Randomness again.

So I tried that Tropical Sprite Remix stuff.

I think it tastes like carbonated fruit punch, to be honest - it's not bad at all, though I can't chug it down like I would a regular Sprite or a Pepsi. Then again, I wholly admit to having an annoyingly picky palate (Not nearly as bad as my dad's, but still pretty picky.), so your mileage may vary.

The taste also kind of vaguely makes me think of that one time I tried Ramune soda like a year or two back (except it doesn't have that cute bottle shape or the nifty marble-thingie that keeps it sealed), but that could just be my mind playing tricks on me.



Hmm... RightStuf still hasn't delivered my Slayers Next DVD set. Odd... perhaps I should email them about that - thankfully, I saved the receipts from the previous deliveries, so the order number should be on them.

And now that I think about it, there's a package from Doki Doki Station that hasn't arrived yet, and I think it's been a month already. Packages from them have recently been arriving later than what they used to take before, but I think it's been like what... a month now since he said he was mailing it out? I think I should dig up the order number on that too, and email Yasushi-san and see if it wasn't returned to him or something (He did once mistakenly send me someone else's package, which has thus far been the only time he's screwed up an order with me. Maybe he did it again, or he wrote the address wrong and got it sent back.).

There just better not be some little punkass bastard at the post office stealing my shit, or there'll be hell to pay. (I really doubt it'd be my personal mailman, though - he's been delivering to this building for years, so we know him, and he's a total sweetheart. If there's actually a case of theft in either of these, the culprit would more likely be one of the people in the middle. Which would be severely "ARGH!"-inducing, because that's probably next to impossible to track down.)



Okay, enough bitching/musing about the worst-case scenario on that. Umm, what else... oh yeah, for those of you who like checking out communities, I saw a new one being advertised on the Mary Sue Report, called fic_flames. I checked it out last night (it had only been up for 24 hours or so), and it already looks to be a really promising little place. (BTW, CONFIDENTIAL TO rikoshi: You might want to forward them that person that was pissed off at your bizarre Slayers parodies and called Gaav "ugly and deformed" [I'm still laughing my ass off at that part, btw! XD]. I'm sure they'll love it. :D)



Oh yeah, and I was just looking at my info page, and it just hit me that there are quite a few new people (as in, folks who've friended me without my having done so first and the like). Actually, there are new people, period - it was only like a month or two ago in which my friends list only consisted of people who've been longtime OL pals of mine. And of course, now my brain's going "Whoa, dude... I like, HAVE A READERSHIP NOW. I don't care how tiny it is, that's just like... WHOA."

Anyway, I do recognize at least three of the names as people who've "followed me home" from Fandom_Wank (and/or marysues), even those of you who have SUPAA-SEKRIT disguises over there (*adjusts those folks' fake noses and moustaches* :D), and that I've had exchanges with you guys several times over there already. However, to the two or three peeps that are totally unfamiliar to me, could you guys briefly indulge my little Gaav-ish egotistical attention-whore side by answering a simple question: How did you find my journal? I'm kinda curious about that. :D



Oh, and while we're at it - if anyone's wondering about my Friends List policies, I don't really have many - I just eventually drop by a person's journal, and if I see that you often/consistently write about topics I'd be interested in replying to, I add you. It's nothing personal if I don't add you, it's just that as much as I'd like to Friend everyone, I'm trying to keep the list from being too overwhelming for me to keep up with. I wouldn't worry about it, though - I very seldom write private entries, and they're mostly pretty stupid stuff anyway (To date, I think I've only written like 3-5 total, and I've yet to write any that were about anything that was actually way too personal/sensitive a subject to share.).

So yeah, if I haven't added you, it's likely I haven't checked your LJ yet, and even if it's been long enough to assume that I did look and just didn't add it because I didn't think I'd want to keep up with it on a daily basis, there's still no reason to fret - there's nothing meant by it, and you're not missing out on anything special either. :)

Mild LJ feature annoyance.

Okay, so it's pretty stupid to bitch about something as ultimately trivial as this (especially since it's not being posted somewhere where it would MATTER), and I'm probably ignorant about the whole situation since I don't bother to read any of the LJ-related communities other than lj_maintenance, but I still feel the need to rant about it here:

Look, LJ-development folks - I really appreciate what you guys usually do. You work hard, and it shows. And I think that this little thingie that I just noticed you've added to people's info pages so you can quickly modify your interest lists to add/remove stuff to be a cute feature - a mostly useless feature, as I didn't really mind going through the few extra steps, but cute.

BUT WHY THE FUCK DO YOU GUYS FEEL THE NEED TO ADD THAT, THEN TAKE AWAY AN ACTUALLY USEFUL FEATURE LIKE GETTING COMMUNITY LISTINGS WHEN SEARCHING BY INTEREST?

Seriously, WHY? I actually FOUND several communities I thought interesting in that manner. And how the HELL do you guys expect people to find out about new communities like my poor and highly neglected fledgling sabbu unless I do some REALLY heavy whoring out promotion from the start (even before I think it's truly ready to handle that), huh?! And you know, on a boring day, it was pretty darn funny to see just how many comms (as well as people) shared the more "eccentric" interests listed on tws_support (which btw, found a fair number of its original wave of new members BECAUSE of the interests list).

Now, really, what's the POINT of a community listing ANY interests at all anymore if you can't find it when you search by those same interests they list? And honestly, if you guys did this because there are communities out there that don't want to be easily found for whatever reason, they can just take the simple route of NOT LISTING ANY INTERESTS TO BEGIN WITH.

Christ on a cracker, and all I was trying to do was find a community that distributed free LJ codes like the "codes" community on JournalFen does (I know they exist, I just don't know the names of the places offhand.) so I could answer a random stranger's question. Now I'm going to have to pick through individual users' community membership lists and hope I can locate one that way.

I sincerely hope that the people in charge of developing LJ's features don't intend to leave this crap as it is. Sheesh.