Yesterday was my eighteenth birthday. Now, as a legal adult, I have the right to vote, gamble in some states, have consensual sex on or off camera, buy tobacco and porn, pay taxes, and of course the right to be responsible for my actions (damn!).

That also means that 2010 is here. A decade passed already. Much has happened, both good and bad, but I’d rather not dwell on such and instead just focus on the now. I’m just happy that the bittersweet year of 2009 is finally over.

Back to the subject of my freshly acquired adulthood, naturally, I exercised my right to purchase tobacco (that I will not smoke) yesterday. After being denied the first time due to me not knowing anything about what I was talking about and consequently convincing the cashier I was buying for someone underage (and she even had the nerve to deny selling me porn!), I went to the Mobil gas station-slash-convenience store. I asked for a pack of Djarum Blacks, as a friend of mine frequently bought them there (which is how I knew what they were and where to get them), and of course: the dude didn’t even card me. Le sigh.

I registered to vote today. Democrat, of course. Not that I agree with the party 100%, it’s just that I’d like to have the privilege of voting in the presidential primary elections. I’d like my vote to count. As much as I love Ralph Nader and all that jazz, I’m going with the party who has a chance. (Not that I’d choose Green. Independent is more my style.)

That’s all for today, folks. Just thought I’d keep you updated with my ever-so-enthralling life!

I’m just wishing everybody a merry Christmas! (Or whatever else you’re celebrating.)

Hope you all have happy holidays.

The time has come once again, that is, the time for me to get a new PC.

This long, sad tale of PC replacement involves my previous computer slowly committing suicide. In short, I buy a fancy new monitor, and the video card blows up. Lucky me.

My dear father had been offering to buy me a new PC for quite some time now, so I decided it was time to take him up on the offer, especially seeing as my replacement videocard only lasted as long as Windows did – unexplainable BSODs upon boot are not fun. (And as far as Linux goes, my wireless adapter never fails to make it kernel panic.)

So I did some googling and searching around. I had a hard time deciding whether to A: Buy only the the parts necessary to revamp the computer, essentially rebuilding it; or B: Just buy a new damn computer.

I eventually went with B, and I must say that I am extremely satisfied with iBuypower.

I’m also extremely satisfied with Windows 7. Microsoft did a really, really good job with this one. Kudos to them. Big kudos. I’m really loving it so far.

Since I know you’re curious, I’ll give you the general specs: Intel i5 @ 2.67 Ghz (quad-core, mind you), 4GB RAM, 1TB HD, two GeForce 9500 GTs SLI’d, El Generico DVD burner among things nobody particularly cares to know about, and lots and lots of blue lights.

Happy Cat is Happy.

Semi-related: Anyone else hyped about Avatar?

October 9th was my Aunt Nance’s birthday. To wish her a posthumous belated happy birthday, I’ll post this picture of her with her friends.

She’s the blonde sticking the money in the guy’s thong-thing. As you can see, she was a lot of fun. Happy (belated, posthumous) birthday Aunt Nance!

I’ve had my photos uploaded for awhile now, I just hadn’t had the time (okay, I did, I just didn’t have the willpower) to blog about it. So here they are!

Part 1.

Part 2.

Enjoy!

Here are some shitty photos of Las Vegas. I would have more, but all but 7 of the exposures on the other disposable camera simply didn’t turn out. I’ll upload them later, but they’re really nothing special. If we go again next year, which we most likely will, there will be much better photos.

PS: I’m dressed strange, this is a known fact. So don’t come in here thinking I don’t know this. You should know me by now.

Las Vegas, Nevada. The City of Sin. Home of legal hookers and thousands of casinos – it is, as I have always said, an electronic symphony of people losing their money.

It is also the home of the Official Star Trek Convention.

Surely you can guess why yours truly paid Nevada a little visit.

Pics to come. I forgot my camera when I went, so I’m waiting on the disposables to develop.

Comments are fixed, btw. No longer must you register/log in!

Hello, readers. I’m sorry I’ve been so, so damn slow when it comes to blogging. You know I’m not one to moan and groan publicly, but to say that my summer has been all roses would be quite untrue.
Bittersweet would be a good word to describe it.
While I had a fantastic 39 days in Europe with James, things back here in AZ weren’t going too swell. On June 25th, AKA Staci’s birthday AKA day Michael Jackson died AKA day Farrah Fawcett died, my beloved aunt Nance passed away. Completely unexpected, though she was ill at the time, we thought death would spare her for much longer. But, as I’ve been saying a lot frequently, moaning and groaning about it won’t do any good. It accomplishes nothing, and it’s time to move on.
To make matters even more stressful, my grandfather has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. All we can do is just wait and see.

But apart from the tragedies, my summer has been fantastic. We leave for California either tomorrow or Sunday, to sort through Nance’s things and to clean out her office. We–being my mother, Phillip and myself– will be staying until Mid-August or so. My grandmother is coming as well, but I don’t think she’s staying as long as us. During our stay we might venture into Mexifornia, which could be fun, especially considering that Phillip just received his passport. It’s up to me to help him fill it up.

There are a lot of things to do in West Hollywood/LA Metro Area, and now we have a condo there. Not all’s bad.

Pics of Europe to be uploaded soonish. The French countryside is beautiful – you’ll see.

Busy.

Busy being in love.

Busy geeking out.

Busy relaxing.

Summer is good. Live long and prosper.

As unixfan reminded me that I didn’t make a blog post.
I did tweet, however.
So no, I didn’t forget/not know about this magical moment. I just didn’t bother blogging about it until now.
So yes, happy late 1234567890 unix epoch woohoo!