Habemus musum

Thanks to help from my mom, I was able to escape a bit of a Catch-22, although I need a new stack of empty TDK DVD-Rs to make it complete. I am typing from my desktop, which I simply call Haruhi'S Hard Drive (a tribute to the great woman of legend from Nishinomiya North Senior High...or is it East? I have no idea.), and I am relieve that, after over several weeks of being in limbo...I finall have a mouse for my desktop.

You see, my optical mouse died, even with the battery change. It is now lying about in the room in my house called simply The Old Room, with the DSL modem that preceded the current one in use. So, I had to ask my mom (a great preschool teacher of three decades plus) for a new mouse. Since my current desktop, an old VPR Matrix, still had the mouse plug a la pre-USB, an expendable mouse from her work would suffice.

And as a result, I am now able to clean my desktop, download and install some critical updates, uninstall some unnecessary programs, and eventually convert it into a seeding station for a number of torrents. It was brought to my attention that my ration had gone down. Luckily, I was still seeding at the time, so I wasn't banned from the tracker. But since the people at the tracker upped the minimum to a 0.3 ratio (thanks a lot for making it hard for the rest of us, you abusing leecher pricks!), I decided to go ahead and recall the torrents I backed up on my DVDs, because I knew that if times called for desperate measures, it was imperative that I was prepared for this.

So now Haruhi's Hard Drive, my desktop of over 6-ish years (yes, it IS old), is now a seeding station, while LOveGen is primarily for leeching. Every now and then the bandwidth will switch between HHD and LoveGen, because both of them are leeching torrents. One thing is for sure: my hard drive on my desktop is going to be on for a long period of time. And I have to thank my mom for finally giving me a mouse.

NOw, if only I can muster enough money to back up some more torrents on DVD...

Anime Expo 2007: As a fan, this is one of your best weekends.

Haruhi, the SOS Brigade, the Galaxy Angels, Death Note crew, ORESKABAND, and all the other good fixins packed in one weekend. I'm only in my second year staffing at Anime Expo, and I am very excited to help out the attendees from June 28 to July 2. There will be thousands upon thousands of people who will showing up in Long Beach, California.

I knew that this year was going to be the year of Haruhi Suzumiya, and lo and behold, she is here. Aya Hirano, the voice of Haruhi (as well as the voice of Konata Izumi from Lucky Star-could it be their year next year?), as well as Minori Chihara (the voice of Yuki Nagato) and Yuko Goto (the voice of Mikuru Asahina), are coming down to the Beach to greet their supporters of the SOS Brigade. There will be Haruhi plushies all around. Get to the exhibit halls fast, and get yours...quick!

I am personally hyped about this year's edition, because we have Yuuna Inamura, the voice of Apricot Sakuraba of Galaxy Angel Rune (GA II), rolling over to the Long Beach Convention Center next Friday. Yes, my friend, there are Galaxy Angel supporters here in the USA, and Rico is starting to warm up as a possible contender for Saimoe 2007. All four of them will be doing some autographs. I hope to get one from any one of them.

The ska band ORESKABAND rolls in, and companies like Bandai and Toei are coming down to the Beach as well. Eisaku Inoue, of One Piece fame and other classics, is another Guest of Honor. Tetsuro Araki, the guy behind Death Note, is going to be here, as well as pop sensation Anna Tsuchiya. And Bang Zoom is coming down to help out at AX Idol.

Also, there will be some Otaku Parliamentary Debates. Wonder if this is a alternative to the debates for the presidency. Heheh, this will be fun to watch.

And of course, Masquerade is going to be highly competitive. Oh man, I'm going to have to bring a ROCKSTAR pack with me just to be hyped up about it.