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Konan Rafa

I've put our linkshell travel journals in one place come here to see the mayhem!

www.notedffxi.com/traveljournalmain.html

Also celestianna  knows how much I like to doodle so she gave me her tablet! omg raaaahhhh!


A real celest artifact! This is almost too mutch for tarutaru to handle it's like getting the sword of Sephiroth



I tried it out as soon as I could! I've always just used a mouse to doodle whatever and this tablet is amazing! Mouse vs Tablet is no contest I feel like a super digital artist already. Just look at how much better I can draw Ukko eating bun!





I like the tablet a lot and I bought it it's own holster to live in.


I'm having so much fun with this thanks Celest!! 8D

After posting the Celest inspired Happynap Dreamtime Trio, my msn messages from plash have gone from

"Hi buddy! How are you? :D"  

 to





I think it is safe to say he dun like being a part of happynap dreamtime trio. w


It was crazy funny watching his reaction to the whole thing and me n celest were totally cracking up but I think you can only towel snap the fat kid in the locker room only so many times before he breaks.

So here's your reprieve, you've earned it friend.




I call this one Happy Ace Monster Hunter Crew resting on edge of Happynap Dreamtime Forest.

So like I was inspired by Celest's super awesome  picture cake to paint something but I didnt know what. I've never tried anything like this before. I started doodling and dabbling and before I knew it I was having myself a grand old time.

I discovered a few things:

1. Drawing and painting with mouse is hard.

2. It is possible to draw bald hume with tattoo on head.

3. It is impossible to draw elvaan or mithra.


No matter how hard I tried to draw elvaan or mithra it just wouldn't come out right, my hand just wouldn't do what I wanted it to do.
This was just like a problem I had when I was a kid.

When I was in kindergarten, I couldn't write the number 5. No matter how many times I did it or how hard I tried, it always came out:


It drove me nuts, it drove my teacher nuts and it drove my mom nuts.



My mom bought one of those activity books and had me practice writing the number 5 over and over again but it didn't work.



The result looked something like this. At some point I lost my temper and turned one of them into a car that looked exactly like that w.






Anyways, I call this Happynap Dreamtime Trio. I think it would make a super picture for a pillowcase.

Nothing worth noting going on but people were talking about elvaan models and how they were hot and this popped in my mind i had to make it. Btw its Nephi.

The last couple weeks have been horrendous with my connex going haywire and my hard drive dying. Just looking for files or starting programs took forever and playing ffxi was risky cos it would hang alot.  I was at my wits end and it seemed like the end of the road for my poor faithful laptop.

I asked Usa what I could do short of buying a new laptop. He told me I could clone and upgrade my hard drive, in essence I could keep everything I already had and have a bigger faster drive.  A compelling proposition indeed! It had never crossed my mind that such a feat was possible. He walked me through all the hardware an software and procedures.

After gathering the neccesary parts and implements I set about this endeavor. It didn't take very much effort at all and after just 3 hours all my problems were solved and not only that I have a blazing fast 7200rpm new hdd! A new lease of life! Power such as I have never felt before! Power coursing through my veins like raging torrents! Soon I shall unleash it and all Vanadiel will tremble before the Searing Light of Sarutabaruta.


ALL HAIL THE MACHINE GOD USAGIKUN!

Life is teh suck in Vanadiel recently!

My connex keeps dying and I get all kinds of crazy disconnects. I know for sure the problem is not on my end and of course the ISP is telling me nothing is wrong.

So me and Celest go duo Promy Vahzl enm. We get there fine, I wait a minute to see if connection is ok everything seems fine.
Enter, buff up, attack ... and ... as soon as I land the first punch bam dc. So we wipe.

Next we go do Uninvited Guests and fight one Mammet. I'm on ninja and Celest is on rdm. We fight Mammet down to 1% life and we are laughing cos its so easy. Then I had a great idea, I disengage and tell Celest to give the Mammet the killing blow. She runs over and starts attacking and we are both laughing. Then everything starts to go very wrong, somehow i couldn't get shadows up and it kills me, then it turns around and kills her. Wipe. T.T

Next Alldira, Usa, Celest and me decide to do Attowa enm. We get there wait for Usa to get item and my connex seems fine. Enter buff up ...
Nuke ... dc ... wipe.

I feel bad for making Celest go through all this it's driving me crazy I want to chew the carpet.

I cants takes this pain anymore. Feel like wearing a mouse costume and go ring kami's doorbell and maybe she'll end my miserable life for me.

So like Plash came to visit San Francisco and me and Celest and Shin met up with him and we had a blast!



Check it out! : D

Come see all the super duper pictures Celest took! Please Check it!

Real Life Adventure Journal!

Turn on your sound too! :D

So like i was shopping for groceries and i saw these on the deep discount shelf.

I was like wtf who the hell would wunna eat this

                          

So on Saturday Celest and Tsukasaa and me and Shin and a friend of Shin's (a civilian) met up and had a great time.

We ates dinner at a Thai place that had interesting dishes like Fuk Mi and Skru Yu. Ok i made that up but it's pretty close.

By the time it was my turn to order i had already forgotten what i wanted to eat was called.

Then we watched spiderman 3 on a giant Imax screen it was swell. I hope this is going to be a static.

So I finally had to get a haircut.

Going back into finance and I got lots of interviews and my headhunter would go out of her bird every time I showed up with my long hair.

I miss my lovely locks so mutch! T.T

Before:
Rock Star






After:
Not Rock Star :(



This world is teh suck.

So leik i was camping faf and i was wondering what would Zabuza wear.



ps.  nike screwed up my order and put the words koga and kyahan on the  wrong shoes

pps. i don't think people gonna notice after they get caught in my mist jutsu anyways

                            
Haku Mendietta               Kisame Zul V2                 Kiba Zihicho

So I ordered 2 pairs of shoes from Nike iD and I got the first pair about a week ago and today the second pair gets here.
I feel as fast as the mist when I put these on. Also if anyone laughs at me i'm ganna get /upset.

                       
Temarisoph                   Kisame Zul                      Pakkun Usagikun

I was exploring the Nike website and I came across this thing called Nike ID where they let you design your own shoe.

So i made my own shoe and they let you personalize it too and the first word that came to mind was jounin. Haha!

But now that i got them i'm starting to feel maybe that wasn't such a great idea after all T.T

                             
Naruto Ainsoph               Sasuke Kelvin                   Hinata Nehpi

                          
Asuma Kadas                 Choji Ukko                     Anko Conchita

                           
Itachi Niisse                    Tenten Keft                     Naruto Zeph

I saw Kami making Naruto Icon so i thought i'd show the few I've made

                            
Shizune Krys                    Ino Ashy                         HA ha!! w


Here is me!
               
I am Tarutaru Zabuza!!    I made this one so pretty for
                                         Celest and sent it to her to use
                                         but i dun think she wunna w
                                         (maybe the fact that in the cartoon
                                          this character is a boy and
                                          he gets killed by having a huge hole
                                          punched in his body had something
                                          to do with it)
 
Temari Kami is elite!

Boredom is my number one enemy. Although I often lament that I was born in the wrong century (at times I wish I was born in a different age, an Age of Romance where I had long flowing hair, a fearsome sword and an even more fearsome reputation), I dread to think how i would have passed my time since this would also have been an Age of No Electricity and/or Television. (I probably would have had to do a lot of wandering.)

But in anycase, i was overwhelmed by boredom. I had some mild relief when I bought a Mag Lite but theres only so many times you can look for change under the sofa before it gets old. So I was about to chew the carpet when boom i saw this on usa's LJ: http://elouai.com/

Its a fun little toy that kept me occupied for a good bit and haha! Doll!



p.s. well you know us anbu ninja have to wear animal masks to distinguish ourselves from normal shinobi.

and p.p.s. Haha! Usa! my doll > your doll!

 Tarutaru SmartTalk
TIMELY TIPS FOR THE GAME OF LIFE

In the course of living my life, I have often come across many people who when faced with certain situations, become flummoxed and left in a state of despair. The reason, I believe, is because we have never received instruction on what to do in these obscure circumstances unlike some other situations where we know what to do; such as, when securing an objective (non-fortified) you are suddenly bracketed by enemy artillery and taking enfilading heavy automatic weapons fire (run), or when small children ask you where they come from (run).

Hence, I have spent much time pondering the human situation with its great assortment of complexities and come up with a compendium of guiding essentials packaged into easily digestible installments. I call it:

Tarutaru SmartTalk
TIMELY TIPS FOR THE GAME OF LIFE

...and here's the very first one!

Haha! It was fun.

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I've decided that the time has come for me to move on job wise. For those who do not know, for the last few years I worked for a German company that dealt in the wonderful world of engine oil and all kinds of petrochemicals. (and no, for the thousandth time we do not sell sarin or anthrax.) Well, its been a bad couple of years for the company, losing market share and being beaten all over the place by American and British competitors. Now why did I throw my lot in with the Germans? Didn't I learn anything from history? Well anyways the last straw came when we lost a major contract to this company from France. You know you're in trouble when the French beat you. Now this is the country which is home to the Arc de Triomphe (which means arc of complete capitulation in french).  But its not like I didn't see this coming. not so long ago everyone was telling the boss how everyone else was pricing their stuff lower, employing lots more sales people and giving great incentives to customers and we had to do something about it. The boss listened to it all and and promptly bought himself another house in Miami.And to make matters worse lots of decisions are made by his wife, who is Catholic but puts her faith in astrology. (now what would the local bishop think of that?!)

So anyways, I'm out. I hooked up with some people from around here and we formed our own independent film company. Woohoo! Now I can do what I've always wanted to do, which is to start drinking early in the day and keep my hair long. But seriously we've already got work writing scripts and pitching concepts for TV and film so its fun and I like to write anyways.
So who knows, someday i might even have my own action figure, now that'd be an chievement of a lifetime cos you ain't nobody until you got your own action figure. (like Conan for instance.)
www.peashooterpictures.com

had a ffxi dream. There was a trough in Jueno and all the tarutaru in the ls were eating from it. db and nergal had matching bibs. watkins was getting yelled at cos instead of eating out of the trough like he was supposed to, he kept gnawing it instead.

 Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, 
trash it, change it, melt - upgrade it, 
charge it, pawn it, zoom it, press it, 
snap it, work it, quick - erase it, 
write it, get it, paste it, save it, 
load it, check it, quick - rewrite it, 
plug it, play it, burn it, rip it, 
drag and drop it, zip - unzip it, 
lock it, fill it, curl it, find it, 
view it, curl it, jam - unlock it, 
surf it, scroll it, pose it, click it, 
cross it, crack it, twitch - update it, 
name it, read it, tune it, print it, 
scan it, send it, fax - rename it, 
touch it, bring it, obey it, watch it, 
turn it, leave it, stop - format it.

Technologic.

Can't turn it off. Can't get it out of my mind. Save meee

So i get caught in the rain today. I didn't have an umbrella and there was a sidewalk cafe nearby so I go there. As I'm drinking my coffee out of the corner of my eye I see this huge cockroach heading RIGHT FOR ME. Now lets get one thing straight, I ain't a sissy and a long time ago i was light infantry in the army so bugs don't bother me. But I HATE cockroaches. They make my skin crawl and drive me to insane terror. When I'm taking a shower, I'd much rather encounter say Anthony Perkins wielding a knife the size of South Dakota than a cockroach. Plus I didn't have a firearm on me. All the other tables were taken and there was NOWHERE to go. And this thing was heading straight my way. So I did the most logical thing which of course was to start begging like a little girl to God for help. I figured that since He didn't answer me the four times Buffalo went to the Super Bowl and that one time when I saw this hot chick at a salsa club my chances were pretty good. And still this thing is coming, its about maybe a couple of feet from me and I was about to yelp and take off running into the rain when out of nowhere this kitten appears and swipes at it. That was enough to make the roach think perhaps it had had enough wandering and terrorizing random humans for the day and it shot off back to wherever it came from.

I was completely amazed and dumbfounded at this undeniable instance of Divine Intervention and I tell everyone about it. But they couldnt see what the big deal was but wth they're all idiots anyways. The next time it rains, i'll be well prepared. So I'll probably need one of these.

So yeah sometimes I can just do nothing but just look at the LS chat and lots of times its just like watching Comedy Central except its a lot funnier. And although I wish I had a nickname I can boast about but that's not so bad. Lots of times I like to join in the fun and sometimes I even get a chance to show how clever I am. For instance this happened the other day.
me: Hello!
chiz: is it dinner time yet?
chiz: why does the {food} speak?
armed with my fast reflexes and sharp wit, i replied:
me: @#$%
haha! that oughta show him who he's dealing with! Maybe someday I might even grow so powerful he'll have no choice but to let me order him around.
Other times I'm quiet cos I don't really know what people are talking about. Like when they start talking about strategy and damage modifier formulas and whatnot I usually don't say much. It's like these people are talking rocket science and i'm having trouble understanding how lego works.
It's so great to just log in and feel like you're in a never ending episode of Cheers. I don't know how i'd live without lyc :D and lys and arv and evi ^^ and db :D and keys and keft and celesttt :D and nergal. I think Snergals is a good name for gummy worms. If i saw a bag of gummy worms called Snergals I'd buy them.
And of course life won't be the same without my fan plashhh :D  I was thinking maybe I could write a funny book and sell all ten thousand copies to plash and retire.
I loves plash. But not in the way a man loves a woman.

Hooray! Time to visit the dentist! As I trudge up the narrow stairway up to the reception area, I'm pleasantly surprised that I felt none of the trepidation I was expecting. After a short wait, I'm told to enter the consultation room, which had been thoughtfully decorated with all the charm of a prison cell. The dentist was a jolly fella with a beer gut and a pleasant disposition, which of course made me immediately think of Jack the Ripper. However, he did smell faintly of pork chops, so that was comforting.

I think the dentist must have sensed that I was getting kinda nervous cos he turned up the music and started talking about a trip he had made to Chicago ... twenty years ago. As I lay there helpless listening to this inane chatter, my sense of terror grew.

He saw me staring horrified at all the cold gleaming tools laid out in front of me and immediately tried to comfort me. "Well, there's nothing to worry about young man," he said. "See, I'm only going to use the highest quality surgical steel implements to drill your head and let out the evil spirits." Haha! What a jokester, I made a mental note to introduce him to the Vulcan Death Grip as soon as this was over.

Suddenly I understood what it must have felt like to be a captured American spy in the 80's, trapped in KGB Headquarters Torture Block D, with a Russian interrogator looming over you and saying, "So.... tell me about this ... Rambo..."

One thing I don't understand is why dentist tools have to be all shiny and scary looking. I think people should make them in friendly shapes and pastel colors, like Gumby. Also, dentists should look like Claudia Schiffer and speak in a fake Russian accent. Now that's the kind of molar~station I could subject myself to any day.

Bah! Missed Dynamis. Thank you, job. I'm thinking perhaps the time has come for me to head off in a bold new direction job wise. I met with a head hunter who was about as sharp as a sack of potatoes. She used some fancy words like "core competencies" and offered me invaluable advice like the importance of looking for work relevant to experience.

She asked me if I had any weaknesses to which I naturally replied "fast cars and faster women." The look on her face after that was exactly the same as a dog that has just been shown a card trick.  Sigh, looks like someone needs some + HUM equipment! Where the hell do they find these people?

I'm glad she didn't ask me what my ideal job was. Because then I'd have to tell her that I would like to be a Supreme Commander of an Invasion Force. I think I'd make a pretty good Supreme Commander, strutting on the bridge of my flagship and shouting orders like "Prepare the Fleet for the invasion!" and "Hold the line!" and "Sound the retreat!" and saying things like "You fool! You've killed us all!"

For lunch, I went to a place that was not a Japanese restaurant. (I was fooled by the decor) But get this, they had this beer called Kirin.
Haha! Kirin beer! Naturally I ordered that. I was hoping to see Suzaku Salad or Byakko Burger on the menu but they didn't have that so I had fish and chips.

Hmm. What is it that most people want but can't get? Money? Power? Fame? In my case all I want is an ice cold Budweiser in a bottle and I can't seem to find one @#$% bar that sells it. I finally find a place that has bud in a bottle and it costs like 3 times as much back home and of course ... it's warm. /cry

I can't draw a pretty picture like Celeste to make you feel better but here's something for you.


Man i bet if we could eat that chili dog we'd both feel a lot better about everything.

Read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and its a great story about a kid with Asperger's Syndrome solving a mystery.

Ate a chicken pot pie that didnt have much chicken in it and that made me mad. What's the world coming to?