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NaNoWriMo 2008: Day Thirteen - Procrastination Is Our Enemy.

Hmm. Well I've been real busy of late so I have had to abandon my NaNoWriMo efforts for the time being. Also! My brother bought the Dragon Quest IV remake for the Nintendo DS...and it's completely captured me within its evil grasps.

I'm making up for lost time. I never finished it the first time I played it on the NES all those years ago, and when they released the Playstation remake, I couldn't read Japanese.

Now I'm determined to save the goddamn world, NaNoWriMo or no!

(The following paragraph might only be interest to a special breed of nerd–the video game soundtrack nerd. I was digging through my video game soundtrack CD collection yesterday, and I could only find the soundtracks for Dragon Quests 1 to 8 except 4. I'm pretty sure I bought the soundtrack for 4. Did I lose it or something? Oh well, at least I rediscovered a CD I thought I had long ago lost: the Saga Frontier II OST! Yay! Only the best jRPG soundtrack evah! Well, next to Final Fantasy 6 obviously.)

Oh yeah! NaNoWriMo! I'm planning to catch up soon. Stay tuned!
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  1. Anonymous13/11/08 7:15 pm

    Hey it sounds familiar. I should've said it with TM like "Procrastination is our enemy™". Huhuhu..

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  2. bibliobibuli18/11/08 6:34 am

    tut tut!

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