dfficulties in computing...

my laptop is suffering from massive retardation...can't even  do anything properly anymore...

takes 1 hour to startup, resume, sleep, or hibernate. it also repeatedly freezes up for a few seconds to a minute, no matter what im doing. it's especially annoying when im trying to watch anime, or watch youtube... the audio stutters and loops all weird before freezing up. i think it's something wrong with the hdd cache. but that's just a very wild guess based on the hdd gadget on the sidebar showing me massive read/write spikes from flat line to ceiling and then back down, whenever it gets choppy, while the actual numbers are always at 0B/s.
on top of that the weather is getting hot, combined with my badly ventilated room, i dont even feel like doing anything on the computer these days...
(^weird white highlight that i dont even care to fix)

been playing ff13 on ps3 instead. everybody says it's a bad game and they they should have made a movie instead. i can see why, but i personally don't feel the same. i think as an FF game they might have dropped the ball, but as a story based single player game it's still entertaining overall. even though it's so fulled with cutscene, i dont think it could translate into a movie. i think they should've made a TV series of it with an accompanying novel series lol.
im not finished with it, but that's what i think of it so far. it's totally worth playing for the story imo...at least up to where i'm at XD

oh yes, and my compressor died before i got to paint with it...died spraying the dust from another computer
-_-

it all sounds kind of emo, not that i really feel that way.

here's a cool song for anyone that had nothing better to do and actually read all that junk ^

an original song by a vocaloid song writer for an awsome nico singer that sings in english. with new york accent =D

Grrrr!!!! Why does life gotta be like dat??

was gonna finish my vf-27 this week
but then my computer went dumb after a graphics driver update, so i had to spend a few days trying to fix it. in the process of that, i discovered my system restore is a dud. it does nothing and doesnt work and loses restore points for no reason. so now that i got my graphics fixed, i need to fix my system restore...

when first got my graphics back to normal (which turned out to take nothing more than deleting the driver itself and letting it install and update again -_-), i was about to rejoice when i accidentally whacked the vf-27 and gave it a desk dive >_>
the microscopic points on the right cannards broke of, but i found them. on the other hand, the antenna at the top of the head snapped in half and one side flew somewhere which i can't find. so now i've got these near impossible repairs i need to do...all of which comes after i turn my room upside-down to find the missing piece, while dealing with a defunct system restore.

yay me! =D

old school ipod shuffle for size reference

Regen Duel Gundam R.I.P.

Alright! Here is the first of the things I had planned to post about.
It's nothing much, just a repair in progress(you didn't really think it died did you?).

so I was removing the leg from the waist a while ago, and ended up snapping the shaft of the ball joint as you can see below.


then, months later, I finally gathered the tools and materials I needed to do the repairs on it.
I got some precision hand drills at a local Daiso(apparently the largest dollar store franchise in Japan) and drilled 2.5mm holes into each end of the broken shaft. Then I sawed off a piece of Evergreen plastic rod of the same width at a random length(and ended up making big scratches into my beautiful cutting mat also from Daiso) that seemed about right.


Finally there was lots of Mr. Cement added in. Then I waited a day, and tried to assemble the ball and socket together again. It felt wonky, so I took it apart very carefully, which resulted in the shaft semi-snapping with the evergreen rod and all. It didn't fully dry and harden, and the cement had made its way into the core of the rod, causing it to almost break in a soggy kind of way. So then I decided I needed lots of Mr.Cement, and then left it to cure for a few days. I was pretty frustrated, and emo at that point so I didn't take any pictures.
In the end, it turned out well.
here's how it looks
the fuzzy white square at the top is the plastic rod squirting out when it was goopy and I pressed the two sides together. The white line is the glossiness of Mr. Cement. This is how it looks even when it's dry. also, the fuzzy looking stuff on the rear skirt(this is the backside, although not really a skirt) that looks like a terrible nub removal is actually the pretty white plastic being ruined by the cement because I have amazingly shakey hands - only when it matters most =P


no full shot of the gundam yet because there still some stuff that's broken or need touch ups.

Hope this post was somewhat informatice and meaningful in some way.
To be continued...

P.S. those precision hand drills are the greatest things ever invented. maybe I'll show those off some other time.

Updates about random stuff.

First off, I just fixed the charater count of my cbox. It was at 100 before and felt kind of short, so I went to check my settings and found that I could set it to 200. So now the max charater limit is about 5 lines, it should work better now.
Took me a while to figure out my cbox account name lol. I thought I had the password wrong so I reset it. Then I found out I was using the wrong username lmao. So now I don't know if i ever had the correct password before XD.

Second is that my airbrush came in. It's looking good =D. I'll post more on that later on. Still gathering bits and pieces so I can have a setup that I can work with. It's not just about the compressor and airbrush, there are a few things that go in between and around them. Those are the things I'm trying to figure out.

I thought I had a third thing, but i can't remember what it was, or if there really was one lol...

Looks like me blogging backlog is getting as tall as my gunpla...

P.S. got uncharted 2, beat the story, can't connect to multiplayer because of the famous "error synching models," and can't get my $35 worth of free DLC becuase of the stupid messed up expiry date...

Edit: Forgot, my cold is almost all gone...my excuses for not dealing with those pictures is running low..

I've Caught a Cold

Now I have an excuse to further delay my plans. Not in the mood to think up proper sentences =D

I am so gonna punch myself when I finally post it. It's so short and simple after all, it's just that I'm too lazy to deal with the pictures...

One Big Problem Solved: Now I Can Comment!

Thanks to Rick James' Ghost at Gundam Guy's comment box, i can now post on blogger blogs properly. It seems the always stay signed in option is bugged. I signed out and signed in again without checking the box and now it works. And for some reason I still stay signed in anyway. I can see the see the sign out button on the top right now too. It was stuck as sign in before, but when I click it, it still takes me to the dashboard. Weird stuff.
Even weirder is that I'm making a post on a blog that no one is ever going to read. XD

Edit: Looks like fixing the problems also cause me to unfollow myself. Grrr. =/