It's not a very fancy laptop, but it does a good job displaying maps for various games... I actually made the final decision after playing Assassin´s Creed trying to collect the flags spread throughout the cities. It's a rather tedious task, and I didn't want to run up and down the stairs to check directions on my stationary computer. So I bought a laptop. How very lazy of me.

I decided to install and test Linux Mint. I've wanted to try Linux for a while now, but never really gotten around to. It's not as bad as I thought. Meaning it's not as tech-heavy as I imagined it to be, even though I'm only scraping the surface. :)

I'm starting the third week of my four-week vacation tomorrow. Can't say I've done a lot of creative stuff, other than my recently started hobby: cubeecrafting - even though I've only done two models so far; Kermit (which I made for my mum) and Domo-kun.

Most of my time has been spent in front of the tv; some movies and some series, but mostly playing games. My 360's in the dangerzone of overheating. (It's really not, it's nice and cool even when we've been at it for a few hours)..

We've played through a couple of games, many of which have been co-op with my brother. Played through Assassin's Creed and Gears of War. Grabbed all achievements in Resident Evil 5 (and we will probably never ever play that game again due to the long hours we've spent on it). Just an hour ago we finished Gears of War 2, which in my opinion was a much nicer (and longer?) game than the first.

Well, to break the trend of breaking my back (hurr hurr, though I think it will hurt beyond time) we're going on a trip to Stockholm on wednesday. Picking up a friend on the way there, we're not reeeeally sure what we're gonna do once we're up there -- nothing's been planned apart from the actual going-there. Think we'll stroll the city some, though, it's been ages since I was there last. Good company and a movie or two wont hurt (too much) either! :-]

As per usual, when I've been modifying a previous template to where I think it looks great, I find a new one. This theme is called One Room and was ported to s9y by YellowLed. I won't fiddle too much with it, it looks good the way it is.

I'm looking for a new jacket, something like this which I think looks pretty sweet.

The only problem is size; I've ordered from X-tra-X in the past, and picking the right size has been difficult. Especially when an L / XL (don't remember which) shirt fit my sister rather well, and she's an S..... >_>

Okay so that's just a play on words, I'm not really outsmarting Smarty. I did however get around to fixing the navigation (with the help of Smarty, ti hi) so that it now reflects what page you're on.

It's not a huge thing, but made me feel good about myself and my limited coding skills. :D

I like to read. Books, magazines, comics, you name it (as long as the topic's within interrest). I usually read a few pages before going to sleep, or fall asleep reading (either way).

I don't like laying on my back, because my bed don't allow for half-sitting, so there's no comfort in doing so, resorting to laying on my stomach. Every now and then I've found that when I'm half asleep while reading, and stubborn enough to try and fight it (but losing), I lock my neck and shoulders to keep my head up, close my eyes to doze of for a few, and......unvoluntarily hold my breath. Wtf!?

It's kind of scary, actually. Every time I wake up with a gasp and my eyes go O_O as I draw a deep breath, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

Is my body perhaps trying to kill me?

My brother calls me a weeaboo. Boo hoo, a weeaboo. But what does it mean?

Weeaboo, also known as 'wapanese', is a slang word used to describe “someone who is obsessed with Japan, Japanese Culture, Anime, etc. and attempts to act as if they were Japanese, even though they're far from it.”

Now, I'm not obsessed with either Japan, the Japanese culture or anime, nor do I act as if I were Japanese, but I am sporting a growing interest. There's a lot of the Japanese culture and traditions that I would like to try, take a part in and taste for myself. I won't dig deep into any of them here, but mention a few things.

For instance, the futon sounds and looks really comfortable and is said to be great to sleep on if you have a bad back. Guess what, I got one of those. A bad back that is, not a futon.

Japan is known for a lot of strange food, for good and for bad. Everyone knows of sushi - rice and raw fish (optionally wrapped in seaweed and dipped in soy). It's quite delicious. Something that looks rather suspicious but is rumored to be tasty is the chocolate larva, a creepy looking candy grub. Another thing i wanted to try is the canned bishoujo bread... Canned bread?!

I'm doing a self-study on speaking Japanese (I'll write more on that later on) and am concidering taking a course in Japanese at some stage. (I decided to learn to speak before I learn to write, because my brother took a few classes at some stage and the pace was rather high - it'd give some advantage knowing a little bit more beforehand, I'd hope).

Yeah, so that was a little out-of-context about Japan and stuff. I'm pondering a bigger purpose of this blog, and the topic of Japan might just be it. Just might. We'll see.

I ended up destroying my old theme (I tend to do that when I get a little bored with it) so I figured I'd find a new one. This one will do just fine.

I decided to change the name of the blog to the slightly less depressing "Mangek's blog". Why? Not sure, but it's easier to find a subtle theme this way (With a name as Dirge for November, you kind of expect a darkish theme, and frankly I'm a little bored with that).

So, welcome to my new little old blog.. ;-]

Edit: Decided to change the name around a bit again, see what I like. It may or may not change again, depending.. :-]