rippling Sword” according to Ophelia and it is an attack she spent a lot of time devising. She wanted to be known as “Ophelia of the Ripples” but she felt the nickname wouldn’t work because no one has ever survived her Rippling Sword.

Clare tries to do a sneak attack on Ophelia…but it failed. Ophelia cuts off Clare’s right arm and then slices her through the chest. Clare falls into a stream below.

Just when Clare thought she could attempt to reattach her arm after she finds a place to rest, Ophelia is right there (oh snap). Ophelia takes Clare to Claymore School (not literally for you dense people) by telling her how some Claymores are better at offense and some are better at defense—the ones better at offense can reattach limbs if they are cut off but cannt regenerate them from scratch (like Deneve can do). To further prove this point, Ophie-chan cuts Clare-chan’s detached arm into pieces. Clare is like “yo, bitch, wtf?!?!?!” just as we see a mysterious cloaked person in a different area of the forest…

Clare tries to fight lefty but she is no Phil Mickelson or an Ikkaku Madarame; her left arm lacks any semblance of strength found in her right and Ophelia is able to block her attacks with no effort and is able to cut Clare even further.

First Clare is missing an arm but now she is missing a left hand as Kenpachi Ophelia cuts it off just as Clare tried to reach for her sword.

But mystery cloak lady comes in just as Ophelia is about to pwn Clare with the finishing move. Ophelia is pissed that her fun was interrupted and goes to attack cloak lady…

BUT SHE BLOCKS EVERY ONE OF OPHELIA’S ATTACKS! EVEN HER RIPPLING SWORD! And all that without even moving a muscle! Oh shit son… Then cloak lady pwns Ophelia by cutting her 92739283927580274985294735243975 times with sword swings coming out of nowhere…Sound familiar?

Yep! It is Flash Sword Irene, who apparently didn’t die when Priscilla awakened.

Clare wakes up in a bed in some posh cottage in the forest…turns out this is where Irene has been hiding out ever since the Priscilla incident. Her right arm is still gone but her left hand is reattached now. Irene comes back with food but Clare still wants to go back out and fight. Irene stops her and is like “yo u aint gettin outta this place in the state u in, and that crazy bitch is like still alive so just take the L and eat your fruits.” She also tells Clare she can’t even defeat weaklings in the condition she is in, you know, with the missing arm and all. Yea, DISS.

We further see proff that Irene still has her power: she pisses off the environmentalists and Ben Gibbards by using her Flash Sword to cut down a tree and tear the trunk into pieces. Hey, at least it shows she can efficiently gather firewood effortlessly…

More flashbacks of the Priscilla thing, as Clare tells Irene what she learned about the whole incident. Irene then reveals to her that she faked her death and went into hiding in a faraway land beyond the reaches of the Organization. Her suppression of yoki for all these years has made her undetectable to other Claymore spidey-senses (i guess it is assumed sexy Galatea can’t sense Irene’s presence either). Irene learns that Teresa’s flesh is within Clare’s body; as a result Clare is only 1/4 Yoma and 3/4 human…basically making her rather weak amongst the Claymores.

During this chat, we also learn that Irene lost her left arm in the Priscilla “I’M ABOUT TO BREAK” awakening…so she and Clare both have a thing in common. Irene asks Clare why she is so stubborn; she tells Irene that Teresa was everything to her and she must continue to move forward. She felt she wasn’t strong enough to forget everything about the past. Irene gives Clare her sword back and tells her she will teach her the flash sword technique.

Back in the forest, Ophelia is going all emo, thinking about her deceased brother while still in pain from surviving Irene’s wtfh4x attack. We can tell she was close with him and he promised to protect her in the past before he got pwned by a Yoma. Ophelia then goes insane as we see her releasing her inner Yoma powers to rather dangerous levels…

Back to Clare training…she nearly awakens and has to stop. Irene can still block everything from Clare, which means Clare needs more work on her flash sword. Irene reveals that the flash sword technique is essnetially letting the yoma power force the arm to awaken, as opposed to letting it generate a full awakening. A strong will is needed in order to restrain the full release of yoma power to just that one arm.

Meanwhile back in the forest again, Ophelia comments about how wonderful she feels and how she is hungry for human guts…Does this mean what I think it does? Uh oh…

My thoughts…well, this episode was another good episode as we learn that Irene is still alive and has the power to pwn Ophelia. There were various points in the episode where it looked like Clare was going to be done for before other factors played a role in saving her ass. Plus, Ophelia’s apparent awakening in the end does not bode well for Clare, as she had a hard time fighting her to begin with.

Animation quality did not look as bad as it did last week, thankfully. The fighting sequences were beautifully animated once again, showing Madhouse’s skillz in super duper fast frame rate animation. Only gripes I have this week are the music (there was that scene in Irene’s crib where a track of music played where it was better off without) and weird scene direction; the transitions from Clare’s training to Ophelia talking to herself seemed very awkward…as in they transitioned between the two scenes too quickly. That’s how I saw it, at least.

Next week (no screencaps) we see titties (this show may not be hentai but it sure likes to push the boundaries) and the one-eyed Claymore Rafaela!

PICS:

For more images, go here: here.

Just another recap on things

Personal writing project:

I was writing chapter 12…I hope to get this finished soon.

Claymore:

Episode 13 is gonna be poppin…Read the manga up to chapter 34 (which is where episode 12 left off)

Free time?

NO. I started helping out somewhere. Free time is going to be limited.

Other things:

— Fate always plays a funny role

— I don’t get enough sleep

— I still don’t like the Mets

— WHAT

A more meaningful entry to come later this week.

Claymore Episode 12—The Endless Gravestones (Part 1)

Another week, another kick-ass episode of Claymore, am i rite guyz?!

The cold opening begins with Clare pwning a lemonparty of yoma, like Dan Haren striking out the side in the first inning. Rubel, Clare’s handler and Paul Shaffer look-alike, is impressed with her efforts. He dispatches her for another task: to hunt down another Awakened Being. She promises she won’t die.

Clare and Raki sit by a campfire and Clare tells him that he should not come along because it is too dangerous. Raki, who is practicing his sword skills, refuses to comply mainly because he wants to protect her.

Morning arrives and Clare makes it into the next town, which looks more empty than Shea Stadium did in the early ’90s and more dilapidated than Yankee Stadium did before its renovation in the ’70s. Her spidey senses are tingling and she encounters a Claymore. Something about her makes Clare apprehensive.

She is Ophelia, the crazy, super-psycho Number Four Claymore. She uses her flash steps (word to Bleach) to sneak up on Clare and stabs her chest with just two fingers, and licks the blood from the wound. Raki comes in from nowhere to attempt to save the day but Clare just narrowly saves him from becoming a pile of guts (the Raki haters probably are wishing Clare was a split second too late).

Ophelia once again proves how crazy she is as she cuts off both of Clare’s legs. She then challenges Raki to a duel where she fights on par with his level for ten minutes, with her level gradually ascending with each minute (no DBZ and power levels over 9000). If Clare cannot reattach her legs within that window, Raki is D-I-E.

Raki’s already cut all over the place after taking too many hits from Ophelia, who only went up by one power level. Clare cannot do anything but attempt to reattach her legs using her yoma powers.

OMG girl walks in (Chris Hansen is watching, so keep the perverted thoughts at bay) and is surprised at the sight of two Claymores. But OH SHIT SON, she is the Awakened One that Clare was sent to hunt. She transforms and then uses her many tentacles to destroy the surrounding area; surprisingly, the Claymores and Raki are unharmed.

Now the Awakened One has captured Raki and is basically ready to devour him. Raki can’t help but think about Clare and how he feels it is his obligation to protect her. He tries to cut the Awakened One with all his strength but it didn’t work at all (in the words of Mike Breen, he was WAY off the mark). But Clare-chan releases all her powers to successfully reattach her legs and save Raki from his distress. Ophelia is like “no, bitch, you should be awakened like that other ugly Awakened bitch, this is madness (THIS IS [name of a place])!!!!!” Clare and Raki both escape while the Awakened breaks Ophelia’s neck by turning it 180-degrees around. No, she didn’t break Ophelia’s neck by showing her how she was wearing original Aqua Air Jordan VIIIs from 1993.

Ophelia, like an owl, is unharmed when her neck 180-degrees. Ophelia closes it out like K-Rod and defeats the Awakened by cutting her five times through her head.

Clare and Raki manage to escape to some forest. Clare asks Raki to split up again, because she knows Ophelia is coming for her. Raki is like “omg no” while saying that he wants to be by Clare’s side, even if it means he dies. Then Clare pulls out the proverbial pocket ace and kisses him and tells him she will live this day to meet with him again, effectively telling him that he cannot die, either. Raki promises to live and to protect Clare.

In the final scene, we see Ophelia again, and she’s determined to hunt down Clare to fight her (why, oh WHY, does this remind me of Kenpachi Zaraki & Ichigo from Bleach)…

Overall another good episode for action. I read about Ophelia being a crazed psycho bitch and omgwtf was that so true here. She definitely lived up to the fears Miria had about her. Hell, Ophelia smiles and has a face of joy when she is about to kill (sound familiar, Bleach fans?).

HOWEVER, deductions are going to be made for animation quality. This episode’s animation was outsourced to some Korean studio and it very clearly showed throughout this episode in the form of very deformed and ugly-looking faces. Something tells me we may see more of the same throughout this mini-arc.

But damn…the Ophelia—Clare showdown is going to be epic (at least from the looks of it in the preview for the next episode). Will Clare even stand a chance? Tune in next week to find out…or just read the manga and find out that way, too.

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Lemonparty = over

Insert jokes about female bodily functions

Yea, who needs legs when you have a car

The Awakened One wanted to make Ophelia like one of those owls that can turn their necks 180-degrees

omg

Images from Preview:

OH NO, CLARE-CHAN GETS PWNED IN THE SHOULDER

Who is more psycho—Ophelia or Nina Einstein from Code Geass?

Insert witty title here about writer’s block

Just when I thought I had overcome it, it seems to be manifesting itself again.

I think it is a sign that the arc I’m writing now in my story (which I guess I’ll call the “First Day Arc” since it all takes place during the first day of school—OMG I’M SO SMART) is getting tired and old; I’m going to have to throw in some OMGWTFplot twists.

I think I know what to do…but then that means I may have to rewrite all ten completed chapters AGAIN…not cool.  So I’m probably gonna do something different in chapter 11 perhaps…or start some OH SHIT SON level craziness in chapter 12…

Oh yeah, Subway Series tonight.  You already know who I am rooting for…

Toodles.

Claymore Episode 11, a review by ME!!!

Claymore 11 — The Slashers, III — The epic conclusion of this little trilogy arc.

We see once again Miria and Clare double team on the Awakened Male (no menage-trois) and he gets pwnt. He’s like wtfh4x but face it: YOU GONE [word to Hawk Harrelson].

Raki, everyone’s favorite male sidekick, is looking off into the mountains, still wondering about Clare. The innkeeper told Raki in the previous episode that all Claymores who went into the mountains never came back. After realizing he made an ass of himself, he told Raki to forget what he said, but it was too late for that as Raki has been instilled with apprehensive thoughts about his Claymore friend.

Meanwhile off in the distance, Galatea (aka Miss Claymore…face it, if you ever saw her, you’d smash too) and her handler are surprised that the Awakened Male was defeated. They comment on how quickly he was defeated. Galatea uses her 1337 yoki (a Claymore’s and Yoma’s aura) detection skills to determine that there was only one casualty. Her handler tells her to keep an eye on them longer.

Miria, Helen, and Clare all are concerned about Deneve’s health, as she used up all her powers to heal her injuries. Miria then asks Helen and Clare if they’ve ever experienced an Awakening, where their yoma, or demonic powers, surpass their limits. Both say they have; for Clare it was rather painful though for Helen it was more of a pleasurable feeling (cue references to Orgasm Guy’s AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH).

Miria then asks Helen about Deneve and she feels she was testing herself to see where her limits were. Miria then asks if they have ever caused problems for the townspeople. Helen admits with a smirk that she has a few times “based on her personality.” She also says Deneve is more of a perfectionist but has more problems with her own kind; Helen and Deneve both became Claymores around the same time so they could be considered as friends. Miria comments that Clare was the lowest ranked but occasionally runs wild. Based on all that, Miria concludes they are all “problem children” and also noted that “problem children” coincidentally always seem to be gathered here (on this mission) and coincidentally a bit of misinformation resulted in a battle with an Awakened Male. Don’t be part of the problem, be part of the solution (yes, that was corny).

Clare asks if Miria ever came close to Awakening; she says that she has, and we get a flashback (SIH SIH SIH) of a battle in the past. An Awakened One pwns two other Claymores (one via bitchslap, one via stomp) but Miria slices off the Awakened’s limbs. But when she’s about to finish the job like Mariano Rivera, she sees the Awakened was really Hilda, a Claymore that Miria was friends with. OMG. Miria goes crazy and goes super saiyan (aka releasing all her yoma powers like whoa). Another Claymore enters and wants to fight her (what is she, the Claymore version of Kenpachi Zaraki?) in her Awakened state.

But Miria doesn’t awaken. She said she suppressed all her powers and didn’t want to deal with her but she doesn’t say who this person was (I have an idea but I shall not spoil it).

Then we learn a startling truth about Miria: she said that at that moment she swore to take revenge on the Organization. She comes off as one who follows orders but has secretly been trying to dig up dirt on the Organization and how they don’t seem to value the lives of their Claymores; once they awaken, they are pretty much discarded.

Back to Miss Claymore and Mr…Handler Dude. She detects that all their yokis are going nuts (not for nuts) over something that was said.

Then more startling truths; it seems as if everyone in the group has already “awakened” and achieved a “half-awakened” state. They all had awakening experiences but were able to stop them mid-way. From Deneve’s regeneration power to Helen’s “Stretch Armstrong/Mr. Fantastic” power, these are both powers that can only be used when one is at the limit of awakening. As a result, they are partially awakened and it is only a matter of time before they go over their limits for good in the future.

Deneve finally has enough strength to talk and feels that they shouldn’t just sit and wait for the Awakening to happen. She voluntarily awakens, thinking that if she can suppress her yoma power in the process, she will not awaken. If she can’t control it, she tells them to kill without hesitation.

Galatea has detected an awakening (yea, her yoki detection skills are THAT damn good)in one of the Claymores, much to her handler’s surprise. She says it seems that it was voluntary. He feels it’s a pity and doesn’t seem to care, but it goes against what he said earlier about watching over the Claymores as if they were his children.

But do not fear, for Deneve is still here! Yeah, she was able to suppress her awakening. ::Cue the Tiger Woods fist pump:: She says she won’t take such a risk again.

OMGWTF MY SPIDEY SENSE IS TINGLING! Clare seems to have detected the yoki of another Claymore, saying that it felt like they were being watched. Miria says that she shouldn’t worry because no one else is here and that none of the Claymores has the ability to sense yoki from that far away (OH YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT GALATEA!). But Clare knows deep inside *someone* was watching. Then we flash forward into the forest and Galatea is surprised that someone was able to sense her presence from so far away. Her handler then tells her to memorize the yoki of the four Claymores she was watching, for she may have to fight them in the future.

Back in the mountains, the Claymores plan to split up and go separate ways, making sure not to rouse the suspicions of the organization. She says that they can fight toe-to-toe with Claymores of single-digit ranks, though the top five may pose problems for them. Miria carves the symbols of the top five Claymores on a nearby rock; the top three are Alicia, Beth, Galatea (<3333333333). She hesitates to mention the name of number 4 because she cares nothing about the lives of humans or fellow Claymores. She has what Miria describes as an “abnormal obsession” with hunting Awakened Beings. Her name? Ophelia. Then number 5 is Rafaela. Compared to Miria at #6, the top five are on a whole different level (IT’S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!). All four draw their swords together (lol think three musketeers and all for one and one for all).

More Galatea fanservice—I mean—scenes. She wonders about the possibility of facing the other four in battle, but wonders if they can live long enough to meet her in the end (OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH).

Back in the town, Raki awaits Clare’s arrival. The LOL innkeeper once again reminds him that no Claymore ever returned from the mountains alive. Raki says Clare always keeps her promises; the innkeeper hopelessly shrugs his shoulders and goes back inside. Probably the most LOL moment of the episode.

But who is this off in the distance? OMG IT’S CLARE! As Raki runs to embrace her, she promises herself that she must survive.

Another great episode as we learn more about the shadiness of the organization and a little of Miria’s past. The music seemed much improved here; I guess they finally got the message that having only three background music tracks isn’t going to cut it. We probably haven’t seen the last of Galatea, and we are probably going to see the rest of the top five later on, particularly Ophelia, as she makes an appearance in the preview for next week’s episode, titled “The Endless Gravestones I” YAY! Another multi-episode saga! Reminds me of those epic X-Men weeklong sagas back in the old days, when Fox’s afternoon lineup had kickass cartoons and no syndicated courtroom bile drama.

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OMG GOOD MORNING

Yes, it is morning, and I am hungry.

I think I’m going out later. Fun times, I hope.

And LOL the Mets got swept in LA.

I shall edit this entry with my thoughts about Claymore episode 11. Yes, it is anime-related, so all you cockfags who masturbate to The Notebook, Grey’s Anatomy, or other girly dramas should just gtfo and ejaculate your hormonal bullshit elsewhere.

Edit: will make a new entry instead.

Today is Wednesday [/Captain Obvious]

Don’t you ever like it when you want to go out and get something to eat, and you get yourself all dressed up, and lo and behold, there is food waiting for you? A warm, soothing feeling I suppose.

And the novel is finally making progress. After finally finishing a shitty chapter 10—and naming it appropriately—I think I can finally move on again and finally get to the real good parts of the story…I hope.

Anyway, props go to Chien-Ming Wang and Hong-Chih Kuo for demonstrating the power of Taiwanese pitching in their respective games last night.

As long as the Yankees keep winning and the Mets keep LOSING…it will be smooth sailing…

YOU MAD? Part 1 of MANY

So I wanted to go to the Yankees game on Wednesday with a friend.  Could’ve spent $10 on both tickets.  HOWEVER…

I have to go to some bloody Father’s Day dinner with the family.

WHY, oh WHY must events in my life never coincide properly???

And I made no progress on chapter 10.  =(

oh well, life sucks, i move on.