My pencils will always beat your crayons KnightofFreedom! Hahaha!

Anyway, as a year 13 (or Form 7) I have to be at prison tomorrow morning to welcome the new inmates.
Did I say prison? Did I say inmates? I meant welcoming the Year 9s at school (Form 3s).

I got some coloured pencils via my little sister Bethany's stationary list. I paid.

Anyway, as a Year 13 I have the privilige of wearing my own gear instead of uniform. I can wear any top as long as it isn't:
- inappropriate (ie must be modest)
- strapless
- with straps
- 3/4 lengh
- low neck
- tee-shirt

Now, the girls out there will know that the above listing officially ruled out everything except a Sunday church blouse. I am NOT turning up anywhere in a church blouse. Plus jeans must be even coloured, and mine are faded (by age, not by factory). So I don't know what to wear. I guess I'll wear that old shirt that fit me a year ago with the best of my 2 pairs of jeans. And since that shirt is all the qualifies... what will I wear on Monday?!
I'm assuming that nakedness is not soemthing my school is willing to tolerate.

A few people have asked about a drawing of a dryger (or more specifically, a drygress) so that they may know what the RP character Karsciyin* looks like. So, there is now a scanned drawing of mine in my Images.

I also included a drawing of what I would consider a standard dragon - a lot of people have different views about what makes a dragon, and what they look like. Because they are both skletches, they are not in colour although they are inked (albiet with a black gel) and the Drygress image is shaded so you can see her clothing better.

As with all my submitted pictures/drawings, please submit a comment so I may know who's seen them. Thanks! :D

*(kuh-SIE-yin)

mosquito n., plural. -toes or -tos. Any vampire bug that irratates the hell out of everybody in the middle of a summer night!
mozzie n., pl. ies.slang. See mosquito.

I hate mozzies. It's summer here in New Zealand, and they bite you and leave this ugly swelling. When I get one it's usually a thick, pale lump of skin surrounding my normal, reddened skin, and it looks ugly. I can remember the days it looks more like a giant goosbump or zit or something.

Today is registration for school, so I have to get up earlier than I am accustomed to. I got up early enough to find myself with spare time and I have to say, I hate mozzies!

But one thing I particularly dislike is the whine - and how it seems to stay with you long after you've emptied 3 consecutive cans of bug spray into the room.FOr some reason, it is always my left ear, even though last night it did a fly-by past my right. I don't know if this is just be, but for the rest of the night it sounded like there was a mosquito not far to my left, a bit behind me, no matter how fast I turned my head. If I pressed my ear to the pillow, it sounded as if a mosquito was stuck in there too, struggling to get out and yet, still sounding as if it was flying normally. Very hard to ignore.

I get mozzies almost every night, which is a change from last year. I guess someone didn't take care of their stagnant pools. But on the one night I have to sleep well, I get... two.
For a long time I thought it was just my right ear having a 'sound relapse' as it were, especially since the'virtual whines' don't have to match. But when I heard this noise start waaaavveerrring closer, HUTTAH! I snatched at the bug spray, picked it up from the floor where I knocked it, tried to find the right way around so I wouldn't poison myself, and sprayed above my desk (where the window was and the sound was originating). Now it was just my left ear again and sleep was still not coming too well.

Seems, like I managed to get up today anyway, but why don't I give you some tips about mozzies:

.oOo.
1. Mozzies are attracted to people that have recently eaten bananas.
2. Mozzies are attracted to people that are wearing blue.
3. Mozzies particularly like children and/or blondes.
4. Only small females bite (use blood for eggs), the males have nectar, but squish males anyway because females won't bite if there are no eggs, so just in case.
5. Mozzies lay their eggs in stagnant (not moving and now kinda yuck) pools of water. If you can get rid of these from your property, tada, less mozzies!
6. If you find mozzie larvae in a pool, put a drop or two of detergent or soap in the water. It will break the water tension and the larvae will drown.

If you remember all that, you'll be fairly well armed against mozzies, right?

It took on minute to ban that profile, and another century may not produce another like it.

Of course, why am I posting this? Following the masses? If you don't know Dev_Ron, you probably could not care less, or at least have very limited interest in the subject. If you do know him, chances are highly likely that you are already aware of the fact that... his username is now 'bannedohnoes' - namely, his username page thingmabob no longer exists.

But at least I can prove that he doesn't pass on forgotten. Now I like in fear that I also will be banned for no discernable reason. Do they just expect you to know what has been done wrong? Do you get an eMail about it or do you just have to find out the hard way? What is it with the mods these days? Are they recruiting them fresh out of their GameSpot virtual nappies or what? Do they actually know what they're doing? Did someone make false accusations against Dev_Ron that weren't checked out?

If this is what they give their best, what do they give the rest? Should I just delete everything now, or write my last GameSpot 'will' as it were? Resign from all my Unions to save them the trouble? Huh - like mods ever listen to the common people. Like a politician on a high seat of the government, we're 'just citizens'. We 'don't know what's good for us'. We should 'sit back and let them handle everything'. Like a King looks down on the commoners - the very commoners that are slaving away sewing his silks, refining his gold, cutting his gems. We're 'expendable' and it seems like the 'King' feels fit to behead random commoners just to prove he can - only the subscribing 'nobles' will probably get a second thought.

What with GameSpot already being difficult to handle, what with its poor programming and vulnerability to glitching, what left does GameSpot have to positively offer? What benefit does being a registered user have any more? Posting in forums that already have so little to offer? Writing reviews that few will ever read?

For those who have been invited, as a charter member or otherwise, to join PCWD and want more information.

If some you check your Unions you will see you've been invited as a charter member too... to the Union I just put in the subject line. I'm always changing my desktop wallpaper and want to share them user to user, especially since many users have desktops I've never seen but would want desperately if I knew they existed! So... hopefully this Union will do better because instead of having a Union and needing an idea, I had an idea and needed a Union! It's the only one of its kind - the only other Wallpaper union is for PSP - so hopefully people will be able to frequent it. I also have a lot more experience with Unions now and can't wait to dive in and start organising.

The bulk of the Board - the actual Wallpaper Warehouse - will be the, well, Wallpaper Warehouse. But there will be other topics in there as well. There may not even necessarily be an Off-Topic thread, because a lot of the non-desktop stuff is off-topic! Well, obviously.

I hope for my Union to be more community-based than dictatorial, meaning that a LEADER badge is essentially an OFFICER badge and vice-versa. Recruits themselves also get to chip in on decisions (although the end result is managed by officers) and they can be heard and taken into account.

Note that sharing wallpapers means the wallpapers THEMSELVES. Do not take a copied image of your desktop as it is because the icons, start bar etc will make it useless to almost EVERYONE else. Wallpapers should be large pictures, preferably 1152 x 864, or 1280 x 1024... or somehing similar. Smaller ones like 800 x 600 are often too small and quality can be reduced.

THANK YOU for your.... 'co-operation'.

EDIT: As per FetusZero's request, yes, there will also be a category available for widescreen, 1200x800.

I said the laptop was SemiOnline because it was now more accessible - at least, physically. But it's been overheating like a strip of bacon on a car bonnet under 1pm summer sun. The longest recorded lasting time by the laptop was about 15minutes. This was done is fairly early evening whne it was cool. The reason for this is that my room has poor ventilation - the room itself is about 2.5m x 2.5m square, and the window (only one side of which opens) is about 1m x 0.5m (only 0.5m x 0.5m opens). The part that does open only opens about 30 degrees. The curtains must be closed because the sun shines through that window and reflects off the mirror, glaring up the room greatly and heating it even faster. As a result, there is no draught to clear away the heat, and having the fan on in the Games Room does nothing - as I move from one room to another I can actually FEEL the 'wall' of the door frame where the temperature changes. The fan is not circulating the air well enough. I cannot have a fan in my OWN room because ever since I left it running through the night Dad refuses to let me have one in there (although he is directly one story below me and 5 metres along the 'hall'. Which shows how noise travels in our house). So I guess that 15 minutes is all I can expect from it. That said, I will be saving regularly and, voer the course of a week, I may finally have recoloured the hideously purple-toned dragon desktop I'm working on.

It still overheats, but it's in my room now - it will be easier for me make image editing work... although my room is insulated and the caravan isn't, so it will overheat faster :(. It can last anywhere from 15min-45min, even an hour if it's super-cold (which my room isn't)...

If you really knew me well - and let's be honest, when it comes to home life, pretty much none of you do - then you'd know that I don't like watching TV. I don't have things against TV itself, but the upstairs TV used for PS2, when free, has extremely depressing reception. It does, however, provide a not-particularly-interesting grainy white 'ant' farm.
Now, there is another TV downstairs - dare I brag, a 48" plasma? Of course, this is Dad's, so we have to be extremely careful around it (I accidently chipped the screen with keys but no one but Bethany (sister B) knows about that). Although I had, in some way, permission to watch down there, I hated the idea of turning on such impressive equipment - the TV, and amp, the surround sound system - and a DVD recorder with it's own hard drive - for recording off TV and, if desired, putting onto DVD disc. Dad is extremely protective since he spend $20,00 dollars on the thing! Of course, this is New Zealand money, but still (three British quid equals one NZ dollar) - for us, below average in income (although not necessarily poor) that is a lot of money!

Now Mum and Dad, in a strike to get us kids out of the lounge, has bought a newer, BIGGER STORAGE hard drive for downstairs use - and the old hard-drive, which doubles as a DVD player and writer, and stores recordings of approximately 66 hours, is now upstairs. With perfect reception the TV downstairs previously had on its own.
A computer for the upstairs TV! Already I'm watching TV a lot more than I was! Never again will I miss an episode of Heroes or Bones because it was deleted before I could watch it!

Oh, happy happy happy! Channel '7' on the TV doesn't have an actual broadcasting channel assigned to it, so if I ever miss those white ants, I know where to find them.

Previously my avatars had always been dragons of a form because my name was Dragoncub - and everything has to match and make sense (it's a girl thing).

But I just remembered this image in a *pop* and went hunting on Photobucket... an entire page of IDENTICAL pictures of these! Lots of people obviously liked them and took them into their own profile....

So... what do you guys think? Funny? Werid? Ugly? Sneeze?

@}-'--,--

...are undoubtedly wierder than YOURS. Top these:

LAST NIGHT:
Well, this ones takes the cake - all I remember (and all you need to know) is me flying/driving in a hovering cop car (foreign black ones) around a giant empygum, because I thought I was a tooth... I mean, what the heck is that?!

WHILE AGO:
last night I was dreaming zombies. I woke up and could FEEL them eating my subconcious brain. Then discovered my 'waking up' was only THINKING I was awake. Oh, and had some kind of crappy PSP you'd find in a McDonalds happy meal. I was fighting the zombies with it, kinda. And collecting coins or something, like it was really ME int he game.

ANOTHER OLDER ONE
...a kiwi (our national flightless bird) with crust cheese topping instead of feathers comes knocking I'm my door, selling something. DreaMe (the'character' I dream I am)wants to eat it.

MY WEIRDEST I REMEMBER (condensed)
the cast of CSI kidnap me, put me in a crate (with some others), drag me to the top of a hill, the crate is opened and they're not there, but I'm being sold into slavery to Romans. The Roman 'galleons' are really strapped onto the backs of giant wallabies (I am not kidding) jumping across the Outback, not the ocean. Of course, because I am whiter than a sheet of clean paper (metaphor!) and in those days slaves were all black (no offense) I 'pick up' a shadow of a slave that used to be there and take on his? her?looks. The 'captain' of this one ship is actually a guy I know from youth group who went back to this time with me, and has become powerful by telling of the inventions of teh bicycle and things. For some reason he is dressed like a pirate in a Roman era.