...dammit, I need more Megaten icons

...my local video game store has just informed me that they won't be getting DDS2 in until its original release date of the 11th.

;_;

I NEED MORE ICONS

A couple of weekends ago, when rathershady and courters28 were up for a visit, we noticed a lone flip-flop on the sidewalk near my apartment building. We mused over its reason for being there, and I mentioned that very little stuff like that surprised me, because that sort of stuff was not at all unusual.

Something finally did manage to surprise me this weekend, though. I was going downtown for something or other and, as I crossed over the little streamlet of the Iowa River that runs by my house, I looked down at it, hoping to see a muskrat or a duck or something fun.

Half-submerged in the stream was...a riding mower.

The next day, when I looked for it again, it was gone.

(Incidentally, the flip-flop is still there.)

Anyway, I just had a very enjoyable afternoon. I got some lunch at the Hamburg Inn No. 2 (apparently a.k.a. "The Burg") because I was craving a shake (and as good as Whitey's "shakes" are, in consistency they're more like soft-serve than shakes). Then I sauntered down Linn Street, checking out random stores. I got a membership at That's Rentertainment (I rented Kinsey, which I'm hoping will be good), I checked out All Fired Up (a paint-your-own-pottery place not unlike KC's Ceramic Cafe), and browsed around in a used bookstore and an art gallery. At the bookstore I picked up what seems to be a 1902 edition of Dickens' A Children's History of England because it was old-looking and pretty, and because I figure there's gotta be something academic I can do with it. XD

I've also been playing more Tales of Symphonia. So far I'm loving everything about it...except the plot, which is seeming to turn out like a lame Final Fantasy X ripoff. (Girl goes on pilgrimage to talk to elemental spirits in order to save the world; she and most of her companions know DEATH AWAITS HER at the end but she won't tell the main character who she has a crush on.) I have faith that the plot will get less derivative as time goes on, though, right? Right?

Edited for added GIP-ness. Also, Nicolas Cage names son after Superman. This is why I hate Nicolas Cage.

When I read the headline, I at first thought that meant he named the kid Clark Kent Cage. That would have been bad enough, but NO. He named the kid frickin' Kal-El Coppola Cage. DUDE WTF

Edited again because apparently my GIP didn't GIP. :(