News & Updates in February 2005

Wrote a review for the movie A Snake of June.

Added an anime profile for Wicked Lessons.

On Sunday Treese and I decided to just go for a drive. We left around 1:30 with no real destination in mind, so we just started heading north. Along the way we saw some beautiful scenery, like trees as far as we could see and giant mountains covered with snow. Of course, we also saw some not-so-beautiful scenery of just flat land with bushes. Anyway, after about three hours we eventually ended up in Klamath Falls Oregon. We didn't see any falls there, but we did stop to have dinner before heading home. It sure felt good to get out of the house, away from the computer and television.

Wrote a review for the DVD Scourge Of Worlds: A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure (Special Collector's Edition).

Today everyone at the company was treated to lunch at Gironda's Chicago Style-Italian Restaurant. Kelly won a KSHASTA radio contest, and so we were all picked up at the office in a white limousine and driven to the restaurant where we had a decent Italian meal. I had never ridden in a limo before, and to tell the truth it wasn't all that impressive. I did like the leg room though. Victor met us there and showed off his new Sony PSP.

He brought it over to my house several days ago so we could try it out, and I must say that thing is awesome. I can't wait to get one of those, but I think I'd rather wait for a US version rather than get a Japanese version mainly because the button actions are swapped. In Japan, the circle button is accept and the X button is cancel, and for the US they reversed which is what we're all used to.

Anyway, back to the meal. I got the special, which was basically a BBQ sandwich, plus a salad and a creamy Italian style raspberry soda. I've never even heard of Italian style soda, so I figured I'd check it out. It was good, tasted pretty much like a regular soda except a little thicker and I don't recall feeling any carbonation. I still prefer Denny's though. Especially the salad, because the one I got at Gironda's didn't taste very good at all.

Oh yeah, for Valentine's Day I had a bouquet of flowers sent to my wife at work. I actually had them delivered on the 10th, since she was feeling kind of down that morning and the 14th was a Monday, her day off. I wish I could have actually seen it, as she said that she got sooo embarrassed and turned all different shades of red.

Added anime profiles for Chrono Crusade and Sex Ward. Added character profiles of Tenten (from Naruto); Raul (from Beyblade G Revolution); Amanojaku, Hajime, Kaya, Keichiro Miyanoshita, Momoko, Leo, Satsuki Miyanoshita (from School Ghost Stories); Lt. Surge (from Pokemon).

Added character profiles of Alphonse Elric (from Fullmetal Alchemist); Cappy (from Hamtaro); Murrue Ramius (from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED).

Added character profiles of Puma D. Ace (from One Piece); Raphael, Bully (from Yu-Gi-Oh!); Rosso (from Zoids Chaotic Century); Ryoko Mitsurugi (from Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School); Zia (from The Mysterious Cities of Gold); Mizuki Takase (from Comic Party). Added additional descriptions to several characters and made a bunch of corrections.

Wrote a review for the DVD Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Caught in the Act. Changed the font used in the section title bars and column header.

Added a buddy list system to the forums. Started three new contests. These will last for two weeks, so let's hope more than one person enters this time!