The battle for the fate of Spira is over.  EatmyAss and his companions are quite triumphant.  (on a side note, the blitzball madness was over by friday.  I did indeed obtain the elusive jupiter sigil, essential for unleashing Wakka's celestial weapon's ultimate powers.)  After obtaining all the ultimate weapons and leveling up, the rest of the game was pretty easy.  thanks be to all the geeks who must've died great deaths over and over, so that they could post their hints online so that eatmyass could triumph so handily.  many bothans must've died...

it was pretty anti-climactic to find out that the biggest baddest lastest boss guy turned out to be a floating bug.  his name was yu yevon and he looked like a little tick propped up on his ass end, covered with funny colors.  i just doublecast ultima'ed his ass to frickin oblivion.  all he could do was try and cure himself - i never even got to see what kind of bad ass move he had.  i felt bad for him.   After i killed his sorry ass, turns out I was the one who was sorry, cuz then i sat through twenty minutes of squaresoft jerking off all over me.  whoever writes this crap is almost as lame as the dorks who play it.  Eatmyass turned into a dream and jumped off the airship - didn't even get to kiss his girlfriend goodbye.  okay, he tried to hug her, but he was turning transparent and dream-like, like marty's hand in back to the future, so i'm pretty sure she couldn't feel it.  i almost cried, but i had too much squaresoft jizz in my eyes.

now i can focus on more important things like renewing my car insurance... and battlefront.  woo-hoo.

do not be fooled by the new Dentyne Ice Shiver Mint.  I bought a pack hoping it would make me shiver like no other, but it turned out to be just the same wintergreen flavor in a fancy new package and an icier name.  the fine print says "fresh new look".  actually it's not fine print, it's in bright red and blue letters.  and now that i think about it, the package is just about the same except for the shivering font.

i'm gonna take some time now to tell all of you about how totally awesome i am at final fantasy X, which came out like 3 years ago and has been sitting on my floor gathering mold ever since i bought it for myself those 3 christmas's ago.  well it's dusted off, and having looked at all the cheats and tips online, i'd just like to say that, yup, I:

-dodged 243 consecutive bolts of lightning on the thunder plains.  yes, i ran around in circles for 15 minutes jumping away from lightning bolts.  I lost count after 50, I only needed 200.  That got me the venus sigil.  I needed it to unlock someone's celestial weapon.  what the hell is a sigil anyway...

-caught all the blue butterflies in the butterfly chasing game.  no small task, let me just tell you.  ask any FFX player.  that's right, i called it FFX.  you don't even wanna know about my KOTOR adventures...  That got me the saturn sigil.  no really, what's a sigil...

-beat the goddam chocobo race with a time of 0.00 seconds.  impossible you say, but the balloons take off 3 seconds from your time.  get enough balloons and dodge the birds...  well, then you get the sun sigil.  damn i make myself proud...

-there were other sigils that i got too, but they were easy so i don't wanna brag too much.  like the catching-the-cactus-guys game, that was just time consuming and stupid. 

all i need now is to play the blitzball game and get Wakka's reels and his jupiter sigil.  then i'll finish this damn game. and then!   time for battlefront...

JUST SAY "NEIGH" TO DRUGS  -- Couple of of cartoon horses with big heads and big teeth grinning down at me.   Thank you HPD, I'll never do drugs because the horses said so.  What the hell does nay mean anyway... Who talks like that?  you'll rue the day...  i heart the Bus.

ADOBO-HOLIC -- back of some guy's shirt in Hightide.  damn, this whole world is way too clever for me today -- nay... i'd be adobo-holic if my girl could cook.

"It hurts my soul..." - The Dog

as an epilogue to my pellet gun story...  went to AIG so they could ASSess the damage to my car.  Wait a while in their office, read a couple of popular mechanics mags, then the claim adjuster guy finally pulls out his laptop and we go to work on the car.  I guess he has some kind of program to calculate labor and parts that a typical auto-fender repair shop would charge.  He's going to town, plugging away at that thing, tells me to go inside and wait.   He comes back in like ten minutes later, looking all accomplished and smiling -- maybe like a doctor who just finished delivering a baby, or someone who just took a mean shit -- a shit to be proud of.  Anyway, he pronounces with great satisfaction and certainty that the damage should be around 700 bucks.  Actually, the exact number he gave me was $691.56

You should've seen him... He was so proud of himself.  I was really happy for him.  I wished him a quick painless death.

And yup, that's under my $1000 deductible.  too bad.  Looks like time for some touch-up paint...

Oh yeah, and last night in Kalihi, I parked on the side of the street under a mango tree (funny, how that stall is always open...) so yeah, do you see where i'm going with this...  This morning, what the hell... nope, it was not a mango that fell onto my car - it was a fricking bird egg, maybe like one of those sparrows' or something.  A little white egg has exploded almost dead-center on my windshield and the yolk has run down the windshield and onto the wiper blades.  Did a cursory search of windshield, could not locate embryo.  Perhaps eyeless embryo somehow crawled off windshield to rest in a crevice of car to die and rot.  Perhaps embryo was picked off the window to become tasty treat for a cat, rat, bird, or quasy's filipino neighbors.  Perhaps we shall never know, but at least I wasn't hit by a fukking mango.