I went with Aunt Vicki to a store called "Oregon Leather Company", since it's the only place that sells leather around here. Since the jacket she's making me is to be fashioned after Squall Leonhart's from the game Final Fantasy VIII, and his is a type of bomber jacket, we needed heavy leather. We looked through the leather and picked out a good hide. For the fur around the collar, we looked at fox tails, but decided to go to a second-hand store and find a jacket with a furry collar and she'd just take it off that and use the jacket for something else. She told me that a bomber jacket with real leather would cost me around $500 if I bought it already made. She's just charging me for the material. The whole hide of leather was $78.

On the way, her head was hurting (meaning he needs some carbohydrates), so we went to Taco Bell and she got the mexi-nuggets and a bowl of beans. I got the #8, beef, supreme, with mexi-nuggets instead of the taco (basically soft-shell tacos with sour cream). Next door to Taco Bell was St. Vincent dePaul's and we looked around in there for a jacket with fur on the collar. We were about done in the jacket section and going to try another place when I spotted a jacket with the perfect fur. It was the right color and everything. There wasn't a price tag on it, so I proposed that we try to walk out and see if they stop us. Aunt Vicki laughed and said that it's something my uncle, Donny, would say and that I'm definitely part of the family. I told her about the things I would have done differently than the guy on "A Walk to Remember", like in the nice restaurant when he told the girl that she can have anything she wants, I would have added, "Well, except that one" and pointed to a random item. Aunt Vicki laughed at that and agreed that it was definitely in the family humor style. And when he asked if she'd do something for him and she said she'd do anything, and he asked if she'd marry him, I said that I would have asked if she'd do 2 things for me. The first would be to marry me, and afterwards, she'd ask me what the second thing was. I'd say that I could really use a head rub. Now, I've had people tell me that it would ruin the moment greatly, but Aunt Vicki laughed a lot at that and said it wouldn't ruin it at all and it would be funny and it's definitely something that someone in our family would do. I guess I'm just cursed with my family's humor.

At home, my mom said that my dad tried to burn a CD and couldn't since the CD-burner program wasn't installed and he was upset. Well, that wasn't one of the things he said I had to have installed before I went. He later corrected what my mom said and said that he wasn't upset about that, he was upset when he tried to get to mine to use the CD-burner program on mine and found that I had put a password at the entrance of my account. Well, I don't have a CD-burner program on mine currently, anyway, so it wouldn't have helped him.

I had a long discussion about religion with Kelli. I'm not nearly as versed in the bible as my parents are, so a lot of the things she questioned weren't easy to answer. It doesn't sound like she wants to know, though. It really won't do any good to talk about it if she doesn't have any faith and isn't seeking to find what the truth really is. The bible says not to cast your pearls before a swine because it will just trample on them. It's the same sense when you explain a wonderful thing and someone just tries to tear it down. It's not that I'm offended, there's just no point telling about my religion if it's not going to hit home.

I found a PSX ISO file of Megaman X5 and downloaded it. PSX is short for PlayStation and an ISO file is a file containing everything on a CD. I opened it up in the CD-burner program I downloaded and burned it to a CD. It works thanks to my good ol' mod chip in my PS2!