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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
12:08 am	Work Schedule Change . Offline my work schedule is changing, as a result my hours online will be changing as well. I work at a High School, as the students will be entering summer break at the end of this week, my work hours will change from an evening shift, to a morning shift. As a result of this change, I will be online in the afternoons and evenings, but likely not online in the early hours of the night as I have been in the past. Please keep in mind that the sudden alteration from usually going to sleep at 5am, to suddenly needing to wake up at 5am, will likely mess with my mind and body for a few days as I reset my internal clock to the new schedule. Other then that, I am glad to mention I've been working hard online to meet new people and get myself out there. I believe it's going well. Not much else to mention. Just an update on my schedule is all. I just wasted two minutes of your life, you can thank me later. ^,=,^ Current Mood: indifferent Current Music: SSBB Soundtrack. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
2:37 am	Personal Conflict and Solution. I am some steps closer to the completion of my master plan, however it is still at risk of being stopped in it's early stages. I speak of course, of my dragon community Dragons Valley. DV was designed to have features that would be of benefit to a large member populace, future goals including member generated quizzes, newsletters, art and lit. contests, ect, as well as it's true purpose to support those with draconic interest. The site is functioning and is at roughly 85% it's full capablity. However there were some factors which I forgot to consider in it's construction, the most important being DV's opening and start. I had envisioned that the existing communities would welcome DV as a sister site, and that the advertising would generate a good flow of members, armed with this member base, I would rely on the features and friendly environment to generate further support and growth. The problem with this however, was that I was being foolish and over idealistic. I being nervous and shy outside of the comfort zone of my own "internet territory" or webspace, have only lurked on other communities and dispite my seven year presence, am completly unknown. It was entirely ignorant of me to imagine that any well established community would be eager to team up with a variable unknown such as I, it puts their reputation at risk, and as well, someone who does not contribute is not worthy of sponsership. As a result of this obvious, yet some how unrecognized fact, DV only gained partnership from a slight few of the existing communities. I am a smart dragon, I am firm and well adjusted to my draconity, I am open minded, logical, sincere, and consider myself to be well educated. However, dispite years of encouraging proof and evidence for the acceptance and support within other communities, I cannot bring myself to communicate on other sites. This fear goes back to my upbringing, in which, while attending school as a child I was often criticized for many of my beliefs, views, or actions. Years later I have become a strong individual, however the damage done those many years ago is still psychologically engrained within my mind. If I cannot see the face of those whom I am communicating to, or if I am not in control, I fear that all I say and do is being judged, an irrational fear takes over and I cannot continue. Communicating is fine on DV because it is my territory, I am in conrol. Right now is a critical time for DV's success, both online and off, I have family members who would like it to fail, and I wish not for them to have justification, that however is irrelevant. Moreso, now is critical because if I fail to overcome it's current stagnation and create conversation and attendance, it will die and all my work will be in vain. By my calculations my welcoming period will be ending very soon, I must spark interest now before it is to late. This means facing my greatest and admittingly rather pitiful phobia of communicating with others in other dragon communities. Only by introducing myself, participating, providing my viewpoint, and contributing to our society as a whole, will I gain the support and interest necessary to allow for DV's success. My greatest hurtle in this matter is that I am unkown, nobody knows me, I don't know what is expected, how to present myself, who to turn to should I speak in error. I am very nervous simply by the fact that I do not know what to do. I understand of course that I must be myself, but there are many aspects to me, and I fear being judged by one negative aspect over other positives. In short, I believe it can best be summarized, that I, Jafira Dragon, The same Jafira who seeks the unknown and is believed by his friends to be fearless of death itsself, is simply terrorfied of saying hello on a forum. In order to achieve my goal, I must confront this phobia head on in the coming days, I must be strong and remind myself that it is for the betterment of myself, and for the achievement of my goals. I can contribute so much, if only I can overcome my cowardice. I ask any one who finds this entry, to wish me luck in this endeavor. Thank you, Your Social-phobic friend, ~Jafira Dragon Current Mood: stressed Current Music: You don't want to know.. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
4:27 am	Dragons Valley is Back! . Wow, I actually have a viable accomplishment to post in this thing, and it's not angst or whining! It's a miracle! I propose a toast in celebration! After a long period of sitting around doing nothing, I finally decided that it was time to get off my lazy arse and do something dragony. So I did just that! This time in my life is much less hectic then last year, my college is complete, (for now) my employment is steady and all is well! That means this is the perfect time to attempt the return of Dragons Valley. I purchased the domain for Dragons Valley around the anniversary of it's demise, and spent the end of the month of March uploading the latest software and patches. For the past week or so I have ran tests on the site to insure that everything is functioning properly and have confirmed that all appears to work well. In addition I added some useful features that were not possible in the past attempt, including new themes, a quiz option, an event calendar, and some other goodies still being prepared. So, with all that said, I am reopening my dragon based community at http://www.dragons-valley.com Just in time too it seems, sheesh, I leave the Internet for six months and a lot of good dragon communities vanish. I know dragons-empire was hacked around the time that DV collapsed, and I know that the Dragon Lair was closing, but what happened to Sommerland, and Draconomicon, Did I miss something? In any case, yeah, Dragons Valley is back online and fully functioning. Offhandedly though I must state that I am still a little bit shell shocked from last year, I really don't need to just get off the ground again and have it die. That scenario is unlikely this time around but still I understandably have that fear. I am hoping it will pass after DV has been active a bit longer. I think this time it will be a successful and viable tool for dragons and dragon enthusiasts to unite behind. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Music from SSBB, (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
1:49 am	Random Stuffs (long) . Hi, I disappeared for a very very long time, until tonight, in which I ate a bunch of sugar, got wired and chose to come back! Therefore tonights inane ramblings are brought to you by: Coca Cola, and Co Sponsored by Twinkies. Nah, I'll try to keep this short, little to no drama, etc. Just updates on situations journal stuff, etc. First off, what the heck happened to me after the fall of Dragons Valley? Wasn't it supposed to return in Mid June? and for that matter, what the heck happened to me? Well, heh funny story that. For the month of May I took a break from the net as work on websites and my net rounds in general had ruined my sleep pattern and made me ill physically and emotionally. In early June I reappeared but was a bit distracted helping my mate Skyla with her artwork and photoshop, it was a welcome change of pace from her loss of creativity phase as I'm hopelessly in love with her art. (primitive as it may be.) After successfully teaching Skyla to use photoshop I had planned to work on other online projects until... One cloudy evening I, on the way to visit friends, accidentally sat my laptop on top of my car while I unlocked the door, I then carelessly entered the vehicle and drove off, going down the street I noticed a black blur fall from my ceiling. Heh, it wasn't pretty. The laptop survived more or less but needed a new monitor. I shipped it back to Best Buy for repairs, and was given a two week estimate for repairs. (June 18th) Fast forward to July 27th.. two weeks my arse. That alone should explain some delays and absence. One month and $400 later I learned my lesson not to trust Best Buy, they lost my laptop in transit twice, as well as the accompanying documents. That period taught me the meaning of patience. My laptop was quite advanced last spring when I purchased it, and my home computers were years out of date, so many were foolishly sold. During the period my laptop was missing, much happened online without my attention, my main site Jafira's Lair expired, I renewed the domain name but my balance was poor due to an unforeseen circumstance, as a result and unbeknownst to me my domain was suspended for a week or so before I learned of the error. Thus explaining any noted disappearance of my site. July 31st was my hatchday so I threw myself a party as well as made a list of goals for this year. I then immediately got side tracked. I was forced to switch positions at my job from a day shift to a night shift and the transition was difficult at first. Now that I'm a bit more stable I intend to continue to pursue my goals. Those Goals include: Rebuilding DV as Dragons-valley.org with stable coding, finishing/writing two stories for my site, creating some form of art with my limited abilities, interacting with friends online and off, adventuring more, and lastly taking an active part in the world I live in. Though I have a hard time with commitment issues I believe those goals are reachable and I should have the will power to dedicate myself to them so long as I can avoid negative external influences such as media, as well I tend to have an art addiction which slows me down dramatically. Lastly, if I can create enough stability in my life I am considering starting a local dragon meet up, if I can organize a location and the resources to do such. It should be an interesting experience if I can pull it off. Time will tell. Anyway that concludes the news in the the world of Jafira Dragon. Tune in later for more boring events that have nor baring on your life what so ever. ~Jafira Dragon Over Caffeinated Again.. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: The Protomen (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
6:10 pm	Long emotional rant about DV. . Meh, I know that I never, ever, write in LiveJournal, and that I am often against making posts depressing or what not, but I desperately need to rant, and vent a little. So for all who are reading this, know now that this post mostly consists of whining, unnecessary apologies, and emotional nonsense concerning the loss of a website. The whining starts from herein. – Consider yourself warned! To anyone who knows of my site, I recently created a community. From the very beginning it was plagued with minor problems. But as it was my dream, I worked night and day to correct the problems, one after another, after another. I failed classes, neglected my health, and generally obsessed to a dangerous degree over perfecting the stupid site. Last week, I went to update the news and discovered that it was malfunctioning. From there I learned the email notification function was broke. What good is a site if new members can’t activate their accounts or receive notifications?! Believing I somehow damaged the site with my security fixes, I spent another two days (originally estimated as two hours) installing a top of the line version of the same site. It was 3am, I was exhausted, finally the ordeal would be over, I was looking over this the new version, features that failed to work in the first community were working now, everything was great, I was about to tell my members the good news! When I suddenly remembered to test the email notifications.. I tested it…. Nothing, my partners tested…. nothing! Rargh!!, >,=,< I had to give up for an hour and recover on a couch. I then checked my server, thinking there may be clues there. I went to check my email, I got lost looking for my mailbox, I ended up in the email settings and I noticed the configuration settings all seemed to be set to a “black_hole” I thought to myself.. “well that doesn’t look good” Eventually I found my inbox. It had over 3000 returned emails. Each one a bulk spam from March19th. I thought, “hmm, could this be the reason my site broke?” I then went to check some information on dragon’s valley’s software, I discovered some vulnerabilities regarding its web-mail function, and thought for a sec…. “hm, you know what, I don’t think I broke the site…I think it may have been hacked” I then proceeded to freak out in a justified angry manner and go to bed a very sad and disturbed little draggy. I mean, its aggravating, my dream was simply given to me at random two months ago, before I knew what hit me, I gained the support of people I had admired and looked up to, everything begun falling into place and going amazingly well, it was surreal, like some sort of incredible illusion, then the problems appeared, my dream came, then was gone, then was back, all like some sort of twisted yoyo controlled by fate. Then finally after I’d sacrificed everything, my work was stolen from me for the purpose of spamming some poor people, my sacrifice of sleepless nights, constant perfectionism, lost time, lost dignity, grades and so forth all gone through a flaw that I could have never known of. I feel cheated by the universe. I was a virtual unknown to dragon society, being to shy to communicate in any location but my own grounds, finally I had a place were I could create first impressions and grow! I thought! But, what was my first impression you may ask? An overly idealistic weirdo with a seemingly good community tainted by so many flaws that it collapses twice within the first month of publicity! Yeah that’s going to make me look good! My integrity, another chance at a decent impression once again was destroyed through a combination of bots, spam, and my own inability to understand the resources at my disposal. I do intend to rebuild the community stronger and better on it’s own domain in the coming months, but it will take time. I will admit that I am extremely wounded by this entire scenario, it hurts incredibly as I put my heart into Dragons Valley and my efforts seem wasted now. Furthermore I will find it difficult to face those involved as I feel I let a lot of people down, especially Tysha who appeared to try the hardest to bring traffic and help me catch the bugs. Even if it’s not my fault the site failed, it still hurts and I can’t help but feel that I could have done more. Things happened too quickly and I was not prepared for a lot of the responsibility, I was overwhelmed. It will take me a long time to recover from this failure. I will probably be a bit reclusive for a while as I strive to recover from this emotional blow and build up my resources for a future attempt to rebuild the community and my dream. To all who helped with Dragons Valley, I thank you immensely, I want everyone to know that the failure of DV hurt me the most because I did it all for you, for everyone, and in the end my efforts seemed in vain. I wanted to contribute something special to dragon society, something useful. But it seems I’m still not ready. To those involved I thank you for your sacrifices and time, and apologize for any inconvenience DV and I may have caused during its short lifespan. I did become a bit eccentric and apologize for any actions suffered as a result. And to everyone else, I apologize for this whinny rant, this loss simply struck at my heart and soul and it hit hard. I greatly needed to vent some anger and depression before I could begin to focus on moving on. Current Mood: crushed Current Music: None (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
12:56 am	Time to face some facts. . ...heh, um, crud, >,=,< I honestly feel very embarrassed writing in this thing now, having ignored this, my site and all other online activities for the past months. It would appear that my old patterns of net inactivity are irreversible, no matter how much I plan or commit to becoming active online it always tends to last a month or so then RL issues kill it. Three years of this war ("I'm going to be active and stay active!" then months later "Sorry I disappeared, I'll stay active this time") is becoming ridiculous. Not to mention the guilt I feel each time I fail to maintain my commitments to stay active and meet new people. As a result, this time I'm not going to commit to anything, I live a busy lifestyle offline with a majority of responsibilities ranging from social life, a new relationship, a job, college education, family matters, and personal free time, not to mention my many random adventures. Therefore it has dawned on me that I can never dedicate the time I'd like to online, and I am fooling myself by saying that I can. Thereby, I hereby apologize to any who may read this and other rants from the past, and I will say this, when available, I will update on my life, I will add to my site, and when time permits, I'll lurk and chat in the dragon communities that I love so much. But, due to my time constraints, I will never be fully active, and there will be periods of inactivity, this is inevitable, regardless, I will still strive to do better when conditions permit. The past few months, I have been spending time with a new relationship, which is irrelevant to anyone outside of my circle, I have also been working full time and sleeping nights. During the weekends I have been working on a new design for my site but the changes are not yet online. I'm eager to get them available and see what the future will hold. I’ll update further later, as for now I simply had to vent that explanation. I hope that answers any concerns or confusion over my past activities. Current Mood: embarrassed Current Music: Final Fantasy VI: SoundTrack (Comment on this)
Friday, May 5th, 2006
1:03 am	Death to Angst! Rargh! *Stabs* . Okay, and I'm back! Whee! First off I'd like to apologize to anyone who had the terrible misfortune of reading my last entry, (pure angst) I had a hard time the past month, most of which I've fully recovered from. YAY! ^,=,^ so yeah, that’s over, won't go to far into the details but it can be summarized as lack of sleep, lack of free time, friendship breakdowns, employment-uncertainty and basic nonsense that doesn't really have relevance in the long run. So none of that was important and it has all been easily remedied. Moving on, I can safely state that next week will be my last week of college, which jumps my free time up to amazing new levels! (Sweet!) That means soon I can go on adventures, meet new people spend more time online and generally be less angsty and more enjoyable/exciting! Now, with all of my personal angst out of the way (Forever!! >,=,< *Kills Angst!!* “Pitiful whining!! I hate it!”) I can move on to more relevant topics of my web-life. Easily summarized as follows! – “I've done nothing the past two months and don’t intend to do anything exciting anytime soon.” So yeah, I've really got to fix that trend. I intend to finish the two dragon stories I begun last week over this weekend between exam studies and have them online hopefully by Sunday night if possible. Likewise I intend to patch the hole in my forums which has been allowing those pathetic bots to join and spam things up. In other news I've been active on Tysha's forum a bit and hope to become active in Draconomicon and DR when my time constraints end. Horray for the eventual demise of my shyness! Anyway, that pretty much sums up both my rant from last week, why it happened and how it was remedied, in addition to my goals and nonsense and such.. As for now, I'm going to get a snack. Then maybe go for a walk with my sword or something. I’d recommend you do the same, rather then read my rambled nonsense. *This entry has just wasted several valuable seconds of your life!* ~ I deny all responsibility. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Dragonforce-Heart of a Dragon (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, April 24th, 2006
2:30 am	Venting. You know what, I hate doing this, but I need to vent. Therefore, just to get it out of the way, I hate my shyness, I hate drama, I hate the classes I chose, and I hate my screwed up schedules, all of which stand in the way of me achieving my goal of not being an isolated loser and actually meeting new interesting people and thereby getting a life. *Shakes fist at heavens* Anyway, sorry about all that,I just had a hard couple of weeks and recent events between RL friends and other subjects have incurred by wrath. Likewise at the same time I learned something, (Yay! A lesson!) I learned that anger and mild depression aid to the creative process. (escaping into fantasy?) Therefore I have been inspired to write two new stories this week, which hopefully will be good enough to make it online for public viewing. In brighter news, college ends in a few weeks and my life/mood should be expected to become increasingly happier, yay. Anything else would be redundant basically I'm still alive, still strapped for time, and still finding time to do stuff between increasing drama. (my life is a lame soap opera) so, just had to rant for a second sorry to waste your time. Note: This will probably be deleted later as I see it as whining, however a more detailed explanation may take its place in the future. - I haven't slept for awhile, my best advice would be to disregard this entire entry. Current Mood: irate Current Music: Dragonforce (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
10:46 pm	I'm Still Alive! Hah! Hola! Yes, Contrary to popular belief I am still Alive! The past two weeks have been a great ordeal for me and have drained my web time immensely. I had friends living with me, had to help them move in, and later move out. At the same time I had monetary problems, therefore had to work extra hard to earn excess cash. Lastly I was failing a class, in the process of saving my grades I ironically got booted from another class due to a scheduling conflict, which inevitably lead to an excess of drama, yay. In addition pointless concerns with friends lead to more drama, in between moving, meeting with friends, failing, succeeding, and generally living a chaotic two weeks, I also got to visit my hidden oasis, climb some more mountains, receive a large amount of free stuff and have some mild adventure. Anyway, long story short: I was busy for two weeks, and now I'm back. Goodie. Current Mood: happy Current Music: DragonForce: Valley of the Damned (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 12th, 2006
8:27 pm	Snowday Wow, Yesterday it actually snowed at my house, I live in a desert so that is very uncommon, I haven't had snow for at least a couple of years. So was quite surprised, unfortunatly the weather knocked out my internet for the day, but on the plus side I got to freeze my tail off playing in ice. Was fun, its all melted now though but was interesting to me regardless. Current Mood: happy Current Music: Something Random (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
8:41 pm	Finally, some new adventure. . You know, I seldom update this thing, but today was simply one of those days that I can't help to talk about. Yay, I'll be boring for the next two weeks, regardless early this morning I went exploring deep in the Superstition mountain wilderness with a group of hm, professional treasure hunters I guess looking for caves, was quite exciting, later after a long day of exploring I visited a Cherokee friend, he burnt a collection of herbal materials in a fire and played a guitar during the sunset, was also quite fun, I then rode my bike home as I usually do, only to find out that a dvd I ordered arrived, Flight of Dragons, a very old dragon themed movie based off of two of my favorite books, I'd recommend all dragon lovers to watch it at least once, though it may appear lame at first site, I feel its worth it. Moving on, I'm actually happy for once in my lifetime, woo! That said I should shut up until my next crazy adventure, heh, I should be exploring some ancient forgotten ruins next weekend, and probably opening some demonic dimensional distortion somewhere after that. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens,life is good, I'll shut up now. Until next time, have fun and stay scaly. (I think that closing is getting old..) Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Don McLean - Flight Of The Dragons (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
10:56 pm	Heya! ^.=.^ Well, first off I'd like to explain my absences online over the weekend, Spyware/virus's. Every computer I come in contact with aside from my own is infected by a spyware/virus known as abetterinternet.aurora Which is completly invincible. I blarghing hate it, a family members computer crashed due to it's many infections and that particular family member stole my computer until theirs is fixed. As a result I have extremely limited web access for the next few days, I'm hoping to be on my regular schedule by Tuesday night, tomorrow at the soonest, Wednesday at the latest. In closeing, I request that you all burn down corporations and fight to make spyware illegal. Current Mood: pissed off (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
11:33 pm	Sugar induced entry . "Koragus spelt backwards spells sugar-ok! It's a sign! 0.o" *drinks a Coke* Well, It's that time again! Oh yes it is..hehe, You all get to hear me complain nonsensically about how my fun and adventurous life still manages to be somehow boring! Whee! Anyway, last week, Monday - Friday did nothing but work and study, then slept through the weekend. This week, repeated the pattern. Finals for my college classes are coming up as I approach the last days of the semester. This weekend I took some time off to ride my bike over to the legendary Superstition Mountains, didn't get there until sunset and ended up climbing down at night, on the way down I had stumbled upon a small hole or tunnel which dropped into a cave, I felt it was interesting so marked the location. Today I returned there at roughly the same time, climbing into the tunnel with a flashlight led me into an open cavern and an alternate exit. There wasn't anything in the cave it was just a big hole, aside from that I mostly spent my entire weekend on a rocky ledge spending time with the crazy dragon voices in my head and enjoying the view. As an added bonus, the next time I say that I'm hiding in a cave it can now be assumed that I'm not lying. Anyway, that was my past two weeks. I think I'm going to continue updates on a fortnightly basis. Now for the updates of my weblife. I've ran out of submissions for DA, and will be slowing down there, I'm expecting some gift art from a friend before the end of the month (it'll be my first gift art ever)which will probably end up there, other then that my DA account will probably slow drastically, my site is not expected to be very active either. As for myself I'm going to try to survive the last two weeks of the semester and will be online as much as possible in order to forget the inevitable traumatic backlash of college finals. And that is my life, woot, until next time have fun and stay scaly! ^.=.^ *Goes insane, Shouts "Dragons Rule" then runs back into the shadows* (This entry was brought to you by Coca~cola, keeping me hyper 24-7.) Current Mood: hyper Current Music: Dschinghis Khan-Windjammer (German music) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
9:27 pm	Hooray, We're doomed! . Hehe, Well! Your probably wondering how come I haven't updated this thing in so long? Well, the answer is simple really, Fate hates me! Yay! < Emo > I've had the worst two weeks ever! My bike broke down, my computer broke down, my site got hacked, school work killed my brain and so on! < / Emo > anyway, I've recovered. My bike and laptop are fixed as is my site. In short, my life the past two weeks have revolved around education as usual, Saturday November 12th somebody hacked my forum and booby trapped it to crash computers, I had to delete the software and install an updated version, thus my forum is starting from scratch, anyone who wants to join in is welcome as I'll need to rebuild it as a community, and I'll probably become active this time if we're lucky. In other news I've edited my stories on DA and my site, some of them should be improved now, yay me. Also related to that topic I got an email from a publisher the other night asking about the possibility of publishing them, though I ended up turning them down for the time being until I can perfect the stories to a higher level. Anyway that's what has happened in my life the past few weeks, not much else I got some new dragon statues my collection is now at 25, I also got a black dragon themed pocket knife, I'll probably post pictures of these items in my next update, for now I've got to run off for the night, until next time- have fun and stay scaly! Current Mood: energetic Current Music: (anime) Witch Hunter Robin - Shell (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
7:58 pm	Halloween Update ....Okay, time for another update, I really have nothing to talk about in this one, college classes and work have taken away all of my adventuring and fun time. I will mention however that last night on Halloween I stayed up to 4am walking the streets with my crazy friends. Otherwise not much of interest in realife, currently as I write this I'm a bit ill but I'm certain it'll pass soon. Moving on to my weblife I haven't been available as much online as I used to be mostly due to my courses once again. I have however edited and altered most of my old stories and am working on becoming active in online communities (yeah, again! I give it a week.) as I've been making strides to becoming more social online and off, which is equally impossible as heh, I'm frankly to wierd for most people. Anyway, this has been your bi-weekly set of ramblings from the crazy draggy, hopefully next time I type in this I'll have something interesting to talk about. Bye! ^,=,^ Current Mood: drained Current Music: Cranberries (Zombie) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 30th, 2005
6:51 pm	Learning to Rp, Well, within the world of Real Life, nothing much has happened, sealed an ethearal dimensional gate in a desert, visited some old friends, did a ton of college and wasted alot of time. Heh, Much fun. ^.=.^ On the brighter side of things, my weblife, I'm finally after many years of delay opening up and learning to rp, finally putting my writting skills to some good use. Benefiting everyone heh. Anyway as mentioned I've begun Roleplaying, did my first real Rp with DragonFan from DA yesterday Sept 28, it lasted about five hours and was based around the Pern series, a bit difficult as I was a bit rusty on the saga, In short Dragonfan played himself as a blue quad dragon for the rp, and I was chosen as a rider. It was a very fun experience which I enjoyed quite well, pretty good first rp and more will probably be comming in the future, a story is also planned to be created as a result of the rp, when finished it'll probably end up on DA. Anyway that's everything of interest that happened this week, I'll post again adios. Current Mood: creative Current Music: Anime stuff, (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 11th, 2005
10:01 pm	Webshows and junk. . Okay, I'm a bit late, I missed last weeks journal entry due to collage and other related projects. But have a few goodies going on, first off a friend of mine is currently co-host on a webshow TheKramman.com They dedicated a portion of one of their shows to dragons and me. The next day I went to visit them and was included as an audience member or sit-in in their second show of that week. Both were okay, though I'd say the second with me in it was funnier. (Note That both pages have an hour long .wav and audio will contain some explicit language actually, just skip them entirely your not missing much.^^) *Show URL's No longer available* With that out of the way I can move on to the remainder of the week and a few site updates. First off I'll be taking the "Stupid Pointless Stories" http://www.jafiradragon.com/Stupid.htm out of the "about me" section of the site, and creating an entirely new site for them on a separate server, seeing as how they have nothing to do with dragons. The site will be ran in part by a Kitsune friend of mine Kyrla. Lastly, I...hm, ran out of things to write about, well it was a slow week, next update may be more interesting. In the meantime I'm being strangled by a python and really should end this and worry about getting the snake off my neck. Adios! ^.=.^ Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Wolf's Rain - Run Wolf Warrior Run (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
9:34 pm	Ack, I'm bored. . Heya! Been awhile since I've updated this ol, thing. Since my last update were I "Vowed once again to become active" (yeah right..) I've had quite an exciting two weeks. Went to Vegas for a quick vacation in order to properly celebrate my birthday. Purchased a few custom made items to better express my love of dragons. (much to the public's dismay) http://www.jafiradragon.com/Shirt.jpg http://www.jafiradragon.com/Dragonsign.jpg Other souvenirs consisted of a dragon calender, a couple dragon related fantasy books, and a dragon clock. But I'm to lazy to upload pictures at the moment. ^^' Aside from that, I've recently begun my fall semester of collage, and holy crap I'm swamped. Anyway As far as concerning my vow to get active and known within dragon society I'm working slowly with updating portions of my site, and searching for new dragon friends online. Well, In my opinion I'm rambling again so I'm gonna cut this update short here. Until next time remember, while flying through clouds beware of planes! *disappears in a burst of flame* Current Mood: crazy Current Music: Some weird German stuff? 0_o' (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
8:41 pm	I'm Still alive! (or so they told me..) Insert huge bogus rant! Yeah, I'm still alive! Muahahaha! Yeah right! Anyway, anyone who managed to find my decrepit simi existent, though still fairly interesting site may have noticed that I've been absent the past hm, *counts* six months? nearly a year if you include my own forums, why? Frankly, I was/am a shy little coward unprepared for the responsibility to managed my own community, got members then realized that I had nothing to contribute to my own community? What good is that, thus I was inactive for a long period trying to think up ideas, then got too embarrassed to show my own face on my site due to my own lack of activity, thus the place rotted, silly stuff which should've been removed long ago remains, while relevent stuff goes unnoticed, I blew it. Why am I whining and being all angsty about my own pitiful failure? Am I begging for attention and pity? Nope, I'm acknowledging my mistake. The past several months I've had a lot of support from many friends online and off helping to aid me in getting out of this old bookworm, videogame, antisocial, freaky somewhat paranormal and sincerely odd social rutt I am in. Today I turned 21 years old, I'm a freaking adult, (0_o Ack! How? When? Crap..)It's time to grow a backbone, I designed this site to be the bomb, I started this thing nearly four years ago, I had ambitions to be the next big community next to Tysha's or something. (as this site predated Draconomicon and such) I had these big goals that I just blanked out on and forgot about when I realized, "oh, in order to run this thing I'll have to actually talk and give input rather then being some shadowy dragon guru hiding in the dark." I've had it, I'm committed now, I'm going to run this thing properly or I'm going to put someone else in charge who can, regardless. I'm back, again, for the hundredth time. Yay! This rant was brought to you by spamco, wasting your precious time one update at a time. Current Mood: determined Current Music: Something weird (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 9th, 2005
12:51 pm	Life is good! ...I think.. . I decided to create yet another pointless Live Journal update, because I promised to try harder. ^. .^ My past week went pretty good, I had to go to school and work and all that other average mendacity, pretty average for the most part. I received a package from one of my online friends and spent most of my free time exploring the contents of the cds and fun objects that arrived. I also went and finally got my bike fixed so I can no longer complain about that in the future. The bike ended up being some kind of frankenstien bike built from the parts of the past seven bikes I've destroyed - It turned out looking pretty good and if I'm lucky enough it should be able to survive a few months. In other news I was lucky enough to obtain six Dragon Legend MTG cards so yay me, and was able to buy a small dragon themed sword in the same transaction. Strictly ornamental of course, I swear the sheath was made of fiberglass, pretty pathetic actually. Anyway, my life is boring , I'm done. *runs happily into the distance eventually falling off a cliff of some sort* Current Mood: energetic Current Music: Fooly Cooly Soundtrack-Funny Bunny. (Comment on this)