So yeah, I got hit hard by yet another viral issue. Not sure where these always come from. Anyway my pc is temporarily dead until I factory restore it and see if I can make it work proper again. I hope this may also fix my sound issue. Using my phone in the meantime. Just before getting some more commissions, too. Worried I may have to buy a new pc to get by if this fails.

So yeah, I was fiddling with the audio error I'm having. I still have no sound flat out on my PC. I've tried unistalling and letting the computer naturally regrab the drivers and such, I've tried updating them as well, nothing as far as I can get. I dunno if I should just maybe uninstall and remove everything or whatever, and then go MANUALLY TRY and find the exact right drivers I need (and if that would even work) or if I did truly fry the card. BUT like, it ACTS like it's still working, in a way, it will recognize devices and such, the sound just doesn't work. I'm at a fairly big loss here, and am just frustrating myself more and more when I get a faint glimmer of hope just so my PC can laugh at me. First viruses and now this. I'm wondering if maybe a virus took the drivers down with it, or maybe a .dll or system file? I dunno. :/

I'm happy m PC is still working and all, I just really want even my basic sound back at this point. Not hearing bloops, or updates from my scanners, or just confirmation bings gets a LITTLE annoying. D: You tend to miss a lot without sounds, and with Skype being a PRIMARY use of conversation now. (Thank you Microsoft, this is all just piecing together so PERFECTLY D: < ) I kinda need my sounds to hear when some people message me, or I may not see it for hours. XD

Anyway yeah, basically wasted a few hours for zero progress, what else is new? I don't like thi even more because it's nipping at my depressive side of "OMG Duez you literally cannot do anything useful". XD I'm trying to not let it get to me but things aren't the greatest lately and this just adds to the pile. My computer is my life in a way, and without the sound, while I can get around like using the horribly Xbox interface for Youtube, I still can't do so much more. :/

Okay so uh, I GUESS my sound car burned out? I can't get it to respond, my audio won't play, plugging in headsets doesn't work. Yeah. It can't be fixed, trying to get the driver back in fails. So I guess I uh, broke my audio card? So that basically means no more livestreams with vocals for a while, and no chatting on Skype in calls, and no more watching youtube videos or even just listening to music.
So I'm half shut down now. :/ I'm just going to have to live with it I guess. I'm going to lose my mind so fast, I just know it. I could probly replace it, but this is an HP laptop, it COULD be built in to the motherboard which means, well, yeah, no good.
I'm happy that I can still OPERATE on it but I guess I need a solution or flat out a new PC, TOWER this time to have something I can easily fix at home.
But yeah, not fully sure if hardware or maybe a viral thing that came and went but yeah, it ALSO took down my built in webcam driver/whatnot. Soooo that's now worthless too. I'm just really upset about all this. I needed to relax and I just got MORE stress and now I can't wind down except for my Xbox. I can still watch youtube on that I guess, but as for the rest of the stuff, pretty fucked.

I'm gonna try to go and not bawl now. It's like impossible to make me cry, but shut down my computer on me in anyway? I'll turn into some bitch. What a sad life I live sometimes. :/

My goodness, sure are a lot of these lately! Anyway, check it out here, guys! :3
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4271990/

Yeah, the artist  knon is doing a super cool art raffle! If you have the patience, dive on in!
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4258327/
Posting that journal is part of the rules. <3

Yo guys, this artist is offering a free raffle! Check it out!
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/4217353/
Got some good Pokemon arts in there! :3

Honestly don't expect much! I haven't updated anything here in like 2 years, and I kinda just hopped on after enough people nagged me. Nothing against the site of course, Fay even told me about and such before it launched and I was super interested in joining! Just yeah, I'm a lazy butt. XD

Anyway, on there now got my super short name of awesomeness: Duez
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/duez

So yeah, there you go if you need it, uhm, now I have to figure out how many artists I have to re-follow on there. :/ I deleted SO many journals cause I lacked it and now it's like "Fuck I need it". XD

How did this even happen today? Mostly just "first world problem" bullshit and such but, somehow it;s getting to me. :/ I haven't been able to find my little iPod in days, and I noticed it was missing 3 days like, after it had actually gone missing, and now it;s been like a week almost, maybe? At this point I have to assume I dropped it somewhere dumb or in a lot, at it was swept away, crushed, or taken. It's not a BIG deal, I still have all my music on my laptop and such (though I may be getting what I'm missing off the old dead tower later today) but now I have no way to listen to stuff on the go, it's just frustrating me for some reason. I can remedy this by purchasing another iPod but... that's just a waste of money. :/ Toss in the dental bill and potential future care maintenance and just, blah.
That and my job is kinda irking me today, not sure why, just is. XD I don't understand why I'm so messed up today. Been making tiny errors and bumped into a thing or two this morning. My head is just not in the game today. :/

I'll try not to be spoliery here, but take the whole journal as such! Only Warning!

So yeah, the movie overall is, as expected, pretty darn good. The production on this is amazing, the movie looks great, does nice transitions with the different graphical styles, and was just awesome. I almost tear-jerked too during a certain scene! o:

Like some I was a little miffed at the idea of the fake games they threw in mixed with all the real ones, but it works out for the most part, you just gotta kinda IGNORE that factor. It transitions pretty well. The overall concept of the movie is fairly original, even if it plays out like most movies (Because that's how movies work, a-doi!).

The bits of the "Sugar Rush" racing game are WAY too Mario-Kart cloned, but hey, it was still neat to see it in action. And I just adore the way the movie plays out, to be honest. I was nervous it was gonna be bland or I would hate the cutesy bits or that I was just gonna drone it out, but it's well written for the most part, and fuck I wanna try a game like "Hero's Duty" sometime. XD

A lot of people left the theater pretty early in the credits, that disappoints me, only me and this couple stayed after. The little after-bonus wasn't great, but it was still a neat touch in my eyes, plus you got to hear exclusive music for the movie, a Japanese band known as "AKB48" did an original game song for "Sugar Rush" all in Japanese! o: Owl City had an interesting song in there too. Which brings me to another miniature, interesting point.

While I was doing some research on the movie, I learned that SKRILLEX had a song in there (remixed by Noisia or something like that?) and me and Dubstep really don't get along. I swallowed it though, and the scene where it played, I ADMIT, worked really well, and actually they played the portion of this 7 minute long song that wasn't very Dubstep heavy, as far as I could tell. Apparently that song is ORIGINAL to the movie too? I could be wrong though.

A lot of interesting mix and match in the film, and overall like I said, it plays out well. Not sure if I'd pick up the DVD, but it was worth my money to see for once in a long time! o:

Also, while it was cool to see a lot of the old characters, some scenes were flooded with oldies, so i didn't catch a lot of subtle hidden ones maybe? Bowser of course was in it, there is a bit where the villains end the meeting and say a motto of sorts, Bowser moves his mouth in it, but it's hard to tell any voices apart. He may have just been mouthing it? *Shrug* After that though, we really barely see the guys, and also Sonic's moment in the movie was silly, derp hedgehog!

So yeah, there you go, good movie, something like 1 9.5/10 or whatnot, because there is no such thing as a 10/10 movie! (well maybe, we'll see!)

So yeah, Neltruin got me to use Twitter a night or so ago, and now I'm like "OMG, look at all this random crap I can say, and all the celebs I can find, and also I can use this to update random Pokemon nonsense!" So yeah, I've been sucked in, visit https://twitter.com/DuezChattyCat to find meeeee!

Okay so, after fighting my Rival and not thinking perfectly, I lost all but one Pokemon. My Nuzlocke has taken a turn for the worst! I am halting my stream for now, not too many people in anyway. And uh, yeah... Harsh. It IS late though, and I gotta be up in the morning for the new game, so we shall see what I do! For now, stream is on hold!

Alright guys, I took a bit of a slumber and now I am back on! Stream can be found at:
http://www.livestream.com/duez

Come join while I face the neverending pains of the Nuzlocke Sapphire Challenge!

So yeah, as I am sure many are aware of, Pokemon will be releasing their new titles in America here soon: Pokemon Black 2 and Pokemon White 2, a sequel to a major title (Which has technically been done before with titles like Stadium and Colosseum), but is the first time to do a direct sequel to the main game line! Personally I was nervous at first, but it has me excited, I guess because Gen5 was a good one in my eyes. I really hope they kinda stop now, and just finishing off this cash cow of theirs; but we'll have to see.
Anyway, I was hoping to do something on the weekend for this, but my only local friends that liked Pokemon all moved away for military or family reasons, so I'm a bit left in the dust here! What I'm thinking of is I may do a Livestream event in which I will try to play certain Pokemon games (of the few I have at my disposal) and just try to do that for either Saturday AND Sunday, or just as long as I feel like on Saturday. I WOULD stream the handheld games, but I don't have a setup for that, however I can do some things like a Live Sapphire Nuzlocke, or just play whatever I got, which isn't much, I may need to run out and pick up some titles. XD
I'd like to try and do a stream until the game releases though, if at all. Sadly I don't think I can record my startup, but if I find a way I will certainly try. I'll be picking up both versions of the game, one of which I'll be running normally and having fun with, the other I'm reserving for a potential Nuzlocke Run, and obviously I need it for trading (although I would also need another DS XD).
Also on Saturday there is a new dubbed episode of Pokemon to watch, so there's that as well, I don't get to watch the Japanese version much anymore, but I don't mind too much waiting on the American airing of the episodes.
So yeah, that's about all I can say for now, I'm open to hear what people think for this, and any other suggestions and such. Sadly I'm not an artist much, so I can't really be all "OMG art stuff for the event!" but I'll happily do anything like Pokemon quizzes and such. XD

Though surprisingly, almost no updates! XD Not much has been going on, still derping around in Montana, just kinda dealing with everyday things at this point.
I keep looking at my Submission box, 4000+ I really need to go through from just a little over a year ago. I keep updating it and such, but guh I just fell SO FAR BEHIND and that number just demotivates me to go through it all, but I WANT to save things from it, I know I do. I worry that someday it may get wiped for me and I'll regret it, or like, artists keep leaving at times or gallery wipe so I'm sure like, 200 or so are just empty submissions in there. XD Blah, gotta get off my ass someday and just shovel through it all. x.x
Also been playing Borderlands 2. It's pretty cool, I find myself strangely unaddicted to playing right now. Just, do a mission or tow, take a break, come back in a few hours, do some more missions, bleh. XD I also have a hard time with friends it seems. not that it isn't FUN, I'm just so used to playing the game solo, and you really gotta focus when your with friends, and I tend to get distracted by my PC if I'm browsing through art and such while I usually game. XD Speaking of games, been playing a lot of Animal Crossing City Folk lately, I don't have my code on me, but I may be interested in sharing the info with others if they wanna visit my crap town. XD
Also been curious about how much longer the MLP stuff will be lasting. I understand most people are having fun with it, but ever since the middle of seasons 2 Ive been kinda, bleh about it... XD I understand that you milk a cash cow and such, and yeah I've bought some merch and am not too proud of it, buuuuut, really I kinda hope it ends after season 3, though I heard rumors of up to 6 seasons, somehow, even if they might be half seasons. XD
Doesn't help much living here with no one to really share any of my interests with anymore. X3 No one to chat about furries or ponies or anything much really, kinda on my own, and yeah there are some local furs, but we're all busy or just not on same interest levels, but maybe we should try and a little meetup sometime, I dunno. X3

So apparently it's Fat Bunny Week? I remember it slightly from last year, but only because there is one fat bunny I really like! :3 So I'll shout it out now, draw some sexy Gargomon people! Male or female! That bunny need love with his huge lop ears and cute roundness! <3

In other news: Birthday is over, officially 23 now, nothing really even happened yesterday. I have a new TV (So cool! Even though I said not to get it XD), a cool little Japanese tea mug from my friend whom recently moved away, and a nice new pocket knife because I had to ditch my old one in San Diego (Ugh that trip blew so hard XD). Someone is sending me an additional item in the mail apparently, and there is probly a few more things coming post-date here. We'll see! But I'm glad nothing TOO crazy happened on my birthday, not like celebrating being 23 is something special. XD

And in case anyone is wondering why there are so many fucking August birthdays, remember that this is month EIGHT, so somewhere between Thanksgiving and Christmas, parents were getting frisky. :P

So that's all for now, enjoy your day, Borderlands 2 is my next eagerly expected game so far! 8D (Also Pokemon games, hnng, gotta remember to go in between the 27th and whatever day it was for that Keldeo (?) event, I think?)

Yeah, today has arrived, the day I age another year! 23 and still kicking. XD No big plans today, just another old day for me. XD But yeah, will try to be home if I can, most likely just hanging about and shooting peoples online.

Yus, I turn a semi-magical 23 on August 21st! No big plans, not even dinner and whatnot. Just some cake with the family, no real friends locally I can bother much to come over, but I may call a person or two, I dunno. Suiters and local furs, you're all invited if you wanna come hang out! Just Note me for my address and stuff, or even just my phone number so contacting can be done.

Anyway, today the 20th is actually my mothers' birthday, so we're celebrating that, and it's also  lancerbuck 's as well, IIRC. :3
So yeah, looking forward to a dull Tuesday birthday, I was already given a new television (even though I said no D: ) and it's pretty sweet. 39 inches of awesome! :3 Got a package from a friend whom moved recently, but I won't open it until tomorrow like I promised.

So yeah, gonna hopefully get some time online and such that day, maybe lurk about in some streams and hang out and whatever while enjoying aging. XD

So it's August now, which means nothing really happens; for me anyway. XD
No game releases, no movies I'm deeply interested in coming out, and no one to hang with anymore since my friends have all found it necessary to move away (military or family reasons). So with that, I've been trying to plan to move out of state myself. Montana is pretty dull, but that's only because I don't really dig anything here. I just need to move towards more like minded folks and have some fun and get a new job. So while I'm plotting that...

August 21st will be my birthday! I'll be a lovely 23 years old, woohoo? And yeah, my family is stumped as to what to get me, not that I really WANT or NEED anything, and really the only way to get me things is either by money or art, so yeah, what a lovely person I can be, buying gifts is such a hassle. XD I think several other furs I know have birthdays in this month as well, and my Mothers' is the day before mine, ugh what do I even get her now? XD

And then 6 days later I have a Dental appointment to work on another tooth of mine. Seems like not too long ago I was writing about Dental work for a similar reasoning. XD Guh why must i be so bad at my dental hygiene? D: So yeah, that will probly be painful as all fuck, gotta take that day off work.

Montana also should be enlisting their new hands free device law while driving today I believe. It's apparently up to a first offense or something, you CAN be pulled over like most other states now, just if they see you on your phone. So good luck all you nutjobs on the road. This will just mean I have to pull over to talk now, or just wait until I'm done driving and call people back.

So yup, fun fun, now I just gotta plan for that Bozeman meet on Sunday, and otherwise I don't seem to be up to much!

Okay, so the California visit is over, I'm in a hotel in Utah right now, tomorrow I get back to Montana, and then work in the morning, yaaaaay. :B

Sooo, overall, before any TLDR stuff, it was OKAY. I'm not a big fan of San Diego, and the lack of internet for the entire week was pretty fucking annoying. I just now finally got back onto things, so much I have to catch up on, get jealous or depressed over all at once, and clean out. :B

I spent a bit more than I'd like down there, and to top it all off, NO FURS (or pony fans, or anyone I could relate to). I guess it's my own fault for not really advertizing to people down there, but it's hard to do so! I also didn't have my own vehicle, would not be permitted to use public transit without having a pain in the ass getting back on that Naval Base on my own, and yeah, don;t know the area either!

All in all it was a partial waste for me, and with no way to contact folks, I was stuck with ONLY family the entire time. It was nice seeing my brother again, and it was pretty cool standing on that Naval ship for a bit, but really everything else was all for them, I just kinda tagged along and would spend money on shit now and then. I didn't even keep track, ugh, I bet I wasted like, 200 bucks. XD

We went to Seaworld for a day, that was okay, I got another turtle statue to add to the collection, and a new portable turtle coffee mug. I mostly wound up looking at Sea Lions during my visit, they're just so silly and cute after seeing Madagascar 3. XD There are no Sea Lion toys or merch though! WHAT GIVES?! There was a Dinner with Shamu as well but that was just dull for me.

I also bought some silly Regular Show hat, I haven't worn a hat in YEARS, I look like such a douche in them. D: And I bought myself a new iPod Shuffle as well, orange this time, I needed something and I like iPods at least. New cheap ass headset, it'sso hard finding one for me. Wound up seeing Ted in a nice theater, it serves pizza! How cool that was. The movie itself was okay, I would laugh now and then but mostly it's... meh for me.

Otherwise there was a lot of mall visits, I went to every Target nearby not a lot of pony stuff I care for in there. I dunno if Target's get Blind Bags or not, but none of these had them. Which is odd because where I live is shit, and I know our Wal-Mart gets them (Except last I checked it was only Wave 1 still, no Wave 2 yet, I'm waiting for 3, derp. XD)

On the way down I ha stopped in Vegas, due to travel time issues and whatnot with my folks, I could not visit Weaselgrease down there, and that totally would have made my trip worth it. XD I don't blame you Woozl, but yeah, after he slept in some, I had missed my window of opportunity, and could not get my ride down to him. XD Alas, fate shits in my cornflakes! So from now on, with both chances to meet furs failing, I will now have to plan like, 2 months in advance,a nd make all kinds of plans with people in private, and do this all on my OWN next time, because being with my family, they get skeptical of me meeting people from the INTERWEBS. XD Anyway, peace out all, thanks for reading if you did. :3

So yeah, if I remember anything else, I'll make an edit or new post, otherwise the trip was bland, I didn't HATE it, but I sure didn't ENJOY it either.

Okay so now I'm officially in San Diego! Most if this trip is family related, and I have no vehicle to use, so I'm mostly stranded on the Navy Base down by 32nd. I might have a day or two to hang out, I'm here until Friday night, after that we head back home.
Tomorrow I'll be at the fair located here in San Diego, so find me if you can! I'll probly have my bright green Angry Beavers hoodie, and I'll have a con badge with my character and name on it.
I don't have my computer access to the internet yet, using my phone to do all this right now. XD but yeah, wanna try and hang with people in what little time I'll have. Leave a note, comment, or just spread the word, tell your friends! Anyway gonna try to sleep, then be a lame derp at the fair!

OKay so a quick update for some of you here! As some know, I'll be in California for the dates of around July 2nd arriving, and elaving the 6th or 7th, I think? Throughout these days I'll mostly be with my family, but while one day is Seaworld and I'm going to that, there is another day for Six Flags, and I'm not a very good person to bring to that, sooo! I'm gonna try to pass it up and use that day to hang with some of you guys! If you can anyway! I still have no exact details, but most likely I'll be at the Naval Base near the docks there, and I would require pickup and such. I dunno what we'd do, but I'd really love to just hang out with a bunch of furs if possible, or whomever (pony fans are okay too, just don't be a dick about it XD). I figure I have a good 12 hours that day to hang with some people. I'd have to be back by like, 10pm or 12am the latest, as to not worry the family. XD
I know it's asking a bit much, but yeah, if you don't mind driving me around and such, or have ideas, I'd love to hear them! <3 But mostly I just wanna hang, talk, and if possible, maybe give out some hard cash for some doodles. XD
So yeah, let me know, and if we set something up, I can note you my Cell Number, super easy to get a hold of me. :3

Also, I'm possibly planning to try and go to Rainfurrest, though that's like, 500 dollars or so to do, so we'll see. D:

Sorry for any non-pony fans here, but there is this one-month long raffle going on in the journal below for a chance to win a custom made pony plush or something like that! I'm not sure why I'm diving for it, but it's a free chance, so yeah! Check the journal for details, and if I may quote Mr. Lancie... "Good luck, everypony!"

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3545904/

Okay here we go, got a lot more details now! :3 So it's actually in EARLY JULY. I leave on June 30th from good old Montana here, and I head down towards San Diego, hopefully arriving on the 2nd of July, I think? It's still unknown what day Seaworld is, but I will be there for I think 4 days? And then we leave on the 5th day so... the 7th I leave? Maybe? I will NOT have transportation, anything that allows for hanging out will require the person to come find me, and if need be, drive around. I don't want to inconvenience anyone though, and I don't expect rides either! I won't take advantage of public transit if I can avoid it, as I do NOT need to get lost. XD But if you're like, a super cool person I really want to meet and can ensure I return to my hotel by a good time, I can maybe plan for it, but this is mostly a family trip, so I may only have one day to hang with a few folks before we greet my brother off to his next set of assignments.

I'll be mostly located on the naval base over there at the docks and such, you can find the base pretty fast with google maps and such. At least I'm sure that's the place, I'll double check. I can most likely walk my way to the gate if I need to meet anyone. ALSO! Navy Furs! If you're on that base installment, let me know! I'm stuck on the base for a while anyway, meeting anyone there would be nice, and it'd be cool if you ship out with my brother too. XD

Also, it's still being discussed, but I may be in Vegas on the 1st, only during the later evening. My folks may have already forced me into plans with them, but if I can I might be able to break away and chill for a bit, though as of right now I've made light plans with  weaselgrease as I noticed he was going to be there in that time frame, and I love that weasely bastard. <3

Any other stops are unknown for now, we might stop at Salt Lake City on the way home to rest, but otherwise I be clueless and stuck to the whim of my folks! Also I will not at any time be able to do any drinking, if anyone thinks of that. I have to be a ready and able driver at all times, especially during the drive up and back! D:

So yeah, I look forward to meeting up with some of you guys, and if we do make plans, they need to be loose ones, as things with my folks tend to go crazy now and then on trips. My plans are laid back, they get all mixed up, spontaneous and mis-scheduled. XD But I eagerly await anyone who can hang with me! :3

Well maybe! To try and not leak too much here, I have a family member in the Navy, who's shipping out again soon, and he invited the family to hang for a couple days down near San Diego, I think it is? (I need to check y information again). There are plans to go visit Seaworld apparently, and other than that, I have a day I MIGHT be able to hang with a lot of furs or something. So I wanna try to plan ahead better than I usually do, and try to just meet a few familiar or new faces, makes friends, whatever! :3
The time is somewhere in mid July, again, I'll double check my resources and update this accordingly, but I should be around sometime, and would love to meet some furs and artists and such, if at all possible. :3

So my folks have seen my bank statements this past 2 months, and we're not really impressed, a lot of Paypal on there, getting up to half my income almost, I guess? So to see if it's an addiction or anything like that, I have been challenged to not spend anything on Paypal for my random art and such for the next 60 days, at least. So that means I won't be jumping at any commissions whatsoever for 2 months, no donations, no anything. Kinda blows but yeah, gotta do it I guess. I'm already able to tell it's going to suck, I'll be depressed and bored out of my fucking mind, and i won't be motivated to do much, so yeah, hope they enjoy a miserable me, but oh well.

On note of that, if any of the artists on my list, or if I forgot any, still owe me and such, I may be pestering you soon to try and work on those, a lot of you are way overdue based on how long you normally take, and while some have excuses or legitimate reasons, some just seem lazy or ignore me, not cool, yo. o:

Anyway, take care for now, and yeah, I may not be around much on streams and such, just gonna be a bored as fuck cat. :B