It is a sad time for a lot of Portal fans.

Especially those strapped for cash.

Like seriously, I feel for you guys. I really almost missed the fucking boat myself and all. Not to mention NECA's website's load-bearing capacity gets defeated every midnight when they toss up another 50 guns for sale.

Well, if you missed the boat they're making 5000 P-body (and presumably 5000 Atlas) guns. Which makes me feel like I should catch 'em all, then resell the bot versions when I'm tired of them. Double my money easily and all. Damn NECA.

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I got an autographed copy of The 12 Labours of Gastrophobia as an early birthday present, thanks Indy ♥ GAH-ROO!

While out and about with her, we ate Malaysian food at Nyonya (yums) and on the way out an old Asian lady cornered me and said "ioewuw 2 dollar hfoiwheoifw." She gestured to me with a handful of pens, various pens that looked like she collected freebie advertising pens that people give away/leave in reception areas. I said, "Er, no" and moved.

"What was that all about?"
"She was trying to sell you a pen for $2."

Hustle hard, eh granny?

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Remember that USPS package that got lost on its way here? I finally got it, didn't like it, sent it back.

It got lost on the way back too. What fucking blockheads are delivering these packages?

Est. Delivery to 90021 > 4/28
Delivery to 90014 > 4/30
Received by 90021 > 5/03 (I found this out by emailing customer support. What. In. The. FUCK?)

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For Mother's day we took mom to brunch, then I made her dinner. With Target shopping in between and some minor cleaning work... I'm sleepy! Give me another Sunday! -_-

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Last Thursday I went to see the Street Doc's first show in Williamsburg. I'm mad proud of them and I'd love to link to their site/EP but... effing domain apparently expired yesterday. *ahem* I'll have to let them know.

I didn't bring my camera because I knew it would be a dark venue and my camera would just disappoint me. I will soon have enough for a new one though... *eyes glitter*

"You see you? You's a duttiness" is the phrase that pays for 2012. I will have it no other way.

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NECA is a duttiness.

Rewind the tape to... February. Valve posted on their Face Book that they would be having replica Aperture Science Handheld Portal Devices for sale in the coming months. Excited!! I want one!! So I started staying tuned to their FB page for updates on preorders/where to buy and such.

This ended up being a problem because the preorders were never announced on FB, just on NECA's website. They sold in 24 hours, and I was about 2 days too late on the announcement. Well, there's always either Thinkgeek (selling, but without preorders) or brick 'n' mortar.

Fast forward to the present, where NECA posted on 4/30 that the 2 brick 'n' mortar chains they'd be providing to... don't have locations in New York. The closest I've seen is Connecticut. On top of that, they put 50 guns for preorder at midnight that night... sold.

Thinkgeek, my only hope. But...

I don't have internet access at work outside of CNN, and I don't have an Android/iPhone... what happens if they send me the "In Stock" email while I'm at work? I'd get the email and be able to do nothing about it.

Between 10 and 11am this morning, I asked Kind King Dock to also sign up for the email and order for me whenever it is the email comes.

At 12:04pm, we got the email. Mind you, TG's ETA was 5/18.

30 minutes later, they were sold the fuck out.

...but I GOT ONE!!!!!! thanks to Kind King Dock ♥♥♥

NECA, though... KMA for giving me GRIEF with your shitty disorganized sales plan. Like, really? On top of all else you denied NEW YORK?

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Lupicia Tea is a duttiness.

Like, okay. I bought some tea.

The description for this Super Grade Momo Oolong: "High quality Taiwanese oolong tea us flavored with fresh Japanese peaches."

The tea smells fantastic and tastes like... plain tea with a very faint tinge of fruit. The ingredients? Oolong, rose petals, flavors.

...cannot use real peaches?

Why does tea need flavors? Or artificial colors (Check it: Momoko tea)? Last I checked it was the most natural drink in the world, next to water.

Cinnamon cookie puerh is pretty good once you steep it well and toss in some milk, albeit doesn't taste like cinnamon cookies.

Strawberry vanilla green tea smells strongly of strawberries but doesn't contain either one. Go fig. I think I just bought a bunch of glorified potpourri.

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Jon Gray is a duttiness for not calling me post-MoCCA like he said he would, AND not answering my text about it.

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NECA is selling 50 more preorder guns tonight at midnight. I go do for dem!

My assistant manager likes to have fun at work, so she arranged for every last Friday of the month to be a breakfast day. That wasn't going as fun as she anticipated though, so she opted for lunch. So everyone brought food, and I was asked to make... a carrot cake.

K so honestly I can make cake but I don't do it often. And I'm terrible at frosting things neatly. And I've never made carrot cake before. Ahem.

Nevertheless I persevered! And the cake was baked and tasted quite nice. The frosting, however... I used the recipe that came with the cake, which made enough to frost a 3 layer cake, but was ridiculously sweet to me. Like, cream cheese frosting should taste like cream cheese to me but this just tasted like sugar. Blech. Too late, though... so I frosted it up and figured, well, already 3 people said they'd be skipping out on the cake. Including the person who suggested it. SO! I decided its best not to fret over it.



I figured the joke would go over management's head. It went over almost everyone's head. Damn?



It... led a pretty short life. Everyone loved it. Go fig? more like GO ME

Bonus: I ended up with a 3 day weekend. Not doing BBG, skipping out on MoCCAFest... I don't have much to do and its cold outside anyway FML.

Like. Is it so hard to keep a flexible schedule for the Cherry Blossom festival, BBG?

Because now, just like in 2010, there will be a blossom free festival.

Irony for me is that for once I have the weekend off of work and so I am available to go, but why pay $15 to see sleeping trees? I could spend that to go to MoCCAfest and see some friends but... blergh, MoCCAfest. Not my cuppa. *shrug*

I emailed American Apparel about the missing order (calling USPS was a fail, they don't know where the hell it is) and got a positive response in four minutes.

So impressed. They can have more of my money...! ♥

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Happy 420 LOL... I feel like its getting more attention today than any other year ever. No, I am not celebrating, I am eating Yamachan instant ramen and watching PGSM tonight. (The chick who plays Mio is the ugliest thing on the planet... how did she get into show biz with a hideous face like that?)