“Hey look, there’s the dam!”
“Yeah, look at all of those dam rocks.”
“And all of that dam concrete.”
“I guess that makes this the dam road.”
“Look at those big dam power lines.”
“These dam jokes never get old.”

So today marked my first complete month at NI. It’s actually pretty amazing that a month has passed already, since it seems like I started just last week. Coincidentally, today was also the day of the code freeze for projects going into production this month. Needless to say, today was pretty stressful.

Now that I have joined the rest of the gainfully employed world, I find that I am falling into a routine I like to call “the American Way.” It goes something like this: Wake up, get ready, go to work. Work hard (most of the time, anyway) all day. Come home, eat dinner, watch TV. Go to sleep. Rinse; repeat once daily. The first week it was pretty bad. Even my computer and my anime sorely missed me that week. It’s been getting better, as now I am incorporating some much needed web surfing, anime watching, and blog updating into the schedule. However, it’s still pretty sad. Especially now that an entire month has went by in this fashion.

My grandma had surgery on Monday. Everything went fine and she says she feels a lot better than she thought she would. She goes back to the doctor tomorrow for a checkup, but everything seems to be fine.

I’ve finally gotten off my lazy behind and started on an About Me/Contact page. You can find it handily linked under the “Navigation” section on the right, or the truly lazy can just click here. Yeah, I don’t blame you for not looking under the Navigation section. I know I wouldn’t have.

The anime world continues to trudge along. Inuyasha has been fansubbed up to 161 by IY4Ever. They have also released Samurai7 up to episode 6. Samurai Champloo is fansubbed up to episode 9 by Animeforever. If you don’t have the links to the fansubbers I mentioned, check my older posts, since I’m feeling pretty lazy right now. I really just need to set it up so whenever I type their name it auto-links for me. It’s an easy option to add, I just need to actually do it.

Just after I get done complaining about how expensive the Inuyasha series is, Viz decides to go and release a box set of the first 27 episodes (first season) for a somewhat reasonable price. Well, as long as you buy it from someone besides them. I broke down and bought it from Overstock.com for about $60 with a coupon, but it doesn’t actually ship until the beginning of September. Since I’m not a big fan of the English dub, this was probably an impulse buy, now that I have some money to spend. But at least I’m not one of those poor suckers that spent $25 for 3 episodes…

I know I haven’t updated in a while and I was all set to do it tonight. However, when I sat down at my desk, I noticed that I had missed a couple of calls from mom. Normally it’s not a big deal, she’ll call if I haven’t talked to her in a while. However, she called four times tonight, which generally means something is wrong. When I called her back I learned that indeed something was very wrong. My grandma had a mammogram last week and they made her have another one because of a suspicious lump. Well, she had a biopsy and it turns out that it’s cancer. At this stage I don’t know anything more than that, she has a doctor’s appointment Friday when they are going to see if it’s spread or not. Either way she’ll probably have surgery early next week. This is especially bad news because her sister died of cancer, but thankfully not breast cancer. Hopefully they caught it in time and everything will be ok after the surgery. Now is when it sucks to have a job. A few weeks ago I could’ve just driven home on a moment’s notice, but now I have to worry about my job as well. My normal update will have to wait until I feel like writing it again.