Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Joel.

I'm going to try and not make this an overly negative post. It seems like a lot of my posts have been a little on the negative side lately. I try not to do negative posts because that seems to be one of the major reasons why traffic on TheO has taken a nosedive in recent years. But then sometimes these posts seem to be the only way for people to get what they're feeling off their chest and maybe find some support. So like it or not, this post will be a little on the negative side. The title is kind of a dead giveaway that it will.

Basically, I pretty much feel like crap at the moment. For some strange reason I couldn't get to sleep last night until a little after 2:00 AM. I also still feel pretty ill from what I'm not really all that sure is a cold anymore. I think it might be like really bad hay fever or something. I live in Nebraska, and I think that's like ground zero for pollen. But my throat feels a little on the sore side again, though it's not as bad as it was a few days ago. So basically I feel bad for physical reasons right now and emotional ones.

One other thing that's bugging me at the moment is that I tried making a wallpaper for this one manga series that I like, but I couldn't find any usable scans on Minitokyo. They had only two scans from this series and both had too much text to be usable. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since this manga probably isn't very well-known. It certainly isn't the most popular manga out there. Still, it always bugs me when this kind of thing happens. I have a good idea for a wallpaper, but I can't make it work. This is why I think wallpaper challenges like this one are a really good idea.

On a more positive note, my dad's gone to Colorado for a few days so I have the house to myself. I kind of like having the house to myself most of the time. For one thing, I can watch whatever I want on the living room TV, which is a hi-def set. The TV in my room is a standard definition set. I would like to upgrade, but the one I have still works fine. And I can't say take a sledgehammer to the thing and call it an accident. At least not one that people would believe.

Anyway, that's what's going on with me at the moment. I'll probably try and take a nap this afternoon and maybe work on an iPhone wallpaper if I'm up to it. Until next time.