June 9, 2008 — Comments Closed
Anyone who visited my site within the past week or more (I forget how long it was…) would have noticed my site was ‘down’. That was just my domain being expired and the registrar I was with doing nothing about it. I paid for my renewal – nothing happened. I file support tickets and email them – nothing. I finally opened a PayPal dispute against them (GG for Paypal) and they refunded me and told me they were sorry. Still no word if I can have my domain.
At this point I say “screw them” and initiate a transfer to my current registrar who doesn’t suck. I require codes and sorts of things from the crappy registrar and outsourced admin guy though! I get the first batch of codes but I need more. I still haven’t gotten those yet.
The outsourced support dude then emailed me saying that I need to renew the domain to make a transfer. This was a few hours ago. So I paid the same amount to get it renewed under crappy-reseller-registrar and I’ve previously paid for the transfer. >_<. I’m happy that my domain is back up at the moment, but depressed that I spent more than I wanted and had my site down for longer than desired. As soon as I get this transfer I can rejoice and continue on with my life.
May 25, 2008 — Comments Closed
… was awesome!
I took a fair amount of pictures, but not nearly as many as I hoped to. I went to this Canadian convention in 2003 and it wasn’t nearly as large as it is now. There were SO many people all over the place. It must have been very overwhelming for older folks and anime-clueless people. “Why are all these youngin’s dressed in costume?!”. :P
The Costumes!
Like usual there were tons of people cosplaying as a plethora of characters. This year I saw a billion “L”s (Death Note). The costume isn’t exactly difficult to pull off either. If you have black, medium-length hair and a white shirt – you’re set. Just slouch a lot and don’t wear shoes. And suck on candy. Moving from the simplistic costumes, there were many that were absolutely gorgeous. You can really tell who puts the effort in/enjoys it rather than throw something together last minute. The Lolita-attire was impressive as always. I snapped a shot of the back of a really elaborate white dress outside a Harvey’s and the front was amazing as I remember. Look below for my Flickr pictures or go see them.
Seeing all these costumes really motivated me to do something for next time. Next year I will definitely at least finish my costume that has been a WIP for 4 years (it’s been four years!?) or make something new. At the moment I’m leaning toward a Soul Linker (Ragnarok Online). The costume will probably be immensely difficult but it’s so neat! Lovely. I have a work term in the Fall so that will give me the time to work on it. I could have done something this past work term but I didn’t even think about it…
Yummy goodies
Aside from cosplay/panels/talks at the convention, there is of course: The Dealer’s Room. From the last time I remember, the Dealer’s Room also expanded. Many tables of goodies. What did I buy?
- Chobits Art Book <3
- #1 Card Captor Sakura – Master of the Clow (looking for these forever)
- More Inuyasha manga… they were on sale!
- 2 Random Yaoi manga. Apparently they’re good.
- Pocky!
- More 1″ buttons to add to my huge collection.
- Sesshoumaru x Rin (cute) Doujin.
- 4 Posters. Ranma/Inuyasha/Bleach/L.
- Art prints! By people on DA! Avatar mainly. Two bookmarks as well.
I haven’t calculated the total for all this yet, but I can tell you that it would be many times more expensive getting it somewhere else. Especially the manga. They charged either US cover price or lower for all of these. There were only two or three doujinshi stands/tables and only one had HPDM material on Friday. It sold out after that! I was unhappy about that… Oh well – there’s still eBay.
Food?
… came at weird intervals. On Friday night I ate subway for dinner at 23:30. :\ On Saturday evening my sister and her friends (who I was staying in a room with) plus two adults and I went to Tucker’s Marketplace. It’s a Canadian-style buffet with more dessert than non. I guess I was trying to make up for lack of eat-age during the day since I ate so much I nearly exploded. Sister + friends felt similar. Today for lunch I had subway again then drove back to Waterloo. That was definitely a plus – only being an hour away.
In conclusion it was awesome and I discovered many things that I didn’t know existed at this con before. I only ever thought it was dealer’s room + cosplay. There was always something to do in both of the sponsoring hotels and the TCC. I’m definitely going back next year with a costume!
May 3, 2008 — Comments Closed
Today I drove the big long stretch from Ottawa to Waterloo. It’s around 550km for those who have no idea where either (or both) of those places are. I was hoping today would be a good day to drive back because it was supposed to be rainy and overcast, and therefore I would not roast in my non-air-conditioned car on my way there. At the beginning, it looked like it would be sunny, which would have been undesired. By the time I got down to Kingston-ish, it was raining and did not stop until about one hour ago in Waterloo. Yes, all through Toronto it was raining. I could not see very far ahead of me at all. This and the fact that some complete idiots like to put on their brakes for random reasons is hazardous. I probably would have slid into the imbecile in front of me if my reaction time wasn’t game-generation. There were also other idiots on the road that drive ugly things like purple vans and drive very slowly in the left or over-taking lane. /facepalm. I was happy when I saw him (and other idiots) take the off ramp.
Summer school?
So why am I back in the city that contains my university? To go to school in the summer. The way the co-op/school alternating thing works is that I have an alternating schedule of co-op/school. Circular explanation! Starting Monday I start my May-Aug term. I’ve explained this too many times. x_x
I, for one, am excited. This time I should know what I’m doing and get better grades… :D Obviously I cannot get 90-100% (well, maybe I could..) like some people. I am so jealous. How do you do it!?
Even though I’ve had so much free time in the past week between the end of work and the beginning of school, I still have a mound of crap to do. I keep offering to do things to make this mound bigger too. I need to learn how to say no, really.
Twitter… invalid!?
After posting this the first time, I checked my validation on this page for lack of anything else better to do. Much to my dismay: Twitter makes this page invalid (strict). Ahh! Does this mean I can’t have twitter on my site?! :( I don’t think there’s much I can do to correct it since it’s generated on the fly.
