Yet Another Realization

I need to end this now.

Wednesday Woe

I'm not sad or anything. Just tired.

Lost Tuesday

For once, I was not prepared for this Tuesday. My coat's missing, my energy's drained, and most worriedly of all... I have no idea where I am.

Moving Bleh

I forgot how much moving things for friends suck. At least the pizza and beer make up for it.

And Here We Go

The weekend ends with more work upon me. This is gonna be fun.

Off For Nothing

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. It's quite boring sometimes.

Arduous

I forgot how tough IV breeding is. It's annoying, and it's hopefully going to get me something I want!

Continuing Lack

I thought today was going to amount to something on here. I guess I was wrong.

Communication Error

I think I've done enough online trading in Pokémon by now. It's time to get to work.

Starting to Run Low

With Tuesday here, it's hard to try working - especially when I am just about out of ideas.

Wondering

When you spend most of the time you set aside to do things that distract you (as opposed to things you wanted to work on), you find yourself wondering whether or not you spent the time well or not.

Yet Another

I'm done with this weekend. It's over, and a new week starts now.

Saturday Driving

Woo... I forgot how much I hate traffic.

Slowly Falling Out

I'm starting to get done. Yep.

Off To Hear Distinctive Music

I'm going off to a wedding! I think it's going to be fun, especially since I know both the bride and the groom.

Weeeeeee! And congratulations in advance!

More Shining

Another day spent breeding and Wonder Trading Pokémon instead of writing something.

However, I think this was well-spent time.

Distracted Egg

I originally was going to post something on here.

Unfortunately, both the Internet and Pokémon breeding happened.

5IV Female Jolly HA Dratini? Well, Wendy's gonna be happy!

Well, at least it isn't a total loss. For me, at least.

Creeping for Ideas

I've always wondered about things that I wanted to talk about - whether I thought it'd be okay to talk about them with the public; whether it'd be something interesting; whether I would enjoy talking about it or what not.

Because while I have good ideas I want to act on, I don't necessarily have the time to just type it all out. So here goes me, going on here to look for topics I said I'd talk about eventually, jot them down, and then fall asleep wondering just how I'll talk about all of them.

One of these days, I'll get to it all. One of these days...

Sunday Ends With...

And with a day for light refreshment, it's time for me to get back into the grind.

Gambling Time

Sometimes in life, you have to venture out into the unknown and take a gamble. Oftentimes you'll lose, but every once in a while you'll net yourself a nice little victory. Today was one of those days for me. As I somehow scored a Saturday off (wat is this i didnt even request it off lolwut^*), I figured I'd spend some time gambling my luck. Between trading for unknown-quality Pokémon on the GTS and driving around looking for yard sales in search of random treasures and other interesting cheap trinkets, such a day relaxing like this offers quite the opportunity for some kind of loot to be won.

Two collapsible shot glasses and a cool book about Calvin and Hobbes... all for $1.50. SCORE.

And after two hours of driving around town looking at the various yard sales, I think I had a small victory - even if I gambled precious, expensive gasoline.

A decent amount of Pokémon with four or more IVs is good, but...
HOLY SHIT SHINY SKARMORY WOO

Yes... yes, I think today's gambles have been totally worth it.




* = If I ever sincerely talk or type like this, feel free to slap me. Hearing/Reading such a bastardized version of the English language is a sign of unintelligence, and while my wisdom scores may be low, I'm not that dumb.

Circling the Job

Work was... well, it was work. So is posting these good entries... I haven't done them in so long. I'm not used to it. Also, I'm breeding multiple Pokémon in conjunction with yesterday's announced project. It's not going so hot - none of 'em seem to qualify for my specifications. But I guess I'll keep working on it. After all... it's part of this whole improvement process.

We'll continue with the whole Pokémon project tomorrow, mm'kay?

The New Old Guys

It's no secret that I hold disdain for the Pokémon franchise's fifth generation of games. The overall in-game experience wasn't that exciting and gripping. I didn't really feel as much love for it as I showed the prior generations, and I found playing White Version to be a complete chore (surprising for someone who placed the series in his top three). No wonder it took me three years to take down the Unova region's Elite Four.

Despite the present negativity, I feel like I owe my team in White Version an apology. Yes, the game was boring and dull (of all the times for the story to have a twist, it was at the end - far too late for me to rekindle any genuine interest). Yes, my overall experience was not one I'll cherish for the rest of my days. However, "Team White" stuck with it - even when I didn't - and pushed themselves to their limits from day one all the way to their conquest of the Elite Four. They gave their all so that I could move on and say "goodbye" to Generation V forever.

This is my "Team White."

They don't deserve that kind of treatment. They deserve to be remembered.

Will He?

And the best part is that I think I got it all collected! I'll show you tomorrow!

Collecting

I think I need to post something good. I'll do that tomorrow... once I'm able to collect my thoughts on what I want to post about.

Monday Out

Mondays are quite the pain to go through...

Task Completed; NEXT!

Sometimes, things take much longer than you'd want it to. Whether life, the elements, or the ever-in-motion "X factor" get in the way, the task at hand suddenly transforms from a normal task to one of gastronomical heights. No, I didn't mean "astronomical" - said task suddenly becomes a huge knot in your stomach, paralyzing your digestive system (and maybe your psyche) until you can somehow stomach the strength to carry on with yourself.

We've all faced difficult obstacles like that in our life. Anyone with any kind of project currently on the backburner knows this feeling. You want to continue working on it, but every time you do, you get nauseated with how arduous it has suddenly become. You don't even want to deal with it anymore - it's that bad. At that point, going through physical torture sounds more appealing than hitting the "Continue" button.

For those of you just tuning in, I had a task like that a few days ago. It was thrown on the backburner for a little over three years - mostly because I lost interest in it. It wasn't grabbing my attention like I thought it would, and its entertainment value ran itself dry much, much earlier than I expected.

It took a while, but I finally completed it that's made me... well, I wouldn't call it "happy," so let's just go ahead and use the term "relieved."

After three years of self-loathing and dissatisfaction, I finally beat Pokémon White Version. With this done, I can now move on with my life and continue my Pokémon journey the way it was supposed to go: as far away from the Unova region as humanly possible.

Okay; what's next to do...?

Leaving So Soon

Something's coming tomorrow. Mostly because I ran out of time today.

Fireworking

My gods. Today has been a slow day - both at work, and with running errands. It's a good breather. Fortunately for me, this means I can focus on doing other things - and that means I can have fun with things I want to do.

Of course, not all of those things I want to do are fun to begin with (*cough* Pokémon White Version *wheeze*), but it's a necessity in order for progress to be achieved.

Also, it's July 4 - which us Americans will be using as an excuse to do nothing, light off fireworks, and basically yell "Happy Independence Day" at everyone and everything. I'm not going to do that - mostly because I'm distracted by my duties as a trainer who wants to transfer all his guys out from his older games onto Y.

It's tedious, but it's a necessary evil I must get through. So, as the fireworks pop off all around me (legally or otherwise), I'm just going to go ahead and train... and train... and train...

Shopping Drain

Shopping takes a lot out of a person. I really don't get how it does. It could be the walking and how it drains any stamina out of your feet... or it could be the fact that I have, like, zero idea what to get people - even when provided with a registry full of gifts. I guess I've got a lot to learn about these kind of things.

If you'll excuse me, I've got some training to catch up on. You'll hear about it later on. For now... *boots up DS* ...let's see how much longer my forced stay in Unova will be.

A Thorn and Some Tweezers

So in a starting effort to begin typing things on here, I decided to try something new. (Gee, I sure haven't tried doing this before.)

I take that back. I'm not trying anything new. Matter-of-fact, I'm trying to finish something I started a long time ago. In my current pattern of "fail and fail some more," I figured this would be an interesting way to (yet again) attempt to break the cycle and yank this throbbing thorn that's been in my side for ages now. Yesterday's entry was a sign of this, and today you'll see what it was exactly that I rebooted.

Round... Whatever

I honestly don't know what I'm doing anymore.

I mean, I've been posting here with a catatonic, "I'm done with the world" approach for half of 2014 now. It's been one or two sentences at best, with an occasional attempt at revival every few months or so. It's left me feeling apathetic, lazy, and unsure just how well the future may go (at least in terms of "here").

I'm sick of it. I'm so sick of myself and how recursive my morale has been on here. Sure: there's no inspiration (or so I claim), and there no way I can get myself back to where I once was. An endless cycle of nothing followed by more nothing with a side of nothing and nothing for dessert. It's all I've seen myself give off on here, and it looks as though my creativity, inspiration, and willpower has become everything but extinct.

That's what I think. Thing is, I don't know how tomorrow will end up - or the next day, or any other day from here on out. I just don't.

I just know that I want to break this loop. I want out so badly...

A gaming artifact of my past days... nostalgic.

...and it looks like I found just the way to start that process once again. *boot-up sequence*