(thanks Michele!)

New Vegas Voice Acting and Party Members Revealed

Not only that, Worf (Michael Dorn) is back as well as the immortal Ron Pearlman (of course - it simply is not a Fallout game without Ron Pearlman! fallout tactics)Kris Kristofferson, Felicia Day, and... Matthew Perry (as a crime boss??).

Been using some of the X-10 stuff lately to control all the vampire electronics I have (no need for all the video game units, etc. to be running all the time - and being able to turn outlets/power strips on and off with my remote makes it worth the effort), and the new apartment has been driving me nuts. One of the controlled outlets would only work sometimes, and would just turn on and not off others. Finally traced it down this morning to the CFL light bulbs in the kitchen. 3 bulbs, 2 of one kind and one of another - when the 2 that are the same are both on, the X-10 outlet in the other room won't respond. Unscrew one of the CFLs, and the outlet works again!

I swear, if it's a weird problem I'll find or encounter it!

...moving that is, now the fun of unpacking and re-building everything starts. I need a vacation!

Having to come up with about 3 months of increased rent in short notice has put a hamper on buying new stuff for the new place, but next month I'll hopefully be able to catch up some.

Considering how fast things have gone, and are going, I can't complain much (except for the heat/humidity levels the past 2 weeks that have been exhausting to work in). Just 2 weeks from the day my old landlord told me he needed the apartment back to the day I move into the new place. Bonus was getting the rent knocked down enough to cover the electric bill because of my old landlord's affiliation with the new one (living there for 16 years helped things out) - and my boss giving me a raise to help cover the increase in rent didn't hurt either!

Sometimes things seem to just work out :-)

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Apartment found, electric turned on, Cablevision scheduled to move my internet hookup, new landlord getting a FiOS DVR for me, and I'm exhausted already from packing/throwing out 16 years of accumulated crap..

Not a bad turn around considering it's only been 6 days since my landlord of the past 16 years told me he needed the apartment back. Amazing coincidence is that the first of only 2 responses I got to look at places this weekend was not only the one I ended up taking, but turned out to be a childhood friend of my landlord (they both got married together in Italy a few decades ago!). Having the endorsement of my soon to be ex-landlord gave me quite an edge with the new one, and the new place is so much better as well with more closet space than I have actual space now!

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Somebody find me an apartment, haggle the rent, and move all my stuff for me please, I'm exhausted already...

The sun is not even up yet, and I'm getting ready to go to Delaware - I must be insane :p

Type O Negative singer Peter Steele Dead at 48 (sadly, not a hoax this time)

STATEN ISLAND, NY--Peter Steele, lead singer for Gothic metal band Type O Negative, is reported dead at the age of 48 due to heart failure.

Steele, who garnered fame for everything from faking his own death to posing fully nude in Playgirl, was known to live the life of a rock star, and reportedly struggled with substance abuse. But Staten Islanders who met him face to face said the dark-maned, brooding rock star was gentle and affable to his fans and his fellow musicians.

He was friggin huge and intimidating, but an awesome guy to hang out with after a Type O show (which now seems like more than a lifetime ago...)

Now this is awesome:





From Neatomrama:

New York-based artist Naoko Ito transformed a tree branch into art by sawing it into small pieces, putting them in jars, then stacking the jars into the original shape of the branch.