funny how you think you met the one, enjoy 2 years and you get blind sided with a break up.  lesson learned never to take things for granted and never to get too comfy. never date anyone with plans to go to grad school, and never expect long term with someone in their early 20s.

looking through pictures and delisting them from facebook is a terrible thing to go through.

sigh i should have just taken today off and slept.

on the other hand i was able to watch 3 hrs of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and that distracted me a bit.  Funny how Benjamin try’s to woo a 23 year old cate Blanchett while he was 29.  yeah that didn’t work out too well as well.  still the movie was really good and i sat through all 3 hours of it.

Recently picked up this art book from amazon. As you all know I’ve been obsessed with playing street fighter lately.  My GF has started grad school so I’m left with a lot of free time after work lately.  I can’t compete with the darn kids on xbox a lot of the time, but I still find the game enjoyable.   My GF doesn’t like to watch me play since when I lose I tend to uh get grumpy. haha.

So anyways yeah I wanted to get this art book when I saw it at anime expo.  It was made by Udon and they pretty much create all of Capcom’s  comic books. Now I need to borrow my friend’s scanner and maybe use some images to apply to one of my fight sticks. hehe.

I used this opportunity to even record a video and actually setup a youtube account to upload video.  It was pretty easy I must say.  I can see why there are so many people uploading videos now.

My camera is about 4 years old now, but it is pretty good for a old point and shoot.  Might have to upgrade someday though.

Anyways here is me flipping through the art book for a preview.  I pre-ordered the next one coming out in October.  Can’t wait.

Well finally got my fight stick.  With the special promotion I managed to get from Amazon for 50 percent off video game accessory and with the ECA 10 percent discount I got the fight stick for 52 dollars and some change.  So from the original MSRP price of 150 dollars I think I did a pretty good job.  To think these things used to go for 400 dollars on ebay when they first came out.  My gf called at least a 100 or so stores trying to find this for me for my birthday too.  She got me the hori instead which I also love.  I plan to add custom art work to both of them soon.  Just can’t decide on the art work.  I think one will be a One Piece theme.  The other I’ll keep it Street fighter design. 

Recently ordered a new seimitsu LS-32 stick to replace the older model sanwa in my fight stick.  It wasn’t registering the right side up diagonals 100 percent of the time.  I was frustrated losing some matches because of that issue.  In the same order I decided to order a different color ball top, and  a few different colored sanwa buttons. 

It took me an hour to strip the old wires and crimp on the quick disconnects to attach to the new stick.  It was a sloppy job, but hey it works.  My next upgrade will be ordering an acrylic faceplate for my stick and adding some custom artwork to the top of it.  I just haven’t had any luck finding some high resolution One Piece images yet. 

The new stick is stiffer than the old one.  I’m having to learn how to do the same moves I did before with this one.  Can’t execute my normal combos 100 percent of the time yet after a few hours of playing.  Oh well I’m sure I’ll pick it up eventually. 

Random blurb I can’t believe I’m still addicted to Street Fighter IV 6 months after the game came out.  Even though I get worked the majority of the time online I still enjoy it.  I’m even considering ordering the Mad Katz Tournament Fight Stick on Amazon soon.  It is on sale and I have a 50 percent off coupon towards a video game accessory.  Plus the 10 percent ECA discount for a price of around 52 bucks.  That is pretty darn tempting. (Though I’m still hesitant about mad katz stuff though.) Or I could order the special edition hori with my coupon here. Though it essentially is exactly like my current fight stick, but with different colors.  So I might try getting the TE stick just for variety. 

Before

After

Bought the recently remastered version of one of my favorite anime series.

Saw pictures of these figures from K-on.  I think I like the chibi figure the best. I’ll have to hunt for it at next year’s anime expo.  Hilarious show, I recommend you watch it if you haven’t. TE

My friend from work recently recommended this series to me.  It was released in 1989 and well instead of me giving a crappy synopsis you can read it here.

Main reasons why I like this series: it is hilarious, it has humorous characters, the story is fairly original for a anime, and it is funny to see technology back then or rather the lack of it.  No cell phones! People had to set a time and meet etc.  Uh old CRT tvs. haha.  Oh just saw an episode where the kids were playing with an old school black and white gameboy.  Makes me think of the more recent anime where the kids are playing with the DS or PSP. hehe. I dunno I am weird and I find it funny.  Can’t believe how it it is 20 years old and I love it!

If you have netflix try the first disc.  Now if only Animeigo will release the 2nd season already!

P.S. Animeigo please re-release a re-mastered version of Orange Road please.

Mad dash to buy some 7 inch figures. lol.

Wow found this flikr page of photos form wonfes 2009.  Japanese people sure are crazy about these things. Link here. Uh might not be good to click that link at work.  There are some figures I would like to have.  I wish there were more Full Metal Panic ones.  Oh and some Captain Tylor ones!

Oh another crazy site that has lots of photo blogs of Japan and Figures is at

http://www.dannychoo.com/

Can’t wait to try out this new fighter coming out this week. 

watched it. Loved it.  almost cried.  you must watch it.  that is all.