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so just paging through my local sheriff's office daily bulletin, like i do now and then, because you learn some interesting things about your local area and sometimes faces you recognize pop up. and what should appear on a date right after christmas but an address right down the road from my childhood home. an arrest was made. clicked the mugshot picture. it was the little brother of one of my classmates, a real shitpiece who liked to terrorize my dog and drive his stupid four wheeler all over our property and shit like that. and my wicked little heart was pleased. he got arrested for DWI. which, good. i am never less than pleased when a drunk fuck gets taken off the roads. but in this instance i am a bit vindicated because that guy was always such a little piece of shit and it's good to know not much has changed in that place since i've been gone.

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Just sitting around partially caffeinated and partially jumping around with nerves, waiting excitedly and impatiently for my Little Mac to show up. he's in my post office 2 miles away, there's no way he's not coming today. Gamestop is now completely out of stock as is everywhere else, rumors are that he's been discontinued - I didn't believe all the discontinuation stuff but now I'm not so sure. His resell price is skyrocketing and I paid $17 shipped. Vibrating intensifies.

So yeah. Just sitting around reading and watching stuff about Japan and what it's like to live there as a gaijin. That might have been my life had bb not come into the picture. I might be suited to the gaijin life but I don't think bb would be happy. And that's fine. I don't hate my country even though it has issues.

Not like Japan doesn't, but seems like their issues are a little more... friendly? Idk. Nonviolent racism towards white people and a high suicide rate seems somehow preferable, in a fucked up way, to gang violence, police brutality, school shootings and armed robbery. You know what I mean? Japan has almost none of any of that [unless you count the yakuza as a gang? but again that's hardly a nationwide problem] mainly because they don't have gun culture like we have here. Taking away guns in america would never work like it works in japan because in America people will do anything to get guns. It will never be safe to make guns illegal here, but in Japan it's almost like a freak accident for someone to have a gun, it's so rare. It's just not something that's done there, and so making guns illegal for most people is something you can do. Violent crime rates in most of Japan are so low it's laughable compared to most of America. You'll never get mugged or robbed - I watched a video where this guy [a gaijin who's lived there for a long time] mentioned that basically "the only kind of mugging I've ever seen is college kids bullying other kids into giving them 1000 yen". Sounds terrible until you realize 1000 yen is like 10 bucks xD
And like, just today I read an article about how people are working to cut down on armed robbery in Kyoto, but then you read the stats... in one year they had a total of 18 robberies in the whole city. EIGHTEEN. in the whole year. i mean yes that's eighteen too many, but how long would it take to get 18 armed robberies in Charlotte? a month maybe? maybe less? LOL. see that's what i'm saying, violent crime in Japan is incredibly rare. and since they took measures to prevent the robbery [which included letting taxi cabs park in the parking lot at night to deter robbers] the number went down to four. FOUR in a year. that's what i mean when i say the crime rate is so low compared to even nicer areas of america.

BUT YA JUST GONNA SIT AROUND VIBRATING UNTIL LITTLE MAC GETS HERE GODDAMNIT HURRY UP ;_; then maybe we'll go to barnes and noble. i want to find some books on Japan that aren't about world war 2. that's not what I want to learn about. give me history books and books on architecture and on japanese flora and fauna and culture and stuff. give.

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He's heeeeere!!!!! The mail arrived 15 minutes after we left, typical :v but whatever, he's here and he's perfect and I love himmmm. Can't wait til I get the 3DS adapter so I can actually use him and Pikachu. :D


List time!! Amiibos that I want in order of most desired:

- Little Mac
- Charizard [not announced but there's no way it's not happening]
- Pikachu
- Bowser and/or King Dedede [cannot decide; may go with both!]
- Greninja [again no way it's not happening]
- Duck Hunt [assuming it gets made]
- Toon Link?
- Link [bb is getting this for himself :3]


Normally I'd want Lucario, but from what I've seen the figure looks wayyy too bright blue, it's almost off model. I'm undecided. Bb might want him.

I honestly didn't believe the discontinuation rumors but, yeah, it seems that's the way Nintendo is going with these. I didn't expect that, but maybe with the high quality of these figures they're in a bit over their heads trying to produce over 50 different models times a few hundred million each. No matter... I have all the ones that are currently out that I must own, and the rest I can pre order and guarantee. I do hope that they actually make all of the characters into amiibos, but I get the feeling that this whole line is not quite going as planned what with all the discontinuation after only a few weeks of sales. All this makes me want to collect them all, but... no. Must restrain myself and only get the ones that are my mains, look super cool or would be very useful as FPs in game.

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OH Something really important happened the other day that I forgot to record!! Was digging thru a closet in the house where I keep some of my clothes that MUST be hung up and not folded, and I came upon the coat. The long lambskin trenchcoat which we used to wear so often, the most likely anchor for the missing link Core, whose name we are thinking is Vernon. ... It was covered in mold. What the hell. I don't think it's ruined, only the leather has mold on it [like ALL OVER it though holy shit] and the fabric inside is fine. Just needs a serious wash. But like... very symbolic almost. We get a 'message' that the black coat is important for the missing Core, and then we find out that said coat is... in need of some TLC. Much like the missing Core themself.