About a dozen years ago,I got my first e-mail addy on Hotmail.Within a few years,it got so spam friendly that I abandoned it because it allowed only so many filters and/or blocked senders.For a similar reason,I eventually abandoned a lycos.com mail addy after a few years.What they failed to back then,Yahoo! Mail did:it created a separate folder for bulk junk mail that didn't count towards storage limits,which is why that one is the oldest that I still actively use on a regular basis.Of course,though GMail is a relative youngster compared to competing services,they've gotten it right from the get go in respect to such mail.I may re-enter Homail Hotmail with a new username,but I'm wary since it didn't filter junk or offer more than 2 MB of storage space back then...

Working on Halloween night,I actually rang out someone in a HomeBase uniform.Though I doubt he actually worked there(since he looked younger than me),he must have had connections to someone who did work at that long-defunct chain that thrived until Lowe's and Home Depot came along...

Happy 33rd birthday to Touko Aoyama...

Having managed to leave home for work a little later than intended yesterday,taking a tranist shortcut I stumbled into 7-Eleven between buses and managed to score a Domo-kun beanie cap.Not quite the same as that baseball cap that was blown away in a wind and rain storm earlier in the year,but this could be better in certain cases...

I always have a bad habit of forgetting to get a Mega Millions ticket whenever there's a good jackpot...

Happy 55th birthday to Mari Okamoto...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
ranma9037 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as big Cerberus from CCS.
ashleyelizabeth tricks you! You get an eraser.
doggiedynasty tricks you! You get a broken balloon.
genkireirei gives you 10 dark blue cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
ichibancrush tricks you! You lose 9 pieces of candy!
madidi gives you 17 dark blue peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
raikochan gives you 17 light blue blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
sakuya_masaki gives you 16 purple licorice-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
seravi gives you 6 yellow licorice-flavoured nuggets.
star537 gives you 6 milky white cola-flavoured pieces of taffy.
ukyochan gives you 19 mottled green licorice-flavoured jawbreakers.
ranma9037 ends up with 82 pieces of candy, an eraser, and a broken balloon.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Rough start,but at least the balloon was already popped so it couldn't be popped in front of me;and thankfully,no scratched CD's as a lightly scratched but playable CD with a product ID of CRCP-15008 would be a lot worse than a badly scratched and unplayable CD from any artist...

On another note,congratulations to Nobunari Oda on winning the men's short program in this year's edition of Skate America...

Also,happy birthday to Yukari Fukui who was either born today or tomorrow 24 years ago depending on the source(Animenfo.com says October 27th while other sources say the 28th).Speaking of which,I still haven't managed to dig into MØUSE yet...

Surprisingly,last night's last-minute shoppers were pretty much oblivious to anime or at least have never heard of Excel Saga.A couple shoppers did notice that I had a dog on my head,though...

Happy 26th birthday to Yukino Miyazawa Misaki Suzuhara Atsuko Enomoto;and since it's already tomorrow(the 2nd)in Japan,happy 29th birthday to Kumi Sakuma who voiced someone in the X/1999 TV series who I can't think of offhand...

Thank goodness that Urusei Yatsura was first animated years before Kappei-sama's earliest voice roles,as it would have been cruel and unusual punishment if he had to voice Ataru Moroboshi...

Speaking of The(non-sports)Great One being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment,a certain SakuTai seiyuu who is more than guilty of such an offense again received a vote for female seiyuu of the week.Though I didn't have a chance to vote for my selections,she didn't even come close to winning(it would be a sign of the Apocalypse if she did)as Tetsunosuke Ichimura Sarah Macdougal Excel Kobayashi Puni Puni Poemi Yumiko Kobayashi won handily.I'd rather see Noriko Hidaka win the bi-weekly honor over Anime Overdose 2005's seiyuu guest anytime.At least ssj_mato(who sadly attended that con) never reads this LJ so he can't rebut...

Somehow,I have an urge to wear one of my cosplay caps(preferrably Menchi)during my shift as I haven't had to shop for costumes in at least a dozen years...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
ranma9037 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as panda Genma.
akihikio gives you 1 brown spearmint-flavoured pieces of taffy.
ashleyelizabeth tricks you! You get an eraser.
dbcrafter gives you 6 pink lime-flavoured jawbreakers.
genkireirei gives you 4 dark blue cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
ichibancrush tricks you! You lose 9 pieces of candy!
kainzero tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
madidi gives you 2 dark blue peach-flavoured pieces of taffy.
raikochan gives you 3 light blue blueberry-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
seravi gives you 17 yellow licorice-flavoured nuggets.
ukyochan gives you 17 mottled green licorice-flavoured jawbreakers.
ranma9037 ends up with 40 pieces of candy, and an eraser.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Again,no scratched CD's were involved...

Somehow,I have the urge to start a varietyhits community devoted to devotees of Jack/Bob/Dave/Charlie/Mike FM and the like...

Since it's already tomorrow(the 27th)in Japan,happy 23rd birthday to Yukari Fukui,which reminds me that I've got to eventually get around to watching my Mouse DVD's...

Congratulations to the Chicago White Sox on their first World Series title in 88 years...

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
ranma9037 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as the King of Hearts in a deck of cards.
akihikio gives you 14 yellow watermelon-flavoured gummy fruits.
ashleyelizabeth tricks you! You get an eraser.
genkireirei gives you 1 blue lemon-flavoured hard candies.
ichibancrush tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
kainzero tricks you! You lose 7 pieces of candy!
raikochan gives you 11 light blue grapefruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
rosencrantz gives you 3 teal passionfruit-flavoured gummies.
seravi gives you 12 orange chocolate-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
star537 gives you 5 teal spearmint-flavoured gummy worms.
ukyochan gives you 14 white grapefruit-flavoured nuggets.
ranma9037 ends up with 52 pieces of candy, and an eraser.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

It could have been worse(i.e.,one of the "tricks" being a scratched CD),but at least I got more treats than tricks...